So I want to avoid the death of my consciousness and the loss of memories, in order to continue enjoying magick, and to stay in contact with a spirit I’ve met – forever
What avenues are available?
Reincarnation with memories doesn’t seem to happen very often and thus doesn’t sound like a good plan. Yes, we can do past life regressions, but who knows if I get that idea in the next life? This approach strikes me as unreliable
Physical immortality would solve the problem, but seems out of reach for my (and seemingly most everyone’s?) magickal abilities .
Astral immortality (N.D. Blackwood: “Its objective is neither more, nor less, than obtaining the Immortality of transhuman consciousness.”) seems like the way forward . I’ve read Draugadrottinn and like its methods to achieving astral travel , but it seems like the “final step” there includes making pacts with pre-existing vampiric entities, which doesn’t sound alluring to me. I’d like to do this via my own magick . “Self-Initiation Without A Master” (in the Deification Spellbook linked above) sounds exactly like what I’m looking for… Any experiences with the book? Can you recommend it?
Also, I’ve just found this, which is a very similar question and a pretty good answer – basically master astral travel and then cut the link to your physical body upon death. I would however like to know more.
Another thing that’s very relevant to this is – what happens naturally after death? For example, C. Kendall writes
"We are the only beings that have a body in all realms, and exist in all planes simultaneously.
You’re thoughts and perception and belief may create a certain vibration within you before death.Carrying you to the afterlife you believe in."
and I’ve also read other occultists stating that we get into some kind of afterlife-world where we can meet other spirits etc… If this is the case, then I have no need for the astral immortality, as I don’t care about being close to earth. I just care about being able to do magick and keeping in contact with a specific spirit. However, is this really true? If so, why does anyone incarnate? I mean, imagine being a spirit in some spirit world – no disease, no ageing, no death of loved ones . Then you look at earth, see billions of people in poverty, malnutrition, pain… and then you decide that that’s where you want to go?
So, my question is basically: Do we only loose our memories on re-incarnation, which is a choice and can simply be avoided by staying in some afterlife-world? Or is it not so easy and we need astral immortality to remain ourselves?
This was quite a rambling post, so I guess all opinions on these topics are welcome, even disregarding my specific questions