Many people are fascinated with the afterlife, but it’s impossible to know what is out there unless you experience it for yourself.
Chris Carter is one such person who has become obsessed with the idea of transcending Earth after death and has honed in on a man named Frederic Myers, who claimed to have seen beyond life after death.
In Carter’s book, The Case for the Afterlife, he examines the post-death 'messages' of Myers, a British poet and founder of the Society for Psychical Research who died at the age of 57 in 1901.
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23 years after the event, Myers is believed to have given descriptions of the afterworld to psychics, which led Carter to gain valuable insights.
In his book, Carter wrote: “Myers described a stupendous journey of the immortal soul through the various planes or spheres of existence, beginning with Earth.”
He claims that Myers' post-death messages communicated to psychics provide 'proof' that the afterlife is real - but that it might not be what we imagine.
After Earth - which is of course 'level one', Myers described there as being six more planes that a person will travel through after death.
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Level two) Hades: The intermediate state
According to the author, Myers described the plane after Earth as being called Hades, which is the astral plane.
According to him, it is a ‘temporary resting place on the borders of two worlds’.
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“The time spent in Hades is said to vary with the needs of the individual, with children often requiring hardly any rest at all," he wrote.
However, Myers is said to have claimed: “I died in Italy, a land I loved, and I was very weary at the time of my passing. For me Hades was a place of rest, a place of half-lights and drowsy peace”.
Level three) The sphere of terrene imagination
Myers allegedly described the third plane as something similar to what we know on Earth, ‘but with a beauty that far transcends the terrestrial’.
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There are said to be ‘communities of like-minded individuals with similar tastes’ that ‘come together and live in mutually constructed environments, while those of a more solitary nature may live in an environment entirely devised from their own preferences and desires.’
Apparently, how you live on this plane is down to how you were on Earth, as well as what your level of ‘moral and spiritual development’ was.
Carter explained: “Not everyone enjoys an idyllic existence on the third plane: the lower levels are described as dark, gloomy, desolate, in which there are no children, but only those who, as adults on Earth, had chosen to lead selfish, evil lives.
“How long they remain in this nether region depends on how long they choose to remain in a selfish, morally undeveloped state.”
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Level four) Eido
Eido is apparently the fourth plane, which is the first ‘true heaven-world’ with colors and sights that are far more beautiful than anything we could ever dream up.
According to Myers, this was where he ended up.
Level five) The Plane of Flame
Okay, so this doesn’t found great, but according to Myers, the fifth, sixth, and seventh planes are harder to describe, as they become ‘more remote from our earthly experience’ but are still ‘increasingly desirable.’
Level six) The Plane of Light
At the sixth plane, your body is totally gone and you exist ‘as white light, as the pure thought of their Creator’ as you have now ‘joined the immortals.’
According to Carter, Myers was able to get this information from those who had reached further planes.
Level seven) Out-Yonder, flight from the physical universe
While you might expect there to be Hell lurking at some point or Heaven, you shouldn’t expect to see it here, as this is something only taught by religion, according to Carter.
Hell is supposedly like a ‘fire of the mind’ and not somewhere that tortures you, and you're also not going to meet God in Heaven.
Well, not for a while, anyway.
“Absolutely not”, said Carter, as he explained: “Myers, in his post-mortem communications, describes God as being far, far above the human, and we… only can come close in what he describes as the seventh plane.”
He added: “Based on my extensive reading of various communications via mediums, the reason the newly departed do not see God is simply because we are, at first, too primitive and, immediately after leaving the Earth, occupy planes of existence not nearly exalted or advanced enough to closely approach the divine.”
He went on to say that the final plane provides a direct path to connect with God.
Britt Jones