I am telling you that your "life" is simply the only portion of your existence of which you are presently aware.
In greater terms, you are alive and dead at the same time, even as I am.
Existences are like notes played along certain frequencies.
You are tuned in to an earth song, following this analogy.
But, you are only following your own melody.
And, usually, you are unaware of the greater orchestration in which you also take part.
Again, your dreaming psyche is awake. It deals with a different kind of experience than the one with which you are physically familiar, although that experience is also a part of the psyche. Daily life is a focus taken on the part of that portion of the psyche you call you. And, there are many other such focuses. The psyche is never destroyed. Nor is that unique individuality of your own ever minimized. The psyche's experiences straddle your ideas of time, however. It seems to you quite definitely that you come alive and die. At your particular focus of consciousness, no arguments will suffice to convince you otherwise, for you are everywhere presented with the physical evidence of "fact".
You may believe in an afterlife to some extent or another. Or, you may or may not be convinced by the general theory of reincarnation. But, certainly most of you are united in the seemingly irrefutable belief that you are definitely alive now and not dead. Dead people do not read books.
On the other hand, dead people do not usually write books either – now do they?
In a strange manner, I am telling you that your "life" is simply the only portion of your existence of which you are presently aware. In greater terms, you are alive and dead at the same time, even as I am. My focus, however, is in an area that you do not perceive. Again: Existences are like notes played along certain frequencies. You are tuned in to an earth song, following this analogy. But, you are only following your own melody. And, usually, you are unaware of the greater orchestration in which you also take part.
1975.10.27 Session 759 (NPs)