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CHAPTER 15. LIFE AFTER DEATH AND REBIRTH
prejudices of their own. They have done some real work on life-after-death and incarnation. Their
findings are authentic. and they go a long way in support of reincarnation. Now there are scientific
techniques to contact bodiless souls, and they have been contacted, and every care has been taken
to eliminate the chances of deception and fraud in the use of these techniques. In the past there
have been any number of cases of fraudulent seances to communicate with the dead. But if even a
single case of authentic necromancy succeeds, it is enough. And many such experiments to contact
bodiless spirits have been successful in establishing that souls change their bodies, that they are
born again and again
A number of people who had devoted their lives to necromancy before leaving their bodies, had
promised to their psychic societies that they would communicate with them after death, in a specific
manner. And some of them did succeed in their efforts. They communicated some very valuable
information regarding the life-after-death phenomenon to their societies, and this information goes
a long way in the support of rebirth.
A great deal of research has been conducted in the fields of telepathy and clairvoyance, and they
have yielded good results. Without the help of any technical aids, I can communicate with a person
who is thousands of miles away from here, which means that astral communication, communication
without the help of any physical instruments is possible.
Question 5
QUESTIONER: IT MAY BE A COMMUNICATION ON THE MENTAL LEVEL, NOT ON THE LEVEL
OF THE SOUL.
I am just now going to explain it. Even if it is a mental communication, it is certainly different from
the physical one. And once science gets to know something different from the physical body, it will
not be long before it comes to know of the soul. The whole quarrel is centered on the question of
whether there is something in man which is different from his body. And if it is settled that there is
something different from the body, half the journey is over. This is how science works. Let science
begin with the mind, and gradually it will come to the super-mind, the soul. Science never accepts
that mind is something higher than the physical body.
There is a man known as Ted, whose mind has taken the scientific world by surprise. And the
psychic societies have learned a great deal from his experiences, which are simply extraordinary.
For in stance, I am now here and Ted is in New York. He does not know me, nor has he heard about
me, nor seen a photograph of me. But he can create my image in his eyes just by concentrating his
thought on me. If someone asks him to work on me, he will close his eyes and meditate on me for a
full thirty minutes. And in thirty minutes’ time he will create my image in his eyes and this image can
be captured by a camera. And it will be my photograph, although a little fainter than the one taken
directly here. Ted has produced thousands of such photographs and they have all been verified and
found to be true.
What does it mean?
It means that Ted’s eyes are capable of seeing me from such a long distance. They can not only
see me but also capture my likeness exactly as your eyes do when you are looking at me here face
to face. Scientists put Ted to all kinds of tests and he always proved authentic.
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