I have found some interesting reading at the website on Division Theory. It is Peter Novac's ideas about what happens when we die that intrigues me presently. His notion that unless we are able to unite the two different minds prior to death the two separate realities will split and go their own way seems to resonate with my experience in visions and dreams. He says that the conscious mind goes off and reincarnates to begin a new life fits with how many of the old religious documents describe what happens, but it is what happens with the subconscious mind, rift with all the memories and emotions of the past life, that really makes sense to me.
His website (divisiontheory.com) says, to the best of my understanding, that the unconscious mind, without the guidance of the logic and reason of the conscious mind, makes eternal judgement of the contents of it's memories, and if the judgement of it's eternal life review finds those life memories to be negative, then it suffers nightmarish emotional results forever. If, on the other hand, it finds the lifetime memories good, then it lives in a state of overwhelming ecstasy forever.
This seems to find equanimity with the various descriptions of heaven and hell put forth by the several religious dogmas espoused by the mahjor world religions.
It also catches my attention because of what I experienced in my "remembering vision" and in my dreamtime. I have had dreams of exceedingly horrific nightmares where catastrophe strikes suddenly and with overwhelming responses of sorrow and dispair, as well as dreams of ecstasy beyond belief or understanding.
To think that while the conscious mind goes off without the advantage of the memory of it's former life, or lives to create a new life with new memories, yet somehow haunted by their absence in the new life, appeals to what I perceive in the world around me. Many spiritual seekers, including myself, seem to spend a lifetime looking for something that has been lost without gnowing what that something really is.
The old religious documents suggest a way out of this dilemma, and that way out is to unite the conscious and unconscious mind during the present lifetime. So, how can this phenomena take place? By bringing what is unconscious into consciousness.
I've asked myself what needs to be there for this to happen. I would not state with any certainty that I know it's possible, but it does seem like doing that has been the focus of my efforts for as long as I can remember.
For about the last decade I have come to realize that what I have previously accepted as "knowledge" is the barrier causes the separation. Knowledge, in my estimation, is generally thought of as
being that information useful to conducting one's affairs in the sensory perceived world. Information about how to survive physically, mentally, and socially in a world full of creatures quite ready and willing to put an end to one's options to do as they please. It seems similar to an attack on what some call free will. And yet, I suspect that free will, whatever the expression describes, applied for survival purposes is a deception at best. Such a struggle is a misuse of this faculty. A more revealing interpretation of this expression might be labeled intent.
If it is one's intent to survive at any cost and to prevail in the struggle of daily life, then such an effort will bring about the resultant splitting of the two separate minds at death. If one's intent is to achieve unity between the two minds prior to death, then the faculty of intent or freewill gets focussed to it's best use.
