Rebirth experiences

The new visionary chemicals and the pre-mortem-death-rebirth experience may be pushed once again into the shadows of history. Looking back, we remember that every middle-eastern and European administrator (with the exception of certain periods in Greece and Persia) has, during the last three thousand years, rushed to pass laws against any emerging transcendental process, the pre-mortem-death-rebirth session, its adepts, and any new method of consciousness-expansion. 

You are fortunate to have this gratuitously given rebirth experience. 

Other investigators indicate that attitudes and practice currently prevalent in our culture contribute greatly to the illness by disrupting the death-rebirth sequence (Adams 1963 Laing, 1967). In this respect, Bateson (1961) posed the question of why so many who embark upon a voyage of discovery fail to return from it. "Do these encounter circumstances either in family life or in institutional care so grossly maladaptive that even the richest and best-organized hallucinatory experience cannot save them " Similar sentiments have been passionately expressed by Henri Michaux (1967)... 

Nuclear properties (spins, moments, charge radii) revealed by the analysis of hyperfine structure and isotope shift of atomic levels have been obtained in decades of experiments. Since 1975 with the introduction of tunable dye laser, the rebirth of the methods, some already known since 1930, had led to many on line experiments on short lived isotopes not investigated before. I report here a sample of the experiments done by the Orsay, Mainz groups at CERN. Although experiments have been carried out by the Orsay group using the proton beam of the CERN Proton Synchrotron, most of the experiments have been done at Isolde, the on - line mass separator at CERN, whose radioactive beams are essential to the success of these experiments [RAV 84]. 

Medical expectations. Some ill-prepared subjects unconsciously impose a medical model on the experience. They look for symptoms, interpret each new sensation in terms of sickness/health, place the guide in a doctor-role, and, if anxiety develops, demand chemical rebirth - i.e., tranquilizers. Occasionally one hears of casual, ill-planned, non-guided sessions which end in the subject demanding to be hospitalized, etc. It is even more problem- provoking if the guide employs a medical model, watches for symptoms, and keeps hospitalization in mind to fall back on, as protection for himself. 

Prepared in this manner, the Mystics expected further enlightenment about the mysterious process of rebirth from the experience of the great mysteries, through which they are led to the "Great Light" and in this manner become true initiates, intellectuals, seers (Epopts). 

For this reason, it should be obvious why the dissolution, purification, and rebirth of the psychic body for the Human Being, who has gained this understanding, is absolutely necessary. In the Mysteries of Antiquity, those who were to be initiated were artificially transferred into a state which would be identical to what the common Human Being will experience after death. In this manner, it was possible for them, on the basis of this profound mystical experience, to transform and totally restructure their inner life, so that the Initiates look forward to the end of their earthly existence with philosophical clarity and cheerful calmness. 

Yet a closely related topic in the De natura rerum reveals an entirely different type of source as well. The sixth book concerns the resuscitation or rebirth of natural things, and the Paracelsian author here recounts experiments that once again result in the artificial generation of beings within laboratory glassware. 

The inherent flaw in the Knights Templar was the Melchizedekian heresy they harbored, which the Roman Catholic Church had been desperate to eliminate for almost a millennium. This seems to have included a rejection of Church mysteries in favor of a direct experience of the ancient mysteries. As priests of the Order of Melchizedek, they believed themselves to be immortal through rebirth. 

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