As a grandmother I am so happy to see these ancient wisdom teachings getting ever more foothold among young people such as yourself! Thank you! 🌷

Well said Ben, to ascend to divinity or merging in God is to die before you die. By the grace of Shayak (practical fakir) a true disciple can attain fanaa filla (merging in god) in this life time! Then he is a Ahsraf ul makhllukat. Ocean in a drop.

Another aspect of the mad materialism Is that the people search for love in it Since the direct experience of the true love feeling is forgotten Once experience the true love, your search for materialism becomes obsolete Not that you will deprive yourself, Rather materialism becomes an outer mean It is still there, but just to support you The inner light that shines in you Will guide you over in eternity The real issue is not to give up your self-protection in naive optimism You should 1st start the light in you, then it will guide you with no sacrifice you will win, not lose you'll be joyful, not sufferer For life is novelty and creation

Its been a year since i had my spiritual awakeing. This lesson was so helpful You explanation was the best ☺

Beetlejuice 2 has the answer. Seriously though. I am nothing and everything, all at once. My physicality will change, but I’ll always be around…and around…and around just like in _The Highwaymen_ song. Yeah, that drop of rain, that’s me too.

You are a Master Teacher, I am lighter because of your gift of teaching, I tasted the divine from your feast of abundance. Namaste 🙏🏽

Wow, thank you for this video. Helps me quite a bit. My youth was highly traumatic going as far as living in orphages until I was 14. Anyway, it bothered me the whole" what did I do to offend God so much to deserve this or that". I heard Tsem Rinpoche say that a difficult life can be very likely due to good karma. His point being that if we have a silver spoon in our mouths and grow up cushy soft who will drop that for a spiritual awakening? Some would I know, Buddha being an example, but most would not. Difficulty and suffering drives you into the arms of Christ. It's used by God to call us home. This is what I choose to believe because I find it too convenient and easy to say " you had a rough life, you must've been a bad person". It's unthoughtful and lacks spiritual depth. Thank you for pointing out that it's more complicated than that. God's love and goodness always.

This is what I was looking for! Thank you for this video 🙏

Clear and well done, Ben ❤

Level up! Thanks heaps Ben!

Awesome video!

Thank you for the info ❤

Awesome!

Thank you! God bless you ❤❤❤❤

thank you deeply

great work stabilising in the silence the peace :)

That was a great watch. Could you please do a further discussion on this later, especially all the realms in detail.

Nicely done! 👏🏻😊🥂.

Wow, very well explained ❤❤❤thank you

Well done Ben.

Thank you so much Ben. I’ve only discovered your channel today & it’s fantastic. I look forward to seeing much more of your work, you explain very profound material in the most simple terms for people like me to understand..💚

Thank you, Ben.👍

Thank you, Ben. This was gentle and straightforward.

Good job. 👍. This ancient wisdom is clearly explained. Thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you so much Ben. This is a great video, so much to learn and understand

I’m so glad I found your channel

Wow ,ben , can’t believe the comments. Definitely shows all different aspect of ego and beliefs some have. Thank you for sharing. Especially not allowing them to make you response to something unnecessary

Loved this video Would like to know more about the different planes. Hope you keep making videos on this topic.

Thank you .... thank you! We are ONE..... after listening to your great explanation, plus self slight understanding of Buddhism. I’m more confident of expressing it out with words. 🤟🏽🙏🙏👍

nice and accurate, glad you are doing good work! love you to bits you sweet thing. glad to see youth showing such wisdom,

Thank you!

It seems like it would be more fun to take the scenic route and move up slowly through the different planes.

He is so right it's funny to me , only because> asked for something and the next day you were in my KZfaq feed... I won't go into it but some of us need to hear our instinct & our heart more.... Turn off ur phone & spend time at the beach or in nature, go help the animal sanctuary.. that's all I'm saying We are here to learn lessons we asked for these lessons stop doubting that voice in ur mind & heart when ur quiet... Ur not crazy ur letting in the bigger u

Hi Ben, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. This was exactly the peace of wisdom my soul was seeking for. I'm a yoga teacher from Germany, so not an english nativ speaker but I understood each word you spoke. Namastè Yvi

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You can also have a physical life on other planets, work your karma out through shamanic energy or deep meditation work, karma is only energy .The soul often chooses very hard spiritual mental emotional physical experiences on this planet not through Karma but as a experience for the soul to grow, the soul chooses this in it's blue print before coming to this planet . You do not have to go to the astral which is through the tunnel of light, if you turn your back on the light and go into the multiverse , then you go back to the level of organic source consciousness that you are, I enjoyed your video :-)

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We are all in this together. We strive for meaning in the afterlife. As human beings we are psychologically the entire humanity, not just representing it, as an individual we think in terms of being separate with an identity, thinking as an isolated fragment, but just as you are thinking in terms of a fragment of the world - the reality is that the world is you but "individuality" with its identity and conditioned background is so strong that we can't see beyond this state. So our view of the afterlife is based on an egocentric viewpoint. So what happens when you die? When you or another die, you and the other are the manifestations of that vast stream of human action and reaction, the stream of egotistic consciousness, of behaviour and so on: you are of that stream. That stream has conditioned the human mind, the human brain, and as long as we remain conditioned by greed, envy, fear, pleasure, identity with its egotism, nationalism, beliefs, and all the rest of it, then we are part of this stream, stream of sorrow., it is sorrow because during living we do not fundamentally change, the sense of egotism with its identity prevails. Your organism may end but you are of that stream, as you are now deeply conditioned into a nationality, ideology, and family , etc... while living, in that stream itself. That stream, changing, slow at times, fast at others, deep and shallow, narrowed by both sides of the bank and breaking through the narrowness into a vast volume of water - as long as you are of that stream (egotistical, tribal, ideological) there is no freedom, and freedom is paramount for a different state of consciousness to be.. There is no freedom from time, from the confusion and the misery of all the accumulated memories and attachments. It is only when there is the ending of that stream (while living), the ending, not you stepping out of it and becoming something else (while still in that framework of egotism), but the ending of it, only then is there quite a different dimension. That dimension cannot be measured by human words. The ending without a motive is the whole significance of dying and living. The roots of heaven are in "living and dying." So die today, and everyday to all memories and attachments, otherwise everything experienced will be a projection of the known and egotistical thinking. Death is too vast for the limited conditioned mind.

Hello Ben, very well made video. I have just recently watched a few of your videos. I am not new to spiritual study but of course a fledgling as compared to most spiritualists. However, I have a question. I understand we are all here for our experience. However, I have heard in some cases even if we agreed to a contract with our “family soul group” while on this physical plane. There are some exceptions/cases where we can request to “opt out” of part of this experience. I realize that by doing so we may have to go through that experience in the next life. But I am determined to see if this is possible. I have twin identical 9 year old girls with autism. They are low on the autism spectrum and one of the twins has been able to overcome her autism and communication issues and is more neurotypical now. The second twin is still far behind and is not making the same progress. Is there a way to request a partial or full opt out of her autism experience in this lifetime? Autism has nearly destroyed our family and I think we have gained most of that experience for what it is. It is mostly suffering and worrying now. My wife and I won’t be on this plane to take care of the girls after we have left this existence. I am trying to help them be as self sufficient as I can before that time.

We strive for meaning in the afterlife. Our thoughts become our reality whether illusory or real... Each believer will see their own version of reality on the Astral plane, based on their memories and conditioned viewpoint. Even on the Astral plane projected illusions can exist, mimicking our thoughts. We never investigate what our thinking is... As human beings we are psychologically the entire humanity, not just representing it, but our thinking with its egocentrism has divided us, made us feel individualistic, separate. As an individual we think in terms of being separate with an identity, thinking as an isolated fragment, but just as you are thinking in terms of a fragment of the world - the reality is that the world is you but "individuality" with its identity and conditioned background is so strong that we can't see beyond this state. So our view of the afterlife is based on an egocentric viewpoint. So what happens when you die? When you or another die, you and the other are the manifestations of that vast stream of human action and reaction, the stream of humanity's egotistic consciousness, of behaviour and so on: you are of that stream. That accumulated stream has conditioned the mind, and the human brain, and as long as we remain conditioned by greed, envy, fear, pleasure, identity with its egotism, nationalism, beliefs, and all the rest of it, then we are part of this stream, stream of sorrow., it is sorrow because during living we do not fundamentally change, the sense of egotism with its identity and division prevails. Your organism may end but you are of that stream, as you are now deeply conditioned into a nationality, ideology, belief, groups, and identity in family , etc... while living, in that stream itself. That stream, changing, slow at times, fast at others, deep and shallow, narrowed by both sides of the bank and breaking through the narrowness into a vast volume of water - as long as you are of that stream (egotistical, tribal, ideological) there is no freedom, and freedom is paramount for a different state of consciousness to be.. There is no freedom from time, from the confusion and the misery of all the accumulated memories and attachments. It is only when there is the ending of that stream (while living), the ending, not you stepping out of it and becoming something else (while still in that framework of egotism), but the ending of it, only then is there quite a different dimension. That dimension cannot be measured by conditioned human thought.. The ending without an egocentric motive is the whole significance of dying and living. The roots of heaven are in "living and dying." So die today, and everyday to all memories and attachments, freedom from all conditioning, otherwise everything experienced will be a projection of the known and egotistical thinking. Death is too vast for the limited conditioned mind. Out of an opinion or a belief the mind can project an idea or an image of God; but it is a projection of itself, of its own chatter, of its own fabrication, and therefore it is not real. The real cannot be projected or invited, but can come into being only when the mind, the thinker, understands himself. Without understanding the thought and the thinker, there is no possibility of receiving truth, because the maker of effort is the thought, which is the thinker. Without thought, there is no thinker; and the thinker, seeking further security, takes refuge in an idea which he calls God, religion. But that is not true religion, that is merely an extension of his own egotism, a projection of himself. It is a projected righteousness, a projected respectability, and this respectability cannot receive that which is truth. Most of us are very respectable in the political, economic, or religious sense. We want to be something, here or in another world. The desire for existence in another world, in a different form, is still self-projection; it is still the worship of oneself, and such a projection is surely not religion. Religion is something much wider, much deeper than the projections of the self, and after all, your belief is a projection. Your ideas are self-projections, whether national or religious, and the following of such projections is obviously the gratification of the self and therefore the enclosing of the mind within a belief; therefore it is not fundamentally reality. Complete psychological freedom from egocentrism and conditioning are the priority, without doing this first all ancient wisdom ideas, and ideas of Astral planes, occult, etc..become another belief system and escape, further strengthening egotism, division and conflict.

I belive u have already or are at least very close to realising the Light

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Hi Ben, thanks for the video 😊 It great information as usual. I have a query, I heard through some media that after death the soul will forget Everyone except the loved ones. Is that true? Even after the death Do the soul connect to this physical realm?

lol so now you’re a psychic too! 🤯

Can you tell if I am in astral plane (5d) in flesh and blood. I feel I am a living being but understand expired soul are residing with me. So good practice and prayer life is necessity. If this assumptions are correct do explain. Also do these expired souls have physical body??? Not sure

The only reason we try to come back into physical form is that we want to experience what we are not... Everything is our desire whether positive or negative experience... We feel negative because the belief we hold in our mind is not in alignment with Truth (Love/God)

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What life path number are you Ben?

P.S. we ourselves choose it is always our own choice, in conference with other beings, yes, but always and forever our own choice, karma = choice. much love

Can take many life times to settle karmic debt. Learn to truly forgive so you don't need to settle scores in future life.

If I may ask, what do you mean when you said that we have free will?

We all have ego and we all want to have ego Because with ego we can "feel" the real life, to feel the others, our communication with others, because being isolated is to deprive yourself of living. The issue comes because we lack of energy The ego is huge consumer of energy If we deplete the energy, then the hungry ego emerges in thirsty emptiness Being empty of energy, you can not fire the ego You can not have social gathering around Because you have no energy to start the Ego circus And gather everyone in awe The alternative way to feel the joy of life is by step up in a less energy consuming mechanism of social interaction Love Not love because of the Teaching But love of happiness that comes from you Deeper you You yourself Enjoying the life of existence How will you know if this is it all? Once you find it, you will have no other questions but be the nirvana

This is my last incarnate, at the end of my Earthly journey I'm returning to Aphrodite. ❤

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bro i am just 30 seconds into the video and the title is absolutely wilddddddd

How come no one ever addresses the issue of animals other than Buddha? Buddha said if you chase animalistic pleasures, you run a very real chance of reincarnating as an animal. This video and most others act as if the human realm is the baseline, and it's only up from here. I see countless creatures every day that lead me to believe otherwise.

you said that the soul moves to the astral plane, although the soul does move anywhere because space & time is an illusion, so there is nowhere for it to move to, it remains in heaven while we have our physical reality experience, it just feels like we are moving there from our perspective. The human being does not have a soul it is a soul, experiencing physical reality & the soul is not bound to repeat any cycle, it chooses to experience physical reality. You don't really have to do anything to ascend to a higher level of consciousness, as a soul your already there.

Instead of looking into death Live now While you are here To have slight of a glimpses Miss no opportunity For while you have energy to experience The people want to know the end For them to prepare But without losing any comfort slowly vanish into end There is that opportunity To see it all Just for a glimpse Marking memories For the daily nights To have the hope - no But to never lose the mark in lost Mark your glimpses while you have the energy to They will silently guide you And you will never lose the path Knowing you have lived it

Ben describes the soul trap in a prision planet

What happens when someone has a “ hellish “ NDE. What does that mean?

What happens to animals when they die? I've just lost both my dogs in the past few months and it's ripped my heart out. My youngest dog and I had a very strong connection and I wonder what will be happening to him now. Can you tell me please? Thank you.

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i have a question can we come back withour memories or is it some kind of law that we forget

Jesus is my saver.

You described the matrix cycle, which includes the Astral... wanna talk about the "real" universe, where things are not upside down?

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I have a question Ben smith. You said to reduce our bad karma as much as we can now by eating other living beings like fish , chicken, beef etc is someone accumulating more bad karma ? Can you please clarify this ?

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I prefer the 5 plane model (buddha skandhas and sankkara koshas) in fact it appears in the old and new testament as ezequiel angels, pancrator and the tetramorphs, mani's five heroes, saiva and vaisnava agamas as the five faces of shiva and five essences and elsewhere as the five elements earth,water,fire,air and ether. this model is more truthful in the sense that there is no such thing as material or physical plane, there is form, sensation, intellect, archetype/intuition and conciousness planes.. we dont die we just go back to the archetypal plane where there is a big test where fear, confusion and awareness of sins pushes us back to the lower 3 planes. if you made it to the 5 plane the scorching light can also propel you to the lower. btw.. pride is like a giant boulder that you cant carry ip to the top of the mountain.. it is also an iron wall that doesnt allow higher teachings to come through. just saying

The question should be what happens to you after your body died?

Good information, but do you really know? Or are you repeating what you heard?

We can say what we want, no one really knows what happens after death.

You are living. Celebrate!

We live for 100+ years in the "Astral" after every life, and can't sever our attachments? and we've possibly lived longer in the astral than in "physical"? Doesn't make much sense.

I feel like being perpetually punished for having been punished a lot as a child, and the bodymind is now tuned to that frequency. And then if you're mostly negative because of that, you're punished again in an awful part of the astral plane after dying. All of this in spite of a life long path of spiritual awakening effort. Some creation, seems very incompetently done. Or it's by design and endless suffering is just the will of God for this earth plane

If it's all one, how is there *good* or *bad* karma? Also, so much of who you are, temperament/mannerism/personality are biological in nature.. genetics (twins personality), hormones, brain wiring, gut bugs, etc, to say nothing of spirit-possessions. Therefore how much agency and free-will do you have in order to be said that you are responsible for your karma? I've heard many descriptions of the afterlife.. Tom Campbell, Luis Minero, Matías De Stefano, Swami Kriyananda, Emanuel Swedenborg , Jurgen Ziewe, Pulkit Mathur/Spiritual-Bee... etc. Some suggest that often when you die, you are confused, and so there's no one on the other side helping out. Similarly, some reincarnation cases, it suggests you can compete your way back in just a few years. Because there is good evidence* on ways to interact with entities in another dimension using Physical-Mediumship / apports, or Electronic-Voice-Phenomena.. (* Eusapia Palladino , Franek Kluski , Daniel Dunglas Home , Mina Crandon, Eleonora Zugun, Eva Carrière / Schrenck-Notzing , Gladys Osborne Leonard , Alec Harris , Linda Gazzera (as reported by Charles Richet), Florence Cook (Sir William Crookes), the Scole Experiments, Géza Maróczy ) if one could communicate to the other side by only asking yes / no questions, what would be the line of questions that would best help explain the nature of life/death/consciousness? Would love to hear questions that Bernado Kastrup, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens , Greg Bishop , Jacque Vallee, Jeff Kripal , Jeffrey Mishlove, and Robert Kuhn would ask! You often hear about NDEs that get asked if they want to come back or not.. and other times, they are not given the choice and are told they have to come back. Who are the 'Spirit Guides' (or maybe Higher-Self) that is doing the asking/deciding? And after you die for good, what determines if in your next life you come back as a bacteria , a stray dog, or as an alien on another planet? The 2010 movie, Astral-City has an interesting take where the other realm is much like here, including jobs, bureaucracy, etc! And when an alien dies, does their afterlife look the same or share the same dimension as when a human dies? How about for dogs and insects? And how do ghosts fit into the picture, lingering and interacting in our physical space? Some ghosts seem to be positive forces that intervene to help.. while others are nasty and dangerous. Callum Cooper , Hans Holzer, Gaurav Tiwari, have some good data. And when you reincarnate you have a new set of people as your family, so what is our relationship with each other, and our family (ex. mother, father) from all our previous lives in the after-life? Are all relationships temporary, and irrelevant after a few reincarnations? What about the theory proposed by many (Paul Wallis , Neil Freer , Jason , Reza Jorjani, Robert Monroe's Loosh etc ) that earth is a prison planet.. the end-of-life light that one sees upon death, is actually a trap! It's used by higher energy beings (reptilian in nature) in order to draw us in, harvest our energy, and cause us to reincarnate in an endless loop. There was a good episode of the Why Files "Aliens Harvesting Human Souls" Whatever unified model explains the nature of reality should be able to explain all the above and more.. reincarnation, biology/free-will/karma, NDE/Ghosts, channeling/medium, premonition, remote-viewing, time-slips, alien consciousness, etc! For me, it would be nice to know if there is ever a point when you stop having a personal unique experience, and merge into the oneness. The idea that you will be conscious and experiencing for eternity seems like a bad deal.

It took me quite a time to start believing in reincarnation due to my Christian upbringing. Some times I just wonder why Christianity would remove reincarnation from the bible or spiritual text But no I believe in it although I hope I can remember my past life one day

What happens is that we die, that's it. Why is it so all-important that we believe something that's nothing more than wishes and fantasy?

Two questions please Ben: How many hours do you meditate daily? What do you experience on such daily meditations? Thank you for the great videos.

I don't like the physical plane too much.

It’s not so important how you start the game (of life), what matters more is how you learn along the way and finish the game 🙏

How the time work's in different planes since time "doesn't exist"? 🤔

The only free will, is the will to realize that this is all a game.

No disrespect - but how can you know?

Be careful, you might be being deceived by masters, guides, etc...

Decomposition.

Shame he charges to join the community thing...seems incongruous

the Soul isnot yours. it's a separate consciousness.

Doesn't make sense, nature doesn't work like that, if a lion eats a zebra is the lion bad for ending the zebras life? What is the lion supposed to do, starve and die and then the lion will ascend to a higher plane? Nature is survival and reproduction, nothing more, the idea that after death there is a form of karma for what happens in life seems like a flawed concept. The sad reality is that life is a competitive sport, someone or something has to lose out in order for someone or something else to live comfortably.

You RIP TILL JUDGMENT DAY. 🙏🏽

OK, watched this. I've a few questions. 1. What you have illustrated in this video sounds an awfully lot like Hinduism, or Buddhism. 2. What if you're an atheist with strong materialistic views and firmly believe that the concepts of reincarnation, afterlife and all paranormal phenomena are all pseudoscientific woo-woo BS, and that no soul exists, consciousness is simply confined in the brain, and that when you die, you are dead and nothing follows except for decomposition of the physical body. How will your argument convince someone with those views? Doesn't the body simply decay after death and consciousness dissipate into nothingness? What ACTUAL proof have you of the existence of an afterlife? 3. How will your argument sway a fundamental evangelical Christian who fully believes that we're all born sinners, we cannot save ourselves, and we must repent of our sinful inborn nature and completely accept Jesus Christ as our saviour, or go to hell to be burnt and tortured for all eternity with NO chance of reprieve? 4. A controversial one: according to what you have said in this video, what if Hitler has come back as Vladimir Putin, and has been reincarnated as Hitler 2.0, but not as bad? But still, a great thought-provoking video. Thanks Ben, and pls reply when you have a moment.

Non-sense. You're not the only one who channels guides and angels. Karma is a human created construct because humans have a need to attach fear and consequence to everything. These physical "incarnations" are a SIM. Our higher self breaks off a part of itself--a fractal--which is our individuality as a soul, and project consciousness into these physical incarnation simulations. It's a dream state consciousness. It allows the higher self and us to expand through the perception of contrast. Most horrible people as you describe them, chose to take on that persona. All lives are tailored to the objectives in which the Soul wants to achieve. There's no consequence or "bad place". These types of hellish NDE's are a result of human consciousness still attached to the soul. It's always temporary because in the astral non-physical plane, we can manifest instantly. Once we actually transition, there's a life review and a staging of replenishment, depending on the difficulty of that particular life. We always choose whether or not we want to reincarnate. Nothing is forced or coerced. There's nothing to release or balance. That's all human created hogwash--rooted in fear based thinking.

The thing is…do you have children yet? And with all due respect…the LOVE that bonds us; especially to our children, is not something to toss off…EVER! And I’ve never been fortunate with spousal love, but I feel if I had that kind of beauty with a partner, it would also add to that undying Love. Also Christ so loved the world that he came as one of us. To help us and show us the way to the Father. He would not be ok in Heaven without The beloved. Its not a Genie my friend. Please explain how you can undo Love for your children or spouse. I would spend lifetimes with my children and they would with me!