In this article and podcast Tanya Solberg looks at the spirit world, the place all of us go between each of our many incarnations. This is based on a lecture by Dr George King which is available on CD and download. Below is a condensed transcript of the podcast.

There is more to life than meets the eye and we hope in today’s short programme to give you some greater insight into the transition we call death and life in the spirit world.

In order to understand what happens when we die we need first to understand a bit about the auric body. We are not just the physical body; around the physical body is a psychic counterpart called the aura. This aura is a psychic reflection of the physical body. It not only reflects the state of physical health, the emotions and psychic development, but it is the part of ourselves that does not die and disintegrate with the physical body. It moves on after death to a different realm of existence around this Earth. Because the aura contains our memory and personality then this also goes with us when we die so we do not forget who we are or who we knew.

These realms are just like the physical realm we now inhabit in that they have trees, mountains, rivers and houses. But the spirit realms are more mental than the physical. For instance we may be able to manifest things through mental visualisation.
What happens when we die?
The physical body and the auric body are connected together by what is termed the “silver cord”. This is an etheric cord located at the back of the neck which connects these two bodies together. A person who has a near death experience is able to come back to life again because the cord has not been broken. Once it is then the physical body can no longer be inhabited. If you, the spirit, were to try to get back into the body you would flop right out again.
The different realms
There is more than one realm of existence beyond this physical. In fact there are ten distinctly separate spirit realms. If we include this physical realm this means that there are 11 different vibrations of existence of life around this planet.

Six of these realms operate on higher vibrational frequencies to where we now are and four realms operate on a lower vibrational frequency. This breaks the spirit realms into two distinct areas - the higher realms which are above the physical, and the lower realms which are below this physical realm. In biblical terminology this separation between the realms is referred to as heaven and hell.

Each realm is on a different energy level and if you were to travel from one to another you would become aware of subtle changes. The higher up the scale the more alive it becomes - absolutely scintillating with life and music and colour. Then if you were to move down to the lower realms they would become darker with not so much light.

Each of the six realms above this physical realm has a higher and higher vibration. Just as each of the four realms below this physical, becomes lower and lower in vibration. To differentiate between the realms Dr King numbered the physical realm as level 1, the higher realms as level 2 to level 7 and the lower realms as level -1 to level -4.

Unlike the physical realm which is a melting pot for all kinds of people, all on different levels of experience, undergoing different karmic lessons - the spirit realms distinctly group people together based on their level of spiritual evolution and current experience cycle. This makes for a very pleasant realm of existence if you happen to be living on a higher realm. But not necessarily a very pleasant place to be if you are on the lower realms – although in saying this many of the people living there excel in this environment.

We must remember that when people pass on from the physical realm they do not suddenly become angels or saints.