So, Miss Rita, you lost your ability to connect via the senses, and then –?
A loss is a gain elsewhere. Losing one’s tether to one thing frees one to do or go somewhere else, if at the cost perhaps of some disorientation. But that cost is a “perhaps”, and its extent depends upon many circumstances, all of which turn out to be intrinsic to the individual 3D consciousness and its connections. But at first it often seems otherwise. Losing consciousness (temporarily) of the 3D world makes possible one’s re-opening to the non-3D world. But it doesn’t happen in one leap and it doesn’t happen, all the way down, but by a slower or faster process of successive openings-up
Losing connection with the 3D world seems not a matter of choice, but of external necessity. You may be fine with it, even be eager for it, but you do not feel it is up to you. You are being carried over the falls willy-nilly, like a mother in childbirth. It is out of your hands. But then you lose sight of the 3D world, and your first steps to reawakening amount to looking around at who you are (which means who you have been, and have done, and how you have experienced yourself) in the absence of what may now be felt to be the distraction of “the external world.”
The “it” meant by “you can’t take it with you” is more (or less) than physical assets. It is – everything. Identification, habit-patterns, relationships, acquired skills, painful memories, accomplishments, failures. Everything, in layers gets stripped off, but the delamination process may be thought of in 3D as having been experienced either all at once or sequentially. Time isn’t really a factor in the process, and so how it is experienced will vary person by person.
The “past life review,” I take it you are referring to.
That, but not only that. The stripping away of one’s identification with 3D attributes is much more than that, and in fact may not involve that at all in the way people think. I’m talking about the fundamental reorientation of the consciousness as it realizes that it isn’t what it thought itself to “only” be, and isn’t what it thought itself to “potentially” be.
To avoid misunderstanding, I think I ought to say that the losses you itemize are not permanent losses. We don’t lose our mental habit-patterns, for instance, or our memories or anything.
No. But they were never what they seemed to be, and so it is as accurate to say they are lost as to say our understanding is transformed. And in the process of falling away from the 3D, it is a loss, just not an irretrievable one.
— Edited from Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.