Question to Martinus quoted from Kosmos 5 1986:
When a soul or spirit leaves or loses its physical body at so-called death, does it then enter into a condition where it is conscious of the earthly life left behind I mean, does it remember relatives and friends and the things it has experienced?
Answer by Martinus:
When a living being leaves or loses his physical body, he does not at first lose his physical consciousness, which in this case means experiences from his last terrestrial life, memories of relatives and friends and so on, and other knowledge.
As the physical consciousness is thus thoughts and thought materials it does not in itself constitute something physical, something material but is in reality of a purely spiritual nature. It is therefore independent of the physical body and cannot perish with it. It will, after the collapse of the physical body, still be connected to the I, which, with its eternal super-consciousness and sub-consciousness, creates the living spirit which is the true, real, immortal being appearing behind the physical organism. When the spirit at death loses its physical body and so the physical part of its brain and nervous system which is the seat of its physical day-consciousness it will lose the thereby dependent capacity consciously to interchange with the physical plane directly and so also the ability to stand in direct physical connection with those left behind on the physical plane.
As its day-consciousness, however is transferred at death to its night-consciousness, which is day-consciousness on the spiritual plane, it will here still live in a conscious juggling with its experience, memories, knowledge and so on from the physical terrestrial life left behind. These psychic phenomena will then become the decisive basis for the degree of light or happiness in the total spiritual existence the being has entered at death.
