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Falling Through the Cracks In his book ‘Far Journeys’, Robert Monroe talks about how people form their own worlds in the parallel worlds. When people die they go to the area of their impressions and their collective consciousness forms a world that is of their own making. University Professors are in their world, the sceptics in theirs. People who are spiritual and who believe in an afterlife have an easier time than those who don't After death, the sceptics are usually not aware even that they have died. They go about their lives in the same way as they did previously, but sooner or later they become ware that something is not right. Their picture of the world starts to crumble. They realise, for example, that people argent responding to them in the same way as they did previously and that they pass through objects. In this world, too, people build up a picture of reality. I've remarked many times on the narrow view that sceptics have. People with strong political views have a picture of reality that is often based around assumptions and ideology rather than pragmatism. For example, people who oppose prejudice may be oblivious to their own prejudices. I've come across many anti-prejudice crusaders who berate people who wear suits or upper-class English people. Age tends to dissipate this naiveté as people become aware of the inconsistencies of their views. A nagging feeling develops that something is not quite right. Robert Monroe referred to this as ‘falling through the cracks’. The same process takes place after death, but the process is much slower and much harder. In order to make thing easy, one must develop self observation. In fact one might say that self observation is the key to enlightenment. When tempered steel is bent backwards and forward, it loses its temper and snaps. Thus the phrase to ‘lose your temper’. When someone gets really angry, the blast of generated energy can push the consciousness out of the body. The person becomes, literally, ‘besides themselves’ with rage. The situation causes self observation.