Why seven days?
The reason is that seven is an archetype of creation. In the Bible the world was created in seven days. In any one moment your consciousness is spanning seven days. In the now moment, where you are reading this article, is the fourth day. Your consciousness is projecting from this moment, three days into your possible future; and at the same time it is withdrawing from the three days of your past from this moment. So in any one moment your consciousness is spanning three days either side of the day you find yourself in now. To give an example of this! How many of you reading this article have found yourselves approaching a holiday and as you get closer to the date of your departure you find yourself finding it harder and harder to focus on your everyday reality. So if you were at work, as your last day approaches, you find it more and more difficult to concentrate on the job in hand, until on the last day before you go, concentration on work is virtually impossible. Why is this? The reason being that three days before your departure date a part of you had already set out on the trip. On the second day more of you has left, until by the third day there is not a lot of you actually hear.
Of course this also works in the reverse. When you are on holiday, it can take you anything up to three days before you actually let go of your life and work back at home before you start to really enjoy your holiday. As you begin to approach you're leaving date to return home, you find yourself thinking more and more about what you will have to face when you get back. You start to latch-in to the problems you feel you will have to face when you return back to work or home. Again, this is because three days before your departure date you start to return home in consciousness. This is a cosmic archetype of consciousness.
Therefore, as you sit in the room reading this article your consciousness is actually spanning seven days and this is one of the keys to the understanding of manifestation, of bringing what you wish into your life in any one moment.
This is also the key to understanding the process of death, of withdrawing from the physical body. So a person who is dying goes through the process over seven days, takes seven days to die, to leave this incarnation on the third dimensional plane. There are three days that lead up to the day where they take their last breath. On the day before they take their last breath, whether that person has had a serious illness, or had an illness which has affected their consciousness, such as senility; on the day before they die they appear as normal as they ever were before they had the illness. I am talking here very generally.
They appear to be normal, without pain, in very good spirits, very animated and willing to chat in a very good humour. Everybody who is around them, their family and friends, are amazed and feel that a miracle has happened. However, this state may continue for about 12 hours, but soon after the person then lapses into a state of unconsciousness. Then, again very generally, that person will remain in that state for another 12 hours leading up to them taking their last breath.
It is here that I wish to emphasize that although the person has taken their last breath physically they have not necessarily left the physical body. The process of abstraction from the physical body can take another three days. Their consciousness is still attached to the physical body for a further three days.
It is said that a person who has taken their last breath and is in the process of detaching from the physical body, will be called back to that physical body at the same time they took their last breath, on each of the successes three days following the day they took their last breath.
In many of the spiritual traditions, including the Buddhist, a person who has died is not touched for three days after they have taken their last breath. This is to allow the person to complete the process of abstraction undisturbed. This is also why in the Bible, Jesus was interred for three days, and then arose again. |
