自杀与浪费时间

此段摘自《灵魂永生》第十一章“死后选择和过渡机制”

自杀的人又是一类，并没有任何特定的“惩罚”为他们而设，他们的情形据推测也不见得更糟糕。他们也被作为个体来对待。但是，任何此生没有面对的问题都将在另一生被面对。不过，这不仅仅适用于自杀者。

自杀者结束自己的生命，也许是因为除了自己选择的非常特定的条件外，他拒绝生存在任何其他条件下。如果是这种情形，那么他自然需要重新学习。可是，很多人身在物质系统内却选择去否认经验，那么他们的肉体虽然活着，却也和自杀没有两样。

除了个人的内在实相和认知，与自杀行为相关的种种情况也是重要的。我在此提到这点，因为许多哲学主张自杀的人会遭遇特别的、几乎是惩罚性的命运，而事实并非如此。可是，如果一个人杀死了自己，并相信这一行为会永远消灭他的意识，那么这种错误的观念将会严重阻碍他的进步，因为这观念会进一步被罪恶感所强化。

当然，还是有导师来解释真正的情况，并运用各种方法治疗。例如，这个人可能被带回到他做出自杀决定前的事件中，然后被允许改变决定。由此引发一种失忆的效果，使得自杀事件被遗忘。直到这人有能力面对和理解自杀这一行为时，才告诉他，他曾自杀过。

不过，这些情况显然也拖延了选择期。不用说，那些对尘世纷扰的过分执迷也有同样效果。在这些案例里，这些人常常会坚持把他的感知能力和精力的焦点对准物质存在。这是从心灵上拒绝接受死亡。按照你们的说法，这人明明知道他已经死了，但他拒绝完成心灵上的分离。

当然也有些情况是当事人没领悟到死亡的事实。他不是拒绝接受，而是没有感知到。在这种情况下，这个人也会执着于人世，也许在自己家或周围困惑徘徊着。当然，选择期也必然被推迟了。

Suicides, as a class, for example, do not have any particular "punishment" meted out to them, nor is their condition any worse a priori. They are treated as individuals. Any problems that were not faced in this life will, however, be faced in another one. This applies not only to suicides, however.

A suicide may bring about his own death because he rejects existence on any but highly specific terms chosen by himself. If this is the case, then of course he will have to learn differently. Many others, however, choose to deny experience while within the physical system, committing suicide quite as effectively while still physically alive.

The conditions connected with an act of suicide are also important, and the inner reality and realization of the individual. I mention this here because many philosophies teach that suicides are met by a sort of special, almost vindictive fate, and such is not the case. However, if a person kills himself, believing that the act will annihilate his consciousness forever, then this false idea may severely impede his progress, for it will be further intensified by guilt.

Again, teachers are available to explain the true situation. Various therapies are used. For example, the personality may be led back to the events prior to the decision. Then the personality is allowed to change the decision. An amnesia effect is induced, so that the suicide itself is forgotten. Only later is the individual informed of the act, when he is better able to face it and understand it.

Obviously, however, these conditions are also impediments to the time of choosing. It goes without saying that an obsession with earthly concerns also acts in the same manner. In such instances, often the personality will insist upon focusing his perceptive abilities and energies toward physical existence. This is a psychic refusal to accept the fact of death. The individual knows quite well that he is dead in your terms, but he refuses to complete the psychic separation.

There are instances of course where the individuals concerned do not realize the fact of death. It is not a matter of refusing to accept it, but a lack of perception. In this state such an individual will also be obsessed with earthly concerns, and wander perhaps bewildered throughout his own home or surroundings. The time of choosing will, of course, necessarily be postponed.

——摘自《灵魂永生》（Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul） 校译

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