Experiences from the Threshold and Beyond E-Book

Are Thoresen

• Herausgeber: Temple Lodge Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 270

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

'There is a physical world, which we all accept as real, but there is also a spiritual world, which interpenetrates this material world and is its cause and foundation. Between these two worlds exists a threshold that can be felt, seen clairvoyantly, traversed and passed through by anyone with a real desire to do so... At this threshold there is a guardian, whose task is to stop humans from passing across it unprepared...' – From the Introduction Based on first-hand knowledge, Are Thoresen offers insights into the meaning of the threshold to the spiritual world. He describes his own experiences in encountering this threshold and going beyond it. But there are many thresholds to the spiritual world, he says, and many ways to pass them – as there are many aspects to the 'guardian of the threshold' and versions of the so-called 'animals at the threshold'. The worlds beyond, too, have a variety of different constructions – or, as the Bible says: 'In my Father's house are many mansions'. The author describes the methods and techniques for opening the spiritual sense organs required to cross the threshold, and clarifies the differences between Imagination (seeing spiritual 'pictures'), Inspiration (understanding those pictures) and Intuition (living 'inside' the spiritual reality). Structuring the book on his own biography, Thoresen conveys many of the lessons he has learnt through decades of familiarity with the invisible dimensions. However, he warns that there is only one good reason to attempt to cross the threshold, and that is to serve God and humanity in the name of love. If we do it out of curiosity, or to enhance our personal development, it would be better not to try.

Leseprobe

Experiences From the Threshold and Beyond

Understood Through Anthroposophy

Are Simeon Thoresen, DVM

Temple Lodge Publishing Ltd.

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Published in English by Temple Lodge in 2019

Originally self-published in an earlier version under the title Experiences from the Threshold—and beyond: Understood through Anthroposophy via CreateSpace in 2019

© Are Simeon Thoresen, DVM

This new edition has been re-edited and expanded by Temple Lodge Publishing in cooperation with the author. With thanks to Michael Allen for his editorial contribution

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1.Childhood (6–12)

2.Youth (12–21)

3.Adulthood (21–62)

4.Senior Years (62–...)

5.Spiritual Training

Addendum 1—The Twelve Sense Organs and Their Developmental Significance

Addendum 2—The Mystery of the Hexagon

Foreword

This book aims to give readers an understanding of the spiritual foundations of the threshold, especially the practical experiences.

All my books are inspired either by the spiritual world or by experiences in front of, on, or beyond the threshold to the spiritual world.

The above may already confuse the average reader: What is the ‘spiritual world’? What is the ‘threshold’? What does ‘passing the threshold’ mean? What light can my life experiences throw upon such questions?

What’s more, who was Rudolf Steiner? Does the 100 years that has passed since Rudolf Steiner’s death make any difference to the answers to these questions?

Readers who are familiar with the concepts mentioned above will understand what I am trying to communicate, but others will have difficulties. As these questions will define this whole book, I will say a few words here on these subjects so that more readers will be able to comprehend them.

There is a physical world, which we all accept as real, but there is also a spiritual world, which interpenetrates this material world and which also is its cause and foundation.

Between these two worlds, a threshold exists that can be felt, seen clairvoyantly, traversed and passed through by anyone with a real desire to do so, after adequate training and sufficient time. At this threshold there is a guardian, whose task is to stop humans from passing across it unprepared, for then they might be seriously disturbed or frightened, as reality is so different on the other side of this spiritual border.

Later, in the Introduction, I will try to define these concepts further, but if already the reader feels uncomfortable with the themes and goals of this book, it might be better to put it down now.

Allow me then to continue. It is important to be aware that there are many thresholds in the spiritual world, many aspects of the ‘Guardians of the Threshold’, many versions of the so-called ‘animals on the threshold’ and many types of deaths when passing the different thresholds, as something is always lost or dies in such a passing. Also, the worlds beyond have a variety of different constructions, although they may appear the same for two spiritual researchers who enter the same ‘room’. There are many rooms in the higher dimensions.*

Here we touch upon some very difficult concepts and expressions that will be defined and explained in the Introduction following this Foreword.

All of my earlier books, apart from Demons and Healing*, are self-published on Amazon and are each about a specific type of threshold crossing and a specific part of the world beyond.

•Poplar is about the spiritual experiences I had in nature, especially with trees, leading back to early childhood.

•7-fold Way to Therapy is about the spiritual experiences I had in developing my therapeutic methods, especially in relation to Rudolf Steiner’s so-called ‘First Class’ of the School of Spiritual Science.

•The Forgotten Mysteries of Atlantis is about the spiritual experiences I had in understanding my personal karma, especially relating to my work.

•Alternative Veterinary Medicine is about the spiritual experiences I had as a veterinarian, trying to find my way from the materialistic medicine of today and towards a more spiritual practice.

•Demons and Healing is about the spiritual experiences I had in meeting the demonic structures causing disease and misfortune.

•Spiritual Medicine is about the spiritual experiences I had, resulting in the later development of my therapeutic methods, especially in finding the Christ force that resides in the middle (of everything), and also in understanding the huge danger and illusionary scam that 5-element acupuncture (Traditional Chinese medicine) has led us into.

So, if I have written about these themes all my life, why then another book about the same? The answer is simple. The books I have written previously are about the lessons, knowledge and inspirations I have received from the spirit. This book is about the methods, the experiences on the thresholds and the techniques I have used to enter the spiritual world. In other words, it is about how to approach the threshold, how to pass it and how to behave beyond it.

Rudolf Steiner and other authors have already written about this subject, but my own experiences are somewhat different from that of others, so I have decided to give an in-depth description of them: how I got there, how I behaved in the spiritual world and what mistakes I made. As I do this, I do not mean to criticize or correct any other writer, but just want to give my own experiences concerning the path described in this book.

It is very important in connection with these examples to be aware of one of the most important laws of the spiritual world that the Greek philosopher Heraclitus* discovered: the law of non-repetition. This means that no experience on the threshold or beyond in the spiritual world will or can repeat itself. Every time I pass the threshold, I see different things, have different experiences and understand different concepts or truths of the spiritual realm of existence.

However, none of these experiences or revelations contradict each other. Therefore, not everyone who reads this book will experience the same as I describe here. I will only give examples of what can or may be experienced and a description of the many ways to enter the spiritual world and to pass the threshold.

In my opinion, we have but one possibility to save our culture, and that is to understand and accept that there is a spiritual world. If not, we will destroy ourselves in materialism. The only way to really ‘believe’ in a spiritual world is to experience it for ourselves, which an increasing amount of people want to do.

To do this we need to become more sensitive. Today, much attention is focused on those few with hypersensitivity towards the excesses of the material world, especially electromagnetic radiation and artificial additives. There are also hypersensitive children.

What today we need to become aware of is the opposite: the tragic hyposensitivity towards the spiritual world, etheric radiation and spiritual beings. Without becoming more sensitive to these, we will be unable to ‘see’ all the destructiveness towards life we experience in the world today. And the only way to experience this world is to open our spiritual sense organs and pass the threshold.

In order to achieve this, there are two things that we must do:

•open or develop one or more of our spiritual organs of perception;

•pass the threshold by separating something in our soul (to be described later).

The training necessary for opening the spiritual sense organs, with the resulting passing of the threshold, will be left for the last section of the book.

I have described my personal way over the threshold in the first four chapters:

•Childhood (6–12).

•Youth (12–21).

•Adulthood (21–62).

•Senior Years (62–).

This is because in these parts of my life it has been distinctly different as to how deep I could penetrate into the spiritual world, and therefore I will discuss them separately.

We will also see that in my early experiences, I only ‘saw’ things as imaginative pictures*, whether it was spiritual beings like elementals, the network between trees, or travelling in time and space. Later in life, these experiences have come back as ‘understanding’ brought about by working with the spiritual world. Rudolf Steiner describes this understanding as Inspiration.

In the latest part of my life, these ‘understandings’ seem to change the very structure or web of my brain, so that I feel myself to be inside the spiritual reality of which, initially, I was just a spectator through experiencing them as Imaginations, and later Inspirations. This last stage—of ‘being inside’ or living with the spiritual reality—Rudolf Steiner calls Intuition.

A good example of this development from Imagination via Inspiration to Intuition came about through the very complicated and challenging change of the curative effect of my cancer treatment. This treatment worked very well for 30 years (June 1984–March 2014), then stopped working completely for 4 years (March 2014–March 2018), only then to work again from March 2018 to the present. This will be an interesting example for learning for the reader, which I will explain in more detail in Chapter 4 of this book.†

With this example, we will also touch upon a very important fact concerning the passing of the threshold, the world beyond this threshold and also the training and exercises that must be done in order to go forward on this described path.

All efforts and training, even the slightest progress on the spiritual path, will be in vain if the motive is to further our own progress and knowledge of the spiritual world, or if we are driven by vanity. At this point in the book, it is very important to know this.

The only valid and fruitful reason for embarking on such a voyage is a wish to serve God and humanity, in any way, in the name of love on this long and painful path to spirituality. If we embark on this journey because we just want to know, to understand and to grow, it would be better if we didn’t do it.

The words ‘not I, but Christ in me’ must be the only direction on this life-long path. If we do all this work for ourselves, the anguished words on the next page will come true. If we do it for the world, we might stand a chance.

Of Utmost Importance

Today, knowledge and insight of the spiritual world is vanishing rapidly, as materialism and egoism take their hold. Fewer and fewer people believe in God. Respect for other life forms, trees and animals, as well as for non-material beings, has lessened, and egoistic materialism is progressing. The culture is trembling under the weight of ignorance, and hyposensitivity. From where I stand, I cannot see any rescue or salvation.

Our culture will vanish, as all other cultures have vanished, and the cause of our destruction will be the ever-progressing materialism and egoism that will eventually culminate in a ‘war of all against all’.

A small number of people, who have grasped the need for spirituality, will carry over the knowledge presented in this book, along with all other similar knowledge, to the next culture. Together they will create a new culture of spiritual and brotherly love

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* ‘My Father’s house has many rooms’ (John 14:2).

*Demons and Healing, Temple Lodge Publishing 2018.

* Heraclitus (535–475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, famous for his insistence on ever-present change as being the fundamental essence of the universe, as stated in the famous saying, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice.’ This is commonly considered to be one of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of becoming, and has been contrasted with Parmenides’ statement that ‘what is—is’ as one of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of being.

* What Rudolf Steiner refers to as ‘Imagination’.

‡ Whatever might be atavistic in my past or present spiritual abilities is not so relevant. What counts is the way we are conscious of what we are doing in the spiritual world and how morally responsible we are. We have all brought from past lives special faculties developed in different spiritual schools. Our natural clairvoyance is therefore very personal and individually developed. Rudolf Steiner’s description of clairvoyant development and research is therefore not the model nor the standard to judge the other forms. All these different forms will metamorphose in the course of time.

Introduction

Before I write about my experiences on and beyond the threshold as a child, I will describe the structure of this book and define the concepts I will use later.

As the reader now will have understood, this book is not for everybody.

It is intended as:

•a manual on crossing the threshold to the spiritual world for all who see this as a possibility;

•a book for my anthroposophical friends to discuss how to cross the threshold in a safe way;

•a book that describes the changes in the spiritual realm during the last 100 years, in reference to Rudolf Steiner’s descriptions on the threshold and the different ways to cross it.

Although broad reading in theosophical and anthroposophical literature may be relevant and important as a wider foundation to the understanding of this subject, you can understand the essentials of what I want to communicate by being familiar with only a few important concepts and some background knowledge.

What needs to be explained?

The first and foremost concept we must discuss and define is the ‘I’. This concept is both the easiest to understand and one of the most difficult.

The next concept we must discuss is the etheric world and etheric powers and ‘streams’. One of my first spiritual experiences was when I experienced these strange, living, black and hollow snake-like etheric connections between trees. I will describe these further in Chapter One, but here I will define these streaming lines as consisting of etheric energy; a life-giving, growth-promoting energy that is the foundation of all life.

In this etheric world, we will also find the phenomenon of ‘time’, which I experience as threefold: the so-called time-line, the time-spiral and the time-double-stream. While elaborating on the etheric timeline, I will later discuss the possibility of time travel.

Above or around the etheric world we find the astral world. This is very different from the etheric and contains all our feelings, our emotions and the ability to travel within it. In this world, we find the first creation of the ‘I’, namely the soul.

Further, we will encounter the very important concepts of the soul, soul-fragments and soul-forces, into which the ‘I’ can travel or project itself through our directed consciousness.

In this connection, we must discuss and be acquainted with the concept of ‘dividing’, as this expression is used mostly in connection with the soul-forces of thinking, feeling and will. These can be divided, just as parts of the etheric or astral bodies can be divided from the whole.

It is by means of these separated parts that the ‘I’ can travel or ‘see’ through our spiritual sense organs into the spiritual world.

When these soul forces are separated and floating out in the spiritual world, we must have a chord between them and our mind, so that the fragments do not drift away. This is called the silver cord.

In the fourth chapter we will also see that the ‘I’ can experience consciously the ‘void’ between the separated parts, especially between the disease-promoting forces, where the divine, angelic forces or entities can emerge. I will describe this in connection with the fight against the curse of cancer.

In short, we must become acquainted with the realm of the etheric forces, into which our etheric body is interwoven, and the realm of the astral forces, in which out astral body is immersed.

We must be acquainted with the concept of ‘spiritual sense organs’, counterparts of which exist in the physical, etheric and astral bodies. These sense organs can be developed, focused and extended to encompass greater parts of both the soul and the body, as well as the whole universe. I imagine that this subject will be the most difficult to comprehend, and because of this I will discuss it in detail in Addendum 1.

We will also have to deal with other entities that we meet at or beyond the threshold, which can be perceived by the spiritual sense organs from different angles or perspectives. They are of several main types: the etheric elementals, the astral elementals and the karmic elementals. There are also the ahrimanic, the luciferic and the azuric elementals, which are named ‘demons’, ‘spectres’ or ‘phantoms’ when they are destructive to man and nature. When they are not destructive or ‘demonic’, they are necessary in order to fulfil our karma, our development as human beings and our freedom of will. We also have nature elementals of earth, water, air and fire, as well as elementals related to flowers and trees.

Further, we will meet the concepts of the ‘Guardian of the Threshold’, the ‘Animals of the Threshold’, the ‘Abyss of the Threshold’ and the ahrimanic, the luciferic, the azuric and the karmic doppelgängers or ‘doubles’.

On the other side, we will also meet the good spiritual beings: our guardian angels and the rest of the angelic hierarchies. We will meet the advanced spiritual teachers and the initiated human beings.

We may meet the cosmic intelligence, called Sophia, the Christ force and lastly the high trinity of all Creation, the Father, the Mother and the Child or Holy Spirit.

Why I describe the adversaries, demons and frightening aspects first is because I met them first in my personal path through the spirit world, probably due to my karma. However, on several occasions in my life I met the good forces, but more in instances of individual need.

When I learned to divide the adversarial forces and to look behind them, I came to experience the divine and good forces and entities of the spiritual world.

Definitions

I will try now, at the beginning of this book, to explain and describe in detail what I mean by all these concepts, otherwise the reader may soon be left in darkness and confusion.

The physical body

This is not as simple as we might at first believe, in either its material or spiritual aspects. In the context of this book, we have to understand the concept of awakening the ‘I’ in different parts of the physical body. When we awaken our consciousness within a defined and restricted area of the physical body (as well as the other ‘bodies’ that we will discuss later), we will find that different parts of the body contain different portals to the spiritual world.

The etheric body

This gives life to the physical body. This etheric body is a manifold and complex structure of flowing and streaming currents of living energy, which connect us to the formative forces in the plant world as well as to the totality of these forces in the cosmos. This body can be used as a gateway into the etheric realm of reality, and it contains spiritual sense organs. These organs are developed either directly or as a template influenced from the astral body.

If the etheric body is weakened, alien spirits will be able to possess the void of the etheric. If these entities are malignant, we call them demons. These are primarily ahrimanic demons. Such demons lead to sclerotic processes in their host.

The etheric world is a world that contains the life force of the entire cosmos, the force that makes energy appear in the void and that gives life to all. This etheric world encompasses all that is alive, and it fills us with this life force. In trees, this world can be observed by the life it gives to them, and can be seen with the spiritual and clairvoyant ‘eye’ as dark and snake-like flowing streams of energy between trees. That is how I see it.

I will now discuss these dark and snake-like connections between trees. For me, they were difficult to understand in the beginning, but many years later I came to a deeper understanding. The black snakes are living in the etheric world, which is a world of growth forces that are used both by humans as a source of thinking and by trees as a means of communicating. Trees communicate in a time-free fashion, and later I discovered that by entering these hollow snakes with my consciousness, I was able to ‘travel’ back in time, together with the trees. I can also travel back in time using other etheric streams, like those found in the human body, the animals, the earth itself or in the cosmos.*

The astral body

The astral body is that part of supersensible man and animals that deals with feelings and movement. Plants do not have an astral body, except for the poisonous ones, which influence the astral body, and in some cases the etheric body, and these are of special interest here.

This body sets us in relation or connects us to the astral world, the animal world and the cosmic counterparts of these forces. The astral body forms and influences the etheric body, and also contains the first beginnings of the soul.

If the astral body is weakened, it will be possible for luciferic forces, spirits or demons to enter the astral void, and such possession will lead to dissolving diseases, infections and hysteric states of mind.

The soul

The soul, the soul-fragments and the soul-forces are important to understand fully. When the conscious I works upon the different areas of the astral, etheric or physical body, the parts that are made conscious are called the soul. Thus, the soul consists of three parts:

•the sentient soul, developed from the astral body;

•the intellectual soul, developed from the etheric body;

•the consciousness soul, developed from the physical body.

These parts are intertwined in the material world, just as the astral, etheric and physical bodies are intertwined, and as such also imprison us in this material world. If we can free the different parts of the soul from this entwinement, we can use these fragments to step over the threshold and to explore the spiritual world. The important thing here is to stay with the conscious I within these fragments of the soul, otherwise alien influences may enter, and that is not good. Not good at all.

The ‘I’

I have already explained the ‘I’ above, but I will repeat the definition again briefly. The ‘I’ is the very function in our spiritual selves that we experience, when we say I or ‘myself’, as our self-conscious, central core of identity. It can enter all realms of the spiritual, the etheric, the astral and even the physical. The ‘I’ is the divine spark or fire inside ourselves and is both dependent and independent of the body, as during sleep, when it travels outside our body.

With this ‘I’, we can consciously ‘travel’ both inside and outside the body and explore different parts of it. We can visit foreign places in the cosmos, travel in time and direct both energetic streams, geopathic earth-radiation and the soul forces called thinking, feeling and will.

The ‘I’ is thus of immense power and of unlimited possibilities. I realized this power as a child, when I experienced that a sore throat healed in a few minutes when I placed my consciousness, or ‘I’, in the throat. The ‘I’ can thus move and direct the pathological entities or functions in the body, through suppression, translocation and transformation (more of this in Chapter 4).

The conscious ‘I’ works in and through the physical, etheric and astral bodies, creating what we may call the ‘soul’, a soul that is conscious through our conscious thinking in the etheric body, our half-conscious feeling in the astral body, and our almost unconscious will in the physical body. When these three faculties are intertwined, time is created and can be experienced as a fourth function of space.

As I experience this, the soul thus contains four main functions, and within each of them, there are multiple subfunctions. These four functions are thinking, feeling, will and time. Through them and their sub-functions, we may perceive the spiritual world, create portals into the spiritual world, travel into this world or become active with our consciousness—our I-function—in this world, through the awakened spiritual sense organs. To be able to operate these parts of the soul, we have to separate a function from the ‘whole’, from the rest of the body.

Spirit is that part of the ‘I’-consciousness that man has received from the great cosmic spirit-sea, also called God.

The three time-qualities and time travelling

In my experience, time is closely linked to the etheric world and the etheric communication and connection between individuals, especially between trees. I will now try to describe and define time as I see and experience it beyond the threshold. I must emphasize that this is not a construct of theory or philosophy, but the direct experience that started when I was around 40 years old. The observations were made while experimenting with the dark rivers of etheric energy streaming between trees.

At first, I just observed these streams, how they, as living beings, bound together all the trees, groups of trees, animals, and even the humans in a vast and cosmic network of living energy. Then, when I ‘entered’ these streams, it was a strange and foreign world. I actually entered the streams in that I physically stepped into them and stood in the middle of the streaming dark energy. Then I found out that they were hollow, and that I could go into the middle of the streams with my liberated consciousness or ‘I’.

There I both saw and experienced that inside, the streams were flowing in two directions, one to the right and one to the left. If I floated with the streaming etheric force to the left, I went further and further into the past. When I floated to the right, I went into the future. I never dared to go far into the future, but I often drifted far into the past. One strange thing was that, if I entered the stream from the other side, ‘left’ still brought me to the past, even if ‘left’ was now ‘right’.

What I experienced there in the past was the history of the trees or the plants, and I drifted back as far as to the Silurian Period.

I saw the old clouds soaring across the sky,

the Sun sending her light down to the earth,

and the stars talking their ancient and silent language.

I saw it from above, 80 million years ago.

However, I woke from this special feeling,

and these old times disappeared.

The old times when the earth conceivedthe sunlight with innocence.

When the earth was still an altar,not a grave.

When humanity itself was onlya star glimmering thought.

It was often difficult to come back to the present after such emotional experiences.

In this way, I experienced the double stream of time. If I followed the stream back in time, there were two different ways to travel:

•One that took me straight back endlessly, without a deeper understanding of cause and effect in what happened. This was a linear time-line.

•One that transported me back in such a way that I could understand what happened and why. This type of travel was in spirals, so I could understand how the ‘arms’ of the spiral influenced the next ‘arm’, and that each ‘round’ was a higher repetition of the last.

Soul Fragments

The separation of soul-fragments needs a deep and thorough explanation. The general technique of passing the threshold is through achieving this division. We are held as prisoners in the material world because our body and soul are held together by strong forces, almost like atoms in a molecule. These bonds bind us to the illusion that the physical/material world is the only true reality, governed by space and time.

It seems to me that anything can be divided, and therefore this opens innumerable portals and ways that lead over the threshold and into the spiritual world. However, I must state and emphasize clearly that, to be able to divide the deeply connected thinking, feeling and will, we have to know what these really are. We must train ourselves to know what our thinking, our feeling and our will really are.

Also, it is very important to understand what Lucifer and Ahriman* truly represent. However—and here comes a contradictory statement—to really know these three soul abilities or the adversaries defined as Lucifer and Ahriman, we have to divide them, at least a little, so as to understand how they act as a singularity. This training must thus go in parallel; we must divide a little in order to see what each part or entity really is and get to know the individual powers better—then we divide further, then understand deeper, and so on. This took me many years.

But how do we divide, how do we separate? Such a separation occurred automatically for me from my earliest memory, but I did not become conscious of it before I was five or six years old. In the beginning, I tried to stop this separation, as it frightened me to ‘lose reality’. Then I started to enjoy the separation, as it was a means of experiencing something different and exciting, although at that time I did not believe in any objective spiritual world; I thought it was all going on only inside my brain, as a subjective experience.

At the age of 21, I realized that this spiritual world was objective, and started to take a deeper interest in the dividing, to analyse the method and discover how this division came about.

At the age of 33, I decided to halt the automatic ability to divide, which I initiated by inserting a small needle in my ear, which resulted in a huge explosion inside my head. I had to analyse the method and develop a conscious way to separate the ‘soul-fragments’. Afterwards, I had to analyse carefully what I had done, or what my soul had done by itself, before my decision to ‘take over’ the procedure of separation.

Then I realized that the important part of the procedure of division was to let the part that was to be separated, ‘die’. I had to ‘pretend’ that one part of me had died, and to feel death invading this part.

•If a part of the thinking is left to die, I feel that the thinking gets darker, and this darkness will invade my thinking from the sides.

•If I let a part of my feeling die, I feel that a sort of coldness invades my chest area from the front.

•If I let a part of my will die, I feel that a kind of death invades my body from below.

•If I let part of my physical body die, I feel like the nerve supply fails in this area; as if it ‘sleeps’ away.

•If I let a part of my etheric body ‘sleep’ (that is the most difficult), I have to ‘drain’ the life force out of the area or organ in question, much like the death of the will, although the draining of the etheric force feels more ‘lethal’ than the death of the will.

•When I let a part of my astral body die, I feel I become immobile, as if all movement has left me.

•