SIBERIAN SHAMANISM. The Karakarmyos-Aldaichi

“Little by little his blindness disappears, and the man begins to sober up. At first he realizes with the utmost clarity that AS A MATTER OF FACT, HE IS DEAD!!!”

“But how come one can’t understand it at once, Kudai Kam?” laughed Saosh.

“Come to think of it, most people, in fact, don’t realize that they are dead.”

“Oh dear!”

“They go on living their usual life automatically, they do the same things, talk to the same sort of people. But suddenly they begin to understand that something is wrong.”

“What exactly?”

“For example, the living can’t hear them. They don’t answer their questions, don’t fulfill their wishes, don’t comply with their requests and demands.”

“That’s something like!”

“You may find it funny, but they don’t! They find themselves in sort of vacuum.”

“It is similar to when a person is boycotted, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, sort of. The people who live on earth don’t react to him at all. He is trying to say something to them, to ask, to touch. But all his efforts produce no results. The hands or the dead person go through the bodies of the living. His screams and appeals are not heard, even if, as he might think, he is ‘shouting right in the ear’. And then he feels a surge of despair. With the whole of his being he starts realizing WHAT has happened to him. And this very despair attracts all the demons, which gladly begin to absorb his energy. They eat away at him. Moreover, the attachments to the physical world don’t let him pull away from its ties. The poor fellow can wander near the earth like that, looking with despair, frustration and greediness at what is going on among the living. He sees how the people treat him in reality, he hears their remarks about him which are far from being complimentary. He sees that they are using ‘his’ property. Altogether it is the hardest time for the deceased. So others often either pray for him or perform shamanistic rituals in order to help him.”

“And how long can it last, Kudai Kam?” the young man’s eyes showed genuine interest.

“It depends. Forty to forty-nine days on average.”

“Big deal!” Saosh Yant gave a whistle.

“Ha! Big deal? It seems an eternity for him.”

“But why?”

“Because even a minute there is a whole century. And forty days is an eternity. The stronger the man’s emotions are, the longer and more painfully it drags on.”

“I still don’t understand.”

“You see, emotions completely seize a man there. He lives them with the whole of his being, totally, integrally. He cannot get away from it all, nor sleep, nor take a sedative. Ha cannot have a smoke or a drink. Or a meal. He can’t fall asleep. Nothing. He is accustomed to pacifying or distracting himself. But that was possible while he had a physical body. And after his death his soul is restless, it is swept over by the emotions it is experiencing. And these emotions, as I said, are far from being pleasant.”

“The most unpleasant is more like it,” the young man smiled bitterly. “So that’s why the first forty days after the person’s death are so important?”

“Yes. As a rule, during this period the soul of an ordinary man manages to realize WHAT has happened to it…”

“The fact that it has separated from the body?”

“Yes. Besides, it severs the attachments to the earthly life.”

“Wait, wait, Kudai Kam! You mentioned forty to forty-nine days, if I heard you right.”

“That’s right. There are several ‘stages’ of the severance.”

“Oh! That’s interesting!”

“The first stage takes the first three days. During this period the etheric body, together with the other subtle bodies, separates from the physical one and then floats in close proximity to earth.”

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