You can glimpse other realities, and this knowledge and confidence will automatically be of benefit to you when the transition takes place. You can indeed then leave your body while still conscious, and arrive so to speak with your senses about you. (Smile.)

Otherwise you may have consciousness drugged or in a disintegrating state, because of the body’s condition. Under those circumstances the transition is not as easy.

It is like Ruburt keeping the bird alive, you see. (Last summer, Jane found an injured bird, and for several days tried to make it live.) When the personality understands, it can indeed then will itself to leave the body in an aware state, and as it goes bless the body consciousness who has served it so well, release the tiny birdlike awareness within each cell, and go on to its own transition.

There is release also, you see, for the body consciousness, which as you know then changes to other forms. The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities. They are also however excellent exercises that will result in the training so advantageous at the point of transition.

[...] He has been used to the trance, and of course with what you call the normal waking state, and has not happened to become acquainted with this transition phase. [...] As a transitional step, it is most necessary. [...]

[...] It is necessary only as a transition. [...]

You always regarded this place as a place of transition. It was thought of in terms of social transition, or your place in society, and transition in terms of your work, particularly here on Ruburt’s side—on his part. [...]

[...] Now with younger people about the thoughts are stronger that this is a place of transition. [...]

[...] Ruburt has strongly held down any tendencies through the years to spend any money, small as it might be, in decorating, buying furniture, simply because of your joint attitudes, the feeling of transition.

The time of choosing is dependent upon the condition and circumstances of the individual following transition from physical life. [...]

The mechanics of transition therefore are highly variable, as the mechanics of physical life are highly variable. [...]

[...] Such individuals have many stages to go through following transition, and usually many other physical lives “ahead” of them.

[...] In many communications with those in these transitional states, messages through mediums can appear as highly contradictory. [...]

[...] You are making transitions from the forms that you know, and the forms that you are used to perceiving, so that you can perceive other forms with which you presently are not acquainted. [...]

[...] You are both in a good period of transition, and Willy is showing you the nature of healing. [...]

[...] I know what the transition is like and I tell you it is pleasant—but your responsibilities will still exist, and you will ask yourself how you have fulfilled them. [...]

AFTER-DEATH CHOICES AND THE
MECHANICS OF TRANSITION

[...] The actual transition itself to normal walking is being assured by those changes that are occurring now, making the correct positions finally possible.

[...] Earlier you simply were not ready to make that fuller transition, and again, that transition, once decided upon, is indeed effortless. [...]

He did somewhat better on the garage steps today—because he is, as I said, in a period of transition, and now is able to pull his body higher. [...]

(3:25.) What we are involved in mainly, however, are the characteristic periods of seeming amnesia, occurring usually involuntarily, often without any transition except perhaps for a headache.

[...] There may be a temporary illness for example while transitions take place. [...]

[...] Personalities that you have known in past lives will know you after transition. [...]

[...] Medicinal science is also in a state of transition, and it is just as important — if not more so — that it examine its concepts as well as its techniques.

[...] Certain transition stages are completely ignored. [...]

During her last days in the hospital Jane simply stopped eating, and I knew that her transition to another reality was near. [...]

[...] In any case, the classes are in a period of transition. [...]

The species is in a state of transition, one of many. [...]

[...] Personalities in such transition are thereby allowed to acclimate themselves in a period of neutrality and relative passivity.

[...] The term itself merely applies to a reference point duration that has meaning only in so far as it is related to a specific personality that is in a transitional frame between dimensional actualities.

[...] You are both in a period of transition. [...]