Since the physical consciousness is thus thoughts and thought substances, it is not in itself anything physical or material, but is in reality purely spiritual in nature. It is therefore independent of the physical body and cannot perish with it. After the collapse of the physical body, it will still be connected to the I, which, with its eternal superconsciousness and subconsciousness, creates the living spirit that is the true, real, immortal being behind the physical organism. At death, when the spirit loses its physical body and therefore the physical part of its brain and nervous system, which is the seat of its physical day-consciousness, it will lose the capacity dependent on these to consciously and directly interact with the physical plane and so too the ability to be in direct physical connection with those left behind on the physical plane.

As its day-consciousness, however, is transferred at death to its night-consciousness, which is day-consciousness on the spiritual plane, it will here still consciously juggle with its experiences, memories, knowledge and so on from the physical terrestrial life that it has left behind. These psychic phenomena will then determine the degree of light or happiness in the completely spiritual existence that the being has entered into at death.