The emancipation of the
soul after death

 
Every time it comments on the difficulty of the detachment of the soul of someone who died, it arises in the mind of the people the following question: - Why does the detachment of the soul is facilitated in the sleep state, a fact that occurs every day, and it is not in the transition after death?

The emancipation of the soul at the sleeping body is indeed a fact of life, but you must remember it is only a partial detachment, since the soul is still connected to the physical body. What happens then is just an expansion of perispiritual loop that unites to the material body, allowing it then to travel to distant places of the place where the body remains at rest.

In the case of body death, even before the complete shutdown of the soul - fact that Spiritism calls disembodiment – it may occur partial emancipation similar to sleep, which explains the facts of spirit communication at death. This was studied by several researchers, as Ernesto Bozzano and Fredrich Myers.

The complete detachment of the soul, i.e., disembodiment, is what requires some time, whereas in the reincarnation process perspirit binds body molecule by molecule, implying that it takes time for this molecular bond, due to the body death, disposes.

As we are told in issue 155 of The Spirits’ Book, as a general rule, the separation of the soul or spirit does not happen instantly. It gradually releases and not as a captive bird that suddenly gains freedom.

On the face of it, everything is initially confusing at the following time of the death. The disincarnate Spirit needs some time to get the knowledge of itself. It stands as if dazed, in the state of a person who has awakened from a deep sleep and tries to orient itself on its situation. The clarity of ideas and memory of the past will return gradually as it erases the influence of the matter that it has just left and dissipates the kind of fog that obscures its thoughts.   

The process of spiritual detachment may be more or less time consuming, as the temperament, moral character and spiritual attainments of each person. There are therefore two disembodies exactly alike. Each person awake or delay in disorder, according to the characteristics of its personality.

It can thus consider disturbance as normal Spirit state the instants following the trance of death, merely by varying the duration, which it may be several hours or several days or even weeks, in accordance with evolutionary state of the person. Brief in the case of elevated souls, it can be long and painful in the case of the guilty souls. For those in corporeal existence is already identified with the state that awaited them, it is less longer because immediately understand the position in which they find themselves.