Hilarion: The question of suicide is a complex one. Generally speaking, the suicide is taking his own life in order to end the pain of existence-or at least what he perceives as pain. Usually, this is emotional or mental pain, rather than physical. When the life has been cast away for such a selfish reason, the law requires that the post-life experiences be somewhat more limited than is usually the case, and generally, the soul is allowed less options in determining the nature and circumstances of the next incarnation.
Also, there is an unavoidable requirement for the soul that has taken its own life while in incarnation, to be presented with precisely the same test in the next life, i.e. the same temptation to commit suicide. In the next life, that temptation will be even stronger, and the forces impelling him to take his own life will be even more difficult to resist. At the same time, the incarnated personality who must endure this harder test will also be given more support, with which to fight the temptation, which usually means being on the receiving end of more love and support during the childhood phase.
The idea that such souls go into a kind of limbo has some validity, but it must be realized that always such limbo experiences are of the personality's own making. The experience of being in a fog without anything substantial around one arises simply from the expectations of the individual that, after death, there will be nothing. Since the astral realms always conform themselves to the mental expectations, the person will be presented with exactly what he expects: nothing.
In time, since the individual is in his astral body, which he can feel, he will ultimately realize he must in fact be existing. When this happens, he can be contacted by rescuers who specialize in such work, and be coaxed out of his self-imposed fog or limbo. If only the person had realized before death that he would survive the killing of the body, such a limbo state would not arise. And in all probability, the person would not have taken his own life. Most suicides believe that death is the end of consciousness, and it is this obliteration which they are seeking in their desperate act.
"More Answers," by Hilarion/ Maurice Cook
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