How To Navigate the After-Death Journey Safely

The most important initiation teachings concerned the way the spirit worlds are experienced after death. This was not because a candidate would have doubted there is life after death—such a thought would have been unthinkable then—but because they feared what their own experience would turn out to be. In the first instance they feared that demons, which they had evaded in their lifetime, were lying in wait. Initiation showed candidates how to navigate the after-death journey safely.

— The Secret History of the World, Chapter 10