We have to note that upon death of the human, the astral or ghost body leaves the human body and then the human body decays upon time. If you are lucky (!) , you may spot the ghost body !! On contrary, just for a satirical line of thought , if it happens that upon death of a human, the ghost body dies and the gross body lives, we may really see lot of zombies amongst us !! Consider this for the other living species too!. What a morbid, ghoulish and ghastly scene it would be on planet earth ! Fortunately, the divine energy is intelligent enough to design better.

Now extend the same idea to other non-animate objects. The difference between animate and non-animate objects are that animate objects will have soul and non-animate objects will not have soul inside - they are inert with a mass , part of prakruthi. So every living object in dimension 1, will have a astral body in dimension 2 which in turn will have a soul in dimension 3 (MAHAT). Similarly every non-living object may have a astral body in dimension 2 which has directly derived from the dark matter of MAHAT with no soul in it.

Consider the below act to understand better:

1. Mr.X takes a stone and hits Mr.Y

Now picture this:

1. The physical body of Mr.X takes a stone of mass from dimension-1 and hits the physical body of Mr.Y - Dimension 1

2. The astral body of Mr.X takes a stone of mass from dimension-2 (having perhaps, the exact shape) and hits the astral body of Mr.Y - Dimension-2

3. The soul of Mr.X moves some dark matter towards the soul of Mr.Y using dark energy- Dimension 3 (MAHAT)

In a hypothetical situation, consider that a brilliant scientist dies in his laboratory with all his lab equipment in working condition. And let us consider that he is also a transcendental meditation practitioner and a spiritualist with good understanding of the ways of working of the universe. If he is extraordinary in his intelligence and has promising intuitions on the after-life, he may do the ultimate thing as a learner - that is to observe himself dying and understand the process of dying. Since he is considered as a advanced soul, due to his intelligence and spiritual practices, it is fair to assume that he will retain his intelligence and knowledge in his astral body too in dimension-2. Since he is an advanced soul, he may build a body in dimension-2 over his astral body in dimension -2. Because of his exposure to science field, he is knowledgeable in the current gaps of science as a body of knowledge and he decides to live in dimension-2 to explore science in dimension 2. Let us suppose, by providence and divine intervention, he is not harmed by anything or anybody in dimension-2 and he is still in his lab with all the tools now seen to be made up of mass from dimension-2. Say for convenience, he moves one of his tool , a microscope to another part of the lab in dimension -2. But the microscope in dimension-1 remains in the same place- which means the microscope's dimension-1 body and dimension-2 body are separated - Looks like the microscope has died (!) , since if the same thing happens to a human , i.e. if his physical body and astral body are separated , it means that human has died in dimension-1.

By extrapolation of the fact that in a human if the body in dimension-2 is separated from the body in dimension-1, the body in dimension-2 (ghost or astral body) continues in its journey of life till his astral body is peeled off and dispersed by the law of karma which also directs the unmasked soul to a new womb (I call this process as 'THE SILENT AND INVISIBLE STORM'). Here the new womb may be present in a part of universe (STAGE) where the karmic load of the soul can be expended better for that soul. If we look at the proposed representation of the construct of the universe, we may see that the similar forces/laws are operating in the dimension-1 and dimension-2 but has different qualities. Thus it should be possible for the scientist's astral body to use the microscope in dimension-2. He may continue his work as scientist in dimension-2 and, with his inference and knowledge from dimension-1, he may understand the scientific principles of dimension-2 as well. Since stranger things may happen in dimension-2, we have to be ready for any number of surprises that the study of that scientist produces. Since he is an advanced soul, he should be able to transfer this knowledge of dimension-2 to the body of knowledge in dimension-1- but this time he may be seen to be transferring his knowledge to the spiritual body of knowledge and not the scientific body of knowledge !!

I see a similar line of concept in Ayurveda where there are statements related to the health of an individual, which claims that all diseases of a human body in dimension-1 has corresponding one or many root manifestations in the astral body in dimension-2 !

Hari Om!