Human Life after Death. Case C from Chapter III. Investigated a few weeks after death. A very fair measure of self-consciousness at the emotional level had been developed before death. As the emotional capacities were in no way hindered by ill-health, his ego had been giving attention to the development of the emotional body for some years during earth life, so that the patient gradually became more conscious in the emotional than in the physical body. The ego realized that in the process of paying off past karmic debts the physical body would become an increasingly difficult vehicle through which to work and to grow. Emotional consciousness was very vivid during sleep, and during the last few weeks of