This is the automatic sequence of stages which almost every Ultimate-self goes through when its current body dies.
It is also known as the “bardo”, which is the Tibetan word for the transition state between death and rebirth, as described by some schools of Buddhism.
After a body it was owning, dies, the Ultimate-self is automatically pulled into the Between-lives sequence if and when it fully lets go of the main Game in this Physical-universe, which is to place a defined desired outcome at a future point on the time-line and hope that it manifests. If the ultimate-self doesn’t let go of this, it becomes a ghost, which means that it is holding on to (and maintaining the existence of) the Astral-body, until it is willing to let go of placing desired outcomes into the future (such as things left undone at the time of an unexpected death), at which time it will be pulled into the Between-lives sequence, unless it deliberately holds onto enough aims to not be pulled into the Between-lives sequence, then takes ownership of a new body knowingly, which is called transmigration.
There are several distinct parts to the Between-lives sequence.
The Between-lives sequence has an initial section where whatever you imagine is manifested, because this is how things work in the Magick-universe (which the Between-lives sequence is sort-of part of, being a small Pocket-universe off of around a third of the way through the first part of the Magick-universe time-track). This is why people from different cultures imagine (create) what they’ve been told will happen, and experience exactly that. Some beings believe that “nothing exists after death”, which usually manifests an endless blackness which they are in the middle of.
When the Ultimate-self realizes that they are creating what they experience there, they move on to the next section which de-stimulates some of the “spiritual charge” from the previous lifetime. This could be described as “pastel fogs”, and decreases the charge on most time-based types of limitations (but doesn’t change the types of limitations which are “above time” which includes Problems, item-chains and harmful justified actions).
After that, the being goes through a section which first crashes their havingness, then implants them with enforced limitations. There are multiple routes through the implant section, depending on various factors.
Then the final section is where one’s character of functionality is formed (relating to existing limitations), and then one is made to choose a goal/personality-definition for the next lifetime, and then one will choose a suitable baby body which can accept that personality-definition (and which fits one’s other limitations). When one gets ready to take ownership of a baby body, after the goal/personality is “chosen” in the Between-lives area, one will typically form definitions of conditions relating to Survival, then take ownership of that body by creating a connecting-line down to it, and falling down the connecting-line to “be” the new body, and starts a new lifetime.
(Information in this paragraph is from Roy Vinner). In the event of a suicide, or another early termination of life which prevented the fulfillment of the main goal, a sub-goal/personality will typically form. This sub-goal works through the bottom and is meant to avoid the problems which led to an early exit (so might be based on achievement while avoiding the area which the main goal relates to), and can continue over more than one lifetime. Fulfillment of sub-goals while the main goal is not yet being fulfilled leads to a drastic personality change in mid-life.
The structures implementing the sub-goal and survival conditions are not part of the enforced standard Between-lives area, and are larger and more diffuse areas of structures, somewhat above the standard goal/personality-definition.
Although the being can lose some memory of the past while going through the Between-lives sequence, the new reality of their new existence as a baby in a different context from their previous lifetime is the main thing which usually disconnects them from memories of their previous lifetime(s), although the traumas and challenges of the first few years of life will also be experiences they want to avoid, and thus avoid “memory” of anything in that period of time, or before it.