The Senses Are Probing an Illusion
The essence of the human Soul is divine, made in God's image, but tragically most people have no idea what they really are. We've learned from our birth to rely on our senses, and we are conditioned to think in terms of matter over mind. We've been taught the idea that our physical brains, which are made from dead atoms, produce all our thoughts. We have to overcome this superficial idea. Or better, we have to dump this idea completely. It is a false paradigm.
When you have fallen for materialistic scientific ideas, you will likely get lost in the Halls of Amenti. Until you finally reach—and are able to pass through—the first gate guarded by an Archon, you will be thrown back into a new body.
In our current society, we are trained to rely on our senses as organs of truth. In daily life we learn to probe the world through our senses. Because we are incessantly conditioned in that way, we are unable to unlock the Universal Secrets.
We need to know these Secrets in order to incorporate and live them during our Earthly life. Knowing alone is not enough.
When we solely rely on our senses, we are unable to understand the invisible, undetectable truth that underlies all matter. What our senses perceive is converted into signals, which is interpreted by our brain to be real.
To Be or Not to Be
There is nothing wrong with having a job and working hard. From the perspective of the Emerald Tablets, however, identifying yourself solely with this earthly material life ("I am this or that") often leads to a low capacity for self-awareness, which in turn will cause a Soul, after death, to be stopped at one of the gates. How you identify has nothing to do with your physical being—it is a mental state that you take with you after death. Souls who arrive at the gates without the capacity to move beyond a material conceptualization of themselves will be stripped of their memories and cast back down to the Earth to do it all over again. They will reincarnate in a certain form depending on their Karma.
Living a tranquil, self-exploratory life helps along this path. But leaving your comfort zone on a regular basis in combination with thorough self-examination on a daily basis is a must.