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Introduction
My joy
comes from sharing the Good News that 90% of the things people worry about
are not worth the time or the energy they put into them. The Big Picture
is that "life" as a Human Being is a learning experience
that does not end when the physical body dies, and is only a brief
episode in the infinite life of a much greater being who is both
Human and Divine. Not God, but a great Spiritual Master. Human
Beings are the physical manifestation of a Spiritual Being who is on a
Path back to Ultimate Reality, the Godhead. Our personal life dramas are
meaningless distractions from our higher purpose. This isn't to discount
our personal lives as human beings, but to put them in logical perspective.
Relationships and societies are our means to express ourselves. It is
the way we chose to express ourselves that creates and solves problems.
The only thing that really matters in our physical lifetimes and
personal lives is that we learn to reflect and express God's Love, or
the Christ-Spirit, in our daily lives by balancing the Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual
Nature of our Whole Being. It is the atomic balanced with the Cosmic.
As it is above; so it is below! We are waves of light and we are
particles of light. We are learning to simultaneously exist on
all levels as fully-awakened, God-centered Beings. We have the Free Will
not to reflect and express this unconditional love, this compassion for
ourselves and each other, in our physical life-- either way it is a growth
experience for our soul. But, if we don't also return to our soul having
expressed some compassion, it matters to our soul's higher purpose.
It will take many "lifetimes" in the physical dimension for
one of a Soul's human "children" to grasp the full meaning of
the preceding concept and to accept that each of us is Divine and has
equal rights in all earthly matters, before one of those children reaches
that one final lifetime as a fully-realized Divine-Human Being. Not as
a saint or a martyr, but as an ordinary person who loves and helps others
and enjoys living, no matter what the circumstances of their physical
life. And, when that physical life is over, the Spirit no longer
needs or wants to project into the world of matter -- has graduated from
the School of Life -- and seeks greater knowledge and wisdom in the higher
dimension of God. It is our greater developmental process, and you and
I are in the midst of ours!
Each of us is given the opportunity to accelerate our spiritual growth
by expanding our consciousness to accept the down-pouring of God's Love
(to accept a spiritual teacher to guide you, if that's what it takes for
you) and by opening our hearts to that healing energy of unconditional
Love and Acceptance. I wish I could find the words to convey what I felt
during my near-death experience (NDE) to help you
relate to the overwhelming feeling that swept over me after leaving my
body and while traveling through spiritual dimensions at the speed of
light. Try to imagine the most intense feeling of being loved that you
can and multiply it by the National Debt, and you'd have some inkling
of what it is like when you are able to let go of the physical world and
experience higher states of consciousness in the less-dense spiritual
worlds beyond the physical dimension.
Skeptics may call a description by an NDEr a hallucination brought on
by oxygen deprivation, but, for the individual, the intense feeling of
complete Love, the mind-expanding realizations of the multi-dimensional
universe and the continuity of conscious-life, and the life-transforming
effects on the person following an NDE, are less easily explained away
. . . though Science may never find convincing evidence. The veil between
the physical and the spiritual dimension cannot be penetrated by our limited
physical senses. It is only when the Conscious Mind leaves the body-brain
(during NDEs, out-of-body experiences, trance and dream states) and joins
its ASTRAL body that we can
perceive our environment in the spiritual realms-- and it is very much,
and more, like the physical, at least as far as the ASTRAL plane.
At the time of my NDE I considered myself an atheist and had no expectations
of anything beyond death. But, in an instant, my mind was changed for
me! And I didn't just believe something, I "knew" it from first-hand
experience. In fact, it felt more real and natural than this world ever
has, before or since. Now that I know so many others have had a similar
experience, I feel safe in coming out of the closet, even though many
people around me don't want to hear about death or can't imagine looking
forward to it.
The message I was given is that it is time to make death a part
of life and not the end of life. We need to talk about it, get
comfortable with it, and we need to prepare ourselves and our loved ones
for our departure, as well as our reunion at the end of their physical
lives . . . for we do meet again, many times, in many places.
And so, I offer this knowledge, which I brought back from my NDE and is
corroborated by many others, as a contribution to world peace. It is my
hope that, by recognizing we are all here to help each other along our
spiritual paths, we will turn our attention away from our ego-centered
desires and fears toward compassion and sharing and caring for each other.
There are a lot of things to do on this planet that are meaningful and
fun; why waste anymore lifetimes creating more KARMA
by using physical aggression against others to gain control over them
or get what they have or because they are different or don't give us what
we want. The karmic lesson for Humanity is concern for the welfare of
generations to come, as evidenced by the state of the world and the environment
today. Each of us is presented with opportunities to perform unselfish
acts of love in our daily lives and with choices between right and wrong.
It requires a change of mind, of attitudes and intentions, to develop
one's character and spiritual nature, to develop the Spiritual Nature
of Humanity.
Each person will comprehend the information in this book at their own
level of understanding and, hopefully, each time you read it over your
understanding will increase. Many Souls in body at this time will have
the opportunity to make the quantum leap to higher consciousness in their
present lifetime and achieve spiritual heights at their deathtime. This
book is offered as a tool for those who are ready and as something to
get others to start thinking "what if . . ."
Use whatever information in it that fits into your current belief system.
Use it to expand your consciousness. Use it to become a more loving being.
Use it to improve the quality of your life, and the lives of others, and
to find joy and fulfillment in living a meaningful existence on this beautiful
planet.
Whatever you do . . . I wish you love.
Paul
What
no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor heart of man conceived, what
God has prepared for those who love him, God has revealed to us
through the Spirit.
(I Cor. 2:9-10)
.
Up
the Creek Without a Paddle
We come into this world blindly, without an instruction book or any guidelines,
and simply have to muddle through a lifetime as a human being without
knowing who or what we are or why we're here or even where here
is! We have parents, relatives, friends, teachers and preachers to look
to as role models; history books to show us how people have lived in the
past; religions to teach us the rules of living morally; governments to
help us learn to live together; and the Free Will to do anything we darn
well please! Somehow, amid the bitter and the sweet, the sorrow and the
joy, the tears and the laughter, we get through life only to come up against
death. And, once again, there is no instruction manual.
We are as unprepared to die as we were to be born. That's why death scares
most people and why some stubbornly cling to life or try to ignore death.
They may be more secure with what they know, no matter how miserable it
may be, than with death-- that Great Unknown.
A great many people today are rushed to hospitals as death approaches,
and their dying becomes lonely and impersonal. They are treated as a person
with no right to an opinion, as a non-person. No one asks if they want
the heroic measures the doctors and nurses are determined to perform.
If they rebel, they are sedated. He may cry for rest, peace and dignity,
but he will get infusions, transfusions, a heart machine, or tracheotomy...(11) Medical technology has replaced
religion in the dying process and changed our attitudes about death. The
dying are isolated and deathbed rituals have been abandoned. (18)
But times are changing. Science and religion are finding common ground
and attitudes toward death are going back to acceptance of death as part
of life.
That
person is bound in the chains of death, his fears of his own death,
and the grief over the death of others, who tries to ignore death. That
person is freed from the fetters of death and all its attendant anxieties,
who meets death as a companion to life, in the spirit of rational and
tranquil acceptance, without clinging to or fleeing it.(12)
Don't
waste your life fearing death! Death is simply a change in vibrations,
a rearrangement of your atomic structure, a transformation of molecular
substance, a shift in consciousness. We are energy and, as scientists
proclaim, energy cannot be destroyed-- it merely changes form. Are not
water, ice and steam all the same thing? Your physical life and death
and your spiritual rebirth are all parts of your experience. There is
no separation. After you die, you are still you. Everything you
experience after you leave your physical body is a continuation of your "whole" life experience. Consciousness is continuous, eternal.
What you now see as the material world, the world of ordinary sensory
reality, disappears and you vanish to it as the spiritual world, the fourth
dimension, appears before you with you in it. And you are still you.
In the fourth dimensional world, one can view everything from all angles
simultaneously. The interior of a solid is as visible as its exterior.
The eyes can magnify or reduce objects according to one's will power or
desire. All objects seem to be enveloped by an aura, constantly shifting
form and color.(5) In this realm,
you will experience having all knowledge; all past, present and future
will seem to coexist in a sort of timeless state.(16)
If death is no more than part of "growing up," then all the
fighting amongst, and within, ourselves is, sadly, a waste of another
brief opportunity to live a lifetime as a physical being to accelerate
your spiritual growth.
Once you really understand that death is merely a stage in the
developmental process of your whole life, for you are both a physical
and a spiritual entity, you can shift the focus of your present
attention to exploring the potentials and opportunities your current lifetime
has to offer, even if you are terminally ill. Life will not be fraught
with frustration, pain, sorrow, guilt, struggle and regret if you concentrate
your energy on attaining spiritual awareness and put the material world
in its proper perspective. Once you can accept that death is not the end,
but merely a transition from one state of being to another, that you may
face temporary unpleasantness but there is no eternal damnation, and that,
no matter how badly you have bungled this life, you will have other opportunities
to get it right, you can overcome the fear of that Great Unknown and get
on with the important questions-- such as, since you know you are going
to die someday, is there a right way and a wrong way to go?
Henry
Ford
The
automotive inventor believed that genius, including his own,
resulted from long experience gained in the course of many previous
lives.
.
.
The
Best Way to Travel
There are many wrong ways to die-- wrong in the sense that you may remain
stuck in the Cycle of Birth and Rebirth longer than need be. "Young" souls, in their first several incarnations,
go through many short, brutal lifetimes in various physical bodies and
spend many brief periods between resting unconsciously in lower spiritual
dimensions because they haven't expanded their consciousness enough while
in-body to realize that they are both human and divine. Each lifetime
provides the opportunity for the human being to connect with their Spiritual
Self, or Soul-- to recognize that they are not merely a body, but a Soul
wearing a temporary coat of skin in order to experience the physical world
first hand. One cannot directly experience the physical world without
a body. From this realization of your True Self and your spiritual nature
comes the acceptance of the after-life as a spiritual being through knowing
that your consciousness goes on after your physical body dies, in some
less solid form, in some less dense dimension. It's like putting away
you winter coat when Spring comes, you know that the coat is shabby and
you don't want to wear it anymore. That's virtually what death is all
about.(13)
Dying the right way is with full consciousness, knowing exactly where
to go and what to do-- before and after you leave your physical body behind
to release your Soul to its highest potential. Once you know and incorporate
the art of dying into your consciousness, you will be able to live your
life more fully. You will be free of fear of death and this life will
take on deeper meaning for you. The ultimate moment of your life is your
death! Make the most of it!
Walt
Whitman
The
great American poet believed in the essential divinity of humankind,
and that we would eventually become gods, having already risen
through the ranks of creation from rocks and trees.
.
The
Tour Guide
It is
time to take the mystery and the fear out of dying by creating a position
for an earthly transitional guide and writing a book of instructions that
people of today can relate to on how to die well ... with joyful awareness!
The Ancient Egyptians called him Anubis, the god who led the dead to judgment.
The Greeks gave the honor to Hermes, and the Romans, to Mercury. In many
religions and belief systems, there is a concept of an Etheric
world angel, guide or intelligence whose function is to assist the dying
person during their transition from the physical to the spiritual plane.
The Japanese have a name for the act of making one's transition with ease
and comfort, anrakushi(1),
which is possible if one has been given the proper instructions, amshi-jutsu(1), prior to death. In Latin, the
craft of dying without pain and suffering in called ars moriendi(1). Eastern religions had their own
Book of the Dead (8,25)
containing instructions for departing earth life and journeying to the
Etheric realms. Most of this information, however, was hoarded by their
priests and lamas; kept secret from the general population who were not
deemed worthy of receiving it nor capable of comprehending it. Native
American tribes had Shamans who became channels, through their
personal death-rite initiation, for healing as well as helping tribesmen
make their transition to the Etheric world during their real death process.
To Christians, Jesus is the Savior who
promised to lead them to Heaven. Contemporary religions use rituals performed
by priests, rabbis or ministers to prepare the dying for their transition
while the more secular-minded simply rely on the local funeral director
to send them off.
Over time. the concept of life after death has been bandied about by theologians
and scientists, scholars and students, priests and lay people, TV talk
show hosts and their guests, to no conclusion. It has not been a scientifically-provable
thesis; therefore, it is left as a matter of faith. One either believes
it or not. It seems that faith is necessary when we don't know.
We may gather all the information and come to understand to a certain
point, and then we have to make a leap of faith before we can accept something
as fact. But when you have the experience, up close and personal, no leap
of faith is required-- you now know and you know you know.
There is no question or doubt in your mind. Reverend Parrish-Harra wonders
how many of those who say they believe in life after death have the courage
of their convictions, or just hope? She calls this the true test of
facing death.(20)
The only time one finds out for sure the true nature of reality is after
death where the secret is safe from those who would abuse the knowledge.
At least so thought the priests of ancient times. But times have changed
and human beings have changed, and soon life after death will be proclaimed
a scientific fact (by quantum physics) and instructions to prepare oneself
for one's transition and life hereafter will become common knowledge.
The majority of the life wave of human beings now on earth have evolved
enough to truly comprehend the benefits of preparing for the transition
to life after death as the precursor to living life on earth more peacefully--
once they have the necessary information.
The real experience of life after death comes from those of us, especially
children (17), who have died and come
back to describe our experiences on the other side. In ages past, only
the highest initiates of the temples or the initiated shamans, got to
experience "near-death" and receive instructions for helping
others make their transition easier. Now everyday people all over the
world, millions of us, are being anointed as way-showers for those who
are ready to achieve their highest developmental potential. The wonderful
thing about having a near-death experience (NDE) is that you get another
chance to change your life in the same lifetime; whereas final death requires
a whole 'nother lifetime to get it. Once you have experienced the overwhelming
Love of God during an NDE, you cannot go back to the mundane world you
lived in before, or, at least, not take it so seriously!
This guidebook will not mean anything to those who are not yet ready to
receive their heritage as divine-human beings, but many more will pay
enough attention to be able to get it right in their next lifetime. Most
important are those who are ready to prepare themselves now for the most
significant event in their lives.
The reason I didn't "die" when I drowned in a white-water river
accident 25 years ago was because I had a mission to accomplish on earth
before I could remain permanently in spiritual realms, and my life up
to that time was way off my path! This I was told by a Being of Light
as it showed me about spiritual life after death during my NDE. I was
given the Key to Life and sent
back to become a teacher helping others prepare for their transition and
guide them through the process until they meet their Etheric
guide on the other side.
Core NDErs are people who know, but they do not merely have a certain
knowledge of matters... they have become what they know, their knowledge
lives and grows within them. It is as if the core of the NDE becomes a
cherished memory that people may later take comfort in. It is not even
just an experience that "changes one's life." It is one's life.
And it becomes the source of one's true being in the world.
Unless this is understood about NDErs in general and core NDErs-- that
is, those that have experienced this spiritual radiance most deeply--
in particular, what is most essential about them will not be grasped.
And what they are capable of teaching the rest of us will then be lost.(22)
For lack of a modern term to describe a human being who functions as a
guide on this side, I defer to Anubis and call us Anubisists.
.
Orientation
This
is not a sectarian religious book nor does it require belief in an afterlife
to be useful to you. Its significance will become clear to you only when
you die. It is based on the real experience of a human being who died
and came back in order to let others know what they will experience during
their death, which is actually the process of spiritual rebirth. This
is not being written by one who adheres to any particular religious philosophy,
but by one who has considered the thought of many doctrines and teachers
and found there is some truth in every religion. The information in this
guidebook many be used by any person of any faith, or of no faith-- anytime
during your transition when you realize the real illusion and remember
something of the instructions.
There are a number of concepts used in this book that are little understood
and open to various interpretations. These terms are capitalized throughout
the book and defined in the Appendix. Whether
or not you are familiar with the concepts, you might want to read them
over before going on to the next chapters to keep things in context, and
then refer to them as needed later for clarification. These concepts are
an integral part of the death-rebirth process and must be considered in
order to begin to comprehend the experience before you die. What may not
be clear to you now, will become very clear when you find yourself in
the experience.
Giordano
Bruno
This
16th Century Italian philosopher taught that a soul passed from
one body to another and could ultimately attain perfection.
He was burned at the stake as a heretic.
.
.
Plan
Ahead
There are three important reasons for you to have knowledge of the death
process beforehand, besides the obvious one that everyone, prepared or
not, dies:
This opportunity
may be missed due to ignorance or fear of death and the unknown;
and
The opportunity
won't come again until after you incarnate and face death again.(3)
.
You have
a choice (you always have a choice): This lifetime, or the next, or the
next... Mastering the techniques of dying makes this death a certain opportunity
for Salvation or, at the very least,
valuable time in the higher spiritual realms rather than an extended Bardo
journey and rebirth relatively quickly.
.
Benjamin
Franklin
Franklin
was originally a printer by trade. He said that he looked forward
to a second edition of himself, in which he hoped that the errata
of the first edition might be corrected.
.
Womb
With a View
The death-rebirth experience will vary from individual to individual in
specific details although, generally, it is a similar experience, one
of only two shared by all human beings. Just as the embryo passes
through evolutionary development in the womb and emerges the product of
its inherited genes and Karma, consciousness
goes through a similar evolutionary process during death. The physical
body is the womb of consciousness. Death is the rebirth of the Soul from
the womb of the body-- like the butterfly emerging from its cocoon as
it flexes its wings and flies away. The brain is the generative organ
for the Soul at death. The Crown Chakra
is the vagina which expands to allow the Soul rebirth into the spiritual
body. (3) During this journey to rebirth,
memories of its lifetime are relived and the Soul emerges with the attributes
and Karma it acquired during that life
experience. Although the Bardo experience
is determined by your Karma, you still
have Free Will. The choices you make will influence the end result. The
more knowledge you have now, the better choices you will make then.
Victor
Hugo
The
French novelist wrote that when he died it would be as if he
had merely finished a day's work-- which he would resume the
next morning.
.
Road
Maps
What
determines the course of your death experience?
For one
thing, how you die.
If death
follows a long illness or extreme old age, you may have established contact
with the other side during this time. You may have visited or been visited
by deceased loved ones in full consciousness. You may have spent some
time preparing your spiritual house, not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens. (2 Cor. 5:1) You may have made plans for your future
life in the spiritual domain. As your physical body has deteriorated,
you have been building your beautiful spiritual form. When your physical
body dies, you may simply move from the material to the spiritual world
with full awareness.
If you
die suddenly, unexpectedly in an accident, you may be thrown out of your
body into a world you cannot comprehend and it may take sometime for you
to realize what has happened and to accept that you are dead. If you have
a heart attack or are electrocuted or drown or are murdered, or have an
accident for which you are hospitalized for a time before you die, you
may linger over your body for a while, watching the scene of your death
from above, before letting go.
.
Dante
Gabriela Rossetti
The
English painter, poet and member of the pre-Raphaelite movement,
which revived a medieval style of painting, was a believer in
reincarnation. In his poem Sudden Light, he wrote: I
have been here before . . . You have been mine before. He
also wrote: A light there is in the beyond which makes the
creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding him finds
peace.
.
Are
We There Yet?
If you
suddenly find there has been a drastic change from one moment to the next,
as could happen with sudden death, but you still feel alive though everything
around you seems familiar but different, try to touch something-- if your
hand goes through it, you are dead-- or having an NDE! Immediately call
out the name of someone close to you who has already died. . . if you
see them before you, you will know. Everything around you may seem the
same-- and it is, only that you're experiencing it in a different way.
That's the main difference between life and death. One of the problems.
. . in between lives is familiarity and the apparent ordinariness of the
situation. (10)
When
you notice you are observing your body from somewhere above your body,
you realize that even though you are no longer part of that body, you
can see and hear and are conscious of everything that is going in around
it. You find that if you think about a loved one or about being
some place special, you will suddenly be with that person or in that place.
To your dismay, you find that people cannot hear you, do not even know
you are present; that you are able to pass through solid walls; that the
physical world no longer exists for you and you no longer exist for it.
When you recognize that you are indeed dead, you may choose to say silent
good-byes to your loved ones-- if it occurs to you that you may do so.
If you are unable to accept that you have died or to let go of emotional
ties to the physical world, you may wander aimlessly between two worlds;
unable to get back into one, unwilling to go into the next.
.
Robert
Browning
The
English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in
his poem "Evelyn Hope" that two lovers will be reunited
after one has died, though "delayed it may be for more lives
yet."
.
Letting
Go
What
enables most to release their attachment to the material world fairly
quickly is the overwhelming sense of peace and love which pervades one's
consciousness upon leaving the body. There is no sense of loss. All pain
and fear, sorrow and guilt fall away. If you had any handicaps or disabilities
or disease, they disappear and you become "whole." You feel
free and completely alive. All your senses are heightened and sharpened.
You see all that you were blind to before.
.
. . but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away . . . now
we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then
I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. (1
Cor. 13:10,12)
You feel
drawn toward the love which manifests as a tiny brilliant light far in
the distance. As you release your need to be back in your body, you find
yourself rising higher and higher above the trees, above the earth, until
you enter a black void. You feel yourself moving faster and faster as
if reaching the speed of light, which gives you the sensation of speeding
through a tunnel. Ahead you will see the Light, coming closer and closer.
.
Dame
Edith Sitwell
The
English poet often remarked on her striking resemblance to the
Tudor English King Henry VII and his granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth
1. Dame Edith suggested that she may have been Henry VII in a
former life.
.
Through
the Tunnel
Going "through the tunnel" is the interpretation of a mind which has
never shifted from one state of consciousness to another, as can be experienced
during deep meditation. The gap in time is experienced as movement, but
is actually a change in frequency domain, or the movement of awareness
from one level to another. What is thought to be a tunnel is a transitional
zone between states of consciousness. (21)
The Light is the opening to a new
state of consciousness and when one breaks through to that level, it appears
as an explosion of White Light breaking into all it rainbow colors. Once
the consciousness becomes adjusted to the new frequency or accustomed
to the Light, you begin to perceive your experience in a new way.
.
Origen
To
the literal-minded we teach the Gospel in the historic way, preaching
Jesus the Christ and him crucified. But to the proficient, fired
with the love of divine wisdom, we impart the Logos (the Word).
.
Finding
Your Gate
You will
have three opportunities to go to the Light and ascend to higher spiritual
dimensions, but you will encounter experiences along the way which may
distract you. Failure to reach the Light after the third opportunity will
result in immediate rebirth into the physical world. However, before that
happens, you may find yourself meeting deceased relatives, a guardian
angel or other spiritual guides, who come to assist you in your transition.
There will be workers on the other side to help you get acclimated. You
may find yourself in a strange, bewildering, but beautiful and somehow
familiar environment in another dimension to which your guide has brought
you for some learning purpose. You may find yourself in the Hall of the
Akashic Records absorbed in
your life review. You may experience bizarre or frightening images that
appear and disappear from view. Or you may find yourself in the middle
of your worst nightmare having a hellish experience. The life you
just left behind and your reactions during your Bardo
journey will determine your entrance into the next.
A person
who lives a spiritually unawakened lifetime, indulging only in the physical
sensation and pleasures of the material world, expressing selfishness,
hatred and lust, will not recognize the Clear
Light, will remain oblivious to the higher spiritual dimensions, and
will probably choose to return quickly to the more familiar scene of their
passion. The dying person who has failed during their life to attain any
measure of spiritual awareness will think they are physically involved
in a bizarre or frightening experience. This is what a young Soul goes
through until, after many incarnations, it awakens to the spiritual world
while still in a physical form. This unawakened Soul will go through many
tumultuous after-death experiences (ADE) with no hope of any rest until
it can get back to the physical world.
If you
are one who expressed very little love in your physical lifetime, you
cannot expect to be showered with it when you return to the spiritual
world. Until you recognize the errors of your ways and demonstrate contrition,
you will continue to have negative experiences. When you choose to repent,
you may gain access to higher realms or you may choose to reincarnate
quickly to compensate for the Karma you
accumulated in your previous life.
If you
were a good person who was always nice to others and never did anything
terribly wrong, but never woke up to your spiritual nature, you will have
a pleasant transition followed by a long period in a peaceful state. As
Plato taught, the soul cannot fully come into human form if it has
never seen the truth (5). Just
living a "good" life and being a "nice" person isn't
enough to life you to spiritual heights when you die. Although you will
not suffer any punishment, without knowledge of the opportunity death
offers, you will rest unconsciously in the spiritual realms as you lived
your life on earth until you get restless and decide to reincarnate to
get on with your spiritual progression (3).
If you
were a person who actively participated in life, did some good and some
not so good things, but found God and through forgiveness became loving,
caring and compassionate toward all life, you will move quickly from your
life review into the Secondary Light and experience spiritual rewards.
You may choose to reincarnate for a brief time for a special reason at
various times, but your focus will be on further development in a spiritual
dimension.
.
Seneca
This
life is only a prelude to eternity for that which we call death
is but a pause, in truth a progress into life.
.
The
Pearly Gates
The Souls
of average persons alive today are partially awakened and their ADEs will
be less fear-filled, depending on level of awareness, than their previous
ADEs. They will experience what they believe to be true at the time of
their death. If it is pearly gates or streets paved with gold or happy
hunting grounds, it will be so. If it is unconsciousness forever or until
some expected event (e.g., Judgment Day), it will be so. The transition
that takes place at death is in form only. Who you are is who you are.
Once in the higher dimensions, the limitations of the mind constrained
by the brain fall away and, when this is recognized, real spiritual progress
begins. However, perceptions are limited by how limited your perceptions
were while in body.
The Thought-Forms
which dominate your deepest consciousness affect your spiritual form and
experience. The power of thought becomes more evident to the awakened
mind of the more advanced Soul when they realize in the spiritual dimensions
that they have a great deal of mental power which they must quickly learn
to control. Negative thoughts must be eliminated while in the physical
form before a Soul is able to reach this state of consciousness. There
are serious consequences in the form of destructive energies on the spiritual
level if you don't forgive others and yourself while still in your body.
The inability to forgive on earth will result in a limited spiritual existence
and the desire to move higher will cause you to want to incarnate again
to raise your consciousness during your next physical lifetime. You must
descend again in order to ascend.
.
Carl
Jung
The
German psychoanalyst, who himself had a near-death experience,
believed that one's life is prolonged in time by passing through
different bodily existences.
.
The
Goal
The person
who has awakened to their spiritual nature, expressed love throughout
their daily life, and overcome the need for material things and physical
pleasures, becomes the highly advanced Soul who will pass peacefully into
the higher vibratory dimensions upon physical death without experiencing
the turmoil of the lower dimensions. For the Christ-like being, the
special meaning of a life consists, aside from abstention from serious
moral transgressions, in positive deeds of selfless love that nourish
the world (23).
If you
reconnected with your spiritual nature while in your physical body and
dedicated your life to doing God's work on earth, whether through knowledge,
meditation or service, you may intuitively know to go straight to the
Clear Light at the moment of physical
death. This foreknowledge enables one to achieve Salvation,
break the Cycle of Birth and Rebirth
and become an individualized Child of God in the highest dimension. This
is the goal every Soul aspires to achieve through one of its incarnations.
.
Immanuel
Kant
The
German philosopher believed that souls existed prior to earthly
life and that they traveled to other planets after inhabiting
human bodies.
.
Going
Through Customs
You cannot
cheat the system nor strike a bargain-- your vibrations will give you
away. Knowing ALL cannot help you of you still have hatred, resentment
or darkness in your heart. You can only rise to the dimension or be attracted
to the Light which closely matches your own frequency. Love in your heart
and living a life filled with kindness and compassion raises your frequency
rate. You can only tolerate being as close to the Light as you have been
open to the Light during your physical lifetime. Your inner light or frequency
must match the frequency of the Clear
Light for you to go into it. The Clear Light is that which appears
to everyone just prior to the moment of death, but few ever see it.
.
Voltaire
The
Italian philosopher affirmed reincarnation to be neither absurd
nor useless. . . it is no more surprising to be born twice than
to be born once. . . everything in nature is resurrection.
.
It's
a Jungle Out There
It is
our choice to recognize that we are more than physical beings forced to
survive in a hostile world. It is our purpose to understand that we are
much more than our body, our emotions, our intellect and our ego. It is
our quest to discover that we are highly evolved spiritual beings who
projected a part of our consciousness into a physical form in the world
of matter to learn more about existence in the physical dimension. It
is our dilemma to experience physical sensations and pleasures without
becoming attached to them. We need to become aware that we gave ourselves
a limited amount of time in which to accomplish our mission after which
we will return to our Soul, leaving our physical form behind, and that
we must account for that lifetime.
Our Soul
sends many aspects of ItSelf to experience many lifetimes on physical
worlds in order to achieve its highest spiritual potential in the Kingdom
of God. This means nothing to me, the incarnated human being, during my
sojourn on earth. Our greatest concerns are a roof over our head, where
our next meal is coming from, when we will find a job, whether we will
find a mate. Our reality is the physical plane. The illusion is
that it is all there is. The truth is that everything material
decays over time. It is temporary. It is not real. We take none of it
but the Love we expressed with us to the real world, the spiritual world,
which is eternal. The solution lies in learning to enjoy living no matter
what circumstances we are in at the moment.
Now isn't
that an interesting challenge we set for ourselves?! We have all this
karmic stuff to deal with and we're supposed to enjoy it! The key is
to recognize problems as karmic circumstances and to figure out what they
are trying to teach us. When we "get it," the circumstances
will change (though not necessarily for the better, much to our dismay,
as there may be further lessons to be learned on our path to Self-Discovery).
Enter the Key to Life.
The pursuit
of knowledge and wisdom should occupy our time-- learning how to in
the physical world without becoming attached to its pleasures or caught
up in its troubles. No matter what, it is only temporary. It will be over
in a flash. If we become conscious of our reason for being while in a
physical body, we retain what we learned after death and go on to higher
planes of life. If not, our Soul will soon choose rebirth into the physical
world to try again to reconnect while in body.
.
.
Deja
Vu
Each
time we return, we arrive without a clue as to why we are here or what
we are supposed to do. We conveniently "forget" our reason for
coming during our transition to physical birth. Some just take longer
that others to wake up! It's not that each human being isn't special or
that one's lifetime isn't important. It is for human beings that the physical
universe exists. That makes each of us very significant and implies our
higher purpose for existence.
It is
trough our human experiences that we are eventually able to reunite with
the Godhead as fully-developed, individualized Spiritual Beings. Each
human lifetime is a step up the ladder toward Unity. Birth and rebirth
are the process by which we progress toward Greater Self-Realization.
Our dying to the physical world is simply letting go of material things
and physical limitations in order to express ourselves as we really are
in our true spiritual home. At death, we remember why we came and our
life review accounts for our successes and failures, our strengths and
our weaknesses, according to our incoming goals.
At physical
death, the illusion about what is real falls away and we see clearly the
true reality of the spiritual dimensions. Death is a transition from
one state to another, or . . . an entry into a higher state of consciousness
or of being. (15) It was there all
the time, but our limited physical senses kept it from us and convinced
us that the physical world was all there was.
.
Aristotle
Whatsoever
be within us that feels, thinks, desires and animates is something
celestial, divine . . . and consequently imperishable.
.
On
the Road Again
In the
Bardo, we find not unilateral judgment,
but rather cooperative development towards the ultimate end of self-realization
(15). It doesn't take long to remember
that Love was the only thing that really mattered and to regret that we
didn't know then what we know now. However, one of the worst things a
dying person can do it to hold the thought of all their perceived "sins" in their mind as they are dying (3).
Repentance and forgiveness must be dealt with long before death occurs
(4). Throughout life, the soul feels
at least faintly that each time it passes a judgment on others that should
rightly have been reserved for itself, it becomes a stranger to itself.
Even the satisfaction of righteous anger and just punishment of others
for their misdeeds is shallow and empty; they inevitably distort the true
face of the soul (23). It
is by learning these things now, while still in a physical form that our
death becomes an integral part of our life cycle and may be looked forward
to with great anticipation and renewed respect.
None
of this is intended to imply that death is to be rushed into frivolously,
for there is Karma to be considered in
suicide, such as the selfishness of it, the lack of consideration by abandoning
others, and for attempting to interrupt cosmic timing; compensation will
have to be extracted in subsequent lifetimes.
Your
experience following physical death will depend upon the way you lived
your life-- your intentions, the motives behind your behaviors, the love
you expressed, how you treated others, whether you came to know God and
to recognize who you truly are. You will be the judge of your lower consciousness
actions. As many NDErs report, judgment comes from within themselves,
not from any outside source (15). No
one is more critical than your Soul and no one is more loving and patient
and willing to give you another lifetime to do better. The more love you
express in your daily life, the more pleasant will be your death experience
and subsequent lifetimes.
.
.
To
Plan Or Not To Plan
You can
choose to use this information, whether or not you believe in life after
death, or you can choose to take your chances. In the case of the latter,
you are likely to experience a breech(9)
death and spend more time that you want in lower spiritual dimensions
and reincarnate with appropriate disabilities. It is important to KNOW
WHAT IS GOING ON at your death, no matter how or when you die. Without
the knowledge, you will be faced with your greatest fears at the time
when you should be free of fear. Even if the stages leading up to your
death are painful or terrifying, the moment of death, especially when
you have properly prepared yourself in advance, is an incredibly wonderful,
mind-boggling experience.
With
all of this in mind, the following guidebook will describe the physical
death-spiritual rebirth experience for those who are ready to receive
this teaching.
.
.
. . the interior view of death does not deny or seek to romanticize
the process of dying. That, of course, is often painful, both for the
dying person and those near. And near-death experiencers rarely say
they lose their fear of dying; it is only of death itself that fear
is dissolved . . . It is in that moment-- from the standpoint of inner
experience-- that, metaphorically, the grim reaper is transmuted into
the being of light, and pain gives way to inner peace (22).
.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
The
German writer and artist was certain that I have been here,
as I am now, a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand
times more.
.
Things
To Do Before You Go
If you
are a highly advanced Soul (one who has experienced numerous lifetimes
and reconnected with your Divine Self along the way), who desires to make
this lifetime your last necessary incarnation, you will want to begin
training for your final journey now, even if you expect to live many more
years in your present body. The sooner you plan to embark upon your death-rebirth
journey, the more intense must be your practice, especially if you have
not done so until now. Even if you are only a beginner on your spiritual
path and have chosen to get the most spiritual opportunity you can out
of this life, knowing you probably have too much Karma
to overcome and will have to reincarnate for at least one more physical
lifetime, you will do your Soul immense good by practicing to the best
of your ability for the remainder of this one.
In order
to be able to recognize the Clear Light
at the moment of death and hold on to it:
.
1.
Learn to meditate to the point of being able to shut out all distractions
and maintain your attention on seeing the Clear
Light. The practice of Kundalini
meditation, no matter what level you attain, will activate this spiritual
energy, which has the potential to transmute your sexual energy into
creativity and bring about illumination (a vision of the Clear
Light). You may not get to see it in this life, but it may help
you considerably during your death journey.
If
you have become dependent on prescription drugs, meditation practice
may also help you manage chronic pain and the pain of terminal illness.
Medications should be continued while you are learning, but, in many
cases and under the direction of your physician, you may be able to
lower your dosages and overcome your dependency.
2.
Spend some time each day connecting with your spiritual self, your Soul.
Attain a deep devotion and reverence toward the Savior
or Master you love most. That connection established before death will
aid you greatly during your journey. This devotion will stir up the
gift of God within (sometimes before death, often at death) and open
you to Salvation.
3.
Attempt to dissolve all the karmic bonds you have accumulated in this
lifetime and to uncover the unknown Karma
carried over from previous lives in order to right all your wrongs.
Seek forgiveness from those whom you have hurt and forgive those who
have wronged you-- no matter how difficult it is for you to do that.
Pay back your debts and forgive those debts owed to you. Replace any
monstrous Thought-Forms you
have created by thinking the most extraordinarily beautiful thoughts
you can to overcome them-- otherwise you will get to meet some ugly
stuff in the shadows of the Bardo--
guaranteed! Replace violence with understanding, greed with giving,
hate with compassion, guilt with forgiveness, lust with creativity.
Overcome evil with good to the best of your ability.
4.
Prepare yourself mentally and emotionally to die in full consciousness,
anticipating merging with the Clear
Light. If you are drugged, no matter how prepared you are otherwise,
you may miss it because it comes in a flash BEFORE you die.
5.
Avoid accumulating any more karmic attachments. Recognize that you are
building your Astral form and spiritual home
out of your thoughts and emotions, as recorded in your Heart Seed
Atom. Giving into temptations of wrongdoing is unpleasant material
you will have to deal with during your Bardo
journey. Knowing to expect the Clear
Light and what you will have to go through if you miss it, or the
Secondary Light, because of you karmic baggage will help you subconsciously
avoid karmic-producing choices.
There
are many books and classes and teachers and techniques available today,
but you must learn to discern, to trust your intuition, to find those
which are "right" for you. To integrate these practices into
your life will take more than reading a single book or attending a single
class or practicing a single technique, and takes more time than you might
think. You must be diligent and persistence in your pursuit of right knowledge.
The more you come to know, the more questions you will have. Never stop
learning-- all of your life is school, including your dying experience.
In discerning truth from falsity, you must learn to tune-in to your inner
spiritual guide. Do not fall victim to those who tell you they know the
right way for you or who use flattery or other subtle manipulation to
get you to follow them. Pay attention to your gut feeling and check the
facts-- keep asking questions. Keep the focus of your life on your spiritual
future and enjoy this life to the fullest in the meantime.
.
.
Preparing
For D-day
This
process (Reincarnation) is not interrupted by death. Change continues
in the constituents of the organism other than the gross body which
has been cast off and which undergoes changes of its own. But there
is a difference: the after-death change is merely the result of the
action of accumulated past Karma and does not, as in earthly life, create
new Karma, for which a physical body is necessary. There is no breach
of consciousness, but a continuity of transformation. Death consciousness
is the starting point, followed by the other states of consciousness
. . . (25)
While
some people enjoy the spontaneity of taking off on a trip with no map
and no itinerary, most people prefer to do some amount of pre-planning
for a journey-- and this most important journey of your life is no exception.
It's not that you won't get through it without planning-- you've probably
done it hundreds of times already-- but that the goal of the Soul is freedom
from the Cycle of Life and Death;
and, until you are able to recognize the Clear
Light when it first dawns and hold onto it at one of your deaths,
you keep yourself tied to the earth. To gain that freedom, you must be
able to die in full consciousness, with your mind wide open to the Light
of God. If you want more than just a glimpse of this overwhelming Light
and ecstatic feeling of God's Love, if you want to be able to hold onto
that experience and merge with it to experience Oneness with God for the
rest of eternity, then you must have enough Love in your Heart Seed Atom
to vibrate at the same frequency as the Clear
Light by the time of your death.
You may
not be ready to let go of the need for the pleasures and sensations of
physical life at the end of your present life and prefer to be able to
come back as soon as possible to enjoy it further. But keep this book
around-- you may feel the urge to read it again some day, perhaps in some
other lifetime!
Those
who have recognized the Light in this life and feel ready to progress
further in the next world have already started the process of dissolving
their Karma and preparing themselves,
by raising their vibrational frequency, to recognize the Clear
Light at the end of this lifetime. Some of these will still need to
come back again for karmic reasons or want to come back to visit for a
while for higher reasons, and others are ready to develop their greater
potential on higher planes.
Most
people fall somewhere in between and aren't sure what they believe. But
many will, at the urging of their inner voice, realize they might as well
prepare themselves somewhat, just in case it is true! As someone once
said, Why not believe in God or accept Christ in your life? If it turns
out to be true, it'll be a good thing. If it turns out not to be true,
it certainly won't do you any harm. The value of preplanning will
hit them when they die and they'll remember something about what to expect.
With
terminal illness or old age, there is time before you are confined to
bed:
to right wrongs
to practice forgiveness
to release your
attachments to material things and physical pleasures
to reestablish
your connection to your God-Self (whatever that means to you)
to prepare yourself
with relaxation and meditation exercises and practice raising your
Kundalini energy in order to
die in full consciousness so you will recognize the Clear
Light when it dawns
to write your
final instructions in your own words and practice with a Reader or
Anubisist, who will guide you
through your dying experience by keeping you on track
to prepare your
death room, according to your beliefs and desires. As Dr. Kubler-Ross
says, Dying is hard under any circumstances, but dying in the familiar
surroundings of one's home, with those you love and who love you,
can take away much of the fear. (12)
We will
each have our own spiritual karmic path to travel, which we designed by
the way we conducted the physical life-opportunity we are leaving behind.
While there are many similarities during the early stages of the physical
death-spiritual rebirth experience, each of us is the author of our own
book and most of what we experience after death will be a very, very personal
experience; indeed, adventure!
If your
death is sudden or unexpected, as in an accident or a heart attack, you
can still be prepared (at least for your death experience itself; compassion,
forgiveness and spiritual enlightenment must be practiced daily throughout
your life to be fully prepared to die, unexpectedly) if you have read
this book, written your instructions and arranged to have them read upon
news of your death. You will have prepared yourself in that you will know
what is happening, recall your instructions and tune-in to your Reader
without delay.
In the
case of sudden death, you will leave your body before impact and view
the scene of its demise from a point above the scene. The quicker you
turn your attention away from the physical world and your physical form,
by recognizing that you are dead and immediately need to know what
is happening to you, the better will be your opportunity to merge with
the Clear Light when it first dawns,
or the Secondary Light as soon as it appears. If you have practiced with
a Reader, you will be able to tune-in to the Reader's voice (frequency)
no matter how far apart the two of you are. Previous contact with a guide
(Savior, Angel, Teacher or Loved One)
on the other side will assure you won't stay long in this stage through
ignorance and confusion. Wandering around the spiritual world without
a map or a plan will lose you many opportunities for spiritual growth.
As to
whether a person should be told death is imminent in the case of a medical
diagnosis, that is of course up to the individuals involved; however,
depriving a person of the opportunity to take full advantage of their
dying experience is not going to benefit this person and, in all likelihood,
will hinder their transition because they may feel resentment or bitterness
after death at not being told. The last thoughts at death are important
to the departing Soul. Our last earth memory should be of the joyful faces
of our loved ones. If you can't bring yourself to tell the person, find
someone who can. Many people learn the truth anyway, especially near the
end when they begin experiencing consciousness shifts in the early stages
of their death process. It would be so much better for the dying person
to know what to expect than be frightened by it. A conspiracy of silence
should not be built around a dying person. This is a time when compassion,
truthfulness, trust and love should be expressed so dying persons will
not feel lonely and abandoned at this important time in their lives.
Two Hospice
nurses, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley, wrote a wonderful book called
Final Gifts(2) describing
what they learned about the dying experience from their patients' messages
as they drifted in and out of awareness of this life and the next. They
have called the period preceding death from old age or terminal illness
Nearing Death Awareness and describe what the dying person and
their loved ones go through during the last months, weeks, days, hours
and minutes before the heart stops beating. They compare Nearing Death
Awareness similarly to a Near-Death Experience except that the NDE is
usually sudden while the former occurs gradually over time.
Again,
knowing what to expect and what needs to be done gives everyone involved
greater peace of mind. Trying to understand what the dying person is trying
to communicate instead of drugging them or brushing off their attempts
to communicate allows them a more peaceful death. Callanan and Kelley
(2) point out the importance of "reconciliation" before a peaceful death may come. There is often a need for completion,
to settle things, to make things right, to finish some business. They
observed that people seem to prolong their dying until there is closure
or healing and often suffer intense emotional and spiritual pain until
it is resolved. Sometimes the healing is needed between the dying person
and other people, sometimes it is something within themselves (guilt,
shame, regrets, hatred, anger) and sometimes it is between them and their
belief system.
All this
is a prelude to the life review experienced in the Bardo
journey. If reconciliation and forgiveness can be accomplished before
death, it won't need to be experienced later. If the family around the
dying person is aware they are Nearing Death Awareness and listen for
the clues (because they are not usually direct), they can help the person
overcome the obstacles to a peaceful dying experience. Callanan and Kelley
suggest . . . When someone you love is dying, you may not see the gifts,
but only grief, pain and loss. However, a dying person offers enlightening
information and comfort, and in return those close at hand can help bring
that person peace and recognition of life's meaning. (2)
.
.
What
to Pack
The following
are offered as guidelines for preparation. These are only suggestions
to start you thinking about which preparations you want to make for your
journey. They may be adapted to meet your religious beliefs, cultural
traditions or your lifestyle.
OBTAINING A READER
The importance
of having a Reader cannot be expressed strongly enough. No matter how
spiritual you are or how prepared you think you are, finding yourself
in another dimension is such an awesome change that you can be easily
distracted by the wonder of it all.
Without
a Reader to constantly remind you to go to the Light, you might be tempted
to hang around your body, your home or your loved ones until opportunities
have been lost.
Without
a Reader to constantly remind you that the images you are experiencing
are merely mental reflections of your predominant thoughts in life and
cannot (physically) harm you, you might linger in a frightening dimension
longer than need be.
Without
a Reader to remind you to call out to your Savior,
you may not remember that help is at hand; to let go of the material world
and physical desires; and to repent and forgive, you may not get to experience
the higher dimensions before you must incarnate again.
This
is the one journey on which you do not want to carry any excess baggage,
especially emotional baggage, and working with an Anubisist
will help clear you for a smooth takeoff into the spiritual dimension.
If you
are a highly evolved spiritual seeker, you may not need a Reader, but
you may want one just to be sure you stay on track. It is likely that
you will merge directly with the Clear
Light and may only want the first part of the instructions read. Most
people, however, will need the Reader to continue for three or more days
after death with Part III, and only the most depraved person will require
the last section to be read for quite some time (after death).
As to
whom to chose as a Reader, a close friend or family member would be ideal--
if they can keep their emotions in check. Their crying and lamenting will
only be another distraction for you, keeping you from merging with the
Light. You might want to read your own instructions into a tape recorder,
although even hearing your own voice might distract you from your course
(the habit of attraction), and arrange for someone you trust to play the
tape according to your instructions. A minister or priest may come to
your bedside and administer any last rites you deem necessary, but they
then leave. They do not sit at your bedside until you die or read over
your body for hours and continue, if it is necessary, to read for you
for days or months afterward. Therefore, you may want to make arrangements
with an Anubisist. This professional
will help you write your personalized instructions, practice with you
beforehand, be on call when your death becomes imminent and at your side
when you depart or begin reading for you (to a prepared effigy) as soon
as news of your sudden death arrives; and continue reading for you, intuitively,
as long as necessary. With prearrangement, you will be tuned-in to his
or her voice and easily follow that guidance until you meet your spiritual
guide on the other side who will take you the rest of the way.
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THE ROOM
If you
know your death is imminent, you will likely want to arrange to die in
your own home, surrounded by your loved ones, but this isn't always possible.
If you are hospitalized, you may still be able to arrange for some of
the following suggestions if the hospital staff is amenable.
Orange Light
The
orange light stimulates the head centers. As Kundalini
rises, it will exit the body with the life force at the Chakra most
habitually expressed during life, but it will be attracted to orange
light and it is possible that the person may experience spiritual illumination
for the first time if their energy can reach the head centers-- even
if only for a moment. This will provide a great spiritual boost for
the dying person.(3)
Room Arrangements
Whenever
possible, the dying person should be placed facing East. If candles
and incense (preferably Sandalwood) are desired and not prohibited (as
they might be in a hospital), they may be placed in the room. As for
music, it is up to you, but it may be a distraction during transition.
Mantrums or chanting, soothing classical or New Age music may be desirable
in the earlier stages leading up to death, but it may be better for
the dying person if it is turned off or down very low as symptoms advance.
Doors and windows may be closed to maintain silence, especially if in
a noisy environment.
Personal Objects
You
may want to arrange or, if bedridden, have a caregiver arrange to have
things meaningful to you placed around your bedside-- family pictures,
personal objects, flowers, religious symbols.
Preparing an Effigy
In
case your death occurs away from home, you may want to arrange a table
with a picture of yourself and several personal objects to be used in
place of your body for the Reader to focus on.
RELATIVES
You may
want to have your loved ones around you while you are making your transition,
but they should be advised of your arrangements and your desire to die
in full consciousness. It would be most helpful to you if those who are
likely to have an outburst of emotion upon your death or if a family argument
is likely to break out, that they be asked to leave the room and express
themselves outside where you will not be distracted from your journey.
As to
a person's decision about being present at the side of a dying loved one,
no one can understand the true spiritual experience of the death journey
until he or she experiences it him or herself. And regardless of your
personal beliefs, it will be to the dying person's benefit if you are
there for them at this time. Read Final Gifts (2)
to find out what to expect as your loved one approaches death so you can
be of help to them.
Relatives
attending should be asked to direct their mental energies toward helping
the dying person recognize the Light and move into it-- either by joining
with the Reader or repeating religious prayers or biblical passages you
preselected; however, noise should be kept to a minimum so the departing
consciousness can hear the Reader and listen for the Sound of Silence.
.
General
George S. Patton Jr.
The
most forceful commander of the second World War believed that
he had been a Greek warrior who fought Cyrus the Persian. He also
thought he had been a follower of Alexander the Great, and that
he was present at the Battle of Crecy in 1346 during the Hundred
Years' War between France and England.
.
What
To Expect
FROM THE READER
The place
for the Reader is at your side, near your head, so you can hear the early
instructions clearly. The Reader will watch for the signs of approaching
death and keep you aware that the Clear
Light will be dawning shortly. Signs for the Reader to watch for are:
sagging
facial muscles,
labored
breathing,
glazed
eyes,
blueness
beneath the fingernails,
extreme
coldness in the feet which gradually creeps upward. (3)
The dying
person should be roused if he or she drifts off to sleep until breathing
ceases to assure that the person will die in full consciousness. When
the Reader begins, others in the room should concentrate on helping the
dying person recognize the Clear Light
the moment the breath ceases. The person may be turned on his or her right
side and the arteries in the throat may be pressed to keep them conscious
as long as possible. When pain ceases and consciousness begins to expand,
the Emotional Seed Atom has departed
the body. To those in attendance, it may appear the person has entered
a coma, however they are not unconscious. Rather the consciousness has
expanded to include the unseen fourth dimension. It is at this moment
of expansion that the Clear Light
dawns and the heart beat ceases. The heart will still be beating as the
Clear Light dawns and the words
of the Reader will help them hold to the Light as they leave their physical
body. Coldness around the heart signifies cessation of the heartbeat,
departure of the Heart Seed Atom
and, in most cases, the breaking of the
Silver Cord. (3) Reading should
begin in the early stages to direct the dying person's attention to recognizing
the Clear Light and move on to
Part II when the heart stops beating. The Reader should maintain calmness,
serenity and detached concern, and gently urge the consciousness toward
its spiritual rebirth. Read as if you were reading it to yourself.
SIGNS AND SOUNDS
OF DEATH
As death
approaches, your Emotional Seed Atom begins
to loosen, any pain you have been experiencing disappears and you find
yourself letting go of the physical world (the room you are in, the loved
ones around you) and becoming more involved with the wonder of your dying
experience. Though your awareness shifts back and forth, you continue
to "hear" what goes on around your body, and even after you
cross over.
The first
sensation called by the Tibetans (25) "earth sinking into water" will be of becoming smaller and smaller--
a mental experience of shrinking into the depths of a dark void. At the
same time, you will lose control of your body's muscle tension and feel
yourself sinking into the bed. You will experience difficulty swallowing
and not want food or water. You will appear to relax and become peaceful
to observers. At any time, you may begin to hear snapping or popping noises.
These are the sounds of the Etheric
threads of your Silver Cord breaking.
The next
stage, the Tibetans call "water sinking into fire." You will
feel alternating sensations of cold and heat. You may experience chills,
chattering teeth and shivering followed by extreme irritability or agitation.
These are the affects of Kundalini
energy rising up the spinal column. If you have prepared yourself for
this moment, you will be working with the energy to direct it to the Crown
Chakra; if not, it may be frightening
or, at least, uncomfortable.
The next
sensation, the Tibetans call "fire sinking into air," will feel
as if you are expanding and about to explode. Your breathing may become
very labored. You may be hearing buzzing noises, high-pitched whistling,
low rolling thunder. You may feel a band of pressure around your head
as if your mind is about to blow. Your feet and hands may feel tingly,
as if they have gone to sleep. You body may feel fluid, like melting wax.
You will begin to experience hallucinations, distorted images that rise
and fade away. Lastly, you feel a vibration starting at your Root Chakra,
rising upward along the spinal column, reaching toward your head. Then,
suddenly, you burst into full consciousness at your last breath as the
Clear Light dawns. The Clear
Light is the reflection of your consciousness without any limitations
or darkness. You will probably smile and may even sit up in bed and try
to tell those in attendance that you have just seen God or your Savior
or heaven or deceased relatives. And then your body will fall back onto
the bed, your heart will stop beating and your wondrous rebirth journey
into the spiritual world will commence . . . according to your Karma.
In this state between life and death, there is no space or time, no emotions
or actions. There is only Being in Bliss. To remain at One with the Light
is to receive Salvation. Merging
with the Light does not mean annihilation. It does mean surrendering control
of who you thought you were, to become your Real Self. If you find yourself
resisting or fear creeping in, relax and let go to the Light.
Death
is itself only an initiation into another form of life than that of
which it is the ending.(25)
.
The
Journey's End
If your desire to again
be in body and return to earth still dominates your consciousness, you are
likely to seek immediate rebirth and forfeit any time on higher spiritual
planes. Following your Bardo journey, you
enter a trance state to prepare for your Reincarnation
process (deciding how to play out your Karma
in another physical body). This desire arises in those who spent their lives
immersed in the lower impulses of earth life and want to return to their
old habits-- even though they subconsciously realize they will inherit a
life filled with the same conditions they inflicted on others. They may
even chose a form which reflects that torment to ease their previous karmic
debts, and suffering may be the only way for them to evolve spiritually.
Evil is a deliberate move away from God, with full awareness of selfish
intent and no thought of repentance or spiritual progression. Suffering
is merely the result of necessary purification, not punishment-- made necessary
by one's selfish actions, habits and thoughts.
Those Souls who move
on to higher spiritual dimensions, those who raised their consciousness
or frequency to the rate of the Secondary Clear
Light and were able to merge with it, will feel enfolded by a great
silence, a peaceful ocean of light. As their superconscious awareness opens,
they may be inclined to break into laughter at their blindness and dumbness
of even thinking that earth life was reality when, here, just beyond the
confines of the brain and body is the True Reality. All the teaching and
training that they took for granted or did halfheartedly on earth now becomes
most important and they will wish they had done more while still in body.
If they tuned-in to their Reader, hopefully, they remembered that the reflections
they saw in the Bardo were their own thoughts
and memories and were able to pass through them quickly. Once through the
Bardo, they will find themselves clothed
in their Astral bodies and guided
by loved ones and spiritual guides to their new homes and lives that match
their level of spiritual awareness. Their Astral
bodies will be either beautiful or have defects (not in the same sense as
physical handicaps), depending on the quality of their thoughts during their
earth lives and during their Bardo experiences.
A person may have had a good Soul, but practiced some unwise habits during
earth life. Their Astral form
will reflect these defects and they may be temporarily detained on a lower
Astral plane until they are purged--
which is why it is better to overcome bad habits (e.g., smoking, drinking,
drugs) while in body. You will ascend as rapidly as you overcome and rise
as high as your inner light will allow you.
For those who arrive
bewildered, there are guides to convince those who don't believe they are
dead. They will take these Souls to visit their dead friends and relatives
and even take then back to their earth homes to see those who are mourning
their deaths or to the scene of their demise and show them that no one can
see or hear them. They will lead them past incredible landscapes, beautiful
cities of light with magnificent gleaming buildings (15)
and show them their spiritual homes where everything they loved and lost
is waiting for them. There they will be reunited with the ones they loved
most while on earth. Their early experiences will reflect their beliefs
about the afterlife while on earth (e.g., streets of gold, happy hunting
grounds, etc.), but they will gradually discover that it is more than they
ever dreamed possible.
One of the things you
will notice about the spiritual dimensions is that you still have the same
senses you had before only they are a thousand times keener-- not only that,
but you will find you now have higher senses than even the psychic senses
you may have developed while in your last body. With practice, you will
be able to think things into being-- the more you learned about the physical
world, the better you will be able to recreate them in the spiritual dimension.
It is merely rearranging atoms by mind force. You will be able to communicate
telepathically with others and zip around your universe via instant thought-wave
transportation. As you grow accustomed to your new life and let go of your
false beliefs, you may find yourself seeking higher dimensions of God's
universe, but you can only rise as high as the rate your vibration allows.
If you want to ascend further, you will have to descend again into matter
and will begin to prepare yourself for Reincarnation
in a physical form according to your remaining Karma.
The highly-evolved Soul,
who was able to merge with the Clear
Light at death, does not experience another Bardo
journey or spend any time on the lower planes. As you melt into the Clear
Light, you become aware that you still have a body but you are Total
Consciousness. As the crystallized structures of the earth dissolve away,
your consciousness absorbs the in pouring of Divine Wisdom-- Christ Consciousness.
You will become aware of Light Beings all around you and of one special
guide whose voice soothes your fears and guides you to higher planes. As
you soar to blissful regions of light, you will hear glorious music. Out
of the mist will emerge one solitary figure-- the great Master or Savior to whom you prayed and meditated while on earth. This day you are with them
in "paradise" and have achieved Salvation
from the Cycle of Life, Death and Rebirth(3). Of your life on the higher planes,
not much can be told because our language is inadequate to describe spiritual
existence. What could be described is more wondrous and meaningful than
mere words can convey. But you will be involved with your higher spiritual
development, existing in a refined spiritual body, living in glorious surroundings
similar to earth's, but less dense), still going to school and learning
about "life," and, occasionally, returning to earth in a human
body as a teacher to raise the consciousness of Humanity.
The
Countdown
SCHEDULE
If the dying person
is being monitored and the approach of death becomes evident, the Reader
should be called to the bedside as final preparations are being made. If
death occurs without warning, the Reader should be notified immediately
and begin reading as soon as possible. The Reader should try to stay with
the body for forty minutes to an hour after death; two hours, if possible,
and reading should continue even if the body has to be removed.
If possible the reading
of Part I should begin just prior to death and for twenty minutes after
breathing stops as the Soul withdraws from the body. Part II follows for
another twenty minutes as the Soul becomes aware it has left the body, and
Part III continues for another hour after as the Soul moves into its Bardo
journey. If it is considered necessary, Part IV may follow for the next
hour and then be read twice daily for a predetermined time span.
Those in the room with
a dying person, when they become aware that death is imminent, must remain
absolutely quiet so the dying person may hear the Sound of the Clear
Light. Crying and wailing are distractions during the death experience.
Silent whispers of encouragement to let go to the Light are most helpful.
During this first phase of the Bardo, it
is time to think of the departing Soul, not of your loss. It is best you
leave the room if you cannot control your emotions. During the first few
minutes following cessation of breathing, the person may temporarily regain
consciousness and describe visions and deceased relatives. This may last
up to half an hour. Relatives at the bedside should be loving and supportive,
not doubting or patronizing.
.
DRUGS
While the dying person
may be experiencing pain leading up to the moment of death, just prior to
death, all pain will cease as the Emotional Seed
Atom withdraws; therefore, drugs which block consciousness should not
be administered in the last moments so the person may try to go consciously
into the Light. There are two drugs available which will block pain but
not affect consciousness: Zeneperin and the Brompton cocktail (3)
and one should discuss them with their physician.
If consciousness blocking
drugs or gas are used, the person will miss the Clear
Light and awaken to the Secondary Light. In this case, the Reader will
help the Soul understand what has happened.
.
Departure
Time
The first
phase of the journey begins for the dying person before breath ceases and
continues about twenty minutes after for the average person-- with little-to-some
spiritual awareness. It will be over an a flash for the highly evolved spiritual
mind, and last much longer than twenty minutes for those who are spiritually
unconscious-- with little-to-no belief in God-- at the time of their deaths.
If the dying
person is using relaxation exercises and meditation prior to death, the Reader
may encourage them according to prearrangements. If the person is working
with Kundalini energy, the Reader may
assist and, watching for physical signs of the rising energy, encourage him
or her toward spiritual illumination at the same moment that the Clear
Light dawns. These activities are specialties of an Anubisist.
As the
time of death approaches, begin to repeat the signals of the approaching Clear
Light to keep the person focused and remind them that the sensations they
are experiencing are normal and there is nothing to fear. Those who have achieved
acceptance of their death are likely to be more peaceful at this stage. The
voice of the Reader is a gentle guide in the background. Listen to what the
dying person is able to tell you about what they are experiencing and be supportive.
They are not confused-- they are amazed! Allow the dying person periods of
silence (between read paragraphs) so they can go with the experience as their
consciousness shifts back and forth. Try to read to them and express love
to them when they are lucid in the physical world. Use your mental energy
to direct them to the Light when they appear to go unconscious.
These stages
and sensations are documented in many of the books in my Bibliography.
Earth sinking
into water-- you may be feeling pressure around you, that you are shrinking
and falling inward.
Water sinking
into fire-- you may experience being very cold and then very hot.
Fire sinking
into air-- your may feel as if you are expanding upward and outward;
you may feel pressure around your head as your consciousness prepares to
expand; you may be feeling tingling sensations in your hands and feet; your
body may be feeling fluid, as if you are melting into the bed; you may be
experiencing the spiritual energy vibrations rising in your body towards
your head.
Concentrate
on the rising energy, move it up to the inner chambers of your brain and
allow your consciousness to expand to meet the Clear
Light when it dawns (3).
The dying
person experiences momentary blackouts as consciousness is suspended during
the transition of the Soul from one frequency to another in order to adjust
to the new frequency, which is why this section is repeated several times.
The experience in consciousness is to appear to jump from one state to another
without memory of a passage. As many NDErs report, they suddenly find
themselves above their bodies looking down at their bodies or they are suddenly
whisked away to another place (19). Some
of these shifts may take place before breathing ceases and the dying person
may suddenly sit up and indicate something about what they are experiencing.
When such signals appear, it is time to begin reading Part I, calling their
attention to the approaching Clear Light.
The actual death "moment" covers the first six minutes of death,
therefore reading should be continuous. Always address the Soul of the dying
person to whom you are reading. The following are examples of the kinds of
words that are appropriate and may be adapted to your personal values and
beliefs.
Salvador
Dali
The Surrealist painter considered himself to be a reincarnation
of St. John of the Cross, the 16th Century Spanish mystic of the
Carmelite Order.
The
Traveler's Guide: Part I
.
Dear Soul of (name),
the time has now come for you to see the True Reality. Your breathing
is about to cease. You are coming face-to-face with the Clear Light and
true recognition of your Oneness with God.
At this moment,
know thyself to be a perfect Child of God and become One with All That
Is.
Keep your mind
open and alert, concentrate on God and merging with the Clear Light, know
that you are loved and that you are Love.
Dear Soul of (name),
let not your mind be distracted by thoughts of loved ones or material
things left behind. Resolve to take advantage of this dying experience
through love and compassion to merge with the Clear Light and perfect
your Soul.
Dear Soul of (name),
allow the earth to fall away and become One with the Light. Let go of
the body that has been your home and become who you really are. Slip out
of your skin and into your spiritual gown.
Let go and go to
the Light. You will not lose yourself, you will find your True Self.
Dear Soul of (name),
keep your attention on the Light and ignore anything else around you or
thoughts that come to you.
Listen for the
Sound of the Clear Light, the heavenly clear flute sounds from your Source.
You have prepared
yourself for this moment, you know what to do.
Stay with the Light.
Raise the light of your inner consciousness to meet the Clear Light of
God and hold onto the Light.
Let go and let
God. Let go and become One with God.
Dear Soul of (name),
be not awed by the feeling of the overwhelming Love of God but become
that Love, for that is what you are.
Do not contract,
but expand your consciousness and merge with the Light.
Become One with
the Light.
You are not separate
from the Light, you are the Light.
You
are being reborn into the Light of Pure Consciousness.
For the highly evolved
spiritual person, this reading will be sufficient and personal prayers may
be used to close the deathbed ceremony.
If the
person missed the Clear Light or wasn't able to hold onto that transcendental
state long enough to merge with it, s/he will awaken to experience the Secondary
Light. For these souls, Part II of the reading should commence 20 minutes
after breathing has ceased. This will be the case for most people.
.
The
Traveler's Guide: Part II
Dear Soul of (name),
concentrate on finding your Savior (name, if known). Call out the name of
the one who has your greatest devotion and love.
Keep your attention
on the Light and become One with it.
Know that you have
departed from your physical body and that you are nor, nor never were, your
body.
You are and always
have been a spiritual being, a perfect Child of God, a vibration of light.
Be not distracted.
Be not in awe.
Go to the Light.
You are not alone.
Concentrate on your
symbol of Deity.
Call out to your
Savior.
See it, feel it with
your whole being.
Become the Light.
Immerse yourself
in the ocean of Love.
Assimilate the overwhelming
Love which flows within and without.
Surrender your consciousness
to the Light.
Dear Soul of (name),
your initial bewilderment at what you are experiencing will quickly turn
to astonishment because everything is so real, so natural, so perfect.
You may find it difficult
to believe that you are dead because you feel very much alive.
You may wonder if
you are dreaming, but you are not.
You may try to communicate
with your loved ones left on earth, but they cannot hear you or see you.
If you prearranged
a plan to attempt to communicate, you have the opportunity to do that now.
But now it is time
to let go of the physical world and turn your attention to finding the Light.
Be not distracted
by the visions around you. Remember that they are only reflections of your
lower consciousness and cannot harm you.
Turn and face your
fears and delusions, but do not dwell on them. Learn from them, then let
them go.
Seek the Light that
shines for you and call on your Savior to guide you on your journey.
Repeat Part II for about
20 minutes while directing your mental energy to helping the departed Soul merge
with the Secondary Light.
If the Traveler is unable
to hold onto the Light, another opportunity will arise for him in the state
of karmic apparitions. Here their crystallized Thought-Forms begin to appear
and disappear, from heavenly visions to the darkness of their evil thoughts.
During this phase, they
will also view their former physical body being taken away and whatever is
done to it following their death. They will see their loved ones' reactions
to their death and hear them calling to them. They may experience a longing
to return to their physical body, though most will close off from the physical
world after they realize no one can see or hear them.
The Reader will encourage
them to turn away from the physical world and seek the Light by reading Part
III for an hour.
The
Traveler's Guide: Part III
Dear Soul of (name),
listen to my voice with full attention.
Be not distracted
by the ethereal sounds,
the brilliant lights,
the beautiful rays
of color.
Be not in awe of
what you see... just see it.
Be not frightened
by what appears to be... just observe it.
You have left the
physical world behind and are experiencing the Bardo journey into the spiritual
world.
Although the Clear
Light dawned for you, you were unable to hold onto it.
And when the Secondary
Light appeared, you were distracted and it too passed away.
Now you are wandering
deeper into the Bardo... the land of your shadows.
Pay attention to
my voice and allow it to guide you through this world of illusions and set
you on your course to the Light.
Cling not to the
physical world, neither in fondness nor in weakness.
Be not attached to
the things or loved ones you left behind.
Call out to your
beloved Savior.
Whatever fear or
terror or uncertainty comes to you where you are, remember these words for
they hold the secret of recognition which will free your Soul--
Alas! when the
Uncertain Experiencing of Reality is dawning upon me here,
With every thought
of fear or terror or awe for all apparitional appearances set aside,
May I recognize
whatever visions appear, as the reflections of mine own consciousness.
May I know them
to be of the nature of apparitions in the Bardo;
When at this all
important moment of opportunity of achieving a great end,
May I not fear
the bands of Peaceful and Wrathful entities, mine own thought-forms.
(Or make up your
own meaningful reminder like above)
Repeat these words
whenever visions of awe or terror appear.
Remember their significance
as you repeat them and recognition will come to you.
Dear Soul of (name),
remember the brilliant Light you glimpsed as your body and mind separated.
That is the radiance
of your True Nature. Be not awed nor frightened by it. Recognize it as your
True Self.
Remember the sound
of a thousand thunders as your consciousness separated from your physical
form.
That is the natural
sound of your Real Self. Be not awed nor terrified. Recognize it.
Be aware that the
body you have now is not of flesh and bones, but a non-material body which
cannot be harmed by the images that appear around you.
Recognize that you
are in the Bardo.
These are memories
and thoughts from your own consciousness... just observe them and let them
go.
Recognize these as
your own thought-Forms and hold onto the Light through the Love you expressed
in your life.
Call out to your
beloved Savior and turn toward the light.
The words of your personal
ritual must be in your own language, relevant to your understanding and reflect
your personal values and beliefs. The above suggestions include some concepts
that may be foreign to you, but they refer to experiences you will only come
to comprehend when you go through your death experience and should be at least
be considered even if they seem strange or weird to you now. There really
are no words to describe the wonder of it all, just ask a near death experiencer
to try!
Souls who have not turned
to the Light after the third opportunity will find themselves in a place overcast
with shadows-- dark, ugly, frightening, monstrous shapes which represent their
darkest Thought-Forms. They will experience overwhelming feelings of emptiness
and aloneness as if they have fallen into a deep cavern within their own being--
into the abyss. The voice of the Reader will be far in the distance and only
if they remember to listen for it and concentrate against all odds, will they
be able to enter the Judgment phase, the Forty-nine Days of the Bardo.
If this section is deemed
necessary, the dying person and the Reader will have arranged set times for
the twice-daily readings of Part IV. It should be read the first time following
the last reading of Part III.
The
Traveler's Guide: Part IV
Dear Soul of (name),
you have entered the time of Judgment on your journey.
Be Aware that you
are being pursued by your own past negative qualities.
Recognize the shadows
that you see as you own ego passions.
Now is the time to
admit your shame and remorse and seek forgiveness by turning towards the
Light.
Dear Soul of (name),
you cannot escape, you cannot hide, you cannot make a deal.
You know know the
effect of your attachments to selfish desires and lustful passions.
You must face the
Truth that you now know.
Be not distracted
by the energies rising upward through your being.
They are reminders
of your passions which got you here, but which can be transmuted. Recognize
that this is part of your new existence, but be not involved in the ecstasy,
Let them go and seek
immersion with the Light. Know that what you are feeling is divine Love
and turn to God for its highest expression.
Listen to the voice
of your Reader. Call out to your beloved Savior. Search for your symbol
of the Light among the shadows.
Ask for forgiveness
and you will not walk this lonesome valley alone.
Dear Soul of (name),
if you have passed from the shadow world into the hall of mirrors, you are
viewing scenes of your past life.
This Judgment is
a mirror held up to you naked Soul.
Now you will truly
come to know your Self.
You are the judge
of your self and are being forced to realize the significance of your own
misdeeds, to see your self as you truly are.
Your Soul bears the
burden of shame and remorse for your evil thoughts and negative intentions.
Turn to the Light
to end your suffering.
Recognize that these
are mental reflections and cannot harm you.
Your life review
is to teach you what you refused to learn on earth and to prepare you for
your next life.
Dear Soul of (name),
you still have Free Will. You may choose at any time to free yourself from
this state by either seeking the Light or rebirth into the physical world.
We in the physical
world wish you what is for your highest good and continue to pray that you
turn toward the Light.
Selah! So Be It!
Amen!
Postcards
From the Edge
Special prayers meaningful
to the dying person many be arranged to be said by loved ones preceding death,
following death, at the memorial service, and thereafter. These may be standard
religious prayers or they may be self-generated according to one's personal
beliefs and should direct the Soul toward the Light and through the Bardo.
Below are two prayers from the 15th Century as examples. Compare how they
sound today with the knowledge of the death-rebirth process.
Saint Michael Archangel
of God, succor us now before the right high Judge, O champion invincible
be thou present now and assist this (name), our brother, which strongly
laboureth towards his end, and defend him mightily from the dragon infernal,
and from all frauds of evil spirits. O yet furthermore, we pray thee, which
art the right clear and much fair shower of the divinity, to the end that
in this last hour of life of this (name), our brother, thou wilt benignly
and sweetly receive his soul into thy right holy bosom; and that thou will
bring him in the place of refreshing, of peace and rest. Amen. (6)
When thy soul passeth
out of thy body, may glorious companies of angels come against thee; the
victorious host, worthy judges, and senators of the holy apostles meet with
thee; the fair, white, shining company of holy confessors, with the victorious
number of glorious martyrs, come about thee; and the joyful company of holy
virgins receive thee; and the worthy fellowship of holy patriarchs open
to thee the place of rest and joy, and deem thee to be among they that they
be among, everlastingly. (7)
Jesus
...he said "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom
of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may
not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this:
The seed is the word of god." (Luke 8:10-11)
Tying
Up Loose Ends
The medical community,
knowing nothing of spiritual laws, has determined such things as the moment
of death, when organs should be harvested, and disposal procedures for the
body on a strictly biological basis. However, taking into consideration the
process of physical death-spiritual rebirth, those issues, as well as other
activities around the newly deceased, may need to be reconsidered-- whether
physicians believe in life after death or not. What their patients believe
is what is important.
The consciousness is still
aware of its physical body and may still be connected to its body by the Silver
Cord for many hours after breathing ceases and the heart stops beating. Moving
the body, removing organs, autopsies, embalming, and even family arguments
about the will and thoughtless comments by attending medical personnel, police,
coroners, or morticians, within a few hours after a death may be detrimental
to the consciously departing Soul.
The Heart Seed Atom does
not depart until the Astral form is fully built and, depending on the person's
Karma, this may take anywhere from one to 15 hours after death. Removing any
organs, especially the heart, before this is completed will severely hinder
the Soul's progress. An autopsy or final disposition of a body before the
Silver Cord has broken may even result in the inability of the Soul to rise
above the earth plane, perhaps requiring him or her to reincarnate quickly
in a debilitated body. Since medical doctors are unable to sense this event,
as an Anubisist could, and act appropriately, they are interfering with the
Soul's rebirthing process.
This is also the case
for those who die violent deaths and bodily mutilation before or after death.
Emotions generated at the time of, and immediately following death have an
effect on the Soul's journey and future. Death is the time when peace and
calmness should prevail for the Soul's benefit. To be completely sure the
Soul is free of its body, the body should be kept in a cold room following
death for three days. An autopsy or embalming procedures should not begin
until after that time (3) and people who
want human heart transplants shall have to wait for medical science to perfect
the artificial heart.
The
Bon Voyage Party
A funeral is a ritualistic
ceremony, usually with religious overtones, which has been performed in memory
of the deceased in most cultures since human society came about. In modern
times, it is usually done more for the benefit of those left behind grieving
than the departing Soul, but considering the Bardo journey and the spiritual
rebirth process the Soul is experiencing in the days following death, the
emphasis should be on helping the departed through their Soul birthing process--
just as one would at a physical birth.
Without a ritual disposition
of a body, the affect on Soul progression is to hold it back slightly-- on
the individual Soul's Bardo journey, it could mean remaining longer than necessary
in a suspended consciousness state before it can move on. It could also slow
the process of building its spiritual form.
Not only should you prepare
a Living Will, make your own funeral arrangements and decide on the method
of disposition beforehand, but, just as people now write their own wedding
vows, you should write, in your own words, instructions to your departing
consciousness for your loved ones and friends to read to you at your funeral
ceremony.
Cremation is the preferred
method of body disposal because if the Silver Cord does not detach by itself
(because this person has still not accepted that he or she is dead, cannot
let go of the material world, or is experiencing some karmic difficulty),
it will be severed by the fire. Another reason is that the Soul has no more
need of the physical form it has left behind, as resurrection is in a spiritual
body following death, but may be hindered in its progress if its body is still
around, preserved in a vault in the earth, to remind it of its depravities
or even simply because of the habit of attraction. In any case, cremation
of the body fully releases the Soul. (3)
While this is usually
considered a time of mourning and deep sorrow over the loss of a loved one,
it will become a time of joy with the assurance that, our loss aside, for
our loved one's Soul , it is a most joyful experience-- especially for the
person who has prepared him or herself beforehand. For those left behind,
it is still a sorrowful occasion and a heartfelt loss, but the time to grieve
your loss is after the dying one has passed into the Light.
Ship
to Shore
The information in this
book is also meant to help those left behind pick up the pieces of their lives
sooner after the death of a loved one by helping them realize their that their
loved one is going about their new life in the spiritual world, just as they
must get on with theirs in the physical world-- without each other for a while.
Learning to be in psychic
contact with each other in life will create a conscious connection, a bridge,
which will not be broken by the death of one or the other. The dead may be
able to make themselves visible to loved ones to help them both make the adjustment
to this separation (2) and to come to them at their
dying time to welcome them home to their spiritual life, together once more.
Practicing to contact each other in meditation, telepathically, beforehand,
will strengthen the connection.
Lucan
The gods
concealed from men the happiness of death, that they may endure
life.
Pulling
the Plug
When our Soul decides
again to dip down into matter and take on human form, it also chooses which
portion of past Karma to bring in with it and approximately how long
it will remain in body to learn its karmic lessons and accomplish its spiritual
goals. The human being has the Free Will to make choices in karmic situations,
but cannot override these conditions sent forth via the Heart Seed Atom.
Karma involves physical
and mental characteristics, as well as life circumstances, which will help
a Soul's human child learn what it needs to learn for the Soul's spiritual
growth. Many people with severe handicaps or disabilities have succeeded in
life only because they have so much to overcome. Many people who seem to have
it all on the outside, are empty on the inside and create more new Karma than
they dissolve old, in the life-opportunity.
Sometimes the "sin" we committed in a past life was so severely against the standards to which
our Soul aspires, we choose to spread the equal and opposite reaction over
more than one life-opportunity. It is the process of spiritual development
through involution (spiritual to physical) and evolution (physical to spiritual)
that our Soul is undergoing.
Sometimes we choose to
return in a severely disabled body or with limited mental abilities for one
life or we may choose to spread it out with lesser handicaps or minor mental
problems over several lifetimes. Another choice would be to be born into an
abusive family in one life or into several slightly dysfunctional families
over time. Or into an extremely primitive culture or several barely civilized
cultures. You may be male in one life, female in the next to learn about balance.
You may be one race, religion or nationality in one life, and another in the
next to learn more about tolerance and compassion, or that all wars are folly
because we are only fighting ourselves. You may have been a perpetrator in
one life and come back to experience victimization in equal measure in one
life or to lesser degrees over several lifetimes.
By looking at patterns
from your past lives, through past-life regression therapy (18),
you can come to understand what certain people and circumstances are teaching
you about who you are and why you are here. With the knowledge that there
is a Higher Source watching out for us, it makes it easier to accept what
we cannot change, to find the courage to change things we can and to develop
the wisdom to know the difference, including deciding when to end our physical
life.
With the understanding
that Karma is the driving force behind reincarnation, as the process of Soul
development progresses, new light is shed on ethical and moral issues, such
as suicide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, the right to die, abortion,
resuscitation and the death penalty.
Those who have been persuaded
to believe that we have only one lifetime and it determines our fate for all
eternity, are for or against those issues based on that premise. But, esoterically,
there is no right or wrong in karma; simply an equal and opposite
reaction based on intentions, motivations and attitudes.
We came into this world
for specific reasons to accomplish certain goals and we give ourselves a certain
amount of time in which to do it. Many NDErs, including suiciders, report
that they were told it wasn't their time to die-- some were told they had
more to accomplish or a mission to do, before they could stay, and were sent
back to their bodies. (21) So it seems plausible
that we cannot die before it is time for us to die, or, at least, before we
accomplish our mission on earth; and that, when we do die, by whatever means,
it was time or we had already learned all our Soul needed us to learn in that
lifetime. This also implies that our "time" allowed is not to the
minute, but that the "cosmic clock" is less specific and more flexible.
When death is accepted
as a necessary step in our Soul's progression, even though we have emotional
attachments to loved ones and are reluctant to leave them, the ethical and
moral concerns become questions about intentions, motivations and attitudes.
If your psychological or emotional intent is to hurt another human being or
destroy yourself, you will attract karmic baggage to yourself. If your motives
are from your heart, you are forgiven and relieved of karmic attachments.
The loss to one who commits suicide is the Clear Light and the opportunity
for Salvation. You guarantee having to come back and face a life similar to
the one you gave up-- with two exceptions.
If you are terminally
ill, whether from disease or simply old age, or are severely disabled or in
constant extreme pain, and want to end your life by euthanasia or physician-assisted
suicide, the deciding factor is why you want to end your life. As in
any suicide, if it is only to end your suffering, it is the wrong reason.
It would likely mean coming back and suffering even more to break through
to the lessons you were supposed to learn in this life; perhaps something
about maintaining a biological system in peak condition thus preventing disease
and early deterioration or developing strength through pain. In the case of
a physician-assisted suicide, the doctor is not culpable, karmically, unless
they do it because they get some kind of perverse pleasure out of killing
people. This is murder, which carries heavy karmic retribution. None of this
is to say we don't have the right to die with dignity if disease or debility
has severely diminished the quality of our life; however, consciousness-blocking
drugs should be avoided. It is the responsibility of the person desiring release
to discover higher reasons for seeking spiritual rebirth, to be sure they
have accomplished all they came to do, and to connect with the Spiritual Self.
As to keeping people, old or young, alive by machines, this interferes with
their spiritual progression. In the case of a coma, the Soul is held in a
suspended state of consciousness. Releasing them will offer their souls greater
opportunities for growth.
Suicide over a failed
romance or great loneliness or major financial loss or the feeling that life
isn't worth living, will result in a more miserable next life. Suicide for
these reasons is a purely selfish act. The transitional experience and guaranteed
Bardo journey of a suicider will reflect the mental thoughts of the person
leading up to the act. It will be as pleasant or unpleasant as the intentions
of the person dictate, and if not cleared during the Bardo, will be carried
over as Karma into future lives, where similar situations will present themselves
and you will be faced again with the choice.
The other exception involves
highly evolved, spiritually-minded persons who may choose to exit their physical
life-opportunity whenever they feel ready to accelerate their progression
on spiritual levels and use the death-opportunity to achieve Salvation. This
choice is usually, but not always, made in older age when this person, knowing
that they have dissolved the Karma they came in with, accomplished what their
Soul asked of their lifetime, and with the blessing of their Spiritual Self
to which they are consciously connected, feels ready to let go of their physical
body and move on to the spiritual world for greater soul growth. It is suicide
by strength of Will; removing the consciousness and the life-force from the
physical body by merging with the Clear Light and returning full consciousness
to the Soul. This may be accomplished during intense progressive Kundalini
meditation and may be assisted by an Anubisist. The lifeless body is gently
and peacefully left behind and there is no Bardo journey, nor any need to
return to the physical world-- unless they choose to for a short time for
a specific reason to help Humanity. It is our task in every incarnation to
achieve this state and it may take thousands to reach it. Many people today
are preparing themselves to achieve it in this lifetime.
Abortion is neither right
nor wrong, but it will generate karmic consequences for the people involved,
depending on their intentions, which most likely will be dealt with in their
present lifetimes. There are karmic reasons known only to their Subconscious
(Soul) Mind that they became involved in circumstances in which they were
faced with the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. Their learning
comes through living with their decision.
For the incoming Soul,
it means that it may have to go through the process of preparing for rebirth
again, however, it will gain some karmic relief from experiencing an aborted
rebirth attempt. The Soul doesn't completely link with its body until the
Mental Seed Atom slides down the Silver cord to anchor in the pineal gland
at physical birth. It is the last Seed Atom to enter the body. The Soul, however,
does not completely link with the personality before the seventh year.
(3) When a pregnancy is terminated,
the other Seed Atoms (Heart and/or Emotional, depending on the timing of the
abortion) withdraw via the Silver Cord and the fetus is abandoned. The Soul
may have needed to learn a lesson of its own or been willing to sacrifice
a life-opportunity to teach a lesson to a group of people. The Soul "knew" it would not get to be reborn at this particular time, and may either quickly
choose a new set of parents and seek immediate rebirth or may go on with its
life in the spiritual dimensions.
The issue of abortion
has polarized society on moral grounds; the argument is between the right
of a child to be born and the right of a woman to choose whether or not to
continue a pregnancy. The moral judgment is that the rights of the unborn
take precedence over the rights of the mother. In the past, if a choice had
to be made during delivery between the life of the mother or the life of the
child being born, the child won, which set the precedent for the right of
the unborn over the born. These were decisions about appropriate human behavior
and morals made by human beings with limited understanding about their spiritual
existence and higher purpose, and the karmic reasons for the circumstances.
When these issues are
looked at from a karmic perspective, they may be seen more rationally, rather
than emotionally. From this higher vantage point, we become more discriminating
with our Free Will and make better decisions, which dissolve, rather than
accumulate, Karma. Making judgments about others' choices or dictating what's "right" for others, is ego-centered intent and will be returned,
karmically. The heart-intention would be to show compassion for those who
are faced with these kinds of decisions and to help when and where we can.
Whether or not to resuscitate
a person who has been in an accident or suffered a heart attack or who dies
on the operating table is currently based on prevailing values and medical
ethics; however, as discussed previously, we may not be able to die before
it is our time to die nor live because doctors or paramedics think they have
to do everything to try to save us or because our loved one thinks he or she
can't live without us. The decision takes place on higher planes and is not
in the hands of medical science. It is karmically destined. But there is always
the hope that we who are concerned for the dying person's life can influence
their Karma by our unselfish actions. To try to rescue or save someone is
an act of compassion which reaps karmic rewards for the rescuers and whether
the victim lives or dies is the result of his or her own karmic journey. None
of this means that resuscitation or prayers are a waste of time, only that
the outcome is determined by the Karma of all the people involved.
As for the death penalty,
keep in mind that our lifetimes are partly karmically defined and partly the
result of our own choices, and that karmic judgment is based on our intentions,
motivations and attitudes. Everyone involved in a death penalty case is involved
for these reasons and will reap what they sow as their drama unfolds. It may
well be that the person who is executed overcomes more Karma-- and needed
to from past lives whether guilty or not in this life-- than the lawyers and
judges, who may end up accumulating more if their motivations are self-serving.
A guilty person may escape punishment on earth, but he or she will not escape
karmic justice during the Bardo journey nor in future lives.
