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)
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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.
.
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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!
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.
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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.
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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.
.
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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:
- Everyone
is offered the opportunity for Salvation,
or Liberation from the Cycle
of Life and Death, at death;
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
