What happens after the time of death? I am sorry to be so morbid, but death is a fact of life, just as birth. You will not die only once; you will die more times than you can count. Why not openly discuss it? We do not hide the subject of birth, so let us not pretend about death. But birth is a happy occasion. We are saying hello, not goodbye. Goodbyes are unwelcome. But once you die, the goodbyes are all finished, and there are a thousand new hellos. Once you leave the body, you will not think about it a minute longer. You will not stay to see it cremated or buried. It is like traveling on an aeroplane. Once you are seated, you are not getting off the plane until you arrive at your destination. And you have a one-way ticket! This is how death goes. You leave your baggage with the baggage handlers, and away you go. It is just as exciting. It is a wonderful feeling of breathless anticipation. You are headed for new and exciting destinations. The difficulty is in getting to the plane. The process of leaving the body behind is often painful, a struggle, and scary. I wish I could report differently, but the body does not give up easily. Your will to live is enormous, and your brain will keep you alive as long as it possibly can. It is programmed to keep fighting, keep surviving. Throw yourself in the ocean and see how your body will struggle to survive! Even after your will to live expires, your body will keep up the fight. The body will, like an old motor, keep chugging on very few cylinders until it can chug no longer. Your will to survive is an automatic drive and is virulent. You will hang on until every last cell has been used for survival.
Then, bam! Like a jet taking off, you are up, up, and away! Do you go upwards like an aeroplane? It depends upon your destination, and people go to lots of different places. Some go to Heaven and see loved ones. Some are met by angels. Some encounter Jesus, God, or other religious figures. Others do not have a religious experience because they were not religious. And still others have "less than positive" experiences, which people have called hell. These may be frightening and hellish, but if they are having it, it is what they needed to see. Do I believe that God condemns anyone to Hell forever? I am not God, so I cannot answer for God, and neither should you. But the loving God I have come to know would not leave a soul there for eternity. To teach the soul, I can imagine that, because the Other Side is about learning. Sometimes we are taught what to do and other times what not to do. Your earthly life is a big lesson. But the evolution of your soul does not stop on earth; it continues.
And what is here? Heaven is not one big wonderland as you may have been led to believe or imagined. In fact, it is not a place, like the Taj Mahal, that you can visit. Instead, you meet your family, the angels, divinity, and even long-lost relatives and friends from many lives. Rather than a destination, it is a kingdom made of lands with vast geography. It is multidimensional. While you will die and go to one level of this kingdom to begin with, there are layers upon layers of Heaven. It is impossible to describe how it is constructed; it is too complex to begin to accurately describe. It is like earth but without the encumbrances. What I mean is, teleportation is the method of travel. You think, and you are there. No more waiting for anything—everything is instantaneous. And you do not have to speak aloud; telepathy is used. Think, and you communicate. And time is a no-thing. Meaning, it is irrelevant. You have no idea what time it is because you do not have any set schedule. You do as you will to, and whatever time it takes is of no concern because you have all the time in the world. And all manner of strange things happen here, things that never happen on earth, such as the trees being able to talk to you and animals being able to talk, too. Everything here has a consciousness and, therefore, a voice or a sound. It is not noise pollution because the sound is soft and muted; everything speaks in a whispered tone. The laws of physics are very different, which keeps you always surprised and delighted. There is laughter here. You laugh at yourself a lot. Things are not overly serious. No use for my famous unibrow here! There is no anger whatsoever. I do not know how that is possible, but there is no frustration, anxiety, or depression. Negative emotions are not allowed to be here. It is not that we run around trying to be polite. But "nice" is the only way you can be here. And that is the biggest difference: no negativity. No problems. And you do not have a physical body to drag around. You are a spirit, so you are light as a feather but sharper than you ever were on earth. You do see others, but you would not sit down with others for a meal unless it were a special occasion. Usually you are working diligently on your own projects or working in tandem with helpers. Helpers can be angels, spiritual guides, ancestors, or teachers. You are guided all the time so you stay on track. It is not a social place as much as an educational, learning place. If you did not like school on earth, not to worry. You will learn in a way that suits you. Everything in Heaven is tailored for you and your needs.
As much as possible, do not worry about where you are going—focus on where you are now because that is where all the trouble is! Earthly life is one trial after another. It will test your endurance. Earthly life is a big marathon race. Marathons test everything in the runner. It pushes them until they hit a wall psychologically and far beyond that. Have you ever gotten to the place that you felt you could not go on, yet you had to? You may have felt that what you were facing exceeded your strength, yet somehow you persevered? At the time, it may have felt as if you were marching through hell itself with demons licking at your heels. Still, you outran them. And why are you pushed to your ultimate limits and beyond? First, it proves to you how strong you are. The human brain is the most ingenious invention known to mankind. It can keep you going far after you have exceeded your limits. Secondly, it teaches you that feelings are not facts. Feelings are ever-changing and cannot be counted on. Lastly and most importantly, you will need to have shed as much karma, or should I say, karma left over from other lives, before you arrive. Just as a marathoner burns off every calorie that they have available to finish the race. You will be burning off karma from past lives in order to get to the destination where you need to be. You may think that reincarnation is not real, and go ahead and think that. But when you get here you will see that it is very real. It is best to know that now. The next time you are faced with a mountain you think you cannot climb, reassure yourself that you are strong enough.
Now, back to dying. You fear it because regardless of what anyone says, all humans fear it in varying degrees. This is because it is a process that you do not know. It is exactly like being asked to walk through a dark and lonely tunnel, and you do not know what you will meet. It is natural to fear the unknown. I wish I could lend you some strength when it comes your time, for regardless of what destination you are off to, God and your loved ones will meet you on the Other Side. It is a joyous homecoming. But "joy" is not an adequate description for what will transpire. The words I would pick to describe heaven are awe-inspiring, surprising, and wondrous. The best overall description might be the word "unbelievable." You will not comprehend how you are seeing and hearing without a body, although you will have a body made of light. You will not understand how you are speaking without words and how you are traveling in the blink of an eye. It takes some getting used to, and I am still in amazement at the things that happen to me. I have been here a long time in earthly years. In heaven's years, I have only been here a short while. Our time passes much slower than does Earth time. An astronaut who leaves the earth's orbit and stays in space for 5 years would return to Earth only 5 years older. But the people they left behind would have lived many more years than the astronaut. Still more incredible is the ability to bend time. When heaven's citizens go about their activities, if desired, they can slow or speed up time. This is not accomplished by a time machine. Merely by thought. Let us say you are running late and need to stretch time out. By desiring, it happens. Or you can speed things up at will. You are not God, but you will have divine powers because you are, even now, partially divine, or I should say, part of God.
I hope this has given you less pause about death and the afterlife. While it seems daunting and scary, it is actually more natural and easier than you think once the body is dispensed with, and a peace comes over you when it is your time, so the anxiety melts away. Finally, do not worry if you are an irreligious person. I will say a few things next that may offend, and I do not mean them to offend, but say them because they are true. And that is, take every "holy book" with a grain of salt. Or, a whole bag of salt. Remember, when you read any book that describes heaven, it was written by a man who lived some thousands of years ago who was describing visions, and he had to use the descriptions he had at that time. In Jesus' day, had an alien spaceship visited, there were then no engines, planes, rockets, or spaceships. Only birds flew. How would a man with only the wheel and fire describe a spaceship? He would use descriptors familiar to him, wouldn't he? The holy books are holy not because they are scientifically accurate, but they are considered holy because they communicate God's love for humanity. And please remember that the authors were humans with prejudices and biases and were observing the social mores of the time. Not everything that is written in them is accurate and contemporary. The Bible describes slavery as an acceptable social practice, but you know today that it is not morally correct and God does not condone slavery of His children. Jesus taught against it.
I was not a religious person and yet, here I am, safe and sound on the Other Side. God cares nothing for your religion. The practice of religion is the practice of rules and is helpful for society as a whole, but God does not require your worship. Is God honored when you pray, chant, meditate, or have a devotional? Absolutely, and God answers your prayers. So keep it up. But it is not for God's benefit that you worship. Please see: you grow spiritually because of your devotion; that is what you do it for. But if you do not worship God will not hold it against you. However, that also means you may not be evolving spiritually. Spiritual growth is important for the soul, to shed karma. However, once you are here you begin the process of a different, more advanced type of growth. It is just that those who started this spiritual process on earth will be ahead of you.
At the end of my life I began to feel gratitude for my time on earth, though it was, by any stabdard, a grueling race. I began to pray, and this opened for me a bridge to the heavens. By the time death came I was ready for death, meaning that I felt peace inside; I had made my peace with God. This is something that a priest and last rights cannot do for anyone. You must humble yourself before God. If you will, a peace will settle in your heart. Even if you do not believe in a God, no matter, for God believes in you. And you will find out after death that you were mistaken, and be pleasantly suprised to discover that even yet, God still loves you as His own.
Are you still hesitant? I hope not. Why be afraid of going someplace much happier where you can live carefree? Why be afraid of a heaven that welcomes you? It is only the unknown that is fear-producing, and I have dispelled many unknowns today so you can have a safe and peaceful flight. See you soon.
With love,
Frida
No comments:
Post a Comment