LIFE AFTER DEATH

Here’s a daunting task, tackling eternity, reincarnation etc in four to five hundred words. Let me know how I do. Atheists: nothing. Fade to black, roll credits. Easy. Everybody else: oh boy. Having worked with many approaching the transition, typically most folks have given it a little thought, but usually have kept the subject at arms length for obvious reasons. Remind you of anyone? A wise man said many centuries ago that the first true step in enlightenment is when we embrace our own mortality. Ready? I am going to borrow from Wayne Dyer here because he said it as clear as any has. Where were you before you were conceived? One moment there was no you, and the next there was. In that single cell, the fertilized egg, everything about you was there. Your eye color, the shape of your fingernails, hair color, whether or not you will keep it, final height, sex, your blueprint of freckles, everything that makes the physical you. All in a point of protoplasm so small as to be invisible to the naked eye. Pretty amazing. Then it began to grow and nine months (give or take) later you made your appearance on the world stage. Fast forward 70, 80, 90 years and we arrive at another seminal moment in life, when the flesh fails. Where’d you go? To paraphrase Wayne: Before you were born you were nowhere. You are born, and now you are now here. You die and you are nowhere again. Same word, just a little different spacing: no where to now here to no where again. You see, we have always been here, part of, connected to the Source, the flesh a tool, a conveyance for our eternal consciousness. We didn’t arrive from anywhere and we don’t go anywhere. Head spinning? Sorry. At some point that bit of protoplasm became aware, that timing unimportant for this discussion thankfully, the point of awareness leaving a little easier to discern. Living on the Spiritual Basis we spend our lives applying spiritual truth and understanding to everything in our lives to the best of our awareness at the time since our awakening is an ongoing process. In so doing the answers to the eternal questions come to all if diligent. So don’t concern yourself with what is on the other side of the line for it will come soon enough. Death waits for all men but waits on no man. Keep your eyes and thoughts on today’s demonstrations and the morrow will take care of it’s self. In living this way we will approach the transition in peace, embracing the change, bidding farewell to the limitations of flesh, going nowhere, being here now, just in a different and altered consciousness. Heaven and Hell? Not going there, wouldn’t be prudent. Shalom Alechem.