Want a daunting task; try tackling eternity and death in four to
five hundred words. Let me know how I do. Consider the transition, death, typically most folks have given it some
thought, but usually have kept the subject at arms length for obvious
reasons. Remind you of anyone? A wise man said centuries ago that the
first true step in enlightenment is when we embrace our own mortality.
Where were we before we were conceived? One moment there was no
you, and then there was. In that single cell, the fertilized egg,
everything about you was there: your eye color, the shape of your
fingernails, hair color, 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 you
began to grow and nine months (give or take) later you made your
appearance on the world stage. Fast forward a few decades and we arrive
at another seminal moment in life, when the time in this flesh comes to an end. Where’d we go?
Consider: Before we were born we were nowhere. We are born, and now we
are now here. We die and we are nowhere again. Same word, just a
little different spacing: no where to now here to no where again. (Tip
of the hat to Wayne Dyer and Baba Ram Dass, though I may have thought
it, they said it
clearly and on point.)
In truth, we have always been “here”, part of, connected to
Source the flesh merely a tool, a conveyance for our eternal consciousness. We
didn’t arrive from anywhere and we don’t go anywhere. Our birthday and
death day are points on a relatively meaningless calendar, since God and
our consciousness are eternal. Living on the Spiritual Basis we spend
this life 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 if we are diligent. So don’t concern yourself with what is on the
other side of the line, for the line really is immaterial, for
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 its 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 in raised consciousness.
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