Subject: What Will Happen To Us When We Pass Away.
Part 2 of 2. Dec. 15, 2010.
This shows what happens when a fundamentalist
type preacher passes away.
An Example of a Baby's Death ExperienceLet's take the case of a baby newly born into the
flesh who, after a brief struggle for life, withdraws
back into the spirit state. The baby had wanted life,
to be sure, and most likely had helped to select its
parents, but what happened to alter the
circumstances?
Sometimes a s-ul enters a body so weakened by
malformation that it will not sustain life, but more
often it is the s-irit which withdraws which results
in the d-ath of the baby. Let us take as an example
a baby born into a lovely home where he is greatly
desired but who lives only a few days, weeks, or
months before the so-l departs the body.
That baby's sou- most certainly had something to
do with the decision to withdraw. Perhaps at first
there was a reluctance to enter the human body,
or the spi-it became convinced that that particular
body was not the proper vehicle for working out
the that obstructed its spiri-ual growth. At any rate, the
baby's -oul was absent from the spir-t world for such
a brief period that little readjustment to the -pirit world is
necessary. Once again the -oul takes stock of what has
just occurred and assesses why it gave up the opportunity
to become flesh again in order to solve its karmic
problems.
The baby's so-l was not a baby, at least in the spi-it
world because all sou-s have been in existence from
the beginning of time, although some of them are more
highly ev-lved, far wiser and more meaningful
than others as a result of experiences here on
Earth states. No one in the spi-it world is a baby.
The baby we used as an example above went
back to the spir-t world after a brief struggle as
a baby in arms.
The heart had been damaged in the physical
body and therefore could not sustain life. The
sou- was disappointed at first when it returned
here because babyhood is by no means an ideal
existence, he had nevertheless chosen parents
whom he loved and surroundings where he felt
that he would be able to repay some karmic
indebtedness. That this opportunity was denied
him by physical limitations speaks itself of karmic
patterns, for this sou- now realizes that it's most
recent life it ended the life of a new baby through
neglect of its needs. Thus, although this was a
life that he greatly wanted to complete, he had to
make amends by withdrawing from that seemingly
ideal situation. The so-called baby returns in the
sp-rit world and after a brief period of adjustment,
is ready to begin again in the temple of wisdom to
learn how to resume the ascent toward the ideal
of oneness with G-. Because he has been gone
from the spirit world only briefly, he needs little
re-instruction, but if he had been a physical baby
for two or three years, there would be so-ls in the
sp-rit world ready to help him adjust psychologically
to bring him out of the baby syndrome and into
adulthood again.
An Example of a Fundamentalist Preacher's D-ath
Experience
Let's take the case of a man of the cloth, a Billy
Sunday-type who preaches h-llfire and brimstone
and believes every bit of the Good Book literally.
He dies, and after the first shock of discovering that
Go- is not sitting on a throne surrounded by angels,
he begins exhorting people here to repent before it
is too late. He thinks that this is a very brief interlude
until he adjusts, and that the rest of us are probably
lost so-ls who lack the righteousness to advance
into -od's waiting arms. His sermons here actually
do draw sou-s who hunger for the kind of h-aven
that their finite minds had conceived, and they think
that this Billy Sunday-type will lead them rapidly to
the promised land. They throng to his sermons and
shout "Amen," while he tells them that within a very
short time they will all advance into he-ven with a
retinue of angels playing harps. 'Amen', they shout
again, and are grateful that one of their own, at last,
has arrived to open the gates of the temple. This
preacher, who we'll call Billy, at first rants and exhorts,
demanding to know of the older sou-s around here
how he can find the way to the throne of Go-,
because he honestly believes that it is being concealed
from him in some mysterious way. At last the old -ouls
gather around and explain to Billy that he is preaching
a false doctrine; that hea-en is within each man, and
so is his private he-l; that he has arrived, and nothing
is being hidden from him. It is up to him to begin work
on his own spir-tual advancement, and he is retarding
the progress of others by misleading them with false
hopes of a promised land.
For this is the promised land, and we make of it what we
will through our own endeavors.
Wiser heads, so to speak, take Billy in hand, because
he is a good but misguided sou-.
They suggest that he attend a temple of wisdom for a
time to have his eyes opened to the one truth; that all
of us are -od, and that until all have realized this basic
truth, none of us will advance beyond the basic state
of man.
When we grasp the idea that each of us is as much a
part of G-d as any other person, then we are able to
spread the good word, which is that by helping these
other parts of Go- we advance together to a higher
realm of awareness, the veils drop from our eyes, and
we are able to see exactly where and why we are
here. Helping others is the watchword. Billy begins to
grasp a glimmering of this universal law, and before
long he is zealously spreading this word to others
much as he was preaching hel-fire and brimstone
before. Basically he is an excellent so-l, but through
mistaken principles he was spreading a false line. Now
he spreads the truth with the same eloquence, and
soon he begins to assess his previous earthly existence,
seeing where he misled others by not opening his
own eyes and listening to the persuasive arguments of
those who were less orthodox than he was when he
held his close-minded beliefs. He is eager to undo the
damage he has done, and through other ministers of
like f-ith in the physical bodies he implants seeds of
wisdom which, if placed in fertile soil, begin to sprout
roots and spread truth among the misinformed. Because
he is basically a fine -oul, he will advance more rapidly
here than those who knew the truth while in the physical
state but failed to work as hard as this s-ul has done
to uplift and help others.
A C-urch Lady's De-th Experience
Today we will look into the heart and mind of a woman
who believes that she is of saintly qualities and who
expects to be transported directly to the arms of G-d.
She fears nothing so much as having others in higher
places of authority and is determined to impress Saint
Peter with her virtuous ways so that no mistake will be
made at the judgment throne. She awakens on this side
and looks about her for the pearly gates through which
she will enter after admission by Saint Peter.
All she observes is a platform on which sprawls an old
so-l who has been on this plane since eons past.
Mistaking him for Saint Peter, she approaches and
says, "Look here, sir. I am Mary Blunk and I wish to be
taken to -od."
The old soul look pityingly at her and suggests that
she rest awhile, but she will not hear of it.
She had been sick in the physical body, and now
that she has shed it she is full of anticipation for
her seat beside the Father. She will brook no delay,
so the old sou- motions for her to pass along, and
soon she arrives at a gate that is not nearly as
magnificent as that which she was expecting.
There is no lock and no gatekeeper, so she passes
through and begins an ascent along a garden path.
Flowers are blooming in profusion, but she pays
them little heed, since she is bent on reaching
the seat of G-d as quickly as possible.
Along the way she encounters others who are
either ascending or descending the path. Our
heroine nods but rushes along, hoping to pass
some of those who are toiling up the path ahead
of her. Those who descend, she assumes, are
rejected ones who are on their way to he-l.
Pushing past those ahead of her, she eventually
reaches a high stage and assumes that on top
of it she will find -od awaiting her with open
arms. Now she adjusts her hair and clothing.
She feels them reassuringly, for the raiment
here is as real to her as that which she washed
on Mondays at home. She glimpses a handsome
young man and, assuming him to be an a-gel,
asks sweetly, "Will you announce me, please,
because I am in a hurry to bow my head at the
knees of G-d."
The young man slowly surveys the scene and
finally replies, "But, madam, some of the newly
arrived so-ls are still plodding up the hill which
you have climbed."
She impatiently requests that he address Go-
for her so that she will not have to wait in the
long line that is approaching. The young man
smiles and says, "But, madam, how will you be
s-ved until all those others who struggle upward
are also rescued from the abyss below?"
The woman replies that she has nothing to do with
them, since they are all strangers to her.
Finally another man approaches her, and she
seems vaguely to recognize him as the old beggar
down the street who was always holding out a tin
cup when she hurried past his corner.
Part 2 of 2.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
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