One of the most moving things I've ever read --

[Guest guest]

Okay, this is off topic in the sense that it doesn't talk about The Work,

and it's a relatively long piece. Read at your own prerogative...

This is the true story of an artist who survived a near-death experience in

1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half and during that time, he " rose

up out of his body and went into the Light. " Curious about the universe, he

was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into the

energetic Void of Nothingness behind the Big Bang.

Dr. Ring has said, " His story is one of the most remarkable I have

encountered in my extensive research on near-death experiences.

The Road to Death

In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. My condition was non-operable. I chose

not to have chemotherapy. I was given six to eight months to live. Before

this time, I had become increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the

ecology crisis, and so forth. I came to believe that nature had made a

mistake - that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. And that

is what eventually killed me. Before my death, I tried all sorts of

alternative healing methods. None helped.

So I determined that this was between me and God. I had never really

considered God. Neither was I into any kind of spirituality, but my

approaching death sent me on a quest for more information about spirituality

and alternative healing. I read various religions and philosophies. They

gave hope that there was something on the other side.

I had no medical insurance, so my life savings went overnight on tests.

Unwilling to drag my family into this, I determined to handle this myself. I

ended up in hospice care and was blessed with an angel for my hospice

caretaker, whom I will call " Anne. " She stayed with me through all that was

to follow. It lasted about eighteen months.

The Light of God

I woke up about 4:30 am and I knew that this was it. I was going to die. I

called a few friends and said good-bye. I woke up Anne and made her promise

that my dead body would remain undisturbed for six hours, since I had read

that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I went back to

sleep.

The next thing I remember, I was fully aware and standing up. Yet my body

was lying in the bed. I seemed to be surrounded by darkness, yet I could see

every room in the house, and the roof, and even under the house.

A Light shone; I turned toward it, and was aware of its similarity to what

others have described in near-death experiences. It was magnificent and

tangible, alluring. I wanted to go towards that Light like I might want to

go into my ideal mother's or father's arms. As I moved towards the Light, I

knew that if I went into the Light, I would be dead. So I said/felt, " Please

wait. I would like to talk to you before I go. "

The entire experience halted. I discovered that I was in control of the

entire experience. My request was honored. I had conversations with the

Light. That's the best way I can describe it. The Light changed into

different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas, archetypal images

and signs. I asked in a kind of telepathy, " What is going on here? "

The information transmitted was that " our beliefs shape the kind of feedback

we receive " : If you are a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a

feedback loop of your own images. I became aware of a Higher Self matrix, a

conduit to the Source.

We all have a Higher Self, or an Over-soul part of our being, a conduit. All

Higher Selves are connected as One Being; All humans are connected as One

Being.

We are literally the same Being. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever

seen. It was like all the love you've ever wanted, and it was the kind of

love that cures, heals, regenerates.

I was ready to go at that time. I said " I am ready, take me. " Then the Light

turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a mandala of

human souls on this planet. I saw that we are the most beautiful creations -

elegant, exotic . . . everything. I just cannot say enough about how it

changed my opinion of human beings in an instant.

I said/thought/felt, " Oh, God, I didn't realize. " I was astonished to find

that there was no evil in any soul. People may do terrible things out of

ignorance and lack, but no soul is evil. What all people seek, what sustains

them, is love, the Light told me.

What distorts people is a lack of love.

The revelations went on and on. I asked, " Does this mean that humankind will

be saved? "

Like a trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Light " spoke, "

saying, " You save, redeem and heal yourself. You always have and always

will. You were created with the power to do so from before the beginning of

the world. "

In that instant I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAVED; this is what the

" Second Coming " is about. I thanked the Light of God with all my heart. The

best thing I could come up with was: " Oh dear God, dear Universe, dear Great

Self, I love my Life. "

The Light seemed to breathe me in even more deeply, absorbing me. I entered

into another realm more profound than the last, and was aware of an enormous

stream of Light, vast and full, deep. I asked what it was. The Light

answered, " This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna, water to your

heart's content. " I drank deeply, in ecstasy.

The Void of Nothingness

Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of

Life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, whizzed by and

disappeared. I flew through the center of the galaxy, absorbing more

knowledge as I went. I learned that this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is

bursting with many different varieties of life. I saw many worlds. We are

not alone in this Universe.

It seemed as if all the creations in the Universe soared past me and

vanished in a speck of Light. Almost immediately, a second Light appeared.

As I passed into the second Light, I could perceive forever, beyond

Infinity. I was in the Void, pre-Creation, the beginning of time, the first

Word or vibration. I rested in the Eye of Creation and it seemed that I

touched the Face of God.

It was not a religious feeling. I was simply at One with Absolute Life and

Consciousness.

It would take me years to assimilate the Void experience. It was less than

nothing yet greater than anything. Creation is God exploring God's Self

through every way imaginable. Through every piece of hair on your head,

through every leaf on every tree, through every atom, God is exploring God's

Self. I saw everything as the Self of all.

God is here. That's what it is all about. Everything is made of Light;

everything is alive.

The Light of Love

I rode the stream directly into the center of the Light. I felt embraced by

the Light as it took me in with its breath again. And the truth was obvious

that there is no death; that nothing is born and nothing dies; that we are

immortal beings, part of a natural living system that recycles itself

endlessly. I was never told that I had to come back. I just knew that I

would. It was only natural, from what I had seen.

As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was I

told, that I would return to the same body. It did not matter. I had

complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As the stream merged with

the great Light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the feelings of

what I had learned on the other side.

I thought of myself as a human again and I was happy to be that. From what I

have seen, I would be happy to be an atom in this universe. An atom. So to

be the human part of God ... this is the most fantastic blessing. It is a

blessing beyond our wildest estimation of what blessing can be. For each and

every one of us to be the human part of this experience is awesome, and

magnificent. Each and every one of us, no matter where we are, screwed up or

not, is a blessing to the planet, right where we are.

So I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby

somewhere. But I reincarnated back into this body. I was so surprised when I

opened my eyes, to be back in this body, back in my room with someone

looking over me, crying her eyes out. It was " Anne, " my hospice caretaker.

She had found me dead thirty minutes before.

We do not know how long I was dead, only that she found me thirty minutes

before. She had honored my wish to have my newly-dead body left alone. She

can verify that I really was dead. It was not a near-death experience. I

believe I probably experienced death itself for at least an hour and a half,

when I awakened and saw the light outside. Confused, I tried to get up to go

to it, but I fell out of the bed. She heard a loud " clunk " , ran In and found

me on the floor.

When I recovered, I was surprised and awed about what had happened, I had no

memory at first of the experience. I kept slipping out of this world and

kept asking, " Am I alive? " This world seemed more like a dream than that

one. Within three days, I was feeling normal again, clearer, yet different

than ever before. My memories of the journey came back later.

But from my return I could find nothing wrong with any human being I had

ever seen.

Previous to my death I was judgmental, believing that people were really

screwed up. Everyone but me. About three months later a friend said I should

get tested for the cancer, so I got the scans and so forth. I felt healthy.

I still remember the doctor at the clinic looking at the " before " and

" after " scans. He said, " I can find no sign of cancer now. "

" A miracle? " I asked.

" No, " he answered. These things happen . . . spontaneous remission. " He

seemed unimpressed. But I was impressed, and knew it was a miracle.

Lessons Learned

The Great Mystery of life has little to do with intelligence. The universe

is not an intellectual process. The intellect is helpful; but our hearts are

the wiser part of ourselves.

Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have

learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. You can

also do this. You do not have to die first. You are wired for it already.

The body is the most magnificent Light-Being there is. The body is a

universe of incredible Light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this

body. We don't need to commune with God; God is communing with us in every

moment.

I asked God: " What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is right? "

God said with great love: " I don't care. " What an incredible grace. It does

not matter what religion we are. Religions come and they go, they change.

Buddhism has not been here forever, Catholicism has not been here forever,

and they are all about to become more enlightened.

More light is coming into all systems now.

Many will resist and fight about it, one religion against the next,

believing that only they are right. When Godhead said, " I don't care, " I

understood that it is for us to care about, because we are the caring

beings. The Source does not care if you are Protestant, Buddhist, or Jew.

Each is a reflection, a facet of the whole. I wish that all religions would

realize it and let each other be.

It is not the end of separate religions, but live and let live. Each has a

different view. And it all adds up to the big picture.

I went over to the other side with a lot of fears about toxic waste, nuclear

missiles, the population explosion, the rain forest. I came back loving

every single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom cloud; this

is the holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as an archetype.

More than any religion or philosophy on earth, that terrible, wonderful

cloud brought us together all of a sudden, to a new level of consciousness.

Knowing that maybe we can blow up the planet fifty times, or 500 times, we

finally realize that maybe we are all here together now. For a period they

had to keep setting off more bombs to get it into us.

Then we started saying, " we do not need this any more. " Now we are actually

in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is going to get safer. So

I came back loving toxic waste, because it brought us together. These things

are so big.

Clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there will be

more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into ecology, go

for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming aware. Go for it

with all your might, but do not be depressed or disheartened. Earth is in

the process of domesticating itself and we are cells on that Body.

Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of energy to

cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will change

politics, money, energy. (NESARA NOW!)

What happens when we dream? We are multi-dimensional beings. We can access

that through lucid dreaming. In fact, this universe is God's dream.

One of the things that I saw is that we humans are a speck on a planet that

is a speck in a galaxy that is a speck.

There are giant systems out there, and we are in sort of an average system.

But human beings are already legendary throughout the cosmos of

consciousness.

The little bitty human being of Earth/Gaia is legendary. One of the things

that we are legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary dreamers. In fact,

the whole cosmos has been looking for the meaning of life, the meaning of it

all. And it was the little dreamer who came up with the best answer ever. We

dreamed it up. So dreams are important.

After dying and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our DNA

experiments, we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will be

able to live as long as we want to live in this body. After living 150 years

or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you will want to change

channels.

Living forever in one body is not as creative as reincarnation, as

transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of energy that we are in. We

are actually going to see the wisdom of life and death, and enjoy it. As it

is now, we have already been alive forever. Here's to life! Here's to death!

Here's to it all

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks for sharing this, , I enjoyed reading it, Tim

[Guest guest]

Glad you liked it Tim. I wasn't going to post it but then I got such

positive feedback from people on my list that I sent it to I thought " What

the heck " and sent it with a disclaimer. -

Re: One of the most moving things I've ever read

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Thanks for sharing this, , I enjoyed reading it, Tim

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