The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (18 page)

Are they not forever beings?

Am I so sure I know where their life was headed prior to the “undesirable” occurrences, and that it would have been more favorable?

Am I so sure what happened doesn’t make perfect sense to them?

Am I so sure their lessons on earth weren’t otherwise done and “graduation” inevitable?

It’s ironic, though understandable, that from your perspective now, within the illusions at this primitive time, the consensus is that the absolute worst thing that could ever happen to anyone is to die. Why? Because to your
physical senses,
death means to extinguish a life and all of its possibilities forever and ever. Curtain call. All done, except for, maybe, the supposed best-case scenario: some harp music until who knows when. Yet with a spiritual awareness, finally grasping that eternity precedes and follows every lifetime, it suddenly becomes obvious that those within the illusion should not be deciding, certainly not for others, when the optimal time to die might be. Perhaps the person with a deadly disease has chosen a slow exit after a very fulfilling lifetime, having learned all that he came to learn, so that he can say his good-byes, administer his last will and finances, and allow everyone to have some notice, rather than choosing a sudden stroke or car accident. It would be a bit awkward, then, if Aunt Sally and Uncle Billy were to round up the entire family and distant cousins to hold prayer vigils around the clock, asking that their beloved’s disease be removed and his life extended.

The workaround is always to wish for the best for all involved without stating what that best might be, since you can never know what it is for other people. And then, whatever happens, know that it
was
for the very best because there are no mistakes.

T
HE
O
RDER
, P
ERFECTION
,
AND
E
NORMITY

The kingdom, the glory, and the power … after your transition you’ll be overwhelmed by all that is then knowable. And to offer more assurances of the beauty and miracles, here are some more of the “things that will make you go ‘Hmmm’!”

The Truly Incomprehensible

Not even the oldest souls, the greatest angels, or the wisest guardians—at least not those within reach of time and space—can fathom the enormity of all creation or how it began: the leap from nothing to “All That Is.” The original spark. How “God” came to be. How there could ever not have been “God.” And just as mind-numbing, maybe much more so, how there ever
could be
“God.” The essence of life itself, juxtaposed to “nonlife.” Of course, wondering about the beginning presumes that time is a reality, because you can only have a “beginning” alongside the falsehoods of a middle and an end, creating the paradoxical question of starting points. Which brings up yet another seemingly impossible mystery: how does awareness/intelligence function in the absence of time? Time so handily gives you reference points sufficient to live an organized life. In fact, even to think as you now think, or to read as you are now reading, requires time.

Yet, keeping with our premise, much
can still be
observed, deduced, and known, and such insights begin revealing themselves at greater and greater speeds upon your transition, like bursts of twinkling lights at night in a festive holiday season.

The Divine Conundrum

While
how
the whole thing of time and space began
will
elude you, you’ll suddenly and starkly see the
most
bodacious challenge accepted by every time-space traveler and already touched upon throughout this volume:

To discern what’s real in a sea of illusions; to trust their feelings in spite of contradictory physical evidence; and to see through the lies that have given them life.

Talk about a
dare!
Talk about an
adventure!
Upon your arrival, you begin to get that if “God” was challenged to devise the most outrageous interactive story, cinematic masterpiece, or Broadway show to include unrestrained drama, suspense, comedy, infinite possibilities, romance, and more involving every possible human emotion, condition, and expression,
it would be time and space!
Can you think of anything wilder than life in the jungles? Wider in scope? More compelling? More heartbreaking yet romantic? More dangerous yet safe? Complex yet so simple a child could explain it? Can you think of anything else so filled with hope that if you can dream something, anything,
you can be it?
So filled with tolerance that it doesn’t matter where you’ve been? So filled with love that every path leads “home”?

Adventures into the jungles stir passion and create emotion: the main reason you’ve made the choices you’ve made throughout your life, including just to be present there. Yet,
optionally,
when one is ready to awaken mid-dream,
as you are,
it requires reflecting on your original, failed premise for how life works: that
things
(not thoughts) become things. Then you begin to understand:

That what you dwell upon in thought, you’ll meet in the flesh,

That what you believe in, expect, and move toward
will begin moving toward you,
and

That if ever you don’t like what keeps showing up in your space, you can change it, by
changing yourself
.

Yeah, wow! But then, during this tsunami-size reveal brought on by your transition, you begin to imagine what it might have been like in your former life to consciously know you were a Creator … to know you were always where you most wanted to be, safe and sound as if in the palm of God’s hand … to know you were powerful enough to make any dream come true, to choose love over fear in spite of appearances, and to be surrounded by ever-growing circles of friends and laughter. And as you ponder this, suddenly you’re possessed with one huge, blazing desire:
to return, to go back, to dance among the illusions once again
.

Reincarnation (Sort Of)

Why not? After all, time is one thing you have lots of. Why, if given eternity, would anyone of divine origins choose to live just one lifetime? You have a hard enough time drinking one cup of coffee, enjoying one kiss, or eating one potato chip. We’re talking
eternity
. That means, if you lived 7-to-the-10-bazillionth-power lifetimes, once you were done, the amount of time you’d spent in body would be infinitesimal, invisible,
irrelevant
compared to eternity. Eternity is long, so why would you live just once? How about you live as many times as you want so you can be absolutely sure you’ve squeezed every last drop out of such an experience? You’d try out primitive times and high-tech times; you’d be born into poverty and into splendor. You’d be male and female; left brained and right brained; tall and short; aggressive and passive; brilliant and naïve; emotional and stoic; and countless other polarities
and combinations thereof!