Howdy.
Remember during Covid when you looked into peoples’ eyes because we were all wearing masks and eyes were the only part of the face exposed?
That was really nice, I miss that.
Here are some questions commonly asked about death, or life transition, as I like to think of it. It’s not an ending but rather a change of condition. A shifting from the cumbersome embodied experience to the lightness of soul life.
Will I be with the person I love after I die?
It depends on depth of soul resonance and level of development. Generally in the spirit realm souls group depending on where they’re at in terms of growth. So even though your husband is an awesome dude and you’ve had a lot of fun together in this life, you might not be with him after life here if you’ve been taking yoga and studying Buddhism for twenty years while he sat on the couch drinking beer and watching baseball.
Is there such a thing as hell?
Yea, you’re living in it right now. Have you seen the images from Libya? Ukraine? Morocco? China? Yemen? The database of abusers employed by the Catholic church? Schools have been in session for about a month and there have already been 33 shootings. Did you know that the temperature got up to 134 degrees in California this past summer? Get what I’m driving at?
There does not appear to be the endless fire season hell of our (Catholic) imagination, but incoming reports tell us that when we die we enter a condition that is reflective of who we were and how we behaved here in this life.
Is there such a thing as hell? That’s up to you.
Does it matter what’s done with my body after I die?
From the perspective of life after life here, no. I have heard cemeteries described by those in spirit as “their dumb demands for remembrance.” We’ve created all kinds of rules and regulations around this, as we so love to do here, and you can spend a LOT of money on some very fancy boxes for your body when you’re done with it, but ultimately none of it matters.
I get it, everyone likes to say that cemeteries are for the living, a place to go commune with your dead relatives, but I’ve lived near a cemetery twice in my life and I can say from observation that no one really ever visits. You can stay in touch with the person you love who has died from any place at any time.
Some religious organizations say you can’t be cremated. Again, once your soul is done with its body, it really doesn’t matter what becomes of it. Not to the dead, anyway.
Recently some nuns in Missouri discovered that one of the sister’s bodies hadn’t decayed four years after she was buried. They claimed this was a miracle and put her on display so thousands of people could visit to see the poor dead nun’s body. There’s probably a scientific explanation for this, different rates of decomposition, etc., also not many bodies are exhumed. Just sayin’.
Ladies you live in a monastery, time to get back to your prayers.
Here is one of the best ideas I’ve seen for how to handle the body that is no longer in service to the soul: Spirit Sanctuary in Essex, NY.
What do you do when you’re dead?
From the looks of things, a lot of the same stuff you did when you’re here. I’ve seen people playing golf, heard them say, “I’m baking a pie,” listen as they’ve described taking up surfing. Once I saw a woman helping babies in a hospital, and one guy who had killed a lot of beautiful wild creatures while he was here was helping with conservation efforts in Africa. After he died.
Some people need time to rest, especially if they were sick for a long time before they died. Some, usually those who died abruptly, take time to adjust to the new conditions. People who had hardcore drug or alcohol addictions seem to go through some sort of rehab after they die.
I have been delivering sermons in churches for almost ten years now. That means that I have probably given about 500 lectures on basically the same things:
Love is everything.
Kindness is hugely underutilized.
You are here to improve the conditions of this world and to be helpful to other people.
It is not rocket science. Priests and pastors do not have any kind of special powers or intel when it comes to the idea of God. It’s nice to support spiritual organizations, but it’s really, really nice if you carry an extra twenty in your pocket and hand it off to someone who looks like they could use a warm meal.
The life you are living now will determine the life you live after you shed the body suit and move on into the soul realm. You might think it’s a lot of hocus pocus, but truly, do you really think that the future of your very soul should be left to chance?
Me either,
xomo
PS Happy birthday to my sweet, kind, smart, funny middle kid, Nate!
I found your insights and thoughts of life after death interesting. Of course, I want to be in this realm.
Okay - as usual you made me laugh...I disa grewe about the cemetery thing though - I visit my wife a lot....here's one for you: did you know that the first autopsies ever were conducted by nuns in the middle ages looking for a heart in their deceased mother superior? I am not making this up.