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Death 101

Death:
1) Everybody must die of something.

2) When you die, you will go directly or indirectly to a place or a space where there is a bright light that fills your soul with such warmth and unbearable, pure love. This love is so intense, so unconditional that it will make you bawl your eyes out. This is the love of God. This is the peace of God. It is the kind of love that makes you complete with God all the “Bad” things that you’ve done in your physical life on Earth. In Christian words, the love compels you to confess every sin you’ve ever committed against God.

3) If you do not go directly to this space that is radiating intense, unconditional love and understanding, the place you will go is utterly dark or it may be filled with fire that burns but does not consume the body, smells awful and is a place of horrible suffering. It is a place that seems to be cut off from God...unless you call out to God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha or whatever the case may be.
3a. This place, which would clearly be called Hell in Christian lingo, has beings that are full of lies and corruption. Domination, manipulation and control is the rule. The goal is to use your past experiences with the help of other beings in this place to inflict greatest possible amount of suffering and humiliation forever. The beings will tell you that are cut off from God and that there is no escape. Just remember that they are liars and that God is always with you.
3b. If you find yourself in this place, reflect over the things you have done in your physical life on Earth. How did your actions impact other people on Earth? Did you harm other creatures on Earth? Did you harm your mother? Did you make your Dad wrong for something that happened? Did you hurt your sister? Did you hit someone in school? Did you kick a dog? Did you shoot a bird just to kill it? Kill salamanders? Did you call yourself “Stupid”, “Worthless”, “Fucker”? Did you curse God (i.e. did you say “God-damn-it”, “Jesus Christ”, “Jesus Fucking Christ”)? Are there people in your physical life that you hate, hold a grudge against or are somehow incomplete with them (i.e. love is not present when you think of them)? Did you deny God or ignore Guidance from Jesus or God?
3c. Call out to God. Call out to Jesus. Pray to God. Confess to God all the things you did that would not make God smile. You don’t need the Bible, a Koran, the Diamond Sutra to figure this out. You know what would not make God smile. Confess to God and ask for forgiveness. Forgive all the people who hurt you in life. Love your enemy as you would God. Love yourself as you would God. The beings in Hell will try to trick you into believing it is hopeless or they will scream and shriek when you say “God”, “Allah”, etc. Just keep going. Know that they have power over you only as long as you believe they have power over you. God will answer your prayers. Just let Jesus be your shepherd. Just do it. Let yourself be guided. Ignore what your mind has to say about that. You may not ascend immediately to heaven. He might give you a “timeout” in a space between Heaven and Hell or a “purgatory” to reflect on what you’ve done in your physical life. It is a dark space but a safe space.

4) Once you are in the presence of the most exquisite light and peace, you will go through some form of “Life Review”. Your whole life will flash before your eyes in the presence of God.

5) What happens after this, I do not know.

Prior to death:
1) Think of what thoughts, actions, and ways of being you can take on at this moment that would make God smile. Surrender yourself to God. Let God guide you.

2) Do it. Be it. Think it.

3) If you broke a pencil in anger, if you are being a jerk with your wife, if you are thinking about kicking the dog, confess it to God. Make it a practice before you go to bed to get complete with God. Ask for his forgiveness, truly feel the sorrow transmuting to joy. Ask for Guidance.

4) If you are near death and there are things that are still incomplete, clean them up now, if it is possible. If you have a brother that you have not been on speaking terms with for twenty years, contact them now. See him in the light of God’s infinite and unconditional love. Forgive him. Apologize to him. Tell him you love him. Tell him that God loves him. Say what there is to say. You will know when things are complete when you have brought forth the presence of love in him and in yourself. If you don't know what to do, ask God for Guidance, then pay close attention to every moment. God works in strange and wonderful ways. I have experienced this myself many times now. It's subtle, but it is there. So far, it has not been like some dramatic voice commanding me to do something. It's been things like an itch on my left cheek that caused me to look back and see that Nicole's pasta was about to boil over. Or when I was oddly compelled to turn left into a parking lot and look in the back seat for my hat to find it missing. After back-tracking, I then found it in the trash can at the police station where I was earlier in the day.

Does this whole life-after-death thing sound unbelievable? It did to me until I started watching testimony after testimony of dozens of people who have had near-death experiences (NDE). You keep hearing the same story over and over again. As long as I am still alive, why not ask God for forgiveness each night or whenever the need arises? If you feel uncomfortable doing it with others around, do it privately. When you feel comfortable, invite your wife or husband to join you. What could it hurt? It’s free and it actually feels good to do when done authentically. The more you put our heart and soul into it, the more Love, Peace and Joy you will experience. Think of it as a sneak preview. Love life. Love God. Love others as God loves them. See the world in a new light. See the world through the light of God’s love.

Here is the first prayer I’ve ever wrote down Wednesday October 8, 2008:

Dear God, who radiates pure love for eternity and whom I curse everyday without fail, may all my actions make you smile.

With some earthly guidance, I've changed it to this:

Dear God, who radiates pure love for eternity and whom I curse everyday
without fail, may I hear your voice and respond to your direction so that
all my actions make you smile.

This is more powerful for me.

If this leaves you with doubts, disbelief, cynicism and resignation, etc., please have a look at these videos on near-death experiences available online:

A six part BBC Documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I9-XxBAEsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKv3rrFO0LU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjTgKPOkFuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA37uNa3VGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-sk2qW1tcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9CDCZLRL9g


There are some near death experiencers from a christian perspective
who have shared their experiences. Here are a couple (I’m sure there are stories from people raised in other cultures and faiths available online with some searching).

Here is one from a diver who was stung by multiple poisonous jellyfish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7i-e2lApL0

Here is a six part series from a plane crash survivor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hp-ZhXrFxs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOu3mMbyfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93wvDFQlgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7RkLZ-GH6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2_RnhNEMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boXYOl-u7dc


There are many more available for free by searching video.google.com or youtube.com for things such as “near death experience”, “nde”, “heaven and hell nde”, etc.


All the fuss about the collapse of the financial institutions may just be mass hysteria. If it is not, however, start becoming good neighbors and learn how to grow food and capture rainwater for drinking. Plant food crops in every square inch of available soil. If possible, tear out asphalt parking lots and start planting food and compost crops. I think it would be fair to say that farming sustainably would make God smile. Farming unsustainably such that fertility is lost and topsoil washes away, etc, would NOT make God smile. If this collapse really does interfere with the delivery of food to the grocery shelves, it could be a hard winter. Try to provide food and water to your children as best as you can. But don’t resort to violence. That would not make God smile. Ask God for guidance and pay close attention to each moment. Be the servant to the Master; attentive, poised, ready for the moment the Master speaks. If things get really ugly, defend your children as best you can and know that if you should die of hunger or blunt trauma by other people, God’s undying eternal love is coming soon. And don’t forget to truly forgive the people who killed you. Truly see them. Put yourself in their heart and forgive them, pray for them, see them through the light of God’s infinite and unconditional love.