God : “At the end of your life, in what we have described as stage three of death, you will be asked an extraordinary question. This will be the most important question you will ever be asked, and your reply will be the most important statement you have ever made and biggest Moment of Free Choice you could ever imagine.
"It is so important that all of the angels in heaven will stop to listen to what you are saying. It is so important that all your loved ones will be gathered around to hear. It is so important that God himself will be present when the question is asked. Indeed, She will be the one doing the asking.”
“That is the point I have been making since the beginning of our conversation. We are now at the end of a ten-year dialogue, and you are still asking the question.”
(*พระองค์หมายถึง conversation with god ทั้ง 3 เล่ม และรวมถึงเล่มอื่นๆที่เป็นการพูดคุยกันระหว่างนีลกับพระเจ้าในระหว่างนั้นด้วย)
N : Well, I know I have a choice about everything in my life, I just didn’t know I had a choice about my death. Are you telling me that if I don’t want to stay dead, I don’t have to❓
N : That’s…that’s not possible. That’s not…that runs counter to everything I’ve ever heard. I don’t understand. We’re given a choice at the time of our death to ‘go on or go back’❓
“When a person does the thing that you call ‘die,’ that person is always given a choice: Do you want to experience that the life you have just left is continuing? Or do you wish to experience a reality in which you are moving on, heading toward the spiritual realm?”
“Each soul is asked the question, ‘Are you ready❓ Do you wish to go on❓’ This is the gentlest question. It is asked of all souls who ‘cross over’ from the physical world.
N : This is a mind-blower. This is even a little upsetting. If this is true, why would anyone who really loved his or her family not want to go back❓ I mean, as wonderful as I’m sure ‘heaven’ is—and you still haven’t described that to me, you still haven’t told me what happens on ‘the other side’—it will always be there, waiting for us. Isn’t it kind of selfish to stay there when you know that you can go back, and that your loved ones are hurting so bad because you are gone❓
G : “It simply as I have said: after dying, every soul is given the opportunity to remain in the Afterlife or to return to the physical life from which it has just come.”
N : Well, that's not very fair. Who on earth can compete with that❓ Why would anyone want to return to physical life after merging with the One❓ I mean, really.
“After merging with the Essence, the soul understands many things. It understands that there is no such thing as judgment and condemnation. It understands that nothing negative can possibly occur in the Afterlife. It understands Who and What the soul is. It understands the purpose of Life and the Process of Life. It understands fully and completely the nature of Ultimate Reality. And it understands that the Afterlife will always be there, waiting, waiting, through all eternity.”
G : “Exactly. After merging with the Essence, the soul understands, essentially, all that I have been telling you here. But now it understands these things experientially, not intellectually. And then many souls do choose to return to physical life. In fact, most souls do, at least once.”
G : “Nearly every person who is dying is not dying for the first time. If they choose, this time, to ‘stay dead,’ it is because they feel complete with what they came here to do. Therefore, do not begrudge them their moving on, nor feel angry because they have not come back. They came back to you many times to keep you company before. Many times.”
N : I’m lost here. I am lost. This conversation has taken me to many places, and I’ve breathlessly tried to keep up. I’ve done, I think, a pretty good job—but this one is getting away from me. This one is so far over my head that I don’t think I can ever reach for it.
G : “I mean just that. I mean your loved ones died and then came back to you more than once, out of their sense of wishing to be complete with you, and with all the rest of what they chose to accomplish in their life.”
N : My mom died, and she was gone. She never came back.
นีล : แม่ของผมตาย และเธอก็จากไป เธอไม่เคยกลับมา
My Dad died and that was that.
พ่อของผมตาย และมันก็จบแค่นั้น
My brother slumped over the wheel of his car while he was driving, for heaven sake, and my sister-in-law had to reach over and steer the car to the side of the road and find a way to get her foot on the brake pedal to stop it. And she with the after-effects of a stroke, and half her body not working right❗
Now I hate to get mundane about this, but if a soul can come back from the moment of death, if it has that choice, then the least my brother could have done was to get back in his body long enough to maneuver the car over the side of the road, before someone else died.
N : I guess so. You’re standing there telling me that everyone who has died can come back to life if they want to❓ You’re telling me that my mom and my dad and my oldest brother, who I adored, went to ‘the other side,’ were given a chance to come back to us, and all of them declined❓ And I’m not supposed to have any ‘heat’ on that? I mean, talk about your abandonment issues…
N : Oh, come on, that’s not fair. You just told me something very unorthodox about all this. You just told me that the people closest to me had a chance to come back to their grieving loved ones, and they all said no.
G : “But I also said that they all said yes more than once. When they go and they stay, it’s because they are really ‘done’ this time, really complete. Their final departure was just that. It was their Last Leave-Taking. All the other times, they returned.”
N : All what other times❓ I don’t recall anyone ‘returning,’ None of the people I’m talking about had operating room resuscitations or sudden remissions of illness, or anything like that. When they ‘went,’ they went. Boom. Gone. End of story.
G : “It is very real. And you should know that those were not instances in which she ‘almost’ died. Those were instances in which she died…and in all of those instances, she then choose to come back.”
G : “It’s true. In your present reality, she almost died as a result of bringing you into this world. In another reality, she did. Then she decided to come back. She decided that she wanted to raise you, not leave you to the mercies of the world. So she came back. In your reality it was said that she ‘almost died.’
“Then, when even the youngest of her offspring (that’s you) reached adulthood, well on the way to creating his own life, she died ‘for good.’ Even then she was young—just a year or so older than you are now. But she was truly finished, complete. She had no more reason to go back. It was time to rest, and to enjoy her next experience—which was, in a sentence, the opportunity to move to the next level in her own evolution.
She has done that now. She is now what you would call an angel. She is helping others, as she always did.”
N : Just a second. Something you said about my mom just hit my ear a second time. Will she never return again to physical form❓ I thought you said that the process of moving from the spiritual realm to the physical world and back again was eternal and everlasting.
N : ทูตสวรรค์เป็นสิ่งมีชีวิตทางกายภาพงั้นหรือครับ❓
G : “Angels are anything they want to be. If they want to be physical, they can be physical. IF they want to be pure spirit, they can be pure spirit. Angels travel between two worlds.
N : Okay, okay, enough. I mean, I’m getting spooked here, because that is exactly what he would say. So how about if we move on here. Tell me, how do you get to be an angel❓ How do you get promoted❓
G : “Listen to me. You are moving through an endless cycle. There is no beginning and no end. You are no ‘better’ and no ‘worse’ than any other soul on the cycle. The whole cycle is holy, and you simply are where you are.
“One of the difficulties that humans have created on the earth is that so many hold this idea of ‘better.’ It is ‘better’ to be a Muslim, or it is ‘better’ to be a Mormon, or it is ‘better’ to be Jew or a Baha’s, or a Christian, or it is ‘better’ to be a man, or a woman, or a conservative or a liberal, or a Frenchman or an Italian or a black or an Asian or a Caucasian or a member of the Crips or a member of the Bloods, or whatEVER.
G : “Of course they can, and angels have. You can be an angel for a while, and then not be an angel. Then you can decide to be an angel again. You can go around in cycles, you can go around in loops, you can travel in spirals, you can move in straight lines, you can ‘stay in heaven’ for eons, you can come right back to earth in the next second—you can have it any way you wish.