Neale : Okay, so I ‘get’ that every soul is ‘complete’ when it finally arrives on ‘the other side.’ So this is the final piece of the puzzle for me. What happens when we get there❓ What is this work we do❓ And how do we do it❓
God : "When the soul says it is complete, when it answers the Holy Inquiry and says, “Let’s go on,’ it moves immediately into the spiritual realm, where it begins acquiring the Knowing of itself as what it experienced when it was merged with the Light.
“That is, it begins to have the awareness of itself as a Divine Being. This becomes clear very fast, because in the spiritual realm everything the soul desires, it produces immediately. There is no ‘time lapse’ between conceptualizing something and Knowing it as the Self. This happens because in the spiritual realm the soul creates at all three Levels of Creation simultaneously. In the physical world it rarely does."
G : “You do so when you enter the spiritual realm. That is, in keeping with the metaphor, when you get through the Core of the Applorange and move on to ‘the other side.’
“All the levels of consciousness become One upon the Merging with the light, and it is this single consciousness with which you leave the ‘chamber’ —the Core of Your Being— and enter the spiritual realm.
“Indeed, ‘death’ is a reintegration. Far from DISintegration, ‘death’ is REintegration. Every triune reality becomes singular. What some have described as the Holy Trinity becomes One.
G : “Yes. And what you desire is to come to Full Knowing of who you are, and then to re-create yourself anew in the next grandest version of that. This is the desire of all life. It is called growth. It is termed evolution.
“You will want to know all there is to know about being alive, being you, being Divine. So this time in ‘heaven,’ or the spiritual realm, is pure joy. Life in the physical realm can be pure joy as well, it is just that most souls do not know this. They have forgotten who they really are.
“It is difficult to describe the activity of your soul in the spiritual realm in much greater detail because of the limitation of your present level of consciousness. I can tell you that it is a time of great Knowing. Yet there will come a moment when Knowing will not be enough. The soul will seek to experience what it Knows of Itself in it’s new idea about Itself. This, it understands, can occur only in the physical world.”
G : “Yes. Happily and joyfully. Your soul returns to the Core of Your Being, and once again, on the return journey, it responds to the Holy Inquiry. Do you Know what you wish to Know❓ Do you choose now to return to physicality?❓
“When the answer/thought/feeling is yes, your soul makes another choice: To return to physicality in the same lifeline, or as a different physical being.”
N : Is the soul limited to Earth as a destination❓ Or can the soul return to physicality in some other form, on some other planet or in some other location in the universe❓
N : In Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein said there are so many ‘when/wheres’—
นีล : ในหนังสือชื่อ Stranger in a Strange Land (คนแปลกหน้าในดินแดนแปลกหน้า) ของ โรเบิร์ต ไฮน์ไลน์ ได้กล่าวเอาไว้ว่า มี 'เมื่อไหร่/ที่ไหน' อยู่มากมาย—
G : “Yes. He put it perfectly. And you may choose any one that you wish. Having done so, you enter once more into Total Immersion, which attenuates your life energy so that you may enter into the experience that you call ‘birth.’"
Thank you for this description and thank you for this entire conversation.
I know that it has contained a lot of ‘process descriptions’—explanations through metaphor, science, and metaphysics of cosmology of all of life and of ‘how everything works’—but it has also given me some wonderful spiritual insights and deeper understandings and awareness that have brought me comfort, and that I hope bring comfort to many others—especially people who are dealing with the death of a loved one, or those who, themselves, are approaching death.
N : Yes. And having said that, it is sometimes difficult to find words to say to those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. A woman named Sheila wrote this to me a few years ago.
‘Dear Neale :My brother Chuck died several years ago, when he was only twenty-seven, and I can’t seem to stop grieving. Every day I think about him, everything I see reminds me of him. Nothing seems to matter to me anymore. I am chronically depressed. Can you help❓
N : What can the average person say to someone like this❓ That is the question. After all, we are not all trained ministers. We are not all licensed counselors. We have not all spent years in the helping professions.
‘Dear Sheila, ‘I am sorry for your loss and I understand your grief. There are some things that I would like to tell you, though, that may help you to repaint this memory on the canvas of your mind, so that when you look at it, you are not always sad.
First, you must know that Chuck has not died, that death is a fiction and a lie and never, ever takes into your Self as a truth of the highest order for any of the rest of this to make sense.
Second, if we accept that Chuck is not the thing you call ‘dead,’ but is, in fact, very much alive, then we must ask ourselves: Where is he❓ What is he doing❓ And, of course, is he happy❓
We’ll answer the last question first. Chuck was never happier, nor more joyful, than he was at the moment he knew once again the grandest freedom, the greatest joy, the most wondrous truth—the truth of his own being, and of its oneness with All That Is.
Separation ended for Chuck in that moment, and his reunification with the All of Everything was a glorious moment in the heavens and the earth. It was a time, indeed, for celebration, not for mourning, yet mourning is understandable, given our limited awareness of what is truly happening, as well as the magnitude of our own personal loss, which we are naturally experiencing.
After a period of very natural grief, which we must be good enough to give ourselves, it then becomes our choice to stay in that place of utter devastation and mourning, or to move to a larger awareness and a grander truth, which allows us to smile—yes, even at the thought of his departure, however early, however abruptly, although nothing is ‘early’ or ‘abrupt’ in God’s timetable, but all is perfectly timed.
Should we choose to the larger awareness, we are then free to celebrate in fullness the life which was Chuck’s, the gift he bestowed upon all those he touched, and the wonder of his beingness and his love even now.
We do this most by allowing Chuck himself to be completely free. Which brings us to the first question in the trio above where is Chuck now❓ In CwG Book 3 it was revealed to me that in the world of the absolute in which God dwells, we are all everywhere. That is, there is no ‘here.’ or ‘there,’ there is simply ‘everywhere.’
Thus, in human terms, it is possible to say that we can be more than one place at a time. We can be two places, or three places, or any place we wish to be, having any experience we choose to have. For this is the nature of God, and of all God’s beings.
And what experience do we choose to have, among others? The experience of oneness and empathy for those we love, just as we did while in bodily form. What that means is that Chuck loves you even now, not in some theoretical sense, but in a very real sense, with a living love that can and will never die.
And that eternal and everlasting love causes Chuck (part of the essence that is Chuck) to come to you, to be with you, with the very thought of him. For the thought of one who loves us is an attraction and a pull that the essence of a being cannot and will not, deny, and will never ignore.
Chuck is with you even now, as you are reading this, for you have him in mind, and a part of him is very much there with you. If you are very quiet, and very sensitive to the moment, you will even be able to sense him, feel him…maybe even ‘hear’ him.
This is true of all people everywhere, and it explains the thousands and thousands of reports received every year of ‘visits’ by departed loved ones to those who remain behind reports that psychiatrists, ministers, doctors, and healers of every kind have become very used to hearing and no longer question.
Often what happens is that the essence of the beingness that flew to us at the very thought of it arrives in our space full of love and compassion, and complete openness with us. That openness will allow the essence of our loved one to know and understand completely what we are feeling and experiencing.
If we think of that person with sadness, grief, and pain, the sadness we experience will be known to that essence. And since that essence is now pure love, it will lovingly seek to heal our sadness, for it will find it impossible not to want to do so.
If, on the other hand, we think of that person with joy and celebration, our joy will be known to the essence of the person we have so deeply loved, and that essence will then feel free to move into it’s next grand adventure, knowing that all is okay with us. It will come back, to be sure. It will return each time it is thought of.
Yet its visit will be joyous dances in our mind, wondrous, sparkling connections; brief, yet shining moments, smiles made whole. Then the essence will whisk away once more, gladdened by the thought of your love and your celebration of its life, feeling complete in its interaction with you, although by no means ended.
Now in the process of helping us to heal our grief and sadness, the essence of our loved one will stop at nothing using any tool, borrowing any device, employing any method at it’s disposal (including, perhaps, a letter like this from a total stranger) to bring us the message of it’s unremitting joy in the place of it’s current residing, and the truth of the perfection of the process of life and transition.
When we can celebrate the perfection, we allow the essence and the soul of our loved one to celebrate it as well, releasing it to the unspeakable wonders of it’s larger reality, honoring its presence in our lives, in its former physical form, now in this moment, and even forevermore.
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate! No more sadness, no more mourning, for no tragedy has truly befallen anyone. Yet special remembrance with smiles and tears, yes, but tears of joy at the wonder of Who We Are, of who Chuck is, and of the unspeakable love of a God who could have created all this for us.
Celebrate, Sheila. Give yourself and Chuck, and all those whose lives are touched by both of you, the gift of a lifetime, the gift of joy replacing sorrow, of gladness overtaking the pain of loss, of genuine gratefulness, and of peace and last.
God’s blessings, not the least of which are Chuck’s life and Chuck’s presence with you even now, surround you, Sheila. Go now, and be Who You Really Are. And smile.