Dear Friends,
I write a great deal regarding human behaviour but at the end of the day I am primarily a Spiritual Teacher, Counsellor and Guide….
It is for this reason that this week I feel Spirit encourages to remind everyone that there is no death.
Now…..how do you prove the veracity of such a statement?
Especially when we experience people dying all the time……
Well, err, umm….actually we don’t see people die: rather we see that they no longer function from their physical bodies.
Their physical bodies become lifeless.
Whether they live on in some other kind of body structure, possibly angelic or ghostly or suchlike; whether they “come back” in another physical body; or if they are actually annihilated and do actually totally destruct are conditions that cannot be determined through their physical departure called “dying”……..
Regrettably, no-one leaves behind a forwarding address at death.
So can the answer be discovered by some other means?
Indeed it can.
This other means is through ordinary experiences.
For example, we don’t doubt ordinary experiences so when the phone rings we accept that someone – some living person – is ringing us…..
When a stranger stops us in the street to talk to us we accept that the person is alive……
A fascinating example of an ordinary experience is that of a small Indian child named Shanti Devi (1926 -1987).
She was born in Delhi, India. As a little girl she claimed to remember details of a past life. Gandhi set up a commission to investigate.
She told her parents and visitors that her previous home in her previous life was in Mathura about 145 km from Delhi.
None of her existing family had ever been there.
Just six years old, she told her school that she had been married and had died ten days after giving birth to a child. She used words from the Mathura dialect (very different from Delhi) and gave the name of her merchant husband as “Kedar Nath”.
Such a man, a merchant, truly did live in Mathura.
She could fully describe the furniture, gardens and layout of her previous home, the local roads and even the colour of local buildings.
Her supposedly previous husband, Kedar Nath travelled from Mathura to Delhi to meet her and visit her current family.
He hid (pretending to be simply one his workers) in a large crowd of people which he had brought with him (hoping to confuse the child) but Shanti Devi immediately recognized him and called to him using his intimate nickname known only to husband and wife……
As she shared details about his life, his habits, his wider family, his business, his personal likes and dislikes, his favourite foods and drinks, he was soon convinced that this young child was indeed the actual reincarnation of his wife who truly had “died” just ten days after giving birth to their son.
Yet, obviously, she was alive again……
Just in a different body…in a different place… at a slightly later time.
A great many people have similar stories they can tell.
Both Trudi and I have our own; and numerous joint stories that affirm life beyond this flick of time on this fleck of celestial matter.
So….
So what greater picture of life can we seriously consider?
Who else have you been, and where and when?
And how does acceptance of a far greater and more expansive state of actually being impact and support you here….and now?
What happens when we change our attitude toward “dying”….
How can you use that information to step more boldly, more wisely and more bravely into this life and the amazing opportunities that this moment brings us?
Peace be within you.
Les