Death as a Teacher

 

I have been away from this blog far too many months. Although it is not an excuse, I have to admit that my other blog and all the events I described in it used up a lot of my energy and time.

I just re-read the two books I had kept years ago, written by Dr. Brian L. Weiss, a doctor in psychiatry in Miami, Florida. The first one is titled “Many Lives, Many Masters” and the second one “Through Time into Healing”. In the first one, he describes how he stumbled across how past life recall by a patient under hypnosis can reveal prior lives experiences to be the cause of current life problems. The second is further exploration of how patients’ prior lives had influenced their current one.

After reading also about the near-death experiences of hundreds of people described in the website Near Death Experience Foundation, I have come to the understanding that being born is far more traumatic than dying. The latter is simply going back home. Yet, virtually all who pass through that portal report that they have a comprehensive, yet instantaneous, life review of which they are the sole judge. Certain lessons were learnt or the soul might chose either a return to the current life or else, may well have to repeat a similar life for the lesson to be learnt.

On a more personal basis, I am aware of some prior lives of mine and in reviewing them, I can see how my failure to learn a specific lesson has run through many other lives. Strangely enough, material realizations count for naught. The only values to permeate a physical life are twofold – LOVE and LEARNING. To me, it is quite clear how our eventual death can be a life teacher…

When I think of facing my own judgement at my passing over, what am I likely to find? Will I be satisfied with my accomplishments in these terms, Love and Learning, or will I have to do it all over again? In this sense, contemplating one’s inevitable death can be a very wise teacher. And it can eradicate Fear completely. This lack of fear has inspired many of my decisions in life. Particularly in this later part of my life. 

I have stated that I am more spiritual than religious. The fundamental reason for this is that I want to assume complete responsibility for my thoughts and actions. Not in terms of following specific dictates of a religion, whatever it may be, but simply by reckoning that I am one with the universe and the universe includes all that lives. That would be me, as well. I must be, and will be, accountable. I, alone. 

Let my life be one of sins by commission, not by omission, which would be fear-based. You may well ask me, what about Faith? I have unshakeable faith that in using the gifts granted me by the Source of Creation, I can live without fear of anything. Life on the road has taught me that when an unforeseen complication or event occurs, help is already on the way. It has been proven to me time and time again. But I must assume MY responsibilities, physical, mental, and  spiritual. It all boils down to a simple truth found in all religions. The Golden Rule.

When Will We Ever Learn?

This is a post meant to remind us of how lucky we are. And how we can care better. And the lessons that I am personally getting, and would not ever dream of imposing on anyone, yet wish to share. Also, it shows how the so-called myth of Atlantis can suddenly change from myth to history, sceptics notwithstanding. How it can explain, to our horrified eyes, how an entire region can suddenly disappear almost in the blink of an eye and leave practically no trace.

There have been many prophecies, notably from Edgar Cayce, that foresaw the disappearance of Japan. I, for one, tended to be sceptical. Even in my wildest conjectures, I could not imagine how it would ever happen. I was also guilty of ascribing Atlantis to some mythical past. With the vivid example of tragic Japan, it appears that a gigantic tsunami caused Atlantis to be eradicated from the map. Plato, whom we can credit with credibility after all, spoke of Atlantis. Not as a mythical place, but a very real one, even giving its location. And so, despite my own paranormal experiences, I stand just as guilty as many who will not believe without seeing. Perhaps it is that we must first believe in order to see. What follows is the latest link about Atlantis.

http://news.yahoo.com/video#video=24519815

On a more practical level though, I think that we, living in some of the most advanced industrialized countries of the world at present, do display a certain arrogance. One new technology at a time, we have grown used, even expecting, to have machines do for us what we used to do by hand. I’m not advocating that we revert to the lifestyle of our ancestors in pioneers days. But couldn’t we exercise a bit more restraint? Just because we CAN does not imply that we SHOULD. Nuclear energy, supposedly clean, permits us the use of ever more power for our convenient labour-saving devices. Yet, it can potentially destroy lives and the very environment on which we depend for our continued existence. Where’s the wisdom?

Why spend millions on research to create by cloning living creatures? Nature does it magnificently with a lot less trouble… and expenditure. In our quest for more power to run all our convenient machines, we have distanced ourselves from our earth roots. With that, we have altered the face of the very “living being”, the Earth also called Gaia, that sustains our life, and this at the expense of other living species. We have irremediably poisoned the very source of the food that sustains our existence, the soil.

Years ago I read a most enlightening book titled “Sastun”, about a Mayan curandero or bush doctor called Don Emilio Panti and his trainee Rosita Arvigo. The source of all his medicines came from plants from the rain forest in Belize. One day, as they were both trekking up the hill to go collect plants, he remarked to Rosita as they were passing a field planted with watermelons glistening in the early morning sun, exclaiming, “… Look at these melons shiny from poison. I wouldn’t touch one. They (those who were growing the melons) are fooling themselves thinking that they can go on withdrawing without depositing first! Who would expect a bank to keep on giving without deposits?”

Far from me to think in terms of sin and punishment. But I do believe in an Almighty. benevolent God. I do believe that we reap what we sow. As I do believe in giving respect and gratitude for the extraordinary bounty provided on our home planet. As Gandhi once said, “There is enough for everyone’s Need, but not for everyone’s Greed.” 

My compassionate prayers go to the unfortunate people of Japan. What next after earthquakes, a horrific tsunami, two nuclear explosions and possible meltdowns, and to top it all, an erupting volcano? Besides people from many countries providing material aid, we need to join in dedicated prayers around the world to help relieve the incredible suffering of companion human beings. Beyond the physicality of other human beings, we do share a spiritual (metaphysical) bond, don’t we?

 

 

With the apparent acceptance that Atlantis may have existed after all, so do I hope that one day, metaphysical musings no longer be wild conjectures born of fanciful imaginings, but an accepted part of our very human existence. The part that recognizes a shared spiritual bond beyond our cherished physical, therefore limited, perceptions.

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