the universe leans in your direction.

[aspicco]

“Nature is luxurious and abundant in its expressions. The greater reality from which nature springs is even more abundant, and within that multidimensional experience no individual is ignored, forgotten, dismissed, lost, or forsaken. A tree does not have to ask for nourishment from the ground or the sun, and so that everything you need is available to you in your physical experience. If you believe that you are not worthy of nourishment, if you believe that life itself is dangerous, then your own beliefs make it impossible for you to fully utilize that available help. In large measure, since you are still alive, you are of course nourished. You cannot close out the vitality of your own being that easily, and the vitality “squandered” on deeper bouts of depression is often greater than the energy used in creative pursuits. You are a portion of All That Is; therefore the universe leans in your direction. It gives. It rings with vitality. Then forsake beliefs that tell you otherwise. Seek within yourself—each of you—those feelings of exuberance that you have, even if they are only occasional, and encourage those events or thoughts that bring them about.”

[Anushka]

Absolutely lovely, thank you for sharing this.

[Kent Allard]

What about death?

[Isis]

death is just an extention of life........beautiful

[aspicco]

What about death? What do you want to know?

[Kent Allard]

Is death really part of the universal existence? I have experienced death at first hand on several occasions in my life. There is a sense of unreality about it. I have also been present at a birth. That was unquestionably real.

[aspicco]

Death is a marker. Does that make sense for you? Birth is a marker too... or maybe a changing station would be a better way to put it? Getting off one train and transferring to another?

Have you ever read the stories from people who were brought back to "life" after being clinically dead? As they approached death, before they are called back, they experience a long tunnel, bright lights, and people who have already made the journey waiting to greet them. Doesn't that sound like birth from the baby's point of view?

[Kent Allard]

Interesting reply, and I see your point about the trains and the long tunnel.

But many clinicians feel that near death experiences are a symptom of O2 deprivation. I don't know..that doesnt sound like a good interpretation to me.

[aspicco]

Don't confuse the mechanical of the experience with the experience... Try reading the seminal, objective look at the phenomenon Life After Life by Raymond Moody. He was the first to publish about the experience in the mid-70s and he draws no conclusions in this book... merely reports on what he has gathered, and the similarities among the experiences.

[Kent Allard]

Can you summarise his findings?

[aspicco]

Moody?

[aspicco]

And finally:
Moody's own beliefs on NDEs can be summed up with the following quote from his interview with Jeffrey Mislove:

"I don't mind saying that after talking with over a thousand people who have had these experiences, and having experienced many times some of the really baffling and unusual features of these experiences, it has given me great confidence that there is a life after death. As a matter of fact, I must confess to you in all honesty, I have absolutely no doubt, on the basis of what my patients have told me, that they did get a glimpse of the beyond."