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What Will it Be Like When You Die?
When you die, it might be like changing channels. Imagination will continue to do what it has always been doing–popping new images upon the screen. Some traditions believe that there’s a complex process of reliving karma when you die so that as person can learn what this lifetime was about and prepare to make a new soul bargain for the next lifetime.
The moment of death is described as having your life flash before you, not at lightening speed as experienced by people when they’re drowning, but slowly and with full understanding of every choice one has made since birth.
If you are conditioned to think in terms of heaven and hell, going to one or the other will be your experience. The creative machinery of consciousness will produce the experience of that other place, while to someone who has led the same life under no such belief system, these images might appear to be a blissful dream or a reliving of collective fantasies (life a fairy tale), or the unspooling of themes from childhood.
But if you go to another world after death, that world will be in you as much as this one is. Does that mean heaven and hell are not real? Look out the window at a tree. It has no reality except as a specific space-time event being actualized out of the infinite potential of the field. Therefore, it’s only fair to say that heaven and hell are just as real as that tree, and just as unreal.
The absolute break between life and death is an illusion.
What bothers people about losing the body is that it seems like a terrible break or interruption. This interruption is imagined as going into the void; it is total personal extinction. Yet that perspective, which arouses huge fears, is limited to the ego.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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add your comment »Dear Jan,
The bitter conflict between Israel and the palestinians has been raging for more than 60 years.. And how could it be otherwise when first thing both sides do is to retaliate whenever they think they have a reason - or an excuse - for it.. Is that what Jesus told us to do? No way !
Jesus tells us anyone can love a friend, so He says: " I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ". Luke 6:27-28. You see, He made us, so He knows how we are "wired". His approach takes a lot of faith. But it's the only way to peace in the Middle East.
I've made peace with others a couple of time. I prayed earnestly about it, then approached them and simply asked them to forgive me if I had hurt them. You know, what more can you do? Not easy - but it worked !
Regarding the bloodshed in the Middle East: No wonder the Muslims won't take that first step to forgive, because there is no Jesus in their religion. And the Jews aren't about to do it because there is no Jesus in their religion either ! !
The best we can do is to pray, knowing that God hears us. He wants us to talk with Him as a friend. Isn't that wonderful?
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I should say they don't all think that way. There are some that are believers.
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I have to ask you Sir, how do you feel about those of Jewish Faith? They do not believe Jesus was the Son of God yet God assured them a place...
I am just curious.
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Dear Jan,
REGARDING MY COMMENTS about Deepak Chopra, I've said it before and i say it again: we Christians are to have zero tolerance with people like him because they are deceivers - wolves in sheep's clothing. Chopra professes to be a Christian but is a pagan, teaching paganism.
God´s word has this to say about men like him:
" Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them." Acts 20:26-30
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Thank you from what I have read you are also a true lady.Have a beautiful evening.
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I agree, pushing anything never is truly successful. Your grandmother does sound like a amazing and beautiful woman. It sounds like she left you a great legacy. Perhaps she touched you the most and YOU are her legacy. Embrace it with all you have! Keep seeking and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened.
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Dear Jan
Since you say you believe that the Bible is a good book full of great wisdom, here are some Bible verses for you to take in:
" God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Me is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the only begotten Son of God ".
Those are Jesus' own words in John 3, verses 16, 17, and 18.
So regardless of whether weI like it or not, this is the truth - spoken by Him who was the Truth !!!
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Brenda thank you I too would love to sit down I just don't think pushing a person to believe the way you do works ever. And it was the death of my Grandmother that caused me to question everything I know and had ever known. She was a true Lady in every sense of the word. She taught school, Bible Study and Sunday School (I was a methodist, Confirmed and Baptized.) They held her memorial service in a big events room at the retirement center and it was standing room only. She touched so many lives.
Her death changed my whole world. She has been gone 5 yrs and the pain has not lessened. I miss her as much today as when she left.
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Jan, Jesus suffered on the cross for all our sins. He actually became sin and even His own Father had to look away. That violence was a necessary part of God's will. We are not meant to grasp all of God's word, it is a process and needing the Holy Spirit as our guide.
Forgive, my intrusion but only Jesus can draw people to Him or Christ within us. I would love to sit down with both of you over coffee. Would be a delightful conversation. I would love to hear more about your beloved grandmother.
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"DEEPAK CHOPRA IS A FALSE TEACHER AND A PAGAN
DECEIVER.
Deepak Chopra's admirers always speak about love - but pay no attention to Jesus Christ who took our sins upon Himself and died for us to save us and give us eternal life.
Because they ignore Him who most of all deserve their love and affection, their so called "love" is good for nothing. And they are proving themselves to be no more than a bunch of hypocrites."
Your own comment Sir. As I said before If it offends you DON'T Read It.
I sure ho[e you don't take this approach when you try to convert others. It does not work.
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