Death and Being Spiritual

Understanding death is one of the corner stones of being spiritual. The process of dying begins at birth and continues as we systematically execute the tasks and lessons in our flight plan. When the planned items in our flight plan are complete, whether it takes a few seconds or several decades, we leave the body, the dying stops and we go home, back to our eternal state. So, oddly, death is the moment when dying ends.

For millennia, every civilization on the planet has embraced beliefs about afterlife and where we go when our turn comes.The Romans went to the Elysian Fields, the Vikings to Valhalla and Pagans to the Summerlands.Today, in the West, Christianity gives us a pretty insipid “heaven,” and the medical profession is no help at all. Instead, they pour all their efforts into delaying the inevitable, little realizing that the soul has already pre-ordained the time and means of crossing.

Because the Judeo-Christian model of reality does not allow for pre-existence of the soul. Christian dogma asserts that the soul begins only at birth (or maybe conception) and at death goes into a state of limbo, awaiting Judgment Day.

Also, Christianity makes no allowance for communication between the living and the deceased, which is commonly practiced by every aboriginal people, whereby those who have crossed over offer invaluable guidance to those still on the Earth plane.The former watch over the latter, with love and concern. For example, on a recent episode of Crossing Over with John Edward, a woman’s deceased husband warned her of faulty wiring in her basement following a flood.

There are three ironies to do with religion and and crossing over:

1. The time when we need the most help is immediately after crossing over, but the Church has no format for delivering that help except Catholic Last Rites. Then, three or four days later comes the help in the form of prayers and eulogies, but by then, most of those crossing over are having a blast on the soul plane and have already forgotten that slab of meat they used to live in.

2. The focal point during that exercise is the physical body, and not the spiritual body. It is prayed around, put in an ornate box that costs as much as a car, viewed, surrounded by flowers and candles, prayed around some more, and then put in the ground to take up valuable real estate that the rest of us really need.

3. Those who are most likely not to need help in crossing over are given the most, while those who need it the most are given none. For example, when a pope dies, 250 million Catholics mourn; when a serial killer is executed on death row, his body is dumped in a grave and no one cares. Popes shouldn’t need hand-holding in the afterlife, but that misguided killer certainly does because he’s destined for an area of the soul plane we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemy.The Church totally lets people down at the very time of their greatest need, be they the deceased or those left behind to mourn. It offers only empty platitudes rather than solid, useful information about what’s happening. Why? Because it has no idea about what is happening. "Death" is excerpted from "Death Without Fear" by Tony Stubbs