The afterlife is the same as the before-life and is underneath this life, and therefore is throughout its all. Wherever you go after life, it is the same as before your life, and it is that that is therefore also accompanying your life. It is here now. What is special is the part that is different within it, and that is the physical living that is happening now.
It is the mind that is creating your reality. The mind is from the physical and draws a world around it. To go beyond the mind into the before and after, is the action of stopping the mind, sometimes called meditation. Here is the void and the love which is an irresistible acceptance and peace; it is devoid of the mind and of the thoughts which are constructing a reality. No thinking of how it should be, but the pure acceptance which is the same as love. Anything else which we associate with love, is topping. The basic and pure love which underlies it all is this base state of no time, and all that is created from this within the realm of time, is also imbued in this love. The whole thing is love, and the opposite of it would be the criticising and judgement and the creating of alternative stories which are the "not accepting it as it is".
All the mental work—which is what survval in the physical is all about—is the creating out of the creation. To exit this is to uncreate and to non-exist within the void—the third state of presence—which is both past and future. The mind is the creator and the sensor of time, and we cannot experience anything without it.
We're either looking for answers in the past, or looking for answers in the future, while in the present it's all answers but no questions.
There is always a point which divides the divine from the physical and that point of grasping is the mind. Unfortunately, this boundary of dichotomy which lies at the intersection, is at the point of no-mind. This is why it is difficult (if not impossible) to grasp. To experience it is grasping at the threshold, and to grasp enough of it is also the losing of all experience of it. God is ungraspable.
To find this love again and return to the universe's embrace, is the relief felt during an enlightening episode. This is the love of God. There is no love other than the love of God. Realising this is grace.
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The faster something travels the slower time moves until at the speed of light, time has slowed to a stop. Where there is no time there is no existence. The light that we are engulfed in is this divine out of existence void which can be called God or heaven. It is not only the light that we see by that is this divine void, but everything consists of it, through and through, because the electrons within all matter are themselves encased in a cloud of photons moving at the speed of light. Everything is light, everything is this divine void which we can call heaven. Heaven is within us, we are already there. God is the word for all of it—the creator—and everything is constructed of this zero time state. Look at the light and know this. The light is divine.
Although I have glimpsed this void state of pure white light which I call the White Room, and others in near death experiences usually tell of it, when we are actually dead there can be no experience here, because there is no mind here, as it is the mind doing the comparisons (part of the processes of our physical survival mechanism), which form our world around us and which exists only in time and is formed from the physical brain. Whatever you consider to be you at the deepest part of you, is the same as me and everyone else. Anything else you consider to be you is from your physical manifestation and that ends when you die; that is all part of the process of living. That cannot pass into the void of no time—heaven.
This place of light is the epitome of love because true love is non judgement, and the fully qualified acceptance that all is as it should be, all is made perfect because if it wasn't there couldn't be anything. So it can't be what we think; it can't be that that is important. Our thoughts are wrong and when they stop we are left alone in our true home and there are no problems here. Only peace and love.
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When you are very young, death is really not a big deal. I can remember watching TV when I was young, and I was bemused by how people reacted to the prospect of their imminent death. They would protest and try anything to stay alive, which I found to be silly and a little bewildering. What were they trying to hang on to? You are going to die anyway, so what's the harm. What was so good about the horrible life they were living anyway? I guessed that they didn't want to let go of all the things that they had learnt, and done, and acquired, as if they were important and not just the trivial playing out of the moment that they truly were. I understand now why people don't want to die, but still understand my original take of it, and so don't mind if I do.
It's as if the longer that you are alive, the more you have to lose. The younger you are the less there is to lose. This is what I understood when very young. It is not such a big deal to die when you are a child, but the adults do not understand this and think that it is worse. Old age will gradually make you lose all your long, hard won attributes in its creeping slow death, making it acceptable to die when you no longer have so much to lose, just like it was when you were very young.
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At the age of 6 I was bullied by an older pupil in Maenclochog primary school, and it got to the point that I decided I would fight him. I thought that this would lead to my death, but was not put off by this, and was fully prepared to die. I didn't know what was going to happen, and certainly had no hope in winning, but guessed that this was how it was supposed to be and with my resolve set, I faced up to him. To my surprise he didn't attack me and I didn't die. Instead he merely muttered something and walked away, and he never bothered me ever again.
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Those who speak authoritatively of heaven have at most only the experience that their minds have conjured influenced by their religion. They really have no idea what they are talking about. They are all pretending to know and denying that it is only their imagination—or someone else’s—which is at work here. It is impossible to have any experience which is not produced by the mind. They are deluded and it is their ego and enormous self-confidence which propels them to pull others into their illusion. Ask them to explain where their concept came from. They will not have unravelled their indoctrinations or reconsidered that their visions to be anything else other than the dreams they actually are.
All religion has a denial of death at its root. It offers salvation only in the fiction of an afterlife. As a child I thought that was a stupid idea and could see then that no one could empirically tell of it. It is a cop out. A sure admittance to not knowing the meaning of life. The meaning of our life is our mind, both literally and actually.
We want to know. Our curiosity is our guiding first principle to our life. Our very being is to find meaning; it is the preserve of the human being. A God that says you will only get to know after your life is finished, almost seems to imply that we should not bother using our minds at all. Only the very opposite—and what we call the devil—would want to deny our very purpose of being. God would want to show us this universe while we are alive, that's the point, it wants us to know. Our very being is to know. That's why we are here. We create heaven by our being and doing what we are divinely guided into doing, and that involves creating technology which expands our capability to achieve our purpose. Our mind creates artificial minds to create the eutopia which is the heaven that comes later, beyond our lifespan and therefore after we are dead.
Life after death is not the physical being perpetuating after we die, because we know that it decomposes, and everything that we call life is in its living. So we use the word soul to be this 'life' that continues afterwards. But any experience that contributes to this concept has only ever been had by a living brain. The heart may have stopped but the brain continues to function deep within for a while afterwards. But the fact is, the very concept of life after death comes from our experiences of dreams. The dreams prove to us that there are two worlds, and it is but a short step to make that we enter into a similar realm when we enter that sleep of death. But the dreams are created within the living brain and that brain dies.
If the soul was real, then the gurus who wish to transcend the reincarnation cycle with their practices, are effectively trying to commit suicide of the soul. They clearly do not understand what soul is. They are unknowingly wishing for the cessation of all life, as this is where the soul effectively resides: the under current of the persistence of life through generations. Only better understanding and our communication of this to new lives, can remove this desire for not wanting to go through it all again. That is one of the purposes of mankind. None of the religions have achieved this and it should be their ultimate purpose.
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