152000 make the trip every day
Makes you wonder, is it really so bad if there's a destination at the end??
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Death is actually annoying, it's like hitting the reset button, or getting your test graded. When you die you suddenly realize how close or how far away you were from the ultimate goal.
It's not bad or negative in my opinion, based off my beliefs. I like this quote about a balanced view on death "The wise man and holy man does not run towards nor away from death because of his spiritual experiences" |
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Don't Fear The Reaper - The Muttonbirds (from the movie "The Frighteners")- great cover of a Blue Oyster Cult classic). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssLm550w6X8 Enjoy! |
Getting Close...
Getting close to that me'self now... I often wonder what it will be like...
Robbie.... |
Excerpts from "God Speaks" - Meher Baba
Meher Baba was a respected Indian Yogi, mystic, and philosopher. These are from his book, God speaks, and relate to his beliefs on what happens to us in the afterlife. He is regarded as a spiritual genius, if nothing else, his ideas are entertaining.
Termination of hell Just as a phonograph record is set aside after the needle has traveled through each groove, the hell state and the heaven state terminate after consciousness has traversed the imprints left by earthly life. Just as the song produced by the record is strictly determined by the original and heaven song recorded on it, the quality of intensified and magnified experiences the soul passes through after death is strictly determined by the kind of life that was led on earth in the physical body. From this point of view, heaven and hell are shadows cast by one’s earthly life. Retrospective survey of earthly experiences Heaven and hell would, however, serve no specially useful purpose in the life of the individual soul if they were to consist merely of mental revival of the earthly past. That would mean bare repetition of what has already occurred. Consciousness in these after-death states is in a position to make a leisurely and effective survey of the animated record of earthly life. Through intensification of experiences, it can observe their nature with better facility and results. On earth, the consciousness of most persons is predominantly objective and forward-looking and under the pressure of unspent sanskaras. It is mostly concerned with the possible fulfillment of sanskaras through the present or the future. In life after death the consciousness of most persons is predominantly subjective and retrospective. With the absence of forward-goading sanskaras, it is, as in reminiscences, mostly preoccupied with reviewing and assessing the significance of the past. Analogy of cinema The fret and fury of immediate responses to the changing situations of earthly life is replaced in life after death by a more leisurely mood, freed from the urgency of immediately needed actions. All the experiences of the earthly career are now available for reflection in a form more vivid than is possible through memory in earthly life. The shots of earthly life have all been taken on the cinematic film of the mind, and it is now time to study the original earthly life through the magnified projections of the filmed record on the screen of subjectivized consciousness. Assimilation of earthly experiences Thus the hell state and the heaven state become instrumental in the assimilation of experiences acquired in the earthly phase; and the individualized soul can start its next incarnation in a physical body with all the advantages of digested expe rience. The lessons learned by the soul through such stocktaking and reflection are confirmed in the mental body by the power of their magnified suffering or happiness. They become, for the next incarnation, an integral part of the intuitive makeup of active consciousness, without in any way involving detailed revival of the individual events of the previous incarnation. The truths absorbed by the mind in the life after death become in the next incarnation a part of inborn wisdom. Developed intuition is consolidated and compressed understanding, distilled through a multitude of diverse experiences gathered in previous lives. Heaven and hell Different souls start with different degrees of intuitive wisdom as their initial capital for the experiments and adventures of their earthly careers. This intuition may seem to have been the product of past and release of wisdom experiences, thus adding to the equipment of the psyche; but it is more truly an unfoldment of what was already latent in the individualized soul. From this deeper point of view, the experiences of earthly life-as well as the reflective and consolidating processes they are subjected to in life after death are merely instrumental in gradually releasing to the surface the intuitive wisdom already latent in the soul from the very beginning of creation. As is true of the earthly career and its experiences, the states of hell and heaven in the life after death are also integral parts of and incidents in that journey of the individualized soul, which is ultimately meant to reach the Source of all things. |
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With a heart as good as yours, dear Robbie, trust me, you've got nothing to worry about. |
Do you remember when you were a kid and at the end of the school year you broke up for the summer holidays ... Death is much like that!
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This is drama, but ....
Watch out for the dog! And THAT laughter .... The penny drops. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYonzhFT_z4 |
Death is something that will remain a mystery until you experience it. Even the NDEs even though they shed some light they did not go all the way. We mostly dread the eventuality because of its finality
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I think we dread it because Orthodoxy, through ignorance or design, has whipped up a big, black cloud about it.
In reality, the cycle of life and death is as natural as the changing of the seasons. |
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