Hi, cousin Becky,
For my social research undertaking for varsity, I needed to give you an enormous query that can take me on a quest for a solution. My large query is: What does heaven appear like? This query got here from one other query I had, which was: What occurs once we die?
Well, Cato and whoever is perhaps . . .
Great Question and thanks for asking. I’ve a way of this as a result of I work with people who find themselves dying and are afraid. Lots of individuals are afraid.
When somebody dies their soul hovers over their physique for a time (much less time when nobody is round, extra time when family members are current.) When the soul leaves the physique, it takes about 12 hours for the physique’s features to cease.
The soul both is guided by different family members who’ve handed earlier than, or they hang around and take a look at to determine what to do. When Cousin Elly and Uncle Rick handed, as an example, Grandma Boddicker’s soul and certain, Uncle Tim, have been there to assist information them over. Most individuals have family members to information them.
When I’m concerned in a passing, I inform the soul what to anticipate. I assist them launch the issues they don’t need to carry into this subsequent stage of their soul’s evolution. Essentially, I assist individuals forgive themselves. I guarantee them that they’ve completed their job on this planet and it’s okay for them to go away.
I at all times guarantee individuals in the event that they need to keep and heal their physique, they will. They can go at any time when they’re prepared. Many will not be prepared after I work with them, however they’re completely satisfied to study what to anticipate when they’re prepared.
If an individual decides to cross over and it’s not their time, they often have somebody on the opposite facet that tells them it’s not their time and that they want to return to complete what they got here to the planet to do. There are a number of tales about these “near-death experiences.” A very good one is from a girl, Anita Moorjani. She writes about it in her ebook, Dying to Be Me.
Life Review
Most of us have heard about “the sunshine” and have the sense to, “go towards the sunshine.” Some souls are afraid to as a result of they really feel like sinners and that they may go to hell. I don’t imagine there’s a hell, wanting the one cranky individuals create for themselves proper right here on the planet. Most individuals simply transfer towards the sunshine. Once you get to the opposite facet, you might be given what I name a “life overview.” Some non secular individuals name it “answering on your sins” or “judgment day.” In my expertise, it’s neither of these issues.
In my opinion, sin is . . . not studying your classes, doing one thing you already know is fallacious. The humorous factor is that you’re constantly given the identical lesson time and again till you study it, so the nature of the regulation of trigger and impact establishes that what you do will end in a consequence. That consequence is designed to show you the lesson of whether or not or to not proceed the conduct. Thus, sin is a negatively charged and all to widespread phrase used for the method of studying life’s classes.
Back to the life overview, as a result of you will have left your physique, which is an emotional detection system, you now not really feel the feelings that have been tied to the experiences, decisions, or behaviors. You see how all of the belongings you did in your life lined as much as serve the aim you got here to this earth to serve. You see how what you probably did prompted different individuals to do issues. The great thing about it’s that you just see how you’re a distinctive and important thread within the tapestry of life. You see that you just served your distinctive function each day of your life. People which have completed dangerous issues additionally see what occurred in consequence. At this level, with out emotion to ascertain it as dangerous or good, it turns into data that helps outline the following expertise of the soul.
Heaven
Regarding heaven, I imagine the soul strikes to a realm of affection, relaxation, restoration, therapeutic, studying, processing, and planning. It stays there so long as mandatory. Once an individual dies they’re exterior of time and area. Humans outline time. Once you might be out of your physique, there isn’t a such factor as time. Once the soul learns what they should and heals absolutely, they’re given an opportunity to return again and do it once more with a brand new plan, primarily based on their previous plans and what they really feel they didn’t accomplish. This is usually known as reincarnation.
Reincarnation
In historical Jewish and Christian writings, in addition to the Bible, we discover reincarnation as a standard perception, though at present it’s principally ignored. In this quote, the historian Josephus states, “Do ye not keep in mind that all pure spirits once they depart out of this life receive a most holy place in heaven, from whence within the revolution of ages, they’re once more despatched into pure our bodies?” (Jewish War, Book 3, chapter 8, no. 5)
Here is one other attention-grabbing quote: “The sages of fact comment that Adam incorporates the preliminary letters of Adam, David, and Messiah (Jesus); for after Adam sinned his soul handed into David, and the latter having additionally sinned, it handed into the Messiah (Jesus).” (Nishmat Chaim, fol. 152, col. 2) This assertion alludes to the concept that Jesus was the reincarnation of Adam and David. This reveals up in a number of historical writings. Here is a hyperlink to all kinds of references to reincarnation in historical texts and the Bible:
Pre-Incarnation Planning
It is fairly cool to consider. The concept that your soul comes again for a brand new task and with a brand new plan, implies that you just got here to this life having crafted the plan on your life. You created a plan primarily based on what you skilled and discovered or didn’t study previously lives of your soul. We name this pre-incarnation planning. The idea of pre-incarnation planning establishes that you just rigorously crafted this life based on what you already know primarily based in your previous incarnations and what you need to accomplish. You selected the dad and mom, siblings (or not), household, mates, character traits, strengths, weaknesses, places, and experiences that can almost certainly allow you to meet your life’s mission.
Remember, when you’re exterior of your physique, you would not have the emotional management system to find out what experiences are going to really feel dangerous and good. You simply know that they may lead you to perform your life’s objective, or final function. That is why dangerous issues can occur to good individuals. The best change comes from conditions that really feel dangerous to us. If we have to shift our conduct or transfer in a distinct route, we’re going to begin receiving constructive ideas main us within the new route. If we don’t reply to the completely satisfied messages, finally we’re given more and more extra impactful indications that we have to change and shift, typically that hurts.
In abstract, whenever you die, your soul leaves the physique, you overview your life, study from it, heal, relaxation, and make a brand new, knowledgeable plan for the following one. This complete life and demise scenario is superb to me. I do know that we serve our function each day of our lives, even when we don’t understand it. We are all right here for an vital function or many functions. We shift and assist one another each day via our interactions. It is vital that we do the perfect we will. We are at all times on a journey of studying and rising and there’s no state of perfection. Just do the perfect you possibly can with the knowledge and assets you will have, realizing that your soul put all that in place to make sure you accomplish your life mission.
There it’s . . . Death and Heaven, based on Cousin Becky.
That was enjoyable. Thanks for asking.