After Your Body Dies – Then What?

 

What is going to happen after your body dies to this earthly experience?  What book do you read and believe?  What preacher, what priest, what rabbi, what imam, what religion, and what philosophy do you accept and follow to make sure you have the best possible experience after your body dies?

Regardless of what you believe happens after your body dies, there are only two possibilities.

The moment after our physical body dies only one of two things can happen. Either there is something - OR there is nothing.

Seem too simple? Stick with me for a few minutes.

The first possibility is Nothing.  Nothing happens.  You are no longer you because you simply do not exist anywhere.  The light of your consciousness goes out.  Your awareness of being aware ceases to exist.  You do not even know your awareness of awareness ceases to exist.  It just stops.  You are not scared.  You are not worried.  You cannot be scared or worried if you are not aware of being aware. Can you imagine complete nothingness, the absence of awareness?  Of course not.  If you could, you would still be aware.  Complete nothingness is one possibility

The second possibility is Something.  Something happens.  What happens is you are aware of being aware without the physical body you see in the mirror.  You will still be aware that you are aware somewhere.  You may not know where you are but you are definitely somewhere.

Do you live as if there is nothing?  Do you live as if there is something?  How do you know what to do when you do not even know if there is anything after your body dies?  How do you know how to live your life?  Which possibility do you gamble will be true?  Remember, when you get there or when you are no longer aware, it will be too late to change it.

If there is something, then what can we do while we are alive in order to make whatever there is after our body dies as good of an experience as possible?

This moment, what we call the now, is all there is, all there ever has been and all there ever will be.  There is only NOW.  The eternal NOW constantly passing, but always NOW.  The Now I was just speaking about is not longer the NOW, but NOW is still NOW.  The past exists only as a memory in the NOW.  The future is just a thought in the NOW.
Whatever is going to work in the future has to work now.  Until the future becomes now, it is still the future.  Anything you do can be done only in the now.  You cannot do anything in the future.  The eternal now is the only place you can do anything.

If it does not work NOW, it cannot work when the future becomes NOW.  If it works NOW, it will work when the future becomes NOW.  This seems very logical.

Who do you ask for the big secret of what do to make whatever it is as good as possible for you?  Who do you believe?  Simple.  I look around me and realize any farmer can tell me the secret.  The farmer will tell you if you want to get cherry trees, you have to plant cherry seeds. If you plant apple seeds, you will NEVER get a cherry tree.

It doesn’t matter what you believe, if you want a cherry tree, you plant cherry seeds.  You do not plant apple seeds to get cherry trees.  You plant cherry seeds.  This is the absolute truth.  If you plant only one seed, you may not get a cherry tree.  The one seed may die.  It may never grow regardless of what you do for it and to it. You need to plant many seeds, water them, and nurture them.  You must get dirty, get scratches and cuts, fight off the bugs, and keep nurturing the seeds.  Some will not grow.  Some will grow.  Keep nurturing the seeds.  Sooner or later you will get the cherry tree.  Keep planting, keep nurturing the seeds and keep nurturing the little plants that begin to grow.  Eventually you will get one cherry tree, then another cherry tree and then MANY cherry trees.

What happens if you do not plant anything?  Simple, you will find yourself surrounded by weeds.  Unless you can figure out something to do with the weeds, you will not have any apples or cherries to eat.

It is simple.  Whatever you wish to experience at some distant time in the future, you must plant the seed thoughts and the seed actions in the present.

Whatever we were planting before we experience the death of our physical body will carry over past the death experience. We will continue to reap what we planted.  This educational process is as eternal as we are. What vanity for us to think we can escape the harmonizing, educational aspect of the universe.  Whether we are alive on earth or alive somewhere else in the omnipresent universe – the law of harmony and the education for harmonious relationships to and with the universe is always where we are and always in operation.

Do you want to be a doctor?  Do you want to be a lawyer?  Do you want to be a baker or a candlestick maker?  There are seeds you must plant, or steps you must take to become anything you want to be or do.  You must plant the action-seeds that will grow into the tree of life you wish to be experiencing.  As long as you have a long enough life left, you will definitely reap the fruit of the seeds you planted.

As long as you keep planting the seeds of the fruit you want to reap, it is a win-win situation regardless of whether there is anything after your body dies or nothing after your body dies.

Why is it a win-win situation?

If there is nothing after your body dies, then if you are planting what you want to reap, and you live long enough, then you will be reaping the fruit of your planting while you are still alive as a human in this physical world.  Even if there is nothing for you after your body dies, this seems like a winning situation to me.  Live long enough and have your action-seeds grow into life experiences you desire.

If there is something for you after your body dies, if you are still aware of being aware after your body dies, then it is logical that what you were planting before your body dies will have some influence on what you are experiencing after your body dies.  How can it be any other way?  Just because your body dies, does this mean the law of what you sow, you shall reap is no longer the law?  Of course not, the law is the law.  This also seems like a winning situation to me.

What do you want to reap after your body dies?  What do you want to be experiencing after your body dies?  You want angels?  You want harp music?  You want 70 virgins?

What do you want after you experience the physical death of your body? Keep it simple, no long shopping lists allowed.

For myself, I want to keep it simple.  I want only one thing.  I want the compassion from God that the child wants from his or her mother and father.  No matter how many times I screw up in living, I mean well.  Give me another chance and I will do better.  No matter what I do or fail to do, I ask only from God the acceptance of who I am, and the help to be all that I can be.

If the child breaks a lamp, the child says to the parent, "Okay, mommy and daddy. I broke the lamp. I am sorry. I know I will be grounded for a while. But I mean well. I will try harder to do the right thing. You love me don't you? You unconditionally accept me, don't you? You do wish for me to fulfill my greatest potential, don't you? You will give me another chance, won't you?" The loving Mother-Father-God says "Of course my child. You just need a little more educational experience and then you will do just fine.  No TV or video games for a week and perhaps you will remember the right thing to do the next time.” This is the kind of compassion I desire from God. I can handle anything God puts on my plate as long as this is the compassion I get from God.

What must I do to get this from God?  It is simple.  In order to get this compassion, I must plant it first. I must sow it minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year and breath by breath. I must live this compassion not only to my child, but to all creatures of the Earth who feel. All creatures that would feel any compassion I extended to them.

I must give to others the compassion I wish to receive from others.  I must give it to humans, birds, bees, lions, cows, any and all creatures that would feel the result of my compassion.  I have no right to expect from God what I am not willing to give first.  I have no right to expect from God what I am not willing to plant first into the soil of creation.

The reality of an Omnipresent God means that when you look into the eyes of any creature, God is looking back at you. What you do to the least of all creatures, you do unto God. You want compassion from God? You must give God the compassion first.  You must give Omnipresent God the compassion through God’s creatures that can feel pleasure when you give them compassion.

I can look into the eye of a cow and I sense an awareness of being aware to which I can relate, to which I can identify.  I may not know how a cow perceives, but I am definitely aware that the cow feels pain, feels pleasure, feels fear, and feels excited anticipation. 

These are definitely feelings to which I can identify.  If I am going toward a cow to kill it for dinner and look into the cow’s eyes as I am approaching it, I definitely can see the fear in the cow’s eyes.  Once I see the fear, then if I still kill the cow, I am not showing the compassion I want from God.

This is why I have been a vegetarian for over 30 years.  This is why I have been a vegan for over 10 years.  This is why my 11 year old son has been a vegan since he was born into this Earthly experience.  My compassion for animals that results in my being a vegan and not killing them and eating them is the compassion I want to reap after my body dies.  It should work, because the law of what you sow, you reap, is the LAW.

Remember, if you believe in the Omnipresence of God, then what you do to the least of creation, the least of the creatures that feel pain, pleasure, fear and excited anticipation – YOU DO UNTO GOD.  Be very, very careful why you do what you do.  Be sure that the reasons you do what you do are reasons you could understand and accept if it was being done unto you.  If someone believed they needed to kill me and eat me in order to survive, I could understand and accept this.  Of course I would defend myself and kill them if necessary to survive. However, if someone wanted to kill me for lust of esting my flesh or because they wanted to have my beautiful gold chain, I would not think much of them.  I would still kill them if necessary, but I definitely would not understand and accept their reasoning.

A God of compassion does not punish.  A God of compassion educates.  A God of compassion shows us the error of our ways in the only way we will understand and the only way we will truly know what we planted.  We will only truly know what we did by having it done unto us.  When we experience it happening to us, the experience may be wearing different clothes but the essence, the core of what was in our heart will be what returns to us to educate us.

If we hit someone in the nose, we may feel their nose flatten under our fist.  We may feel their teeth breaking.  We may feel their sticky blood on our hands.  We may even feel a little pain from hitting their hard skull.  However, we will not know what THEY experienced as the result of US hitting them, until someone hits us.  If we hit them out of anger, jealousy or just for the fun of it, we may not get hit with a fist.  Perhaps someone will hit us in the head with a ballbat from behind for the same reasons in order to teach us what we really did.  The fist and the ball bat are just the vehicles to send to get the emotion to another person.  The fist and the ballbat are just the vehicles that we use to express our anger, jealously or desire to have fun at another person’s expense.  It is not the vehicle that counts.  It is what is in our heart that counts.  And the seed-intention in our heart is what we will reap.  In the earlier stages of spiritual growth, having it done unto us is the only way to truly know what we did.

We may plant the seed, but until we eat the fruit, we really do not know what we planted.

A God of compassion accepts us as we are and understands that we will finally see the eternal light of righteousness through lessons that will sometimes burn like the kitchen stove flame burns the child who will not learn the truth of heat until actually getting burned by the flame.

A God of compassion knows we might only learn what we did to the animals by experiencing similar situations where we are the one who is scared, frightened and painfully put to death for a reason that we cannot understand.

A God of compassion knows that sometimes in order to know the lack of compassion you showed TO others, you must be born into a situation where you experience the lack of compassion FROM others.  In order to truly know what we did to someone, we must eventually have it done unto us.  If we did not help the starving children while we fattened our bellies, then perhaps we will be re-born into one of the poorest areas of the earth to experience the lack of compassion from the fat bellied people in richer parts of the world.  Again, until you have experienced both sides of the experience, you really do not know the experience.

Do we really think that what we were planting before we physically die does not matter any longer to us? That all the years of planting will not continue to grow something?

Whatever we were planting before we experienced the death of our physical body will carry over past the death experience. We will continue to reap what we sow. This educational process is as eternal as we are. What vanity for us to think we can escape the harmonizing, educational aspect of the universe.

Whatever you wish to be experiencing after your body dies, you had better start planting the seeds now.  Plant early and plant a lot of seeds so that your tree of compassion or whatever you desire has a chance to grow big and strong.
I know there is more after your body dies.  I cannot show you – at least not yet.  However, even if you believe that there is nothing after your body dies, and, when you start reaping the fruit of your seed-actions, then please remember me with a nice big fat juicy piece of fruit pie.  Ummm, I can hardly wait.

God and you are together for eternity - forever and ever. God has as much time as you need for the educational experiences that help your grow in ability to express your greatest potential for God.  Do you really want to experience the same lessons over and over, life after life?  You know what you don’t like.  How long will it take for you to accept that you cannot expect better treatment from others if you do not give it to them first?

Gamble on a win-win process.

Plant the action-seeds you want to reap in ten years

Dead or Alive - You Cannot Lose.