Death
was speaking with a friend in the Virgin Islands, a place deeply rooted in Christianity. Many people would appear before me and ask, "Is Jesus your Lord and Savior?" My husband's friend mentioned her cousin who died. She was thinking about him. I did not know they were cousins. I said, "When people think of those who passed, their energy is present." The response from a person whose aura was a beautiful purple, who prayed all the time, was, "When you're dead, you're dead." I learned not to be surprised. People who attend church regularly, who often refer to the Bible, are people who would not believe that the consciousness of transitioned people continues. I still communicate with my husband. It's been ten years since he transitioned. Whitley Streiber's wife, an energy who was known as Ann -what the energy calls itself - communicated to him, "They (humans) behave as if we are not here." He meditates every day and communicates with her during that time. Meditation expands our minimized conception of reality. It serves the religious institutions that have sprung up to assist common people.
This webpage is labeled "Death." I called it "Community" and "Transition" before. The content is about life after death, or, the afterlife.
Merge with Jesus by Allison L. Williams Hill
Death and the Tollbooth Keepers
I thought of giving examples of businesses that have determined a service that already exists in the area would benefit people who live and/or travel through an area if it were located in a different place. That place could be in the opposite direction from the existing business. That place could be between the existing business and places where a large target market would benefit. The point is the motivation for consumers to easily access goods. The benefit was always to improve life. The goal was always to make money.
Religion is really not that different. It seemed to begin with someone who read the Bible, the Torah, or any other sacred text. That person understood the text and desired to share it with others, near and far. Some people listened, others did not care. The person continues to travel and speak to as many people as possible. Time management developed into the idea of a dwelling, or a church, in a place central to many who lived and/or traveled through an area, if it were located. As this person understood the text, who better than that person to communicate with the unseen? Who better than that person to position themselves to interpret requests for salvation and redemption? Rather than educating others about the text, how about teaching them to READ so they can make their own choices?
Death and Living Beings
Death is natural. It is a normal act that, over time, humans and others have recognized as being a part of existence. Joseph Campbell's work focused on the mythical and spiritual written stories of the journey all humans, to some degree, undertake. Anthropologists examined the religious, ritual, and physical and social practices of cultures of how the dead were laid to rest and how people expressed their last goodbyes. The deceased are buried or cremated in keeping with the station attained in life, as codified in practices with religious orders such as Christianity, Judaism, Muslim, Catholicism, Jainism, etc. Some people consumed the flesh. These activities acknowledged that the form was no longer independently animated.
People feel emotions from the deaths of others, those who are close and not. Humanity incorporates different rationales for the deaths of people depending on their relationship to the deceased. Deaths were external acts caused by unseen beings or forces rendered for punishment. Some people were intelligent enough not to associate deaths with good. However, there are stories in the Bible where prominent people sacrificed others. It is interesting that these were people of prominence; many others knew them and either followed them or accepted their words as law by decree.
In Judges 11:32-33, Jephthah vowed to God to sacrifice the first thing that walked out of his home if God gave him victory in the battle against the Ammonites. When he returned, his daughter walked out of his house to greet him. There is disagreement about whether he followed through on his vow. (1)
In mythology, King Agamemnon was pressured by other leaders to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to the winds in exchange for favorable winds during the Trojan War. There were several versions. Iphigenia was Queen Clytemnestra's daughter. Agamemnon sacrificed her without regard because she was not his flesh and blood. Queen Clytemnestra then killed Agamemnon. Iphigenia was tricked into believing she was going to marry Achilles and was blindfolded so that she would not know where she was to be sacrificed. Another version was that the Goddess Artemis substituted a deer for her body and moved Iphigenia to her temple to continue life as a priestess. People say, and it has been proven, that some myths were based on reality through archaeological discoveries. (2)
Untitled by Allison L. Williams Hill
Death and Human Lives
Humans incarnate with a limited amount of time to address the reasons they came. The Disney movie, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" illustrated what life on this planet is like. The protagonist and a woman of interest jump into gelatin. The medium slowed their movements considerably compared to what they were used to. It was fun to watch them swim, or at least, I remembered that or thought it. The spiritual realm from which we originate is instantaneous. our thoughts are immediately manifested. What is generated on this plane of existence existed in the spiritual realm first. A part of everyone's time here is to experience the mechanisms of creation and to use time to refine what we are attempting to achieve.
In the United States, American health leaves a lot to be desired. Principally, we are consumers ingesting products made from 6 of 12,000 known edible plants. Corporations create foods to satisfy their perception of consumers' needs and desires . The focus is all on money. The process makes humans ill, pets ill but as long as people continue to buy, after knowing their health is at risk, it's all good. Americans cower and submit to pressure from family and friends and commit self-harm using pesticide-laden grains, animal protein raised with hormones to decrease their growth cycles and increase their flesh. More on this at Health. The products provide less nutrition than they used to, hence, the encouragement to eat organic. If you have a garden, grow your own.
Weather engineering suspends particles in the high atmosphere that have no business in human bodies, flora, or fauna. Rain brings them to earth and few people are discussing what these materials do to our food supply. Hydroponic gardening has improved in affordability and the ability to perform in the space a dweller makes available.
In-Vesica Personal 6-Month Health Program is a one-to-one health coach service to help adults re-educate themselves not only about good, life-sustaining foods but what works specifically for them. We are different. Twins are different because thoughts, emotions, and feelings may vary. Perception, interests, expression, etc. may vary so placing a "same" label on two individuals may be inappropriate.
All of this requires information, the type manufacturers and corporations assume consumers may not be interested in and what they would prefer we do not know. Corporations, for example, were aware of microplastics for decades. The information was only exposed in the last four years. There are remedies to remove them from the body, the brain especially, where much of it collects. The current administration -Trump 47 - has removed as many departments as possible to permit corporations to produce with known harmful substances, and shareholders benefit to the maximum.
Death and the Heavens
There are several stone monuments throughout the world that connect with the heavens. The Pyramids at Giza directly align with specific stars. Stonehenge circle were aligned with solstices. At West End on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, researchers found a site where the indigenous people from South America arranged stones in a pattern to center the sun's position during certain times of the year. The skies were recognized as important. This was a part of the natives' lives. They were an agrarian culture. Weather was important to the point that the orientation of these stones was to predict events. In all the things that were observed occurring around people, nature was a constant in that it was a visible, dynamic force.
Their existence was connected to the stars.
"After the gate of death is passed, the person is faced with the whole tableau of his life, taking its course in vivid pictures for two, three or four days, the time varying with each individual. Up to the end of this backward survey of his nights after death, a man has been gaining knowledge of what he has himself become, of his significance for the Cosmos. He now has to experience how the Earth itself has been affected by his life. For the Christ gathers into Himself all those powers of leadership for life between death and rebirth which used to belong to the Bodhisattvas who appeared on Earth. Thus the event of the Mystery of Golgotha, with its particular bearing on our experience between death and rebirth, is one of the most important facts in the whole evolution of the Earth."(5)
"in the times of the old Mysteries—the Mysteries of the Stars, the Mysteries of Light—they regarded the starry constellations as a Question, and human death as the real answer thereto. (Even as birth was associated with the super-sensible Man, so was death associated with the constellations." (6)
Stonehenge Rendered Sketch by Allison L. Williams Hill
"For what works in man's will must be borne out into the Cosmos by man himself, and he bears it out when he passes through the gate of death. Therefore it is not through the daily or the yearly cycles but through the gate of death that man carries forth the good or the evil he has brought about here on Earth through his will.
"Man passes through the gate of death laden with what has come out of his acts of will. Just as here on Earth he has around him all that lives in minerals, plants, animals and in physical humanity, all that lives in clouds, streams, mountains, stars, in so far as they are externally visible through the light—just as he has all this around him during his existence between birth and death, so he has a world around him when he has laid aside the physical and etheric bodies and has passed through the gate of death.
"Thus man on Earth can gain more and more knowledge of what the nature of his life will be when he passes through the gate of death. There are people who say: ‘Why do I need to know all this? I shall surely see it all after death!’—That attitude is just as if a man were to doubt the value of eyesight."(6)
"For what works in man's will must be borne out into the Cosmos by man himself, and he bears it out when he passes through the gate of death. Therefore it is not through the daily or the yearly cycles but through the gate of death that man carries forth the good or the evil he has brought about here on Earth through his will.
"Man passes through the gate of death laden with what has come out of his acts of will. Just as here on Earth he has around him all that lives in minerals, plants, animals and in physical humanity, all that lives in clouds, streams, mountains, stars, in so far as they are externally visible through the light—just as he has all this around him during his existence between birth and death, so he has a world around him when he has laid aside the physical and etheric bodies and has passed through the gate of death.
"Thus man on Earth can gain more and more knowledge of what the nature of his life will be when he passes through the gate of death. There are people who say: ‘Why do I need to know all this? I shall surely see it all after death!’—That attitude is just as if a man were to doubt the value of eyesight."(7
JR Soul Portrait by Allison L. Williams Hill
Death and the "Extension of Life"
Extension of Life authored by Patricia Hayes and Marshall Smith, co-founders of Delphi University of Spiritual Studies is a book of channeled information between them and Mr. Arthur Ford.
Mr. Ford shared his observations of what happened to people who crossed over after transitioning. He suggested effective means to address the uncertainty of that experience which could be applied to living as well.
It is healthy to discuss the inevitable parts of our lives to prepare ourselves for the change, or any change, for that matter. Transition encourages the free exchange of ideas and feelings so that participants can grow and develop as awareness of states of being grow.
Until the meetings are announced, please share your views on Transition Bridge Discussion Group on life, living it, and what you think or know about the transition, commonly known as "death". Transition is a more appropriate term as, according to Mr. Arthur Ford, we live on "the other side" also. The trio made the time to compile this information so that humans are better informed about the inevitable event.
How do you feel about your life and what follows?
Do you have a comment, opinion, or story about this? Please share.
Footnotes
1. Campbell, Joseph, "Bios and Mythos" "Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death." Source: https://www.azquotes.com/author/2387-Joseph_Campbell/tag/life-and-death
2. Campbell, Joseph, "Bios and Mythos" "Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death."
Source: https://www.azquotes.com/author/2387-Joseph_Campbell/tag/life-and-death
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3. The Spirituality of Africa an interview with Jacob Olupona, professor of indigenous African religions at Harvard Divinity School and professor of African and African-American studies in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences with Anthony Chiorazzi, Harvard Correspondent, October 6, 2015 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/the-spirituality-of-africa/
Exploring the Meaning of Death in African Culture: Traditions and Beliefs
https://mykingsgate.co.za/info/how-is-death-viewed-in-african-culture-6354/
6. On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Realities Beyond Birth and Death29 Dec 1917, Dornach
Translated by George Adams https://rsarchive.org/Search.php?q=death&start=10
The Rudolf Steiner Archive
7. 219. Man and the World of Stars: Moral Qualities and the Life after Death. Windows of the Earth.01 Dec 1922, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond
Rudolf Steiner
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