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I ran across a near death experience on another blog that is really great. I would like for you to read it when you have the time, it is long.

A Near Death Experience

We gain knowledge by personal experience, sometimes called learning by doing. It is a great way to gather experience and knowledge at the same time. But it is not without drawbacks. It is best to learn under the guidance of someone who already has the experience and can walk you through it. This keeps the “trial and error” part of personal experience to a minimum.

We can get this “knowledgeable someone” by reading their books, and learn at our own pace. If you wish to study near death experiences for instance, read a lot of books on the subject. You will find that the authors don’t always agree, and that is why it is important to read as many as possible. After reading a number of books on the subject you will notice there are things that most authors do agree on, and those things are the basic truth of near death experiences.

Enlightenment

This is the best explanation of enlightenment I have read. It comes from: Emmanuel’s Book II, The Choice for Love compiled by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

‘What is enlightenment?’

Everything and nothing.
Let me see if I can find another way to put this.
If I say to you: “enlightenment is all-knowing,”
then I limit enlightenment.
If I say “enlightenment is all-loving,”
I limit love.
There can be no beginning and no end
and the human vocabulary is rife with limitation.

So let us say that enlightenment
is being in the moment through eternity
without the intellect
but with the consciousness of all things.
It is absolute peace
without the awareness of non-peace.

It is absolute love
without the awareness of hate.

It is all things without end
having forgotten the illusion of ending.

It is bliss
without the memory of non-bliss.

It is simply ‘is-ness’.
It is you
without your physicality
without your personality
without your clothes on
without your obstructions
without your fears,
without your limitations and boundaries
without even the consciousness of self
except as the boundless perceiver
of infinite Light.

And that doesn’t even begin to describe it
but it is the best I can do at the moment.

Tragedies

It is a common error to blame God for the tragedies in this world. Theists do it as well as atheists. Physical life is like school, we are here to learn to do the right thing in spite of what others do. It is man that screws up the world, not God. Yes, you have free will to act anyway you want, but if your actions harm others you have harmed yourself also. That is how we learn not to do hurtful things to others. The spiritual principal of “you reap what you sow” works for all, all the time.

There is a kind of safety net that allows you to try again if you screw up, since you are spiritual you don’t die, so whatever you do continues to play out over eternity. Sometimes through reincarnation and sometimes not, but you can never escape the spiritual principle. Eventually you and I will learn to do only those things that are good for us and subsequently good for others also. All this is called spiritual growth.

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