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Word Gems
exploring self-realization, sacred personhood, and full humanity
How To Sit Quietly
In A Room Alone
The small quiet room as venue
of the famous life-review:
why wait till you cross over?
every day is judgment day
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that's easy for you to say
The great teachers of “going within” advise that, as much as possible, as we learn how, we are to go about our daily activities by focusing a portion of one’s “soul energies” toward the “inner body.”
Editor’s note: You must forgive me for all the quotation marks. It’s just that, as one attempts to discuss this topic, one realizes the paucity of relevant technical terms. It’s not a subject that is popular, even though it may be most important. One has to virtually invent vocabulary as one progresses here.
a virtual continual state of life-review
And as we do, as a "portion" of one’s consciousness (as if it could be divided) is directed within, we experience and undergo a kind of continual state of the famous “life review”; of the sort which NDEers so commonly report having known in their brief forays into the next world.
How strange this is. The common attitude in society regarding information of the afterlife, and preparation for it, is one of, “One world at a time. I’ll worry about the next life when I get there.” This is just empty bravado. What the person is really saying is, "I'm scared spitless to touch the afterlife subject. I don't want to cross over because I know there's an angry god there who will condemn me."
As one journeys on in daily spiritual practice of “going within,” one realizes that the popular view is absolutely wrong; it couldn’t be more wrong. For one thing, there is no “this life” and “next life” but, instead, one seamless life, and we are instructed, instructed by our own souls, to begin a self-inspection now, with no delay allowed. And this settles the matter of timetable, for those aware enough to understand the issue.
As I think about how these things work, it occurs to me that the Dark Realms are designed, essentially, to “lead a horse to water,” the refreshment of self-evaluation. If one's spirit is sufficiently-darkened, it will be required to spend some time in solitude before entering the joys of Summerland. Another way of saying this is, you have to think about your life; and, more than think about it, you need to learn how to go within, to access the “true self.”
However, while what I just said is true to a certain degree, it’s also true that there are loads of people in Summerland who are still quite egoic and seem to know little about “going within.” Read more about this in the “500 Recorded Testimonies from the Other Side.” What this apparently means is that, while one does not need to be perfect to enter Summerland, the key to properly begin seems to be a willingness to learn and change.
not just for over there
I think what I’m trying to say on this page is that the famous “life review” is not meant to be solely an experience for those who cross over. In most cases, that’s the way it'll work out, but not by ideal design. For those with eyes in their heads, a life-review is to experienced, you might say, on a moment by moment basis, right now. This process is to begin anytime one desires to begin a journey into full humanity, sentience, and self-realization. No need, or even a mandate, to wait until the next world.
every day is judgment day
Big Religion, with it scare tactics posing as infallible doctrines, would keep us trembling in anticipation of a grand Judgment Day. We’ll all be marched off, they say, to meet a stern judge on a white marble throne. While this errant view and propaganda makes for good theatre, it also serves as bizarro-version of the life-review. However, no one judges us over there. We, our higher selves, will do that. But there’s no waiting for some future dramatic calling oneself before tribunal, for – every day is Judgment Day; every day is meant to be – not condemnation but -- a day of self-evaluation and course correction.
default setting
It’s curious that so many of the NDE reports speak of people undergoing the life-review. What does this tell us? With the NDE, we’re suddenly shot from a cannon, often unexpectedly, into the next dimensions. And what immediately happens to us? We’re grabbed by the collar, so to speak, and required or asked to undergo a life-review. Is this not strange? Why would the life-review be on the top of one’s list during an NDE?
I think it’s like this. Think of rebooting your computer. You switch it off, you turn it back on, and in so doing, many of the various operations are reset to “default” positions.
I think the life-review is a meant to be a default setting for us. In this world, with all manner of distraction and place to hide, from oneself, most know nothing of a life-review. But during the NDE, as we stumble upon the shores of a new world, the real world, it seems that we are subjected to a kind of “default setting” operation. We find ourselves face-to-face with a requirement to review one’s life, which is what we should have been doing all the while.
I submit that the life-review experience was not designed just for the new arrival over there, but – it's for all of us; you might say, every day, and much of the day.
how sane do you want to be
We could rephrase the above requirement differently: How often do you want to be out of attunement with your "inner life," your doorway to Universal Consciousness? And maybe this question gets the point across a little better.
As we "go within," we find out what we're about, deep inside. The life-review, in terms of "have I been a nice person?" is a kind of side show, that is, evaluation concerning how we've affected environment and others is not a small thing, but the main attraction is - are you alive, are you sane? No other business can be transacted until these questions are answered in the affirmative.
Coming up short in the "sanity" department is the issue plaguing "the 500" over there, and it's this that we need to address. Gaining one's sanity and true aliveness is the reason we spend time in a small quiet room.
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