LIFE ON THE ASTRAL PLANE
Information on this subject is given to us by the descriptions of the people who encountered near death experiences. These are people who for whatever reason died and somehow were revived and they remember what happened and what they saw. There are quite a few of them around the world, enough to raise the interest of the film makers. I think the movie was called “Life After the Grave”. And of course from messages given by our spirit friends in communications with mediums and other sensitive people.
According to these people after you die you go through a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel you see a very strong and bright light. Although the light is very bright it is not blinding. When you reach the light you realise that you will have to go through it and you know that once you go through it, you are in the next world, or as it is termed in different books it is the point of no return. When you reach that light you feel warm, you feel happy, you feel very much loved. In other words you feel God’s unconditional love.
At some stage you will have to go through a review of your life. Here it is vital to remember that God is a loving God, is the Father who loves his children and does not want to punish them. I say this because what you do not realise at this stage is that now you are a spirit and as such you talk, create, and feel with your mind, with your thoughts. If you feel guilty and you expect to go to hell, that is exactly what is going to happen. Why? Because you have created this with your thoughts. Some encounters say that they saw themselves in a court type of a situation where elders were judging the events in their life, others saw Jesus judging them, and others saw God judging them. The reality of the situation is that you will be judged by the strictest person there is, that is yourself. Psychologist and analyst will tell you that even at work, or in your home environment, there is no harder judge of your actions than yourself. So you will judge yourself, of course you will be unhappy for the mistakes you made or the lost opportunities, but remember God loves you and wants you to forgive yourself. Because it is by forgiving yourself that you can start living again, you can start experiencing life and learning in your new environment.
This is very important, forgive yourself and get on with life. Do not dwell in the past. You see nothing has changed. Whatever you had to do in this physical world you have to do in the astral world too.
Life in the astral world is beautiful. There is always light, there is no night there. The temperature is warm and comfortable, no hot or cold. There is plenty of green and flowers around you. There are also beautiful colours that you have never seen before. You do not have to eat, but if you want to eat you can. You do not need a house to live in, but again if you want a house you can build one. You can have gardens with lots and lots of flowers. It never rains there but there is enough energy to make the flowers grow. There you will find all the departed loved ones. Most probably they will come to meet you and welcome you back home; you will find loved pets too. Travelling is very easy there, all you have to do is think where you want to be and you will be there.... in a flash. One thing to remember and I know it is very difficult to grasp and understand, in the astral world there is no time as we know it here on earth; time does not exist there.
If you want to work, there is plenty of work for you to do, you can teach, you can help with healing spirits (spirits who arrived in the astral world with earthly problems) and physical people. You can go and learn anything you want. There are theatres where big shows are put on and concerts are given. There is no limit to what you can do.
So you see life will not change much. The important thing to realise is to fill up your heart with love. Forgive yourself for your mistakes and forgive those who have trespassed against you and you will see how fast and beautifully you will progress.
As many ancient and modern philosophers have said “The physical body is a prison for the soul” .This is really a beautiful idea. Think of it as putting the soul in a prison in order to rehabilitate it and when it is rehabilitated you release it back into the society, back into the community - that is the real society the real community in the astral world.
Information on this subject is given to us by the descriptions of the people who encountered near death experiences. These are people who for whatever reason died and somehow were revived and they remember what happened and what they saw. There are quite a few of them around the world, enough to raise the interest of the film makers. I think the movie was called “Life After the Grave”. And of course from messages given by our spirit friends in communications with mediums and other sensitive people.
According to these people after you die you go through a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel you see a very strong and bright light. Although the light is very bright it is not blinding. When you reach the light you realise that you will have to go through it and you know that once you go through it, you are in the next world, or as it is termed in different books it is the point of no return. When you reach that light you feel warm, you feel happy, you feel very much loved. In other words you feel God’s unconditional love.
At some stage you will have to go through a review of your life. Here it is vital to remember that God is a loving God, is the Father who loves his children and does not want to punish them. I say this because what you do not realise at this stage is that now you are a spirit and as such you talk, create, and feel with your mind, with your thoughts. If you feel guilty and you expect to go to hell, that is exactly what is going to happen. Why? Because you have created this with your thoughts. Some encounters say that they saw themselves in a court type of a situation where elders were judging the events in their life, others saw Jesus judging them, and others saw God judging them. The reality of the situation is that you will be judged by the strictest person there is, that is yourself. Psychologist and analyst will tell you that even at work, or in your home environment, there is no harder judge of your actions than yourself. So you will judge yourself, of course you will be unhappy for the mistakes you made or the lost opportunities, but remember God loves you and wants you to forgive yourself. Because it is by forgiving yourself that you can start living again, you can start experiencing life and learning in your new environment.
This is very important, forgive yourself and get on with life. Do not dwell in the past. You see nothing has changed. Whatever you had to do in this physical world you have to do in the astral world too.
Life in the astral world is beautiful. There is always light, there is no night there. The temperature is warm and comfortable, no hot or cold. There is plenty of green and flowers around you. There are also beautiful colours that you have never seen before. You do not have to eat, but if you want to eat you can. You do not need a house to live in, but again if you want a house you can build one. You can have gardens with lots and lots of flowers. It never rains there but there is enough energy to make the flowers grow. There you will find all the departed loved ones. Most probably they will come to meet you and welcome you back home; you will find loved pets too. Travelling is very easy there, all you have to do is think where you want to be and you will be there.... in a flash. One thing to remember and I know it is very difficult to grasp and understand, in the astral world there is no time as we know it here on earth; time does not exist there.
If you want to work, there is plenty of work for you to do, you can teach, you can help with healing spirits (spirits who arrived in the astral world with earthly problems) and physical people. You can go and learn anything you want. There are theatres where big shows are put on and concerts are given. There is no limit to what you can do.
So you see life will not change much. The important thing to realise is to fill up your heart with love. Forgive yourself for your mistakes and forgive those who have trespassed against you and you will see how fast and beautifully you will progress.
As many ancient and modern philosophers have said “The physical body is a prison for the soul” .This is really a beautiful idea. Think of it as putting the soul in a prison in order to rehabilitate it and when it is rehabilitated you release it back into the society, back into the community - that is the real society the real community in the astral world.
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