The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (20 page)

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Each time you return “home” after an incarnation for the new lessons learned, fun had, and wisdom gained, you’re able to recall more of the truth and see wider folds of reality. Like surfacing from an underwater dive, suddenly, as your head breaches the surface, there’s air, the sun above, and a drastically increased ability to function; you’ve returned to your element. The same thing happens upon death. The exceptions would be extreme cases of terrified young souls who are so overwhelmed with their last life or its final moments that they require immediate guidance.

Suicides may also meet with different experiences, given the naïveté of their decision to end a lifetime—one, like all lifetimes, they had so meticulously planned and dared to choose, that would’ve ended “soon enough,” naturally, had they let it run its course. Given their shortsighted-and-narrowmindedness, they usually lack the faculty to fully appreciate their new environs. Plus, rather than advancing to higher plateaus, they soon find they have to (and will eventually most want to) create new circumstances, vis-à-vis a new lifetime, that will better teach them what they had earlier refused to learn.

Otherwise, new arrivals, after life review and deep reflection, soon move into a state of euphoria and clarity far beyond what’s shared in the near-death accounts of those who have not fully gone through the homecoming process. The perfection sensed is indescribable. You’re in a place:

Where everything that was ever broken is made whole;

Where everything that was ever lost is found;

Where everything that ever hurt has healed;

Where there was once illness, there is health; confusion, there is clarity; despair, there is excitement; lack, there is abundance;

Where everything that was ever feared is unmasked;

Where every enemy is befriended; and essentially g Where everything that was ever unpleasant in your last life can now be seen with understanding to be a great and fabulous gift.

Loved ones who’ve passed welcome you. The most joyful tears begin to flow. Friends and beloved family members from
other
lifetimes “arrive” and are greeted with instant recognition and a total remembrance of times together. You’re in a place to plan second chances and new romances, where there’s a sublime glowing grace that emanates from everything and everyone. Where you truly discover what infinite possibilities mean, where you can do less to get more, and the only sweat involved in making dreams comes true comes from dancing all night at the afterparty. Yes, this is real. It’s all real. You remain physical yet ethereal, your identity secure, just made more. Time and space still exist, yet they’re not the same in this world where everything is pliable, forgiving, permissive. Your mind is blown to pieces with joyful “aha’s!” “oh boy’s!” and “you gotta be kidding me’s!”

This is like home, or at least a gigantic step in that direction. This is where your pre-earth life choices were made, and here you’ll see all that was gained. This was the kingdom you distantly recalled while on earth, for which all time-space is fashioned, in which you and all others constantly strove to re-create—to keep you busy and in action and living through the emotions that would come from the ride. You’ll find that your thoughts in this world similarly become things, yet more artfully and sometimes spontaneously; like everything else here, your new manifestations will seem to sparkle in love and shine with intelligence. You are now where the concepts of friendship, travel, communication, exploration, curiosity, adventure, sexuality, and
all that you had on earth
were first born and where they exist in the ethereal, at a level almost unrecognizable to your newly overloaded senses. This homecoming reacquaints you with
you,
your true self: an intergalactic love-being of joy and divine origins. You understand that it was from this perspective, this known zenith of your existence, certainly among others still unknown, that you chose to venture into the jungles of time and space,
and you knew what you were doing!

You’ll shrug, you’ll wonder, and you’ll gasp, first in disbelief and then over the inevitability of it all. Like water to parched lips or a glimmering of light to those lost in the dark, your senses will be flooded with relief and then rapture, followed by a longing to share the goodness and the beauty and the love with those left behind. And while you’re comforted knowing that all of this awaits them, you feel impatient. And as you reflect in this love and consider that what you are now feeling was within reach during life—yes, this is when it hits you: more than anything else, you want to go back. To “live” again, to remember
this time,
to see what’s so obvious, to find what you missed before, to reject the limiting confines that others want to “protect” you in, to honor yourself, to be true to your dreams, to risk your heart in love again, to be with those who so loved you, to walk barefoot on cold morning grass again, to sit before a campfire and gaze at faraway stars. To be a light to others, to rebound, come back, stand tall, and never stop loving it all
from within the mind of man!
Until the entire cycle of incarnations is complete, everyone wants to return—and everyone does.

Dreams come with built-in challenges; challenges come with built-in dreams.

Life is so beautiful,
your life
was so beautiful. Everything is a gift, you’ve always been adored, and you’ll see this more clearly than ever through the looking glass you now call death.

From a Dearly Departed

Alejandro!!!

Everyone’s here!!!
Everyone!
And they’re all happy, healthy, and gorgeous!

Your mom says she’s sorry. Your dad says he’s proud of you. Even Gina’s here, and she said to tell you she’s still jealous you left her for a man … me! Thanks again, by the way. Don’t worry—she’s over it. Who wouldn’t be when you come to a place like this and everything starts to make perfect sense! Choices galore, friends and family, colors and textures, sounds and aromas. Did you know that the reason there are only three primary colors on earth is that time and space there are so flat? Here, just within your first 21 days, give or take an eon, you learn of at least 42 dimensions—and there are more! There are hundreds of primary colors and all of them can be heard! Did you know that all colors have numbers? And that all numbers have sounds? And that all sounds have flavors? Mix the right colors together here and you have a musical ice-cream rainbow! Oh, and the number line here? It goes sideways, in ways, out ways, around ways! And there are actually “branches” off of every number, no matter which way, and … Actually, I had to stop that “download”; it was messing up my rediscovered angelic countenance.

You’re going to just die … again, when you get here!

The only thing missing … is challenge. Oh, it’s here for those who are moving beyond, but for the rest of us, chillin’ between lives, we miss it. Not that much, yet. It’s awesome to have none of the stress that we put ourselves through in the illusions. Like a vacation on steroids, but no steroids. Everything is so effortlessly spectacular. Some stay for thousands of years at a time. There’s no schedule. But all either go back or move on—all. And here’s a weird-y: there’s no moving on until you’re okay with going back.

Moving through the jungles means coming to peace with them. Which means coming to peace with yourself. Learning to deal with challenges is how you learn this, finding you’re bigger than whatever you create or find yourself in. Which you can’t learn, of course, unless you go back because there are no challenges here. See what I mean? Ironically, however, being bored with one’s life is not a sign of peace but of not sufficiently challenging oneself. Usually it’s the happy person, busy person, socially comfortable person who’s nearing the option to move on.