The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (4 page)

Dot 6:
You are pure God.

We’ve not said much and will not say much more about what God
is
. Let God from this point forward be loosely defined: it is aware, it is intelligent, and it is what you and all “things” came from and still remain.

And sure, if it helps you feel better about drawing such conclusions, God is more than you. Infinitely. Unimaginably. There are zillions more dots,
but you don’t
have to go there,
and just because there are more dots doesn’t mean there could somehow be a cell in your body that isn’t pure God. Nor should you even try to connect more dots. Please consider that your motivation in this moment is simply to help the “dead” get you to understand that they are not dead after all. Which you are far more likely to believe once you totally get that their existence, like yours, is not dependent on the illusions that you’ve come to think are so real.

So, let’s sally on, as nothing else will improve your confidence more than continuing to answer some of the questions that have vexed humanity since the year dot (no pun intended).

W
HY
Y
OU’RE
H
ERE

This is a pretty big dot. Does it make you nervous? No wonder, given the brainwashing of the ages: being told that you are limited, aging, frail, born of sin, into sin, bound to unavoidably sin for the rest of your life, and that you’ll be tested and judged anyway. Huh? Why? To see if you didn’t sin? Quite an improbable setup. No win/no win. How about we roll back all of those ideas, leave the door open, and not connect dots that don’t need connecting?

So, given your rather easy-to-deduce heritage, being pure God yourself, this pretty much means there’s only one explanation for your presence in time and space now.
You chose to be here.
If you are
of
God,
by
God,
pure
God, and if God (awareness, thought) preceded time and space, that means that you, a portion of you, also had to precede time and space.

Well, if some form of you existed, pre–time and space, and you’re now here, then what other explanation could there be for your presence and that of others, amid these illusions, except that you all had to choose it? Truth is like that. Logical. Simple. Makes sense. Would it make any sense if you were forced here? Who would force God and how? Would it make any sense that you had no input? Might you have been pushed off a cloud? Did you draw the short straw?

Dot 7:
You chose to be here.

Interesting how many
do
grasp that they’ll exist
beyond
the illusions but have trouble grasping that they existed before them. But if time, like space and matter, is an illusion of your own creation (TBT), you must have! Tricky. Obviously your poor grip on this heretofore is because you lack any memory of your past, prior to becoming who you now are in the illusions. But since when does not remembering something negate its existence? And with the littlest bit of further introspection, connecting dots, suddenly it becomes crystal clear why you don’t remember choosing to be here …
you didn’t want to remember.

L
IGHTS
O
UT
; A
MNESIA
O
N

When you watch a movie matinee at a theater, do you want all the lights on or off?

Off, right?

Why?

To see it better! Not just with your eyes, but with your heart.
You want to feel it better.
You want to be with the actors and actresses in each scene. You want to be chased by your fears and then face them! You want to rise above the odds and prevail! You want to be neck and neck with the heartthrob of your choice.
You want to forget
, momentarily, that “you” even exist, so the “greater you” can be entertained and educated. After all, within an hour or two, when the film ends, you’ll be back out in the sun, back to who you were. Except … you’ll be “more” for the experience of having
forgotten
yourself so you could experience another set of rules, as someone else with different beliefs, with different life props, and among different friends—all contained within the script you watched.

The “first” you, the one who preceded time and space, chose the
illusions
you now live among for the very same reasons you might choose a matinee film: the fun, learning, joy, challenge, and more. Yet as the “first” you forgets that it existed first—that it scripted each scene’s possibilities, built each stage, and will live beyond the illusions—suddenly the most profound and exquisite adventure drama unfolds! The point being that the “greater” you came first, before the illusions; you, or an even greater portion of you, actually created them so you (the “second” you) could fleetingly get lost in them. And getting this, you can see that
you
are the reason the sun rises each day, literally. You were not an afterthought—you were the first thought. And you will continue to “be” long after the very last star in the illusionary yet spectacular night sky goes dark.

Dot 8:
You wanted to forget who you were so you could fully be who you are.

All of which further means, in no uncertain terms, that if you chose to be here,
pre-amnesia
and therefore, quite logically, from the zenith of your brilliance (certainly far exceeding what you now possess—no offense), then not only did you choose to be here, but you chose to be who you now are, exactly as you now are:
this is who you most wanted to be!
From an infinite number of worlds and possibilities, you chose as you did not only from a place of brilliance, but as a consequence of such brilliance, with purpose, meaning, order, and undoubtedly a host of other aims, goals, and objectives, for awesome, gorgeous, beautiful reasons.

You chose to be who you now are, exactly as you now are:
this is who you most wanted to
be!

You chose everything about who you now are, right down to the shape of your nose, the freckles on your cheeks, the length of your legs or whether you’d have them, your intellectual or emotional inclinations, your personality traits, and everything else you claim as yours this time. (
Of course
you have other “times”; you’re eternal, and your dream world is illusionary. But we’ll address this later.) And again, it doesn’t matter that you don’t necessarily know or sense what any of your ambitions were. Such memory lapses are completely irrelevant. Nor does your amnesia mean you can’t acquire a sense of what’s going on, as we’ve just reviewed; nor does it keep you from achieving whatever you came here to achieve, just like “forgetting” yourself doesn’t stop you from being entertained and educated at movie matinees.

Dot 9:
You are now who you most wanted to be, and you knew exactly what you were doing.

T
HE
P
OINT OF
L
IFE

So what’s the point of life? Again, there are too many dots for anything remotely resembling a complete answer, but you don’t have to have all the answers to gain massive traction; you only need a few confidently connected dots. To get there, just look for the obvious—at what
does
happen in the course of virtually every human life—then, full stop. Name what virtually everyone else, no matter their creed or culture, would agree with, and suddenly, just maybe, you’ll nail the answer to that age-old question
Why?
:

1. To love
   
2. To be loved
   
3. To pursue happiness
   

Within these there are more reasons: to create, to change, to serve, to learn, to laugh, and so on, and so on, and so on. But to keep this simple, these are three main reasons at the top of everyone’s list.

Dot 10:
Love and happiness are why we’re here.

That’s it! That’s enough! Why would there have to be more? Maybe there is more, maybe much more. But until it bites you on the butt or otherwise appears on the horizon, only connect the obvious, simple, and logical dots you can have confidence in.

By asking the hard questions, turning within, and deducing their simple answers, you can begin to see how you fit into the equation of reality creation. As a Creator yourself.

These ten dots not only offer direction and meaning, they reveal the critical moving parts in the adventure of life: you, or better,
your thoughts.
This is the button to push and the lever to pull when you want more love or more happiness, or to make any kind of difference. In this way you can replace lack with abundance, sickness with health, loneliness with friendships, confusion with clarity, and fear of anything, including your old ideas about death, with confidence.

W
HAT
H
APPENS
W
HEN
Y
OU
D
IE

Well, first of all, you won’t. Which is all you really have to know about death and why it’s the first thing “dead” people want to tell you. Many of them found this hard to believe themselves at first, gazing upon their own funerals, lingering around their old stomping grounds, stunned and amazed as they gestured and shouted to the friends left behind.

There’s an abrupt disconnect, of course, that comes from leaving behind all things time and space and learning to maneuver in the unseen. The nature of this transition depends entirely on the beliefs of the dearly departed at the time of transition, because their beliefs and thoughts carry over to their new environs. Even there, thoughts become things, only they become things bigger and faster, arranged to match the expectations of new arrivals, often in the twinkling of an eye.

Harps, angels, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna, and lots more deities, saints, and whatnot all have energy fragments (not as crude as it sounds) on standby for the constant flow of new arrivals who will be welcomed, scolded, praised, or celebrated in any number of ways
based upon the deceased’s anticipated and believed-in scenarios.
Elaborate “sets” can be seen floating in cloud settings, golden gates are “assembled,” gardens of Eden are manifested, fiery dens are ignited—whatever. Remember: in illusionary dimensions such as time and space and the afterlife, these “saviors” can be in an unlimited number of “places” at the same “time.” Welcoming committees also include, when appropriate, a cadre of deceased loved ones and those whose lives were affected by the deceased’s life and choices. They all take on the physical form and age that pleased them the most as they gather to welcome and assure newcomers that they have indeed survived and arrived somewhere wonderful.

Time is not an issue; the party can last “weeks.” Space is not an issue; everything seems to exist just for you. Kind of like on earth, if you’ve noticed. Communication is done mostly through a suddenly remembered form of telepathy, which will feel as natural to you as shaking hands once did. Travel is accomplished by willing yourself to wherever you want to go. Friends are found the same way. Thought connects all,
is
all. You’ll also be thrilled to see that you, too, have taken on the physical form from your life that pleased you the most and that all aches and pains have vanished—and you’ll quickly learn how to change even further. “Limitless” has a new meaning for the deceased.

Loving guides soon appear, glowing, radiant, and joyful. They orient you and answer your questions. They teach you. Remind you. Love you. Show you. Everything becomes clearer. You remember the hopes and intentions of your recent life and why you chose it. You review play by play all that happened. You see how things lined up or didn’t, and why. You’re awed by your power, wisdom, and kindness, saddened by what you missed, mistook, and misunderstood, yet inspired to know you can try again, make amends, and move forward with and into even greater love. Past lives come into view, along with the friends, loves, and lessons they contained. Everything starts making sense. It comes together like the most amazing artistic creation, a masterpiece that boggles your mind with its perfection, and you are l humbled to find the paintbrush still in your hand.

Time is not an issue; the party can last “weeks.”

H
ELLO
, G
OD
?

There may be a personage representing “God,” if you manifested such upon your arrival, given your beliefs and expectations. However, as things become clearer, your need for this disappears, and you are left to contemplate the wonder of existence and the miracle of your mere presence, eventually grasping that God is All, always, everywhere at once, not human but “alive” within you, and that no symbol, shape, or figure could ever come close.

As your sense of acceptance and awe grows, so do your confidence and joy, and the more anxious you become to move into new adventures with those you love and who love you. Options are shown to you and weighed. You can choose to stay as long as you like in this new, more pliable world of illusions, but you can see that you are there only because of your earlier presence in the denser time-and-space jungles and that you have much more to learn. This lighter, more ethereal version of the jungles exists solely as a place to refresh, cleanse, and regroup. Ultimately, all of your experiences within these illusions and those on earth meld into all that you ever hoped to attain:
all that God ever hoped to attain by being you
, at which point pathways for moving beyond the illusions appear. Like what? We don’t know …