The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (8 page)

Therefore, your apparitions are projected, supported, and maintained by God, while at the same time God comes “alive” through them as something even more, in a symphony of creativity. And the cherry on top is … you: humanity, and the other species throughout the Universe that are not only alive, but co-Creators of the shared experiences that make possible your private experiences. Limited only by the basic parameters agreed upon long ago by the collective (such as gravity, molecular behavior, and vibrational frequencies) that actually
enable
you to play in your specific jungles while virtually all else remains limitless.

K
EEPING
P
ERSPECTIVE

Creationism versus evolution is not an either/or proposition. Human evolution, spiritually speaking, from total amnesia to enlightenment, is a “goal” of sorts and is progressing nicely. But to span the distance you’ve set out to span means starting as an “infant,” alone, scared, and in the “dark,” emotionally and physically, accidentally creating and mis-creating until you learn of your power and how to use it. The early learning curve part of the adventure is rocked by disappointments and heartbreak, yet the wisdom acquired later makes possible all that’s magnificent and heartwarming, culminating with your own illumination. “Time and space” are
your
university, full of learning in its ideal sense: relief, joy, and expansion; adventure and discovery; friends and laughter; health and harmony. Your life now is but a course. A wonderful course on its own, and one that will make future incarnations even better. And while at times it’s utterly confusing and surely unpleasant, such feelings don’t mean this life wasn’t chosen, or that it isn’t serving priceless needs and dreams, or that you don’t already have lots to appreciate and enjoy.

If you were to examine the typical life—today, early in your civilization’s adventure, out of context, with no idea as to where it’s all going, not seeing the harmony, splendor, cooperation, health, discoveries, and achievements that your life and your generation will ultimately help make possible for future generations—you’d rightly conclude that for many,
life in the jungles just isn’t worth it!
Such a premature conclusion, though, would be like stopping
The Wizard of Oz
at the point when Dorothy discovers a rusted-out tin man to empathize over his missed life and the opportunities seemingly lost.

S
UICIDES

Each lifetime is chosen for
many
reasons, as was the deeper and greater choice to enroll in a series of incarnations within the jungles. Ending a lifetime, physically speaking, doesn’t end, can’t end, the greater choice of incarnational learning.

Younger souls (not to be confused with young
people
) choosing physical suicides discover this. While they can effectively end the “course” by physically ending their lives, they quickly find they’re still on “campus.” Just as alive, just as much themselves, only in a post-death version of the illusions—which are now far more elastic but every bit as binding. Again, there’s no way out but the way you came; all lies must be outlived, understood, and seen through. And unlike others who naturally complete their incarnations, who become immediately aware of further studies and exciting adventures, suicides must “repeat the course” through a new incarnation to face whatever it was they were trying to avoid. This is keeping with the “plan”
they chose
; this is how they wanted it from the zenith of their brilliance when choosing worlds and dimensions from among infinite possibilities.

Suicides, therefore, never achieve their aim of evading issues, with the rare exceptions of severe, irreversible pain, extreme illness, and the like. Although even these issues would not belong to them by chance, and part of their gift would likely come from facing them, not evading them. At best, issues leading to suicide are temporarily postponed, but the cost in terms of broken promises, shattered survivors, and lost opportunities only compounds the unaddressed challenges.

W
HEN
I
T’S
N
OT
T
IME TO
D
IE

Imagine the jungles as a huge themed attraction: The Jungles of Time and Space. There are different parks within the attraction, each with its own theme and brand of exotic rides, shows, and entertainment scattered about—some scary, some thrilling, some funny, some romantic, some educational, some simple/easy/ breezy, and so on, ad infinitum. Each “ride” of the thousands and thousands to choose from is customized for you, on the fly, and is shared with others who seek similar adventures. And each ride generally lasts anywhere from a few moments to perhaps even 100 years, containing innumerable forks in the road, decisions to make, dreams to choose from, lessons to learn, and love.

Get it? The themed attraction is like a planet. Each park is like a different era, nation, culture, or mentality to choose from, and over time, you’ll probably choose many rides (lifetimes) within them all.

The choice to enter the attraction is a big one. Gargantuan. It’s made only after exhaustive and thorough study and preparation, surrounded and supported by best friends, advised by the wisest of guides, with the clear intention to experience all that the attraction has to offer. You don’t have to go; many never do. But if you do, it will be for the grand prize, the full monty, the real deal.

Once “inside,” your decision to enter will be followed by many, many smaller decisions, yielding their own fun and learning. When ultimately combined, they will accomplish the overall aim of you eventually experiencing the whole enchilada. The thing is that making the decision to go for the grand prize is made from “outside” time and space.
From that perspective,
you enter and exit the jungles simultaneously. Ain’t no thang. Ka-pow, and in the twinkling of an eye you have lived thousands and thousands of lives and are wildly more for it. Yet from the perspective you have during any one of your lifetimes, consciousness is defined by and dependent upon time and space until you
truly learn
that they’re just illusions. Which you can only learn by living
in
them and gaining mastery over them at least to the degree that you’re a pretty happy camper.

So consider: one of your Mini-Me’s is having a bad hair day, or say, years’ worth of bad hair days, and wants off the ride. “Stop! I hate my life! I hate these jungles—they were a stupid idea! I want to die!” So, hypothetically, through suicide you stop your adventure on the “Hairy Mountain” ride. Suddenly, however, you find yourself standing just outside the ride’s walls as more people choose to ride it and others get off. Even though you “stopped”
your
ride, the ride itself continues without you, and more, you have not yet evolved enough to move beyond the ride. Nor will you, because such evolution
requires riding the ride,
which was part of the awesome, gargantuan choice “you” first made.

So now what?

With loving guidance—or what you might call coaching—by very experienced riders and trained experts, you decide to take the ride again, or perhaps a very similar one, to learn your way through the confusion you created.

T
HE
T
IME TO
D
IE

A life ends naturally when the adventurer either achieves what he originally came for or when he can no longer achieve it and there are no other alternative, achievable goals. Yet knowing when these criteria are met is almost never conscious, and claiming that you’re done almost never means you are. “I got what I came for, there’s no need for me to stay, everyone I love has gone, and I am surrounded by idiots.” Such comments reveal, very clearly, that there is more to learn.

When a life does end naturally, the “decision” (again, it’s not conscious) hinges on probabilities: the probable trajectories of all lives affected by the transition and what will be gained by either staying or leaving. Sometimes it’s relevant to also include the probable trajectories of those in the community, state, and world who would be affected by your staying or going—especially for world leaders or world influencers.

As your life unfolds moment by moment, so do your probable futures.

To understand “probable,” while all things remain possible and nothing is predetermined or predestined, a much smaller range of probable futures exists, individually and collectively. Probable futures represent what might
likely
happen next based on everyone’s evolving thoughts, beliefs, and expectations leading up to that moment. The greater the sense of anticipation and inevitability a future carries for those involved, the greater its chances of being experienced. Free will reigns, but logically, individuals must operate within the collective’s massive range of probabilities.

Within
that range lie the probabilities of each individual in it. An individual’s options, therefore, might be limited by the group’s,
although:

1. If an individual has a great enough vision, it can sometimes change that of the group.
   
2. No matter what limitations the collective imposes, the individual’s choices and possibilities to find happiness and fulfillment remain
   infinite.
   
3. All individuals know full well about the group they’re choosing to be part of, and they’d only ever choose to “play along” (being born into those times) if there were
   extremely compelling reasons
   to do so in spite of any limitations.
   

The opportunities that likely exist, given the probabilities created by parents and the time of birth as well as the probabilities of the greater collective, lead to the choice of a lifetime. And as your life unfolds moment by moment, so do your probable futures and the chances to achieve what you set out to achieve. Naturally, as you grow, so do your ambitions, and as you achieve old objectives, new ones emerge. And these likely trajectories, to the degree they can be foreseen, are also considered and weighed before you choose a lifetime.

In some lifetimes, far more is achieved than was originally intended. In others, due to changes in the collective—locally or at large—or within the mind of the one whose life it is, important probabilities can suddenly disappear. And it’s the state of such probabilities, present, near, and far, as a function of intended lifetime objectives that determines the time to die.

C
REATING
Y
OUR
W
ORLD

To the naked eye death appears random. To the spiritually inclined it appears ordained. Each perspective, however, removes consent from the equation, and self-determination seems entirely out of the question. Yet consent, free will, and choice exist—this is your gig, remember? So the questions become these: How does one simultaneously live under the cloak of amnesia and remain in control? Experience the darkness while holding the light? Live to the fullest while choosing when it’s time to “die”?

The challenge with these questions, however appropriate they may seem, is that they’re rooted in presumptions created by the divine dichotomy: That you either know
or
don’t know. That there is either darkness
or
light. That living can’t include dying—as if dying weren’t an achievement in every life.

Here’s the deal. Imagine, as God, that you wish to forget who you are, to discover it anew. Why? Because you can, or because it’s fun, or whatever—it doesn’t matter right now. Remember: don’t connect too many dots, just the fewest possible to start making some sense of things; the simplest choices are usually the most correct. Well, in order to forget who you are, you need to place yourself “outside” of creation, even though you
are
creation, so that once there you can gaze upon yourself and not know it’s you!

To achieve this, the following must be true of your new “home”:

1. It needs to appear seamless, complete, and believable, independent of you. (Even though it’s entirely dependent upon you. Remember: it’s you.)
   The physical universe is immeasurably vast and totally hooked up with all kinds of physical laws and properties
   —check!
   
2. It needs to be alive, on automatic pilot, sufficient unto itself.
   Amoebas, living oceans, photosynthesis, plate tectonics
   —check!
   
3. It needs to include you, even though you remain seemingly and convincingly apart from it.
   Physical body
   —check!
   
4. You must retain some deeper, underlying creative connection to it to achieve your objective, which, remember, is to rediscover and expand your magnificence.
   Metaphysical laws of nature (governing the connection between the seen and the unseen, and between the Creator—you—and your creation)
   —check!
   

Following the metaphysical laws, to create anything in the physical world it must first exist in the unseen, in thought:
your thoughts
. Your thoughts will then “become” the things, circumstances, and events of your life. As pointed out earlier, they don’t do this spontaneously—that would completely shatter and nullify the physical laws that otherwise keep things working orderly—but gradually. Slowly. Progressively. Mostly in concert with the physical laws.

Instead of spontaneous manifestations, like a gold coin suddenly appearing in the palm of your hand, you draw unto yourself a gold coin that already existed elsewhere. One that will be placed into your hand by a merchant, client, acquaintance, benefactor, heiress, child, parent, partner, or friend, whoever was most readily available, given your life with its probabilities and trajectories and theirs. Wishing for a gold coin and holding its image in your mind sets into motion an absolute symphony of events involving a cadre of people, choreographed with a mind-boggling precision that can only be appreciated, much less seen,
after the fact,
after the process that will draw one to you is complete. Hence, the “law of attraction.”