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Life and the Near-Death
Experience
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The hard
reality we face is that the ultimate
goal in life is death. Death seems
like a cruel absurdity that happens
to us after enjoying the time of our
lives. As it is with death, life is
also a great mystery. The mystery of
life offers many questions. Who are
we? Where did we come from? Have we
lived before? Why are we here? Where
are we going? Does life continue
after death? Is there a God? These
are profound questions that demand
an answer. Fortunately, there are
answers to these questions and they
come from near-death experiencers.
In this
article you will learn many insights
from them including: Life is what
people worship as God. All life is a
manifestation of God. For us to
benefit from life, we must
rediscover our oneness with God here
in the physical realm. There are
many realms to life and this
physical realm is only one of them.
Life is a mission from God we chose
to fulfill. Life is a great
World-School where we come to learn
the many lessons of love. Everything
in life runs according to a perfect
and divine plan. Life is an enormous
cycle of improvements where we
progress at our own rate to reach
the light.
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1. Life is a School of Higher Education |
"The reason we are here in this physical
world is for soul growth. This physical
world is the ideal place for this. Spiritual
growth in the spirit realms is more
difficult. The reason is that the influence
of our physical bodies gives us the
opportunity for a full range of love (a
child's love, marital love, and parental
love) which is ideally available here. Love
that is misused or misdirected is best
corrected in the here. In this physical
world, there is the full range of physical
and spiritual senses with which to act and
communicate." (Nora
Spurgin)
"Our behavior on Earth provides a teaching
ground for those in the spirit world." (Betty
Bethards)
"Life in this world exists for us to test
our ideals and learn from them. Learning our
lessons here in the physical world is the
fastest way to learn." (David
Oakford)
"As long as we have life here, we are
learning, our spirits are growing, and we
are coming closer to the divine, even by the
things we suffer. We may not always know
what to do in our lives, we may be troubled
and in pain, but be assured, as long as we
are here, we are growing." (Betty
Eadie)
"Life in this world is the ultimate
experience for our souls. It is ultimate
because our souls evolve faster here than
anywhere else. The lessons we need to learn
are difficult to learn without having a
physical form." (David
Oakford)
"Trouble is nature's way of teaching lessons
that won't be learned otherwise. If we learn
from the troubles of others, we can avoid
most of our own." (Arthur
Yensen)
"Life in this world is a place for us to
overcome certain weaknesses by applying
ourselves to see that those weaknesses are
truly overcome. Here we can learn for
certain whether we have really changed." (Edgar
Cayce)
"Life is a boot camp and school for our
soul's spiritual education, and as such,
it's tough." (Karen
Brannon)
"This world is only a temporary place for
our schooling. Our true permanent home is
the spiritual universe." (Betty
Eadie)
"This world is only one realm of learning;
there are many." (Sandra
Rogers)
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2. Life is a Test After Which We Grade
Ourselves |
"When we die, we will realize that we have
been living behind a veil our whole lives.
The veil will be lifted and the floodlights
will shine on us. Everything in life is
really veiled spirit. We are literally on
display our whole lives. Every thought,
word, and deed has been recorded since birth
and will be fully exposed. Everything we
have ever done in secret will be brought out
into the light for review in front of God
and all the heavenly hosts. Our entire life
is one huge test and we will be graded on
everything." (Daniel
Rosenblit)
"Life is a test. If you pass the test you'll
look back upon them as good experiences." (Peace
Pilgrim)
"None of us will fully fathom the great
truths of life until we finally unite with
eternity at death. But occasionally we get
glimpses of the answer here in the world and
that alone can be enough." (Dr.
George Rodonaia)
"The highest spiritual values of life can
come from the study of death." (Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross)
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3. Life is like a River to Travel and Enjoy |
Visit the NDE and
Pre-Existence research conclusions
about how we planned our lives on Earth
before we were born. |
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4. Life was Planned by Us Before Our Birth |
"The universe runs according to a perfect
plan. All the so-called injustices we see in
life really has no meaning. The perfect plan
is working itself out in its perfection." (Jayne
Smith)
"Life in this world is like a rigged
roulette wheel in a casino. As much as we
try, we can never be able to fully satisfy
our selfish desires. It's virtually
impossible." (Daniel
Rosenblit)
"Nothing in life or death is an accident." (Lynnclaire
Dennis)
"There are no accidents in the universe.
Everything that happens in life has a
purpose." (George
Anderson)
"From the vantage point of the spirit world,
there is no problem or disharmony on Earth
that will not be corrected." (Margaret
Tweddell)
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5. Life is About Giving and Helping Others |
"Life is about people, not pursuits." (Laurelynn
Martin)
"The most important thing in life is love."
(Dr.
Raymond Moody)
"Anyone who has had such an experience of
God, who has felt such a profound sense of
connection with reality, knows that there is
only one truly significant work to do in
life, and that is love; to love nature, to
love people, to love animals, to love
creation itself, just because it is." (Dr.
George Rodonaia)
"A life of piety without a life of love
(which occurs only in this world) is not a
spiritual life. Rather, it is a life of
love, a life of behaving honestly and fairly
in every task, from a more inward source
that leads to a heavenly life. Such a life
is not hard." (Emanuel
Swedenborg)
"We are to leave the world a little better
than we found it." (David
Oakford)
"If we learn to give what we have, we will
receive more. This is a spiritual law. We
will be given all that we are prepared to
receive." (Betty
Eadie)
"The gift of life God gives us comes with a
catch: We are to give the gift back." (P.M.H.
Atwater)
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6. Life is About Receiving From God |
"Half the gain in coming into Earth life is
merely showing up." (Edgar
Cayce)
"One little girl summed up what she learned
from her NDE as: 'Life is for living and the
light is for later.'" (Dr.
Melvin Morse's research)
"The point is to live the questions now, and
perhaps without knowing it, someday we will
live into the answers. Live the questions
and the universe will open up its eyes to
you." (Dr.
George Rodonaia)
"All the suffering in our lives is actually
for our good. Out of the most tragic of
circumstances springs human growth." (Angie
Fenimore)
"God never gives us more challenges in life
than we can handle. Rather than jeopardize
our spiritual progression or cause more
suffering than can be endured, God will
bring us home where we can continue
progressing." (RaNelle
Wallace)
"Life's supposed to be hard. We can't skip
over the hard parts. We must earn what we
receive." (Angie
Fenimore)
"Our ability to accept truth, to live by it,
governs our progress in the spirit, and it
determines the degree of light we possess."
(RaNelle
Wallace)
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7. Life is For Living |
"Our missions mainly have to do with love,
but the purpose of life is also to
experience joy, gain spiritual understanding
and self-awareness, play with the joyful
abandon of a child, absorb ourselves in the
delight of each moment, let go of obligation
and duty, and live for the pure joy of
being." (Jan
Price)
"We are sent here to live life fully, to
live it abundantly, to find joy in our own
creations ... to use our free will to expand
and magnify our lives." (Betty
Eadie)
"Life is a joyful game to be played and
everything works out perfectly. Sooner, if
played joyfully with love. Later, if not." (Dee
Rohe)
"We mustn't wait to find our heaven in the
clouds. We must find it here because it
exists here and will be whatever we make it
and whatever we are willing to accept of
it." (Tina)
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8. Life is About Preparing For Death |
"How we lived our lives in this world
determines which afterlife realm we have
earned and travel to after death." (Betty
Bethards)
"If we develop along the lines of unselfish
love while in this world, we make it better
for us when we die. It's what we are that
counts!" (Arthur
Yensen)
"Our lives in this world is a preparation
for a fuller, freer and richer spirit world.
It can be compared to life in the womb being
a preparation for a fuller, freer and richer
existence in the physical world." (Nora
Spurgin)
"Day by day we are building for eternity.
Every gentle word, every generous thought,
every unselfish deed will become a pillar of
eternal beauty in the life to come. (Rebecca
Springer)
"Our lives matter and is significant in
determining how far we can go into the
light." (Grace
Bubulka)
"The general rule of thumb is this: hellish
life, hellish afterlife - heavenly life,
heavenly afterlife. Death will not change a
hellish life into a heavenly afterlife, nor
does it change a heavenly life into a
hellish afterlife." (Dr.
Melvin Morse)
"If we educate ourselves as much as possible
about the spirit world, it makes our
transition there even better. Even if we
gain the smallest impression that there is
life after death, we are able to obtain
enlightenment and understanding. (Nora
Spurgin)
"We are preparing for death throughout our
whole lives." (Edgar
Cayce)
"Life in this world corresponds to our
external nature handling external resources.
Life in the spirit world corresponds to our
internal nature handling spiritual
resources." (Nora
Spurgin)
"It is best to kick our bad habits while in
the world. It is easier while in physical
form to break those shackles than it is to
undo them on the other side, where no
temptations are put in our way. There is no
reward for behaving correctly while in
spirit, because there is nothing to tempt us
otherwise. The hard school is in the
physical one, and it is here that we must
meet and overcome the temptations." (Ruth
Montgomery)
"Our quality of life in the spirit world is
directly affected our heart and activities
in the physical world." (Nora
Spurgin)
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9. Life is a Cycle by Which We Progress |
"Life is an endless cycle of improvements
and humans are not perfect yet." (Dr.
Frank Oski)
"Any habit-forming pleasure, and they are
endless, traps us into the cycle of rebirth
over and over, until our appetites are
finally put aside while we are in the
flesh." (Ruth
Montgomery)
"Everyone who passes through this world must
learn their final lessons in this world,
where our free will is called into play in a
fashion different from existence in other
realms of reality." (Edgar
Cayce)
"We progress at our own rate to reach the
light. If we do things that take us away
from the light, then we are perpetuating our
time here." (Amber
Wells)
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10. Life is God |
"Life is love is God. If you add anymore to
this definition then you are not making it
any better." (Chuck
Griswold)
"In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life.
Life is what you worship as God ... and
earth is only an atom in the universe of
worlds." (Edgar
Cayce)
"To know that life is God, is to know how
very special life is. We must be very
careful how we treat things in life because
how we treat things in life is how we treat
God. Do we destroy life or do we respect it?
Do we nurture life or do we abuse it? Do we
value life or do we take it for granted?" (Elsie
Seachrist)
"Life tries out different shapes and then
returns to where it came." (John
Star)
"Creation is about absolutely Pure
Consciousness coming into the experience of
life." (Mellen-Thomas
Benedict)
"Life is light itself." (Dr.
John Jay Harper)
God is life. (1
John 5:20)
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11. Life is About Us |
"The solar system we live in is our larger,
local body. We are much bigger than we
imagine. The world is this great created
being and we are the part of it that knows
that it is." (Mellen-Thomas
Benedict)
"The Earth, the sun, the moon, the darkness,
the light, the planets, and all forms of
life plants, rocks, animals, people are
interconnected." (Josiane
Antonette)
"The universe is God's dream. Humans are
already legendary throughout the cosmos of
consciousness. One of the things that we are
legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary
dreamers. In fact, the whole cosmos has been
looking for the meaning of life, the meaning
of it all. And it was the little dreamer who
came up with the best answer ever. We
dreamed it up." (Mellen-Thomas
Benedict)
"Our physical bodies have been alive
forever. They come from an unending stream
of life, going back to the Big Bang and
beyond." (Mellen-Thomas
Benedict)
"In conclusion, life (existence) is many
things: a river, a test, a challenge, a
pilgrimage, a journey, a mission, a world of
fun, a school, a transition, a preparation,
a shelter, and a lesson, just to name a few.
But life, in all its entirety, really is all
of it. Life is God." (Kevin
Williams)
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