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NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES

OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE
 

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Dr. Raymond Moody's Research
Ten Stages of Near Death Experience

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Real Stories of Near Death Experiences

   

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Dr. Kenneth Ring's Research

   

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Mr. Bob Monroe's Research
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Mr. Bruce Moen's Research
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Psychic Mary T. Browne's Research

 

 



 

         

 

   Near Death Experince | Life After Life | Witnessing Heaven
Meeting Dead Relatives | Being of Light (God) | Proof of Heaven

Amazing Descriptions of Heaven | Day of Judgment | Life Review
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Dr. Raymond Moody's Research
Near Death Experience (NDE) & Life After Life
 



 

Biography of Dr. Raymond Moody:
Dr. Raymond Moody, BA, MA, PhD (philosophy), PhD (psychology), MD

Dr. Raymond Moody was born on June 30, 1944 in Porterdale, Georgia state. He is a scholar and a joyful soul. Dr. Raymond Moody is a researcher, psychiatrist, philosopher and parapsychiologist, who pioneered research into Near Death Experience (NDE). He is most famous as an author of the books about Life After Death and Near-Death Experience, a term which he coined in 1975. He first attained widespread recognition in around 1977 with the publication Life After Life, his best-selling work on the Near-Death Experience (NDE). Prior to this book being published, almost no one had heard about the near death experience. He has pursued this subject in his subsequent works Reflections on Life After Life, The Light Beyond and other books.

Raymond Moody studied philosophy at the University of Virginia where he obtained a B.A. (1966), a M.A. (1967) and a PhD (1969) in the same subject philosophy. He also obtained another PhD in psychology from West Georgia College, Georgia, where he later became a professor in that topic. In 1976, he was awarded an M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia. In 1998 Moody was appointed Chair in Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After obtaining his M.D., Moody worked as a forensic psychiatrist in a maximum-security Georgia state hospital. Moody has been married three times. As of 2004, he is married to Cheryl, and they have one adopted son, Carter, and one adopted daughter, Carol Anne.

Dr. Moody, being an impassioned researcher, became interested in the phenomenon of near-death experiences during his medical training. After 25 years of working with the people who had NDE, Dr. Moody's book Life After Death details both the distressing signs and symptoms of the grieving process and the inspiring, transformational experiences that grief can bring about.

Since that time, Dr. Moody has written over eleven books and numerous articles in academic and professional literature about the subject NDE and created the Dr. John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind, a facility that enables people to experience altered states of consciousness for the purposes of education, entertainment and spiritual advancement. His research helped facilitating apparitions of deceased loved ones.


Awards
1. In 1988, Dr. Moody received the World Humanitarian Award in Denmark ,
2. In 1988, Dr. Moody also received a bronze medal in the Human Relations Category at the New York Film Festival for the movie version of Life after Life.


Near Death Experience (NDE) is Very Common in USA
In 1982 the Gallup polling organization discovered that 8 Million Adult Americans have had near death experiences. This is about one person in twenty, which a very large number that cannot be ignored or brushed off lightly. In 1997 the U.S. News & World Report survey found that over 15 Million Adult Americans have claimed to have had an NDE. Most people do not talk freely about their experiences for fear of ridicule.

Dr. Moody recorded, compared and analyzed the cases of well over 150 subjects who claimed to have had a NDE. Dr. Moore's research concluded that there are about 9 or 10 stages in which a person experiences a strange phenomenon called NDE after being found clinically dead for a number of minutes, or in some extreme cases a number of hours, and then returned to physical life. All of them who had a NDE reported that they felt extreme peace and happiness in virtually every instance. They also reported that they no longer have any fear of death. Incredibly though it may seem, a great many of these people had seen and experienced the same or very similar events during the period that they were clinically dead.

 

BACKCOVER OF THE BOOK “Life After Life" Published in 1977

A man is dying on his hospital bed. He hears himself “pronounced dead” by his doctor and nurses, as his heart stopped functioning and the brain’s electrical activity monitor (EEG) goes absolutely flat. He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing, and at the same time feels himself moving very rapidly through a long tunnel. After this, he suddenly finds himself outside of his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment, and he sees his own body from a distance, as though he is a spectator. He watches the resuscitation attempt from this unusual vantage point and is in a state of emotional upheaval.

After a while, he collects himself and becomes more accustomed to his surroundings. He notices that he still has a “body,” but one of a very different nature and with very different powers from the physical body he has left behind. Soon other things begin to happen. Other spirits come to meet and help him. He glimpses the spirits of relatives and friends who have already died, and a loving, warm spirit of a kind he has never encountered before—a Being of Light—appears before him. He is overwhelmed by the intense feelings of joy, love, and peace being transmitted by the Being of Light. The Being of Light asks him a question, nonverbally, to make him evaluate his life (life review) and helps him along by showing him a panoramic, instantaneous playback of the major events of his life (He sees his entire life from childhood till now like in a movie reel). At some point, he finds himself approaching some sort of barrier or border, apparently representing the limit between earthy life and the next life. Yet, he finds that that he must go back to the Earth, that the time for his death has not yet come. At this point he resists, for by now he is taken up with his experiences in the afterlife and does not want to return. He is overwhelmed by the intense feelings of joy, love, and peace. Despite his attitude, though, he reunites with his physical body and lives.

Later he tries to tell others about his Near Death Experience (NDE), but he has trouble doing so. In the first place, he can find no human words adequately to describe these unearthly episodes. In the second place, nobody would listen to him and pay attention to his highly remarkable experience. He also finds that others could scoff, and make fun about it, so he stops telling other people about his NDE. Still that experience affects his life profoundly, especially his views about death and its relationship to life.

His life changes forever, he becomes a changed man. He starts researching about NDE and becoming a religious guru or philosopher of some sort. He gains confidence on what would happen when he is really dead as the secret is just revealed to him. He even writes a best-selling book. He has no fear of death anymore, as he envisioned his destiny.

 



TEN STAGES OF NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE)
According to Dr. Raymond Moody's research there are about 9 or 10 stages in which a person experiences a strange phenomenon called NDE after being found clinically dead:

1. Floating Above the Body
At the point of physical death (clinically dead), the individuals found themselves floating above their physical bodies immersed in feelings of total peace and the absence of fear. Each deceased person found that he/she could hear the thoughts of those present and discovered that they could also move through walls and solid matter with great ease.

2. Passing Through The Tunnel
In about 40% of cases a tunnel appeared towards which they were drawn. They heard an uncomfortable and loud ringing or buzzing noise. They found themselves quickly moving through this tunnel often accompanied by a humming sensation.

3. The Light
As they move through this tunnel all individuals noticed that a light was getting closer to them and soon they found themselves arriving into this brilliant light.

4. Meeting Deceased Loved Ones
At this point many people reported meeting with deceased loved ones (relatives and friends). Occasionally some people saw cities of light that were more beautiful than anything we can imagine in physical reality.

5. Telepathic Communication
During this experience each individual discovered that they could communicate with others telepathically that results in immediate understanding, no language necessary.

6. The Being of Light
Most people then reported meeting a radiant being. Some believed this radiant being is God while others say He was Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, etc. It seemed that each person translated this being according to their own religious beliefs. Whoever this being actually was, He was full of love, compassion and understanding. Usually at this point the Being told the individual that they must return to physical life. However, before the person returned, they were shown a review of their physical lifetime like a movie reel.

7. The Life Review
This life review started at the person's birth and continued through their lifetime to the point at which they died. This panoramic life review did not occur in time, as we know it. People have described it as everything happening at the same time, but also occurring chronologically from the time of birth through childhood, adolescence and adult years right up to the point of their death. In this review the persons found themselves reliving all that they have done during their life. The individual not only saw every action that they have made in life but they also saw and felt the effects of their actions upon the lives of others.

8. No Judgment
In virtually every case the individual believed that they were actually judging themselves and what they have done during life. They feel great sadness during the parts of the review where their actions had hurt other people, but they also felt great joy for the actions that had made others happiness.

9. Reluctance to Return to the Physical Body
Once the life review was complete, the Being of light told the person that they must now return to physical life as they still have things to achieve before they can return to this wondrous place. Most people say that at this point they feel great reluctance to return as it would mean having to leave this rapturous and wonderful state of being.

10. Time Does not Exist
People who had near-death experiences always said that time in this state of being was either greatly compressed or does not exist at all. Some say that the experience could have lasted a second or even an eternity. In other words, it cannot be described in the normal language in which we understand time.

Dr. Raymond Moody’s Most Favorite Finding
Dr. Raymond Moody Said that The Most Incredible Thing in NDEs that He Studied Was the Encounter of the Being of Light. Almost All 150 Subjects of Dr. Raymond Moody Reported the Encounter of the Being of Light Immediately After the Crossover of the Tunnel. Typically the First Appearance Was Rather Dim Light, Which Rapidly Got Brighter and Brighter. The Individual Felt Some Sort of Unearthly Brilliance of Clear White Color. The Brilliancy of the Light Was Felt To be Indescribable, Yet It Did Not in Anyway Hurt the Eyes, Probably Because at this Point Onwards, the Individual Did Not Have Physical Eyes to be Dazzled, and Was Able to See and Enjoy the Other Activities or Things Around that Bright Light. Every Subject/Individual Witnessed That It Was Not Simply a Bright Light or a Thing But Was Certainly the Being of Light—Many Believed Wholeheartedly the Presence of God. The Subjects Reported that They Sensed an Irresistible Magnetic Attraction Towards the Superiority of the Being of Light, and the Attention of Every Subject Studied is Ineluctably Drawn to the Powerful Being of Light.

The First Thing That The Being of Light Said to Every Subject/Individual Was:
“What Have You Done So Far In Your Life and What Could You Show Me.”


NDEs of Dr. Raymond Moody's Subjects
Example 1: I heard the doctors say that I was dead, and that's when I began to feel as though I were floating through the blackness. Everything was very black, except I could see a light on the exit. It was a very, very brilliant light, but not too large at first. It grew larger as I came nearer and nearer to it.

I was trying to get to that light at the end, because I felt that it was Christ, and I was trying to reach that point. It was not a frightening experience. It was more or less a pleasant thing. For immediately, being a Christian, I had connected the light with Christ, who said, "I am the light of the world." I said to myself, "If this is it, if I am to die, then I know who waits for me at the end, there in that light."


Example 2: I got up and walked into the hall to go get a drink, and it was at that point, as they found out later, that my appendix ruptured. I became very weak, and I fell down. I began to feel a sort of drifting, a movement of my real being in and out of my body, and to hear beautiful music. I floated on down the hall and out the door onto the screened-in porch. There, it almost seemed that clouds, a pink mist really, began to gather around me, and then I floated right straight on through the screen, just as though it weren't there, and up into this pure crystal clear light, an illuminating white light. It was beautiful and so bright, so radiant, but it didn't hurt my eyes even a bit. It's not any kind of light you can describe on Earth. I didn't actually see a person in this light, and yet it has a special identity, it definitely does. It is a light of perfect understanding and perfect love.

The thought came to my mind, "Lovest thou me?" This was not exactly in the form of a question, but I guess the connotation of what the light said was, "If you do love me, go back and complete what you began in your life." And all during this time, I felt as though I were surrounded by an overwhelming love and compassion.

Example 3: I knew I was dying and that there was nothing I could do about it, because no one could hear me. I was out of my body, there's no doubt about it, because I could see my own body there on the operation room table. My soul was out! All this made me feel very bad at first, but then, this really bright light came into my sight. It did seem that it was a little dim at first, but then it was this huge beam. It was just a tremendous amount of light, nothing like a big bright flashlight, it was just too much light. And it gave off heat to me; I felt a warm sensation.
It was a bright yellowish white, more white. It was tremendously bright; I just can't describe it. It seemed that it covered everything, yet it didn't prevent me from seeing everything around me - the operating room, the doctors and nurses, everything. I could see clearly, and it wasn't blinding me at all.

At first, when the light came, I wasn't sure what was happening, but then, it asked, it kind of asked me if I was ready to die. It was like talking to a person, but a person wasn't there. The light's what was talking to me, but in a voice. Now, I think that the voice that was talking to me actually realized that I wasn't ready to die. You know, it was just kind of testing me more than anything else. Yet, from the moment the light spoke to me, I felt really good - secure and loved. The love which came from it is just unimaginable, indescribable. It was a fun person to be with! And it had a sense of humor, too - definitely!

 

 

Dr. Raymond Moody's Books On Amazon.com
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1. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death  Author: Raymond Moody, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1977.
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$14.00  Price: $11.20

2. The Light Beyond (Mass Market Paperback)
Author: Raymond Moody

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3. Through the Tunnel and Beyond, VHS Tape (2000)Starring: Raymond Moody
Used Price: $10.70
 

4. Coming Back - A Psychiatrist Explores Past-Life Journeys (Mass Market Paperback) Author: Raymond Moody
Price: $0.01
 

5. Coming Back: A Psychiatrist Explores Past-Life Journeys  Authors: Raymond A. Moody and Paul Perry   Price: $0.48

 

6. Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones  Authors: Raymond Moody and Paul Perry
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7. Life After Loss: Conquering Grief And Finding Ho  Authors: Raymond A. Moody and Dianne Arcangel
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8. The Last Laugh: A New Philosophy of Near-Death Experiences, Apparitions, and the Paranorma Author: Raymond A. Moody
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9. Reflections On Life After Life: More Important Discoveries In The Ongoing Investigation Of Survival Of Life After Bodily Death  Author: Raymond Moody
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife Paperback – October 23, 2012
by Eben Alexander (Author),
Price: $10.99

             1. Story of Dr. Eben Alexander
Dr. Eben Alexander has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years. Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Dr. Alexander “knew” that what people of faith call the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry.
 

In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, Dr. Alexander himself became a comatose patient. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. Alexander’s recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine Source of the Universe itself. Before Alexander underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. That difficulty with belief created an empty space that no professional triumph could erase. Today he is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.

After having the NDE, he wrote the book
 "
Eben Alexander: Proof of Heaven."
 



To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story Paperback – May 29, 2012 by
Mary C. Neal (Author), Price: $9.96

            2. Breathtaking Story of Dr. Mary Neal
Dr. Mary Neal is a board-certified orthopaedic spine surgeon, born and raised in Michigan and graduated from the University of Kentucky before attending the UCLA medical school. On Jan 14, 1999, Dr. Mary Neal drowned and died while kayaking on a South American river in Chile. When her Kayak was pinned and trapped underwater for 12 minutes, another Kayaker brought her to the shore, and noticed no breath or heartbeat for more than 24 minutes.  Neal was able to be resuscitated and remarkably suffered no brain damage. When Neal regained consciousness, she said she had been to heaven. She experienced life after death. She went to heaven and returned back, conversed with Jesus and experienced God’s encompassing love. She was returned to Earth with some specific instructions for work she still needed to do.
 

Mary Neal said that during her NDE in heaven, she saw some spiritual beings in a domed-structure. They had a sort of physical form, they had heads, arms, legs and were wearing sort of robes. They were all overjoyed to see Mary Neal and told her it 'wasn't her time' and was forewarned of her son's tragic death at an early age. This fortune-telling of spiritual beings in heaven was verified by Mary Neal as it became a reality in her own life. Mary Neal's 19-year-old son, Willie, when he was roller skiing, died 10 years later when a driver, distracted by his cell phone, struck him with his vehicle and killed him. Her life has been filled with miracles and intervention of God. Her story gives reason to live by faith and is a story of hope.
 
Dr. Mary C. Neal After NDE, Believes the Following:  
God's unconditional love for each of us is intense, complete, and is reflected in all of Heaven. Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit. Our time is so short that we need to live fulfilling God's business every day. After having the NDE, she wrote the book: 
"Mary C. Neal: To Heaven and Back."

 



Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You Paperback – Illustrated, October 20, 2015 by John Burke (Author), Don Piper (Foreword), Price: $9.05



 

  3. Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, 
God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

Imagine Heaven of John Burke is so thoroughly researched that even a skeptic can see that Burke has thought of every angle. He's researched near death experiences (NDEs) from all sorts of people: those who have nothing to gain and a lot of credibility to lose (e.g., doctors), those from other faiths, those with disabilities here who have no disabilities in heaven, and those who had negative experiences after dying.

All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author "John Burke" is no exception. In Imagine Heaven, Burke compares over 100 gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven: 
Will I be myself? Will I see my friends and loved ones?
What will Heaven look like? What is God like?
What will we do forever? What about children and pets?
 

For decades, Burke has been studying accounts of survivors brought back from near death who lived to tell of both heavenly and hellish experiences. While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors--including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people--point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible.

This thrilling journey into the afterlife will make you feel like you've been there. It will forever change the way you view the life to come and the way you live your life today. You'll discover Heaven is e
ven more amazing than you've ever imagined. His book is:
John Burke: Imagine Heaven

 




Light and Death Paperback –
November 1, 1998
by Michael Sabom (Author),
Price: $16.98
 

              4. NDE of Pam Reynolds in 1991

This near-death experience claim of Pam Reynolds (an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia) in 1991 at the age of 35 during a brain surgery has been considered by some believers to be evidence of the survival of consciousness after death, and of a life after death.

Her experience is one of the most widely documented.  Reynolds was under close medical monitoring during the entire operation. During the operation she had no brain-wave activity and no blood flowing in her brain, which rendered her clinically dead. She claimed to have made several observations during the procedure which later medical personnel reported to be accurate.

Reynolds reported that during the operation she heard a sound like a natural 'D' that seemed to pull her out of her body and allowed her to "float" above the operating room and watch the doctors perform the operation. Reynolds claims that during this time she felt "more aware than normal" and her vision was more focused and clearer than normal vision. Reynolds says she was able to identify surgical instruments and hear conversations between operating room staff.
 

Pam Reynolds claimed that during her near death experience, she encountered her grandmother, an uncle, other deceased relatives and people unknown to her. According to Reynolds, the longer she was there, the more she enjoyed it, but at some point in time she was reminded by her relatives that that she had to go back. She says her uncle brought her back to her body but she didn't want to go so he pushed her in accompanied by a sensation like that of jumping into ice water. Her case was published in a book authored by Michael Sabom.

 



Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing Hardcover – January 1, 2012
by Anita Moorjani (Author),
Price: $11.58

 

                5. Story of Anita Moorjani
Anita Moorjani was born in Singapore of Indian parents, moved to Hong Kong at the age of two, and has lived in Hong Kong most of her life. Because of her background and British education, she is multilingual and grew up speaking English, Cantonese, and an Indian dialect simultaneously; she later learned French at school. Anita had been working in the corporate world for many years before being diagnosed with cancer in April 2002. Her fascinating and moving near-death experience in early 2006 tremendously changed her perspective on life, and her work is now ingrained with the depths and insights she gained while in the other realm.

She had been a cancer patient for a long time. After the NDE,  her cancer disappeared.  She was aware that all the tests would show phenomenal results, and they did.  They found no trace of any disease on scans, biopsies, etc.  Her organs after NDE are functioning normally, her appetite came back, and she was made aware during the NDE that all of this would happen. After having the NDE, she wrote the book "Dying to Be Me."

 



When Will the Heaven Begin?: This Is Ben Breedlove's Story Paperback – October 29, 2013 by Ally Breedlove (Author), Ken Abraham (Author),
Price: $9.38

 

                 6. Story of Ben Breedlove
Ben Breedlove, 18, died on Christmas night (December 25, 2011) from a heart attack. He had three near-death experiences over the course of his 18 years short life. Just before he died in 2011, he recorded a video of his life, his illness and near-death experiences. CBS News reports that Breedlove was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) early in his life. HCM causes the heart walls to thicken, making it difficult for the heart to pump blood. In the first part of his video, entitled "This Is My Story," uploaded on December 18, 2011, a few days before he died, the teenager told his story holding up cards one by one with words written in blue marker. The first card says: "Hello, I'm Ben Breedlove. All my life I've had a heart condition."

He tells of his first near-death experience at the age of four: "The first time I cheated death was when I was four." He says he saw a bright light during his near-death state: "I couldn't take my eyes off it, and I couldn't help but smile. I had no worries at all, like nothing else in the world mattered." After he died, his story was published in a book titled:
 "When Will The Heaven Begin?"

 



The Journey Home Paperback – January 1, 1998 by Phillip L. Berman (Author), Price: $11.88
 

              7. Story of Rev. George Rodonaia
Pronounced dead immediately after he was hit by a car in 1976 while trying to leave the URSS, Reverend George Rodonaia was left for three days in the morgue. He did not "return to life" until a doctor began to make an incision in his abdomen as part of an autopsy procedure. Prior to his NDE he worked as a neuropathologist. He was also an avowed atheist. However, after the experience he devoted himself exclusively to the study of spirituality, taking a second doctorate in the psychology of religion. He then became an ordained priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He served as a pastor at the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Baytown, Texas.

At this point, Reverend George Rodonaia held an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuropathology and a Ph.D. in the psychology of religion. He delivered a keynote address to the United Nations on the "Emerging Global Spirituality." Before emigrating to the USA from the Soviet Union in 1989, he worked as a research psychiatrist at the University of Moscow.
He died in 2004.

Dr. Rodonaia's NDE was published in a book
The Journey Home.
              
 



90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life Paperback – Bargain Price, September 1, 2004 by Don Piper (Author), Cecil Murphey (Author), Price: $9.42
 

              8. Story of Rev. Don Piper
In 1989, Reverend Don Piper of Pasadena, California was travelling in a car when it was crushed by an 18-wheeler in a head-on crash. Paramedics declared him dead. He was without a pulse, he says, for 90 minutes.  "The steering wheel impaled me in the chest and then the car's roof collapsed on my head so there's just no way you could survive this accident," he said.

However, he says that the experience he had before rejoining the living could not be explained as anything other than life after death or NDE. He says he remembers music that was "beyond spectacular'" and aromas that he'd never smelled before. His grandfather was there to greet him alongside several other relatives who had died before him. They all stood in front of a magnificent gate with lights that were "pulsating with life," he said.

Mr. Piper, who endured dozens of surgeries to fix his bones, had to learn to walk again. A True Story of Death and Life. He believes he was sent back to spread the message that "heaven is a real place." His NDE, the trauma he suffered in the car accident, and his miraculous recovery was published in a book, The New York Times best-seller,
entitled "90 Minutes in Heaven."
 



Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back Paperback – Unknown format, October 31, 2010, Price: $9.98
 

            9. Story of a 4-Year-Old Boy "Colton"
Colton Burpo was a 4-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor. After discovering that Colton's appendix had ruptured, in 2003, he was rushed to the hospital. During emergency surgery, the 4-year-old Colton slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to float above the operating table and look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.

The boy alleges to have met Jesus, God, his great-grandfather, whom he had never met, and his older sister who was lost in a miscarriage but nobody had told him about it. Colton also made other extra-biblical claims that he personally met "Jesus" riding a rainbow-colored horse while he was sitting in Jesus' lap and the angels sang songs to him. He also says that he saw the Virgin Mary kneeling before the throne of God and, at other times, standing beside Jesus.  Colton’s amazing NDE and his trip to heaven was described in The New York Times best-selling Christian book
"Heaven is for Real (2010).”

 




Plato's Republic (complete) Paperback – July 15, 2001 by Plato (Author), Albert A. Anderson (Editor), Benjamin Jowett (Translator), Price: $7:80
 

              10. Oldest NDE On Record by Plato
Plato's Republic is the Oldest NDE on Record, written by the famed Greek philosopher Plato in 380 BC. Plato's 'Republic' is one of the most important works of ancient Greek philosophy, and one of the foundation pieces of political science and political philosophy of that and subsequent ages.

Although it's called the "Myth of Er", the word "myth" in this case means "word, speech, account," rather than the modern meaning. The story begins as a man named Er dies in battle. Ten days later, when the bodies of those who died in the battle are collected, Er's body has not decomposed. Two days later he revives on his funeral-pyre and tells others of his journey into the afterlife, including an account of reincarnation and the celestial spheres of the astral plane. The tale introduces the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people are punished after death. The story includes an account of the cosmos and the afterlife that greatly influenced religious, philosophical, and scientific thought for many centuries. Plato was not only a great philosopher, but also a great writer.


 



Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again Paperback, April 2, 2013, Price: $9.78
 

                11. Story of Crystal McVea

For most of Crystal’s broken life, she felt utterly beyond the reach of God, and never had any faith in God and was a serious skeptic. Suddenly on December 10, 2009, everything changed, Crystal McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, stopped breathing. Her face turned a dark shade of blue, then black. Her mother screamed for help, and a nurse tried to revive her. For nine minutes she was unconscious and unable to breathe on her own. She has no memory of the panic and the rushing nurses and the loud cries of “Code Blue.” She simply remembers drifting off, and she remembers waking up all of a sudden in heaven.

Her book
Waking Up in Heaven invites readers along on a journey to witness the relentless pursuit of God in a life that was shattered and seemingly beyond hope, an awe-inspiring account of love, forgiveness, and redemption, and the healing power of God’s presence. And that is why I want to share my story with the world. Because I was a skeptic and a sinner, and I didn’t believe in God or in heaven. But God is real. Heaven is real. And God’s love for us is the realest thing of all.
 



My Journey to Heaven: What I Saw and How It Changed My Life Paperback – September 1, 2012, Price: $11.99
 

                12. Story of Marvin Besteman
On April 28, 2006, as he lay in his hospital bed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, visions of celestial beauty were the last thing on Marv Besteman's mind. He had just had surgery to remove a rare pancreatic tumor. It was after visiting hours and his family had left for the day. Alone and racked with pain, Marv tossed and turned, wanting more than anything else to simply sleep and escape the misery and discomfort for a while. The retired banker, father, and grandfather had no idea he was about to get a short reprieve in the form of a Near Death Experience he never could have imagined.

In his astounding NDE, Marv Besteman encountered angels who accompanied him to the gate, his conversation (argument, really) with St. Peter, and his recognition of friends and family members who touched his life. His story offers peace, comfort, and encouragement to those who have lost loved ones and gives security and solace to those who are grieving, dying, or wonder about the afterlife. Marv believed God sent him back to earth to complete and fulfill this mission. However Marv returned to heaven in January 2012. He was born in 1934.

His NDE is described in the book
"
Marv Besteman: My Journey to Heaven."
 



Near-Death Experiences as Evidence for the Existence of God and Heaven: A Brief Introduction in Plain Language Paperback – November 22, 2012, Price: $9.44

       13. God & Heaven Exist: NDEs Are The Evidence
Reports of near-death experiences (NDEs) are flooding the media with books, articles and interviews. People describe hovering over their bodies, details of their surgeries, talking with deceased relatives, and reviewing their lives in vivid detail, often while their brains should be incapable of producing rational thought or memories.
 

While the accounts are no doubt interesting, do they provide any solid evidence for the afterlife and the existence of God? Miller (the author) argues, in nontechnical and engaging prose, that it does indeed. He began his study doubting that NDEs provided such evidence, but found himself convinced by the weight of the evidence. In the multiple award-winning book, the reader will explore: The common naturalistic explanations for NDEs, Evidence that NDEs point to God and heaven, and The results of 35 years of research into NDEs by doctors and other professionals, fully documented for those who want to study further.

Miller's Book:

Near-Death Experiences as Evidence for the Existence of God and Heaven

 



Near-Death Experiences, The Rest of the Story: What They Teach Us About Living and Dying and Our True Purpose Paperback – March 1, 2011 by P.M.H. Atwater (Author), Price: $20.13

    14. Near Death Experiences: The Rest of The Story
"Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story” is written by one of the foremost near-death experience researchers, P.M.H Atwater. This book is a treasure trove of over 30 years of her research. The book is well written and remarkably easy to read given its comprehensiveness. In a world rife with uncertainty and struggles, P.M.H.'s Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story provides priceless insights, soothing reassurance, and life-changing inspiration.

Real-life stories of out-of-body experiences, encountering a special light, greeters from the afterlife, life reviews, tunnels, and 360-degree vision--are all part of this intriguing look at near-death experiences (NDEs) by one of the world's noted authorities, P.M.H. Atwater. Atwater shares her amazing findings, based on her sessions with more than 4,000 adults and children, and over 40 years of research; a breathtaking culmination to a successful and controversial career.

This review of over 3,000 NDE cases belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the survival of consciousness. The inescapable conclusion of her intensive study is in keeping the conclusion that "always there is life."


 



Return From Heaven: Beloved Relatives Reincarnated Within Your Family Mass Market Paperback – April 29, 2003
by Carol Bowman (Author),
Price: $9.60

 

         15. Return From Heaven:
 
Beloved Relatives Reincarnated Within The Family

What if you could see and recognize a loved one reincarnated into your own family and you recognized him/her from the birth marks or characteristics of his/her habits, mannerism and/or behavior. What if you knew that your loved one already passed away to heaven, but is actually living again with a new body within your own family. It is possible, says Carol Bowman, author of Children’s Past Lives and a pioneer in reincarnation studies.

Based on in-depth research and direct observation of very young children, she shows in this groundbreaking book how common it is for beloved relatives to reincarnate into the same family. Typical families share how their children -- some as young as two and still in diapers -- speak spontaneously of intimate details from the lives of a family member they never knew. These true stories shed new light on age-old questions of family relationships: Do we choose our parents? What relationships survive death? What happens to the soul after a miscarriage or abortion? Bowman offers hope for anyone who has lost a beloved relative and longs to be reunited again. For more details, read the book from Carol Bownan:


    
Return From Heaven: Beloved Relatives Reincarnated Within Your Family



 




 

        16. Near Death Experience of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor was interviewed by Larry King on CNN's Larry King Live and also by ABC News. Famous actress Elizabeth Taylor spoke about her experience of dying on the operating table while undergoing surgery, and of passing through a tunnel towards a brilliant white light (White Sun she said).Ms Taylor said that while she was pronounced clinically dead, she had encountered the spirit of her third ex-husband Michael Todd who was killed in a plane crash in 1958, whom she referred to as her great love. She finds it very hard to talk about, actually, because it sounds so corny. It happened in the late '50s. She had wanted to stay with Todd, she said, but he had told her that she should get back to her life as she had work and life ahead of her, and she insisted that her ex-husband pushed her to go back. Following her resuscitation, the eleven-person medical team, including doctors, nurses, others, witnessed Ms. Taylor's testimonial of this event.

She'd been gone into NDE for about five minutes. The medical team had given up any hope, declared her dead and put her death notice on the wall. She shared this with people that were in the next room. Then after that she told another group of friends, and sounded "Wow" or really screwy. She then realized that she'd better keep quiet about telling NDE story to others.

                    

    Elizabeth Taylor's Interview with Oprah Winfrey (about her NDE)
    Elizabeth Taylor's Interview with TV Anchor Diane Sawyer (about her NDE)
                 

   



Science and the Afterlife Experience: Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness Paperback–August 22, 2012 by Chris Carter (Author),
Price: $20.95

        17. Science and the Afterlife Experience:  
          Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness
The author "Chris Carter" of this book “Science and The Afterlife Experience” examines 125 years of scientific research into reincarnation, apparitions, and communication with the dead showing these phenomena are real.

Reveals the existence of higher planes of consciousness where the souls of the dead can choose to advance or manifest once again on Earth. Explains how these findings have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with materialist doctrines.

“Scientists and philosophers who have seriously studied the phenomenon of mediumship have concluded that there are only two hypotheses that, if true, would account for all the observed empirical data: either (i) human consciousness survives the death of its body or (ii) human consciousness possesses extraordinary abilities known as super–ESP. In Science and the Afterlife Experience, Chris Carter presents the data supporting survival with remarkable clarity and shows that the so–called “super–ESP” hypothesis is pseudo–science, and that its “purpose” is not to advance knowledge but rather to block an otherwise straight–forward inference from empirical data to the hypothesis of survival.

 



The Science of Life After Death: New Research Shows Human Consciousness Lives on Paperback – August 15, 2009
by Stephen Hawley Martin (Author), Price: $24.11
 

      18. The Science of Life After Death:
       New Research Shows Human Consciousness Lives On
A lengthy and exhaustive study by the University of Virginia Medical School clearly indicates consciousness continues after death in at least some cases, if not all. This particular study, begun in 1961 and continuing today. Over the years, more than 2600 of the cases were investigated. Many children claimed to have been in previous lives. Birthmarks and birth defects found on these children, such as missing fingers, hands or limbs, also frequently have been found to correspond to fatal wounds received in the previous life as recorded in autopsy reports.

Research by the Windbridge Institute strongly indicates it may be possible for living loved ones to get in touch with deceased loved ones.
Stephen Martin invites the reader into his book to learn more about the life after death phenomenon. However this book requires an open mind. There are many theories presented that are not popular, while others are widely popular. There is discussion of ESP, Out of Body Experiences (OBE), use of mediums to connect with those who have gone on, and more.

Stephen Hawley Martin: The Science of Life After Death: New Research Shows Human Consciousness Lives On
 



The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation 2nd Printing Edition
by Janice Miner Holden (Editor), Bruce Greyson (Editor), Debbie James (Editor), Price: $43.59
 

        19. The Handbook of Near-Death
   Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation

Experts from around the world share the history and current state of near-death experience (NDE) knowledge. They explore controversies in the field, offer stories from their research, and express their hopes for the future of investigation into this fascinating phenomenon.
 

As modern medical techniques for resuscitation advance, NDEs are more frequently reported. These include more than the popular notions of moving through a tunnel, seeing a light, meeting deceased relatives greeting, and conversing with God. They also include people, once revived, knowing things their knowledge of which can't currently be explained. As The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation makes clear, great controversy exists in the medical and psychological fields concerning NDEs. Are they caused by physiological changes in the brain, or are they biological reactions to oxygen loss or impending death? Are they a product of changing states of consciousness? Or are they caused by something else altogether? All of these ideas and more are discussed in this unique and comprehensive volume, "The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences."

 



Quantum Physics, Near Death Experiences, Eternal Consciousness, Religion, and the Human Soul Paperback – January 1, 2012
by William Joseph Bray (Author),
Price: $19.77

20. Quantum Physics, Near Death Experiences,
  Eternal Consciousness, Religion, and the Human Soul
William Joseph Bray, creates this book around the double-slit experiment that proved that matter and energy can display characteristics of both waves and particles. The light (wave) when measured, collapses into particle (photon), which is the same than saying that consciousness would be like the light-wave eternal infinite that by observing, collapses into finite particles. Matter would only exist when observed by consciousness, while consciousness remains everywhere, at all times, infinite and eternal. This is derived from a proven experiment made by precise physics. That is why when we are confined to the collapsed finite universe, which we observe from our consciousness, we live with limited perceptions in measured time and space. But when we abandon the collapsed universe and return to our infinite eternal consciousness, past, present and future are simultaneous but not subsequent.

The author knows this because he lived it, through his many near-death experiences.
So we have here a unique opportunity to be in touch with a physicist, who at the sametime has "traveled" to the "other world" and returned, to offer us his experience, and analyze it with his knowledge as a physicist and scientist. He also teaches us methods of his design to heal.

        
His book: Quantum Physics, Near Death Experiences

 
   

 

 

 

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Dr. Kenneth Ring's Research
Near Death Experience (NDE)

 

Biography of Dr. Kenneth Ring:
Kenneth Ring, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and co-founder and Past President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). He is one of the world's chief authorities on near-death experiences. He was the first to offer scientific validation for these remarkable experiences after they had been anecdotally described by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody. Dr. Ring is also the author of several books about near-death experiences including Life at Death (1980), Heading Toward Omega (1984), The Omega Project (1992), and most recently, Lessons from the Light and (with Sharon Cooper) the forthcoming Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Kenneth Ring is retired from the NDE field since 1998.
 

Dr. Ken Ring read Raymond Moody's book, Life After Life, and was inspired by it. Dr. Ken Ring confirmed the research findings of Dr. Raymond Moody, and replicated the NDE research of Dr. Raymond Moody. However, he felt that a more scientifically structured study would strengthen Moody's findings. He sought out 102 near-death survivors in course of 20 years for his research.

        Dr. Ken Ring's Research Conclusions are Listed Below:
   
    1. NDEs happen to people of all races, genders, ages, education, marital status, and social class.
       
2. Religious orientation is not a factor.
       
3. People are convinced of the reality of their NDE.
        4. Drugs do not appear to be a factor.
       
5. NDEs are not hallucinations.
       
6. NDEs often involve unparalleled feelings.
       
7. People lose their fear of death and appreciate life more after having an NDE.
       
8. People's lives are transformed positively after having an NDE.



Blind People Were Able to See During NDE:

Dreams, hallucinations, or illusions are normally either extensions of reality or distortions of reality. However, what people explain about the NDE is that it is beyond reality as we know it, it is the experience of another dimension. The questions that these researchers are trying to answer by saying that NDErs are mixing dream with reality has already been answers by Dr. Kenneth Ring. He wanted to find out whether NDEs where like dreams and did a study with 31 blind people, of which 14 where blind from birth. 80% where able to see for the very first time in their NDE. They were able to describe the scenes as if they were not blind. What is important here is that blind people do not see in their dreams, only touch, smell, feel, etc. so being able to see during their experience clearly suggests that the NDE is unlike the dream state. 

The physicist, David Bohm, said that the energy of the universe is not a neutral energy but an energy of love, and the near-death experience returns from his or her encounter with death, not just to confirm Bohm's intuition but to communicate it to others. This is the message that those who have already died have to give to those who are about to die.  
 

 

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More Books on Near Death Experience
Available On Amazon.com

1. Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences (Hardcover)
Author: Susan Blackmore

 

 Price: $19.94

2. The Near-Death Experience: A Reader (Paperback)
Author: Lee W. Bailey
"What happens when people die

 

 Price: $17.71

3. The New Children and Near-Death Experiences
Author: P. M. H. Atwater, Joseph Chilton Pearce

 

  Price: $16.62

4. The Day I Died: Remarkable True Stories of Near-Death Experience (Paperback)
Author: Tammy Cohen

 

  Price: $7.45

5. Visions of God from the Near Death Experience
Author: Ken R. Vincent

 

  Price: $6.71

6. Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times (Paperback)
Author: Carol Zaleski

 

  Price: $23.08

7. Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience
Author: Mark Fox

 

  Price: $27.99

   

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Mr. Robert/Bob Monroe's Research
Out of the Body Experience
Life in the Higher Levels of Consciousness
Scientists From Focus 27 Level May Soon Communicate with Humans
 

  

Biography of Mr. Robert A Monroe
Mr. Robert Allan Monroe (October 30, 1915–March 17, 1995)
Mr. Robert Monroe was a pioneer in consciousness research. He founded The Monroe Institute (TMI) and developed the Hemi-Sync sound system, which are used to put you in altered states of consciousness so that you are able to have out-of-body experiences (OBE) and experience levels of consciousness that we do not normally experience. His books describe his experiences in the astral/spirit worlds. Many people (such as Mr. Bruce Moen) who have become proficient at astral projection and Afterlife are now using their skills to rescue earthbound spirits (ghosts or confused souls) and help them to understand that they are physically dead and that they need to move on to the next level of consciousness.

Mr. Monroe was born
in Lexington, Kentucky in 1915. His mother was a medical doctor and his father was a college professor. He began formal school when he was 4-year-old in Lexington, Kentucky. He completed his academic history at Ohio State University where he studied pre-med, engineering, arts and sciences. He earned his Bachelor's degree BA in Engineering from Ohio State University in 1937. Upon graduation, Mr. Monroe worked as a writer and director at two Ohio radio stations. Two years later he moved to New York and expanded his broadcasting career, producing and directing weekly radio programs and eventually forming his own radio production company. During the 1950s his company was producing 28 radio shows per month, including the popular Take a Number and Meet Your Match quiz shows. At this time Mr. Monroe became well known as a composer of music for radio, television, and motion pictures. He was a very down-to-earth rational and had no interest or experience in anything esoteric. He also served as vice president and member of the board of directors for the Mutual Broadcasting System network, was listed in Who's Who in America, and was publicized in magazine and newspaper articles on flying and radio production. Building on this success, Mr. Monroe's production company acquired several radio stations in North Carolina and Virginia, and later moved into developing cable television systems.

In 1958 Mr. Robert Monroe was working with sound production when he found that altered states may be induced by sound. He was his own main subject experimenting with altered states induced by sound, and this work may have contributed to his episodes of out-of-body experiences. These led to tests by psi researcher Mr. Charles Tart and later to Mr. Monroe's first book, "Journeys Out of the Body."

Mr. Robert Monroe's First Out o the Body Experience
Spontaneously, in 1950s, one night he had what at first appeared to be a very strange dream. In this “dream” he found himself floating above his physical body while looking down on his sleeping body below. He got such a fright that he literally “swam” his way back to his physical body & almost immediately was inside it again. This was Bob Monroe's first out-of-body experience. This experience began to reoccur so often that he thought that he must be seriously ill, perhaps with a brain tumor. These Out-of-Body Experiences were always preceded by a strange vibration sensation that would begin at the feet and work it's way up his body. As he was unable to control these sensations and experiences he became convinced that he was going to die. He visited numerous doctors and had many tests carried out on him. These tests proved nothing out of the ordinary and showed that there was nothing wrong with him.


Eventually, while discussing these experiences with a friend, the friend excitedly informed Mr. Monroe that what he was experiencing sounded like Astral Travel. He told him that only Mystics, Yogis and Shamans of the East had the ability to leave their physical bodies temporarily to achieve indescribable mystical insights. Understandably, Bob certainly did not share his friend’s enthusiasm, but finally he had some explanation that at least made some sense. Later, he decided to experiment and see to what use he could put his new talents.

In the 1950s, Mr. Monroe began studying what happens to consciousness while the body is asleep. His first experiments consisted of listening to tapes that contained various types and combinations of sounds. He also experimented with sounds and binaural frequencies to assist the learning process during sleep. While testing the technology (which became Hemi-Sync) it triggered his first out-of-body experience. This moment was also the catalyst for the metaphysical chapter in his life. Throughout the next 20 years Mr. Monroe continued to explore, research, and teach others about expanded states of human consciousness and practical methods of enhancing human potential. He developed a series of multi-day workshops that enable participants to personally experience realms beyond physical time-space reality, built a campus for teaching and research, and created a portfolio of audio exercises designed to focus attention, reduce stress, improve meditation, enhance sleep, and manage pain among other applications.

Mr. Robert Monroe's Journeys into the Afterlife
In1971, Mr. Monroe published his first book “Journeys Out of the Body,” which is credited with popularizing the term "Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)". His remarkable voyages of discovery in the non-physical states of existence are documented in his three books:

 
1. Journeys Out of the Body (1971)
  2. Far Journeys (
1985)
  3.
Ultimate Journey (
1994)


In 1978, Mr. Robert Monroe decided to set up a research organization called The Monroe Institute (TMI), which carried on his work until and after his death. Initially this organization was dedicated to studying this strange phenomenon (Out of Body Experience and Journeys to Afterlife) that was occurring to him. It later evolved its scope into a potent research organization for studying and experimenting with human consciousness of the entire human race.

THE MONROE INSTITUTE (TMI)
http://www.monroeinstitute.org
The world's leading education center for the study of human consciousness. For over 50 years the Monroe Institute has been welcoming consciousness explorers from all over the world. Our nondogmatic experiential approach allows you to pursue your own personal exploration of human consciousness. Monroe programs include the use of Monroe Sound Science along with exercises to target specific states of consciousness.
 

Mr. Monroe died in 1995, at the age of 80. His legacy continues today and has touched the lives of literally millions of people all around the world.
 

FOCUS LEVELS
Focus levels
is a concept created by Mr. Robert Monroe and the The Monroe Institute. It is supposed to define the various planes of the afterlife and/or the various levels of consciousness. The afterlife is believed to be organized by these levels and humans on earth are believed to be able to experience these levels. The concept of focus levels is used by several others, including Mr. Bruce Moen. The levels are numbered, with focus level 1 being Earth and higher levels being more and more spiritual by nature.

Focus Levels 1 to 22:  M
ainly inhabited by people in physical existence. 
Focus Levels 23 to 27: Inhabited by people (non-physical-beings) afterlife.

Through mapping these different focus states or levels of consciousness, we are in fact mapping the territory of the afterlife. A fair-minded person's goal should be to inhabit in Focus 27.
 

FOCUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (ACCORDING TO ROBERT MONROE)

 

 Focus  Level

Description/Explanation

Focus 1
(C1)

C1 Consciousness or Earth. Full Physical Waking Consciousness. The level of awareness in which most people spend most of their daily, normal, waking lives. The everyday, ordinary reality of the physical world in which we live.
 

Focus 3

Basic Hemi-Sync. The first level where a participant's first exposure to the concept and technology of Hemi-Sync starts to have an effect on the person.
 

Focus 10

Mind Awake & Body Asleep. The physical body sleeps and the mind is awake and alert. Consciousness is fully retained without dependence upon signals from the physical body. Conceptual tools are developed that the participant may use to reduce anxiety and tension, for healing, for remote viewing and for establishing resonance with other individuals. In Focus 10, much like the dream state, we learn to think in images rather than in words.
 

Focus 12

Expanded Awareness. The awareness is expanded beyond the limits of the physical body. Focus 12 has many different facets, including: exploring nonphysical realities, decision making, problem solving and enhanced creative expression.
 

Focus 15

No Time exists. The awareness is expanded beyond time and place. The state of "No Time" is a level of consciousness which opens avenues of the mind that offer vast opportunities for self exploration beyond the constraints of time and place.
 

Focus 21

Other Energy Systems. The awareness is expanded to realities and energy systems beyond normal time, space and physical matter.
 

Focus 22

At this level people are unconscious or partly conscious. People in coma, suffering from delirium or dementia, under the influence of drugs or alcohol; patients who are anesthetized or comatose. This level is chaotic, people are confused and very difficult to communicate with.
 

The levels above are mainly inhabited by people in physical existence. 
At the levels below, there are no physical beings.

Focus 23

In Focus 23, the human inhabitants tend to be those no longer physically alive who have become "stuck" for one reason or another. Often they are confused about or unaware of their death. Many here attempt to maintain contact with the physical world around familiar people or places. These are the ones we call ghosts. Focus 23 inhabitants are stuck because they are unable to leave through their own resources. The range of their free-will choices is extremely narrow. They are typically alone and completely isolated from communication with other humans. This can occur through the circumstances of their death or habitual patterns of thinking prior to death.
 

Focus 24
Focus 25
Focus 26
Belief System

The Belief System Territories
Inhabitants of The Belief System Territories are attracted to specific locations by Afterlife beliefs they held while physically alive. Every set of Afterlife beliefs held by humans at any time has a specific location with these Focus levels. In a sense, Belief System Territory inhabitants are stuck like those in Focus 23. The difference is that they are not isolated from contact with others. All inhabitants of a specific Territory are in contact with all others sharing their beliefs. Contact with anyone holding conflicting beliefs is severely limited. Free will choices here are restricted to only those compatible with the prevailing beliefs. Some of these areas look like Heavens, some look like Hells. Each one is rigidly structured around the beliefs held by the inhabitants. It is extremely difficult to move people from this area to areas of greater free will choice.
 

Focus 27
Most Important
Afterlife Area

Focus 27 is the Afterlife Area
This is the greatest "free-will" choice for its inhabitants. It's an area created by humans and often resembles physical earth environments. Contact and communication is open between all inhabitants. Many people living in Focus 27 provide assistance to new arrivals in their adjustment to living in the Afterlife. It is a highly organized and structured area. There are Centers of activity here providing for the needs of human beings in their continuing development in the Afterlife. In my explorations, there are Centers for: Education, Life Review, Health and Rejuvenation, Planning, Scheduling, Rehabilitation, Humor, and many others. These Centers also coordinate activities in the physical world, through incarnations, to assist in human development.
 

   


Electronic Communication with Afterlife

Although it may sound remarkable, there are scientists working in Focus 27 level who are in communication with those in physical life. Some of these scientists in Focus 27 are currently working on projects that will enable two-way communication between those who are physically alive and those who have died, using physical life technology. Although this may appear astounding, much progress has been made. Numerous groups around the world have been receiving messages on computers, audio tape, telephone and even television. Although it may be difficult for you to believe that such things are actually possible, you will hear a lot more about this technology over the next decade or over the next few years.
 

About Reincarnation
Whatever activity we choose on arriving in Focus 27, there may comes a point where we decide to return to physical life, through reincarnation, in order to grow more fully or help others grow or even bring a wonderful new invention into physical reality.
 

Reincarnation was the central idea of Monroe's philosophy, which he said he learned over decades of astral travel. Mr. Monroe taught that the self that we know with this physical life is merely a fragment of the "Total Self." The "Total Self" of each individual represents a cluster of many fragments within, and each fragment is a being that lives many lifetimes.

         
       P.S.: This information matches with the findings of Dr. Michael Newton.


 

 Robert Monroe's Technique For Triggering an OBE:

1. First lie down in a darkened room in a relaxing position. 
2. Loosen your clothing and remove all jewelry.
3. Enter into a very relaxing state and consciously tell yourself that
       you will remember everything that happens at this time.

4. Begin breatheing through your half-open mouth. 
5. Concentrate on an object.
6. When other images start to enter your mind, passively watch them. 
7. Try to clear your mind and observe your field of vision through your closed eyes.
8. Do nothing more for a while.
9. Simply look through your closed eyelids at the blackness in front of you.
10. After a while, you may notice light patterns.
11. When these cease, a state of such relaxation will happen that
          you lose all awareness of the body.
12. You are almost in the state where your only source of stimulation
          will be your own thoughts.
13. It is this relaxed condition where out-of-body journeys are triggered.
14. To leave your body, think of yourself getting lighter
         and of how nice it would be to float upwards.
 
15. With sufficient practice Monroe claims that a wide variety of experiences occur.
 

 

There are a wide variety of psychic and spiritual states that can result from leaving the body consciously. The traveler can find himself or herself in either formed states (those containing objects) or amorphous states when leaving the body in this way.

One type of conscious transition occurs when the traveler simply disconnects the inner spiritual self from the physical body, and moves out and away from the physical body consciously. This disconnection happens frequently in near-death experience where the injured person moves a short distance from the physical body and observes it.
 


Books of Mr. Robert A Monroe

Mr. Robert Monroe chronicled his OBEs in the following 3 best-selling books:

In his 1st book
Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Mr. Robert Monroe's experiences are intriguing. He writes about mystical experiences such as "lucid dreams" or "astral projections" as if they could really be journeys out of the body in THIS world, almost as if he were a ghost. Occultists would call this the etheral body. For example, he writes that he obtained knowledge of things in the physical world, that he couldn't have possibly known if his experiences didn't actually take him to real places. Mr. Monroe describes his vibrations as the first step toward an out of body experience.

In his 2nd book Far Journeys (1985), Mr. Robert Monroe explains clearly about non-local reality, techniques for OBE's and how a very normal person reacts to and processes these odd occurrences, and the readers can learn a lot about how the author gained much insight from his out-of-body travels. Once you master the OBE, you become psychic, telepathic and the body is less likely to suffer physical trauma as a result of accidents. Mr. Monroe clearly describes two incidents where he fell down a steep flight of stairs head first and landed smack on his head both times. However, he said that his head touched the ground gently, like a feather, while his legs remained dangling in the air. His legs then gently draped down onto the stairs and he suffered no pain and developed no bruises. 

In his 3rd book
Ultimate Journey (1994), Mr. Robert Monroe's weird and wonderful adventures on other planes of reality were described. That book, which has sold more than a million copies, helped cement the concept of astral travel into the American psyche and made the out-of-body experience (OBE) a household word. Mr. Monroe not only helped others understand this state of being, but through his research on binaural beats and his development of the technology known as Hemi-Sync, he made the OBE accessible through programs at The Monroe Institute (TMI), which is attended by thousands of people each year. However, Mr. Monroe made consciousness research more than an esoteric thrill ride. He put his technology to practical use by creating frequencies that have helped people with everything from meditation and learning, to insomnia, quitting smoking, and pain control.

 

Out of the Body Experience by Robert A Monroe

When an OBE is triggered, your nonphysical body is like a kite on an invisible cordat the other end of the invisible cord is your physical body. You can go anywhere in any time, past, present, or future via OBEs. You can go directly to any chosen place and observe what is there in detail and what is going on. At your target site you can move around the area to observe from different perspectives. The only problem is that you cannot pickup physical objects, because your hand goes right through them.
 
You can go anywhere on Earth, or in it or through it. You can move outward and play around the moon and the entire solar system. Thus we saw and knew the other side of the moon even before NASA probes took their pictures. It was the same with Mars, where we were looking for artifacts such as buildings or structures that might indicate some form of intelligent life. Getting back to the physical body is no problem
—it can happen within a blink of an eye. The explorer simply has to focus on his physical body. There is no speed of light limitation.
 


 


 

Mr. Robert A Monroe's Books On Amazon.com
 

1. Journeys Out of the Body
Author: Robert Monroe
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Mr. Bruce Moen's Research
Life After Death Experience
Afterlife in the Higher Levels of Consciousness
Out of the Body Experience; Afterlife Knowledge; Voyages into the Afterlife Territories
 

   

Biography of Mr. Bruce Moen
Mr. Bruce Moen lives in Denver, Colorado, USA. He is a mechanical engineer, an engineering consultant in his own firm, turned afterlife explorer, author and international lecturer or teacher of Afterlife knowledge.
 
Since childhood Mr. Moen has been curious about where would we go when we die. He learned to explore Afterlife by following that curiosity. It led him to the Lifeline program in 1992 at The Monroe Institute (TMI) in Faber, Virginia, founded by out of body explorer and author Mr. Robert A. Monroe, where he first learned to explore the afterlife. After learning to explore the afterlife for nearly four years he proved to himself we continue to exist beyond death. He teaches workshops in which he shares his experiences and teaches the simple techniques he has developed that any one can use to explore our afterlife on their own. He claims to be able to explore the afterlife and to do retrievals. Doing retrievals means making contact with people who are lost or stuck after death with the purpose of helping them out of their isolation and back into the heavens or other Focus levels. His techniques are based on the Lifeline program of Mr. Robert Monroe.
 

Mr. Bruce Moen began as a student of Mr. Robert Monroe, but has developed the process of mentally exploring through projection in such a manner as to frequently override the need for sound wave support such as Hemi-Sync.

Mr.
Bruce Moen is a lot like any common human being. He has never had a near-death experience, nor does he claim any special psychic gift or ability. Yet, he has learned to do some special techniques that other people don’t have. He has freed "lost souls" from their isolated, sometimes terrifying post-death existence; helped them regain free will choice over their own destiny; brought comfort to those left behind when a loved one dies; moved earthbound ghosts to their place in the Afterlife; verifiably explored nonphysical human consciousness and other realities.

Afterlife exploration has profoundly changed his life. It has taught him what Love is and has shown him the purpose of his life. Mr. Moen's work is a contribution to consciousness studies because of the analysis of his thought patterns while in the mental state needed for the assumed afterlife explorations. He uses a two-step process: perception followed by interpretation. This process is based on the assumed ability to perceive beyond the material world by using curiosity and imagination to move through the various focus levels

Mr. Moen has also stated that he is working on an "Afterlife Communication Device," similar to telephone, which will enable direct communication with the deceased without the need for special esoteric knowledge or techniques.

After several years of perfecting the perceptual skills required, it is his hope others can use what he has learned to develop them more quickly. "The most important thing I discovered is that human beings with curiosity can learn to explore the Afterlife and find the truth for themselves," Mr. Moen says.

He has written several books about this subject and runs 10 to 15 international
workshops annually, teaching participants how to perform those retrievals.

He is the author of Voyages Into the Unknown, Voyage Beyond Doubt, Voyages Into the Afterlife, and Voyage to Curiosity’s Father that recount his experiences. 


How Mr. Bruce Moen Was Influenced?
a. While attending the Lifeline training course in The Monroe Institute, Mr. Moen had a close contact with one of his tutors. Mr. Moen and his tutor began partnered-exploring as a tutorial to gain some knowledge and insight. In this experiment, they met nonphysically and carried out planned-retrievals and other activities. After returning to the physical body, they recorded their experiences in their journals and compared notes over the telephone the following day. The descriptions in their notes were found to be exactly the same experiences. Partnered-exploring is a powerful, confidence-building technique. During this time, Mr. Moen’s exploring began to expand beyond retrievals and encountered both ghosts and nonphysical beings in the afterlife territories.

b.  After Mr. Monroe died and left his physical body, Mr. Moen successfully contacted Mr. Monroe
accompanied by his wife (Mrs. Nancy Penn Monroe)during one of his solo nonphysical outings and in that meeting, Mr. Monroe offered to assist him in improving his perceptual skills. After this encounter with Mr. Monroe in the nonphysical territory, his life changed forever and his perception greatly improved. Exploration after these experiences led access to different levels of consciousness and contacts beyond anything he could ever have imagined. Mr. Moen began to understand the power of imagination, the meaning of Pure Unconditional Love, and the purpose of his own physical existence.

 

Bruce Moen's Path to Truth

1. Somehow, through OBE, communicate with a person known to be deceased.
2. Gather some information from that person that was not known to you.
3. Verify that this information is true, accurate and real in your world.
4. This investigation gives you evidence that that person continues to exist
           beyond death and presumably should exist in the afterlife territory.

5. Continue this kind of research more and more until you find the truth.
 


An Example of Bruce Moen's Path to Truth

Jane, a workshop participant of Mr. Bruce Moen, asked a question about how could she find a way to open a window of opportunity concerning the afterlife. Mr. Moen then suggested Jane that she should shift her awareness to placing intent consciousness, and should express her desire to have an experience that would conflict with her afterlife beliefs. Unbeknownst to Mr. Bruce Moen, his workshop participant Jane found a quiet place during workshop break, and practiced the affirmation “I DESIRE TO HAVE AN EXPERIENCE THAT WILL CONFLICT WITH MY BELIEFS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE.” She may have focused on this affirmation with great intent and may have already programmed her subconscious mind with this affirmation without knowing what the outcome could be. Two weeks after the workshop, Jane emailed Mr. Bruce Moen describing her startling experience:

Jane had suddenly awakened during the night and had seen a cloud of lighted fog floating in her bedroom doorway. As she focused her attention on the cloud, it transformed into an apparition of her deceased mother-in-law, Nadine. During their subsequent conversation Jane asked Nadine to show, tell or give her something that would prove she was really talking to a dead person. Nadine said that she had left something for her son, Jane’s husband, at the hospital where she worked as a nurse before her death. Nadine suggested Jane to call the hospital to find out what it was.

The next day Jane pressured her husband to call the hospital and find out what was left for him in that hospital that her husband was not aware of. It took a little while and digging into the hospital records to find out the truth about his mother’s activities and personal matters. Finally the hospital staff discovered that his mother Nadine had been paying into an annuity for him, in his name, for several years. No one in the family knew that this annuity existed as an asset of his mother until Jane’s husband, also the Nadine’s son, phoned and asked the hospital staff to launch a thorough search concerning Nadine’s personal and financial activities. From this startling experience, Jane convinced that she had gotten the information from Nadine
—who was known to be deceased.

It is now clear to Jane that she communicated with a person know to be deceased, gathered some information from that person that was not known to her previously, and verified that that information was true, accurate and real in this world where she is living. This investigation gave Jane the evidence that the person, Nadine, continued to exist beyond physical death. Since this incident, Jane’s perception of and ability to communicate with those in our afterlife had greatly improved. She had an experience that conflicted with her afterlife beliefs and accepted that experience is real, thus removing any blockages in her beliefs and gaining confidence on the existence of afterlife.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) about Afterlife
http://www.afterlife-knowledge.com/faq.html
 

The Concept of the HIGHER SELF (Who I Truly Am?)
According To Mr. Bruce Moen


 

Mr. Bruce Moen discovered the true appearance of his own nonphysical form of true SELF, as it came to him in a waking vision in 1974. The large disk-shaped graphic shown on right-hand side with round light spots arranged in concentric circles represents the true “Total Self” of an individual. Some people call it the Total Self, Higher Self, Greater Self or Oversoul.

Each light spot of the concentric circles on the disk represents one integral fragment of the Total Self. The Total Self is made of many integral fragments, each integral fragment being one light spot. For example Mr. Bruce Moen believed that he, with his physical body on the planet Earth now on the left side of the graphic, represents one light spot of that disk shaped Total Self.

Mr. Moen with his physical body now living on the planet Earth is connected to his Total Self by means of a nonphysical cord that looks like a multi-strand fiber optic cable as shown in the graphic. Information passes through this nonphysical cord between himself and his Disk-shaped Total Self, giving the Disk members the awareness of his activities, and vice versa as long he learns how to communicate with his Total Self.

Mr. Moen also believed from the knowledge he gained from his out-of-body experiences that he was originally created with the nonphysical material of his Total Self, allocating a unique personality and identity. Mr. Moen knew that he already incarnated many times on the planet Earth in order to explore, learn and obtain complete wisdom contributing his efforts to the evolution his Total Self. He will incarnate many more times until his Total Self reaches immortality.

Mr. Moen further believed that his Total Self was created in the same manner by the Ultimate Creator. His Total Self would one day return to the Ultimate Creator once the purification process of the Total Self is complete and ready.

 

 

Mr. Bruce Moen's Books On Amazon.com
 

1. Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook: A Manual For The Art Of Retrieval And The Afterlife Exploration Author: Bruce Moen
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2. Voyages Into the Unknown (Exploring the Afterlife Series, Vol. 1) (Paperback)
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3. Voyage Beyond Doubt (Exploring the Afterlife Series, Vol 2) (Paperback)
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4. Voyages Into the Afterlife: Charting Unknown Territory (Exploring the Afterlife Series, Vol. 3)   Author: Bruce Moen
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5. Voyage to Curiosity's Father (Exploring the Afterlife Series) (Paperback)
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Out of the Body Experience

Out of the Body Experience
An out-of-body experience (OOBE or OBE) is defined as an event in which the experiencer seems to perceive some portion of some environment which could not possibly be perceived from where his physical body is known to be at the time; and knows at the time that he is not dreaming or fantasizing. The experiencer seems to possess his normal consciousness at the time, and even though he may reason that this cannot be happening, he will feel all his normal critical faculties to be present, and so knows he is not dreaming. Further, he will not decide after awakening that this was a dream.

How then do we understand this strange phenomenon?
OBEs are a universal human experience, not in the sense that they happen to large numbers of people, but in that they have happened all through recorded history, and there are marked similarities in the experience among people who are otherwise extremely different in terms of cultural background. The OBE is generally a once-in-a-lifetime experience, seemingly experienced by “accident.” Illnesses sometimes bring it about, especially illnesses which are almost fatal. Great emotional stress sometimes brings it about. In many cases, it simply happens during sleep without our having any idea of what might have caused it. In very rare instances it seems to have been brought on by a deliberate attempt.
 

The experience of an OBE is usually one of the most profound experiences of a person’s life, and radically alters his beliefs. This is usually expressed as, “I no longer believe in survival of death or an immortal soul, I know that I will survive death.” The person feels that he has directly experienced being alive and conscious without his physical body, and therefore knows that he possesses some kind of soul that will survive bodily death. This does not logically follow, for even if the OBE is more than just an interesting dream or hallucination, it was still occurring while the physical body was alive and functioning and therefore may depend on the physical body. This argument, however, makes no impression on those who have actually had an OBE.
 

The OBE is generally extremely joyful to those who have it. Approximately 90 and 95 percent of the people who have this experience are very glad it occurred and find it joyful, while 5 percent are very frightened by it, for the only way they can interpret it, while it is happening, is that they are dying. Later reactions of the person as he attempts to interpret his OBE can be rather negative, however.
 

In some instances of OBEs the description of what was happening at a distant place is correct and more accurate than we would expect by coincidence. Not the majority, by any means, but some. To explain these we must postulate either that the “hallucinatory” experience of the OBE was combined with the operation of ESP, or that in some sense the person really was “there.” The OBE then becomes very real indeed.

 

     



 

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank Dr. Rao Konduru for contributing his time and effort
in preparing the aforementioned review.

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Psychic Mary T. Browne's Research
Descriptions of Spirit Realms and Heaven
 

Biography of Mary T. Browne
Mary T. Browne is
an internationally renowned psychic, teacher, and the author of 4 best selling books:
              
             1. Love in Action
                       2. Life After Death
                       3. The Power of Karma
                       4. The 5 Rules of Thought


Mary T. Browne has appeared on Weekend Today, CNN, and Good Day New York, and has done over 400 radio interviews. In addition, she has been featured in many magazines and newspapers including New York Magazine, Worth, American Health, Elle, Vogue, and the New York Times. She lives in New York City. She has clients from all over the world.

Mary T. Browne's connection to spirit world is very inspiring. She had her first clairvoyant experience at the age of seven. For more than 30 years since then, her visions and her communications from many dead relatives, friends, her clients who had near-death experiences and from wise beings (teachers) who revealed her the true descriptions and operations of spirit worlds and heavens where we go after we die. Her insight came from her sacred gifts of psychic powers, clairvoyance and clairaudience.


What Happens When We Die?
Physical death (passing over) is our passport to a new spirit realm. Death is birth into the realm of the spirit. At the time of death, the spirit is released from the physical suitcase. A silver cord attaches the physical body to the astral body much like an umbilical cord connects a baby in the womb to its mother. When we die, the cord between physical body and astral body breaks. In case of a near death experience the cord is not severed as the physical body still remains connected with astral body but the spirit body is released partially to enter the spirit world. The spirit floats above the physical body and observes what is happening around. Clients often reported that they had near death experiences when they had a surgery or a serious automobile accident. When spirit is partially released, they can still hear people trying to help them. And then they pass through a tunnel and at the end of the tunnel a beautiful, very peaceful and bright light appears making the way clear and accessible. At the end of the tunnel, relatives, loved ones and friends from the spirit world stand there waiting to greet and talk. Those who had near death experiences were told by the being of light that it is not yet their time to pass on, and that they must return to the physical body and complete their earthly incarnation as there is still a lot to learn and much work to be done on the planet earth. Some clients reported that after passing the tunnel, they were allowed to visit and view parts of the spirit world. After visiting the spirit realm, they gain a new sense of freedom because their fear of death is gone. They realize that the purpose of our life on earth is to learn, to grow, to improve, to evolve fully and to serve others.
 

No Fear When You Die!

At the moment of death, your spirit begins to leave your body and you will see someone standing in shadow, extending a hand to help you cross the border. It will be a clear image of a relative or loved one whom you can easily recognize. In the rare cases when no one close to you has been there already passed on, a spirit helper trained in assisting the people to make the transition will be there to help you. Don't Panic Be Happy!

 

Spirit World
The spirit world is a place of harmony. It is a realm of beauty, light, art, music, literature, and friendship. We do love beyond the grave, and we will be reunited with our loved ones in the spirit world. Those touching reunions with the loved ones in the spirit world are filled with overwhelming joy of spiritual vibrations.

We arrive into the spirit world in an appropriate place we have earned based on our earthly actions, our character and life review. We must work through our physical and emotional problems on earth. Your character does not disintegrate with your physical body. You arrive into the spirit world the same person you were when you left your physical body. So it is wise to spend our time on earth growing as much as possible.


Beware of Your Character
Your character is built in the physical realm. You are responsible for your own character. The soul development occurs in the physical world. Your free will can either raise you up or hold you down in the physical world. A person who lives with a lot of anger in the physical world arrives into the astral in the same condition. He will remain in the state of anger surrounded by others who are ill-tempered until the anger dissipates. A person consumed with jealousy while in physical body will enter the spirit world with the same character and will be surrounded by jealousy and envious souls. However a good person on earth who possessed good and calm character during his/her earthly incarnation will be regarded as a good and respected soul in the spirit world. The good person will live with other peaceful souls of similar character.

KARMA: We Will Reap What We Sow

Life is the sequence and consequence of all our past lives and current life. Every action that we perform directly affects this life and lives to come. If a man commits cruel act and has gone unnoticed, he will most likely pay the penalty and face consequences in his next life.

Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. It is the total of all actions in the present as well as in all preceding lives. We will suffer for the hurts we have inflicted and rejoice in the happiness that we have given to others. Each of us earns a place in the spirit world or heaven solely based on our actions in the past and current lives by ourselves. This is true in the physical, mental, and spirit worlds.

Reincarnation teaches that we live not just one life on earth but many. The spirit enters a physical body in order to proceed with its evolution. Every soul should understand the fact that the sensual pleasures are temporary and we must move towards true joy, and that true joy comes from the knowledge. We return to the earth plane over and over again until we have achieved perfection through knowledge. Perfection is the state of total selflessness. All desire for physical pleasures must be replaced by a complete dedication to serve humanity.


Ask yourself: Do you possess a good and loving character?, Do you speak many languages?, Do you have complete control of your emotions? Is your motivation at all times completely unselfish?, Did you do enough to serve humanity?, Have you outgrown any desire for personal gain?, Are you in perfect physical health? These are only a few prerequisites for mastership of your soul growth.

When we have fully mastered ourselves, and when our karma is completely balanced, we no longer need to return to the earth plane. All physical and emotional growth takes place on the physical plane. What we experience in each lifetime represents a schoolroom for the soul development. Each hardship is a challenge that we face in order to work harder toward attaining self-mastery. Reincarnation allows this education to continue from one life to the next.

There are no shortcuts to self-mastery, and no easy way toward enlightenment. Much of the process is very painful. Each of us is tested by attracting experiences that we have earned by our personal choices. Pain tells us that there is a problem to solve.
Life is the laboratory for the development of soul remedies. We should savor all our experiences and fully utilize all our senses and learn from them to make this our best life yet!

The circumstances of our physical life are a combination of our current thinking and actions along with the past-life karmic situations brought into this life. Certain torturous situations we must deal with in our earth life aren't just the results of our negative thinking habits, but they are the results of the past-life karma. When we arrive into the spirit world, our life consists exclusively of our own thoughts. Life is influenced by Karma only in the physical world. There is no Karma in the spirit world. However the right thinking habits in either world is of paramount importance.

Heaven / Devachan
Devachan is the Sanskrit word, meaning Heaven, also known as "the place of the Gods." Heaven is the place where God lives and where all good people live with angels and music. People of good character go to devachan, a state of consciousness between earth lives. There are many different levels of realms in devachan. You earn your appropriate place in devachan depending on your soul evolution, your character and your karma. The time one spends in devachan depends on life review and the accumulated karma.

You will be drawn toward the activity of interest to you. For example, if you wish to learn more about your earthly profession, there are teachers readily available in the spirit world. Heaven is a continuation of your mental state when you pass over. You may have a beautiful house if you wish to, though it isn't necessary. The choice is yours. As the spirit world is the land of no decay, the spirit houses need no up-keep. They exude natural charm.

On the earth, it takes time to implement a thought and to convert an idea into product. In the spirit world, it is instantaneous. For example in the physical world, you must work hard to build a house. The plans are drawn and executed by a builder. It could take months or years to complete the construction of a beautiful house. In spirit world, just think of a house of your liking, and you can have it in an instant. Similarly you can move instantaneously in the spirit world with no delay in time. You simply focus your mind upon the place where you like to be and you are instantly there.


Heaven is traditionally thought of as a place of supreme happiness, a spiritual state of everlasting communion with God. God is alternatively defined as the supreme reality and as love. It follows that Heaven is the place of love. A loving person earns his/her place in Heaven.
 

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