primitive time in history, the masses, including you, noticed none of this. You were each preoccupied in the dramas of your own circle of family, friends, and enemies who allowed you, even encouraged you, to focus on what was wrong, what didn’t work, and what you didn’t have. Who told you, in spite of glaringly contradictory evidence, that God was angry, people were mean, and life was unfair; that success was a matter of who you knew, not what you knew … Yeah, earth today. “Do-over?”
Eternity promises too much to spend one more moment looking back with regret than is necessary.
Every life experience lives forever within you, not locked in your brain but beyond your physical body as part of the very essence of who you are. And it will all be presented again in a final life review, post–homecoming party, after your transition. Everything.
In such a review, you are loved into seeing and understanding not only the motivations and rationales that guided your choices, but the ramifications such choices had for others. You celebrate your triumphs and perseverance, especially as they helped others, and quite obviously you suffer, yet again, through your confusion and misunderstandings, especially as they hurt others. The latter is the closest to hell you will ever come, yet it’s not imposed upon you, nor is a devil involved. The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well. So you learn and then you move on, closer to the truth in all things, wiser, more loving, and greater than you were before, poised for greatness once again.
Eternity promises too much and people heal too quickly to spend one more moment looking back with regret than is necessary to learn the lesson. Let your guilt teach you, not punish you. And let the guilt of others do the same for them, no matter how grave their misunderstandings.
W HAT ABOUT THE “V ICTIMS ”?
And what of the “big stuff”? Like the child who is murdered? The teenager who is raped? The father killed defending his family? Are we now blaming the victim of every tragedy?
As if every answer could be packaged into a tidy little sound bite that would give everyone clarity and confidence and fill them with love. It can’t, yet this doesn’t mean that specific, meaningful answers don’t exist in every single case. To reach such answers, however, you need a much wider view of reality and life in the jungles that includes an awareness of your eternal, divine nature and the motivations that may exist behind your incarnational choices. Until we cover everything else the dead want to tell you in this book, please give thought to the following questions that have already been answered:
Have we not otherwise deduced that all are gods? Of God, by God, pure God? Student Creators? With eternity still before us?
Have we not seen that life within the jungles is illusionary; nothing is as it seems? That it’s merely a dimension to visit temporarily for its lessons and adventures?
Can anything that happens in the illusions detract from their source? Does making monster faces in the mirror make you a monster? Can anything be done to a mirage that detracts from the desert?
Don’t we already intuitively accept that every dark cloud has a silver lining? And that when you see no such lining, perhaps it’s because you have more to learn, not because it isn’t there?
These offerings neither justify nor make right the hideous and often disgusting violations that occur in time and space; they merely offer a greater context for your consideration. More will be said to bring clarity to this sensitive topic later. The intent now is to help you begin seeing more than what your eyes have afforded.
C ANCER H EALS
Cancer, for example, ravages the physical body. Yet instead of exploring it with the immediacy of a microscope, let’s stand back and consider it as an experience that plays itself out over months or years; we see that in many cases it leads its