The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You by Mike Dooley Read Free Book Online Page A

“victim” into discovering his or her power, appreciating life, or reconciling damaged relationships. Suddenly cancer can be seen in a different light—as an adventure into healing one’s body, mind, and spirit. With a changed perspective, the gift is revealed: one that was invisible under a microscope.
    And while there are many situations that occur in the world that up close are far too horrible for words, we can nevertheless discern that at some greater level there are reasons. That a process is unfolding with a beginning, middle, and end; that there is order. And so, however invisible or impossible to imagine in that moment or even in that lifetime, there must also be healing and love. What would the alternative be? That divine intelligence made a mistake? That it was pure chance? That meaningless things happen on this planetary bastion of order, balance, and perfection?
    Nothing justifies the ugly in time and space. But by sensing that there are reasons and rhythms, even though they may not yet be known, you can spend more time understanding your creations, living in the present, and shaping your future than giving away your power by dwelling on the past. And in this light, and only from this perspective, bad things do not happen in time and space. Everything adds to, and makes greater, the whole.
    W HAT ABOUT K ARMA ?
    What do you think “karma” might mean? Like the word “God,” it gets around.
    Essentially, as an absolute law, a scorecard, or point system—there’s no such thing. If there were, it would interfere with the only principle that governs all manifestations: Thoughts Become Things. If karma were absolute, and once you lied, for example, you had to be lied to … well, how could you be lied to unless you’d created circumstances to allow it? What if, after your lie, you quickly understood lying’s folly and immediately began living at a “higher level,” thinking only peaceful, honest, joyful thoughts? Do you see that if by some absolute karmic law, you still nevertheless had to be lied to, it would break TBT! Ain’t happening— no one is limited by karma. Change your thoughts and you can free yourself from any such “wheel.”
    Yet sure enough, given that people’s underlying worldviews change very slowly, rarely moving spontaneously from liar to saint, it can often seem that they live in a tit-for-tat world where their past behavior seems to forecast what they’ll experience in the future. Hence the usually accurate cliché “What goes around comes around.” For which it is fair to note that karma does indeed appear in our lives, yet more as a phenomenon than as a law.
No one is limited by karma.
    To those who understandably yearn for their tormentors to one day know of the pain they’ve suffered, fear not. So great are the natural mechanics of spiritual evolution, and so great is the desire of the divine to leave no stone unturned toward knowing all things, no one can truly understand their power without fully experiencing it from the perspectives of everyone it has ever affected, including their “victims.” And because learning your full power is a desired component of every incarnational cycle, they will know your pain in as raw a form as you knew it—whether through “karma” or from a self-cultivated empathy derived from true understanding and reflection.
    B EING OF S PIRIT
    Religion needs spirituality.
    Spirituality does not need religion.
    Religion is man-made, time and illusion based, and exclusionary. Its origins were obviously noble and of good intent, as is true of God/Man. It was an attempt to explain the hard-to-explain, recognizing that there’s more to life than what the physical senses can perceive and more to science than instruments will ever detect. As it evolved, however, religion drew ever wider and more tangential conclusions, generally led by individuals who wanted to show that they were closer to God than other people—which, as mentioned earlier, was