Written by Patrick Wells   

What happens to our Spirits after the physical body dies?
After our death, all human beings will find that their Spirit has been expelled out of their physical body, with a continuity of awareness and a feeling of detached bliss. Our Spirit is usually expelled out of the top of our head. Our Spirit still has all of our senses, which are now panoramic not directional, as we can see in all directions (360 degrees) at once. We can move through solid objects; we are telepathic and clairvoyant. Just by thinking of a distant location, we are instantly transported there. Our Spirits are invisible to most people, but have been seen by real psychics, other dying people and some non-verbal children, mostly in hospitals.

Confirming that all matter is a manifestation of Consciousness, a few Near-Death-Experiencers have reported that they have consciously moved their Spirits inside trees and boulders. They report resonating with a type of Consciousness similar to ours but much slower and with much less depth.

After an indeterminate period of time remaining in the space-time continuum, usually after our funeral, our Light bodies are drawn into and through a vortex or tunnel-like object. Some Experiencers describe traveling though this black “satin tunnel” at the speed of light, as if through space. Our Light bodies appear at the age that we were happiest in life. Finally, we reach a Holy Being Made of Light, now well known in the pop culture. I believe that this Holy Being Made of Light is Jesus Christ, so I call this experience “passing through the Christ Portal.” In John 3:16, Jesus said, “The only way to the father is through me.” He meant that literally, as all Spirits must pass through the Holy Being Made of Light.

But as a part of God's plan to comfort us at death, our Spirits will meet and eventually pass through the “Holy Image” that we expect to see. Atheists see a Holy Being Made of Light. Jews see an Angel Made of Light. Christians see Jesus Christ. Buddhists see Buddha, Muslims see Mohammed, etc. Even many years after their NDEs, people often begin to sob just describing meeting this Holy Being of Light because of the intensity of the unconditional love they felt. They describe this experience as being more real than what they experience as waking life. This Holy Being of Light communicates telepathically to each person and the first portion of the communication usually begins with “I love you.”

Many Near-Death-Experiencers have reported that, according to the Holy Being of Light they “see,” human beings have the unique capacity to merge their Individual Spirit with aspects of the Universal Spirit while still alive. This state is called Enlightenment. Some NDErs also report being “told” that there are billions and billions of different self-conscious life forms in our Universe. The vast majority of these self-conscious beings can only merge their Spirits with God after death. Therefore, a human incarnation of any kind is an incredible and almost unique gift in this vast Universe of ours.

Many who have returned from the brink of death describe these communications as if two minds became one, and then the thoughts occurred in alternating order, just as if they had become One Mind or One Consciousness. This is also consistent with my NDE hypothesis that at a higher level, despite the appearance of diversity, we are all ONE. All of the Near-Death-Experiencers, who meet this Holy Being of Light, feel words alone are not adequate to truly describe this amazing meeting.

I am a mystic Christian. The Christian mystics were persecuted by the early Church and forced to go underground in medieval Europe. Their one remaining detailed text, which was not destroyed by the Catholic Church, is the Nag Hammadi Text discovered in 1947.

Western confusion over the Holy Spirit and the relation of God and Man is well expressed in our confusion over the words Jesus and Christ. “The Christ” is a generic term; it refers to the function of the Holy Spirit, the guide who appears in the flesh. Jesus was one of the specifics of this phenomenon. This Implicate function must have its explicate form. So, again, Jesus wasn’t the Christ, the Christ was Jesus — as he was Buddha, Mary and Moses, etc. By the very structure of reality, the function of the Christ is always here and always coming again. The Christ Jesus was unique however, as he was born Enlightened. So the Catholics are correct, if Jesus was born Enlightened, then his mother Mary must have attained Enlightenment before his gestation.

Today there is a major schism in the Christian faith (also in Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, etc.). This schism is between using Mysticism to become Enlightened (all human beings have the potential to reach the internal state of being that Jesus was born with and Buddha, Moses and Mary attained) and literalism where the Bible is the word of God plus historical fact and that making the historical Jesus and Son of God our Savior is the only path to God.

The mystic belief, like mine, is that all religions have originated from a universal Spirituality referred to as Unitary Consciousness, or the Ancient Wisdom. “The mystical beliefs of these secret societies were based on the Hermetic maxim ‘as above-so below’ which teaches that the natural world is a material reflection of the spiritual. It forms the esoteric basis for the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries, Gnosticism, Esoteric Christianity, Judaism’s Cabbala (Kabbalah), the Hermetic tradition, alchemy and societies such as the Templars, Freemasons and Rosicrucians. The goal of all of these philosophies is to lead the individual from material darkness to the Spiritual light of understanding.”

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