Well here we are our final lesson in this wonderful seven-week program. I hope
that you've gotten benefit from it. we have really, really enjoyed making it for you.
Today's class is the final step in living your life as God. Reunification and it will
conclude with having your own conversation with God. This course reaches its wonderful
conclusion taking you to a deeper and richer understanding of the process of reunification
of the current self with the eternal self; and then the ultimate reuniting of the individual
with God by bringing you an experience of God's presence physically within you. This
actual experience of reunification is the final process in the course called `Stepping
in to the Miracle of Who You Really Are' an extraordinary process in which you will have
the opportunity to have your own conversation with God as we mentioned a moment ago. The lesson
includes important steps providing you with a direct pathway to being the happy creator
of your own reality on a day-to-day basis, even as God is in the life of the universe.
Today I hope to help you explore what death really is and what occurs in the experience
of the soul at the moment we call death. I also hope to help you understand that the
experience of the soul at the moment we call death can also be part of one's life in the
physical body and how to cause it to be exactly that; thereby leading to reunification while
one is still in the body instead of having to wait until one has left the body through
death. I hope you'll follow a step-by-step instruction on how to create and sustain happiness
in your own hour to hour movement through life, and experience the process by which
you may have your own conversation with God as often as you wish. So let us begin this
last lessen with a look at the three phases of death. While this is just about the most
meaningful information I was given in my entire Conversation with God, the information I am
going to be giving you now comes from the book 'Home with God in a Life That Never Ends'
in case you are wondering where I am pulling this from. And that is a book that you really
want to read if you haven't read it. If you've read it, I know you already know how powerful
a book that is. If you have not read it you really need to read it. 'Home with God in a
Life That Never Ends' is all about our experience of death - that which we call death -
and it tells us that death occurs in three stages or three phases if you will. And that the first phase
the process by which we dis-identify with the body. That is we notice
that we are not our body. And that's the first experience we have after what we call death.
That the self, the consciousness, the awareness, that what you are you'll find it looking down on your physical form
and you will say to yourself... By the way I have gone through this, I have actually had an out-of-body
experience. Many of you may have had as well. So this is possible to experience this in
the normal course of life, not just after you do the thing called die. So you will look
down upon your physical body and you will say oh, I am not that, I am not that, wow.
Well if I m not that, than what am I because there is that and you will look very much
like a lump of clay to yourself. You will look like a lump of inert clay, like looking
at a statue, or a really well made wax image of yourself like in the wax museum. It will
look like that; it will be you clearly, but no life, just like a wax image. And you will say
well okay I got it, because I am still here. I am still noticing things and experiencing life
but there I am there so obviously I am not that. That's the first phase of death,
recognition that you are not that or what I call dis-identification or dis-association
with the body. Phase two is when you dis-associate with your mind, when you realize I am not even
my mind. And here's how that happens, what occurs is that you start thinking about what
you are thinking about. That is when you realize you are not your body, then you will start
thinking about your thoughts, and sooner or later it will occur to you, wait a minute,
wait a minute, who is thinking about these thoughts; who is that, that is thinking about
the thoughts. And for that matter, you will go one step further back in the hall of mirrors
and you will say, who is thinking about the question of who is thinking about the thoughts.
and soon you will understand that you are not your mind, that your mind is the repository,
it is the data bank, it is the collection instrument that has held all the thoughts you
have ever had from the time of your birth or your entry into this particular incarnation,
but it is not who you are. By the way, during your life you will experience that as well.
You do not have to wait until after your death to experience that are to know that. In a
previous process that we shared with you a couple of lessons back, we talked about the
mechanics of the mind and the system of the soul. And when you step into your soul's experience
of life, in to your soul's awareness of what is really so, at that moment as well, you realize
oh, I am not my mind. I must, I must be out of my mind because I am not my mind.
My mind is something I have; it is not something I am. Similarly with your body, my body is
something I have; it is not something I am. And that is the second phase of death when
you dissociate from your mind. The third phase of death and this is the interesting one,
is when you realize as well, that you are not your soul. Now this is kind of a fascinating
one because a lot of people think well, if I am not my body and I am not by mind I must
be my soul, right? Wrong. Your soul is still the individuated identity of you. It is the
individual expression of in fact what you really are. So what will happen at the moment
of your death is you will first think that you are your soul, but then you realize, experientially
I might add, that you are far greater then the individuated essence of the all, that
you have come to know as you in this particular lifetime. That will occur when your soul moves
rapidly, race-ingly if I could coin a word, moves race-ingly (rapidly) as if in a race, wheeee,
through what many people have described as the tunnel. I have had this experience in my
out-of-body experience. I raced through this same dark tunnel that so many others have
described with lightning speed, just insane speed, toward a small dot of light and the
end of the tunnel. And the dot got larger and larger as I came to the end of the tunnel
until I finally got to the end and found myself in the presence of nothing but this radiating
warm, incredible, really indescribable, light.
It is hard, I should not even describe it as light because when I finally got there it was not simply an experience of light,
it was an experience of wholeness of warmth of All-ness. It was really indescribable.
So the expression of it goes far past the words the light . But, here's what I experienced.
I am that, I melded into that expression of life that was all of love,
all compassion, all wonder, all-knowing, all everything. I found myself melding into it and knowing,
how do I put this, intuitively I am that. Oh, so I am not even this individual soul
I am that. And so the third stage of death is when we dissociate
or dis-identify with the soul as well as with the body and mind. And than we realize and we experience
who we really are. We stay in that experience as long as we want. I want to be careful how use words
now because there's no such thing as time in this place. In fact there is no such thing
as place in this place. It is all that is really. So and it is always all that is and
it is always now. So it is the moment of forever now always here. This is the only human words
the only simple languaging that I can find to try to describe this. So you are in the always
here, ever now expression of life. And you however are
not necessarily required to be in that melded expression eternally or throughout
the always here ever now moment. Interestingly enough I am told in CwG, in the book Home with God
that you will not choose to stay in that place of oneness, of merging.
You will in fact emerge; you will come out of it again. There is a reason for that because I am told that if you stayed emerged,
that if you stayed inside of that expression of life, of that experience, you would soon
no longer have the experience because there would be nothing else with which to compare it.