Searching for the Meaning of life and death.

"How do I find God?" a young disciple once asked a famous guru in India. "I can't see any evidence that He is anywhere around us, and millions of people live very well without him."

"Everything without God happens in space and time. This is the world you are used to," his guru replied. "Space and time are like a hole, jump through it; then, God will be obvious."

Every religious tradition contains such loopholes, escape routes into a world beyond ours.

Much time is spent identifying with a body that is known to be mortal, sooner or later we become preoccupied by a fact that the body is slowly dying.

As we get older we come to realize that all pleasures of a body are fleeting, most times it takes a loss of a loved one or a tragic event to trigger a need for answers to deeper questions beginning a search for something beyond what this reality offers.

Both the hope for an afterlife and the fear of death originate in the mistaken belief that you are a time-bound and mortal individual whose candle will be snuffed out when the grim reaper comes for you.

If you believe that you are the body, then death is absolute.

If you believe that you are a soul residing in a body, you comprehend that a body dies, while that which is essentially 'you' survives.

The antidote to all this fear and speculation is to recognize that what you truly are is outside time, unborn, and undying. You are the energy field in which birth exists, and death appears.

It has been said by St. Francis and others that by dying you will realize eternal life. The Sufis say 'you must die before you die.'

This dying is the death of the illusion of the separate and individual self.

In the removal of the personal reference of "I", death is deprived of its prey.

What it means is that there is no life after the death of a body; the body is an illusion, but the good news is that your true reality - Spirit never dies.

The West in particular has embraced the ego by identifying with it completely, it is life, itself. So much so, we strive to give it eternal life, "be like God".

People who can't let go of their egos, who refuse to die, who can't look death in the eye, don't live either.

The path of letting the ego die which is a spiritual path - is not taken by many, and still fewer take it to the end. Why? Because fear comes before dying.

Dying is the price we pay for an enhanced life. Without the death of a body and awakening to truth, there is no resurrection to a more comprehensive existence.

Death is only a separation of our deep identity from this physical body. Only the form dies, not life, itself. Our true identity lies in the flow of life, creation, itself.

Rather than believing it is a separate mind, it is absorbed into the Oneness it always was. Everything that exists is the sparkle of the Divine.

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Grief #4

So what does happen when our body dies? In order to truly answer that question one needs to understand who we are and what we are. Since we believe we are our bodies and this universe is real, let us start by understanding what all things in this universe are made of.

Scientists and Physicists have documented this theory many times. Everything in this universe is made of energy - including our bodies. Because our bodies are slower vibrations of energy, creating pockets of dense energy. Iron or steel are created out of even denser energy, vibrating considerably slower. The faster the energy vibrates, the lighter the forms become.

So when the body dies, the body (energy) disintegrates, breaks free from the heaviness of slower vibrations and begins to transform into other forms of energy. When it is in the lighter stage it intersperses with the air we breathe so we are actually breathing in our ancestors. As it settles into the soil, it is drawn up into plants, eaten by animals, eventually eaten by humans and once again ventures into our body's composition.

Potential creative matter disappears into a realm where the particles are less than an atom, fields with nonspecific influence, creations in waiting. The world that we see is a single entity containing similar smaller scale structures. What is considered as matter sips away into the 'black hole", a space with such strong gravitational pull that no matter or energy can escape from it. This is where spirit returns to rest, rejuvenate and or recreate itself into an entity, preparing to experience another existence in an imagined physical world.

Energy never dies, it is constantly changing into different vibrations and concentrations.

That is the circle of imagined life in this reality.

Is that all "we" are - energy? No - that's not "what we" are. We are not a body. The mind just "believes" that it is a body.

In order to fully understand what we really are, we need to completely comprehend the truth that what we presently believe we are is not true.

"Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you (the mind) and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you (the mind) to express your imaginings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his (musical) imaginings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so likewise, your body is not you.

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Here are a couple of informational sites to help you understand this concept.

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-particle-physics-of-you

https://www.sciencealert.com/99-9999999-of-your-body-is-empty-space

Grief #3

Not believing you will see your deceased loved ones again can cause excruciating anguish. The pain is unbearable, tearing at your heart and soul. Conditioned beliefs add to the continuous torturous thoughts dragging us deeper into the abyss of sadness and despair.

I just knew in my heart of hearts, that the religious belief system with which I had been brought up, was at times difficult to embrace as truth. The belief encompassed the idea that the body and the personality remain in the grave until the second coming of Christ.

Cremation was not an option. Apparently, it is after the second coming of Christ that the dead will rise from their graves.

I always struggled with that concept. I felt that belief system had nothing but potential for incredible pain for those who had lost loved ones, especially children. Watching my family at the grave sites, weeping and greatly saddened, I knew the ones they grieved for were not in the cold ground, but beside us, trying to communicate and comfort us.

My husband and I agreed to being cremated, during one of the many conversations we had regarding death. At his funeral one of my relatives felt it necessary to remind me that cremation was in the eyes of God a "sin". Dealing with other's beliefs and values may add to the overall pain. Not to be influenced by others will take strength and forgiveness.

I have since concluded that the one we grieve for the most is ourselves. The lives we lived before our loss, changed dramatically. A part in us has also died; we will never be that same person again. That chapter has ended, a new one begins.

There is no death; it is only the relinquishing of one form for another.

As energy is constant, only form changes.

Theo