MELLEN-THOMAS BENEDICT'S NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
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Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in
1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half after dying of cancer. At the
time of his death, he rose up out of his body and went into the light.
Curious about the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of
existence, and even beyond, into the energetic void of nothingness behind
the Big Bang. During his experience, he was able to learn a great deal of
information concerning reincarnation. Because of his near-death
experience, he was able to bring back scientific discoveries. Mr. Benedict
has been closely involved in the mechanics of cellular communication and
research dealing with the relationship of light to life called Quantum
Biology.
This research is providing dramatic new perspectives on how biological
systems work. Mr. Benedict has found that living cells can respond very
quickly to light stimulation resulting in, among other things, high speed
healing. He is a researcher, inventor and lecturer who holds six U.S.
patents.

Mr. Benedict's NDE is reprinted here by the permission of the author's Dr.
Lee Worth Bailey and Jenny Yates. Their excellent book entitled "The
Near-Death Experience: A Reader", published by Routledge, New York, in
1996,is highly recommended by the webmaster. A portion of his near-death
experience also appears in P.M.H. Atwater's book, "Beyond the Light".
Concerning Mellen's near-death experience, Dr. Ken Ring remarked, "His
story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive
research on near-death experiences."

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Dr. P. M. H. Atwater Writes:

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/mtb-nde.htm

Mellen-Thomas Benedict's case is part of my original near-death research; a
brief version of it appears in my book, 'Beyond the Light'. I can attest
that his case is genuine and his claims about the brain tumor and the
conditions of his death are true. I have met his mother and step-father,
been in his and their homes, and have followed his life since -- his
struggles and his accomplishments -- as he sought to find a way to integrate
his experience into his daily life while still honoring the mission he felt
guided to fulfill. What you are about to read has a hint of mystery to it,
and this is the mystery: this version of his story (which reads like an
article) is actually a transcription of a tape made of a talk he gave about
a decade ago. Whoever did the transcription then put the story on the
Internet for free distribution. Five different people sent it to me, so I
contacted Mellen-Thomas to discuss the situation. He and I both felt it was
as if the Universe, his soul, God, was saying to him. . . 'It's time now to
open up and share your story. You have something to say that needs to be
heard.' Whoever put his material on the Internet did the man a favor,
actually, did all of us a favor, and not just because his is such an
interesting case (it truly is) -- but because of how he has matured since
and what he has learned. Should you wish to contact him, he has given me
permission to publish his address and telephone number:

Mellen-Thomas Benedict
P. O. Box 1898
Soquel, CA 95073
(831) 427-5554

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MELLEN-THOMAS BENEDICT'S NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
By Mellen-Thomas Benedict
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In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable, and
any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of
a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live. I had been an
information freak in the 1970's, and I had become increasingly despondent
over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did
not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a
mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. I saw
no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for
ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what
I got. That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can
feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a
seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts
of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped.

So I determined that this was really just between me and God. I had never
really faced God before, or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind of
spirituality at the time, but I began a journey into learning about
spirituality and alternative healing. I set out to do all the reading I
could and bone up on the subject, because I did not want to be surprised on
the other side. So I started reading on various religions and philosophies.
They were all very interesting, and gave hope that there was something on
the other side.

On the other hand, as a self-employed stained-glass artist at the time, I
had no medical insurance whatsoever. So my life savings went overnight in
testing. Then I was facing the medical profession without any kind of
insurance. I did not want to have my family dragged down financially, so I
determined to handle this myself. There was not constant pain, but there
were black-outs. I got so that I would not dare to drive, and eventually I
ended up in hospice care. I had my own personal hospice caretaker. I was
very blessed by this angel who went through the last part of this with me. I
lasted about eighteen months. I did not want to take a lot of drugs, since I
wanted to be as conscious as possible. Then I experienced such pain that I
had nothing but pain in my consciousness, luckily only for a few days at a
time.

I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that
this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends
and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a
private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six
hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you
die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember is the beginning of a
typical near-death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing
up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out
of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid
that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house,
I could see around the house, I could see under the house.

There was this light shining. I turned toward the light. The light was very
similar to what many other people have described in their near-death
experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is
alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal
mother's or father's arms.

As I began to move toward the light, I knew intuitively that if I went to
the light, I would be dead.

So as I was moving toward the light I said, "Please wait a minute, just hold
on a second here. I want to think about this; I would like to talk to you
before I go."

To my surprise, the entire experience halted at that point. You are indeed
in control of your near-death experience. You are not on a roller coaster
ride. So my request was honored and I had some conversations with the light.
The light kept changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna,
mandalas, archetypal images and signs.

I asked the light, "What is going on here? Please, light, clarify yourself
for me. I really want to know the reality of the situation."

I cannot really say the exact words, because it was sort of telepathy. The
light responded. The information transferred to me was that your beliefs
shape the kind of feedback you are getting before the light. If you were a
Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own
stuff. You have a chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do
not.

As the light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really
seeing was our Higher Self matrix. The only thing I can tell you is that it
turned into a matrix, a mandala of human souls, and what I saw was that what
we call our Higher Self in each of us is a matrix. It's also a conduit to
the Source; each one of us comes directly, as a direct experience from the
Source. We all have a Higher Self, or an oversoul part of our being. It
revealed itself to me in its truest energy form. The only way I can really
describe it is that the being of the Higher Self is more like a conduit.
It did not look like that, but it is a direct connection to the Source that
each and every one of us has. We are directly connected to the Source.

So the light was showing me the Higher Self matrix. And it became very clear
to me that all the Higher Selves are connected as one being, all humans are
connected as one being, we are actually the same being, different aspects of
the same being. It was not committed to one particular religion. So that is
what was being fed back to me. And I saw this mandala of human souls. It was
the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I just went into it and, it was
just overwhelming. It was like all the love you've every wanted, and it was
the kind of love that cures, heals, regenerates.

As I asked the light to keep explaining, I understood what the Higher Self
matrix is. We have a grid around the planet where all the Higher Selves are
connected. This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy
around us, the spirit level, you might say.

Then, after a couple of minutes, I asked for more clarification. I really
wanted to know what the universe is about, and I was ready to go at that
time.

I said, "I am ready, take me."

Then the light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a
mandala of human souls on this planet.

Now I came to this with my negative view of what has happened on the planet.
So as I asked the light to keep clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent
mandala how beautiful we all are in our essence, our core. We are the most
beautiful creations. The human soul, the human matrix that we all make
together is absolutely fantastic, elegant, exotic, everything. I just
cannot say enough about how it changed my opinion of human beings in that
instant.

I said, "Oh, God, I did not know how beautiful we are."

At any level, high or low, in whatever shape you are in, you are the most
beautiful creation, you are.

I was astonished to find that there was no evil in any soul.

I said, "How can this be?"

The answer was that no soul was inherently evil. The terrible things that
happened to people might make them do evil things, but their souls were not
evil. What all people seek, what sustains them, is love, the light told me.
What distorts people is a lack of love.

The revelations coming from the light seemed to go on and on, then I asked
the light, "Does this mean that humankind will be saved?"

Then, like a trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great
Light spoke, saying, "Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and
heal yourself. You always have. You always will. You were created with the
power to do so from before the beginning of the world."

In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN
SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were designed to self-correct like
the rest of God's universe. This is what the second coming is about.

I thanked the light of God with all my heart. The best thing I could come up
with was these simple words of totally appreciation: "Oh dear God, dear
Universe, dear Great Self, I love my life."

The light seemed to breathe me in even more deeply. It was as if the light
was completely absorbing me. The love light is, to this day, indescribable.
I entered into another realm, more profound than the last, and became aware
of something more, much more. It was an enormous stream of light, vast and
full, deep in the heart of life. I asked what this was.

The light responded, "This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna water
to your heart's content."

So I did. I took one big drink and then another. To drink of life Itself! I
was in ecstasy.

Then the light said, "You have a desire."

The light knew all about me, everything past, present and future.

"Yes!" I whispered.

I asked to see the rest of the universe; beyond our solar system, beyond all
human illusion. The light then told me that I could go with the Stream. I
did, and was carried through the light at the end of the tunnel. I felt and
heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a rush!

Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of
life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor,
whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the
center of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that
this galaxy, and all of the universe, is bursting with many different
varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not alone
in this universe!

As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center of the galaxy, the
stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy. The super clusters
of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At first I thought I was
going somewhere; actually traveling. But then I realized that, as the
stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also expanding to take in
everything in the universe! All creation passed by me. It was an
unimaginable wonder! I truly was a wonder child; a babe in Wonderland!

It seemed as if all the creations in the universe soared by me and vanished
in a speck of light. Almost immediately, a second light appeared. It came
from all sides, and was so different; a light made up of more than every
frequency in the universe.

I felt and heard several velvety sonic booms again. My consciousness, or
being, was expanding to interface with the entire holographic universe and
more.

As I passed into the second light, the awareness came to me that I had just
transcended the truth. Those are the best words I have for it, but I will
try to explain. As I passed into the second light, I expanded beyond the
first light. I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence. I
could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond infinity. I was in the void. I was
in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning of
time - the first word - the first vibration. I was in the eye of creation. I
felt as if I was touching the face of God. It was not a religious feeling.
Simply I was at one with absolute life and consciousness.

When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could
experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and
without end. That's a mind-expanding thought, isn't it? Scientists perceive
the Big Bang as a single event which created the universe. I saw that the
Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating universes
endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human
terms would be those created by supercomputers using fractal geometry
equations.

The ancients knew of this. They said Godhead periodically created new
universes by breathing out, and de-creating other universes by breathing in.
These epochs were called yugas. Modern Science called this the Big Bang. I
was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see or perceive all the Big
Bangs or yugas creating and de-creating themselves. Instantly I entered
into them all simultaneously. I saw that each and every little piece of
creation has the power to create. It is very difficult to try to explain
this. I am still speechless about this.

It took me years after I returned to assimilate any words at all for the
void experience. I can tell you this now; the void is less than nothing, yet
more than everything that is! The void is absolute zero; chaos forming all
possibilities. It is absolute consciousness; much more than even universal
intelligence.

Where is the void? I know. The void is inside and outside everything. You,
right now even while you live, are always inside and outside the void
simultaneously. You don't have to go anywhere or die to get there. The void
is the vacuum or nothingness between all physical manifestations. The SPACE
between atoms and their components. Modern Science has begun to study this
space between everything. They call it zero-point. Whenever they try to
measure it, their instruments go off the scale, or to infinity, so to speak.
They have no way, as of yet, to measure infinity accurately. There is more
of the zero space in your own body and the universe than anything else!

What mystics call the void is not a void. It is so full of energy, a
different kind of energy that has created everything that we are. Everything
since the Big Bang is vibration, from the first word, which is the first
vibration.

The Biblical "I am" really has a question mark after it.

"I am? What am I?"

So creation is God exploring God's Self through every way imaginable, in an
ongoing, infinite exploration through every one of us. Through every piece
of hair on your head, through every leaf on every tree, through every atom,
God is exploring God's Self, the great "I am". I began to see that
everything that is, is the Self, literally, your Self, my Self. Everything
is the great Self. That is why God knows even when a leaf falls. That is
possible because wherever you are is the center of the universe. Wherever
any atom is, that is the center of the universe. There is God in that, and
God in the void.

As I was exploring the void and all the yugas or creations, I was
completely out of time and space as we know it. In this expanded state, I
discovered that creation is about absolute pure consciousness, or God,
coming into the experience of life as we know it. The void itself is devoid
of experience.
It is pre-life, before the first vibration. Godhead is about more than life
and death. Therefore there is even more than life and death to experience in
the universe!

I was in the void and I was aware of everything that had ever been created.
It was like I was looking out of God's eyes. I had become God. Suddenly I
wasn't me anymore. The only thing I can say, I was looking out of God's
eyes. And suddenly I knew why every atom was, and I could see everything.

The interesting point was that I went into the void, I came back with this
understanding that God is not there. God is here. That's what it is all
about. So this constant search of the human race to go out and find God. God
gave everything to us, everything is here - this is where it's at. And what
we are into now is God's exploration of God through us. People are so busy
trying to become God that they ought to realize that we are already God and
God is becoming us. That's what it is really about.

When I realized this, I was finished with the void, and wanted to return to
this creation, or yuga. It just seemed like the natural thing to do.

hen I suddenly came back through the second light, or the Big Bang, hearing
several more velvet booms. I rode the stream of consciousness back through
all of creation, and what a ride it was! The superclusters of galaxies came
through me with even more insights. I passed through the center of our
galaxy, which is a black hole. Black holes are the great processors or
recyclers of the universe. Do you know what is on the other side of a black
hole? We are; our galaxy; which has been reprocessed from another universe.

In its total energy configuration, the galaxy looked like a fantastic city
of lights. All energy this side of the Big Bang is light. Every sub-atom,
atom, star, planet, even consciousness itself is made of light and has a
frequency and/or particle. Light is living stuff. Everything is made of
light, even stones. So everything is alive. Everything is made from the
light of God; everything is very intelligent.

As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge light coming.
I knew it was the first light; the Higher Self light matrix of our solar
system. Then the entire solar system appeared in the light, accompanied by
one of those velvet booms.

I saw that the solar system we live in is our larger, local body. This is
our local body and we are much bigger than we imagine. I saw that the solar
system is our body. I am a part of this, and the earth is this great created
being that we are, and we are the part of it that knows that it is. But we
are only that part of it. We are not everything, but we are that part of
it that knows that it is.

I could see all the energy that this solar system generates, and it is an
incredible light show! I could hear the music of the spheres. Our solar
system, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of light,
sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other star systems
can spot life as we know it in the universe by the vibratory or energy
matrix imprint. It is child's play. The earth's wonder child (human beings)
make an abundance of sound right now, like children playing in the backyard
of the universe.

I rode the stream directly into the center of the light. I felt embraced by
the light as it took me in with its breath again, followed by another soft
sonic boom.

I was in this great light of love with the stream of life flowing through
me. I have to say again, it is the most loving, non-judgmental light. It is
the ideal parent for this wonder child.

"What now?" I wondered.

The light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal beings. We
have already been alive forever! I realized that we are part of a natural
living system that recycles itself endlessly. I was never told that I had to
come back. I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what I had
seen.

I don't know how long I was with the light, in human time. But there came a
moment when I realized that all my questions had been answered and my return
was near. When I say that all my questions were answered on the other side,
I mean to say just that. All my questions have been answered. Every human
has a different life and set of questions to explore. Some of our
questions are universal, but each of us is exploring this thing we call life
in our own unique way. So is every other form of life, from mountains to
every leaf on every tree.

And that is very important to the rest of us in this universe. Because it
all contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of life. We are literally
God exploring God's Self in an infinite Dance of Life. Your uniqueness
enhances all of life.

As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was I
told, that I would return to the same body. It just did not matter. I had
complete trust in the light and the life process. As the stream merged with
the great light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the feelings of
what I had learned on the other side.

There was a "Yes." It felt like a kiss to my soul.

Then I was taken back through the light into the vibratory realm again. The
whole process reversed, with even more information being given to me. I came
back home, and I was given lessons on the mechanics of reincarnation. I was
given answers to all those little questions I had:

"How does this work? How does that work?" I knew that I would be
reincarnated.

The earth is a great processor of energy, and individual consciousness
evolves out of that into each one of us. I thought of myself as a human for
the first time, and I was happy to be that. From what I have seen, I would
be happy to be an atom in this universe. An atom. So to be the human part
of God ... this is the most fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our
wildest estimation of what blessing can be. For each and every one of us to
be the human part of this experience is awesome, and magnificent. Each and
every one of us, no matter where we are, screwed up or not, is a blessing to
the planet, right where we are.

So I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby
somewhere. But I was given a lesson on how individual identity and
consciousness evolve. So I reincarnated back into this body.

I was so surprised when I opened my eyes. I do not know why, because I
understood it, but it was still such a surprise to be back in this body,
back in my room with someone looking over me crying her eyes out. It was my
hospice caretaker. She had given up an hour and a half after finding me
dead. She was sure I was dead; all the signs of death were there - I was
getting stiff. We do not know how long I was dead, but we do know that it
was an hour and a half since I was found. She honored my wish to have my
newly dead body left alone for a few hours as much as she could. We had an
amplified stethoscope and many ways of checking out the vital functions of
the body to see what was happening. She can verify that I really was dead.

It was not a near-death experience. I experienced death itself for at least
an hour and a half. She found me dead and checked the stethoscope, blood
pressure and heart rate monitor for an hour and a half. Then I awakened and
saw the light outside. I tried to get up to go to it, but I fell out of the
bed. She heard a loud "clunk", ran in and found me on the floor.

When I recovered, I was very surprised and yet very awed about what had
happened to me. At first all the memory of the trip that I have now was not
there. I kept slipping out of this world and kept asking, "Am I alive?" This
world seemed more like a dream than that one.

Within three days, I was feeling normal again, clearer, yet different than I
had ever felt in my life. My memory of the journey came back later. I could
see nothing wrong with any human being I had ever seen. Before that I was
really judgmental. I thought a lot of people were really screwed up, in
fact I thought that everybody was screwed up but me. But I got clear on all
that.

About three months later a friend said I should get tested, so I went and
got the scans and so forth. I really felt good, so I was afraid of getting
bad news.

I remember the doctor at the clinic looking at the before and after scans,
saying, "Well, there is nothing here now."

I said, "Really, it must be a miracle?"

He said, "No, these things happen, they are called spontaneous remission."

He acted very unimpressed. But here was a miracle, and I was impressed, even
if no one else was.

The mystery of life has very little to do with intelligence. The universe is
not an intellectual process at all. The intellect is helpful; it is
brilliant, but right now that is all we process with, instead of our hearts
and the wiser part of ourselves.

The center of the earth is this great transmuter of energy, just as you see
in pictures of our earth's magnetic field. That's our cycle, pulling
reincarnated souls back in and through it again. A sign that you are
reaching human level is that you are beginning to evolve an individual
consciousness. The animals have a group soul, and they reincarnate in group
souls. A deer is pretty much going to be a deer forever. But just being
born a human, whether deformed or genius, shows that you are on the path to
developing an individual consciousness. That is in itself part of the group
consciousness called humanity.

I saw that races are personality clusters. Nations like France, Germany and
China each have their own personality. Cities have personalities, their
local group souls that attract certain people. Families have group souls.
Individual identity is evolving like branches of a fractal; the group soul
explores in our individuality. The different questions that each of us has
are very, very important. This is how Godhead is exploring God's Self -
through you. So ask your questions, do your searching. You will find your
Self and you will find God in that Self, because it is only the Self.

More than that, I began to see that each one of us humans are soul mates. We
are part of the same soul fractaling out in many creative directions, but
still the same. Now I look at every human being that I ever see, and I see a
soul mate, my soul mate, the one I have always been looking for. Beyond
that, the greatest soul mate that you will ever have is yourself. We are
each both male and female. We experience this in the womb and we
experience this in reincarnation states. If you are looking for that
ultimate soul mate outside of yourself, you may never find it; it is not
there. Just as God is not "there." God is here. Don't look "out there" for
God. Look here for God.
Look through your Self. Start having the greatest love affair you ever had
... with your Self. You will love everything out of that.

I had a descent into what you might call hell, and it was very surprising. I
did not see Satan or evil. My descent into hell was a descent into each
person's customized human misery, ignorance, and darkness of not-knowing. It
seemed like a miserable eternity. But each of the millions of souls around
me had a little star of light always available. But no one seemed to pay
attention to it. They were so consumed with their own grief, trauma and
misery. But, after what seemed an eternity, I started calling out to that
light, like a child calling to a parent for help. Then the light opened up
and formed a tunnel that came right to me an insulated me from all that fear
and pain. That is what hell really is.

So what we are doing is learning to hold hands, to come together. The doors
of hell are open now. We are going to link up, hold hands, and walk out of
hell together.

The light came to me and turned into a huge golden angel. I said, "Are you
the angel of death?"

It expressed to me that it was my oversoul, my Higher Self matrix, a
super-ancient part of ourselves. Then I was taken to the light.

Soon our Science will quantify spirit. Isn't that going to be wonderful? We
are coming up with devices now that are sensitive to subtle energy or spirit
energy. Physicists use these atomic colliders to smash atoms to see what
they are made of. They have got it down to quarks and charm, and all that.
Well, one day they are going to come down to the little thing that holds
it all together, and they are going to have to call that ... God. With
atomic colliders they are not only seeing what is in here, but they are
creating particles. Thank God most of them are short-lived milliseconds and
nanoseconds. We are just beginning to understand that we are creating too,
as we go along.

As I saw forever, I came to a realm in which there is a point where we pass
all knowledge and begin creating the next fractal, the next level. We have
that power to create as we explore. And that is God expanding itself through
us.

Since my return I have experienced the light spontaneously, and I have
learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each one
of you can do this. You do not have to die to do this. It is within your
equipment; you are wired for it already.

The body is the most magnificent light being there is. The body is a
universe of incredible light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this
body. That is not what is happening. Stop trying to become God; God is
becoming you. Here.

The mind is like a child running around the universe, demanding this and
thinking it created the world. But I ask the mind:

"What did your mother have to do with this?"

That is the next level of spiritual awareness. Oh! My mother! All of a
sudden you give up the ego, because you are not the only soul in the
universe.

One of my questions to the light was, "What is heaven?"

I was given a tour of all the heavens that have been created: the
Nirvanas, the Happy Hunting Grounds, all of them. I went through them. These
are thought form creations that we have created. We don't really go to
heaven; we are reprocessed. But whatever we created, we leave a part of
ourselves there. It is real, but it is not all of the soul.

I saw the Christian heaven. We expect it to be a beautiful place, and you
stand in front of the throne, worshipping forever. I tried it. It is boring!
This is all we are going to do? It is childlike. I do not mean to offend
anyone. Some heavens are very interesting, and some are very boring.
I found the ancient ones to be more interesting, like the Native American
ones, the Happy Hunting Grounds. The Egyptians have fantastic ones. It goes
on and on. There are so many of them. In each of them there is a fractal
that is your particular interpretation, unless you are part of the group
soul that believes in only the God of a particular religion. Then you are
very close, in the same ball park together. But even then, each is a little
bit different. That is a part of yourself that you leave there. Death is
about life, not about heaven.

I asked God, "What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is right?"

And Godhead said, with great love, "I don't care."

That was incredible grace. What that meant was that we are the caring beings
here.

The Ultimate Godhead of all the stars tells us, "It does not matter what
religion you are."

They come and they go, they change. Buddhism has not been here forever,
Catholicism has not been here forever, and they are all about to become more
enlightened. More light is coming into all systems now. There is going to be
a reformation in spirituality that is going to be just as dramatic as the
Protestant Reformation. There will be lots of people fighting about it,
one religion against the next, believing that only they are right.

Everyone thinks they own God, the religions and philosophies, especially the
religions, because they form big organizations around their philosophy. When
Godhead said, "I don't care," I immediately understood that it is for us to
care about. It is important, because we are the caring beings. It matters to
us and that is where it is important. What you have is the energy equation
in spirituality. Ultimate Godhead does not care if you are Protestant,
Buddhist, or whatever. It is all a blooming facet of the whole. I wish that
all religions would realize it and let each other be. It is not the end of
each religion, but we are talking about the same God. Live and let live.
Each has a different view. And it all adds up to the Big Picture; it is all
important.

I went over to the other side with a lot of fears about toxic waste, nuclear
missiles, the population explosion, the rainforest. I came back loving every
single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom cloud; this is the
holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as an archetype. It, more
than any religion or philosophy on earth, brought us together all of a
sudden, to a new level of consciousness. Knowing that maybe we can blow up
the planet fifty times, or 500 times, we finally realize that maybe we are
all here together now. For a period they had to keep setting off more bombs
to get it in to us. Then we started saying, "We do not need this any more."

Now we are actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is
going to get safer. So I came back loving toxic waste, because it brought us
together. These things are so big. As Peter Russell might say, these
problems are now "soul size." Do we have soul size answers? YES!

The clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there
will be more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into
ecology, go for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming aware.
Go for it with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is part of a
larger thing.

Earth is in the process of domesticating itself. It is never again going to
be as wild a place as it once was. There will be great wild places, reserves
where nature thrives. Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the
future. Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of
energy to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will
change politics, money, energy.

What happens when we dream? We are multi-dimensional beings. We can access
that through lucid dreaming. In fact, this universe is God's dream. One of
the things that I saw is that we humans are a speck on a planet that is a
speck in a galaxy that is a speck. Those are giant systems out there, and we
are in sort of an average system. But human beings are already legendary
throughout the cosmos of consciousness. The little bitty human being of
Earth/Gaia is legendary. One of the things that we are legendary for is
dreaming. We are legendary dreamers. In fact, the whole cosmos has been
looking for the meaning of life, the meaning of it all. And it was the
little dreamer who came up with the best answer ever. We dreamed it up. So
dreams are important.

After dying and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our DNA
experiments we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will be
able to live as long as we want to live in this body. After living 150 years
or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you will want to change
channels. Living forever in one body is not as creative as reincarnation,
as transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of energy that we are in. We
are actually going to see the wisdom of life and death, and enjoy it.

As it is now, we have already been alive forever. This body that you are in,
has been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back
to the Big Bang and beyond. This body gives life to the next life, in dense
and subtle energy. This body has been alive forever already.

"We are going to link up, hold hands, and walk out of hell together."

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