REC #1 GCH

WED., JAN. 26, 2000 9:34 A.M. YR. 13, DAY 163

WED., JAN. 26, 2000

[GCH-D]

WHERE TO, TO DEATH OR LIVING?

By now, although you don't realize it, each of you in physical projection have experienced that which you call death and more often have experienced that which you call, erroneously, "near death".

It matters not how you come to participate in such a journey or realization but it DOES matter what you think of that experience. Just KNOW that these experiences are "real" and that at the time of expression it is KNOWN in its reality.

Each scenario, no matter how it is interpreted or what kind of imagery it encompassed, is absolutely and totally and completely REAL to the one who experienced it. What happened, happened. No one's belief or disbelief can change that simple FACT. If you are "confirmed" "dead" then you have more visible confirmation, perhaps, but you do not have to walk to the very door of transition to realize that you move "into" reality FROM the illusion.

There is no one experiencer and no single experience that is more important than any other. Nor is there any message or revelation given to any one person that is more correct or true than what is revealed to any other. So, quoting from some holy writ in order to validate or legitimize near-death claims accomplishes little or nothing, and serves no one. The experience IS and from that experience great insight and knowing is received EVERY time.

Little Crow, as a for instance, knew that he would have to experience this "near-death" or "DEATH" at least seven times in THIS JOURNEY. HE HAS PASSED THOSE IN HIS JOURNEY THUS FAR. Dharma had five times literally been "killed" since her work began in 1987--however, there were three incidents within the prior years from 1984. Is "seven" the magical number? No, there are no "magical" numbers, chelas. There is purpose and necessity of travels which take you back and forth as MIND moves toward success of mission.

You can deny the experiences but it matters not except to limit your insight into that which is YOUR UNIQUE JOURNEY AND PURPOSE. There is no place to run and there is no place to hide--FROM SELF and/or GOD.

So, why could it not be that just one or two experience the transition and tell the others? Because until YOU recognize reality, another's reality is nothing more than words on a screen, page or sound waves. None see the WHOLE picture in any such experience and none of you retain all that you DID EXPERIENCE in consciousness.

The real POWER that emerges from near-death experiences (if you wish to call them by that accepted term) is a collective one--not what one person saw or heard, but the sum of the many. When you have listened to the thousands of experiences from those willing to speak of their own experiences a collective message emerges which speaks with a very loud and thunderous voice. There are what might be considered "summations" assembled from the sum of the many who are willing to share. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE TOUCHED GOD!

DYING

Oh my, we would need to recognize some signs, I suppose, so that you can relate to your own possible experiences.

The FACT of actually making that "death transition into life" is recognition that any pain to be suffered comes first for there is NO PAIN IN THE ACTUAL TRANSLATION.

It is most reported, however, that in a physical trauma circumstance, rather than from some "astral adventure", there is an instinctive fight to "live". We can discuss these various things as we move along but the facts are that even in attempts at suicide there is an instinctive drive to live, even as the translation is being made, for the soul strives to face the chosen experience of physical life and almost always finds the actual taking of one's own life is not really very acceptable--TO SELF.

These are automatic realizations because to the conscious mind it is inconceivable that any other reality could possibly exist besides the earth-world of matter bounded by time and space. You are used to the world of matter. You have been trained since birth to live and thrive in it. You know yourselves to be yourselves by the external stimuli you receive (those senses of human). Life tells you who you are and you accept its telling. That, too, is automatic and to be expected.

At passage the body goes totally limp.

Your heart stops.

No more air flows in or out.

You lose sight, feeling, and movement--although the ability to hear goes last. Identity ceases. The "you" that you once were becomes only a memory.

There is NO PAIN at the MOMENT OF DEATH. I repeat this one because what is feared most is the suffering prior to the death passage and the fear of that which is unknown. Well, "unknown" is not a good description because you DO, INDEED, KNOW.

There is only peaceful silence, a calm, a quiet--a release.

It is, frankly, easy not to breathe. In fact, it is easier, more comfortable and infinitely more natural NOT to breathe than to breathe.

The greatest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does NOT END LIFE. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still YOU. You can still think, you can still remember and you can still see, hear, move, reason, wonder, feel, question and tell jokes--if you wish.

You are still alive, VERY MUCH ALIVE. Actually, you're more alive AFTER DEATH than at any time since you were last born. Only the way of all this is different; different because you no longer wear a dense body to filter and amplify the various sensations you had once regarded as the only valid indicators of what constitutes "life". You had always been taught one has to wear a body to live.

If you expect to die when you "die", you will be disappointed. The only thing dying does is help you release, slough off and discard the "jacket" you once wore (more commonly referred to as a physical body).

That is all there is to it. Nothing else is lost.

You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

SO, WHAT THEN, IS "DEATH"?

Well, hold on to your hats, kids, for it is not less, it is MORE. There is a great step-up of energy at the moment of passage into that next life. There is an increase in speed as if you are suddenly vibrating faster than before--and that's because you are for you are in "free-form" soul expression, expressing.

Let us present it as others have described it so that it is easily understood: Using radio waves as an analogy, this "speed-up" is comparable to having lived all your life at a certain radio frequency when all of a sudden someone or something comes along and flips the dial. That flip shifts you to another, higher wavelength. The original frequency where you once existed is still there. It did not change. Everything is still just the same as it was, only YOU changed, only YOU speeded up to allow entry into the next radio frequency on the dial. AND NO, IT IS NOT INTO WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL THE FOURTH DIMENSION FOR YOU ONLY EXPERIENCE THE MENTAL REALIZATION THAT YOU "WERE" ALREADY IN THE "ALL DIMENSIONS" ALL THE "TIME" AND THAT IS REPRESENTED IN THE MOMENT OF "NOW". FURTHER, YOU LOOK UPON THE LIVING PHYSICAL INDIVIDUALS ACCORDING TO "THEIR" LIMITATIONS AS TO TIME AND SPACE, AS YOU HAVE NONE. OPTIONS REGARDING THESE THINGS ARE THE CHOICES MADE AT THAT LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING.

As is true with all radios and radio stations, there can be "stepons" and "bleedovers" or distortions of transmission signals due to interference patterns. These can allow or force frequencies to coexist or commingle for indefinite periods of time. Normally, most shifts up the dial are fast and efficient; but, occasionally, one can run into interference, perhaps from a strong emotion, a sense of duty or a need to fulfill a vow or keep a promise. This interference could allow coexistence of frequencies for a few seconds, days or even years where this can exhibit as hauntings or is represented by a state of comatose state of the "body" where the brain is functioning but the mind is "away somewhere"! However, sooner or later, eventually every given vibrational frequency will seek out or be nudged to WHERE IT BELONGS.

You fit YOUR particular spot on that dial by your speed of vibration existing. You can't "just exist" or coexist forever where YOU DO NOT BELONG. THIS IS WHY IT SO IMPORTANT TO LEARN NOW ABOUT THOSE THINGS.

Who can say how many spots there are on the dial or how many frequencies there are to inhabit? No one knows, so it behooves you to aim for the highest you can get.

You shift frequencies in "dying". You switch over to life on another wavelength. You are still a spot on the dial but you move up (or down) a notch or two with each transition and insight growth.

You DO NOT DIE when you "die". You simply shift your CONSCIOUSNESS and speed of vibration frequency. So, sorry if this disappoints you: THAT'S ALL DEATH IS--A SHIFT!

OK, SO WHAT'S "EXISTENCE"?

In responding to this question let us start with "time" and "space".

Time and space, as you recognize and know them, EXIST ONLY ON THE EARTHPLANE of physical manifestation. When you leave the earthplane, you leave such constraints and limitations.

There are realms and dimensions of existence without number, ranging from the slower, more dense vibrations of form to higher, finer streamers of nonenergetic currents. And there is more beyond that, realities that cannot be measured or described in the convenience of mathematics or mind-play.

"HELL" refers to levels of "negative thought-forms" that reside in close proximity to the earthplane. It is where you go to work out, or remain within, your hang-ups, addictions, fears, guilts, angers, rage, regrets, self-pity, arrogance or whatever else blocks you from the power of your own LIGHT. You stay in hell (and there are many divisions to this vibratory level) for however long best serves your development. There is no condemnation here, only the outworking of your misjudgments, mistakes, misalignments or misappropriations (what some people call "sin"). In "hell", you have the opportunity to either revel in your folly or come to grips with the reality of consequences--that every action has a reaction, what is inflicted on another can be returned in kind. You experience the "flip-side" of your despair or your demands, "living through" the extremes of whatever you dread (fear). This is not a "punishment for your sins" but a confrontation with any distortion of your sense of values and priorities. You do not leave until you have changed your attitudes and perceptions.

"HEAVEN" is a term used to describe levels of positive thought-forms that reside in close proximity to the earthplane. These are just "terms" but they serve well enough for understanding for they have become pretty well accepted in general recognition. It is where you go to recognize or enjoy your worth, talents, abilities, joys, courage, generosity, caring, empathy, givingness, virtue, cheer, diligence, thoughtfulness, patience, loving kindness or whatever else reveals the power of your own LIGHT. You stay in "heaven" (and there are many divisions to that level) for however long best serves your development. There is a sense of benefit here, as if one has found one's true home and all is well. Some people regard this a "time-out", "recess" or a "time of rewards". In heaven, you have the opportunity to assess your progress as a soul, to evaluate pros and cons and outcomes, to remember all truths including that of your REAL identity. You experience the glory of love and the power of forgiveness. This is not an end point, but, rather, the realization of your purpose in creation's story, how you fit, and what possibilities for future growth and learning exist. You do not leave until you are ready for your next advancement either in the world of form or beyond it.

No one "knows" how vast creation is--only that it has always been and will always be. Shapes and embodiments change and alter, substance is recycled, but existence EXISTS, as does energy.

Existence is life, never ending and ongoing, forever and ever eternal. Yet its only true movement (without the distortion of time and space), is expansion and contraction, as if the existence that exists were capable of breathing--which it is. What appears as a progression, a "time-line" of starts and stops and ever-changing variations, is but an overleaf, an illusion, that helps you to focus on whatever spot on the dial you currently inhabit so that you can accomplish what you set out to do, or at least have the opportunity to so do, and not be distracted by THE TRUTH as undergirds reality.

Another example which is effective in giving insight is to consider television in analogy. The picture you enjoy seeing, the progression of a storyline with characters acting out a script, is but a trick of perception. What exists, what is really there, is quite literally ONE ELECTRON AT A TIME (with black and white, and three at a time with color) fired from the back of the television TUBE to the screen to be illuminated once it hits the screen as a tiny dot. The continuous barrage of electrons-turned-into-dots creates the appearance of images, as scanning lines (rasher bars) roll from top to bottom separating information coming in (new dots) from information fading out (old dots). You adjust the vertical hold on your set, not to remove strange bars appearing in the picture, but to place all screen activity within the range of your own perceptual preference. A television picture tube is nothing more than a "gun" that fires electrons at a screen. Your mind connects the electrons/dots into the picture images you think you see, while it totally ignores the true reality of what actually undergirds the operation. The way television operates, at the least in your daily experience of it, is an illusion.

Existence is a lot like television. What exists, what really exists, can't be fathomed by how it appears to operate or what it seems to be. Facts are, you do not need to fully understand the workings--but only to turn on the on-switch and check out a channel or run up and down the dial, channel-hopping as most "men" are oft apt to do. So, yes, if you wish you can reduce a baseball or football game on TV to a bunch of electrons and nothing more.

When your TV picture becomes "scrambled" you call it "broken"--well when YOU ARE SCRAMBLED CAN'T YOU EXPECT AS MUCH?

I know that sometimes you literally lie awake at night wondering "Why me?" Then a voice responds, usually, "Oh, nothing personal--you have to do it sometime, why not you and why not now?"

Now would be a good time, I suppose, to discuss "LIGHT" and "ENLIGHTENMENT" but I think I will save that for another sitting. And as you move along in understanding you will find answers to things like: "We understand why children are afraid of darkness, but why are men afraid of light?" Plato noted this a trillion yearns ago.

Inclusive in the response to this inquiry, however, is why I remind you of the dangers of any kind of drug-induced experience of that transition processing. With drugs or other mind-altering substances, you make that journey, alright, but it is NOT where you intended to go, no matter how good it may seem. These "substances" are a PHYSICALLY CAUSED hallucination process which are caused basically by a "downer" and the journey may seem good at the experience, but the sensing brain-body-mind have consciousness with which to contend as the substance removes itself from your system and ALL IS TOTALLY DISTORTED IN THE "ABSENT" STATE OF MENTAL GYRATIONS. TO FULLY APPRECIATE YOUR EXPERIENCE YOU NEED TO MEET GOD CLEAR AND TOTALLY SOBER. You will also come to KNOW how and why YOU ARE CO-CREATOR for once within the presence of GOD, you know all things are possible and you have but to choose that which is most worthy of expressing.

If you look for that "partner" called God with all your heart and all your soul--YE SHALL FIND HIM. And, furthermore, you will find that nothing so far experienced can equal the very GLORY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD OUR CREATOR. HE "thought" you uniquely and worthy of his highest honor, creation, are you to offer less in return unto HIM?

And by the way: GOD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE LESSER THAN THAT WHICH IS "BEST" SO DON'T BE LESSER TO PLEASE YOUR ENEMY.

I ask to end this now even though it is not too long as we usually go, but I want you to really dig into these topics on this matter because it is the most important KNOWING you can come by. THIS IS THE WAY IT "IS" AND ALL THE WISHING YOU MIGHT CHOOSE WILL NOT CHANGE THESE UNIVERSAL FACTS. YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR SCRIPTS BUT YOU CANNOT CHANGE THAT WHICH IS THE VERY BASIS OF UNIVERSAL CREATION OF INFINITE "LIFE".

In love and an offer to SHARE THE LIGHT,

I AM ATON (I am not the beginning or the end or both for there is NO BEGINNING AND NO END! I come that we might walk together in understanding, Light and Truth. Salu and Selah.