was through your temporary mortal coil, which was NOT you, because this was technically your vehicle that you drove around in. And of course, there are atheists who don't believe in God or an afterlife, so as far as they're concerned, your body is all you are and death is the absolute finality. There's nothing after that. How sad is that? How pointless!

People may say, "I justify death because I identify with my physical body, which suffers, gets sick, and will die." How sad to think that. Why can't they just declare, "I justify life as I am whole just as God made me, because I identify with Spirit and I will live eternally!" Your conviction of your eternality is justification of life in Reality, and likewise you're declar

Death is not real.

Many people reading this might be offended by this seemingly absurd statement, defending their staunch belief in this phenomenon called "death," or what I like to call the dogma of death, which is the doctrine of finality. Why would these people agree with such a negative idea? Do they actually prefer to die someday? Are they happy with their approaching finality? I don't think anyone really wants to die. No one really has to.

That's what I said. No one has to die. Period. Go ahead and label me crazy. It won't be the first time.

Death is not a finality. It is not the end of the road. It is actually a new beginning. Jesus demonstrated that death is not what we think it is. He died during his crucifixion, he lay in the tomb for three days, but then he was resurrected, returning to life. Perhaps he cheated death, or perhaps he just knew that death was not real, and he proved it. These things that he did, so can you, and greater things than these can you do also. Jesus said so. Essentially, if you know the reality of how things work, you can do these greater things.

There have been countless cases of near-death experiences. Individuals have been declared clinically dead and then they returned to life. These people claimed to have seen a reality beyond this earthly plane. But these demonstrations are just the tip of the iceberg. Taking a quick trip from life to death and then back to life again is not really what it seems. There is far more to it than this.

Death is a slight of hand, an illusion, a clever magic trick. Perhaps Jesus was a master magician when he pulled off his cheating death trick. In the meantime, most of us think we will die, and so we do.

Why would we put ourselves in that predicament? Yes, when you supposedly "die," you shuck off your now obsolete mortal coil, and others will mourn your death -- but YOU continue existing . . . no -- you continue LIVING! Your consciousness is still intact. In fact, it perceives more than it ever did before when it resided in the physical form. You may be void of your dense physical body, and you may be disoriented without it, but you are fully alive, more than ever now. You feel more awake and alive now. Now you start wondering if you were actually dead back in the earthly plane, and that now you are really alive, and free -- free from the denseness and limitations of the world you came from. You look upon all those people who are mourning some lifeless corpse that you used to trudge around in. Why are they doing that? Why can't they be glad that you're free now? Perhaps they are sad for themselves, because you are no longer with them, and you have gone beyond their grasp. Yes, many religious people will believe you have gone to heaven or greener pastures or the afterlife or whatever they wish to call it. But they still refer to you as "dead," and the only way they identified with you was through your temporary mortal coil, which was NOT you, because this was technically your vehicle that you drove around in. And of course, there are atheists who don't believe in God or an afterlife, so as far as they're concerned, your body is all you are and death is the absolute finality. There's nothing after that. How sad is that? How pointless!

People may say, "I justify death because I identify with my physical body, which suffers, gets sick, and will die." How sad to think that. Why can't they just declare, "I justify life as I am whole just as God made me, because I identify with Spirit and I will live eternally!" Your conviction of your eternality is justification of life in Reality, and likewise you're declar

crucifixion, he lay in the tomb for three days, but then he was resurrected, returning to life. Perhaps he cheated death, or perhaps he just knew that death was not real, and he proved it. These things that he did, so can you, and greater things than these can you do also. Jesus said so. Essentially, if you know the reality of how things work, you can do these greater things.

There have been countless cases of near-death experiences. Individuals have been declared clinically dead and then they returned to life. These people claimed to have seen a reality beyond this earthly plane. But these demonstrations are just the tip of the iceberg. Taking a quick trip from life to death and then back to life again is not really what it seems. There is far more to it than this.

Death is a slight of hand, an illusion, a clever magic trick. Perhaps Jesus was a master magician when he pulled off his cheating death trick. In the meantime, most of us think we will die, and so we do.

Why would we put ourselves in that predicament? Yes, when you supposedly "die," you shuck off your now obsolete mortal coil, and others will mourn your death -- but YOU continue existing . . . no -- you continue LIVING! Your consciousness is still intact. In fact, it perceives more than it ever did before when it resided in the physical form. You may be void of your dense physical body, and you may be disoriented without it, but you are fully alive, more than ever now. You feel more awake and alive now. Now you start wondering if you were actually dead back in the earthly plane, and that now you are really alive, and free -- free from the denseness and limitations of the world you came from. You look upon all those people who are mourning some lifeless corpse that you used to trudge around in. Why are they doing that? Why can't they be glad that you're free now? Perhaps they are sad for themselves, because you are no longer with them, and you have gone beyond their grasp. Yes, many religious people will believe you have gone to heaven or greener pastures or the afterlife or whatever they wish to call it. But they still refer to you as "dead," and the only way they identified with you was through your temporary mortal coil, which was NOT you, because this was technically your vehicle that you drove around in. And of course, there are atheists who don't believe in God or an afterlife, so as far as they're concerned, your body is all you are and death is the absolute finality. There's nothing after that. How sad is that? How pointless!

People may say, "I justify death because I identify with my physical body, which suffers, gets sick, and will die." How sad to think that. Why can't they just declare, "I justify life as I am whole just as God made me, because I identify with Spirit and I will live eternally!" Your conviction of your eternality is justification of life in Reality, and likewise you're declar

t it seems. There is far more to it than this.

Death is a slight of hand, an illusion, a clever magic trick. Perhaps Jesus was a master magician when he pulled off his cheating death trick. In the meantime, most of us think we will die, and so we do.

Why would we put ourselves in that predicament? Yes, when you supposedly "die," you shuck off your now obsolete mortal coil, and others will mourn your death -- but YOU continue existing . . . no -- you continue LIVING! Your consciousness is still intact. In fact, it perceives more than it ever did before when it resided in the physical form. You may be void of your dense physical body, and you may be disoriented without it, but you are fully alive, more than ever now. You feel more awake and alive now. Now you start wondering if you were actually dead back in the earthly plane, and that now you are really alive, and free -- free from the denseness and limitations of the world you came from. You look upon all those people who are mourning some lifeless corpse that you used to trudge around in. Why are they doing that? Why can't they be glad that you're free now? Perhaps they are sad for themselves, because you are no longer with them, and you have gone beyond their grasp. Yes, many religious people will believe you have gone to heaven or greener pastures or the afterlife or whatever they wish to call it. But they still refer to you as "dead," and the only way they identified with you was through your temporary mortal coil, which was NOT you, because this was technically your vehicle that you drove around in. And of course, there are atheists who don't believe in God or an afterlife, so as far as they're concerned, your body is all you are and death is the absolute finality. There's nothing after that. How sad is that? How pointless!

People may say, "I justify death because I identify with my physical body, which suffers, gets sick, and will die." How sad to think that. Why can't they just declare, "I justify life as I am whole just as God made me, because I identify with Spirit and I will live eternally!" Your conviction of your eternality is justification of life in Reality, and likewise you're declar

You feel more awake and alive now. Now you start wondering if you were actually dead back in the earthly plane, and that now you are really alive, and free -- free from the denseness and limitations of the world you came from. You look upon all those people who are mourning some lifeless corpse that you used to trudge around in. Why are they doing that? Why can't they be glad that you're free now? Perhaps they are sad for themselves, because you are no longer with them, and you have gone beyond their grasp. Yes, many religious people will believe you have gone to heaven or greener pastures or the afterlife or whatever they wish to call it. But they still refer to you as "dead," and the only way they identified with you was through your temporary mortal coil, which was NOT you, because this was technically your vehicle that you drove around in. And of course, there are atheists who don't believe in God or an afterlife, so as far as they're concerned, your body is all you are and death is the absolute finality. There's nothing after that. How sad is that? How pointless!

People may say, "I justify death because I identify with my physical body, which suffers, gets sick, and will die." How sad to think that. Why can't they just declare, "I justify life as I am whole just as God made me, because I identify with Spirit and I will live eternally!" Your conviction of your eternality is justification of life in Reality, and likewise you're declar

was through your temporary mortal coil, which was NOT you, because this was technically your vehicle that you drove around in. And of course, there are atheists who don't believe in God or an afterlife, so as far as they're concerned, your body is all you are and death is the absolute finality. There's nothing after that. How sad is that? How pointless!

People may say, "I justify death because I identify with my physical body, which suffers, gets sick, and will die." How sad to think that. Why can't they just declare, "I justify life as I am whole just as God made me, because I identify with Spirit and I will live eternally!" Your conviction of your eternality is justification of life in Reality, and likewise you're declaring that death is not real, but an illusion of the earthly plane.

Let’s look at it like this. Perhaps you have been driving around in your car for twenty years, and although it has generally been a pretty good vehicle, but let's say that in its last day it was completely totaled in a serious accident; fortunately, you were unharmed. You tow the destroyed heap to the wrecking yard and leave it there, where they crush it down to size. But now you buy a brand new car to drive around in. Now, do your friends mourn your old car? Do they hang around that old heap, crushed down into a metal hunk? Do they set up a shrine for it? Are they reminiscing the good old days of your car, while not really considering you the driver? Or will they celebrate that you are free from that old wreck and have gotten a new vehicle? Throughout this whole situation you are perfectly intact, you have not died. More than anything, you identify with yourself as the driver, not as the vehicle you drove in. You merely switched from an old vehicle to a new one. There was a transition, a change, but no death. That's how people have to start seeing it. That's how everyone should have been seeing it from the beginning.

People don't really know what determines that point when the body dies, or rather, when you're soul goes through transition from this world to the next. There are some mystical schools of thought that say that actual death occurs when the “silver cord” between the physical body and soul is severed. This is like an umbilical cord connecting you to your temporary mortal coil, and when it is time for you to move on, this cord is severed, usually depending on the circumstances involving the cause of transition. However, if you wish to label this as "death," so be it. But the reality is that you are finished with your physical body and you are now transitioning to a higher vibrational level of existence.

Death is only a door to a deeper reality. Actually, it’s more like a very thin curtain that you easily part when you pass through it. This world is the illusion, because you don't see everything that is, only a tiny fraction of all that is. That tiny morsel that you see, you perceive as all there is, and that's why it's an illusion; you’re not seeing the whole picture. So you need to open your eyes and begin to see and experience REAL LIFE, the real life of the real Reality all around you and within you. And death is just one of the many illusions you encounter.

It's sad that people want to be sick, to have pain, and then die. This seems rather meaningless. The eternal message is that they don't have to choose this. Sickness and pain and death thrive at the same dense vibratory level, because they are all part of a negative belief system, so they are all lumped together. But death is usually considered to be the ultimate of these negative traits, because it's the end of the story.