| Answer
from Jesus:
There is no general answer
to this question because everything depends on the consciousness of
the soul. I would advise you to read some of the many near-death experiences,
and you will quickly see that the consciousness of the person has a
major impact on where the soul goes after it separates from the body.
There are three general categories, or directions, in which the soul
can go:
- Souls who are in a very
negative state of consciousness create a magnetic pull and are attracted
to realms below the material universe [for more on lower realms, click
here]. This is especially true for souls who have been engaged
in anti-spiritual activities, such as satanism and various forms of
witchcraft or black magic. It is also true for souls who are consumed
by anger or hatred, or who are consumed by guilt and other negative
emotions. Therefore, souls who commit suicide will often go to such
lower realms. People who have been very materialistic and have denied
the existence of God also tend to gravitate to such realms, simply
because they do not believe they can go anywhere else.
- Some souls are very attached
to the physical body or to their life on Earth. Such souls can find
it difficult to let go of their attachment to the body or this world,
and therefore they remain in the vibrations of the material universe,
nevertheless they are free from the body. They become what some psychologists
call discarnate souls. These souls roam around in the material frequency
spectrum and often attach themselves to people in embodiment. This
can cause such people to have the same psychological or even physical
problems as the discarnate soul had in its last embodiment.
- The third category are
souls who go to the spiritual realm. This is indeed what is normal
and what God intends for every soul. You must understand that there
are many levels of the spiritual world, and therefore there is no
typical experience. The spiritual world is much more fluid than the
material world, and therefore a soul’s experience will always
be adapted to the individual needs of the soul. However, if you study
near-death experiences, you will see that most souls go through the
same general phases.
- The soul separates
from the body and often floats above the body.
- The soul sees a brilliant
light and moves into that light.
- The soul goes through
a tunnel and comes into a bright light where it is usually met
either with deceased family members or which spiritual beings
with which the soul has a connection.
- The soul is made to
feel at home and often goes through a review of its last lifetime.
In the case of people who
had near-death experiences, these people obviously had the option to
come back into embodiment, and they chose to use that option. That is
why they can tell about their near-death experiences. However, many
souls do not have this option, simply because their time is up and they
need to move on. After going through the initial welcoming phase in
the spiritual realm, such souls usually move on to centers of learning
or healing, where they can prepare for their next embodiment. In some
cases a soul would go back into a new embodiment within a very short
period of time. In other cases the soul might stay out of embodiment
for a very long time, even thousands of years as measured by Earth time.
Some souls are so highly developed that they do not need to come back
into embodiment, and in that case the soul has several options. If a
soul has balanced all of its karma, it can immediately move on to higher
spiritual realms, where it can go through a period of learning and integration
with its spiritual self, or I AM Presence. After that, the soul has
the option to remain with the Earth, serving as an ascended being, as
a spiritual teacher, to help unascended people grow spiritually. Souls
who choose this option are known as boddhisatvas. Other souls choose
not to remain with the Earth, and they move on to other realms in the
spiritual world, where they can continue to learn and grow or even fill
various spiritual offices.
If a soul has not balanced all of its karma (but has balanced enough
to not have to come back), then it needs to work out that karma from
the spiritual realm. This is much more difficult than balancing your
karma while you are still in embodiment, and therefore it is very important
that people make an effort to balance their karma while they are still
on Earth. You will indeed see throughout the scriptures that I advocated
an approach to spiritual growth than was aimed directly at helping people
balance the maximum amount of karma in the shortest possible period
of time.
This is the explanation for some of my suggestions that many people
consider radical or extreme. For example, you might recall my statement
to the rich man to donate all his money to the poor [Matthew 19:16-26].
I am not hereby saying that all people should give away all their money.
However, for this particular soul, and for many souls in a similar situation,
the only way this person could have balanced all his karma in the remainder
of that lifetime was to give away his fortune and focus the rest of
his life on spiritual activities.
Obviously, every person is different and has a different mission and
a different karma. Therefore, I do not want people to take this remark
as being valid for everyone. However, it would be highly beneficial
for people, as they age, to start considering what they might need to
do for the remainder of that lifetime in order to balance the maximum
amount of karma and fulfill their mission for this lifetime. If they
will use the exercise for inner
attunement and use other spiritual
tools, I can assure you that most people will get such inner direction,
and it will often cause them to change their lives dramatically in order
to make maximum spiritual progress and make maximum use of the opportunity
that life truly is. One of the most effecient ways to balance large
amounts of karma quickly is to use the Miracle
Rosary and the Violet
Flame.
Let me say here that regardless of a soul’s state of consciousness,
every soul will exit the physical body after the death of the body.
When the soul has exited the body, which usually happens immediately
after death, the soul will see the light that leads to the spiritual
realm. Therefore, every soul that leaves a body has the opportunity
to go to the spiritual realm. There are no exceptions to this. Every
soul has the opportunity to come up higher.
However, as I explain throughout this website, everything in this world
is subject to the free will of the individual soul. And if a soul chooses
not to enter the light, then it will either remain in the material spectrum
or go to a lower realm, depending on its state of consciousness. That
is one reason we of the Ascended Host have sponsored the many near-death
experiences. We want people to understand that every soul has the option
to go into the light and receive healing and instruction.
Yet to enter the light, the soul must choose to do so after it separates
from the body. And a person's state of consciousness before death has
a major impact on the soul’s ability to choose the light. As explained
earlier, some people do indeed set themselves up to make it almost impossible
for their souls to choose to enter the light. However, this could be
changed if the person would go through a transformation in consciousness.
Even if this transformation in consciousness happened five minutes before
the person died, it would still be a great assistance to the soul after
death.
Let me say that I highly recommend that everyone studies some of the
many near-death experiences and changes his or her outlook on life,
on the soul and on death accordingly. However, if you have lived a spiritual
life, no matter which religion you have followed (or even if you have
not followed a formal religion), you have nothing to fear from death.
The one lesson that should be learned from all of the many near-death
experiences is that death is not an uncomfortable process but a great
sense of liberation. Therefore, anyone who has sincerely attempted to
be a good person, even if the person has not been religious, has nothing
to fear from death. It will indeed be a pleasant experience for the
soul, as long as the soul chooses to enter the light and move on to
the spiritual realm.
Near-Death
Experiences and the Afterlife
This link takes you to an excellent website with extensive
information about every aspect of the near-death experience.
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