What if the thing you fear most is based on a misunderstanding? What if death — the fear that underlies nearly every other fear — is not what we think it is? When we examine death honestly, using the same laws of balance and transformation that govern everything else in the universe, a completely different picture emerges. One that does not minimize grief or loss, but that replaces dread with something closer to wonder.
The Misunderstanding at the Root of Our Fear
Our fears of death are not necessary. We must explore what we term as death — what it means — and find a comfortable idea of what exactly death means to each individual. What we discover, when we look honestly, is that we look at death as complex and take life for granted. We live and breathe in life and we exhale death — in a sense, simultaneously.
Every night we sleep, we are in essentially the same state as what we call death: when we sleep, we are unaware of our bodies — which is exactly what death is. When our bodies no longer function, we become unaware of them for a period of rest equal to our period of action. We live in a universe of balance. Action and Rest. Expansion and Compression. Everything is cyclic. Day follows night, night follows day. Either way they are opposite conditions that constitute a whole day — not a half day.
The Water Analogy
Let us take the idea of water, which is simpler than the idea of what you are: you are a soul centering your body. Your soul represents the idea of you. Now, take a body of water, put it in a cup, and set that cup outside in the sun. Come back in a couple of days and that cup will be empty. Would you say that water died? Or would you say that water transformed into vapor?
The idea of water remains — but that body of water has transformed into vapor. We cannot see the vapor because it has passed beyond our sense range. But we know the water is still there.
Just like the body of someone we love when it passes on: we cannot see their body, but the idea of the one we love still exists. The idea of them will always exist in the ones who loved them.
The vapor winds up into clouds. The clouds bundle together to make rain, which falls back to earth to create beautiful brooks and streams — which in turn become rivers, flowing into the ocean. The brooks and streams dry up, but they did not die. They transformed. And when you return to that empty cup after a rainstorm, it is full again. Was the water reborn? Or did the body of water simply transform back? Perhaps a little of both.
Your Body Is Not Who You Are
Our bodies are not who we are. We use our bodies until they transform. At night, our bodies are transformed into a charge mode. During the day, they are in a discharge mode. When we breathe in, we charge our bodies. When we breathe out, we discharge. When our bodies die, they enter a longer charge period — a period of rest proportionate to the period of action they sustained.
The power of anything is in the idea of that thing, not in the body of that thing. The idea of anything is a whole idea. The idea lives on forever. The idea of you is your soul. Point to where your soul is in your body — you cannot, because your soul is eternal. You are not the cup. You are the water. And water does not end; it transforms.
A Universe of Perfect Balance
We live in a world of perfect balance. Everything in our three-dimensional world is always balanced by its other half: Hot and Cold, Compression and Expansion. Each seeking to become the other in endless cycles, losing themselves in each other and finding themselves in each other over and over again.
You could say that we die each night and are reborn each day. We breathe in the life of oxygen and breathe out the carbon dioxide without having to think about it — staying in a balanced, equal interchange all our lives. Where does your breath begin and where does it end? Your first breath leads to your last breath. And you will not remember either one. The cycle is not a tragedy. It is the nature of everything that exists.
Death is nothing to fear because there is no death in God. There is not but Love and Life in God. Ye are all of God.
- Every night in sleep we are in essentially the same state as death — unaware of the body — which suggests death is a form of deep rest, not an ending
- The water analogy: water that evaporates does not die, it transforms — the idea of water remains even when the body of water is invisible
- You are not your body; you are the soul centering it — and the soul, as an idea, is eternal and cannot be destroyed
- The universe operates in perfect balance: Action and Rest, Expansion and Compression — death is simply the rest half of the action cycle
- The idea of a person we love continues to exist in those who loved them — love is the medium through which the idea persists
- There is no death in God — only transformation from one state to another in an endless, balanced cycle of love and life
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