I got a comment about the cancer/death issue which I would like to address because the topic of death (along with the idea of causing sickness) comes up quite a lot and I would like to shed some light on it.
Hi Lisa
I do enjoy your blog…I mean, how could I not enjoy words of light and love…
but you know, I have a problem seeing the world that way… it all sounds fine and dandy until you hit the rough spots in the road. How can I live todays lesson about healing when I saw a loved one die in front of my eyes with ‘a disease called’ cancer’?
“If you see sickness, then the only place that healing needs to occur is in your own mind. As you are healed, she will heal. Heal your friend by seeing her as she truly is: healed and whole and perfect.” ???
How can it be more than words to me?
Thanx a bunch
This is a big topic for a lot of people and the major confusion/block/obstacle is that words get in the way. Symbols deceive. The five senses deceive.
The one thing that is difficult for most people to accept (even though it’s true) is that NO FORM ENDURES. It just doesn’t. This is a fact. All form will fade away eventually. Most people can accept it on a fundamental basis – we all know we will die someday. We try to prolong it and have the best possible conflict-free life possible, until that final moment.
But do you notice that you never die??? People around you die, but you never die. Take a look at this. It will flip your mind. This is the beginning thought that death really is just an idea in your mind. You read about death, you see other people die, it’s in all the history books, we have all the evidence that death is a fact, and you are anticipating your own inevitable death someday … but you never die. It will amaze you to your core when you look at it reasonably. The only thing that never dies is you.
Have you ever died? Have you had that experience?
There is not a single person on this earth that knows what death is because no one has ever died.
We hear about people who have death experiences and they all say exactly the same thing, regardless of religion, race, color or background … that they didn’t die. Their descriptions are identical, which means there must be something universal going on here. They went into the light, they had happy experiences of meeting friends and family, and then ZIP they were back here.
So we’re in a condition in which form fades, shifts and does not endure. Everything is changing all the time.
What has a beginning must have an end. I seemingly have a beginning in a body which means I will seemingly have an end in a body. When, Where or How? I have no idea and I’m not concerned about it. My marriage has a beginning which means my marriage also has an end, whether it be in divorce or death. Jobs have a beginning which means jobs have an end.
NO FORM ENDURES.
So we know fundamentally that all things will “die” eventually and yet we try to manipulate and control how that occurs. In acceptance, sickness and death can be your greatest friends.
If you have the opportunity to be around someone who is dying, please pay close attention. In their death, they will teach you about life. It is a gift to be in the presence of death.
These individuals are our greatest teachers.
My stepmother Jean passed away from cancer and I was there for the 10-day death episode. She wanted to die at home (she’d been dealing with cancer for over 10 years) and she did not want to be taken to a hospital or resuscitated and so for 10 days I watched someone die. It was the most beautiful eye-opening experience I’ve ever seen in my life. She stayed in bed the entire time, refusing food or water. For a few days she was in a coma (caused from a stroke) but then suddenly her eyes popped open and for the next few days she was like a child, full of wonder and grace. I have never seen anyone so beautiful in my life. She was present and accepting, without defenses, without judgment, and filled with love.
She was perfect like a child: innocent, quiet and trusting.
She was no longer suffering. She was incapable of speaking and I’m not entirely sure she knew what was happening. She seemed to be going in and out of consciousness. I don’t get the sense she was afraid. She would just lie there in bed with these big beautiful eyes, just looking at me (or whoever was sitting with her) in awe. It was not a sad event at all.
All my senses were heightened during those 10 days. It was like I was seeing her for the first time in my life, and she was seeing me for the first time in my life. Who can express the magnitude of an event like this? Who can say it’s bad or wrong?
And then she “died” at night before I went to bed, and I slept in the next room and in the morning I went into her bedroom and the body was lying in the bed, but there was no one there!
Have you ever seen a dead body?? There’s no one there!
The morgue guys came to get the body, all the family members left, and I was alone in the house, kinda tripping out that the whole thing was over. It was like a dream. One minute the house was filled with family, hospice, meal-planning, bedside vigils and conversation … and the next minute it was over.
Her form is no longer here but SHE’S still here. She didn’t go anywhere. I am remembering her as clearly right now in this moment as if I could pick up the telephone, call her and talk with her. She’s here with me. Every time I make fresh baked muffins (which is not often enough), she’s standing right there with me. Every time I thumb through my cookbooks, I think of her. She loved the kitchen, she loved cooking, she loved gadgets (my dad has the most well-stocked kitchen on the planet, thanks to Jean) and she’s constantly with me, forever.
There is no death. There is no sickness or health. There is no good or bad. There is only appearances, and the body’s eyes reporting changed conditions (fat/thin, sick/healthy, rich/poor): states which are false and illusory.
But behind the appearance is truth, untouched by sickness, death or destruction.
So I can say with absolute certainty: there is no death.
See no one as a body. See only the light. See only the truth. Get past appearances and you will see the eternal, that which never dies.
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Wow, thank you.
I remember when my father died. When he left his body. And I remember crying and howling in the hospital room. And I remember something I have never said until this exact moment: I knew I was being a big FAKE with all that drama because yes, my father was gone but his body was just a lifeless cold THING and my father wasn’t there at all so just exactly what was I crying and howling about? I remember that distinctly, that knowing that all that drama on my part was completely ridiciculous. I hate when that happens but it’s true. I wasn’t even into the drama completely. A dead body is a very weird thing. It’s empty. A shell. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the spirit of the person.
And here is another thing: I have spent time with my father since his supposed death in 2000 and he is NOT DEAD. I can feel him hold my hand and I can feel his enormous love for me. I can feel him more than when he was alive because there isn’t anything blocking the love.
Lori
wow Lori Thank you for this, I have had the same thing, one night both my parents came and we had a forgiveness fest. It was grand and glorious and light and loving. During a difficult time, I just said, Mom I need you and I immediately felt better with her presence in the room. My son had my mom come into his room while he was staying with me just after she died, Mom, Nana hugged me. He had not realized that he was also sleeping in her bed. Now gave the term ‘guest bed’ a new meaning. wow. I love this.
Lisa, thank you for putting this up on your blog. It has helped so much. I love you and thank you… j
hi Lori,
i had the same expereince when my sister died when i was 12 . i knew i was supposed to cry so i did but i didn’t know why . not a day goes by were i don’t see her here with me .
there is no death
max
Thank you, Lisa!! If you would like to read the most incredible near-[not]death experience ever, go here: http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html
and scroll down to the section called “The Road to Death” by Mellen-Thomas Benedict.
Susannah,
That near death story is AMAZING!!!!!!
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html
from Mellen-Thomas Benedict:
“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 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.
“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.
To read the entire story, click here:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html
What a wonderful experience, thanks for sharing this site….:-)
Love,
Debi
thank you Lisa,
my work nowadays involves being with people who are so called living there last days…usually it means being awake at night…
I have to laugh when people say i am helping them to pass over…
they are always much more my guides then the other way around
I never know what to do, just ask for help to be as helpfull as possible…
merely just being there and let myself not be fooled by appearances..
that experience is exactly as profound as you describe it
Just today I was thumbing through the Course and came on this passage. It brought tears to my eyes:
I do not attack your ego. I do work with your higher mind, the home of the Holy Spirit, whether you are asleep or awake, just as your ego does with your lower mind, which is its home. I am your vigilance in this, because you are too confused to recognize your own hope. I am not mistaken. Your mind will elect to join with mine, and together we are invincible. You and your brother will yet come together in my name, and your sanity will be restored. I raised the dead by knowing that life is an eternal attribute of everything that the living God created. Why do you believe it is harder for me to inspire the dis-spirited or to stabilize the unstable? I do not believe that there is an order of difficulty in miracles; you do. I have called and you will answer. I understand that miracles are natural, because they are expressions of love. My calling you is as natural as your answer, and as inevitable.
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I really enjoyed reading this. Thanks for writing and sharing! Peace, Light and Love. . . CordieB