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Creating Heaven
Every once in a while there is a story in the media that describes an extraordinary act of kindness. We have all heard about such blessings as a mega anonymous gift to a university or charity, or a Good Samaritan who pays off the mortgage for a needy family and then disappears. I don’t know about you, but my thoughts always race when I hear of such an occurrence. What was the motivation behind the gift giving? Did the donor feel indebted to the recipient in some way? Was the motivation behind the donation purely for the greater good and given with a total absence of ego? Or, could this be an attempt at redemption? So many religions lead one to believe that sins can be absolved if one repents – what better way to wipe the slate clean? Or, could this simply be an excellent way to accumulate Karma points in an attempt to head into the afterlife with a storehouse of extra points to tip the scales? Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose that after you went to sleep tonight a solar eruption of massive proportions played havoc with the energy fields surrounding the Earth, and you awoke to find that you could “hear” the thoughts of everyone else and could “feel” their emotions. You quickly come to the realization that this is not just you with these new abilities, but every conscious entity on the planet. What are some of the ways that our lives would change? How quickly would world hunger and death from preventable disease be eradicated if we heard the actual suffering and felt the pain? Would war and violence continue to flourish if we felt our own flesh being ripped apart by the bullets we sent into another? If our thoughts were an open book, could cheating and profiteering continue to be part of business? Sure, the prospect of losing one’s privacy and competitive edge would at first seem threatening and troublesome to some as they navigate this new world. However, I believe that we would very soon realize the extraordinary benefits. The combined thought of all, working in unison for the continuous betterment of mankind and the planet, would surely manifest in a “Heaven on Earth.”
If we choose to believe the countless accounts from channeled messages and near death experiences (NDE) doesn’t the above scenario sound a lot like the afterlife? Such reports sdescribe a process of a “life review,” where we relive the good and bad actions we took in the physical while instantly feeling the pain and elation that we evoked in others. Near death experiencers, as they try to describe ineffable experiences of heightened sensory awareness, report a dimension where thought is the basis of communication and understanding. Bob Ginsberg co-founded Forever Family Foundation in 2004, an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization that supports the bereaved and works with scientists, researchers, medical doctors and mediums, who provide evidence that our minds can act independently of our brains and that our consciousness survives physical death. Bob directs their medium certification program, hosts the Signs of Life radio show, and is the editor of their Signs of Life magazine. www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org |
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