03/25/2026
Words to ponder:
Death is a subject most people prefer not to talk about, and funerals are positively dreaded.
There is no death. Only transformation.
Hold onto this truth, and your perspective on everything will change. Does a tree die in the winter? Everything about its appearance suggests that it does - but we know that it has simply withdrawn into itself and is quietly preparing to re-emerge into the coming year. The entire process is no more than a breathing in and breathing out again. This occurs in all things, from the smallest particles of the Universe itself.
As man has become ever more deeply embedded in matter, he has gradually lost sight of who he really is, where he comes from, why he visits Earth, and where he goes when each phase of this adventure is over. Corrupt men and regimes have always sought to control the people in their power - and what better way to achieve this than by using fear? Fear of living, fear of poverty, fear of war, fear of reprisal, fear of death and nothingness.
Results? Untold generations have lost heart, lost the will to question and explore, resigned themselves to monotony and debt and servitude; and believing they have nothing to look forward to, have become as clay in the hands of ruthless men who have sent them to work and to war, for centuries on end. This has been a worldwide manipulation of your minds, your lives, your souls.
If I can throw a little light on this transition you now call death - but which I recommend that you call ‘rebirth’ or ‘reawakening’ - it might serve to reassure you. As some of you already know, the physical body is discarded by the spirit at the appointed time, and this applies to whatever age the body has attained: many spirits decide to incarnate for only a short period.
Generally speaking, when a person has just ‘died’, the spirit has the entire record of its recent Earth life still with it and consequently might not realize what has happened. Whenever possible, it will be helped by those who have already passed over to negotiate the next step more easily. It takes anything from a few minutes to a few days before the Spirit finally leaves the body and the silver cord is dissolved; this is often done by those who have come to help.
According to the evolution and understanding of the spirit passing over, these helpers may need to enlighten it as to what has happened - and this is often necessary because of the state of mind in which the person dies. If a body has met an abrupt end, such as in war, murder, or an accident, the spirit needs immediate help as it may have been catapulted away from its physical shell at high speed. Such a spirit, confused and disoriented, needs more time than most to recover.
Many spirits remain earthbound, unaware of the death of their physical bodies. They are helped by other discarnate beings and occasionally by those who are incarnate to realize what has happened, and they then pass on their way.
It is understandable that the death of a friend or close relative will cause sadness, but the moment you realize that it is the right time for the spirit in question to pass on - maybe bringing a period of great suffering and pain to an end - and that it is even more progressing still further, you will be able to resume your own life not only without grief or fear, but even with a sense of reassurance.
Unfortunately, many of you dwell morbidly on the past, impeding your own progress and also holding back your loved ones with your possessive thoughts. The time is long overdue that man should begin to regard death in a proper perspective: as no more than a falling asleep and reawakening.
What an appalling waste it would be if death were really the end of the human spirit! Think of all the effort and experience and creativity being thrown away... But nature abhors waste as much as it abhors a vacuum, so nothing is thrown away, everything is recycled.
Take heart: when you discard your physical body - as you would an old overcoat - the inner ‘you’ returns to the higher planes with all its recent knowledge, experience, and skills, its loves and friendships intact... you can take it with you.
In what light do you see the death of a small child or a baby? Although it is very distressing for the parents, there are many reasons why a spirit might choose to enter a body for only a short period of time. It may, this time around, need only the short period of attunement with physical life; and it may also be helping the evolution of its parents through the understanding they gain from its early demise. That short life may be a ‘trial’ run in preparation for a forthcoming incarnation, even to the same parents. The possibilities are infinite. Remember, from the moment of conception, spirit is experiencing and learning from its experiences.
