The Perspectives… And Me

SAT., MAR. 15, 1997, 6:35 AM
FARM, STUDY

This afternoon you will make a familiar presentation… your perspectives on death… this time to a small group of hospice volunteers. Actually it should be titled Perspectives on Life and Death, for there is much emphasis on how one looks at life, as it is being lived, and not just on its closure. Don’t be surprised if this analysis comes out sounding much like your own balance of perspectives. Remember that I have been influencing you for quite a few years, and it no longer is easy to differentiate what thoughts are purely yours and which have come from Me.

I’ll talk about each in the order in which you present them – from the naturalistic to the spiritual to the “agnotic”. So, what’s My feeling about the ecological perspective? Certainly I don’t accept that death is the end of life, but I do approve of death as a necessary aspect of earth life. This is true for all forms of life, and humans are to be included in this balancing. I also approve of the dead body being returned to the earth to become part of the life-giving nature of soil. My only objection to cremation is the amount of non-renewable energy it requires, in your culture.

The other naturalistic view, that you call the humanistic, recognizes the value of humans as My most complex and most loved creation. You humans are the closest to the image of Me, and you are endowed with some of My best characteristics. Human relationships should be modeled after relationships with Me, including love, trust, and willingness to sacrifice for others. Still, this perspective sees death as the end of life and thus tends to include the often selfish motivation to extend life with extensive medical means. I know when hanging on to earth life is selfish, but of course in this perspective there is no Me and no continuation of life in the spirit. I like remembrances, and this view is strong on keeping alive the memory of those whose earth life is over.

And so you’re not really surprised that I’m not 100% Christian. I am involved in the creation of each of you, and I have given you purposes in life – to acknowledge Me and live life for Me, no matter what your actual life circumstances are. Spirit is your most important dimension, and in this perspective spirit is part of, even synonymous with your soul, which lives on after bodily death. I reject the notion that there is a single, once-and-for-all judgement on this soul as it comes on over, and that you’re then either in heaven or in hell for eternity. Oh, this is a possibility, but not a very desirable one. I know that this is the orthodox Christian view, but I, the Holy Spirit, can’t be limited to such, even if it one “suggested” by Holy Scripture.

You call the next perspective reincarnation, while I have urged you to refer to it as eternal, everlasting life. This perspective sees life as essentially spirit. The purpose of life, in any form, including human, is selflessness in motives and actions. This means serving others, but I like it best when you are serving Me, in whatever you do. Any earth life is almost always just one experience among many, in the earth and in other realms. I like the notion that rarely can you “be all that you can be” in one earth life.

The life after life perspective is rather agnostic in that is posits the continuation of the spirit after bodily death, but then has no clear view of what happens after the initial “encounter”. I like the acknowledgment that your spirit can leave your body and be fully conscious. It can travel, it can recognize and be greeted by spirits known before in earth life, and it can have an encounter with Me, whatever form I choose to use. I like the notion of this being an evaluation rather than a clear judgment… but, of course, if life is only once then it is a judgment, and if it continues it’s a sort of “how are you doing” assessment.