I have always thought of death as both a frightening and liberating experience. Frightening because of the journey into a totally speculative frontier and liberating because of the relief it will bring from a world that in the words of San Francisco's longshoreman philosopher, Eric Hoffer, “The bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
Death is fascinating for me because of its finality. One cannot sit down with someone on the other side and ask, “What's it like?” or “How's it hanging?” The mystery of, THE OTHERSIDE, has been equally compelling for me personally. Not only have I experienced close relatives who died, but I have survived both a heart attack and stroke. Both activities made it quite clear that personal mortality has limits. As we advance in years and with the accompanying harsh reality of the pull of gravity on the physical cage, one can logically conceive that for most people the day when tight fitting shoes, rock hard abs, or shapely breast will be totally irrelevant and a blissful nothingness will be a welcome alternative.
There is one major caveat. I refuse to believe like the atheist that my essence is a conglomeration of electrical impulses that dissipates when I close my eyes for that final time. I say to the atheist, allow me to teach you how to meditate and practice that activity daily for a year then tell me if you still believe that the all and everything of you and yours stems from finite impulses inside your skull. I think the atheists, like the rest of us, is seeking proof and looking in all the wrong places.
Also, in the corollary, I do not believe there is a hippie looking white guy sitting on a throne in infinity matching parallel lines. Christianity, like most organized religions, is so shrouded in mythology and misinterpretation until its spiritual essence has been condensed into something called faith, or just believe, "cause it feels good. It is the right belief system for a material obsessive culture that idealizes war and corporate excess. God has been incorporated and sells shares on his own exchange.
I really don"t care who agrees or disagrees with my personal truths. I find I am in full agreement with Irving Kristol when he said:
There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.
I should add that the imposition of individualized or collective truths on the masses results in war or corruption of the human spirit.
Moving to another form of truth, in all the readings I have done on THE OTHER SIDE nothing compares with the clear and concise presentation of Dr. Newton's Destiny Of Souls.
Doctor Newton's doctorate is in counseling. His specialty is hypnotherapy. The Doctor uses a layered hypnotic technique of slowly bringing a person deeper into hypnosis until they reach the womb. This technique is an established practice accepted by therapist, but Doctor Newton breaks with tradition by going deeper until one taps into memories beyond the womb. He seeks to answer the why's of individual activities by understanding its structure.
Cause and Effect
You ever wonder why you were here? I think everyone has at one time or another given thought to the reason for their existence. It is usually couched in the most immediate of situations like to take care of a sick grandmother, raise a family and bear children, or in more lofty cases to be of service to a higher force. Reading through Dr. Newton's book it becomes clear that this world is what I call the effective world. I am referring to the Newtonian concept of Cause and Effect. The apple dropped straight down pulled by gravity or greater mass. The causal world is the primary impetus that brought all that we see and sense in our surrounding world. Putting it another way, our existence is the result of something that happened beyond our time and senses. Ramakrishna said it best, “Incarnation is the sport of the Absolute.”
I like the emphasis on SPORT. It connotes pleasure and enjoyment as well as trial and effort. We are experiencing Michael Bhaktaviirya Towsey's “Eternal Dance of Macrocosm,” and William Shakespeare's All the World's A Stage, and all the men and women merely players.
If this life is a stage, then who is the director? Who writes the script? How is it cast?
Stages Of Matter
A discussion of causal world is not adequate without an understanding of the stages of matter. At the same time no expansive human thinking is complete without an understanding of rudimentary physics. I am not a physicist, in fact, other than counting money, I have always had difficulty with math. But I point to the Greeks and Forest Philosophers of India who have influenced human thinking through out time. I observe that they were not physicist and had no Cray computers sitting in a cave somewhere when the theory of Atoms and molecules was advanced or when Hatha and Bhakta Yoga was developed. Matter, in times of old, was broken into four elements, Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Each element has its psychic and physical correspondent, but that is not the issue of the moment. Today it is commonly recognized that matter has five states: solid, liquid, gas, radiant, and ethereal. Quarks, Einstein-Bosons are phases of gaseous and liquid states of matter and are not being considered for this presentation. It is the state of matter called ethereal or Aether that concerns the causal world.
