FW: Near-death experience

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"Bob Krahn" <bobkrahn

"Robert C. Krahn" <bobkrahn

FW: Near-death experience

Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 3:35 PM

 

 

Hi,

This is a long read, but is extremely interesting.

Blessings.

Bob

Near-death experience-- Mellen-Thomas Benedict

In 1982 I died..... an amazing story

 

Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in

1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half and during that time, he

rose up out of his body and went into the Light. Curious about the universe,

he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into

the energetic Void of Nothingness behind the Big Bang. Concerning his

near-death experience, Dr. Kenneth Ring has said,

"His story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive

research on near-death experiences."

The road to death

In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable, and

any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of

a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live. I had been an

information freak in the 1970's, and I had become increasingly despondent

over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did

not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a

mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. I saw

no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for

ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what

I got. That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can

feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a

seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts

of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped. So I determined that

this was really just between me and God. I had never really faced God

before, or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind of spirituality at

the time, but I began a journey into learning about spirituality and

alternative healing. I set out to do all the reading I could and bone up on

the subject, because I did not want to be surprised on the other side. So I

started reading on various religions and philosophies. They were all very

interesting, and gave hope that there was something on the other side.

On the other hand, as a self-employed stained-glass artist at the time, I

had no medical insurance whatsoever. So my life savings went overnight in

testing. Then I was facing the medical profession without any kind of

insurance. I did not want to have my family dragged down financially, so I

determined to handle this myself. There was not constant pain, but there

were black-outs. I got so that I would not dare to drive, and eventually I

ended up in hospice care. I had my own personal hospice caretaker. I was

very blessed by this angel who went through the last part of this with me. I

lasted about eighteen months. I did not want to take a lot of drugs, since I

wanted to be as conscious as possible. Then I experienced such pain that I

had nothing but pain in my consciousness, luckily only for a few days at a

time.

The light of God

I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that

this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends

and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a

private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six

hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you

die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember is the beginning of a

typical near-death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing

up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out

of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid

that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house,

I could see around the house, I could see under the house. There was this

Light shining. I turned toward the Light. The Light was very similar to what

many other people have described in their near-death experiences. It was so

magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go

to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms. As

I began to move toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the

Light, I would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said, "Please

wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; I

would like to talk to you before I go." To my surprise, the entire

experience halted at that point. You are indeed in control of your

near-death experience. You are not on a roller coaster ride. So my request

was honored and I had some conversations with the Light. The Light kept

changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas,

archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, "What is going on here?

Please, Light, clarify yourself for me. I really want to know the reality of

the situation." I cannot really say the exact words, because it was sort of

telepathy. The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that

your beliefs shape the kind of feedback you are getting before the Light. If

you were a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop

of your own stuff. You have a chance to look at it and examine it, but most

people do not. As the Light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what

I was really seeing was our Higher Self matrix. The only thing I can tell

you is that it turned into a matrix, a mandala of human souls, and what I

saw was that what we call our Higher Self in each of us is a matrix. It's

also a conduit to the Source; each one of us comes directly, as a direct

experience from the Source. We all have a Higher Self, or an oversoul part

of our being. It revealed itself to me in its truest energy form. The only

way I can really describe it is that the being of the Higher Self is more

like a conduit. It did not look like that, but it is a direct connection to

the Source that each and every one of us has. We are directly connected to

the Source. So the Light was showing me the Higher Self matrix. And it

became very clear to me that all the Higher Selves are connected as one

being, all humans are connected as one being, we are actually the same

being, different aspects of the same being. It was not committed to one

particular religion. So that is what was being fed back to me. And I saw

this mandala of human souls. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever

seen. I just went into it and, it was just overwhelming. It was like all the

love you've every wanted, and it was the kind of love that cures, heals,

regenerates.

As I asked the Light to keep explaining, I understood what the Higher Self

matrix is. We have a grid around the planet where all the Higher Selves are

connected. This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy

around us, the spirit level, you might say. Then, after a couple of minutes,

I asked for more clarification. I really wanted to know what the universe is

about, and I was ready to go at that time. I said "I am ready, take me."

Then the Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a

mandala of human souls on this planet. Now I came to this with my negative

view of what has happen on the planet. So as I asked the light to keep

clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how beautiful we all

are in our essence, our core. We are the most beautiful creations. The human

soul, the human matrix that we all make together is absolutely fantastic,

elegant, exotic, everything. I just cannot say enough about how it changed

my opinion of human beings in that instant. I said, "Oh, God, I did not know

how beautiful we are." At any level, high or low, in whatever shape you are

in, you are the most beautiful creation, you are. I was astonished to find

that there was no evil in any soul. I said "How can this be?" The answer was

that no soul was inherently evil. The terrible things that happened to

people might make them do evil things, but their souls were not evil. What

all people seek, what sustains them, is love, the Light told me. What

distorts people is a lack of love.

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 seemed to breathe me

in even more deeply. It was as if the Light was completely absorbing me. The

Love Light is, to this day, indescribable. I entered into another realm,

more profound than the last, and became aware of something more, much more.

It was an enormous stream of Light, vast and full, deep in the Heart of

Life. I asked what this was.

The Light responded, "This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna water

to your heart's content." So I did. I took one big drink and then another.

To drink of Life Itself! I was in ecstasy.

Then the Light said, "You have a desire." The Light knew all about me,

everything past, present and future.

"Yes!" I whispered.

I asked to see the rest of the Universe; beyond our solar system, beyond all

human illusion. The Light then told me that I could go with the Stream. I

did, and was carried through the Light at the end of the tunnel. I felt and

heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a rush!

The void of nothingness

Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of

Life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor,

whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the

center of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that

this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different

varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not alone

in this Universe! As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center

of the galaxy, the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy.

The super clusters of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At

first I thought I was going somewhere; actually traveling. But then I

realized that, as the stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also

expanding to take in everything in the Universe! All creation passed by me.

It was an unimaginable wonder! I truly was a Wonder Child; a babe in

Wonderland!

It seemed as if all the creations in the Universe soared by me and vanished

in a speck of Light. Almost immediately, a second Light appeared. It came

from all sides, and was so different; a Light made up of more than every

frequency in the Universe. I felt and heard several velvety sonic booms

again. My consciousness, or being, was expanding to interface with the

entire Holographic Universe and more. As I passed into the second Light, the

awareness came to me that I had just transcended the Truth. Those are the

best words I have for it, but I will try to explain. As I passed into the

second Light, I expanded beyond the First Light. I found myself in a

profound stillness, beyond all silence. I could see or perceive FOREVER,

beyond Infinity.

I was in the Void.

I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning

of time - the First Word - the First vibration. I was in the Eye of

Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a

religious feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness.

When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could

experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and

without end. That's a mind-expanding thought, isn't it? Scientists perceive

the Big Bang as a single event which created the Universe. I saw that the

Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes

endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human

terms would be those created by supercomputers using fractal geometry

equations.

The ancients knew of this. They said Godhead periodically created new

Universes by breathing out, and de-creating other Universes by breathing in.

These epochs were called Yugas. Modern science called this the Big Bang. I

was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see or perceive all the Big

Bangs or Yugas creating and de-creating themselves. Instantly I entered into

them all simultaneously. I saw that each and every little piece of creation

has the power to create. It is very difficult to try to explain this. I am

still speechless about this.

It took me years after I returned to assimilate any words at all for the

Void experience. I can tell you this now; the Void is less than nothing, yet

more than everything that is! The Void is absolute zero; chaos forming all

possibilities. It is Absolute Consciousness; much more than even Universal

Intelligence.

Where is the Void? I know. The Void is inside and outside everything. You,

right now even while you live, are always inside and outside the Void

simultaneously. You don't have to go anywhere or die to get there. The Void

is the vacuum or nothingness between all physical manifestations. The SPACE

between atoms and their components. Modern science has begun to study this

space between everything. They call it Zero-point. Whenever they try to

measure it, their instruments go off the scale, or to infinity, so to speak.

They have no way, as of yet, to measure infinity accurately. There is more

of the zero space in your own body and the Universe than anything else!

What mystics call the Void is not a void. It is so full of energy, a

different kind of energy that has created everything that we are. Everything

since the Big Bang is vibration, from the first Word, which is the first

vibration. The biblical "I am" really has a question mark after it. "I am -

What am I?" So creation is God exploring God's Self through every way

imaginable, in an ongoing, infinite exploration through every one of us.

Through every piece of hair on your head, through every leaf on every tree,

through every atom, God is exploring God's Self, the great "I am". I began

to see that everything that is, is the Self, literally, your Self, my Self.

Everything is the great Self. That is why God knows even when a leaf falls.

That is possible because wherever you are is the center of the universe.

Wherever any atom is, that is the center of the universe. There is God in

that, and God in the Void.

As I was exploring the Void and all the Yugas or creations, I was completely

out of time and space as we know it. In this expanded state, I discovered

that creation is about Absolute Pure Consciousness, or God, coming into the

Experience of Life as we know it. The Void itself is devoid of experience.

It is pre-life, before the first vibration. Godhead is about more than Life

and Death. Therefore there is even more than Life and Death to experience in

the Universe!

I was in the Void and I was aware of everything that had ever been created.

It was like I was looking out of God's eyes. I had become God. Suddenly I

wasn't me anymore. The only thing I can say, I was looking out of God's

eyes. And suddenly I knew why every atom was, and I could see everything.

The interesting point was that I went into the Void, I came back with this

understanding that God is not there. God is here. That's what it is all

about. So this constant search of the human race to go out and find God .

God gave everything to us, everything is here - this is where it's at. And

what we are into now is God's exploration of God through us. People are so

busy trying to become God that they ought to realize that we are already God

and God is becoming us. That's what it is really about. When I realized

this, I was finished with the Void, and wanted to return to this creation,

or Yuga. It just seemed like the natural thing to do. Then I suddenly came

back through the second Light, or the Big Bang, hearing several more velvet

booms. I rode the stream of consciousness back through all of creation, and

what a ride it was! The super clusters of galaxies came through me with even

more insights. I passed through the center of our galaxy, which is a black

hole. Black holes are the great processors or recyclers of the Universe. Do

you know what is on the other side of a Black Hole? We are; our galaxy;

which has been reprocessed from another Universe. In its total energy

configuration, the galaxy looked like a fantastic city of lights. All energy

this side of the Big Bang is light. Every sub-atom, atom, star, planet, even

consciousness itself is made of light and has a frequency and/or particle.

Light is living stuff. Everything is made of light, even stones. So

everything is alive. Everything is made from the Light of God; everything is

very intelligent.

The light of love

As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge Light coming.

I knew it was the First Light; the Higher Self Light Matrix of our solar

system. Then the entire solar system appeared in the Light, accompanied by

one of those velvet booms.

I saw that the solar system we live in is our larger, local body. This is

our local body and we are much bigger than we imagine. I saw that the solar

system is our body. I am a part of this, and the earth is this great created

being that we are, and we are the part of it that knows that it is. But we

are only that part of it. We are not everything, but we are that part of it

that knows that it is.

I could see all the energy that this solar system generates, and it is an

incredible light show! I could hear the Music of the Spheres. Our solar

system, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of light,

sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other star systems

can spot life as we know it in the universe by the vibratory or energy

matrix imprint. It is child's play. The earth's Wonder Child (human beings)

make an abundance of sound right now, like children playing in the backyard

of the universe.

I rode the stream directly into the center of the Light. I felt embraced by

the Light as it took me in with its breath again, followed by another soft

sonic boom.

I was in this great Light of Love with the stream of life flowing through

me. I have to say again, it is the most loving, non-judgmental Light. It is

the ideal parent for this Wonder Child.

"What now?" I wondered.

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. I was never told that I had to

come back. I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what I had

seen.

I don't know how long I was with the Light, in human time. But there came a

moment when I realized that all my questions had been answered and my return

was near. When I say that all my questions were answered on the other side,

I mean to say just that. All my questions have been answered. Every human

has a different life and set of questions to explore. Some of our questions

are Universal, but each of us is exploring this thing we call Life in our

own unique way. So is every other form of life, from mountains to every leaf

on every tree.

And that is very important to the rest of us in this Universe. Because it

all contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of Life. We are literally

God exploring God's Self in an infinite Dance of Life. Your uniqueness

enhances all of Life.

His return to earth

As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was I

told, that I would return to the same body. It just did not matter. I had

complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As the stream merged with

the great Light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the feelings of

what I had learned on the other side.

There was a "Yes". It felt like a kiss to my soul. Then I was taken back

through the Light into the vibratory realm again. The whole process

reversed, with even more information being given to me. I came back home,

and I was given lessons on the mechanics of reincarnation. I was given

answers to all those little questions I had: "How does this work? How does

that work?" I knew that I would be reincarnated. The earth is a great

processor of energy, and individual consciousness evolves out of that into

each one of us. I thought of myself as a human for the first time, and I was

happy to be that. From what I have seen, I would be happy to be an atom in

this universe. An atom. So to be the human part of God ... this is the most

fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our wildest estimation of what

blessing can be. For each and every one of us to be the human part of this

experience is awesome, and magnificent. Each and every one of us, no matter

where we are, screwed up or not, is a blessing to the planet, right where we

are.

So I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby

somewhere. But I was given a lesson on how individual identity and

consciousness evolve. So I reincarnated back into this body. I was so

surprised when I opened my eyes. I do not know why, because I understood it,

but it was still such a surprise to be back in this body, back in my room

with someone looking over me crying her eyes out. It was my hospice

caretaker. She had given up an hour and a half after finding me dead. She

was sure I was dead; all the signs of death were there - I was getting

stiff. We do not know how long I was dead, but we do know that it was an

hour and a half since I was found. She honored my wish to have my newly dead

body left alone for a few hours as much as she could. We had an amplified

stethoscope and many ways of checking out the vital functions of the body to

see what was happening. She can verify that I really was dead. It was not a

near-death experience. I experienced death itself for at least an hour and a

half. She found me dead and checked the stethoscope, blood pressure and

heart rate monitor for an hour and a half. Then I awakened and saw the light

outside. I tried to get up to go to it, but I fell out of the bed. She heard

a loud "clunk", ran in and found me on the floor. 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.

Lessons he learned

The mystery of life has very little to do with intelligence. The universe is

not an intellectual process at all. The intellect is helpful; it is

brilliant, but right now that is all we process with, instead of our hearts

and the wiser part of ourselves.

The center of the earth is this great transmuter of energy, just as you see

in pictures of our earth's magnetic field. That's our cycle, pulling

reincarnated souls back in and through it again. A sign that you are

reaching human level is that you are beginning to evolve an individual

consciousness. The animals have a group soul, and they reincarnate in group

souls. A deer is pretty much going to be a deer forever. But just being born

a human, whether deformed or genius, shows that you are on the path to

developing an individual consciousness. That is in itself part of the group

consciousness called humanity. I saw that races are personality clusters.

Nations like France, Germany and China each have their own personality.

Cities have personalities, their local group souls that attract certain

people. Families have group souls. Individual identity is evolving like

branches of a fractal; the group soul explores in our individuality. The

different questions that each of us has are very, very important. This is

how Godhead is exploring God's Self - through you. So ask your questions, do

your searching. You will find your Self and you will find God in that Self,

because it is only the Self.

More than that, I began to see that each one of us humans are soul mates. We

are part of the same soul fractaling out in many creative directions, but

still the same. Now I look at every human being that I ever see, and I see a

soul mate, my soul mate, the one I have always been looking for. Beyond

that, the greatest soul mate that you will ever have is yourself. We are

each both male and female. We experience this in the womb and we experience

this in reincarnation states. If you are looking for that ultimate soul mate

outside of yourself, you may never find it; it is not there. Just as God is

not "there". God is here. Don't look "out there" for God. Look here for God.

Look through your Self. Start having the greatest love affair you ever had

.... with your Self. You will love everything out of that. I had a descent

into what you might call Hell, and it was very surprising. I did not see

Satan or evil. My descent into Hell was a descent into each person's

customized human misery, ignorance, and darkness of not-knowing. It seemed

like a miserable eternity. But each of the millions of souls around me had a

little star of light always available. But no one seemed to pay attention to

it. They were so consumed with their own grief, trauma and misery. But,

after what seemed an eternity, I started calling out to that Light, like a

child calling to a parent for help. Then the Light opened up and formed a

tunnel that came right to me an insulated me from all that fear and pain.

That is what Hell really is. So what we are doing is learning to hold hands,

to come together. The doors of Hell are open now. We are going to link up,

hold hands, and walk out of Hell together. The Light came to me and turned

into a huge golden angel. I said, "Are you the angel of death?" It expressed

to me that it was my oversoul, my Higher Self matrix, a super-ancient part

of ourselves. Then I was taken to the Light. Soon our science will quantify

spirit. Isn't that going to be wonderful? We are coming up with devices now

that are sensitive to subtle energy or spirit energy. Physicists use these

atomic colliders to smash atoms to see what they are made of. They have got

it down to quarks and charm, and all that. Well, one day they are going to

come down to the little thing that holds it all together, and they are going

to have to call that ... God. With atomic colliders they are not only seeing

what is in here, but they are creating particles. Thank God most of them are

short-lived milliseconds and nanoseconds. We are just beginning to

understand that we are creating too, as we go along. As I saw forever, I

came to a realm in which there is a point where we pass all knowledge and

begin creating the next fractal, the next level. We have that power to

create as we explore. And that is God expanding itself through us.

Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have

learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each one

of you can do this. You do not have to die to do this. It is within your

equipment; you are wired for it already. The body is the most magnificent

Light being there is. The body is a universe of incredible Light. Spirit is

not pushing us to dissolve this body. That is not what is happening. Stop

trying to become God; God is becoming you. Here. The mind is like a child

running around the universe, demanding this and thinking it created the

world. But I ask the mind: "What did your mother have to do with this?" That

is the next level of spiritual awareness. Oh! my mother! All of a sudden

you give up the ego, because you are not the only soul in the universe.

One of my questions to the Light was "What is Heaven?" I was given a tour of

all the heavens that have been created: the Nirvanas, the Happy Hunting

Grounds, all of them. I went through them. These are thought form creations

that we have created. We don't really go to heaven; we are reprocessed. But

whatever we created, we leave a part of ourselves there. It is real, but it

is not all of the soul.

I saw the Christian Heaven. We expect it to be a beautiful place, and you

stand in front of the throne, worshipping forever. I tried it. It is boring!

This is all we are going to do? It is childlike. I do not mean to offend

anyone. Some heavens are very interesting, and some are very boring. I found

the ancient ones to be more interesting, like the Native American ones, the

Happy Hunting Grounds. The Egyptians have fantastic ones. It goes on and on.

There are so many of them. In each of them there is a fractal that is your

particular interpretation, unless you are part of the group soul that

believes in only the God of a particular religion. Then you are very close,

in the same ball park together. But even then, each is a little bit

different. That is a part of yourself that you leave there. Death is about

Life, not about Heaven.

I asked God: "What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is right?"

And Godhead said, with great love: "I don't care." That was incredible

grace. What that meant was that we are the caring beings here. The Ultimate

Godhead of all the stars tells us: "It does not matter what religion you

are." They come and they go, they change. Buddhism has not been here

forever, Catholicism has not been here forever, and they are all about to

become more enlightened. More light is coming into all systems now. There is

going to be a reformation in spirituality that is going to be just as

dramatic as the Protestant Reformation. There will be lots of people

fighting about it, one religion against the next, believing that only they

are right. Everyone thinks they own God, the religions and philosophies,

especially the religions, because they form big organizations around the

philosophy. When Godhead said, "I don't care," I immediately understood that

it is for us to care about. It is important, because we are the caring

beings. It matters to us and that is where it is important. What you have is

the energy equation in spirituality. Ultimate Godhead does not care if you

are Protestant, Buddhist, or whatever. It is all a blooming facet of the

whole. I wish that all religions would realize it and let each other be. It

is not the end of each religion, but we are talking about the same God. Live

and let live. Each has a different view. And it all adds up to the big

picture; it is all important.

I went over to the other side with a lot of fears about toxic waste, nuclear

missiles, the population explosion, the rainforest. I came back loving every

single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom cloud; this is the

holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as an archetype. It, more

than any religion or philosophy on earth, brought us together all of a

sudden, to a new level of consciousness. Knowing that maybe we can blow up

the planet fifty times, or 500 times, we finally realize that maybe we are

all here together now. For a period they had to keep setting off more bombs

to get it in to us. Then we started saying, "we do not need this any more."

Now we are actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is

going to get safer. So I came back loving toxic waste, because it brought us

together. These things are so big. As Peter Russell might say, these

problems are now "soul size." Do we have soul size answers? YES! The

clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there will be

more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into ecology, go

for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming aware. Go for it

with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is part of a larger thing.

Earth is in the process of domesticating itself. It is never again going to

be as wild a place as it once was. There will be great wild places, reserves

where nature thrives. Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the

future. Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of

energy to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will

change politics, money, energy. What happens when we dream? We are

multi-dimensional beings. We can access that through lucid dreaming. In

fact, this universe is God's dream. One of the things that I saw is that we

humans are a speck on a planet that is a speck in a galaxy that is a speck.

Those are giant systems out there, and we are in sort of an average system.

But human beings are already legendary throughout the cosmos of

consciousness. The little bitty human being of Earth/Gaia is legendary. One

of the things that we are legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary

dreamers. In fact, the whole cosmos has been looking for the meaning of

life, the meaning of it all. And it was the little dreamer who came up with

the best answer ever. We dreamed it up. So dreams are important.

After dying and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our DNA

experiments we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will be

able to live as long as we want to live in this body. After living 150 years

or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you will want to change

channels. Living forever in one body is not as creative as reincarnation, as

transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of energy that we are in. We

are actually going to see the wisdom of life and death, and enjoy it. As it

is now, we have already been alive forever. This body that you are in, has

been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back to

the Big Bang and beyond. This body gives life to the next life, in dense and

subtle energy. This body has been alive forever already.

Mellen-Thomas Benedict

P.O. Box 1898, Soquel, CA 95073

Phone: (831) 427-5554

 

"We are going to link up, hold hands, and walk out of hell together" -

Mellen-Thomas Benedict

http://www.near-death.com/benedict.html

[Guest guest]

Dear Sir ~

 

Thank you for sharing this article over the G List. The information was

fascinating indeed. It made me feel less subjective and more objective and

cosmic and gave me hope for myself and human kind. His after-death

experience was the closest account of the after death experience which I

have ever heard that came closest to being how I have imagined the

after-death experience would be.

 

God Bless ~

Chandra

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