To Steve on relief from fears of death

[Guest guest]

Steve wrote:

Do you have any words to help Westerners, or anyone,

understandphysical death, and help us stop wasting time being afraid

of it andother forms of impermanence.

Dear Steve ~ I used to be terrified of death. As a child and

adolescent, I would lie awake at night in fear of death. Then in my

early 20s, my grandfather died. Several months later, I was in Boston

(I lived in the DC area at the time), and I had this experience. I had

gone to bed and was reading. I was in that kind of in between state,

between waking and sleeping. I had an impulse to look to my right,

and there was my grandfather. He was in his Light Body, but I

recognized him nevertheless. Telepathically, he let me know that he

had come so that I would not need to fear death, that there was

continuity after death, and he was here to show it. My right arm was

stretched out on the bed. He touched my index finger? (the one next

to the thumb), and I felt a wave of electricity pass through me from

head to toe and then back, like a wave. Then he was gone, and I was

left in a state of deep peace.

 

Quite some time after my grandmother died, she began to appear to me

from time to time, especially whenever I was having any kind of

procedures done on my body as this has always been somewhat traumatic

to me. She is with me still; I feel her presence right now, as she

comes to tell me, that in my current sorrow, all will be well.

 

I don't know if this kind of personal experience helps you feels

better, but it helped changed my ideas about death. I also have a

memory from early childhood of a place (the astral plane?). It was so

beautiful with green grass, trees, fountains and beautiful people

walking about talking. I remember something about 7 levels, but that

is all I can remember of that one. Jai Maa ~ Linda