There is absolutely no reason to fear death. The same God is on the other side of the grave as on this side. However, most people do fear death, partly as fear of the unknown, and partly as the result of false teaching. Actually there is no death in the sense of extinction.
To understand death, you have to realize that you really possess not one body but two. You have not only the physical body, but also a second body made of a form of energy too fine to be seen. This etheric body interpenetrates the physical body as air fills a sponge. There are people who can see the etheric body because they have the power of contacting much finer vibrations than can be perceived by the ordinary physical senses.
It is this etheric body that is the repository of all your thoughts and feelings. It is the “psyche” of the psychologist. That is why personality survives death; because it resides in the etheric that passes over intact, and not in the physical that breaks up into decomposition.
During sleep, trance, and under anesthesia, when the etheric may leave the physical body, it remains attached to it by an etheric ligament called in the Bible the Silver Cord. The cord is so elastic that the etheric body can go very long distances and still remain attached to the physical corpus.
Death is the severing of the Silver Cord. When the Silver Cord is severed, an individual falls into a state of unconsciousness that may last for minutes, days, or even weeks. Then he wakens as from sleep, and his new life has begun.
The next world is actually all around us here. The so-called dead are carrying on their lives here where we are now, but in their own world and in their own way. The reason we do not see them around us or collide with them is the same reason that one radio program does not interfere with another—they are on different wavelengths.
…though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me…(Psalm 23).
The fear of death is as natural as the love of life or the fear of the unknown. Yet when we truly understand and accept that death is not the end of our lives, we can then move past our fear, or at least be more comfortable with it. When we place our faith in God, and in the words of the Bible, we can then begin to understand and thereby embrace this truth.
But “how can I know” we ask ourselves. The simple answer is that we can’t know unless we turn to God for our answers. Some few who have had near death experiences may have pierced the veil that separates us from heaven. They have a unique ability to understand that our consciousness lives on after our physical bodies cease to function. For the rest of us, we must depend on our faith and trust in the promise of God and God’s messengers.
In the meantime, we can make the most out of our lives while we are alive. And, if we live our lives to the fullest in faith, hope, joy, gladness and peace, then we can be sure that our physical lives will be wonderful and that we will be ready for our after lives when our time comes to join God our father and all those we love and have missed for so long.
Living in the now while preparing for then,
Z gardener
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