Reassurance (Souls Are Real! Death Is Not!)

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. Elizabeth Kubler-RossDyingDying is one of our greatest fears, for our selves and for our loved ones.

It always is untimely, coming as a shock or after long anxiety. Therefore, grief over the loss of a loved one is always natural one who is very dear to our hearts, whose earthly presence we will see no more. No other demand on our lives seems so traumatic, with its turbulent upheaval in survivors lives.

This book therefore addresses reassurances about life and death that may have been felt by some of our ancestors but have been disavowed in modern times. True, some of their beliefs are now called blind faith.SoulsRecently, however, credible reports of experiential evidence from various disciplines are urging acknowledgment and research about phenomena at the opposite ends of our lives conception and mortal death.

These involve the apparent presence of the soul early in the womb and its seeming survival and passage into a new realm of existence during death of the mortal body.For me, my sadness at the passing over of my beloved wife Bettys soul was tempered by my now realizing that death is not as final as it seems. Our body dies, but our souls do not.

Moreover, our souls know us better than we know ourselves, since they are privy even to memories we cannot recall, and they know our every thought. It is our souls selves, so to speak, that will reunite us in Heaven.Reunions in HeavenThis book is the result of my quest for reassurance that death would not separate my beloved Betty and me.

You may find its new revelations of value to you, to a loved one, or to a friend. The eminent Swiss-American psychiatrist, whose words are quoted at the beginning of this article, is renowned for her lifes work with the dying and their families.RealityIt seems important early on to be totally honest about what this book advocates.

The experiential evidence here points to only one conclusion the reality of God, Heaven, and souls! The book therefore denies claims of scientific materialism which asserts that reality is limited to what can be perceived by the five human senses. To accept that theory is to believe that all metaphysical events are imaginary or hallucinations!

The truth of our reunions with our loved ones in Heaven certainly must depend on a reality far, far greater than that!Beyond RealityBut recognize that we all seem convinced about beginnings and endings. The Big Bang supposedly created our earth and universe and we all will surely die that is how we all were reared!

Yet, science and religion have seemed unwilling or unable to factually challenge those beliefs.So imagine, for a moment, that unseen forces exist beyond our comprehension, they have existed, and they will continue to exist even long after our earth no longer remains. This book is your introduction to what previously has been unknown only to us humans, but is most assuredly known to those in the spirit world!

The PromiseSo this book encourages all of us, whomever we are, to grasp and share the promise of Heavenly reunions inherent in our souls now that souls are becoming more evident than ever before on this planet. Yet the evidence still is more experiential than physical, as in near-death experiences (NDEs), for example.Soul IncarnationBut for the receptive and watchful, we at times can also identify soul manifestations at the end of life apart from and including new shared-death experiences.

Now too, thousands of adults hypnotically regressed back into their mothers wombs have had remarkable and consistent experiences sensing two distinct and separate identities there. One is a somatic feeling of wet and tight constriction and the other is a well-developed consciousness far beyond the capacity of the immature fetal brain. The former has been attributed to the fetus and the latter to the soul.

No other explanations seem possible. Reassurance that death is not final was chosen as the subject of this first chapter because death seems so real to the majority of people. Survival of bodily death may be all you really seek from this book or any other source.

But we hope that you might also be curious about the nature of the afterlife and its inhabitants, as best can be determined from dozens of researchers and thousands of consistent reports. TaboosYet, people never discuss their deaths. When the topic does arise, it invariably pertains to the deaths of other people.

As a result, survivors often are left to deal with legal, financial, and funeral arrangements as well as grief. Physicians and nurses used to be forbidden to even mention death or dying. The subject still remains taboo in many cases, felt to represent a treatment failure.

DyingThe last two weeks of our lives has been called the most expensive, as family members and even patients demand the most advanced and expensive procedures to delay death. One clergy member suggested that it is more humane for family members to reassure their loved ones that Its OK to go, rather than Hang in there!Psychic BondsSpouses who have an uncanny sensation that reminds them of their recently deceased loved one seldom tell anyone else, for fear of being considered weird.

Yet, spouses who fail to experience this may simply have refused to accept that it is possible. Soul bonds seem able to reach across miles and time, since these are not from the grave but from the spirit world. AttitudesThe popularity of books on visiting Heaven suggests more than readers simple curiosity.

We must wonder whether some of those readers privately seek reassurance of the afterlife and reunions there with their loved ones.Most religions acknowledge the existence of a heaven and an afterlife but may make certain requirements for admission. But the new theologians share with us visions of something more: an eternal life.

Neither they nor we can scientifically prove the actuality of that timeless non-physical reality. This may never be possible with sciences objective demands. Yet, the new ones willingly confront criticism from their brothers and sisters of the cloth to share with us the gems of truth they mined from their searches.

Science RulesBut most of us have grown accustomed to depending on science. Its advances in technology, medicine, astronomy, and neuroscience are breathtaking. Occasionally the public will react negatively, as in their reluctance to accept genetically modified foods.

This happens when scientists are divided among themselves and the public becomes uncomfortable about moving beyond the reality they know.Near-Death ExperiencesThis is happening now with firsthand personal events like near-death experiences (NDEs). Scientists certainly are divided, with some naysayers demanding proof using the traditional objective science method.

The public generally refuses to believe NDEs because survivors claims exceed common sense. Perhaps people also are reluctant to accept near-death experiences because NDEs involve something that most people prefer to deny their deaths. Science vs SpiritualityThe battle for followers between science and spirituality has never been stronger.

Secularism has been reinforced by scientific materialism. Religion has held sway among fundamentalists, clinging firmly to theological canons established over fifteen centuries ago. So neither science nor traditional religion fosters individual spirituality.

New HorizonBut individualism is now challenging the status quo. More than twenty-two million patients around the world have told of visiting Heaven during their near-death experiences (NDEs). Individual spirituality is being encouraged, with benefits for health as well.

Between NDEs and individual spirituality an unusual link exists, which just might infuse funerals with more optimism a reassurance of reunions with loved ones in Heaven. That link is the subject of this book, our eternal souls. Metaphysical PhenomenaConsider this.

Neither God nor Heaven is likely to be personally accepted as real by everyone until our bodies die and only if and when we experience the afterlife firsthand. Yet experiential evidence is becoming available from metaphysical phenomena and scientific and medical research: (1) to document the incarnation of the soul into the womb; (2) to participate with the souls departure from the body at death; (3) to preview the afterlife through near-death experiences; and (4) to recall soul memories through hypnotic regression. These details, acquired from thousands of experiences and studies, can be correlated to provide an encouraging promise of our souls existence and its survival of mortal death.

This offers a positive step too toward acknowledging the also-imperceptible reality of God and Heaven RELATED QUESTION What's the meaning of Sia's Chandelier song? Before Chandelier, Sia was a singer with mediocre success. She was really struggling to push her career when she lost her partner to an accident.

She got addicted to drugs, suffered depression and even wrote a suicide note. Drugs and alcohol were her only coping mechanisms. This song is about the time she was addicted to alcohol and drugs and her struggle to get out of it.

In an interview, Sia said that she always knew she was a drinker and that she must stop, her guilt, shame is what the following lyrics suggest:- Sun is up, I'm a mess Gotta get out now, gotta run from this Here comes the shame, here comes the shame . but, out of peer pressure phones blowing up, they're ringing my door bells, I feel the love .she did not stop.

1,2,3 . 1,2,3 drink throw them back till I lose count The only time she could escape from reality was when she was high, under the influence of alcohol and drugs. She could be carefree, live like tomorrow didn't exist.

I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist Like it doesn't exist I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night Chandelier is ultimately a brutally honest tale of substance abuse. Sia wrote the song for Rihanna but I am so glad that she kept this one for herself.