This is What She Missed After She Died
A year or two after she died, my sister appeared in a dream. She said she was fine, everything was okay. And she also happened to mention that while everything is okay, there was something she really missed: Mexican food. She kind of made a big deal out of that.
And that got me to thinking about why we like to incarnate. It’s because, at least in part, there are things you can only do and experience if you are in a physical body.
Sometimes I run into people who seem to crave getting back to the Other Side. And that’s fine, too. Because there are things you can only do and experience if you are in a non-corporeal body.
This makes me wonder if you ever feel your body sort of disappear. I’m not talking about sleeping. But do you ever have something like this happen?
It’s more like if you are sitting still, maybe with your eyes closed, maybe not. Either way, you are concentrating on something so hard, or not concentrating at all, when… poof… it just seems to be gone. Your body. Not your awareness, just your body. And there can be a certain sense of relief to not feeling it, of being more focused on pure awareness. Sometimes it happens when we are driving. We barely remember how we got to our destination.
These small examples are hints that we are going in the direction of more fully consciously connecting to our so-called essence, to our more fundamental Awareness.
There’s a video on this site with John Butler. Now an elder, he talks about prayer. But also about how he sees things so much differently these days compared to when he was younger. He says,
“[You] come to realize what prayer really is. That prayer is really merging into the perfection of God. Melting into that absolute one.”
He goes on stating that this connectedness is unlimited with no boundaries, resulting in a personal ability to connect to the entire world, implying that as an individual we can have a far greater affect than we realize. “If I’m connected with that level of immortality here, it serves the whole world. You could describe prayer as the raising of consciousness.”
What he doesn’t explain is HOW he gets into this state. He doesn’t explain ‘melting’ and what that feels like. This is important. This is what the monastery is about: it is trying to explain the how-tos… like the example I gave above.