Creating Heaven On Earth

When I first became familiar with the possibility that some people had died and come back to tell the world about it, I began to read vigorously on the subject. Being in sales, books on tape were my go-to solution.  It was Wayne Dyers voice on the cassette tape that advised me as I sped along 1-70 in my bronze Dodge Daytona  to “Die while I was alive.”  He had just finished a story about his sister-in-law having a terrible accident.  She died from her injuries yet came back to tell Wayne what happened.

Those words really made sense. All that rhetoric really boiled down to the notion that life was short, time was precious, and it was best to create a heaven of sorts right here on earth.

Now.

Not tomorrow.

For some reason I always thought I would die young.  Not die and come back.  Just die.  Having already studied the book Life After Life by Dr. Morse, I  was prepared.  I knew about the white light and the tunnel that pulled you into heaven and away from your physical body when you die.  Being greeted by your loved ones who had made the passage before you sounded more like a party than a tragedy. As if to confirm the belief, my mother told my sister how our Dad and her parents gathered for her in her hospital room a few days before she departed  her frail body. There was more to do they told her.  She had a few more days before she joined them for good.  It made her so happy.

What was far more curious to me and made me change was what the book said about a life review.  It proposed that each person on their way to death will be shown a three-dimensional  movie of their life; a review of what you accomplished in this life time.  The question will be asked and answered if the departed had fulfilled the lessons he/she had come to earth to learn. It will include special effects that allow the viewer to feel the emotions of others: to experience how his/her actions impacted others either positively or negatively. All of this will be without judgment.  Sound daunting?

It certainly was for me. Yet it did make me change.  It changed how I treated others and helped me soften my approach.  It was about realizing that we all have a chance to go to heaven.  For me, I wanted to experience it here before I even got there.  When I think of death now,  it is more about elation than fear that settles in my mind.  It really is about pretty flowers, and soft sheets, sex in the shower or whatever makes your heart sing…… creating a space that already feels like heaven.