Pam
03-02-2004, 07:15 AM
(I receive mailings from the Edgar Cayce Organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment" and I thought I'd share this one with you. While I don't think John has ever spoken in detail about the following, I don't find anything here that is in conflict with anything that John has written or said, if so, please let me know.)
The First Ten Minutes After Death
"As we live day by day, as we apply the abilities and talents that we have, we shall have with us after the transition called death exactly those soul qualities that we have acquired on earth. When we pass over, our experience will not be very different from passing from one room to another..."
Edgar Cayce suggests that, as in birth you have the beginning of an earthly life, your birth into the spiritual plane begins when you die; death is merely the separation of your soul from its earthly connection. And, it is comforting to know that just as your parents and loved ones prepared for your birth, departed loved ones await you on the other side.
What takes place immediately after you die? When you first make the transition, you are still in touch with your earthly experience. Matter has changed, it has speeded up, but you have not yet lost contact with the earth in the beginning. To illustrate, you might think of the propeller on an airplane. When it speeds up to a certain point, it seems to disappear. It hasn’t really gone anywhere, but is practically invisible. Or like the transformation of boiling water from a liquid into steam, it changes form. When you die the essence of your being is still there, it has simply changed form.
Your steps along the path of transition are unique to you, depending upon your intentions, desires, and what you have put your mind to throughout your life on earth. Your state of consciousness is a reflection of the way you think and what you are trying to satisfy. At first, you may be so closely tied to the earth that you may not realize for a little while that you have passed on. But then, as if from a dream, you begin to awaken. Cayce once referred to sleep as the shadow of what we call death. So, at first your experience might be more like sleep, like a sleeping child, and later an awakening.
Your continued transition is dependent on your spiritual development in your earthly life: the ideals you have set to guide you; the understanding you have attained; the principles you have put into practice; and the work you have done to balance the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of life.
Not everyone has the exact same experience through the transition. Death is not a set pattern any more than birth into the world is a fixed pattern. Of course it is similar, but certainly the birth of a child in the middle of a field in India, whose mother gets up and goes on with the plowing very shortly after, is different from the birth that takes place in a modern hospital or the one that is birthed by suggestion or hypnosis. So it’s different according to the circumstances and the development of the individual.
Meditation is the way to tune in to a greater sensitivity; dreaming is the way to find out where you are going and what it is going to be like. If you pay attention to and record your dreams, you can find out what you are going to jump into when you die. You get maps to guide your way across the United States; dreams are a map of the patterns you are creating in your waking life into which you are going to move on the other side. You can begin to understand from your dreams what it will be like for you when you make the transition.
Meditation is also the best method you can use to travel in that realm - on light, with light. Prayer for others who have passed on is light. Prayer lights the way, like focusing a flashlight. Edgar Cayce said that your loved ones who have passed on listen for the sound of your voice in prayer on their behalf. If you meditate to bring about that state of awareness of how you travel, you will see in dreams and in meditation the beginning of this awakening and opening of consciousness, when you begin to move with light.
The First Ten Minutes After Death
"As we live day by day, as we apply the abilities and talents that we have, we shall have with us after the transition called death exactly those soul qualities that we have acquired on earth. When we pass over, our experience will not be very different from passing from one room to another..."
Edgar Cayce suggests that, as in birth you have the beginning of an earthly life, your birth into the spiritual plane begins when you die; death is merely the separation of your soul from its earthly connection. And, it is comforting to know that just as your parents and loved ones prepared for your birth, departed loved ones await you on the other side.
What takes place immediately after you die? When you first make the transition, you are still in touch with your earthly experience. Matter has changed, it has speeded up, but you have not yet lost contact with the earth in the beginning. To illustrate, you might think of the propeller on an airplane. When it speeds up to a certain point, it seems to disappear. It hasn’t really gone anywhere, but is practically invisible. Or like the transformation of boiling water from a liquid into steam, it changes form. When you die the essence of your being is still there, it has simply changed form.
Your steps along the path of transition are unique to you, depending upon your intentions, desires, and what you have put your mind to throughout your life on earth. Your state of consciousness is a reflection of the way you think and what you are trying to satisfy. At first, you may be so closely tied to the earth that you may not realize for a little while that you have passed on. But then, as if from a dream, you begin to awaken. Cayce once referred to sleep as the shadow of what we call death. So, at first your experience might be more like sleep, like a sleeping child, and later an awakening.
Your continued transition is dependent on your spiritual development in your earthly life: the ideals you have set to guide you; the understanding you have attained; the principles you have put into practice; and the work you have done to balance the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of life.
Not everyone has the exact same experience through the transition. Death is not a set pattern any more than birth into the world is a fixed pattern. Of course it is similar, but certainly the birth of a child in the middle of a field in India, whose mother gets up and goes on with the plowing very shortly after, is different from the birth that takes place in a modern hospital or the one that is birthed by suggestion or hypnosis. So it’s different according to the circumstances and the development of the individual.
Meditation is the way to tune in to a greater sensitivity; dreaming is the way to find out where you are going and what it is going to be like. If you pay attention to and record your dreams, you can find out what you are going to jump into when you die. You get maps to guide your way across the United States; dreams are a map of the patterns you are creating in your waking life into which you are going to move on the other side. You can begin to understand from your dreams what it will be like for you when you make the transition.
Meditation is also the best method you can use to travel in that realm - on light, with light. Prayer for others who have passed on is light. Prayer lights the way, like focusing a flashlight. Edgar Cayce said that your loved ones who have passed on listen for the sound of your voice in prayer on their behalf. If you meditate to bring about that state of awareness of how you travel, you will see in dreams and in meditation the beginning of this awakening and opening of consciousness, when you begin to move with light.