Thursday, July 14, 2011
"The Reconnection"--continued
As Lois glided forward, she saw many beautiful shapes and colors, and passed along a road lined on either side with friends and relatives of her most recent and even earlier past lives. As she moved forward, she felt a sense of deep peace and happiness.
Now, a brilliant light appeared before her. Though it was almost blinding in intensity, it did not hurt her eyes. This light was the core of the Supreme Being. She had now reached the level of the "all-knowing, all-consuming, all-accepting light. My mother knew that she was Home."
Now her entire life is presented to her in pictures, but without judgment. She then learned that she was to be sent back. She did not wish to return, but it was necessary for her to do so in order to raise her son. At this point she began to forget parts of her experience, but retained the conviction that when she returned "home" again, she would be received with love. This realization removed all fear of death as a passage to a new state of being. Then she found herself back in her body--and the nurses happily informed her that she had birthed a son.
When she awoke further, she dictated as much of her journey as she could remember to her son's father, and asked him to write it down.
Lois' account of her "death experience" is one of the most vivid and detailed I have come across. The description of the "levels" of consciousness available after death is reminiscent of Dante's depiction of the after world in "The Divine Comedy," though, of course, Dante is much more precise in his description of the punishments meted out to the sinners of various kinds, and Lois' "other world" is not one which focuses on hellish torments of the "damned." Her encounter with the great light also echoes Dante's description of the Divine Rose (God) in the final volume of his majestic work. Many of the features of her experience parallel accounts given by other near death survivors--the life review, the sense of being enfolded by infinite love, the reluctance to return to the "real world," and the loss of any fear of death are common features related by many such survivors.
Indeed, one wonders that if Eric himself, who was still in her womb or at least present during this amazing experience, was somehow altered by it, so that his own astonishing gift might manifest at a later stage in his life.
When we look at his story from a very skeptical viewpoint, there are several possibilities that come to mind. Is he indeed, telling the complete truth (particularly with respect to the miraculous healings), or is he merely embellishing the facts to enliven his tale (as many believe Carlos Castaneda did in his stories of the magical shaman some years back)?
Is he motivated by a desire for fame and money, rather than honesty in narration?
Could such things really happen? If so, they would appear to be on the same level as the stories of Jesus' healing feats as presented in the New Testament.
If they are true, then perhaps it is also true, as Pearl says at one place in the book, that "new energies" are coming in to earth, and things are possible now that were not possible in the past.
Pearl's contention is that all of us possess such profound healing abilities if we would only allow them to find expression. Why not? I have often said that if such unexpected transformations (major awakenings) could happen to me (and others) in such unlikely circumstances, then anything could happen to anyone at any time. We are in fact in a time or profound planetary shift into a new state of consciousness. His experience seems to confirm that major changes are happening all around, lifting all of us to new levels of knowing and doing.
