According to the entity Seth, in Jane Roberts’ Seth Speaks, after-death environments in general are not somber at all. He says they are generally far more intense and joyful than the reality we know now. He doesn’t go so far as to suggest “happy deathday parties” instead of funerals, but he does want to draw attention to our misconceptions.
In my book, You’re Bigger Than Death … and life too, I include input from a lot of highly respectable people of good character, who died and wanted to let us know what it’s like after death, so we can be better prepared. There is also input from reputable out-of-body travelers, Bob Monroe especially, that supports Seth’s statement.
They agree that death is not the same experience for everyone. A lot of what you experience has to do with your beliefs and expectations. In the early stages, some don’t even realize they are “dead.” When they do, some will then try to continue focusing on earth events and influencing them, to no avail. After that comes the “Belief System Territories,” as Bob Monroe termed them, where the spirits realize they can create any kind of environment they choose, and they think they are in “heaven.” Here you might encounter 95,000 square foot mansions, beautiful estates, lovely wooded areas with streams, cars 60 feet long, etc., as each entity creates what it considers the most enjoyable environment.
Sometimes the entities (us) get entranced with this plane of reality, and guides need to nudge them out of their tight focus on it, and introduce them to the next stage, which for many is one of learning and growing in capabilities they wish to focus on. This might involve “courses” in music, theater, healing and medicine, various areas of science and agriculture, and so on.
After this, many will choose their “next” incarnation, since time isn’t quite what we think it is, and they will start to prepare for it, often working with other entities in their soul group and planning out in advance certain events that will “cause” them to meet and fill certain functions and roles. All of this is done freely, with the intent of attaining as much “soul growth” as possible in the coming lifetime.
Over the course of the incarnations, souls will play a variety of roles in our HumanTime-Space Illusion, in various guises, at times rich, at times poor, at times wise, at times dull, at times a woman and at times a man, at times heterosexual, gay or lesbian or bisexual, at times honorable and brave, and perhaps not so much at other times. It all makes for an interesting and varied growth environment, where we experience many emotions firsthand, in a way we couldn’t in the other realities we as spirits take part in.
Now some souls will choose not to continue their growth by reincarnating, but instead to focus on other realities, often not physical at all. None of the people who have given us input about after-death realities can give us much description about the really advanced entities who have finished their incarnations, simply because they are unable to experience those planes.
The entity Seth is “finished” with them, if you still think in terms of time instead of focus, and Seth and others like him function as teachers, slipping in and out of various space-time frames, helping the current inhabitants to get some understanding of the deeper realities that underlie and support the one they know. Others in his sphere might choose to be mainly healers, or creators, instead of teachers.
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