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Answer: There is no ending to life. One that ends this life simply transitions. Life cannot end. The transition that you see as death is not an end to the mind. Some memories may fade, but the core that is the mind continues on. The pain and suffering that is believed within the mind accompanies the mind into the transition, so one does not find escape through transition. One who is contemplating ending their life is suffering from loneliness. This suffering may seem to take different forms, and the person may not realize that the pain is the pain of loneliness, but that is the basis of all pain. The one who considers ending his or her life may agonize over mistakes, lost opportunities or addictions (guilt), suffer from self-loathing or live in fear of what seems to be happening or seems to be coming in the future. But if the one who is contemplating ending their life can see for even a moment beyond the pain that tortures him or her, that one will see that the real pain comes from feeling alone within the suffering. What this one seeks above all else is love. And one cannot find love by ending one’s life. But that one will also not remove his or herself from love through the act of ending one’s life. For each one is love, but has lost the awareness of love through the belief in loneliness. What each one must come to realize is that one is never alone. To be alone is literally impossible. Until a person is ready to learn that lesson, he or she will suffer from the symptoms of loneliness. And so to one that is willing to end life, you can say, “I love you. I will always love you. And I can help you, if you will accept my help. You are never alone.” The one you say that to may be willing to accept the love you offer and they may not. Each one will choose his or her lessons. This is why you must realize that this lesson is also your own. For right now, as you sit feeling sad or afraid for the one that is contemplating ending his or her life, you are also suffering from loneliness. For you have not learned that you cannot be alone and your brother cannot be alone. You have not accepted our oneness as the only fact that Is. And so I say to you, I love you. I will always love you. And I can help you, if you will accept my help. You are never alone.” The world you live in is an illusion. Nothing is as it seems. Place your faith with Me; put your heart in My Hands. Sit within the stillness and be willing to know that I Am here. Nothing can ever be lost when you accept the truth of My Reality. For that truth is eternal and inclusive and whole. Let the one who is contemplating ending his or her life know that you love him or her, and you be willing to accept My Love as Your Love. There is no other answer to any question. To accept My Love as Your Love is to accept the Truth as it is. With Love, Question: Holy Spirit, is there anything that you would share with one who believes in escape through death (that is, one who believes that the end of the body is the end of existence)?
Answer: One who believes in escape through death does not accept Me, for to accept Me is not to believe in death. I am eternal, and I am eternity within you. As I live, so does the mind live to continue beyond what seems to be life within the body.
Many believe in “life after death,” and they believe that the experience after life is determined by the actions one takes in bodily life. If one is good, one goes to heaven. If one is not good, one has another experience. This thought is not correct, but it is not entirely incorrect.
The error within this thought is the error that a God external to you judges you and determines your “afterlife” experience. If there is judgment, the one that judges you is you, and you are the one that determines any experience other than the experience of Heaven. For one who has surrendered to God experiences Heaven, as there is no other experience within the experience of God.
Regina's comment: I understood "you
are the one that determines any experience other than the experience of Heaven"
to be a comment of mind. In other words, this statement isn't only true about
the so-called "afterlife" but also true now. The "you" in this statement would
be the false self-concept/the ego.
Mind and spirit are one, so that you may call it spirit-mind. There are not separate souls who have different experiences. There is one mind that is lost within the illusion of fear, and it projects its fear into various scenarios looking for the answer to a question that cannot be answered. Its question is this: How can I be separate from God and ruler of my own experience? It is the first part of the question that cannot be answered.
The spirit-mind that is searching for the answer to its question does not die, but it does try a myriad of experiences within its search for its answer. The only answer, however, is the Answer of Truth. When the mind surrenders itself to what is [true], its search will end. This is the realization of Heaven.
Question: You say there is one spirit-mind. I’d like more clarity on this for a couple of reasons. First, our experience is that of different, individual souls. Can you talk about that?
Answer: Your experience is based on a belief that has been projected within existence as experience. This is why you experience it. The mind is the ruler of its own experience, but the mind that rules this experience is not the seeming individual mind. It is the spirit-mind. This is why you have heard teachers refer to the seeming individual as a “puppet.” The individual that you think you are is not in any way your reality. It is merely an experience and a temporal one.
Question: The second thought I’d like you to address is this: You say there is one spirit-mind that is not separate, yet the thoughts that you share are different than the thoughts of the ego-mind. How is it that this spirit-mind is one and not two?
Answer: Part of this mind is asleep or deluded and part of this mind is awake or aware. But this mind is in no way separate from itself. It is one mind with different thoughts, but only the true thoughts are true.
Question: How can one spirit-mind have different thoughts and remain one?
Answer: Thoughts do not change reality. When thoughts are a statement of reality, they extend reality within itself. This is called creation. But when thoughts are not a statement of reality, they are experienced as long as they are thought, and then they cease to be.
Question: So, reality is eternal because it is true. False thoughts are temporal illusion because they are not true. Both thoughts are in the mind now, which is why the mind seems split. But it is not split, because only the truth is true. Is that it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And my role is?
Answer: Letting go of all false thoughts within the mind. It is the false thoughts that cause you pain, suffering, confusion and fear. They sometimes seem to bring you pleasure, but each temporal thought of pleasure has a flipside of pain.
You may believe these thoughts if you choose, and you will continue to experience them as long as you are willing to believe them. But if you are tired of pain, I ask you to choose forgiveness. This is the only way out of the experience of pain.
Question: And forgiveness, which is letting go of false thoughts, is something we do now. Is this right?
Answer: Now is the only time there is. No matter what time it seems to be, it is always now. Pamela: As You know, the
subject of escaping one's body has been a
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