FW: Near-death experience

08-30-2002, 08:45 AM

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From: "Bob Krahn"
To: "Robert C. Krahn"
Subject: FW: Near-death experience
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 3:35 PM

Hi,
This is a long read, but is extremely interesting.
Blessings.
Bob
Near-death experience-- Mellen-Thomas Benedict
Subject: In 1982 I died..... an amazing story

Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in
1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half and during that time, he
rose up out of his body and went into the Light. Curious about the universe,
he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into
the energetic Void of Nothingness behind the Big Bang. Concerning his
near-death experience, Dr. Kenneth Ring has said,
"His story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive
research on near-death experiences."
The road to death
In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable, and
any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of
a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live. I had been an
information freak in the 1970's, and I had become increasingly despondent
over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did
not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a
mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. I saw
no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for
ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what
I got. That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can
feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a
seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts
of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped. So I determined that
this was really just between me and God. I had never really faced God
before, or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind of spirituality at
the time, but I began a journey into learning about spirituality and
alternative healing. I set out to do all the reading I could and bone up on
the subject, because I did not want to be surprised on the other side. So I
started reading on various religions and philosophies. They were all very
interesting, and gave hope that there was something on the other side.
On the other hand, as a self-employed stained-glass artist at the time, I
had no medical insurance whatsoever. So my life savings went overnight in
testing. Then I was facing the medical profession without any kind of
insurance. I did not want to have my family dragged down financially, so I
determined to handle this myself. There was not constant pain, but there
were black-outs. I got so that I would not dare to drive, and eventually I
ended up in hospice care. I had my own personal hospice caretaker. I was
very blessed by this angel who went through the last part of this with me. I
lasted about eighteen months. I did not want to take a lot of drugs, since I
wanted to be as conscious as possible. Then I experienced such pain that I
had nothing but pain in my consciousness, luckily only for a few days at a
time.
The light of God
I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that
this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends
and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a
private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six
hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you
die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember is the beginning of a
typical near-death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing
up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out
of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid
that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house,
I could see around the house, I could see under the house. There was this
Light shining. I turned toward the Light. The Light was very similar to what
many other people have described in their near-death experiences. It was so
magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go
to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms. As
I began to move toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the
Light, I would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said, "Please
wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; I
would like to talk to you before I go." To my surprise, the entire
experience halted at that point. You are indeed in control of your
near-death experience. You are not on a roller coaster ride. So my request
was honored and I had some conversations with the Light. The Light kept
changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas,
archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, "What is going on here?
Please, Light, clarify yourself for me. I really want to know the reality of
the situation." I cannot really say the exact words, because it was sort of
telepathy. The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that
your beliefs shape the kind of feedback you are getting before the Light. If
you were a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop
of your own stuff. You have a chance to look at it and examine it, but most
people do not. As the Light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what
I was really seeing was our Higher Self matrix. The only thing I can tell
you is that it turned into a matrix, a mandala of human souls, and what I
saw was that what we call our Higher Self in each of us is a matrix. It's
also a conduit to the Source; each one of us comes directly, as a direct
experience from the Source. We all have a Higher Self, or an oversoul part
of our being. It revealed itself to me in its truest energy form. The only
way I can really describe it is that the being of the Higher Self is more
like a conduit. It did not look like that, but it is a direct connection to
the Source that each and every one of us has. We are directly connected to
the Source. So the Light was showing me the Higher Self matrix. And it
became very clear to me that all the Higher Selves are connected as one
being, all humans are connected as one being, we are actually the same
being, different aspects of the same being. It was not committed to one
particular religion. So that is what was being fed back to me. And I saw
this mandala of human souls. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever
seen. I just went into it and, it was just overwhelming. It was like all the
love you've every wanted, and it was the kind of love that cures, heals,
regenerates.
As I asked the Light to keep explaining, I understood what the Higher Self
matrix is. We have a grid around the planet where all the Higher Selves are
connected. This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy
around us, the spirit level, you might say. Then, after a couple of minutes,
I asked for more clarification. I really wanted to know what the universe is
about, and I was ready to go at that time. I said "I am ready, take me."
Then the Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a
mandala of human souls on this planet. Now I came to this with my negative
view of what has happen on the planet. So as I asked the light to keep
clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how beautiful we all
are in our essence, our core. We are the most beautiful creations. The human
soul, the human matrix that we all make together is absolutely fantastic,
elegant, exotic, everything. I just cannot say enough about how it changed
my opinion of human beings in that instant. I said, "Oh, God, I did not know
how beautiful we are." At any level, high or low, in whatever shape you are
in, you are the most beautiful creation, you are. I was astonished to find
that there was no evil in any soul. I said "How can this be?" The answer was
that no soul was inherently evil. The terrible things that happened to
people might make them do evil things, but their souls were not evil. What
all people seek, what sustains them, is love, the Light told me. What
distorts people is a lack of love.
The revelations coming from the Light seemed to go on and on, then I asked
the Light, "Does this mean that humankind will be saved?" Then, like a
trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great Light spoke,
saying, "Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and heal yourself.
You always have. You always will. You were created with the power to do so
from before the beginning of the world."
In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN
SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were designed to self-correct like
the rest of God's universe. This is what the second coming is about. I
thanked the Light of God with all my heart. The best thing I could come up
with was these simple words of totally appreciation: "Oh dear God, dear
Universe, dear Great Self, I love my Life." The Light seemed to breathe me
in even more deeply. It was as if the Light was completely absorbing me. The
Love Light is, to this day, indescribable. I entered into another realm,
more profound than the last, and became aware of something more, much more.
It was an enormous stream of Light, vast and full, deep in the Heart of
Life. I asked what this was.
The Light responded, "This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna water
to your heart's content." So I did. I took one big drink and then another.
To drink of Life Itself! I was in ecstasy.
Then the Light said, "You have a desire." The Light knew all about me,
everything past, present and future.
"Yes!" I whispered.
I asked to see the rest of the Universe; beyond our solar system, beyond all
human illusion. The Light then told me that I could go with the Stream. I
did, and was carried through the Light at the end of the tunnel. I felt and
heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a rush!
The void of nothingness
Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of
Life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor,
whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the
center of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that
this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different
varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not alone
in this Universe! As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center
of the galaxy, the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy.
The super clusters of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At
first I thought I was going somewhere; actually traveling. But then I
realized that, as the stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also
expanding to take in everything in the Universe! All creation passed by me.
It was an unimaginable wonder! I truly was a Wonder Child; a babe in
Wonderland!
It seemed as if all the creations in the Universe soared by me and vanished
in a speck of Light. Almost immediately, a second Light appeared. It came
from all sides, and was so different; a Light made up of more than every
frequency in the Universe. I felt and heard several velvety sonic booms
again. My consciousness, or being, was expanding to interface with the
entire Holographic Universe and more. As I passed into the second Light, the
awareness came to me that I had just transcended the Truth. Those are the
best words I have for it, but I will try to explain. As I passed into the
second Light, I expanded beyond the First Light. I found myself in a
profound stillness, beyond all silence. I could see or perceive FOREVER,
beyond Infinity.
I was in the Void.
I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning
of time - the First Word - the First vibration. I was in the Eye of
Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a
religious feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness.
When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could
experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and
without end. That's a mind-expanding thought, isn't it? Scientists perceive
the Big Bang as a single event which created the Universe. I saw that the
Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes
endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human
terms would be those created by supercomputers using fractal geometry
equations.
The ancients knew of this. They said Godhead periodically created new
Universes by breathing out, and de-creating other Universes by breathing in.
These epochs were called Yugas. Modern science called this the Big Bang. I
was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see or perceive all the Big
Bangs or Yugas creating and de-creating themselves. Instantly I entered into
them all simultaneously. I saw that each and every little piece of creation
has the power to create. It is very difficult to try to explain this. I am
still speechless about this.
It took me years after I returned to assimilate any words at all for the
Void experience. I can tell you this now; the Void is less than nothing, yet
more than everything that is! The Void is absolute zero; chaos forming all
possibilities. It is Absolute Consciousness; much more than even Universal
Intelligence.
Where is the Void? I know. The Void is inside and outside everything. You,
right now even while you live, are always inside and outside the Void
simultaneously. You don't have to go anywhere or die to get there. The Void
is the vacuum or nothingness between all physical manifestations. The SPACE
between atoms and their components. Modern science has begun to study this
space between everything. They call it Zero-point. Whenever they try to
measure it, their instruments go off the scale, or to infinity, so to speak.
They have no way, as of yet, to measure infinity accurately. There is more
of the zero space in your own body and the Universe than anything else!
What mystics call the Void is not a void. It is so full of energy, a
different kind of energy that has created everything that we are. Everything
since the Big Bang is vibration, from the first Word, which is the first
vibration. The biblical "I am" really has a question mark after it. "I am -
What am I?" So creation is God exploring God's Self through every way
imaginable, in an ongoing, infinite exploration through every one of us.
Through every piece of hair on your head, through every leaf on every tree,
through every atom, God is exploring God's Self, the great "I am". I began
to see that everything that is, is the Self, literally, your Self, my Self.
Everything is the great Self. That is why God knows even when a leaf falls.
That is possible because wherever you are is the center of the universe.
Wherever any atom is, that is the center of the universe. There is God in
that, and God in the Void.
As I was exploring the Void and all the Yugas or creations, I was completely
out of time and space as we know it. In this expanded state, I discovered
that creation is about Absolute Pure Consciousness, or God, coming into the
Experience of Life as we know it. The Void itself is devoid of experience.
It is pre-life, before the first vibration. Godhead is about more than Life
and Death. Therefore there is even more than Life and Death to experience in
the Universe!
I was in the Void and I was aware of everything that had ever been created.
It was like I was looking out of God's eyes. I had become God. Suddenly I
wasn't me anymore. The only thing I can say, I was looking out of God's
eyes. And suddenly I knew why every atom was, and I could see everything.
The interesting point was that I went into the Void, I came back with this
understanding that God is not there. God is here. That's what it is all
about. So this constant search of the human race to go out and find God .
God gave everything to us, everything is here - this is where it's at. And
what we are into now is God's exploration of God through us. People are so
busy trying to become God that they ought to realize that we are already God
and God is becoming us. That's what it is really about. When I realized
this, I was finished with the Void, and wanted to return to this creation,
or Yuga. It just seemed like the natural thing to do. Then I suddenly came
back through the second Light, or the Big Bang, hearing several more velvet
booms. I rode the stream of consciousness back through all of creation, and
what a ride it was! The super clusters of galaxies came through me with even
more insights. I passed through the center of our galaxy, which is a black
hole. Black holes are the great processors or recyclers of the Universe. Do
you know what is on the other side of a Black Hole? We are; our galaxy;
which has been reprocessed from another Universe. In its total energy
configuration, the galaxy looked like a fantastic city of lights. All energy
this side of the Big Bang is light. Every sub-atom, atom, star, planet, even
consciousness itself is made of light and has a frequency and/or particle.
Light is living stuff. Everything is made of light, even stones. So
everything is alive. Everything is made from the Light of God; everything is
very intelligent.
The light of love
As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge Light coming.
I knew it was the First Light; the Higher Self Light Matrix of our solar
system. Then the entire solar system appeared in the Light, accompanied by
one of those velvet booms.
I saw that the solar system we live in is our larger, local body. This is
our local body and we are much bigger than we imagine. I saw that the solar
system is our body. I am a part of this, and the earth is this great created
being that we are, and we are the part of it that knows that it is. But we
are only that part of it. We are not everything, but we are that part of it
that knows that it is.
I could see all the energy that this solar system generates, and it is an
incredible light show! I could hear the Music of the Spheres. Our solar
system, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of light,
sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other star systems
can spot life as we know it in the universe by the vibratory or energy
matrix imprint. It is child's play. The earth's Wonder Child (human beings)
make an abundance of sound right now, like children playing in the backyard
of the universe.
I rode the stream directly into the center of the Light. I felt embraced by
the Light as it took me in with its breath again, followed by another soft
sonic boom.
I was in this great Light of Love with the stream of life flowing through
me. I have to say again, it is the most loving, non-judgmental Light. It is
the ideal parent for this Wonder Child.
"What now?" I wondered.
The Light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal beings. We
have already been alive forever! I realized that we are part of a natural
living system that recycles itself endlessly. I was never told that I had to
come back. I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what I had
seen.
I don't know how long I was with the Light, in human time. But there came a
moment when I realized that all my questions had been answered and my return
was near. When I say that all my questions were answered on the other side,
I mean to say just that. All my questions have been answered. Every human
has a different life and set of questions to explore. Some of our questions
are Universal, but each of us is exploring this thing we call Life in our
own unique way. So is every other form of life, from mountains to every leaf
on every tree.
And that is very important to the rest of us in this Universe. Because it
all contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of Life. We are literally
God exploring God's Self in an infinite Dance of Life. Your uniqueness
enhances all of Life.
His return to earth
As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was I
told, that I would return to the same body. It just did not matter. I had
complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As the stream merged with
the great Light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the feelings of
what I had learned on the other side.
There was a "Yes". It felt like a kiss to my soul. Then I was taken back
through the Light into the vibratory realm again. The whole process
reversed, with even more information being given to me. I came back home,
and I was given lessons on the mechanics of reincarnation. I was given
answers to all those little questions I had: "How does this work? How does
that work?" I knew that I would be reincarnated. The earth is a great
processor of energy, and individual consciousness evolves out of that into
each one of us. I thought of myself as a human for the first time, and I was
happy to be that. From what I have seen, I would be happy to be an atom in
this universe. An atom. So to be the human part of God ... this is the most
fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our wildest estimation of what
blessing can be. For each and every one of us to be the human part of this
experience is awesome, and magnificent. Each and every one of us, no matter
where we are, screwed up or not, is a blessing to the planet, right where we
are.
So I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby
somewhere. But I was given a lesson on how individual identity and
consciousness evolve. So I reincarnated back into this body. I was so
surprised when I opened my eyes. I do not know why, because I understood it,
but it was still such a surprise to be back in this body, back in my room
with someone looking over me crying her eyes out. It was my hospice
caretaker. She had given up an hour and a half after finding me dead. She
was sure I was dead; all the signs of death were there - I was getting
stiff. We do not know how long I was dead, but we do know that it was an
hour and a half since I was found. She honored my wish to have my newly dead
body left alone for a few hours as much as she could. We had an amplified
stethoscope and many ways of checking out the vital functions of the body to
see what was happening. She can verify that I really was dead. It was not a
near-death experience. I experienced death itself for at least an hour and a
half. She found me dead and checked the stethoscope, blood pressure and
heart rate monitor for an hour and a half. Then I awakened and saw the light
outside. I tried to get up to go to it, but I fell out of the bed. She heard
a loud "clunk", ran in and found me on the floor. When I recovered, I was
very surprised and yet very awed about what had happened to me. At first all
the memory of the trip that I have now was not there. I kept slipping out of
this world and kept asking, "Am I alive?" This world seemed more like a
dream than that one. Within three days, I was feeling normal again, clearer,
yet different than I had ever felt in my life. My memory of the journey came
back later. I could see nothing wrong with any human being I had ever seen.
Before that I was really judgmental. I thought a lot of people were really
screwed up, in fact I thought that everybody was screwed up but me. But I
got clear on all that. About three months later a friend said I should get
tested, so I went and got the scans and so forth. I really felt good, so I
was afraid of getting bad news. I remember the doctor at the clinic looking
at the before and after scans, saying, "Well, there is nothing here now." I
said, "Really, it must be a miracle?" He said "No, these things happen, they
are called spontaneous remission." He acted very unimpressed. But here was a
miracle, and I was impressed, even if no one else was.
Lessons he learned
The mystery of life has very little to do with intelligence. The universe is
not an intellectual process at all. The intellect is helpful; it is
brilliant, but right now that is all we process with, instead of our hearts
and the wiser part of ourselves.
The center of the earth is this great transmuter of energy, just as you see
in pictures of our earth's magnetic field. That's our cycle, pulling
reincarnated souls back in and through it again. A sign that you are
reaching human level is that you are beginning to evolve an individual
consciousness. The animals have a group soul, and they reincarnate in group
souls. A deer is pretty much going to be a deer forever. But just being born
a human, whether deformed or genius, shows that you are on the path to
developing an individual consciousness. That is in itself part of the group
consciousness called humanity. I saw that races are personality clusters.
Nations like France, Germany and China each have their own personality.
Cities have personalities, their local group souls that attract certain
people. Families have group souls. Individual identity is evolving like
branches of a fractal; the group soul explores in our individuality. The
different questions that each of us has are very, very important. This is
how Godhead is exploring God's Self - through you. So ask your questions, do
your searching. You will find your Self and you will find God in that Self,
because it is only the Self.
More than that, I began to see that each one of us humans are soul mates. We
are part of the same soul fractaling out in many creative directions, but
still the same. Now I look at every human being that I ever see, and I see a
soul mate, my soul mate, the one I have always been looking for. Beyond
that, the greatest soul mate that you will ever have is yourself. We are
each both male and female. We experience this in the womb and we experience
this in reincarnation states. If you are looking for that ultimate soul mate
outside of yourself, you may never find it; it is not there. Just as God is
not "there". God is here. Don't look "out there" for God. Look here for God.
Look through your Self. Start having the greatest love affair you ever had
.... with your Self. You will love everything out of that. I had a descent
into what you might call Hell, and it was very surprising. I did not see
Satan or evil. My descent into Hell was a descent into each person's
customized human misery, ignorance, and darkness of not-knowing. It seemed
like a miserable eternity. But each of the millions of souls around me had a
little star of light always available. But no one seemed to pay attention to
it. They were so consumed with their own grief, trauma and misery. But,
after what seemed an eternity, I started calling out to that Light, like a
child calling to a parent for help. Then the Light opened up and formed a
tunnel that came right to me an insulated me from all that fear and pain.
That is what Hell really is. So what we are doing is learning to hold hands,
to come together. The doors of Hell are open now. We are going to link up,
hold hands, and walk out of Hell together. The Light came to me and turned
into a huge golden angel. I said, "Are you the angel of death?" It expressed
to me that it was my oversoul, my Higher Self matrix, a super-ancient part
of ourselves. Then I was taken to the Light. Soon our science will quantify
spirit. Isn't that going to be wonderful? We are coming up with devices now
that are sensitive to subtle energy or spirit energy. Physicists use these
atomic colliders to smash atoms to see what they are made of. They have got
it down to quarks and charm, and all that. Well, one day they are going to
come down to the little thing that holds it all together, and they are going
to have to call that ... God. With atomic colliders they are not only seeing
what is in here, but they are creating particles. Thank God most of them are
short-lived milliseconds and nanoseconds. We are just beginning to
understand that we are creating too, as we go along. As I saw forever, I
came to a realm in which there is a point where we pass all knowledge and
begin creating the next fractal, the next level. We have that power to
create as we explore. And that is God expanding itself through us.
Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have
learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each one
of you can do this. You do not have to die to do this. It is within your
equipment; you are wired for it already. The body is the most magnificent
Light being there is. The body is a universe of incredible Light. Spirit is
not pushing us to dissolve this body. That is not what is happening. Stop
trying to become God; God is becoming you. Here. The mind is like a child
running around the universe, demanding this and thinking it created the
world. But I ask the mind: "What did your mother have to do with this?" That
is the next level of spiritual awareness. Oh! my mother! All of a sudden
you give up the ego, because you are not the only soul in the universe.
One of my questions to the Light was "What is Heaven?" I was given a tour of
all the heavens that have been created: the Nirvanas, the Happy Hunting
Grounds, all of them. I went through them. These are thought form creations
that we have created. We don't really go to heaven; we are reprocessed. But
whatever we created, we leave a part of ourselves there. It is real, but it
is not all of the soul.
I saw the Christian Heaven. We expect it to be a beautiful place, and you
stand in front of the throne, worshipping forever. I tried it. It is boring!
This is all we are going to do? It is childlike. I do not mean to offend
anyone. Some heavens are very interesting, and some are very boring. I found
the ancient ones to be more interesting, like the Native American ones, the
Happy Hunting Grounds. The Egyptians have fantastic ones. It goes on and on.
There are so many of them. In each of them there is a fractal that is your
particular interpretation, unless you are part of the group soul that
believes in only the God of a particular religion. Then you are very close,
in the same ball park together. But even then, each is a little bit
different. That is a part of yourself that you leave there. Death is about
Life, not about Heaven.
I asked God: "What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is right?"
And Godhead said, with great love: "I don't care." That was incredible
grace. What that meant was that we are the caring beings here. The Ultimate
Godhead of all the stars tells us: "It does not matter what religion you
are." They come and they go, they change. Buddhism has not been here
forever, Catholicism has not been here forever, and they are all about to
become more enlightened. More light is coming into all systems now. There is
going to be a reformation in spirituality that is going to be just as
dramatic as the Protestant Reformation. There will be lots of people
fighting about it, one religion against the next, believing that only they
are right. Everyone thinks they own God, the religions and philosophies,
especially the religions, because they form big organizations around the
philosophy. When Godhead said, "I don't care," I immediately understood that
it is for us to care about. It is important, because we are the caring
beings. It matters to us and that is where it is important. What you have is
the energy equation in spirituality. Ultimate Godhead does not care if you
are Protestant, Buddhist, or whatever. It is all a blooming facet of the
whole. I wish that all religions would realize it and let each other be. It
is not the end of each religion, but we are talking about the same God. Live
and let live. Each has a different view. And it all adds up to the big
picture; it is all important.
I went over to the other side with a lot of fears about toxic waste, nuclear
missiles, the population explosion, the rainforest. I came back loving every
single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom cloud; this is the
holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as an archetype. It, more
than any religion or philosophy on earth, brought us together all of a
sudden, to a new level of consciousness. Knowing that maybe we can blow up
the planet fifty times, or 500 times, we finally realize that maybe we are
all here together now. For a period they had to keep setting off more bombs
to get it in to us. Then we started saying, "we do not need this any more."
Now we are actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is
going to get safer. So I came back loving toxic waste, because it brought us
together. These things are so big. As Peter Russell might say, these
problems are now "soul size." Do we have soul size answers? YES! The
clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there will be
more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into ecology, go
for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming aware. Go for it
with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is part of a larger thing.
Earth is in the process of domesticating itself. It is never again going to
be as wild a place as it once was. There will be great wild places, reserves
where nature thrives. Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the
future. Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of
energy to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will
change politics, money, energy. What happens when we dream? We are
multi-dimensional beings. We can access that through lucid dreaming. In
fact, this universe is God's dream. One of the things that I saw is that we
humans are a speck on a planet that is a speck in a galaxy that is a speck.
Those are giant systems out there, and we are in sort of an average system.
But human beings are already legendary throughout the cosmos of
consciousness. The little bitty human being of Earth/Gaia is legendary. One
of the things that we are legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary
dreamers. In fact, the whole cosmos has been looking for the meaning of
life, the meaning of it all. And it was the little dreamer who came up with
the best answer ever. We dreamed it up. So dreams are important.
After dying and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our DNA
experiments we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will be
able to live as long as we want to live in this body. After living 150 years
or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you will want to change
channels. Living forever in one body is not as creative as reincarnation, as
transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of energy that we are in. We
are actually going to see the wisdom of life and death, and enjoy it. As it
is now, we have already been alive forever. This body that you are in, has
been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back to
the Big Bang and beyond. This body gives life to the next life, in dense and
subtle energy. This body has been alive forever already.
Mellen-Thomas Benedict
P.O. Box 1898, Soquel, CA 95073
Phone: (831) 427-5554

"We are going to link up, hold hands, and walk out of hell together" -
Mellen-Thomas Benedict
http://www.near-death.com/benedict.html

08-31-2002, 03:26 AM

Dear Sir ~

Thank you for sharing this article over the G List. The information was
fascinating indeed. It made me feel less subjective and more objective and
cosmic and gave me hope for myself and human kind. His after-death
experience was the closest account of the after death experience which I
have ever heard that came closest to being how I have imagined the
after-death experience would be.

God Bless ~
Chandra
~
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