Frederick Dodson - Hidden Realities

HiddenRealities

Frederick Dodson

Copyright 2016 Frederick Dodson

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13:978-1540512161

ISBN-10: 1540512169

CONTENTS

You and the Afterlife

MyNear-De ath-Experience

Atthe age of nine, I actually drowned. I couldnt swim. My older cousin and Itook a boat out to the middle of a lake. We were goofing around and somehow Ifell into the water. I recall swallowing water, sinking into the ground andthen dying. Instead of trying to save me, my cousin went back to the shore toget help. My aunt was absolutely terrified and called a life guard. I must havebeen under water for 15 minutes. Im not sure how that is physically possible,but I survived.

Duringdeath I noticed how I still had awareness. I could see and hear. But who wasseeing and hearing? I remember that question mystifying me. Who wasseeing and hearing? I was not underwater. My awareness was somehow hoveringabove water and it was at the beach, with my aunt and cousin and at home, allat the same time. The simultaneous nature of my perception was baffling. Here,at the age of nine, I learned that my body is not required for seeing andhearing. Then, things became foggy, and I found myself back in the boatcoughing and spitting up water as the life guards performed first aid.

WhatHappens After Death?

Heresan excerpt from Chapter 3 of Lives of the Soul :

When we die we are sometimes taken bysurprise that we are actually still alive. The more immature or brainwashed theperson was during life, the longer and the grander the surprise. Most soulsrecuperate quickly and the fog of amnesia starts to lift. They remember theirlife as a soul which is actually their main life. They remember that their stayon the planet was actually only a side-life, a temporary experiment, one ofmany lives. A soul is born and dies many, many times in the course of its developmentand exploration.

Consciousness can be seen as threeconcentric circles. The smallest inner circle represents your mind, your dailyfocus, your ego. The second circle, which contains the first, is a kind ofsubconscious or sub-awareness in which all memories and experiences of this andother lives are stored. And the third circle, which contains both of theothers, some call super-consciousness or higher self. This higher self isyour true identity which also contains all of your sub-identities of all livesand the ego-selves of all incarnations. Higher Self is the soul itself andrepresents the center of our wisdom and a viewpoint beyond life and death.

After death,most people experience themselves floating above their physical body, observingit from outside and still existing. Since the incarnated earth-ego isconditioned to feel death as something sad and shocking, the soul can oftenobserve how those relatives and friends who were left behind are in grief. Forthis reason, it sometimes attempts to console or positively influence thoseleft behind. Some souls are frustrated over the fact that they cannot touch orcommunicate with family members and friends (yes, a soul is able to feelfrustration). The reason it is difficult to contact the bereaved and tell themI still exist! All is well! is because of an energy-frequency mismatch. Theirgrief is on a different frequency than the souls relative elation. Elationcannot communicate with grief. If the bereaved could just relax a little andremain aware, theyd be able to sense the presence of the soul right there inthe room with them. If you ever experience the death of a person, then try itout: Rather than succumbing to grief and sorrow (you can keep that for later),try to become aware of the soul still hovering in the room or space above. Youcan sense its presence by a tingle on your skin or an air draft in a room inwhich the windows are closed. If you are very aware you might hear the soulscommunication which often manifests as feelings or voices that were not createdby your imagination. And in an even more aware and relaxed state you can seethem as a ball or fog of light. A typical place to experience such phenomena isa hospital. This is why a large percentage of belief in afterlife andaccounts of ghost-sightings come from nurses and doctors. Another way to viewafterlife realms, to some degree, is by staying somewhat aware in a state ofhalf-sleep. It is the state between sleeping and waking that benefits so-calledastral vision. Children are more likely to notice the presence in ahospital room because they are, in those moments, not preoccupied with worry.

From Lives of the Soul

Reportsof near-death-experiences go back thousands of years. Because they all soundsimilar across the globe, its safe to assume that, like birth, death followspredictable patterns and sequences. I have had an NDE myself, as well asnumerous out-of-body experiences, so the idea of life after death is nostretch for me. To me, there is no such thing as death of a person. I getbored at graveyards because I dont think there is anyone lying there. Sure, Illvisit a funeral to pay respect to the deceased person and send them mywell-wishes for ascension to a better place. But all this grief and pain over someonesdeath is comical to me. The only reason to grieve would be, perhaps, when aperson does not ascend to a pretty place and gets stuck in various astralplanes instead. So while a proper burial ritual is important to help a soulrelease and to put the body at rest (There is a Chinese legend that says unburiedbodies may become zombies!), ones well-wishes, after that should go upwards tothe sky rather than downwards to the grave.

Somethinggleaned from NDE reports that is not commonly known, is: You dont feel anypain at death. The idea of death being painful is false. Why? Because whenyou die, you are no longer in-body. Its the body that feels pain, not you. Asyou die you see you are not the body, not in-body, have nothing to do with thebody. Many report seeing their bodies from the outside, looking as if itbelonged to some stranger. Whether you die by car accident or gunshot, you donot feel the impact because the energy-unit that you are leaves the bodybefore that, without exception. The only way to feel the impact is when itsnot deadly.

Tolead the good life its not really that helpful to be too preoccupied withafterlife, other realms and such. That can become a distraction from leading afull life here and today. However, having some basic knowledge of other realmslessens the fear of such and allows you to align your life in such a way as to ascendwhen you die.

Anear-death experience can also be had shortly before death, so that the dyingperson has the time to tell anyone listening what is happening while they aredying.

Thereare numerous accounts of this in NDE literature. One personal experience is ofa relative who was in the hospital and dying. We sensed the 94 year-old womanwas dying but only knew it for sure when she pointed to the upper corner of theroom and said there is a warm, gleaming light coming from there. We looked upbut none of us could see anything. By the expression on her face we knew thatshe was experiencing something different than we were. In the many weekswe had visited her, she usually had a calm, and sometimes somber expression,whereas now she looked cheerful and radiant. Her eyes were wide open as shetold us of how beautiful it all is. They are waiting for me, she said. Whois waiting for you? her daughter asked. She named several relatives that had diedbefore. Its so peaceful and warm here. I want to stay, she said as if shewere already there. What was particularly interesting to me, was that she sawand named a person she was not supposed to recognize because that person haddied at birth. It was her not-born daughter. How could she recognize her if shehad never seen her? My view, that I have already stated in Lives of the Soul