Mark Anastasi - God, The Meaning of Life and What Happens after You Die

God, The Meaning of Life,and What Happens After You Die

47 Extraordinary StoriesFrom The After-Life: Near-Death Experiences, Past-Life Regressions,Psychic Channelling, And Secret Military Experiments On TheSubconscious

By Mark Anastasi

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Dedication

To my amazing wife Mira, for herunwavering support and love throughout the years. I am blessed tohave you in my life. And to my daughters Mila and Zara, whoinspired me to write this book.

Materialism, noun

1. A tendency to consider materialpossessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritualvalues.

2. The doctrine that nothing existsexcept matter and its movements and modifications.

Introduction

When I was 9 years old I read RaymondMoodys book, Life After Life. My mother had picked it up at herlocal book club, and I was intrigued by the title. Moody, anAmerican psychologist, interviewed hundreds of people who hadundergone near-death experiences, and presented his casestudies.

The people he spoke to had beendeclared clinically dead, and following their resuscitation byparamedics or in a hospital reported very odd things indeed fromtheir brief time in the spirit world. For example, theyremembered looking down at their body on the operating table, whilefloating above the scene; they felt drawn into the light wherethey felt an overwhelming feeling of love and acceptance; and theywere greeted in the spirit world by their spirit guide and theirloved ones who had passed away.

In many instances, while they wereclinically dead, they became aware of things happening in adifferent part of the hospital, or even thousands of miles away.Their consciousness did not die and was able to visit withandread the thoughts oftheir relatives halfway across the world. Theylater reported conversations they could not have possiblyknown.

Some of Moodys subjects stated, aftervisiting the spirit world:

Life is forever. Death is nothing morethan a doorway. Something that you walk through Death is arailroad station where you come, always, to go to another life. Wecannot die because we are already created to liveforever.

In the spirit world you feel anoverwhelming feeling of love and acceptance. I would exchangetwenty lifetimes for a few moments in the presence of that love andacceptance You are so deeply loved and you yourself so deeplylove. Love is what keeps this world alive. We are alive because oflove.

When you return to thespirit world from whence you came, you begin to sense a part ofyourself greater and far more magnificent than you ever giveyourself credit for. You are a part of All That Is, and so iseveryone else. As a result, you become a lot more understanding ofothers.

Upon returning to the spirit world youare asked: How did you learn to love and accept your fellow humansin the way Source totally accepts and loves you?

I had so many questions! If we go to aspiritual realm after we die, do we come from one as well? Are wespiritual beings having a human experience? What does this meanabout how we should live our lives? Why are we here? What isSource? What is All That Is ?

There really is life after death! Iconcluded, upon reading Moodys book. Our consciousness goes onbeyond the point of death. What baffled me what this: How on Earthdo grown-ups not talk about this all the time?! Every day, theyget up, go to work, come home, watch TV, and go to sleep. At nopoint do they seem to question their existence or their origin.Perhaps they are too busy with their jobs to notice that theirlives lack meaning.

I couldnt understand why thesequestions werent being asked every single day in the news or onevery TV program. In fact, the media seemed to do their utmost tosteer people away from such questions. I would later discover thatit was considered blasphemous to raise this topic becausereincarnation was not mentioned in the Bible, the Torah, or theKoran, despite millions of people around the world having profound,personal spiritual experiences that contradicted these religiousteachings.

My parents were atheists. To them,religion was for ignorant, uneducated people, and the cause ofmost wars, to boot. So I let it go. I forgot about Moodys book. Ididnt believe in God. Over the ensuing decade I focused on gettinggood grades, getting a job, and getting ahead in life.

Physical Matter Is NotReal

My interest in spirituality wasreignited in my twenties after stumbling upon books on QuantumPhysics. Scientists in the 1920s had discovered that all thephysical matter in our Universe is not real. The atoms that makeup physical matter consist of empty space with a pattern of energyrunning through it. Theres nothing solid within the atoms thatmake up physical reality! There was a meta-physical aspect to ourphysical reality after all, they concluded, and even went as far ascomparing our universe to a giant thought (one singular unifyingconsciousness). In fact, they found that consciousness was centralto the workings of physical reality and that our thoughts canaffect the physical matter around us.

This new science flew in the face ofconventional Newtonian physics and its materialistic viewpoint(materialism is the doctrine that nothing exists except matterand its movements and modifications), and made many scientistsquestion their assumptions about our universe. The ideologicaldivide between science and religion was beginning to blur. This wasa threat to the legitimacy of modern science. A war onconsciousness would have to be waged, to maintain their status andpower. The less people focused on spirituality, the more power theScientific Elite would garner.

In the book The Celestine Prophecy,author James Redfield describes the new spiritual awareness thatwas beginning to take hold, away from traditional religious orscientific dogmas. He wrote in 1993:

Were re-discovering a whole new depthto what our existence means. We are beginning to sense that thereis another side to life an invisible side to life, a processoperating behind the scenes. In the twentieth century, we began torealize that faster, better, more was not the answer. People withall the fame, success, and money in the world STILL did not feel asense of inner peace and fulfilment. Time has come to wake up fromour illusion and our concern for economic security and scientificprogress, and re-consider that original question: Why are we reallyhere?

[] In 1,000 AD, the powerful churchmenheld great influence over the minds of people. Everything aboutlife was, above all, spiritual. Peoples reality was that Godsplan for mankind was at the very center of life. People took forgranted that the world operated solely by spiritual means. Then,around the 14th and 15th century, that reality began to breakdown.

Corruption, theft, greed, and all kindsof improprieties by these churchmen led to alarm in the minds ofpeople and then to outright rebellion. These men, who had been theonly connection between yourself and God, and the arbitrators ofyour salvation, had suddenly lost all credibility.

The consensus about the nature of theuniverse and mankinds purpose here was collapsing. The old worldview was being challenged even further when astronomers in the1600s proved that the sun and the stars did not revolve around theEarth, as maintained by the Church. The whole world was beingthrown into question. People no longer blindly accepted thescriptures they wanted solid proof and answers. They thereforeturned to Science.