LIFE REVIEW BELIEFS
- What happens after death?
Article about After Death The Life Review. The self judgment of the life review that follows death. On dying we contemplate our former life with reviews of our earth existence. If you would like to find out more about the topic then read Craig Hamilton-Parker's books
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The Cosmic Conscience
Those angels first inquired what my thought was, whether it was like the thought of those who die, which is usually about eternal life; and that they wished to keep my mind in that thought.--Emanuel Swedenborg
 When we enter the afterlife we begin a process of reviewing the life we have lead on earth and assess our successes and failures. We start at the very heart of our being and gradually the self-knowledge unfolds until we understand why our life was as it was. You will start this process as you encounter what Dr. Raymond Moody has called the “being of light.” This is an incredibly common element in accounts of near-death experiences. As I explained earlier, the abstract God takes a form according to your understanding--a Christian may see Christ, and so on.
 I believe that this experience begins after a period of complete merging with God. Initially, the self-assessment happens at an abstract level of existence, before unfolding to a tangible form where you and God appear to become separate states. In reality, we are always one with God--even now, as you read this--except we live within the illusion of separateness. The closest we can understand this first stage of the “life review” is to say that it is an inner experience--a soul-to-soul discourse with the highest state of existence.
Imagine what it is like to merge with God and to become aware that God knows everything there is to know about you. How would it feel to be so spiritually naked? What excuses could you make for your misdeeds, and how would you attempt to explain away your mistakes and transgressions?
NDE ACCOUNTS OF THE LIFE REVIEW
 According to many NDE accounts, this encounter with a being of light is remarkably common. During the merger with God, there is the realization that God knows everything about you. There is a form of total telepathy between you. As the merger ceases, you will have the experience of standing before a being of light that may take the form of your particular understanding of what God should be like. Or God may just remain as a being of light, or even be invisible but with a powerful sense of nearness and reality. Again, the nature of this experience will be dictated by your own nature.
When you encounter the being of light you will not hear a physical voice or sounds coming from the being, neither will the being respond to your physical sounds. The exchange will not involve language, yours or that of any nation. There will instead be a direct, unimpeded transfer of thought, completely free of any possibility of misunderstanding. We could, perhaps, call it a heart-to-heart with God.
The subject of your initial exchange will be whether it is now your time to die. This “conversation” will not be filled with fear or angst. You will see that it is self-evident that it is your time to die, or not. You will be almost nonchalant about the fact, because you are now in tune with all strata of your being and the higher self will take precedent. All judgment is self-judgment. Almost without exception, reports from NDE cases conform to what you will say: “The being of light did not judge me. I judged myself.”
And what could be a harder judge that our own conscience, for the conscience, in this life and the next, is the voice of God working through our higher self.
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