SPIRIT LIFE - What is life like in the spirit world?

Article about experiences of the Spirit World based upon the book "What to do when you are dead" by Craig Hamilton-Parker..
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SPIRIT LIFE: Heavenly Society

As the previous example illustrates, fame means nothing in the afterlife. Just because you have been a royal or a president or a great leader does not mean that you will carry this status into the next life. Your true worth is based upon who you have become. In the afterlife, falsehood fails, truth triumphs, and virtue reigns. Character confers power--not knowledge, inventive skill, or wealth. The next world is guided by wisdom.

The afterlife world is an organized place with its own social structures and even a government. However, it is unlike any administration known on earth.

SPIRIT LIFE: Social order

Imagine the potentially chaotic situation at the initial stages of the afterlife. A continual stream of new arrivals includes the wise, the wicked, the learned and the insane. Many are likely to be puzzled, or in a state of confusion. Fortunately, the spirit world has been around for a long time and is well organized, with knowledgeable leadership.

The life review has already revealed that, from the moment you pass over, you will have a chaperon to the next life. At your entry to the next world, you meet your guardian angel and are made aware of your life on earth and what to expect during your stay in the afterlife planes. What you encounter at that initial orientation is just a small part of the hierarchy of spiritual organization that you will discover exists as you move through the afterlife realities.

In earthly life, it is power and money that usually confers position in society. We honor people with wealth, social class, business acumen, and talent. Yet many of these individuals are not worthy of our tribute. Political cunning, ruthless business tactics, and clever manipulation of others have been known to cause a person to rise to a position of recognition and respect in our world. In the afterlife, these ambitious attitudes are considered to be bad qualities, and do not in any way improve your status in the next world.

Some individuals may continue to have fantasies about power, and create illusionary worlds in which they appear to be living out their ambitions. These illusionary states, however, will contain fundamental flaws that enable the higher spirit beings to make the soul-dreamer aware of the futility of his desire. The influential New Age pioneer Gary Zukav put it succinctly when he wrote: "The illusion is exquisitely intimate to the needs of each soul. Always each situation serves each person involved. You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal, to come into wholeness."

Some may incarnate immediately, in order to avoid confronting their misconceptions.

People with similar motivations will be drawn together and create between them, through their own megalomaniac desires, their own worlds. The snag is that everyone wants to rule, resulting in continual conflict, competition, and hatred. They may think all is well--as it should be--but if they can examine their hearts, they will see that they are suffering. The worst thing about being in hell is not knowing that you are there in the first place, and that you are creating the illusion yourself.

In the spiritual planes, it is not our ability to rule but our ability to serve that counts. Returning to the case of Princess Diana. She had a high position in British society by right of her birth and marriage. Nonetheless, she demonstrated in her life compassion for others and influenced a great many people around the world to adopt better principles. She had many faults, but I'm sure her standing in the afterlife will be one of honor and respect. The personal touches given AIDS victims, and the comforting words and care offered to children in distress will be, in retrospect, of far greater importance than all the high-ranking engagements and public events she ever attended. In the afterlife, we rise to status according to the qualities of our character.

SPIRIT LIFE: Government

The spirit guides and helpers who have spoken through countless mediums all speak of the “natural Law” that dictates the conditions in the next world. This natural law creates the right conditions spontaneously. For example, thoughts of anger will weigh heavy on some people and pull them into a pit of their own hatred until they are able to resolve these things. Similarly, thoughts of love will draw you upward to the higher levels of the spiritual kingdom. The natural law also draws people together who have similar motivations and dispositions. And it is the natural law that decides who, in the afterlife, will have eminence.

Those of good character and who are willing to serve will naturally attain position. This is not a democratic society where every person's vote counts. Instead, those with character naturally assume position--something that would, of course, be impossible in the material world. The workings of this natural law mean that the good automatically rise to position, while the bad sink to what is suitable for them. Those with a negative disposition cannot rise to the higher levels of the spirit, to interfere with the organization of the higher planes. They are pulled down by their negativity as if by weights. Advanced beings, however, if it is their wish, may descend to help those in the lower planes progress up the ladder of spirituality.

The beings that administer justice in the afterlife are those who have attained divine realization. Their hearts are at one with their conscience. It is character that gives power and love that is the touchstone of the law. The hierarchy of the heavenly government is dictated according to greatness of soul. Those who are closer to spiritual perfection naturally rise to the top of the political structure; yet their desire is not to rule but to serve.