WHAT IS THE SPIRIT WORLD LIKE?
Article asking the question "What id the spirit world like? A Spiritualist medium considers what the next-world and heaven are like. For more information about what the spirit world is like read Craig Hamilton-Parker's best-selling books about the Spirit World and developing your powers to become a medium.
INFO ABOUT BOOKS
WHAT IS THE SPIRIT WORLD LIKE?
- MOVING BEYOND THE EARTH PLANE
 Western theology has, I believe, made a mistake when it talks about the afterlife as being a place, or places. It is natural for us to think in terms of objective existence even when a life separate from the material world is being considered. Many people think of heaven as a place situated somewhere in space. This idea has existed since earliest times, when people thought the spirit became a star in the night sky or descended into the bowels of the Earth. The heavenly worlds they saw as a place filled with beautiful buildings encrusted with jewels and situated in a landscape of endless flowing gardens.
However, heaven is not a place it is a “state.” Most mediums describe these states as planes of existence.
WHAT IS THE SPIRIT WORLD LIKE?
IS IT LIKE A DREAM?
SPIRIT WORLD QUOTES
“When man is about to leave the world, as leave he must, he is surrounded by his family who lament ‘What is to happen to us when you leave?’ but the poor fellow is confronted by a more personal problem, ‘What is to happen to me?’ In fact, if he tried he could have known the reality and gone with a smile. Men are born with a helpless lamenting cry; they should die with a smile of happy joy. That is the purpose of the years between.”
Satya Sai Baba
|
This world, here and now, is also a plane of existence. For example, you are seated reading this website. You can feel its pages and see its shape and are able to read these words. Yet, in reality, what you are perceiving is a picture inside your head. You are receiving information from your five senses which is being processed at lightning speed by the brain to construct a view of reality. The image before your eyes is actually created from signals from the back of the retina. And it is created by the eye’s lens actually upside-down. The brain turns the picture back around the right way for us. Similarly, you may have been unaware of the sounds around you until I mention it to you now. The ticking of a mechanical clock, the muffled sound of the neighbor’s TV, a siren in the distance, all sounds wiped from your consciousness while you concentrate. Often we are not aware of the repeated sound of a clock...until it stops.
My point is that we only perceive a small part of the world at any time. For example, I used to be an artist and trained myself to have a better awareness of color. If I look at, say, a vase of flowers, I may be immediately aware of the beauty of the flower itself. However, if I open my awareness I may also notice the form of the leaves and stems and how they relate to one another and to the volume of space between them. I may also notice the unity of pattern made by the structure of the stems or see the intricate patterns in the texture of the leaves. If I open my awareness still further, I may see the auric field of the plant and sense the life force that radiates from it. If I allow my perceptions to fully unfold, I may momentarily become aware of the transcendent beauty of the flower and its divine form. I may have a feeling of exaltation and great inspiration.
WHAT IS THE SPIRIT WORLD LIKE?
IS IT THE SAME FOR ALL OF US?
Is the world that I am seeing now the same as the world that everyone else sees? The truth is that we all exist in different states of consciousness and shift between higher and lower levels of perception. If I looked at the same bowl of flowers after drinking a large quantity of alcohol I would see it completely differently. If I was feeling gloomy or depressed, I would probably be less aware of the beauty of the flower as my attention would be focused on my own feelings  and thoughts. If I am in love, then the colors of the flowers may appear to be more alive and the whole world may look bright. The truth is, we all live in completely different worlds and move between different worlds all the time.
WHAT IS THE SPIRIT WORLD LIKE?
MANY MANSIONS
Jesus of Nazareth spoke of the next life with the authority of someone who had traveled there. He said “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.” I believe, in those words, he is giving us a glimpse of an unlimited range of planes of existence and levels of consciousness attainable in the higher realms of being. In the afterlife, the nature of objective reality is different from what we know here. It changes according to our level of consciousness. |
