LIFE AFTER DEATH
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
June 21
Perhaps the most startling change
that the discarnate has to meet is the fact
that thought is the normal means of communication,
and therefore, there is no deception.
You pass for what you are
and that is the end of matter.
What is it that determines the kind of place
to which you will go after death
and the sort of people
among whom you will find yourself?
You will go to the sort of place
and be among the sort of people
for whom you have prepared yourself
by your habitual thinking
and your mode of living while on this earth.
Remember that
death makes positively no change in you;
you are just the same person
that you were before it happened.
No one "sends" you anywhere.
You naturally gravitate
to the place where you belong.
You do not "meet God" on the next plane
any more than you do on this plane.
Of course, He is fully present on the next plane
just as He is on this plane; but there as here,
He is to be contacted only in one's own consciousness.
Heaven is that perfect state of consciousness
in which one is in full realization of the divine Presence.
If you can teach to that level of consciousness
while still in this world
(and a few have succeeded in doing so),
you are in heaven now and your awareness of God
will be intensified after death.
However, there are some very unpleasant localities
in the next world and people whose minds
are chiefly given up to hatred, deceit, or sensuality,
will find themselves in such places.
These are the places referred to as "hell."
Consider the man or woman who lives
wholly for the body and is dominated by it.
Physical cravings, being part of the mentality, are,
of course, carried over to the next plane,
but there is no physical body,
through which these appetites may be satisfied,
and so, the victim is tormented by desire
but unable to satisfy it until,
in the course of time,
these desires fade out by starvation.
This is the natural punishment
for allowing the physical body to assume control,
and surely it is punishment enough.
“For we know that if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God,
a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens”
2 Corinthians 5:1
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