Life after physical death

- 20 - peaceful and lovely. Large buildings bordered our path to the right and the calm ocean to our left. Everything breathed brightness and light and reflected the wonderful, deep blue of the atmosphere. I don’t remember for how long we walked like this. We constantly talked to one another about all the things that were new to me, about life and the people at this place, about relatives back home and the possibility to get in contact with them to let them know what had happened in the meantime. I do believe that we went a considerable distance in the process. If you imagine a world about the size of England wherein all kinds of different people, animals, houses and landscapes are huddled together, you might have a rough idea what the country, wherein I found myself at that time, looked like. This may sound unreal and fantastic, but believe you me: It was like a visit to a completely foreign country on Earth, nothing else, the difference being that it was extremely interesting for me. William Stead describes the new environment and his experiences there very extensively in further chapters. For those that are interested in details, it is worthwhile to read the whole works (22). But one may not believe that all the deceased end up in such an environment. But if it should be the case, it doesn’t mean that they can or must remain in this region for all eternity. Opportunities for further development also exist after one’s physical death. Stead makes the following expositions (22, P. 64): “I would like to move on to the description of the next stage of development. I might tell you more about the Blue Island later on. But we will leave it to continue its own development for the time being and turn our concerted attention to one more point of my otherworldly evolvement. This next stage is a condition wherein one is freed from most of the terrestrial instincts and urges that are still adhering. Once released from them, we can relatively quickly move further forward and almost willingly pass from one sphere to the next higher one. But we can still maintain close contact with the earth-sphere and our connection with our relatives from this and any other sphere, but only with those that desire it. We continue to help them by influencing them in their daily lives to act like this or like that. We are able to do this without endangering our own development and the forming of our character in the slightest. Because all our endeavours are directed at the forming of character. Like all the others here on the Blue Island, I intensely dealt with studying the mysteries of life and my own self. This in fact made me aware of the enormous size of creation. Our interest in the circumstances of life and our aspirations for true knowledge overwhelms us in equal measure with our spiritual progress and our discard of terrestrial habits and limitations. Like others before me, I also adapted myself to the conditions and learned. The degree of my hard-won knowledge and wisdom simultaneously increased my receptivity for more and more knowledge. I heard about the existence of other otherworldly spheres beyond the region of this island and their existence originally seemed to be as impossible to me as the real existence of the world that I am in might seem to you. But the time soon came when I was taken to these other spheres myself. I cannot accurately determine their location, but it was akin to travelling towards the stars of the universe. Like in the past, it was the same sensation when we left the Earth to glide through the aether until we eventually reach another star, another world. A great number of various lands or spheres exist in the hereafter. Some of them are inhabited by past terrestrial human beings who have progressed far enough in their development. A higher form of life reigns there everywhere, an existence filled with divine happiness and one feels greater and more august in these spheres. But there are also one or two regions of a lower order than our Blue Island and very little or no trace of happiness and joy can be found there. The soul’s apportionment to one the various spheres in the hereafter depends entirely on the quality of their terrestrial lifestyle. Entities that reside in the lower, unhappy spheres can blame their inability to raise their spirit and their desire for inner ascension, to better themselves and to learn self-control, in spite of the fact that the energy and help is constantly offered, well, even imposed upon them. The last day on our Blue Island has arrived. We will soon cross over to the next sphere and it becomes the permanent abode for souls in most cases. The Blue Island is a place of adaptation for the completely new conditions, a so-called house of purification or cleansing, ergo clearing house.

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