The Great Illusion of Death

What lies beyond the big blue sky? This is probably the greatest mystery of mankind; and maybe the most controversial. What is this biggest mystery all about; what lies behind that veil we have been told we see through darkly? There are many interpretations of death. There are also many religions with different bibles. Perhaps the one thing that remains uncontested is that we are born, we live and our physical body dies at some point in time.

Imagine if you were the Creator, God, watching all of these interpretations and so much fear generated around a very natural process. How might God describe this to us? Could the following be an analogy we can understand?

Imagine that you have an idea, one that you really love and believe in. You may tell others about it and put so much of your creative energy into the idea that they can actually see it in their minds. It becomes real to them because it exists so vividly in your mind, the creator of the idea. Maybe you even create a prototype that everyone can see. Some will love it, not as much as you, but they will love it. Others may disregard it or even hate it, but it's all OK because you love it and believe in it. It is vibrant and alive in your consciousness and you always see the very best this idea can become.

Along the way others may misunderstand your idea, even mistreat it or say or do things that are destructive to it. Still, it is perfect in your consciousness because you hold the idea of all that it is capable of; your love is unceasing. It exists in perfection because it is real to you, a part of you. Maybe the idea grows older or has been expanded and you realize that it's time has passed. You lovingly decide to put it away from the eyes of all others and cherish it alone. To those who were onlookers, it may appear that it has gone away, maybe forever. But to the creator, it remains fresh and perfect, always; you know exactly where it is and that it is safe and beloved.

Our first breath is the God force entering our body, giving us life. That breath and that part of God remains with us to the end when we expel our final breath. Then what? At the higher level of consciousness we have entered we recognize that we were never separated from God, that his presence was never separate from ours. It is this recognition that allows us to understand the process of rejoining the consciousness of our Creator. It is a consciousness that exists in the highest form of love; not a human love, not one we can recreate or ever say we have known. It is far beyond what humans are capable of understanding... until we wake up in the process of death. We instantly recognize the loving energy and even the touch of the Master's hand; so beloved it is!

It is thrilling to be whole and together again. It is as though God has cut a tie that bound us to earth's energy and inhaled deeply allowing us to rejoin his consciousness entirely. Are we gone forever and ever? We never leave His consciousness and so there is no death as we know it. We remain there as real as the first day, as vibrant and as cherished; there to be recalled to meet another loved one or for whatever else He deems is loving and helpful. Do we remember those we loved, even then? We remember always because they too exist within His consciousness; it is why we are all one.

The great illusion and mystery may not be death; it may be life, because most imagine they are separated from their Creator, which is impossible.

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Review: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

People domesticated in similar way as pets.

When a dog “misbehaves”, most people discourage it in some way from behaving the same way again. When a child misbehaves, we let the child know we don’t approve. That’s how we condition children to subscribe to our view of the world, and cause them to be domesticated.

In The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, Don Miguel Ruiz tells us:

As children, we didn’t have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans. The only way to store information is by agreement.

We agreed to accept other people’s beliefs about the world, and those beliefs, because we agreed with them, became ours. We got into the habit of pleasing others, because we were approved of when we complied with the accepted standards of the society.

It felt good to be approved of and to get the attention of others, so we started changing ourselves into beings we not, just to get more of this approval and attention. We started living by the beliefs of others we agreed with, and they made an internal map in us. It became our inner book of laws, which felt safe, although it was flawed.

According to Don Miguel Ruiz, whenever we try to act in disagreement with these internal laws, we start feeling fear. And this fear discourages most to continue with such a line of action. And so people live in the prison they created within, which is made of all the beliefs of others that they accepted.

Because we created this inner prison, we think that the way out of it is by looking for external help, in the form of beauty or goodness. All these good things already ours and within, but we’re blind to that because our personal beliefs prevent us from seeing what’s within. We trust that our beliefs real, and this makes us suffer.

These beliefs described in The Four Agreements book as fog, a dream, illusion that prevents us from really seeing.

Our biggest fear is not death, according to The Four Agreements’ author, but being truly alive and expressing who we really . We fear of being not accepted by people and we fear of being not good enough.

Trying to be accepted we create an image of perfection in our minds of how we be. The problem is, this image of perfection is not real, and what’s worse, we reject ourselves because we don’t live up to it. As Don Miguel Ruiz puts it:

We know we not what we believe we supposed to be and so we feel false, frustrated, and dishonest. We try to hide ourselves, and we pretend to be what we not. The result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this. We so afraid that somebody else will notice that we not what we pretend to be.

Because we wish to be in a certain way but we not, we start feeling ashamed of ourselves and guilty. We find ways to punish ourselves for that. Here’s a good indicator to discover your level of self-abuse, according to Dong Miguel Ruiz:

…the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less that you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

Most powerful agreements you make not with others but with your own self. The agreements you make with yourself determine who you , what you feel, what you believe and how you behave. They determine what you believe to be possible and impossible for you to achieve.

To live a joyful life, you need to find all fear-based agreements and break them. Lots of personal power is used up to keep fear-based personal agreements. Some people have so many fear-based personal agreements that  they feel utterly powerless to make changes.

To change your life, you need to change the agreements you made with yourself. The four agreements described in Don Miguel Ruiz’s book The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom will help to break fear-based agreements within to release personal power and start making real changes.

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