Over my life I have read scores of books dealing with the After Life, the Other Side, or Heaven if you wish.  Whatever one calls it, it is still the same place. It is the place a person returns to when he/she sheds his/her physical body at the end of that body’s life.  This process cannot be called “dying” because, according to physics, absolutely nothing in the universe ever “dies.”  Energy cannot die, but only change form.  And that is what happens when a person meets the end of his/her Life’s Script.  A change is made.  The “Light” goes off to the conscious mind, but immediately it pops back on in the Super Conscious Mind. There is no “death” - just a return of sorts to our True Existence, that of Spirit.  

In all my reading concerning the moments following what I call “The Exit” – of Spirit Self from physical self - what I have found is that nearly every author gives a similar description of what the Other Side is like. 

Briefly, that description would include the fact that when a person Exits their physical body, they may at first be a bit confused to find themselves looking down upon themselves, so to speak. For in the beginning stages of “After Life” the Spirit Self of a person is allowed a few moments to observe what occurs directly after they leave their physical form.   It is not uncommon for a Spirit Person to watch medical personnel attempting to resuscitate their limp forms even after they have been declared “clinically dead.”  It is also not unusual for a Spirit Person to witness the reactions of their spouses and family as they face the realization that their Loved One no longer inhabits the cold and limp body lying before them.

At some point this observation ends, and the free roaming Spirit Self notices a light in the distance - or a tunnel-type feature with a light at the end of it - and knows instinctly that he or she is required or expected to walk toward and into that light.  And upon doing so, a very strong force begins to propel them forward at a fairly rapid rate, where they are sped quickly down a long corridor that ends in a Mist of Light at its end. 

The Mist of Light has been described in many ways, but the way that seems to be the most inviting is found in a description given by a member of the Bliss-Parsons Institute’s Parapsychology Research staff who had her own Near-Death Experience (NDE) a few years ago and remembers it vividly to this day:  

“I was drawn into a mist of glowing light, and not just one large, bright light, but thousands of tiny little light droplets that all together formed the mist.  Each little pinpoint of the mist was an independent light in and of itself, and as I walked into it all I could feel was a “warmth” I had never felt before … this incredible covering over of Love that just doesn’t seem possible to attain here in this plane of existence.  It was as if I was being covered with a misty, brilliantly lit blanket of some substance that felt like the emotion of Love.  There was no way I wanted to leave that feeling and come back here.” But it was not her time to Cross Over, so back she came. (And we’re glad she did.)

For those who are not sent back to the physical plane, when they exit the “Light” on the Other Side (hence the label) they are greeted with a most welcome sight.  Standing directly before them are at least two individuals they recognize immediately. The first is a person they were close to during their physical life such as a spouse who had Crossed Over before them, or a parent, a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle … even a close friend.  And the second is their personal Spirit Guide. 

Upon seeing the first individual, the family member or friend, there is great adulation at having been reunited with a Loved One whom they have missed for so long …  but upon seeing the second, the Spirit Guide, that’s when they are flooded with the realization that they are truly back “Home,” and all of that “stuff” they experienced down on Earth was a part of a test they had not only known about, but had their own part in designing before they entered the physical body they just left behind.  In an instant they recognize their dear Spirit Guide whom they had known for eons prior to taking a physical form.  At that point everything becomes clear to them.  The memories of their True Home start flooding back, and the physical experiences they have just separated from begin to become the distant memories.

It is at this point that the newly arrived Spirit is led away into the reality of their previous and True Existence: life in “Heaven.”

And this is where the story becomes speculation at best, because even those who have had NDE’s were not privileged to gain glimpses into the existence that lies “beyond the Light.”   That’s where the vision ends for them ... at the edge of the Light.  An accurate description of the Final Destination remains a mystery to everyone who has not entered therein. Quite frankly, no one has ever “died all the way” and come back (so to speak.)  Those who completely separate from the physical, re-enter their true realities, and that’s where they remain – unless they choose to reincarnate into another physical body and do it all over again … which is apparently what some choose to do, although I cannot fathom why anyone would want to. But the choice to reincarnate in order to “learn more lessons” is also a common theme among those who have somehow, at least, psychically been able to tap into the Realms Beyond.

Now, I realize that there are those who claim to have “been there and back,” or those who under hypnosis have given descriptions of their existence in the After Life between reincarnated lives, but due to the inconsistency among those descriptions as a whole, they all become highly suspect as being “fabricated” (to put it nicely.)  There are even those who give incredibly detailed descriptions of “Heaven” and what we can all expect when we get there, and most of those descriptions are so “worldly” and so quite frankly “ordinary” that I just can’t buy into their legitimacy.  I just don’t believe the After Life will be that “corny” when we get there.

What I do give credibility to are the glimpses some Psychics (not all) have been given into this wonderful Place of Eternal Tranquility and Delight.  Once again their descriptions are uncannily similar in nature and very difficult to discount.

I have had my own dreams and visions of the After Life, some so incredibly lucid and so vitally realistic, that it is impossible for me to discount them as being  “mere dreams” like all the other dreams I have had on a nightly basis.  At first I believed these to be past life memories of such exotic cultures as Atlantis and Lemuria.  I even speculated that I was remembering an existence I once knew as a member of the Pleiadian species – I mean, why not?  What I was dreaming or visioning was nothing like anything that can be experienced on this planet now or in the distant past.  I now firmly believe that what I was truly “Dreaming” were glimpses of my own “Life between Life” experiences in that Place Beyond All Places … maybe … ?

Granted, upon separating from the physical, it could be that everyone is greeted with a different Heaven – each place tailor made by Heavenly architects to suit the preconceived notion of how Heaven should look to them.  Or it could be that we are allowed to create our own Heavenscape in any way we seem fit.  

Even better, could it be that we will be able to create a different Heaven at any given moment to suit the whim of our imagination?  I like to think that is the case.  And it does seem that most who have studied this field do seem to agree that when we return “Back Home” we can do just about anything our truly infinite minds wish to do, any time we wish to do it – keeping in mind, of course, the one great Law of Eternal Creation: that everything be done within the confines of LOVE.

I can live with that … so to speak.