What Will Happen When We Die?

From Shari: In this day and age, I believe that no one should be afraid of dying! There is now so much information available about death that people who want to understand what happens can be assured that there is an afterlife and that we can know what to expect.

The Fun of Dying describes dying as a very pleasant experience, as simple as a sneeze or the changing of the channel on a television to a higher frequency.

I believe that what we call death is a very natural part of living. It happens to everyone who ever lives on earth, and it is just the next step in our eternal lives. It is a transition back to where we came from, our home.

I believe that when we lose a loved one, they are immediately safe and well on the other side, and we will see them again "in the blink of an eye," from their perspective.

I believe that we chose to come to earth in the first place and that before our birth we had a large part in planning our life's circumstances. When we transition back, we will rest a while and when we're ready to return, we'll plan our next life.

I also believe that as much as we wanted to come to earth to experience time and space and the "contrast" that exists here, we are more than overjoyed to return "home" to unconditional love and to celebrate what we learned in this earthly life.

This book by Roberta Grimes is one of the best about dying and the afterlife I've read, although there are many more also. Grimes emphasizes that in all her studies (for at least three decades), the descriptions she has found about death and the afterlife are amazingly consistent.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE

summarized from Roberta Grimes

in The Fun of Dying

The Death Event

"Death is an easy and enjoyable transition. It doesn’t hurt and it is not frightening. Death is the best time of your life!... Wouldn’t it be good if more people knew that?" (p. 20)

Deathbed Visitors

Dying patients may see people others don't see. It may seem they are hallucinating, but, in fact, they are being visited by predeceased loved ones who are there to reassure and guide them. (p. 61)

Leaving the Body

The actual moment is easy. All pain is gone. You find yourself slipping out of your body, usually from the top of your head, to stand beside it or hover above. (p. 64)

How It Feels to Die

Death feels wonderful! Imagine moving from the pains and weaknesses of a decrepit body to the vigor of a healthy one so light that you can float on air, feeling a "surge of joyous well-being." (p. 64)

Following Your Rescuers is Important

You may temporarily feel confused. This may happen especially if you were not certain that you would survive your death (if you thought there was no afterlife.)  Suddenly you are strong and well after perhaps being ill and weak. Fortunately, immediate guidance is available. Your dead loved ones and/or spirit guides are there to assure you and urge you to follow them away. (p. 65)

Crossing the Bridge...

It may surprise you to know that you possibly won’t see a tunnel, as many Near-Death-Experiencers relate.  Some who have died report that they seemed instead to walk "across a bridge, through a wall, or a brief gray fog.”  Some didn’t notice anything. (p. 66)

Finding Yourself in a Hospital

Souls who have been ill or who have had a traumatic death may sleep through the death process and awaken in a hospital with loved ones and nurses caring for them. Issues such as brain injury or dementia disappear at death, but sometimes the perceptions of illness remain. Whatever you might need to aid your healing, you have it. (p. 69)

Reception Gardens

Beautiful reception gardens are enormous, with birds singing and lovely music. The scent of flowers is in the air and all is bathed in a clean white light. New arrivals are stunned by this beauty and an amazing feeling of love and peace. There is a permanent, timeless beauty to it all. (p. 73, 74)

After-Death Geography

Evidence suggests that there are seven major after-death levels separated by their rates of vibration. Levels three through five, where most people find themselves, are an "earth-solid paradise," often called "the Summerland." Newly dead souls can recover from the effects of their earthly lives and enjoy a life of play and work and learning. (p. 75.)

Life Review and Judgment

Sometime after arriving on the other side, souls will experience their life review. There will be people to help them process their review such as advanced beings and spirit guides who had helped them in their lifetime. While reliving their lives, they will experience the feelings that their actions, loving and not so loving, had upon others in their lives.

An important outcome of this review is to be able to forgive themselves for any harm they did to others, which is difficult for some. "What is surprising is that neither God nor any religious figure ever is our afterlife judge. Instead, we are our own judge." If some cannot forgive themselves right away, there are classes and counseling for the purpose of helping them learn to forgive. (pp.76-79)

We Will Party Hearty!

There will be a reception for new arrivals geared to their personalities and tastes, with either just a few old friends or, for others, a party of their lives! It is a time when folks they used to know keep turning up. The people who greet them appear to be in their prime of life. They enjoy "hugs and back-slapping and the giddy awareness that--by gosh--here we are together again!" There may be food and music and gifts. (pp.80, 81)

Post-Death Life

"After their judgment and reception, people will begin to build a life that might include taking classes, doing crafts, attending concerts, reading, playing at sports, assisting and even rescuing others stuck on earth or on lower levels. Infinite learning is available from classes in music and art and earth history to classes in advanced love and forgiveness, and even classes in mind-creating...Death is meant to be wonderful!" (p. 82)

A Word from Roberta Grimes

"If you are straining to believe, then I urge you to do some of your own research. The more of it you do, the more clearly you will see that an afterlife that seems too good to be true is wonderfully true nonetheless." (p. 84)

The Sources of Evidence

Grimes's research included looking for consistencies in nearly two centuries worth of varied evidence over a period of 30 years. When hundreds of stories were studied as a whole, many common experiences and details were found. Some of the sources studied were deathbed visions, near-death experiences, communications through mediums, accounts of automatic writing and out-of-body travelers, instrumental trans-communication (ITC), hypnotic regression, past-life memories of children, and new discoveries in quantum physics and consciousness research. (pp. 14-18)

"The experience has been like reading hundreds of accounts by a century's worth of travelers to Fiji. They had widely differing experiences, but clearly they all were describing the same complex and fascinating place." (p. 19)

Grimes has listed more than 70 books about the afterlife on her website for readers to use for their own research. Click Here for Her List.

This is a great 16 minute video of Roberta Grimes being interviewed by Jack Canfield.