We all know our bodies will eventually die. And yet, we also know without a doubt that the person we are continues to live in another realm with a new, healthy, young body. We receive thousands of communications regularly from people we know who have left their bodies behind and are living in the afterlife. Humanity is just now coming to realize the truth that we are eternal beings having a physical experience. In this video, Dr. R. Craig Hogan explains why the body has to die and what happens to us when we leave our bodies. He also describes what happens when the body is cremated.
What is the real meaning of “Death”?
Death is just a transition into the afterlife, like going from infancy to childhood, childhood to adolescence, adolescence to young adulthood, and young adulthood to maturity. The next stage is a natural transition into the next stage of life.
However, the transition is different from the gradual changes we experience in Earth School. The reason is that somehow people must have a situation in which the body ceases to function so the transition can occur. Everything in Earth School has a reason for it. We need warmth and light, so there is a sun. We need to sustain the body, so we drink and eat. If we eat too much, it results in weight gain. In the afterlife, there is no sun, just constant, pleasant light and heat. We don’t need to sustain the body, so eating and drinking are optional. Regardless of what we eat, we will not gain weight. Earth is different. It is the realm of causes and effects.
As a result, the body must be shed for some reason: old age, illness, accident, homicide, suicide, or other such event. It marks the end of this stage of our lives and is a sign to everyone that we have graduated—we don’t need the body, so we leave it behind.
However, when we stop using the body, it isn’t a tragedy. Leaving the body behind is like getting on the plane to go to a new country to live for a few years until our family can come there and all live together. If someone we love gets on a plane to go to the new country, we don’t grieve as if we will never see them again. We don’t go on Sundays to the airport and put flowers at the TSA gate where we last saw our loved one.
In the same way, if we realize our loved one was never a body, but did put on a body overcoat for a period of time, we can feel joy and comfort knowing our loved one is alive, healthy, happy, and waiting at the arrival gate for us to come through when we make our own trip to that destination.
What Is the Relationship of Your Body to Your Spirit?
The body is just a body experience, not a physical object in a material universe. Consciousness does not “enter” the body. Consciousness gives rise to the body experience; consciousness creates the body. For the sake of causes and effects in the Earth School realm, the cessation of the body and transition away from the body experience has physical phenomena: snapping of the silver cord, snapping of the threads holding the physical body to the spirit body or etheric body. At times, “spirit doctors” called “deliverers,” who have come to help the person make the transition, may sever the silver cord.[i]
The testimony of those living in the afterlife is that when the person no longer uses the body, it can be buried, cremated, or left to the elements; the person has no need for it or interest in it. Never once in all that I have read from people who have lived through the transition did someone remain attached to their body in any way after the transition, although someone may attend their funeral unaffected by and uninterested in the body lying in the casket.
What Happens to Your Body When You Die?
You may leave your body in a variety of ways. You might rise out of the body fully conscious. You then may continue away from the room and may encounter someone who acts as a guide. The whole time, you are awake as during a normal wakefulness. In fact, people remark that their senses are even better than when normally awake.
There is no pain at the transition. Many insisted the act of dying involved no pain and said that they saw the physical body lying on the bed, reminding them of the discarded garment. Everything was so natural that the fact of transition was often unrealized at first. They found that they could not be seen or heard by friends still in the flesh.
A farmer named George Hopkins in the afterlife came through in a Leslie Flint session on April 11, 1959. He explained that he dozed off and when he awakened saw his body and tried to awaken himself. He “shook” his body and entreated it to “wake myself up.” You can listen to him speaking the following and more at www.earthschoolanswers.com/hopkins/.
But dear, oh dear, I had such a shock. I woke up, as I thought, and the sun had gone down and there was me, or at least what appeared to be me. I couldn’t make it out at all, I was so puzzled. I just didn’t know what to do. I tried to shake myself—if you can do such a thing—I …wake myself up, sort of thing. I thought, well this is funny, I must be dreaming. I tried to sort of get, you know, some sense out of meself. I tried to talk to meself, try and understand what had been going on. I thought this must be some sort of crazy sort of dream or something. I couldn’t make head nor tail of it.
It never struck me at all that I was dead. I wondered what I am I going to do now. I don’t know. I found myself walking, as I thought I was, I went along the road to the doctor’s. I thought well, perhaps he can help me. Perhaps he can sort of, sort it all out, like, you know.
I got to the doctor’s and I knocked on the door, but no one answered. I thought well, I shouldn’t have thought he would have been out, because he had surgery hours. Then I saw people coming and going in the surgery door and I thought, I dunno, nobody seems to take any notice and I saw one or two of my old cronies. They all sort of seemed to walk through me almost, you might say. No one seemed to make any comment about me. Course, I don’t know I thought “Well this is a funny how-de-do.”
I stood there for a bit trying to work it out. Then I saw someone hurrying down the road like mad to the doctor’s. He got to the doctor’s rushed in and pushed past me and everybody and next moment, I heard them talking about me. Which puzzled me. I thought what the hell’s wrong with them? I’m here. I heard them say I was dead!
The doctor went in his car up the road, and I thought “Well I don’t know about dead. I can’t be dead. I’m here. I can see what’s going on, I can hear what they’re talking about. How the hell can I be dead?” Then I thought to myself, that’s funny, I saw myself lying down. I don’t know, how can I be? I mean you’re dead and you’re done for and you’re in heaven or hell. I’m certainly not in heaven and not in hell. I mean I’m ‘ere, listenin’ to what they’re talkin’ about. And of course, gradually I suppose it dawned on me that I must be dead.[ii]
What If My Body Is Embalmed or Cremated After I Die?
As to whether the individual who used the body is affected by embalming, effects of the elements, or cremation, once the person has left the body behind, there is no relationship of the person with the body at all. This is what Carl Wickland, MD, learned through the communications received by his medium wife from people in the afterlife:
[i] Crookall, The Supreme Adventure, 137.
[ii] “The George Hopkins séance,” Leslie Flint Educational Trust, April 11, 1959, https://www.leslieflint.com/george-hopkins.
[iii] Carl Wickland, The Gateway of Understanding (Santa Ana, CA: National Psychological Institute, Inc., 1934), 65.
