When your body dies, you will just have a change of focus. You were focused on the room or bed or highway where you transitioned from the body; then suddenly you have a change of focus to being outside of your body looking down or you awaken in a room with your family or you awaken in a recovery area. Whatever happens, you just were experiencing there and suddenly now you’re experiencing life after death —it is just a change of focus.
Is There Actually An Afterlife?
What happens after death is a question that has puzzled humanity for centuries. It may seem that something has ceased to exist at the transition, but the person simply is changing attunement to another reality in the Mind of Our Universal Intelligence. It is much like our change of focus from computing our taxes to being interrupted by the phone ringing and talking with a close friend. When we’re doing our taxes, we don’t have our friend in mind at all. When we’re talking to our friend, we don’t have the taxes in mind at all. It’s as though we are in two different awarenesses. We have just changed focus. So, what happens when you die? Where does your soul go when you die? These are questions that have intrigued philosophers, theologians, and ordinary individuals alike throughout history.
What Happens to the Body When You Die?
When you go through the transition, you merely stop having experiences using the Earth School body. But what happens to the body when you die? You do continue to have experiences—because your Mind never was in the body. A variety of experiences happen at the time of the transition, depending on the person. The transition is always easy and painless.
What Do You See When You Make the Transition?
After you die, what do you see? At the moment the earth body stops functioning, the person ceases to have body experiences. The person has not changed. The person’s experiences are different. Those who have made the transition all remark how easy the transition is. The transition is always painless. For those who experience a catastrophic death, there may be a brief coma or period of unconsciousness during which the event takes place, or the person may suddenly be standing next to the lifeless body with no experience or recollection of the separation itself.[i] There are accounts of people being taken away from an impending disaster and watching it happen from the safety of a lofty position. For those who have made the transition after a period of declining health, the individual is greeted by people in spirit as the transition occurs. All fear or anxiety dissolves and a profound peace comes over the person.
There are many accounts of floating out of the body in the moments after the body is abandoned. Some of the descriptions note a snapping of what seem to be strings attaching the person’s spirit to the body.
Things That Happen at a Person’s Transition
At times, people around the person making their transition experience a sudden light, sometimes blinding; a white, grey, or blue-white “soul mist” rising from the body; a vaporous body shape resembling the transitioning person; a silver or grey cord or many threads from the body linking to the vaporous body shape that dissolve or snap; the vaporous body ascending and vanishing into a corner of the room; and the sight of loved ones who have arrived to escort the person from the earth realm. Some witnesses describe a transfer of energy from the physical body to the new, separate body, referred to as an etheric body, life-body, subtle body, vital body, astral body, or spirit body, which mirrors the physical body. The spirit appears to gravitate toward the head and exit from the top of the head, though some have recounted observing some vaporous form exiting from the solar plexus.
