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Life and the Near-Death Experience

The hard reality we face is that the
ultimate goal in life is death. Death
seems like a cruel absurdity that
happens to us after enjoying the time
of our lives. As it is with death, life is
also a great mystery. The mystery of
life offers many questions. Who are
we? Where did we come from? Have
we lived before? Why are we here?
Where are we going? Does life
continue after death? Is there a God?
These are profound questions that
demand an answer. Fortunately, there
are answers to these questions and
they come from near-death
experiencers. In this article you will
learn many insights from them
including: Life is what people worship
as God. All life is a manifestation of
God. For us to benefit from life, we
must rediscover our oneness with God
here in the physical realm. There are
many realms to life and this physical
realm is only one of them. Life is a
mission from God we chose to fulfill.
Life is a great World-School where we
come to learn the many lessons of
love. Everything in life runs according
to a perfect and divine plan. Life is an
enormous cycle of improvements
where we progress at our own rate to
reach the light.

Table of Contents
1. Life is a school of higher education
2. Life is a test after which we grade ourselves
3. Life is like a river to travel and enjoy
4. Life was planned by us before our birth
5. Life is about giving, love and helping others
6. Life is about receiving from God
7. Life is for living
8. Life is about preparing for death
9. Life is a cycle by which we progress
10.Life is God
11. Life is about us
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1. Life is a school of higher education

"The reason we are here in this physical world is for soul growth. This
physical world is the ideal place for this. Spiritual growth in the spirit
realms is more difficult. The reason is that the influence of our physical
bodies gives us the opportunity for a full range of love (a child's love,
marital love, and parental love) which is ideally available here. Love that
is misused or misdirected is best corrected in the here. In this physical
world, there is the full range of physical and spiritual senses with which to
act and communicate." (Nora Spurgin)

"Our behavior on earth provides a teaching ground for those in the

spirit world." (Betty Bethards)

"Life in this world exists for us to test our ideals and learn from them.
Learning our lessons here in the physical world is the fastest way to
learn." (David Oakford)

"As long as we have life here, we are learning, our spirits are growing,
and we are coming closer to the divine, even by the things we suffer. We
may not always know what to do in our lives, we may be troubled and in
pain, but be assured, as long as we are here, we are growing." (Betty
Eadie)

"Life in this world is the ultimate experience for our souls. It is ultimate
because our souls evolve faster here than anywhere else. The lessons
we need to learn are difficult to learn without having a physical form."
(David Oakford)

"Trouble is nature's way of teaching lessons that won't be learned

otherwise. If we learn from the troubles of others, we can avoid most of
our own." (Arthur Yensen)

"Life in this world is a place for us to overcome certain weaknesses by

applying ourselves to see that those weaknesses are truly overcome.
Here we can learn for certain whether we have really changed." (Edgar
Cayce)

"Life is a boot camp and school for our soul's spiritual education, and
as such, it's tough." (Karen Brannon)

"This world is only a temporary place for our schooling. Our true
permanent home is the spiritual universe." (Betty Eadie)

"This world is only one realm of learning; there are many." (Sandra
Rogers)
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2. Life is a test after which we grade ourselves

"When we die, we will realize that we have been living behind a veil
our whole lives. The veil will be lifted and the floodlights will shine on us.
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Everything in life is really veiled spirit. We are literally on display our

whole lives. Every thought, word, and deed has been recorded since birth
and will be fully exposed. Everything we have ever done in secret will be
brought out into the light for review in front of God and all the heavenly
hosts. Our entire life is one huge test and we will be graded on
everything." (Daniel Rosenblit)

"Life is a test. If you pass the test you'll look back upon them as good
experiences." (Peace Pilgrim)

"None of us will fully fathom the great truths of life until we finally unite
with eternity at death. But occasionally we get glimpses of the answer
here in the world and that alone can be enough." (Dr. George Rodonaia)

"The highest spiritual values of life can come from the study of death."
(Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
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3. Life is like a river to travel and enjoy

Visit the NDE and Pre-Existence research conclusions about how we
planned our lives on earth before we were born.
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4. Life was planned by us before our birth

"The universe runs according to a perfect plan. All the so-called
injustices we see in life really has no meaning. The perfect plan is working
itself out in its perfection." (Jayne Smith)

"Life in this world is like a rigged roulette wheel in a casino. As much

as we try, we can never be able to fully satisfy our selfish desires. It's
virtually impossible." (Daniel Rosenblit)

"Nothing in life or death is an accident." (Lynnclaire Dennis)

"There are no accidents in the universe. Everything that happens in life

has a purpose." (George Anderson)

"From the vantage point of the spirit world, there is no problem or

disharmony on earth that will not be corrected." (Margaret Tweddell)
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5. Life is about giving, love and helping others

"Life is about people, not pursuits." (Laurelynn Martin)

"The most important thing in life is love." (Dr. Raymond Moody)

"Anyone who has had such an experience of God, who has felt such a
profound sense of connection with reality, knows that there is only one
truly significant work to do in life, and that is love; to love nature, to love
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people, to love animals, to love creation itself, just because it is." (Dr.
George Rodonaia)

"A life of piety without a life of love (which occurs only in this world) is
not a spiritual life. Rather, it is a life of love, a life of behaving honestly and
fairly in every task, from a more inward source that leads to a heavenly
life. Such a life is not hard." (Emanuel Swedenborg)

"We are to leave the world a little better than we found it." (David
Oakford)

"If we learn to give what we have, we will receive more. This is a

spiritual law. We will be given all that we are prepared to receive." (Betty
Eadie)

"The gift of life God gives us comes with a catch: We are to give the
gift back." (P.M.H. Atwater)
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6. Life is about receiving from God

"Half the gain in coming into earth life is merely showing up." (Edgar
Cayce)

"One little girl summed up what she learned from her NDE as: 'Life is
for living and the light is for later.'" (Dr. Melvin Morse's research)

"The point is to live the questions now, and perhaps without knowing it,
someday we will live into the answers. Live the questions and the
universe will open up its eyes to you." (Dr. George Rodonaia)

"All the suffering in our lives is actually for our good. Out of the most
tragic of circumstances springs human growth." (Angie Fenimore)

"God never gives us more challenges in life than we can handle.

Rather than jeopardize our spiritual progression or cause more suffering
than can be endured, God will bring us home where we can continue
progressing." (RaNelle Wallace)

"Life's supposed to be hard. We can't skip over the hard parts. We

must earn what we receive." (Angie Fenimore)

"Our ability to accept truth, to live by it, governs our progress in the
spirit, and it determines the degree of light we possess." (RaNelle
Wallace)
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7. Life is for living

"Our missions mainly have to do with love, but the purpose of life is
also to experience joy, gain spiritual understanding and self-awareness,
play with the joyful abandon of a child, absorb ourselves in the delight of
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each moment, let go of obligation and duty, and live for the pure joy of
being." (Jan Price)

"We are sent here to live life fully, to live it abundantly, to find joy in our
own creations ... to use our free will to expand and magnify our lives."
(Betty Eadie)

"Life is a joyful game to be played and everything works out perfectly.

Sooner, if played joyfully with love. Later, if not." (Dee Rohe)

"We mustn't wait to find our heaven in the clouds. We must find it here
because it exists here and will be whatever we make it and whatever we
are willing to accept of it." (Tina)
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8. Life is about preparing for death

"How we lived our lives in this world determines which afterlife realm
we have earned and travel to after death." (Betty Bethards)

"If we develop along the lines of unselfish love while in this world, we
make it better for us when we die. It's what we are that counts!" (Arthur
Yensen)

"Our lives in this world is a preparation for a fuller, freer and richer spirit
world. It can be compared to life in the womb being a preparation for a
fuller, freer and richer existence in the physical world." (Nora Spurgin)

"Day by day we are building for eternity. Every gentle word, every
generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal
beauty in the life to come. (Rebecca Springer)

"Our lives matter and is significant in determining how far we can go

into the light." (Grace Bubulka)

"The general rule of thumb is this: hellish life, hellish afterlife - heavenly
life, heavenly afterlife. Death will not change a hellish life into a heavenly
afterlife, nor does it change a heavenly life into a hellish afterlife." (Dr.
Melvin Morse)

"If we educate ourselves as much as possible about the spirit world, it

makes our transition there even better. Even if we gain the smallest
impression that there is life after death, we are able to obtain
enlightenment and understanding. (Nora Spurgin)

"We are preparing for death throughout our whole lives." (Edgar
Cayce)

"Life in this world corresponds to our external nature handling external

resources. Life in the spirit world corresponds to our internal nature
handling spiritual resources." (Nora Spurgin)

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"It is best to kick our bad habits while in the world. It is easier while in
physical form to break those shackles than it is to undo them on the other
side, where no temptations are put in our way. There is no reward for
behaving correctly while in spirit, because there is nothing to tempt us
otherwise. The hard school is in the physical one, and it is here that we
must meet and overcome the temptations." (Ruth Montgomery)

"Our quality of life in the spirit world is directly affected our heart and
activities in the physical world." (Nora Spurgin)
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9. Life is a cycle by which we progress

"Life is an endless cycle of improvements and humans are not perfect
yet." (Dr. Frank Oski)

"Any habit-forming pleasure, and they are endless, traps us into the
cycle of rebirth over and over, until our appetites are finally put aside while
we are in the flesh." (Ruth Montgomery)

"Everyone who passes through this world must learn their final lessons
in this world, where our free will is called into play in a fashion different
from existence in other realms of reality." (Edgar Cayce)

"We progress at our own rate to reach the light. If we do things that
take us away from the light, then we are perpetuating our time here."
(Amber Wells)
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10. Life is God

"Life is love is God. If you add anymore to this definition then you are
not making it any better." (Chuck Griswold)

"In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as
God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds." (Edgar
Cayce)

"To know that life is God, is to know how very special life is. We must
be very careful how we treat things in life because how we treat things in
life is how we treat God. Do we destroy life or do we respect it? Do we
nurture life or do we abuse it? Do we value life or do we take it for
granted?" (Elsie Seachrist)

"Life tries out different shapes and then returns to where it came."
(John Star)

"Creation is about absolutely Pure Consciousness coming into the

experience of life." (Mellen-Thomas Benedict)

"Life is light itself." (Dr. John Jay Harper)

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God is life. (1 John 5:20)

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11. Life is about us

"The solar system we live in is our larger, local body. We are much
bigger than we imagine. The world is this great created being and we are
the part of it that knows that it is." (Mellen-Thomas Benedict)

"The earth, the sun, the moon, the darkness, the light, the planets, and
all forms of life plants, rocks, animals, people are interconnected."
(Josiane Antonette)

"The universe is God's dream. Humans are already legendary

throughout the cosmos of consciousness. One of the things that we are
legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary dreamers. In fact, the whole
cosmos has been looking for the meaning of life, the meaning of it all. And
it was the little dreamer who came up with the best answer ever. We
dreamed it up." (Mellen-Thomas Benedict)

"Our physical bodies have been alive forever. They come from an
unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond." (Mellen-
Thomas Benedict)

"In conclusion, life (existence) is many things: a river, a test, a

challenge, a pilgrimage, a journey, a mission, a world of fun, a school, a
transition, a preparation, a shelter, and a lesson, just to name a few. But
life, in all its entirety, really is all of it. Life is God." (Kevin Williams)
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"In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life

is what you worship as God ... and earth is
only an atom in the universe of worlds" -
Edgar Cayce
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