My best friend has an extremely bad heart and is dying He is a veteran and his only hope is a heart transplant. Because of his 2 to 3 pack a day smoking habit, a transplant although possible, is not likely. Overall he is a good man, but his obsessive-abusive life-style of excesses with alcohol, women, drugs and lack of care for his body has left him in this precarious position at age 57. I warned him repeatedly over the past 20 years that he would die well before his time and his would be an excruciating painful death with a great deal of suffering.

My prophetic words to him have come true and as I write this blog he suffers and doggedly refuses to die because of his terrifying fear of death and the unknown beyond the grave. In 2010 I gave him a copy of my book the “Awakening” as a potential comfort to him about his impending transitional process between this life and the next. The book remains to this day on his coffee table unopened.

He has refused to even discuss the possibility of his life terminating and his Christian faith has offered no solace for the coming event. At one point he has said he no longer believes in God and has lost whatever faith he ever had. But if we could discuss the matter, here is what I would tell him:

You can not die because the essence of you was never alive! Your physical body dies just as it was designed to do. It is made of earthly flesh and blood and as we all know everything which is alive must by its nature die at some point. But the spiritual entity which is you and resides within the cocoon of your body is immortal and can not die because it was never alive. It is conscientious and aware but not alive.

Albert Einstein once theorized that “matter can not be created or destroyed”. I offer another theorem: the “spirit can not be created or destroyed”. It was, is and will always be and exists in only what we humans can best describe as the eternal moment or as I like to say the forever now!

Let me elaborate and attempt to clarify what I am postulating. Let us examine what happens at our death.

When we die, we are instantly rejoined with our true selves. The veil of lost recollection is immediately removed and we understand we willing chose to enter this plane of sub-existence called life on earth (I will explain why we made this decision on another Blog or you can read the “Awakening” and find out for yourself right now.)

We do traverse a passage to the “Light” where we confront whatever we wish. For example: deceased loved ones, old friends, family members, etc. We are not judged and are neither rewarded with a heaven or punished with an eternal hell. These are things of myths and fables used by powerful elites to subjugate the willing subjects of the former existence called life.

You and others will appear to look human if you so desire as will the other spiritual beings you encounter, this is the initial preconception of retrieved spiritual selves and it is primarily designed to allow for easy return to the eternal plane of spiritual existence. You are out of the body, that is dead to your former existence but not dead to the knowledge there of. You have no body, no lungs to breathe air, nor heart to pump blood. The space time continuum you use to call the Universe no longer exists, it never really did, and once you travel into the light and re-unite with the Creator One, you are still you but also One again with all things known and nothing is unknown. But what is the state of your retrieved awareness?

You are One and One is You! You, It, Us, We are all ONE again. All knowing and always. Beyond and before eternity, beginnings and ends of all things, none of which exists or ever did. You are united in a forever moment of perfection and bliss. There is no past, present or future – there never was. You and the Creator One willed it into existence and by doing so created the space time continuum and the Universe. In this moment and at his place, neither of which really exists or has any meaning, is the epicenter of endless possibilities. There is no time, so having eternal life is meaningless. Everything is in the singularity of I am that I am and I always was, I always Am, and I will always be. All three of which are captured in the moment of the forever now.

When I ask my Christian friends what do they think Heaven will be like, they never have anything close to a definitive answer. My Mormon friends believe that as husband and wife they will be made into Gods, but they are never able to tell me what they will do as Gods. I told a good Mormon friend, “Bob you are a great guy and you know I love you like a brother, but I don’t think you or your wife will make very good Gods.” I laughed, but he did not think it was so funny.

Another friend told me that he knows for sure that he will have a penis and his wife will have a vagina and they will continue to have sex throughout all of eternity. I guess he really likes making love.

A now deceased mother-in-law, when I asked her about the lamentations of the voices of loved ones screaming in agony from the bowels of hell, informed me that a loving God will deafen her ears to there cries and remove all memory of their existence. I did not have a response to that one.

If your faith comforts you through the transition to the eternal keep it! Hold on tight! But it is what it is what it is, and what you believe or don’t believe is immaterial. What awaits, as revealed to me, is more glorious then anything you can imagine.

This is what I would share with my dying friend, if he would allow me. What do you think?

Right now we are having a discussion with Joe M. on the attempts by Pope Francis to start a reformation movement within the Catholic Church. Please read, enjoy, and join in if you so desire. We will not stay with this topic for long because there are many far more pressing and informative concepts to exam.

This conversation was started by Joe M. and is shown with the first message first.

Joe M. : It seems to me Pope Francis is doing a decent job of box cutting to lessen the confines you described in “Boxes.” What do you think?

J. D. : Explain to me briefly what do you think he has done in the way of box cutting.  2 or 3 answers would suffice.

Joe M. : Reviewing his priorities, words, and actions:

1. What’s important in life

• He urged Catholic priests to devote themselves to helping the poor and suffering instead of worrying about careers as Church “managers.”
• He asks his listeners to ask themselves: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.”
• One of his rules is that big donors and companies that do business with the church should get no special treatment.
• His comments on:
  1. “Money is useful to carry out many things, for works to support humanity,” he has said. “But when your heart is attached to it, it destroys you.”
  2. “Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption, it is the ‘culture of waste.’ If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. … When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.”
  3. “God save us from a worldly Church with superficial spiritual and pastoral trappings!”
  4. “How I would like a Church which is poor and for the poor!”

2. We are connected
“ If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another.

• “The perfect family doesn’t exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let’s not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It’s just us sinners.” A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: “May I? Thank you, and I’m sorry” and “never, never, never end the day without making peace.”

3. He walks his talk

• He took his name from St Francis, patron saint to the poor
• He lives humbly:
  1. Simply signs his name as Francis, not Pope Francis,
  2. Attends morning Mass with the Vatican staff,
  3. Resides in a simple one-bedroom, second-floor suite instead of the special papal residence,
  4. Frequently spotted in the buffet line, tray in hand, at the Santa Marta employee dining room,
  5. Takes no holidays, explaining that if the poor can’t take vacations, why should he?

Although he has a ways to go, nor do I expect him to completely succeed, I think he’s doing a better than decent job of box cutting. What do you think?

Joe M. : He was voted in for these changes to be made, but as you say, we’ll see if the changes are desired now they’ve started happening. There’s no policy or procedure for firing a bishop, so the resignation of Monsignor Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst was accepted. Some box cutting going on.

J.D. : We will just have to wait and see what happens. Unfortunately, I am not very optimistic. The church the Pope heads is the largest richest institution on earth. There may be too many vested interest on the part of his Cardinals to make any meaningful change possible.

J.D. : Of course you are correct in that the One experiences everything but follow what I am about to say. A few years ago a Jamaican lady friend of my computer repairman read Awakening and was blown away by the content. She told me that the book answered all of her questions except for one. Her question was: If there is a God or a Creator One, why does it allow the wars and turmoil which takes place on earth? At the time, I did not have an answer for her, but after communicating with my Inner One, the answer became apparent. Since there is only One, and We are It and It is Us, the question should be: WHY DON’T WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE WARS AND TURMOIL? We need to look no further than our bathroom mirror for the solution.

Which brings us back to Pope Francis. He has, from his public record, been looking into the mirror for a long, long time. The problem with his current situation is how many other church leaders are looking into their mirror? Not very many, I would dare to say. Theirs is an institution nearly 2,000 years old and during their reign of terror that church has committed every atrocity known to man. They have only donned the lambs wool of gentility in the past 100 years and maybe I am being to generous with that number. However, Pope Francis justly deserves accolades for bringing this subject to the forefront and starting the discussion about what the true direction his church should follow.

Now what can we do? Myself – I can do absolutely nothing! I am not a Catholic and would never entertain the idea of becoming one. Any change has to come from the masses who make up the body of the church. Unfortunately, like most people they are too deaf, dumb, and blind as to what their church or anything else is really all about.

When the Priest molested the young boys, like sheep they went to their Bishops to complain when they should have gone to the POLICE! The molesting Priest did not fear a reprimand from their church, but they did fear jail time from the authorities. So my question is how will any change come from people that are so cowed by their religion that they think going to the police is an act against their church and God?
As caring human beings the question that confronts us: Is it possible for us to start a movement which will change the human condition for the better? Will anyone listen? Will anyone care?

I hope you find the conversations informational as well as spiritually edifying and most of all entertaining. Our purpose is to offer you an alternative view of the Universe in which we reside. Future blogs will discuss:

Who and what is the true nature of the being you call God?

Where did God come from and where is He going?

Where did you come from?

Is the Christian Bible telling the reader the truth?

What happens to us when we die?

How we are all inter-connected?

Inter-personal relationships between husbands, wives and other family members and how they affect our lives.

What is your responsibility to your fellow man, (Are we or are we not our brothers keeper)?

We will also delve into macro and quantum physics to demonstrate how these sciences support our hypothesis. You will learn that there is no conflict between religion and the sciences; to know one is to know the other.

Is “greed good” like Gordon Gekko stated in the movie “Wall Street”?

What makes for a righteous man or woman?

I could continue with an endless list of topics, but this blog is for and about you. ANY topic that you can come up with is meat and taters for discussion and you will be amazed with the answers. I can guarantee that if you participate, or merely read but never join the discussion, your spiritual life and understanding of everything known and unknown will expand exponentially. We will never ridicule anything you wish to submit: there is no idea that is not worth a thoughtful and considerate examination.

Do we have all of the answers: Certainly not, but you will be surprised at what we do have. And we certainly wish to be surprised by what you have to offer.

Right now we are having a discussion with Joe M. on the attempts by Pope Francis to start a reformation movement within the Catholic Church. Please read, enjoy, and join in if you so desire. We will not stay with this topic for long because there are many far more pressing and informative concepts to exam.

To help jump start your participation; we are offering the first 100 people a free copy of our book of revelation – “Awakening” which was inspired by the “Creator One”, at no cost. We will even pay the shipping if you will agree to give it to a seeking friend after reading and encourage them to do the same.

I am waiting to hear from you.

Sincerely:

J.D. James