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Death and Rebirth: Conclusion

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Lee — 22 Comments

For Chapter 4, click here. As the rock group The Police say in their song of the same title, “We are spirits in the material world.” While the hope of an afterlife certainly fuels our fascination with near-death experiences, we…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 4: Our Third Stage After Death

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Lee — 2 Comments

For Chapter 3, click here. Near-death experiencers who meet the being of light say that this being emphasizes love and learning as the most important things in life. The love must come from within, but much of our learning comes…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 3: Our Second Stage After Death

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Lee — 4 Comments

For Chapter 2, click here. After we die we initially go back to an outward lifestyle similar to the one we had before we died. But that doesn’t last long. Soon our outer layers start getting peeled away one by one,…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 2: Our First Stage After Death

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Lee — 6 Comments

For Chapter 1, click here. In his Forward to The Tibetan Book of the Dead John Woodroffe says: Life immediately after death is, according to this view, as Spiritists assert, similar to, and a continuation of, the life preceding it.…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 1: The Experience of Dying

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Lee — 12 Comments

For the Introduction, click here. There is a difference between Swedenborg’s experience and the experiences of people who have come close to dying and have returned. When Swedenborg described the spiritual world and the process of dying in Heaven and…

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Will We See our Pets Again in Heaven?

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Lee — 16 Comments

A reader named Grace submitted this Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life: I lost my 12 year old Lab to brain Cancer last summer. I miss him terribly. Will we see our pets again in heaven? Thanks for…

Tagged with: animal afterlife, animal soul, animals in heaven, cats in heaven, death and dying, dogs in heaven, heaven, human soul, pet afterlife, pets in heaven, the spiritual world
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