Christopher Columbus once ordered the simultaneous burning alive of a hundred Native American tribal leaders. The historian who mentioned this in a History Channel program awhile back tried to soften the shock of it by noting that “the fifteenth century was a barbaric age.”
There was a time when I would have shuddered and changed channels. Later on, I would have been comforted to know that people dying in pain are soon out of their bodies so their actual suffering is limited. Now, though, I hear about the burning of Native Americans by Christopher Columbus and I wonder whether it might be our fault.
The afterlife evidence tells us that reality is very different from what we perceive. Our senses and our prejudices lie to us, and we comfort ourselves by trusting a modern science that is equally senses-driven and prejudice-prone. In contravention of everything that mainstream science and your lying eyes tell you, here is what the afterlife evidence now tells us:
1) Time is subjective, and it is not linear. If things are happening at all, then they are happening all at once.
2) Matter and energy, time and space are holographic, which means that each unit (however you may measure it) contains all the information of every other unit.
3) Matter and energy, time and space are mind-created. Universal Mind is their foundation, and each of us is an undivided snippet of that universal Mind. Another hologram. So our minds are more powerful than we can imagine.
4) Mind-energy tremendously affects what we see as reality. Think of a horror movie in which when a hate-crazed actor arrives the castle starts to crumble, the peasants sicken, the grass withers and the skies cloud over. But then our loving hero comes back and that castle crisply reassembles itself, the peasants and grass recover, and the sun shines bright. Try to realize that this is something like the effect that our minds apparently have on our surroundings.
5) All our lifetimes are happening simultaneously. Something like reincarnation does seem to happen, but it happens outside of time. More advanced beings tell us that as each of us makes or avoids making spiritual progress in this lifetime, we affect for good or ill all our other lives, past and future.
Please read this list again. Then multiply by every person on earth that insight that whatever we do in this lifetime affects every one of our past lives.
Temporarily trapped in this illusion as we are, we cannot really grasp what all of this means. But one thing that it may well mean is that we are not just the product of our history. We also may be the co-creators of it.
This puzzle has been on my mind for years, ever since I first began to wrestle with the time dilemma. The possibility that our modern evils are creating or worsening evils long past is both appalling and hard to grasp. But there seems to be no way out of it. The evidence is abundant, consistent, and incontrovertible to anyone with an open mind.
Imagine how all of this might be working. Stalin and Hitler, racial lynchings, and all the many evils of the twentieth century could have worsened the history that came before, created Biblical stonings and Medieval wars, perhaps turned Christopher Columbus’s capture of a few Native chieftains and sternly lecturing them into his burning one or two at the stake. And then ten. And then a hundred. We would be none the wiser.
Now imagine that in this new century we begin to practice love and forgiveness within families, house to house, street to street, and then over all the earth. And gradually – imperceptibly at first – the world’s bloody history turns back to peaceful. Every book on every shelf in every library on earth records an ever gentler past, until all that evil never happened at all.
It has long been thought that as modern humans migrated out of Africa, they conquered and destroyed the Neanderthal peoples that then inhabited what is now Europe. It turns out, though, that what they actually did was to assimilate Neanderthals as they moved north, so now everyone with European ancestry has Neanderthal genetic material.
This wonderful picture was taken at the Neanderthal museum in Germany. It’s from a recent article that suggests that as much as 20% of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans.
It turns out that our earliest human ancestors made love, not war.
But somewhere along the way becoming “more civilized” seemed to be a good idea. We began the ongoing distortion of our own essentially loving natures that led erelong to the climactic evils of a cruel and bloody twentieth century. Now contemplate a hundred Native Americans screaming together as they burn, and the notion that their suffering could be the fruit of humankind’s later history. If you don’t want to learn to love and forgive perfectly for your own sake, then think about the possibility that you might be doing it for them.
nothing is solid. As the great physicist, astronomer and mathematician Sir James Jeans once said, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.” All the levels of energy-based reality – including this one – exist in the same place, and they are separated from one another only by their different rates of vibration. So far, so good. The channels of your television set all exist in the same place as well, and that analogy makes it easier for us to imagine what actually happens at death. The dead tell us that when you die your mind will simply raise its own rate of vibration from this level of reality to the next, very much as you might change television channels, and there it will pick up a whole new solid reality! Dying is just that simple.
attest that his technique works well. Dr. Weiss then found that if there was no obvious source of problems in a past life, he could just as easily progress people under hypnosis to a future lifetime, and there he often found the causative trauma!
and a greater reality seems to be based in the millennia-long war of ideas between science and Christianity. Both sides seem to have decided long ago that reality must have been either created by God in seven days exactly as the Bible suggests, or sprung from nothing as a clockwork automaton that had no spiritual component whatsoever. This is an ancient, epic battle to the death with just one possible victor, despite the fact that there has long been abundant evidence that neither side has it right. The battle continues even today in the debate over whether “intelligent design” can be taught in schools as an alternative to a rigid version of Darwinian evolution lacking any epigenetic complexities that not even most scientists support.
has been meeting and befriending many of them. Foremost among these wonderful new friends is the ebullient and irrepressible Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona, who is one of very few scientists actually researching the afterlife in a university setting. My favorite of his books is The Afterlife Experiments, in which he proves by means of double- and triple-blind testing that some psychic mediums actually are in contact with the dead, but I have read most of his work and it is all wonderful.
discussion let’s try out mine. Down through all their history, governments and religions have had certain things in common:
about human nature. In doing so, they are imposing on us laws and restraints that are probably unnecessary, and that distort our true nature in ways that create problems rather than solving problems. I think this is a fact, based upon the evidence. And further proof of its truth is the certainty that after more than ten thousand years of trying, governments and religions have done nothing whatsoever to make people better in any way. Nothing. Nada. Rien.
levels through mediums has become a well-documented phenomenon is a wonder! But what if we never consult a medium? How else can our loved ones signal their survival?
the same set of coins. The coins sent as signs will sometimes bear a significant date, such as a birth or death year or a wedding year.
4) Electrical Manipulation. You can imagine the joy in heaven when we started electrifying our homes! Since our beloved dead are energy beings, messing with electricity is easy for them, and just within the past century or so they have learned to do it very well. They blink lights, turn televisions on and off, and even sometimes put messages on computer screens. They can extinguish streetlights as we pass beneath them, cause cellphones to ring, and even (rarely) dial us up to have a chat.
approached and seemed to know us have been reported, too. There was one summer afternoon a couple of years ago when a huge owl came and perched on a light while a celebration of someone’s life was underway on a patio below it, and it stayed there until the last guest left. Our loved ones might be impressing their own minds onto the minds of these creatures to make them behave this way, although no one knows for sure.
present-day America that are likely to appall our descendants, from overstuffed prisons and third-trimester abortions to vast disparities in wealth and station and the careless ways in which we inflict adult entertainment on our children. The fact that you and I don’t become personally involved in any of these practices doesn’t let us off the hook, since if enough of us protested, things would change.
3) During their free time, Jefferson’s slaves raised vegetables and chickens for themselves, and they sold their surplus food to their master for money. I know… I didn’t believe it either, but Jefferson’s written accounts of some of these transactions still survive.
Martha’s lifetime he seems to have become increasingly determined to solve it. His first step was to engineer a ban on the importation of African slaves, and thanks to his efforts, in 1778 Virginia became the first place on earth to ban the importation of slaves.
