Exploring Your Options for the Afterlife - Part 3 of 4

A Heavenly Adventure Awaits

Celestial cities, meals out of this world, a heavenly spa? It all sounds like a dream vacation of sorts but the possibility of these experiences and more in the next world are very real!

Welcome to part 3 of our ongoing series, Exploring Your Options for the Afterlife. In our latest post, we will reveal just a few of the fascinating possibilities that await you at the conclusion of this life. And as discussed in part 2 of this series we will continue our focus on the etheric plane or heaven world. Our ongoing hope is to so inspire you to make it to these higher realms that you will want to avoid the astral plane or lower realms altogether! 

For many of us, the ideal vacation experience requires a combination of many factors including: 

• Making good and informed destination choices

• Having the needed financial resources

• Getting approval for a temporary absence from work and other responsibilities

• Planning how to best spend time at your dream destination

Reaching our “dream destination” in the next world requires similar effort and more including:

• A lifetime of planning

• An abundance of spiritual currency (i.e. good works and making positive karma)

• Payment or repayment of spiritual debt (i.e. balancing negative karma)

• Honest, spiritual self-reflection and accepting accountability for our thoughts, motives, and actions

• Treating others as you would like to be treated

Beyond the Physical – Welcome to the Etheric Cities!

There are great cities of light in the etheric plane or heaven world located at various points on the Earth. These etheric cities are even more real than the ones we currently inhabit on Earth. In addition, they are experienced through the senses of the soul in a dimension and a consciousness beyond our current physical awareness.

In these cities there are souls who are preparing to reembody, who have petitioned heavenly beings for another opportunity to once again come forth and work out their destiny in the world. These waiting souls live, work and serve in situations much like those they have left on the planet, with the exception that the etheric cities represent what the Earth is intended to be in a golden age.

In the etheric cities, there are great temples of light and homes similar to those we know on Earth. There are temples of worship and healing as well as ideal forms of government, education, art and music.

Those who spend their time between embodiments in these cities have a great worth to contribute in their succeeding lives. They typically are very idealistic in their next embodiment out of the remembrance of the joy and happiness they experienced while living in these etheric homes of light. They come in great hope that somewhere on Earth they can recreate the beauty and peace they have known in the etheric planes. The etheric cities show us how the world can be again in a future golden age! [1]

Messages from Heaven

In part 2 of Exploring Your Options for the Afterlife we referenced the book Messages from Heaven [2]. It is a fascinating read which chronicles the experiences of a soul who passed on from this world and for a time was given the opportunity to continue communicating with some close family members here on Earth. Following are two excerpts from the book which describe what this soul experienced and shared from the etheric plane or heaven world: 

Meals Out of this World!

“Our meals are spectacular! We drink many juices that are like the pure essence of any fruit or vegetable you can imagine. Everything we consume seems light – not heavy or dense in any way.

We do eat regular meals and have occasional banquets. Most of the food is different from anything that we were used to on Earth and ten times better!”  

A Spiritual Spa

“I was given certain baths of light with the violet flame.* These were given to raise my vibration and draw my full being into wholeness. They are prepared by Master Alchemists to provide the exact amount of blue or pink color in the violet that each soul needs.”

* Violet Flame – In Part 4, the concluding post in this series, we will share with you the secret of the violet flame and how to experience its profound benefits in your life!

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

You may remember the famous line from the classic Walt Disney movie Snow White: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?" And if you have studied esoteric literature, you may have also encountered a reply to this question that carries a deeper meaning: “Why, I AM!”

You may also have an experience with a special mirror in the next world. It is commonly referred to as the Cosmic Mirror. 

What is the Cosmic Mirror?

In the esoteric classic book Unveiled Mysteries [3] the Cosmic Mirror is described as a “mirror of living light” – “a cosmic screen, upon which living pictures in all dimensions could be portrayed, with no limit to the space that could be observed.... Everything which had or ever could take place in all Eternity might be made visible on this screen, if the Directing Intelligence so desired.”

At first glance the Cosmic Mirror looks like an ordinary motion picture screen. The Master selects certain records taken from akasha [4] which are also contained in the memory of the soul, and upon the Cosmic Mirror they come alive.

This is beyond 3-D—you are there! A portion of a past life, or more than one, passes before you, but you are a living part of this nonfiction play of light and darkness with shades of grey. It is almost too much to handle as you relive the emotions, the premeditated thoughts and the acts themselves.

Throughout this experience you sense your Higher Consciousness standing guard and telling you gently but firmly not to give way to the extremes of ecstasy or despondency. Further, your Higher Self assists you to face the future with a hope based on the scientific knowledge that in your hands, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, lies the power to change.

A few segments a session are given and you soon see the need to apply the violet flame to those scenes and memories until balance is restored! [5]

A somewhat similar and humorous experience like the Cosmic Mirror can be seen in this excerpt from the movie Defending Your Life: [6]

A Spiritual Board of Overseers

Have you heard or read about people who experienced a near-death-experience (NDE)? Oftentimes, the person who “died” and came back recalls an experience where their life “passed before their eyes”.

Perhaps this is because after each lifetime on Earth we meet with a group of heavenly beings who comprise what is called the Karmic Board [7]. At some time after our just-completed lifetime we review our greatest accomplishments along with where we may have fallen short.

With the assistance of many heavenly beings, the Karmic Board has access to the complete records of all our lifetimes on Earth. They also determine who shall embody, as well as when and where. In addition to our end-of-life review, we meet with the Karmic Board before each lifetime where we receive our assignments along with the families and communities we will be part of.

How the Life Review Works

The book Messages from Heaven continues where our new-to-heaven soul describes a portion of his own life review:

“Very early on I was allowed to review my entire life. Everything was so vivid. Every moment spent in anger or impatience or fear or self-pity seemed so wasted. I was instantly made aware of the patterns or momentums, both positive and negative, that had been part of my life. I was so grateful for any time that I had served with an unselfish heart and for the times that I had loved and honored life or made the honest or just choice. I was painfully aware of the ways in which I had wasted energy or blocked my own progress through often foolish but embedded habit patterns.

Heart Chakra

The basic questions are: How did you use the hours of your life? Essentially, how much of your life have you served God in your fellowman and in your day-to-day actions? How developed is your heart chakra?

You are allowed to give your own comments on the assessment of your life. This is followed by a meeting with a board of heavenly beings who give their analysis of your life. You are shown past lives where you can see most clearly the origin of many of your habit patterns and the reasons for many of the events that took place in your life.

Recording Angel

There is a recording angel for each of us. Nothing is missed. God is not mocked or fooled in any way. We only fool our human self by our actions. And in reality, deep inside the soul always knows what is right or wrong, but many try to deaden themselves in the voice.

During this review of lifetimes I was allowed to know what I had needed to balance and what I did balance. The whole tone of the review was loving and positive, not judgmental. It was a time of great learning for my soul.

In many ways you are your own judge, for you can see so clearly where you have erred. I myself felt highly motivated to get on with what I still needed to transmute. I wished that I had realized many things while I was in embodiment. And that is why I feel so privileged to share this, so that many others may take the opportunity to face themselves while they are still in embodiment.

A helpful exercise for each of you would be to run the films clips of your life, so to speak, and begin to look at how you have been utilizing the hours of your life. Notice the progress you have made. Perhaps you are a totally different person than you were ten years ago. That counts for much in heaven.

Do not get stuck in self-reproach. Make each day count toward the new directions that you want to take. Extra points are given for lessons you have genuinely learned and tests you have passed., even if not on the first try.”

Taking Action - Preparing for the Afterlife

Would you like to further develop your heart chakra and begin expressing a love like the one described by the soul above? If so, we encourage you to give these heart-centered mantras often!

These are just a few of the experiences which you can look forward to having in the next world. In our next and concluding blog in the Exploring Your Options for the Afterlife series we will be provide you with a roadmap (i.e. your highway to heaven!) along with some of the tools you’ll want to take with you on the journey!

Until then…

“Have faith in your dreams, and someday your rainbow will come smiling through…” [8]

Footnotes and other information

[1] Adapted from the book The Masters and Their Retreats by SU Press

[2] - Messages from Heaven by Patrica Kirmond

[3] - Unveiled Mysteries by Saint Germain Press

[4] – Akasha. Sanskrit, from the root kās “to be visible, appear,” “to shine brightly,” “to see clearly”] An etheric substance and dimension. Primary substance, the subtlest, ethereal essence, which fills the whole of space. Akasha refers to the “etheric” energy vibrating at a certain frequency so as to absorb, or record, all of the impressions of life.

[5] Adapted from TSL encyclopedia

[6] – Defending Your Life, directed by Albert Brooks (1991; Warner Bros.) 

[7] - The eight members of the Karmic Board are the Great Divine Director, the Goddess of Liberty, lady master Nada, Elohim Cyclopea, Pallas Athena, the goddess of Truth; Portia, the Goddess of Justice; Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy; and the Dhyani Buddha Vairochana.

[8] - from the song A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes from the 1950 Walt Disney classic movie, Cinderella