The Secret of Life

Changes

I talked in an earlier post about Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God series of books, and I notice that there is an opportunity to join Neale in a live teleseminar on March 31st.  Click here for details.

The subject of the teleseminar will be the last of the CWG books, Home With God. Here's some info on the book from Walsch's website:

"Death," says HOME WITH GOD, "is a process of re-identification.          
" It occurs in three stages:
                  1. Release of identification with the body;
                  2. Release of identification with the mind;
                  3. Release of identification with the soul."             
Learn about these stages...and about how we continue on in an amazing journey, re-embracing our present worldly identity, re-visiting every moment of our life in an inspiring way, and re-engaging our True Self as we prepare to return to Physicality with a new identity/lifetime, or returning to re-live this present lifetime all over again, making new choices along the way!

I haven't read this particular book, but these ideas seem to be building on what was said about the afterlife in the third volume of the original CWG trilogy. When I discussed CWG in the earlier post, I mentioned that the first of the books resonated deeply within me, that "as I read, a little voice inside me kept saying "yes!" ". I felt instinctively that what I was reading was true. When I first read what CWG had to say about the afterlife, however, my reaction was slightly different. It wasn't "yes!", so much as "if only..."

Not everyone likes the concept of reincarnation. My wife, Chris, for instance, is horrified at the idea. "But I'd have to go back to school again!" she complains. It is, however, an idea which makes a lot more sense to me than the traditional teaching of my Christian upbringing that we are "judged" on a single lifetime, whether that be a life of hardship or luxury, and whether we live to a ripe old age or die in the first few moments after our birth. (I really should write a post about this some time...)

What particularly interests me here, however, is this alternative idea which Walsch has thrown in of re-living our present life with the chance to make different choices along the way. This is something that really appeals to me! In many ways, it would be a pain to have to go back to the nineteen-fifties again, to a world without central heating and foreign food, and to have to grow up again in what I realize now was a highly dysfunctional household. And yet - like many people, I imagine - I can identify various decisions I've made in the past which I'd like to do differently if I had my time over again. Don't get me wrong - I've come to terms with these "mistakes" - what has happened in my life has made me what I am today, and the life I've lived - and continue to live - has riches of its own. But nevertheless it would be nice to have had the chance to do things differently too. To see what might have happened if only...

I wonder if you feel the same?

Taking A Break...

Whoops! You may have noticed that posts to this blog have been a bit thin on the ground recently, and it looks like life is going to take me away from blogging for a while. The main event is that we're moving house in a few weeks time and the deadline for clearing that loft is looming. My long-promised follow-up article on The Secret (The Good Bits) is half completed but I don't have the spare time and brain cells to finish it off at the moment. Sorry about that! So what I'm planning to do is to take a semi-sabbatical from the blog. I shall still be doing the occasional post so that the site doesn't fall off the blogosphere radar entirely but I won't be resuming frequent posts again till later in the year, when I shall bounce back all reinvigorated and brimming over with new ideas. I hope you will bear with me!

If you haven't already done so, this might be a good time to subscribe to email updates to The Secret Of Life, so that you'll know when I make these occasional posts and also when normal service is resumed. Just enter your email address in the box in the sidebar - I won't misuse it, honestly. Alternatively, you could use the 'Add Me" widget to bookmark this blog with your favourite bookmarking service. I'm not too up on how these work, but I'm sure that you are...

I've been enjoying writing this blog and I'm looking forward to having the the time to return to it. I'd originally envisioned a series of anecdotal posts with a vaguely spiritual theme, but it soon became a full-blown blog about spirituality, which has made keeping up with frequent posts more demanding than I'd intended. I use the word 'frequent' rather guardedly here because my five months' worth of posts at an average of less than two per week is not too impressive when you compare it with some amazing souls who go on blogging daily for year after year. I have great admiration for people like Jennifer, Mark, and Desiree, who produce thoughtful, inspiring posts on a daily (or almost daily) basis. I hope you will keep up with them (and the other wonderful blogs in my sidebar) while I'm away. I shall certainly be keeping an eye on them myself.

Thank you so much for reading and special thanks to those who have left comments. (Please continue to do so!) I've met some wonderful people and it's been fun chatting with you all.  I look forward to writing here again soon...

(Like I say, I'll be carrying on with occasional posts. I hope to have the Power Of Attraction post completed in a few weeks' time. In the meantime, do feel free to browse through the archives or take a look at the latest conversations in the comments. The last one was like a post in itself... Click here for Global Meditation/Prayer and here for Positive Thinking For Beginners.)

Sri Bhagavan - Birthday Message

In a recent post, I wrote about Sri Bhagavan and Deeksha. Today is Bhagavan's birthday, and his birthday message may interest you. You can see it here.