- We are all ultimately invisible. And what you see of another person is relatively insignificant
and not destined to survive. (bell ringing) Every human being is
consciousness manifesting as a temporary form, taking form as what we
perceive as a human being. So the human being
itself is a manifestation of consciousness and ultimately no other than consciousness. The death experience. When you die, what happens? There's a question here
that I might as well answer at the same time about death. It's quite a, I laughed
a little when I saw it. Why is it that we need to awaken? We all die anyway. (laughter) That seems to make sense.
(laughter) Is it that you are still
awakened after death in the next lifetimes, in eternity? Now when you, if you have experienced, I don't know if you
have been with somebody, if you sat with somebody
who died, who is dying, I don't know if you have experienced it, then you will have experienced if you are able to
surrender to that moment, it's a very sacred thing,
a very sacred moment. And there's the moment
when the transition happens between this body being inhabited by this field of consciousness and then suddenly the body is just a body. And there's a huge difference. And you immediately see this
body was never that being, it just looked like that being. So that being as I said earlier, we are all ultimately invisible. And what you see of another person is relatively insignificant
and not destined to survive. So my intuition is, I'll verify it, I'll come back to you after I've died and let you know whether it's correct. The, the person does not survive. The personal sense of
self does not survive, but that which is deeper
than the person in you as let's call it a spark of
consciousness, that form, first you are the physical form. Deeper than the physical form
you are the consciousness that inhabits the form and that
consciousness is inseparable from the one consciousness. There is no separate consciousness. Consciousness does not have a plural. There are no consciousnesses. Consciousness is a singular. There's only one
consciousness that manifests as we could call it a ray,
a ray of consciousness. You are this ray of consciousness. As a ray of consciousness, consciousness is not
subject to birth and deaths so it is timeless. This ray of consciousness that you appear as this particular person
does not necessarily immediately dissolve into total anonymity. It remains in most cases
as a particular ray but it's not the person anymore. What happens then? It returns briefly to the
source in the same way that a bee returns, goes to the beehive, and deposits what it has collected. And every human is the one
consciousness experiencing and learning and evolving in some way. Even the most insignificant life form is the one consciousness
evolving and learning and what it has learned, not
the details, but the essence. It contributes something to the whole. That is an intuition that
came to me some time ago. And I believe that
there's some truth in it but we can only speak of it
in terms of an analogies. So what you, your growth in consciousness becomes part of the one consciousness. The one consciousness which
is the consciousness of God, we're talking about things
that you can't talk about. I'll do it anyway. The transcendent of God
is totally beyond time and does not evolve because
evolution would mean time. It would mean go. So the transcendent does
not exist in our dimension, it is in a transcendent dimension. So you can't even conceive
of it or talk of it. And that is God. Then God, the emanation of
God shines into our dimension and creates our dimension. And then God is an evolving being when God enters this dimension. And there's no doubt that there
is an evolutionary process of consciousness
happening in our universe. The ultimate, I cannot
explain the ultimate purpose of it all. I don't know it. And even if I knew it, I have occasionally an intuitive insight but it cannot be put into words. How anybody could explain the universe by using the vocal chords of is beyond me because after all we
only have a few sounds. And as I often say putting
a few sounds together and attempting to explain the
universe is a futile attempt. After all there are only
five for vowel sounds and a few consonants or
whatever they're called. So you put together the
vowels, A, I, E, O, U, A, I, E, O, U, plus (shushing). Put them together in a certain combination and there you have the
secret of the universe. (laughter) It doesn't work.
(laughter) You cannot actually, and
you cannot speak about what happens after death
without already having to talk about the ultimate
purpose of it all. Because we are part of the
ultimate purpose of it all. But the ultimate purpose of it all. You can never, you can only
have little glimpses of it. You can never fully comprehend it with your limited mind or talk about it. So who you are in your essence survives, ultimately there is no death. And when you die as an
ego in this lifetime, this is called die before you die, then you already know that
as a living experience that you in your essence are beyond death. And that's a beautiful thing. When the ego goes, then
you die before you die, and you can sense the
essence that you are. So I'm never going to die. And you are not either. But of course the body dissolves, the body will dissolve. What is your level of
consciousness throughout your life and as you die? That is an important factor
in what happens after that. There are people who tell me that I don't want to reincarnate again. I don't want to come back. It's so hard. Please don't let me come back. (laughter) And then there are others who say I hope I'm going to come back because I don't want to
disappear into nothingness. I really hope I'm going to come back. Reincarnation, is reincarnation a fact? Yes, but I would like to bring
reincarnation into something that you can actually experience
it firsthand here and now. The deeper meaning of
reincarnation as I see it is you identify with form,
then you reincarnate. Carnate comes from flesh. Flesh means form. Carnate, chili con carne, it's flesh. (laughter) So you reincarnate, which
means you identify with form then you reincarnate into a form. So the Buddhists striving
towards the end of reincarnations so that you no longer
are compelled, the inner, the consciousness that your
are no longer compelled to reincarnate into another
form and have to go through another lifetime of
problems and suffering. So you, the Buddhists are striving, they want to come to the end of this compelled cycle of reincarnation where perhaps you are
conscious enough to choose whether you want to reincarnate or not. You can say, no I've
had enough, thank you. (laughter) Now when people tell me
that I don't want to, they say I don't want
to reincarnate again. I often point out, doesn't,
how do you respond, do you react to the things of this world? How, serious is it when
things go wrong in this world? It shows your attachment to form. Is the moment something
problematic happens do you immediately get upset about your, that your investments have
lost 50% of their value? Does it upset you a lot? Yeah. So you're saying you
are not attached to form and you are not going
to reincarnate anymore. But you're attached to
many forms in this world. So you do want to reincarnate. Reincarnation is identification with form. How, how do I go beyond reincarnation? You have to do that here and now. And that means that is
what we are doing here. Do not identify with
thought forms in your head. That is the most basic
reincarnation that happens continuously to human beings
is the complete identification with every thought form
that comes into their heads and then they become it. That's how it is. Let me tell you how it is. You can see how completely
identified they are with thought. So the consciousness is
completely drawn into the form. The consciousness that they are, the consciousness that you
are is completely drawn into, into form, it does not know
itself as consciousness. It only knows itself as form. And that is the compulsion to reincarnate which most humans who are not awakened or at least awakening still have. And you can extrapolate from there that when you have this compulsion
throughout your lifetime, the compulsion to
reincarnate will continue after this body dissolves. But if you have gone beyond
the compulsion to reincarnate in this lifetime, which means
identify with every thought and every emotion that comes up, and you have recognized
the essence of who you are beyond form, that realization
does not leave you. You are, when you die, there
is a freedom that comes because the freedom you have
already found in this lifetime, because you have died to this
identification with form. (water flowing)
