I’m dying to think!
Even after we die, our brains support evolving into Love.
Why must the “other side” remain such a mystery?
One possible answer…
If during life on earth we had awareness of the life of the soul, we mightn’t concentrate on, nor give our all to, our existence here. And so, we’d likely be less available to learn the lessons we are meant to learn.
Yet, this model begs the question, why must, and how can, we evolve in ignorance of our true nature? And, of what value are life lessons learned in a form which doesn’t match our soul’s power and vision?
While it makes sense we might review our just completed mortal life as we make our transition back home, why when we begin our earthly existence must we forget our inherent essence?
Neither I, nor anyone else, can generate definitive answers.
Still, my hunch is that Love lies at the heart of the matter.
Since Love demands evolution, we choose to be thrust into circumstances in which Love cannot be taken for granted. As mortals, loss permeates — nay intertwines with — our very fabric. In human form, Love cannot be embraced without a concomitant sense of the inevitability of loss.
For one thing, death is always approaching.
For another, anyone who has ever stepped into a truly Loving relationship understands open hearts acutely feel the weight of the possibility of at some undetermined point carrying on without the beloved, at least in human form.
We are made of, made from, and made with Love.
❤️Jonathan Prager, Spiritual Teacher / Leader in Love
Rather than existing as a fixed idea or absolute quality, Love ever evolves.
And so, we ever evolve.
Into increasingly more Love.
In fact, I believe ascending into Love stands as the purpose of existence.
The more Love I welcome, tolerate, and embrace, the more Love becomes available for me to welcome, tolerate, and embrace.
The more Love becomes available for me to welcome, tolerate, and embrace, the more Love I recognize and release into within myself.
The more Love I recognize and release into within myself, the more Love I recognize and release into throughout my relationships; including my relationship with the Universe, or if you prefer a faith-based framework, my relationship with God.
Just as the Universe and God ever-increasingly expand, my capacity to Love ever-increasingly expands.
The more Love I celebrate within myself, the more Love I celebrate beyond myself.
In my view, the principle of ‘unconditional Love’ manifests in human form as the ever-continuing intention to learn more effectively to open into Love, both in relation to the people in my universe, and within myself.
I use the term, “Love-ability™”; meaning an ever-increasing capacity to navigate in Love — or if you will, the process of ever-increasingly trusting/surrendering into our essence and our truth.
Yet, so that we may be blessed with the drive and motivation to evolve into more and more Love, embracing increased capacity to give and receive Love requires ‘skin in the game.’
If as souls we possess abilities to Love abundantly — even infinitely — where can we find the edge for necessary progress?
That ‘skin in game’ takes the form of courageous introspection, of moving through and beyond early conditioning and cultural mores and beliefs, of opening into and following our hearts.
Clearly, we must design and enter a dimension in which Love-ability™ seems challenging, in which interpretation and indoctrination create blocks and inhibitions to Love, in which truly Loving means not only facing loss, but also surrendering with faith into the infinite Love within ourselves.
A trio of Rumi quotes adds illuminating perspective.
“Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.”
“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
Of course, whether or not I choose to Love openly or expand into as much Love as I can foster, death will arrive.
I might as well actively step into Love in every way I can.
Throughout his discussion of near death experiences — What Really Happens as We Die? — Robert Roy Brit discusses the phenomenon that even after human hearts stop beating, human brains continue actively to access memories and to think. Pushing the boundary of “death” — traditionally defined by a lack of pulse — brain cells not only can live for hours, but processing persists. Scientific inquiry mirrors myriad reports from ‘near death experiencers’ — after hearts stop beating, brain wave activity frequently increases.
For those lucky enough to almost die, there’s an apparent bright side to their whole ordeal: Whether life is good or bad, skirting its conclusion seems to make it better. People who’ve had near-death experiences… tend to experience “positive long-term psychological transformation and growth.”
➡ Robert Roy Brit, What Really Happens as We Die?
Perhaps, this benefit might be attributed to ‘near death experiencers’ integrating a number of visceral understandings which introduce newly discerned meaning.
➢Being blessed with the certainty that physical death does not end existence.
➢Having awareness of soul parameters.
➢Gaining perspective as to what’s truly important.
People who’ve been to the brink of death and back often describe an inexplicable state of heightened consciousness and awareness involving similar mental flashbacks and out-of-body experiences.
➡ Robert Roy Brit, What Really Happens as We Die?
People who die and return likely gain a tremendous advantage. To use Shakespeare’s term from Hamlet’s soliloquy, ‘To be, or not to be,” ‘near death experiencers’ may integrate a taste of our soul nature into our mortal coil.
As if brain waves activate themselves, scientific measurements which confirm we continue to think after our hearts die create questions as to how one organ purposefully functions after others expire. From my point of view, however, brain activity reflects whole organism intention.
Our brains support our souls’ purpose.
Rather than believing our brains remain active in isolation, wouldn’t it be reasonable to conclude our souls initiate brain activity so as to deliver us home with heightened understandings from our just completed lifespan? In order to retain and integrate lessons in Love learned over the course of our time on earth, that we continue processing? If so, this phenomenon might explicitly take place just as we physically perish.
Ah, but for science to weigh in with any kind of significance would mean gaining the technical prowess to measure soul activity.
Scientists, however, seem light years away from being able to get anywhere near achieving this existence encompassing feat.
Yet, all is not lost.
In life, human beings determine meaning by deriving interpretations from life experiences.
Though science may not be able to shed light on the context of our existence, by daring to search inside, connecting through Love, and answering the invitation to explore from courageous hearts we — I, just like you — may distinguish immense and powerful meaning for ourselves.
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