I’ve read a lot of spiritual literature - NDEs and automatic writing from spirits telling what it’s like to be “dead.” Letters From the Afterlife (first pub. 1914) by Elsa Barker is a good one. Anyway, those who have passed on describe trying to interact with the living and being frustrated when no one can see or hear them. This is when they first leave their bodies. Then, in most cases, they move on and find their new reality and their new people.

Anyway that’s what I thought of when I read Dr Malone’s post. Awakening is in some sense dying to the old order. We need to move on and find our own people. Perhaps the experience will make us more ready for the that next big transition that we will all go through. We are eternal souls, the old world will fall away as we are told in the NT, and the sooner we embrace the new reality the happier we will be. I am someone who has lost a child, so I know what it is to walk through grief and darkness and find the light on the other side of the tunnel of grief. It’s one reason I seek afterlife literature. The truth will set us free.