From: "Jal Kae" 
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal.channeling
Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
Original Date: 6 Sep 1996 20:36:51 -0400
Levels of Immortality
Immortality - to live forever. This sounds straightforward enough. Yet,
religious groups and cultures have different ideas about this. 
The ancient Egyptians spent millenniums exploring this probability. They
focused on the resurrection of the physical body. This belief was a
dominant theme of their culture. No mummies, however, are yet reborn - not
even those of the Pharaohs, the God-Kings. 
Here's a more current version. After the Rapture, Christ will resurrect
the faithful dead, restoring century-old corpses to their previous glory.
The Saved, all in perfect health, inherit the earth. The Unsaved, who
never fare well in religious sagas, are treated to another kind of
immortality. God throws them into hell where demons torture them forever. 
In this story, the number of Saved is 144,000. It wouldn't take long,
however, before the 144,000 would increase to 144,000,000. (Babies are
born [unless everyone is sterilized or sex is forbidden], and nobody
dies.) Then, in a blink of the cosmic eye, that number would leap to
144,000,000,000. Soon, the Saved would be piling themselves 50 high (and
growing) all over the planet. And what about sanitation? To me, this would
be hell. 
Another story exists. It describes immortality from a different
perspective. This story is based on two assumptions. 
The first assumption is that the planetary consciousness designed the
physical body to be a temporary vehicle. Spirit uses it to explore form.
When we attach to and identify with our body (or any form), we invite the
experience of grief and anxiety. 
The second assumption is that spirit is our true identity, that our
Essence is immortal. We can't die, because we were never born. We can only
change our face for a moment. (Paradoxically, our face never changes.) 
Faith in an outside God, religion, or ceremony won't guarantee that your
body will live forever. Faith in spirit won't guarantee that you are an
immortal spirit. Some are happy to believe in neither probability.
Whatever the truth is, be thankful for physical death. If you think
over-population haunts humanity now, try to imagine the nightmare of a
deathless earth. This image alone should be enough to discourage that
wish.
In Light, we are one.
Evin
Starbuilders
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