My Master, while explicating chapter 11 “Viswarupa Darshana Yoga“ of ‘Bhagavad Gita’ mentioned about life beyond this mortal life and referred to a book “Proof of Heaven” by Dr Eben Alexander [ A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the afterlife].

Few Excerpts from the book:

“The ascendance of the scientific method based solely in the physical realm over the past four hundred years presents a major problem: we have lost touch with the deep mystery at the center of existence- our consciousness. It was (under different names and expressed through different world views) something known well and held close by pre-modern religions, but it was lost to our secular Western culture as we became increasingly enamored with the power of science and technology.

For all the success of Western civilization, the world has paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence – our human spirit. The shadow side of high technology – modern warfare and thoughtless homicide and suicide, urban blight, ecological mayhem, cataclysmic climate change, polarization of economic resources – is bad enough. Much worse our focus on exponential progress in science and technology has left many of us bereft in the realm of meaning and joy, and of knowing how our lives fit into the grand scheme of existence for all eternity.

Questions concerning the soul and afterlife, reincarnation, God, and heaven proved difficult to answer through conventional scientific means, which implied that they might not exist. Likewise, extended conscious phenomena, such as remote viewing, extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition, have seemed stubbornly resistant to comprehend through “standard” scientific investigations. Before my coma, I doubted their veracity, main;ly because I had never experienced them at deep level, and because they could not be readily explained by my simplistic scientific view of the world.

….. Those who assert that there is no evidence for phenomena indicative of extended consciousness, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, are willfully ignorant. They believe they know the truth without needing to look at the facts.

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I had initially received this piece of knowledge from my lovely companion on the butterfly wing upon my first entrance into the Gateway. It came in three parts, and to take one more shot at putting it into words (because of course it was initially delivered wordlessly), it would run something like this:

You are loved and cherished.

You have nothing to fear.

There is nothing you can do wrong.

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The book is worth reading, But the Spiritual Quest continues………