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Is There Life After Death?

Creation always involves separation. So, when the One blossoms into the world of multiple forms the awareness of that One becomes obscured. As we identify only with our individual biological selves, our body egos, we experience ourselves cut off from the Whole, and a kind of existential aloneness motivates us to seek power and control in our striving for a security we no longer experience. Although we are fond of asking the question, "Is there life after death?" the more appropriate question, given our descent into separateness, is "Is there life after birth?"

One might imagine that Soul is One, and as that One differentiates, Soul differentiates, as well. We are still connected, we are still and always part of the One, but we are less conscious of that connection. So we seek, through spiritual work, the opening of the gates which had appeared closed. At each level of transcendence, as we meet a more inclusive sense of Self, we become more aware of the Self from which we had never really been separate.

Whether we are "alive" or "dead" to our individual identities, we are always and all ways alive in our Soul identity. That aliveness only appears to diminish in our earthly existence, but shines brightly behind the barriers of ego. Remember that "life" and "death" are not opposites: "birth" and "death" are opposites. Life has no opposite (the closest "opposite" would be lack of awareness, but that does not actually diminish the Life that Is), but flows through many cycles of birth and death. Each death is a doorway into another birthing; each birth is a doorway opening from another dying. We engage this cycle many times even in a single "lifetime" as we engage the drama that is our destiny.

Our challenge is to provide for ourselves and others greater and more compassionate support for remembering--remembering the One we always are. This is the purpose of spiritual teaching and spiritual community. Together, we are on a journey of remembering. To the degree we remember, we are able to truly celebrate, share, and express the energies of the One Life through the gifts of our uniqueness.

May we each be blessed on this journey of remembering!

Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 04:18PM by Registered CommenterRabbi Ted Falcon, Ph.D. | Comments4 Comments | References74 References

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