awakening a certainty of Self in an uncertain world

November 3, 2023

Hi Dear Wonderful Soul,

Yesterday, November 2, was All Soul’s Day or the Day of the Dead. Personally, it was profound and beyond anything I could imagine.  Let me share. 

I woke up in my cold (59 degrees) and dark(6 AM) bedroom ready for the day, not thinking about the dead, but about you and all the living others that read my posts. Yes, I think about all of you everyday. You are my community, my friends, my inspiration.

I have been contemplating this year’s Inner Christmas Journey invitations and also wondering what topic was I going present for the November O Human Soul, Know Thyself program. 

Shortly after I woke up yesterday morning and still under the covers, I had a clear inspiration of both the November program and the ICJ emails. I jumped up, went straight to my study, opened my laptop and began writing. 

This email includes the discription and invitation to the November O Human Soul Know Thyself.  It's about the afterlife!  I’ll be sending you the first of the Inner Christmas Journey invitations on Sunday... It’s the 20^th year of Inner Christmas!

Inspirations are spiritual caffeine!

But first, I want to tell you about a truly personal inspiration around my own death and the silly way it appeared in my consciousness yesterday morning.

With the inspirations about serving you with Inner Christmas and my November OHSKT program, I went right to my office and began writing…I didn’t even make coffee.  Inspirations are spiritual caffeine!

Often I feel a spiritually overwhelmed when I have been working on bringing an inspiration into written words. Yesterday I needed a break after a few hours. My breaks are usually food, a boring household task, or, my favorite, watching a show or movie on my iPad. 

Around 10:30AM I made coffee, got my iPad and finished watching Book Club: The Next Chapter, a movie with Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Keaton, and Candace Bergen. It’s fluff, but takes place in Italy and who doesn’t love Italy. 

Epiphany Tears

The Diane Keaton character has brought her dead husband’s ashes which she has had for years not knowing where to spread them. Spoiler alert…They are in a helicopter flying over Florence and awkwardly, the ashes are blown over the Arno River. I burst into tears…epiphany tears. 

Here’s why…

On December 11, I will be 76. I’m healthy and life has a great future of meaning and purpose for me. But this week I had wondered where I imagine my “resting place,” where did I want the earth of my body to return to the earth of the world?  I could not imagine any place that felt true, beautiful, and good to spread my ashes.  Until that scene in the movie. 

I had my 19^th birthday in Florence. I was one of the students in Florida State University’s first study center there. It was also the year the Arno River flooded on November 4^th, 1966. My name is on a bronze plaque as one of the FSU "Mud Angels" who worked on the days following the flood in the Uffizi and the Biblioteca Nazionale saving Florentine history. A big part of my soul came alive that year in Florence.

So yesterday watching that silly movie, I realized where my ashes belonged… in the hills above Florence. I called my daughter immediately and told her my wishes. What a joyful deep feeling to know where my earthly afterlife will be. 

The Other Parts of Myself

My physical remains will be in Tuscany, but what about the other parts of me: My memories, my consciousness, and my spirit?  

Dante, another Florentine, explored the afterlife in the Divine Comedy.   Since the beginning of life, human beings have wondered what happens after life. Think of Persephone. Eurydice, and now the obsessions with the Walking Dead who find no rest, not even in Hell.

On Sunday, November 12^th, at 3PM Eastern I will be sharing afterlife imaginations in my O Human Soul, Know Thyself webinar. Please register. Please attend. If you can’t attend, it will be recorded. 

What is the afterlife?

In this webinar, I will present a new understanding of what happens after death. I base my insights on a clear comprehension of the fourfold experiences of self: 

1. The Physical Self living in Space. 
2. The Etheric Self living in Time. 
3. The Astral Self living in Consciousness and Relativity, and 
4. The Spirit Self living in the Absolute. 

Just as each self has a different realm and presence in life, so is the afterlife of each self different.

These differences are comforting and beautiful.

The presentation will answer many of your questions about the afterlife and awaken new ones.

The program is free and will be recorded. Please consider making a gratitude donation when you register.

P.S.If you have questions about dying and death or the four realms of self, please send me an email. Just click on reply.

P.P.S. If you are facing challenging times, difficult choices, or just feeling spiritual loneliness, you may want to consider engaging in a series of Sacred Conversations with me. Let's have a complimentary 30-minute conversation to see how we might connect.

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