Life and Death

One of our friends sent us this after a seminar that they went to and Phil and I thought is was a great way to understand what we believe. We want to share it with all of you.

The Professor used the following analogy to describe life after death. "Perhaps the following analogy will make the interpretation more intelligible. If we wish to send a rocket equipped with sensitive data-gathering instruments into outer space, we must join it to a much larger and heavier rocker booster filled with physical fuel. The booster and its fuel enable the delicately equipped rocket to be launched and propelled beyond the tug of the earth's gravitational field. At that critical stage in the rocket's history, its booster is no longer needed and has become an impediment to the attainment of the rocket's "higher" destiny. The rocket, accordingly, has been designed to separate from the booster so that the rocket may soar into outer space and commence its goal of acquiring new information about out vast and awe-inspiring universe."

The rocket booster in this analogy may be compared to our physical body. The detached rocket is comparable to our conscious spiritual center, which, having been "launched" by our physical body and its physical energy, is designed to separate from the physical body and survive its dissolution. We will then be ready to enter into our "higher" destiny of conscious participation in God's eternal Self-exploration. We cannot say what form the spiritual enery of our personal center will then have. We will have to wait and "see"."