LIVING, NOW AND AFTER DEATH LIVING, NOW AND AFTER DEATHWhen we grow up we are first very much aware of the world in which we live and the body we have. But at some point in life we begin to realize that life in this world comes to an end. We discover death.
First we discover it in others, but after a while we begin to realize it will happen to us too. Slowly we begin to accept our own death. It is clearly inescapable.
But what happens after death? People have asked this question all through the ages. Today this question can be answered quite clearly. We go to another world, to the spiritual world.
This idea is not new. People believed it thousands of years ago. But this belief was often accompanied by a gnawing feeling of doubt. Did anyone ever come back from that world to tell us?
Today we can have scientific certainty about the fact that we continue to live and exist after death. Because of the many advances in medical science people can be rescued from death. Millions of people have been close to death, have even died, and have then been resuscitated and returned to health and vigor.
After this experience they have described what they saw and heard. There are so many of such reports, that it is unscientific to still dismiss these reports as the imaginations of delirious people. From all these "near death" experiences it has become clear that at times people can see into the spiritual world. Our spiritual eyes that are normally closed, can be opened and used at certain times and under certain circumstances. It has happened to people in near death experiences, and it has happened to revelators. People like Isaiah, Ezekiel and John had their spiritual eyes opened and described what they saw in the spiritual world.
Swedenborg's spiritual eyes also were opened, not for a short time,
but every day over a period of years. His observations were recorded and
revealed as part of a new divine revelation. The more we absorb these observations,
the more we see the reality of the spiritual world. the more we are certain
that after death we will continue to live and love and work.
