Knowledge 6

Awareness of the eternal future in a state beyond time and space

The texts included in this study demonstrate that earthly life is the "material" for shaping the content of our future eternal life in the spiritual world. Therefore, it is important to ensure that this "material" is the most appropriate for us. This preparation definitively ends with physical death. This moment is also a kind of final judgment for us, for which we must prepare.

In this study, I want to make everyone aware of the fact that death is a situation that must be understood during life. I also want to explain when it is necessary to fear it and when it is unnecessary. Just as each of us is different, so the transition to the spiritual world unfolds differently for each of us, even if our death appears similar from the perspective of an external observer. A significant fact in our situation is that we do not currently live in the world originally intended by God, and therefore our transition to the spiritual world has nothing to do with the Creator's original intentions. We simply live in hell and have no idea about the true, Creator-planned transition to the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world, commonly known as heaven. It's therefore worthwhile to consider arranging our lives to be well-prepared for this important moment.

It would now be necessary to explain certain phenomena related to the process of transition from the physical world to the spiritual world. Many people who have experienced near-death claim to have seen a long tunnel and been enveloped by an extraordinary light. They also claim to have spoken with a luminous figure, heard voices, or beheld a beautiful, colorful world. Perhaps quotation marks should be used when writing the words "saw," "heard," or "talked." Our imagination was formed in the material world. We describe our impressions using familiar concepts. Meanwhile, the spiritual world should be described in a "spiritual language," which we do not yet speak. Therefore, we must translate the descriptions of these impressions into our earthly language. In the spiritual world, there are no material structures because nothing physical exists there. We perceive the phenomenon of transition between these two worlds as a corridor or tunnel, because that's how our brain explains it to us when we try to describe it. We see it, even though it doesn't actually exist. The same applies to light or colors, which we know from the physical world. Our spiritual self, experiencing entry into the spiritual world, has no eyes, ears, or other senses. Therefore, it cannot see, hear, or feel anything by touch. Yet we try to describe these phenomena somehow. Unfortunately, in the world beyond time and space, different rules apply than in our world. There, there are only us and other spiritual beings. At the same time, our memory and imagination, devoid of spatial structures and temporal boundaries, continue to function. Of course, there are specific laws and principles, some of which I describe in this study. These comprise the concept of essenceism, which I mentioned at the very beginning.

The personality of a person entering the spiritual world does not change significantly compared to the personality they had during their life on Earth. It's still the same person, the same character, the same mind remembering all their earthly accomplishments. This is precisely what the Creator desired for us when creating life on Earth. He wanted humanity to remember every detail of their life forever. Through this memory of their experiences, the beauty and richness of nature, humanity would preserve within themselves an eternal image of God's work. On this basis, they could create further scenarios of life in the spiritual world. Various forms of the Creator's work would accompany them endlessly in their spiritual life, and their happiness would last forever. Otherwise, experiencing our life on Earth would be meaningless.

To begin explaining our future in the spiritual world, I will use a situation that appeals to the human imagination. The transition from the physical world to the spiritual world can be imagined as an extension of our nightly sleep. We simply fall asleep, never to wake up again in material reality. Our dreams are most often relivings of situations, images, and events we experienced while awake. These events are recorded by our spiritual self as a "recording" intended for further reliving in the spiritual world. An ordinary night's sleep utilizes these recordings in a fragmented and disorganized manner. Meanwhile, in the spiritual world, we will utilize these recordings in an orderly manner. Moreover, we will freely change their script to our liking. We do this every day in our physical lives in the form of our dreams. The Creator envisioned that our life in the spiritual world would be the fulfillment of our dreams, a period of eternal joy and happiness. Unfortunately, the realization of God's plans and our dreams is still an unattainable future.

To know what it will be like "there," one must first understand that heaven, hell, and the spiritual world in general are not places or any specific space. It is an open, boundaryless sphere, constituting infinity. The only reality in this realm is humans (or rather, their spiritual selves) and angels. The spiritual world is a sphere of life for spiritual beings. Its "content" consists solely of them. Apart from God, humans, and angels, there is no one else there, and certainly nothing material. Images, visions, and remembered content from the physical world are simply embedded in the personalities of those who previously had anything to do with the physical world.

At the moment of physical death, we forever abandon the three-dimensional world and the linear flow of time, and instead, we are surrounded by a realm existing beyond time and space. This is a great shock for every person, especially one who has never considered the so-called afterlife. Entering the spiritual world marks the beginning of existence in a completely new reality, one that should be characterized by complete freedom. Unfortunately, we won't feel it yet, as it will only appear in an ideal world. There, this freedom stems from God's existing Laws, which by no means means its diminishment. On the contrary, it is a state in which no limitations are felt. This is because in the world created by God, His Laws and Principles are, as it were, "built into" reality, that is, integrated with it. In the case of an ideal world, this applies to both realities, physical and spiritual. There is simply no other alternative. If evil were to appear, it would become an antireality that should not exist at all. Unfortunately, we know that this antireality has taken on real form, and we now live in a fallen world that is, in essence, an antiworld, an abyss existing beyond the concept of the Creator. Therefore, after death, we may find ourselves in the spiritual antisphere, that is, in the hell of the spiritual world, which is also a type of abyss. Therefore, we should be aware of how our current situation, dominated by evil, negatively impacts our future lives in the spiritual world.

I explained in the chapter on the principles of the spiritual world's functioning that God created the boundless universe to be an eternally infinite sphere of experience for His children. It's true that at our current level of knowledge, our contact with the universe is almost entirely limited to our globe, but the universe itself is open to us. For now, we don't necessarily need to venture into space for new knowledge, as we haven't yet fully explored our Earth, which continues to captivate us with new discoveries. At the same time, over thousands of years, we have accumulated a vast amount of knowledge about it. What we "record" during our physical lives provides the material for building a new life scenario for our experiences in the spiritual world. There's no need to imagine that unimaginable creatures from outer space or strange experiences contrary to our original nature will await us in the spiritual world. There, everything will stem from the natural order of the universe, prepared by the Creator, which we are already partially familiar with during our lives in our world. Therefore, we constantly register the content of the physical world in our personality and then transfer it to the spiritual world. So, with such "baggage," how do we experience encountering a new reality?

In summary, only our spiritual self enters the spiritual world, and it is they who bring their experiences, generated by their physical self, into it. Experiences gathered on Earth form a single whole there, as if they were present in a single point and in a single fraction of a second. This is because different laws operate there than on Earth. That world is beyond time and space. In that reality, a spiritual person cannot sense the flow of time or the dimensions of space on their own. They have everything integrated within themselves. They seem to reside in one point, yet they are present everywhere. To understand this better, imagine writing down all the experiences, events, and images of our lives on sheets of paper. These pages are first arranged in a single sequence, one next to the other, following the chronology of our lives, creating a line of experiences stretching for hundreds of kilometers. This represents the flow of time, say, several decades of our lives. Imagine then gathering this entire sequence of "pages" into a single pile. Then we will have before us our entire lives, assembled in a single point and in a single fraction of a second. It feels as if no time had passed, as if everything had happened simultaneously, experienced in a single moment. We then "see" our entire lives in the blink of an eye. This is precisely what happens when we leave the physical world and enter a world beyond time and space.

We are therefore gradually gaining knowledge of a crucial moment in our lives. While in our reality, described by "Newtonian" physics, time and space are a necessity, in the spiritual world they are merely our imagination. However, there are people of faith and even scientists who claim that even in the physical world, time is merely a figment of our imagination. Although the phenomenon of suspended time is very rare, it can nevertheless occur because during life we ​​have a coexistence of the physical and spiritual. This can occur under the influence of a strong distraction of our personality, that is, during a loss of consciousness, as a result of chemical intoxication, or as a result of profound religious experiences caused by the dominance of the spiritual person. There are also a few scientists who, in an attempt to overcome the lack of connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity, attempt to eliminate time, claiming that it arises solely from our imagination or memory. They need this assumption because they cannot rely on the fact that a world exists beyond time and space and the accomplishments of the Creator. When entering the spiritual world, we must consider everything described above. We will have within us a complete "recording" of our lives. We will be able to "view" and evaluate it at any time, that is, to pass "final judgment" on it. This will be explained in greater detail below.

Currently, in most cases, the basic form of presence in the spiritual world is a kind of "participation" by the spiritual individuals residing there in the lives of physical individuals on Earth. This is because all of humanity, as it were, has not completed its development and needs to achieve personal perfection. The level of this participation depends, of course, on the degree of spiritual growth of our personality developed during our earthly lives. It also concerns the degree of liberation from our problems related to our "previous" life in the physical world, enabling or preventing the realization of a new chapter of life in the spiritual world. Those residing there who are most aware of the situation on Earth feel a great need to work for the salvation of the world. Unfortunately, the more burdened a person is by previous earthly problems, the less attention they can devote to participating in this salvation. For example, for spiritual beings in paradise, bringing about the salvation of humanity is the sole purpose of their "daily" activities. This was achieved through the redemptive work of Jesus, who completely freed them from the burdens of their previous lives. Unfortunately, in the "lower" spheres of the spiritual world, this activity for the salvation of the world is often hindered or drowned out by personal problems stemming from mistakes made during their earthly life. As I wrote in the previous sections of this study, these problems can sometimes eliminate a person from the process of world repair. Moreover, they can even make them a tool to harm this process if they fall under the influence of the spiritual world, which is subject to Satan.

We already know that our lives are material in the form of a "recording" that we carry with us into the spiritual world after physical death. From that moment on, nothing can be undone or denied in our experiences. With few exceptions, upon entering the spiritual world, we relatively quickly gain a proper perspective on our previous lives. Thus begins our private "last judgment." We then see our entire lives clearly and immediately understand what constitutes the proper material for eternal life. At the same time, we become aware of what constituted worthless material, and above all, what was the evil that was destroying our lives.

Personal hell begins when a person realizes they have wasted their life and begins to regret most of their actions. They then desire to make amends for these wrongdoings and wrongdoings. However, when they realize they cannot undo these events, they begin to suffer increasingly. If they do not receive forgiveness from those they have wronged, they may have to wait until the Savior forgives their sins. I would also like to mention a group of people who suffer particularly deeply: those who have committed suicide. Their level of spiritual pain is immense. For all of them, the only hope is the coming of the Savior.

The claim that hell is God's punishment for our sins requires critical reflection. Such a "just" approach to our situation after death would mean that the Supreme Judge would punish us for our sins. This is the doctrine of many religious denominations. This leads to a paradoxical conclusion: the Creator will continue to subject us to suffering in the spiritual world because we were taken from His care by Satan and subjected to a life of slavery in hell. Should this be the image of justice enacted by our beloved Father?

However, many people today live with such an absurd assessment of the Creator. In light of what I have written in numerous places in this study, there is no such God who punishes people. He loves His children infinitely and has not prepared any punishments or suffering for them. This is merely a figment of fallen human nature, which is incapable of appreciating the unimaginable goodness coming from the Heavenly Father. It must therefore be clearly stated that we ourselves will experience pain and suffering upon entering the spiritual world. This will be our "punishment." There, we will understand how far we have strayed from the form of life envisioned in the Kingdom of Heaven. This pain can be intensified by the fact that hell continues on Earth, and those already in the spiritual world cannot repair the consequences of their sins.

A truly good, or normal, life in the spiritual world begins when, through salvation, we cleanse our previous life of evil and begin to replay this "cleansed" recording. This means that we have passed through our personal "final judgment." We then replay the true experiences, those that arose from God's creative concept. We can even create our own favorite life course and fulfill all our desires stemming from this "recording." For example, we can relive a trip, a wonderful skiing experience, or the ascent of Mount Everest. We can freely replay our life, all its moments of joy and elation, as many times as we like, and modify them in any way we want. Sometimes we experience similar experiences in recurring dreams or in attempts to influence their content.

Finally, I would like to assure everyone that the Creator, who accustomed us during our earthly lives to constant contact with nature, to admiring it, to experiencing its transformations and beauty, had no intention of limiting these experiences upon physical death. He wanted our happiness and joy from communing with what was dear to us in life on Earth to remain with us forever. Therefore, there's no need to worry that after death we'll no longer be able to see our beautiful world. The topics in this book make it clear that we will be able to continually experience the same joys we experienced in our physical lives. Moreover, this will be possible in the company of those we loved during our time on Earth.

Quite often, in our earthly lives, we want love to last forever or for certain experiences to never end. Meanwhile, there, in the spiritual world, we can fulfill these very desires. In short, heaven is the fulfillment of all our best dreams, bringing us joy and happiness. Therefore, it's worth constantly remembering the principle that our "happy recording," made during life in the physical world, can bring us endless joy and happiness throughout our entire lives in the spiritual world. It's therefore good to strive to repair our current civilization and, even on a small scale, to strive for the creation of an ideal world as soon as possible. If we try to look more closely at the sayings of Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospels, we can find a lot of good advice supporting such endeavors.