When you or a loved one breathes their last, they don't go anywhere as Spirit aka Consciousness is not subject to time and space. Consciousness is omnipresent. Remember time and space are only relevant to the mind and body which you no longer are when physical death occurs and never were anyway. Your consciousness was curtailed by the conscious mind in an egoic mindset; therefore, you were blind to the Spiritual realm. After death you are not. You are Spirit aka Consciousness, and you 'know' you are Spirit. You are what you were before birth and what you will be again after death. Therefore, it is not with your eyes that you behold your new or remembered reality but with your inner "I" or your presence/existence/consciousness. You do not know life through the senses anymore, you 'know' life period. I am life. Knowing is Awareness.
You do not think or believe you exist, nor is it a particular feeling that you attribute to existing. No, you know you exist. Knowing is not thinking, nor is it a feeling. Knowing is a different experience altogether. Your true Self is Awareness which is the activity or expression of Consciousness. Your true Self as Awareness is found beyond or behind your thoughts and emotions. Self-Realization is the conscious recognition of ourselves as Awareness. It is Spirit knowing itself as Soul. Self-Realization is our conscious presence in and as that Awareness.
Bear in mind there are two types of Consciousness or rather, two levels. There is Vessel or Mind-Consciousness that is temporary (effect) and then there is our true and eternal Consciousness that is Spirit (Cause). Spirit, our true Consciousness fills the vessel of Mind-Consciousness as the Holy Ghost (intuition) when the mind realizes itself as Spirit. At the moment you only know yourself as the former. Self-Realization is knowing yourself as the latter. Likewise with Awareness. There is the temporary awareness of being the subconscious (mind/body) which is the vessel for the One Soul and then as we level up, we know ourselves as the true and eternal Awareness that is the One Soul. We as the conscious mind aka mind-consciousness first becomes conscious of ourselves subconsciously within and as Present Moment Awareness and then we go deeper within ourselves by staying in the Now, knowing ourselves as the Awareness beyond the mind which is the expression of our true Consciousness.
While in this form your true Self aka Conscious Awareness or Spirit (I) being Soul (Am), is seemingly, to the senses, confined to the physical realm as mind/body, unless one has Self-Realized in this incarnation or a previous one and no longer identifies as the personal. When you have no further use of your mind/body you will experience the opposite of confinement and expand in Awareness to the degree your Soul is able too; to the degree your Consciousness or Spirit is able to expand in recognition of itself as the totality of Awareness or Life. If you are at the end of your evolutionary cycle, then one can, if they so wish, merge back in and as Undifferentiated Awareness (Totality of life). All of us are on, or at different levels of awareness in the process of the snake eating its own tail.
As in life, our Consciousness while still experiencing a personal sense of being in the afterlife, is drawn to whatever Realm that attracts and resonates with it the most. There are many realms of Effect beyond the physical & mental Realms that we cannot know with our rudimentary senses in this realm, due to their refinement. We are each of us, at our own place in the totality of Life somewhere, as the wheel of fate turns heralding a new season for each one of us. Your Soul will be attracted to the realm that most resonates with its state of being. Souls at your level of Consciousness are often referred to as Soul Family.
How we accept our physical death is completely reliant on how consciously aware we are of ' being the eternal I AM aka Spirit being Soul' or to use other terms Nonconceptual Consciousness (I) being Undifferentiated Awareness (Am). For the realized, it's a non-event. It is basically taking off your clothes and being naked, which is far more comfortable and free. For the new Soul it can be a more arduous process, however, rest assured that love is always present within the transition from form to formlessness. Always in all ways Love, which is of course formless, is your true body of expression.
Understand then your loved ones have gone nowhere. How can they when they are consciousness? Consciousness is omnipresent. There is nowhere Consciousness is not. They have simply expanded consciously into a realm that you, as an egoic mind cannot comprehend or be aware of at this point. They have woken up and are no longer in a shared dream with you on a personal level (They are on an impersonal level albeit unconsciously for the most part). Many Souls on passing, due to retaining a personal sense of Self, will have little to no knowledge of this shared dream we are in. No more than you remember your dream on waking up from sleeping.
There will be some Souls however, that like a bird from the sky, from its vantage point, (your loved one) will be aware of the fish (you) in the sea, however the fish is rarely aware of the bird. That which is above always has more awareness than that which is below. The more the Inner I opens, the more one wakes from the effect of Consciousness sleeping in which it dreams. Some however have evolved to the point where they are lucid dreamers, meaning they can enter the dream without falling asleep. They are our so-called Angels.
A part of you exists in and of every realm, so though you are not conscious of loved ones that have passed on, depending on their level of consciousness, they are of you. Death wakes most of us up to a certain degree therefore, we are slightly more conscious - more awake than we were in the physical. You either personally or impersonally, exist in every realm because you are, like they are - omnipresent. There is a version of you in every realm. Just as there is a version of them in this realm even though it is now impersonal and taken on a different form. We can never truly be parted, as Consciousness can never truly be separated. It is always in all ways One, even in its sleep of differentiation.
It would be prudent then wouldn't it to get to know our true Self beyond form, which is also ultimately the true Self of all our loved ones. When the final hour for the body comes, we do not have to feel the pain and heartbreak of separation if we knew ourselves beyond the physical. If we Self- Realized, thereby rendering the veil of egoic thought and emotion redundant, we will be able to see beyond the confines of human vision, into other dimensions of existence that are seen with the inner 'I' as opposed to the eyes of flesh and save ourselves the sorrow of separation.
I promise you, every loved one you have ever said goodbye to, you will one day say hello to again, when it's your turn to wake from this dream.
~ Tracy Pierce
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