Like Whitton, NDE researchers have also uncovered evidence that our lives are planned beforehand, at least to some extent, and we each play a role in the creation of this plan. This is apparent in several aspects of the experience. Frequently after arriving in the world of light, NDEers are told that "it is not their time yet." As Ring points out, this remark clearly implies the existence of some kind of "life plan."
It is also clear that NDEers play a role in the formulation of these destinies, for they are often given the choice whether to return or stay. There are even instances of NDEers being told that it is their time and still being allowed to return. Moody cites a case in which a man started to cry when he realized he was dead because he was afraid his wife wouldn't be able to raise their nephew without him. On hearing this the being told him that since he wasn't asking for himself he would be allowed to return. In another case a woman argued that she hadn't danced enough yet. Her remark caused the being of light to give a hearty laugh and she, too, was given permission to return to physical life.
The first impression your records share with us is... you are dancing. So, all the information the records share with me will be metaphor, because that's just the way I can put it in words. So it's not like this is really what happened. They're just showing me so I can describe it for you.
So, the first thing when I access your records and the whole thing opens up... they show that you are a dancer, and you are dancing... it's not ballet... it's almost like modern dance — very beautiful in movement, incorporating ballet and also free-flow modern dance. And then it shows that you're in this bodysuit. It's not a tutu. It's modern dance, so you have the suit so we can see your whole body. And then your movement is so free. And you are just following what's calling you as you move around. It's a beautiful, beautiful dance.
But the sensation coming up with this image is... you are allowing your creativity... you are allowing yourself to be guided with the creativity, with the inspiration, with the flow of life that you are aware of. Nobody taught you, really. You just have this feeling that there is this river of life, it has its own rhythm, and you are allowing yourself to embrace and to sense... whatever you have been doing, you're allowing yourself to sense this rhythm of your own flow of life. And you are actually tapping into that because you're just allowing... And then this beautiful dance is allowing you to... even though you're living in this 3D dimension... this beautiful dance is a metaphor for you allowing yourself to move freely so you can actually work with the rhythm of your life, so that rhythm of your life actually works for you.
So your records want you to know that the way you're doing it, based on feeling good versus other people saying this is the right thing to do... When you do that, the records show that there is this white light coming down from the divine source that is connecting with you. When you do your thing and you live your life based on feeling good, that actually aligns you with this divine source power because you are so open to... you're so open to all the possibilities. For some reason, you have this innate ability to not be put in the box that society put you into. It's just comes naturally to you, for some reason. Because of your innate ability for that, it actually allows you to be able to align with the divine guidance very easily. And because you allow yourself to just live your life with the flow... and so your records actually do want you to know about that.
When a journeyer to the inner dimensions encounters a being of light, is that being a reality or just an allegorical phantasm? The answer is, of course, that it is a bit of both, for in a holographic universe all appearances are illusions, hologramlike images constructed by the interaction of the consciousness present, but illusions based, as Pribram says, on something that is there. Such are the dilemmas one faces in a universe that appears to us in explicate form but always has its source in something ineffable, in the implicate [gaming engine].
We can take heart in the fact that the hologramlike images our minds construct in the afterlife realm appear to bear at least some relationship to the something that is there. When we encounter a disembodied cloud of pure knowledge, we convert it into a school or library. When an NDEer meets a woman with whom he has had a love/hate relationship, he sees her as half rose, half cobra, a symbol that still conveys the quintessence of her character; and when travelers in the subtler realms encounter helpful, nonphysical consciousnesses, they see them as luminous and angelic beings.
And you will actually be utilizing this, helping more people than you can see now. Like, of course you have a business and you run your business and all that. But your records want you to have this understanding... what you're doing... the way you're doing it and how you're doing it, is actually pretty valuable.
So down the road when you feel called to do it, just do it the way you always do it. Allow it to happen. If you're called to share with people about how you live your life and how things work for you, feel free to share it. So this is just something your records want you to have some heads up about. Because your gift is not just teaching kids coding for the game. There is a lot more that you'll be able to share with the world.
Your records just want you to know that they're really very excited for all the different possibilities that... It's not just all the possibilities that are able to happen for you, but there's a bigger picture behind that, which is how you will be able to share all of these infinite possibilities with the rest of the world, however you choose to.
They show this image that's you, but not in this lifetime. The wardrobe is more like an ancient lifetime, but everything they show is metaphor. What they show is a tiara... it's almost like you're in a ceremony or something and it feels like it's a king or queen or a royal kind of feeling. You're in a ceremony and a tiara is being put on you.
So the records want you to know... the message is... at some point in time your soul actually chose to accept this mission that you're going to complete in this lifetime. You actually decided before you became a person here, you had decided that you were going to do this. This is part of your mission, in terms of what you are going to be sharing with other people. You have accepted that this is going to be a part of the knowledge that you're going to spread and share when the time is right for you.
Shush... I thought. Quiet your mind. Focus. Calm.
I was sitting cross-legged on the bed in my Chiang Mai apartment, staring at the wall. I was 26 years old.