Journalist Stéphane Allix talks about the lessons he has learned from his close encounters with NDEs:
Our world feels real and dense, but where I come from, even though there’s no matter, it’s even more real. It’s a real reality that I enter every time I let go of my brain’s activity. When the brain stops, you wake up. Our terrestrial world is an illusion of matter. Science is beginning to realize this, and I’ve experienced it for myself.
The total erasure of our ego, our identity, does not lead to the disappearance of consciousness. On the contrary, we become the whole universe again. Death doesn’t exist.
Our Consciousness does not disappear after our death
After earthly life, there is no longer any identity of one’s own. We are no longer limited to a “me”, but become once again a consciousness expanded to infinity, interwoven with other consciousnesses, without the illusion of separation.
We are fragments of a larger being, and we work for its harmony. The whole world is contained within our soul. Death is absolutely harmless. Death concerns only our body. Our deeper nature is not concerned. After the physical death of the body, consciousness leaves time and space. We become infinite again.
Death reveals that the personality we identify with throughout our corporeal existence does not define our being. Our personality is not our consciousness. So the big question is, who dies?
As Ram Dass puts it, “our bodies capture consciousness”. Throughout our lives, our brains work to develop and reinforce a sense of identity, uniqueness and spatial location. The soul slipped into a role to live an earthly experience, and the role began to believe in its own existence. From then on, it covers the soul like mud covers a torrent.
Everything that happens has a meaning
All our earthly life has meaning, it’s all teaching and part of a journey towards harmony, even if it sometimes goes beyond our understanding. Our soul had a plan when it arrived. Whatever the moment of death, it has been chosen by the soul.
Ram Dass: “The soul has its own agenda when it takes birth as a human being. She has some work to do and complete on the earthly plane. She uses body and personality to do it, and when it’s over, she leaves this plane.
The wisest beings I’ve ever met have all told me that a soul doesn’t leave the earth a second too early or a second too late. For those of us who identify so strongly with our bodies and personalities, this is hard to understand.
Because we don’t listen closely enough to our inner selves, we see the earthly plane as the only one that exists. So we want it to last as long as possible. As soon as we start looking from the soul’s point of view, the picture is completely different.”
After death, we retain a certain individuality. It sometimes takes time for the soul to free itself from the numbness of personality.
Death is neither a mistake nor a failure
Ram Dass: “If you identify with your soul, death is child’s play. It doesn’t have to be treated as an enemy to enjoy life. Keep death in your mind as an incredible transformation. Death is not a mistake or a failure, it’s a relief. It’s like taking off shoes that are too tight. “
In reality, it’s not the passage from one world to another, because our fundamental consciousness is already in that other world, as well as in our own.
We are, at one and the same time, individuals separated from each other and consciousnesses connected to each other in an infinite field of love, like grains of sand on an immense beach or the drops of water that make up the ocean.
The billions and billions of reflections of Consciousness that appear in human beings and in all that exists are linked together by this field of love. When the ego disappears, we become aware of this unity.
Ram Dass: “The soul is not limited to human love. She is connected to others by a love that transcends all understanding, spiritual love. This love is not modified or altered by changes of form and world. When your mind is sufficiently appeased, your heart will give you the assurance that this love is always with you, always has been and always will be. “Love is the bridge between the two worlds.
An invitation to reconnect with our spiritual dimension
Death holds up a mirror to life, shattering our certainties about what we think we are: a stable individual with well-defined characteristics, distinct from all others. Death reveals that this individual was no more than a set of ephemeral masks.
We go through life without knowing who we really are. We cling to a mirage, that of the character we’ve built up, and we’re terrified of seeing it disappear one day, because we think it will be the end of who we are. But we’re not a collection of masks in perpetual battle with one another.
We live totally hypnotized by our thoughts, whose only purpose is to give apparent cohesion to the character we embody. We devote all our energy to protecting this persona, cutting ourselves off more and more from our inner selves.
The death is just that of the character, the actor remains alive.
Listening to our soul
All the answers are within us, in our eternal soul, whose nature is love. All she asks is that we be silent and listen.
When you experience an altered state of consciousness, there’s always a moment when you have to come back down to the real world.
Personality is only a fragment of our true nature, but it is indispensable for living healthily in our world. It’s not to be discarded, it’s just not predominant anymore.
Meditation is a way of doing this. Meditation is not a therapy or a personal development tool, but a path to the soul. In essence, it’s a spiritual practice.
We need nothing more than love to open the door. Just stop trying to control everything.
What lives in us cannot die
1. A Buddhist saying goes: “Before awakening, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers; during awakening, mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers; after awakening, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers”.
2. Arnaud Desjardins used to say that we should always enter meditation with the awareness that we are turning towards the sacred within ourselves.
I warmly recommend reading Stéphane Allix’s latest book: “La mort n’existe pas” – Harper Collins Editions.
For more information on Stéphane Allix and his work: https: //www.inrees.com/soutien/Stephane-ALLIX/
On the same theme, you can also read the article Death is not the end of life.
