THE OTHER SIDE: OUR REAL HOME

HUGE WITH THOSE WHO 'DIE' AND RETURN IS THE FEELING THAT OTHER SIDE IS REAL 'HOME'

[adapted from The Other Side]

Death is terrifying, right? Correct?
Oh, sometimes, yes, for some -- perhaps.
But in the majority of near-death experiences, death is described not as a frightening traverse onto foreign turf, but as a feeling of return. How strange this seems!
"I'm home. I'm finally home," they often say they felt. "This is my real home!" many claim they felt upon death (and entrance into the eternal).
That's a constant in near-death experiences: the feeling that this -- Heaven -- is where they originated (in the Mind of God) and that earth was indeed as Catholicism says: a place of exile.
God indeed "knew you before you were born." He knitted you in the womb. He is the main reason why upon death you will feel like you are returning to your origin. Ditto for Jesus. "In my Father's house there are many dwelling places," He told His disciples. "If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way."
You know the way because it is the way home. It is the way into His arms. He is the way. There is an actual location that you will head for after the transition. It will match the station of your soul. It will be where you belong, as a home is where you belong. It is home because you originated here in the Mind of God.
Another reason folks feel so much like they are returning home is that after death -- sometimes immediately -- they're greeted by close relatives. Mothers, fathers, spouses, children, sisters, and brothers are there to greet you (and help with the transition). The rest of eternity is a reunion!
If that sounds too good to be true, remember that God is better than you can imagine.
Some say that upon "dying" they encountered a stadium-like structure filled with people who turned out to be distant relatives and ancestors! This is especially intriguing and raises a question: should we be praying not only for deceased relatives we knew in life on earth but all our ancestors (back to Adam)?
They could indeed fill a stadium. What a joy it would be to meet them! In eternity, one fascinating place will unfold unto another -- all somehow familiar. For your discernment.
"We descended together from God's light into a universe of bright stars," said one near-death witness, after the tunnel experience. "We were again in the deepest void of space, but now I felt comfortable in this environment as well as in my spirit body, and I felt at home in this celestial location. As [another soul] and I continued to descend, I was startled by the magnificent ethereal structure directly below us. The heavenly structure resembled an amphitheater similar to those found in ancient civilizations."
In the afterlife, families, it is said, are very important because they work together; they mesh in God's plan. For one to fail is for all to fail. Thus perhaps they root for each other (as in a stadium)! There is even testimony to that effect. We are all in this together.
Think about this the next time you are praying for the deceased.
Each day, pray for everyone who ever existed on your father's or mother's side.
"Reliving all these scenes, he felt as all the others who were part of them had felt," wrote two authors of a man's near-death episode. "Again he understood that he and everyone else were part of a whole, not separate. They were all part of God.
"While he relived scenes from his life, he heard voices. They were all talking about him. He was overhearing the thoughts and sharing the feelings of people he'd known. He was hearing and feeling what they'd thought and felt about him. He was deeply astounded by how many people cared deeply for him.
"Toward the end, he'd become so embittered that he hadn't seen the good in life, or in many of the people he'd shared it with. He'd never realized until he heard these voices. He heard his parents, his brother, his sister, his grandparents.
"There were friends, and co-workers.
"There was his high school friend Bob, someone he'd never considered a particularly good friend. He heard bob speak of him in the most loving terms, felt the friendship and loyalty Bob had felt for him. At that moment he realized that any good thought one person had about another, any compassionate feeling, was enduring. When the person was ready, even if this didn't happen until after death, the thought and feeling came back to him or her. Even if a person was oblivious of the thought, or dismissed the empathy at the time, it wasn't wasted."
[resources: The Other Side and After Life]
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