Patrick Swayze was born August 18, 1952 and died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57 on Monday, September 14, 2009. Patrick was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was well known and loved for his role as a romantic leading man, and ghost, in the movie…. 'Ghost'. May his soul be at peace in leaving his earthly life this time around.
In the movie 'Ghost', Patrick plays the part of Sam Wheat, a man who dies at the hands of a mugger while trying to protect himself and his girlfriend Molly Jensen (played by Demi Moore) while the two of them are walking home from a night at the theatre. In the movie, after Sam (Patrick Swayze) dies, he chooses not to follow the bright white lights calling him home to heaven until he knows that his sweetheart is safe.
In the movie, leaving this earth as a good person is represented or portrayed as very bright, twinkling lights coming from the heavens, pulling, drawing the dead person heavenward. This pulling, or drawing, appears as a choice. Leaving the earth as a bad person is represented or portrayed as black shadows and smoke, pulling or drawing the evil person toward hell apparently. This appears to be a consequence. Fascinating stuff!
Is there life after death? If so, do we know what it's really like? Well, many people who have had near death experiences have confirmed the bright light theory, along with a sense of peace and joy. So at the very least, we can know that we probably need not fear death. Fortunately, I haven't heard too many reports of the dark shadows experience. I think this is just something perpetuated by fear-based religions.
I liken death to the following:
- Death is like a butterfly emerging from the caterpillar stage.
- Death is like a seed raising itself up out of the earth and changing or growing into something even more beautiful, useful and complex.
- Death is like a snake that sheds its skin and is made new again. (That's a weird one!)
Our present state of understanding is so limited so that when we do enter the next life, a download of new information and a renewal of the mind takes place in addition to the gift of a new body. This renewal of the mind is like an 80 year old person who attended college at 18, graduated, lived life, and at 80 years old goes back to college for an earthly renewal of the mind. 60 years have passed since he was last in school and there's a lot that's happened since then. Put another way, it's like we've been sleeping through this life and now we finally wake up to a new world of wonder and awe where there is so much to learn. Our old ways of thinking are shed like the skin on a snake!
While we now occupy a body of material flesh, when we die we obtain a new form and live on a new level of spiritual existence.
The essential difference between the universe energy system and human beings is that the energy system continues on and does not choose to do so, it just does. Human beings determine their own destiny. As human beings in the material flesh, we live and we die, but our spirit personality lives on; determining along the way how it will proceed (or not) in the after physical-death realm of existence.
Death is only the beginning of our adventure.
It's simple really. You live. You die. You go on if you choose to. God has given you this gift of life and the gift of free will. I don't believe any person would choose not to go on – but in the event they do, then it's apparent to me that they will just simply cease to exist – that spark of life within them is simply dissolved into the consciousness of the universe.
Who doesn't love adventure and excitement? Who would pass up the opportunity to experience God's super plan of boundless opportunity, infinite treasure and extraordinary adventure?
Whosoever will may enter. This is God's will.
