What to Do When You Are Dead Quotes

“People who worship material things usually fear death the most. The thought that the physical body will one day perish fills them with utter dread.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“I find it incredible that the message of a carpenter, who taught us to love others as we do ourselves, could have become so distorted. The two people who did most to make these ideas acceptable were both murderers. The first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine killed his own family, and Calvin murdered Servetus because he disagreed with him. Mercy was not a word high on the agenda of these forefathers of the Church. They laid down the law for their own personal”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“Perhaps the hellfire preachers are right, and I will perish in some terrible pit in hell. Perhaps I should donate large sums of money to their causes to save me from my Faustian fate. Nonetheless, if I am to go to the sulphurous pit, I'm likely to meet some interesting people in this netherworld, including perhaps Homer, Socrates, Gandhi, Mohammed, Einstein, and other non-Christians. I may even see Jesus there, for he was a Jew not a Christian.   Unfortunately, many Christians have--and still do--abuse the”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“Hell, and what to do in the lower planes   Tell people that they will go to hell if they do not convert to your particular brand of religion and you'll soon have converts knocking at your door. Sadly, many religions have used the fear of retribution to threaten their flock. The New Age philosopher David Ike summed it up for me when we met on a television show called the “Mystic Challenge.” "Religion is the most sophisticated form of brainwashing ever invented.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“Upon awakening from the cosmic sleep you will feel alive as ever. You will be met by your friends, family, and colleagues who made the transition before you. Naturally this will be a joyful experience. They will be dressed as you once knew them and at the age you remember them best. Your granddad, for example, may come as an old man, while a loved child will remain a child. Later you will discover that, in the afterlife world, we can live at any age we choose. Most probably prefer to exist in their prime; others may feel an affinity to a different age. Your bodily form easily shifts according to your will, as you are in reality a being of light. Recognizable forms, however, help in identifying each other, and making family and friends feel more comfortable.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“According to Taoist and Buddhist teachings, it is “craving” that holds a person to the earth plane. This could perhaps manifest as the desire to seek revenge, or to perhaps hold on to material possessions. In China,”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.   Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way which you always used; put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow; laugh, as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together; pray, smile, think of me, pray for me; let my name be ever the household word that it always was; let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.   Life means all that it ever meant; it is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near--Just around the corner. All is well.'    Henry Scott Holland”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“am convinced that becoming aware of the next stage of existence beyond the earth biosphere is very largely a matter of becoming attuned to its vibrations” -Arthur Ford (Life Beyond Death)”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“Moreover, whatever state of being he remembers when he gives up the body at the end, he goes respectively to that state of being, Arjuna, transformed into that state of being.” -The Bhagavad-Gita (8:6) The afterlife is not a place like the world you know around you now. What survives is the inner you. If you are spiritually advanced, you may skip the transition phases I described above and immediately become aware of the divine light of God. (I use the name God although I understand that this emotive word may mean different things to different readers.) Many Eastern religions believe that the last thoughts and words of the dying person will determine the level of spiritual attainment in the next life. So”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“Collective negative thought has the opposite effect. It can attract spirits from the lower planes and allow all sorts of mischief to occur. It may also attract spirits from the lower realm of the astral, “below” even the realm of the tramp souls.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“He not busy being born is busy dying.--Bob Dylan”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“heaven is not a place it is a “state.” Most mediums describe these states as planes of existence.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“never be afraid of dying. You must never fear death.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife

“The body and the soul! The body was born and will die. But for the soul there is no death. It is like the betel nut. When the nut is ripe it does not stick to the shell. But when it is green it is difficult to separate from the shell. After realizing God, one does not identify anymore with the body. Then one knows the body and the soul are two different things.—Ramakrishna”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, What to Do When You Are Dead: Life After Death, Heaven and the Afterlife