I had a role to play, but no worries, my child: it’s going to be a tiny role. He assured me that I was following a plan, and that plan was well on course. Channeling Liberating Jesus in 2015, which required that my beautiful Thomas become an active part of my daytime life. Putting on annual afterlife conferences with Craig Hogan, beginning in 2014. Instead, over the intervening decade I have been pulled and prompted to do more. Perhaps we were supposed to be ignorant of our true nature and our destiny, to keep us focused on our lessons here? In the summer of 2010, I became so obsessed with the notion that I might be committing a cosmic crime in publishing The Fun of Dying that I did in fact pray fervently that if that book should not be published, then God could please take me in my sleep.

I was still enough of a Christian that my instinct then was to follow the herd. And for my part, slow learner that I am, it is only now that I really am able to see how important this awakening is! When I first began to speak and write about the afterlife, I was vaguely worried that if we were supposed to know that we survive our deaths, then for certain we would already know it. We are just now coming to realize that immortality may be that magic bullet. If you had found a way to transform humankind for the better in barely a heartbeat of time, what would you do? If you could make every person on every street in every nation in the Western world feel spontaneously less selfish and more loving? More compassionate and kind? If you had a way to actually accomplish the transformation in each human heart that religions over all the earth and throughout human history have been trying to achieve, although without much success? – Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), from “Peace Train” (1971) Oh, I’ve been smiling lately, Dreaming about the world as one!Īnd I believe it could be. Now I’ve been happy lately, Thinkin’ about the good things to come.Īnd I believe it could be.

Magic bullet looks 2014