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THE VOID
OF NOTHINGNESS
A person died of "terminal" cancer, went into the light, asked the deepest questions he had about life and the universe and received amazing
answers - and not only came back to physical life from his near-death experience - but also was healed
(as he was to find out three months later) ...
Mellen-Thomas
Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in 1982.
He was dead for over an hour and a half and during that time, he
"rose up out of his body and went into the Light." Curious
about the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of existence,
and even beyond, into the energetic "Void of Nothingness"
behind the Big Bang. Dr.
Kenneth Ring has said, "His story is one of the most remarkable
I have encountered in my extensive research on near-death experiences."
"THE
ROAD TO DEATH: In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. My condition
was non-operable. I chose not to have chemotherapy. I was given
six to eight months to live. Before this time, I had become increasingly
despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth.
I came to believe that nature had made a mistake — that we
were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. And that is what
eventually killed me. Before my death, I tried all sorts of alternative
healing methods. None helped... Neither
was I into any kind of spirituality, but my approaching death sent
me on a quest for more information about spirituality and alternative
healing. I read various religions and philosophies. They gave hope
that there was something on the other side.
"I
had no medical insurance, so my life savings went overnight on tests.
Unwilling to drag my family into this, I determined to handle this
myself. I ended up in hospice care and was blessed with an angel
for my hospice caretaker, whom I will call "Anne." She
stayed with me through all that was to follow. It lasted about eighteen
months.
"I
woke up about 4:30 am and I knew that this was it. I was going to
die. I called a few friends and said good-bye. I woke up Anne and
made her promise that my dead body would remain undisturbed for
six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things
happen when you die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember,
I was fully aware and standing up. Yet my body was lying in the
bed. I seemed to be surrounded by darkness, yet I could see every
room in the house, and the roof, and even under the house.
"A
Light shone; I turned toward it, and was aware of its similarity
to what others have described in near-death experiences. It was
magnificent and tangible, alluring. I wanted to go towards that
Light like I might want to go into my ideal mother's or father's
arms. As I moved towards the Light, I knew that if I went into the
Light, I would be dead. So I said/felt, "Please wait. I would
like to talk to you before I go." The
entire experience halted. I discovered that I was in control of
the entire experience...
"The
information transmitted was that our beliefs shape the kind of feedback
we receive: If you are a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist,
you get a feedback loop of your own images. I became aware of a
Higher Self matrix, a conduit to the Source. We all have a Higher
Self, or an oversoul part of our being, a conduit. All Higher Selves
are connected as one being, all humans are connected as one being.
We are literally the same being. It was the most beautiful thing
I have ever seen. It was like all the love you've every wanted,
and it was the kind of love that cures, heals, regenerates.
"I
was ready to go at that time. I said "I am ready, take me."
Then the Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have
ever seen: a mandala of human souls on this planet. I saw that we
are the most beautiful creations — elegant, exotic . . . everything. I just cannot say enough about how it changed my opinion
of human beings in an instant...
"THE
VOID OF NOTHINGNESS: Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from
the planet on this stream of Life. I saw the earth fly away. The
solar system, whizzed by and disappeared. I flew through the center
of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that
this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different
varieties of life. I saw many worlds. We are not alone in this Universe.
"It
seemed as if all the creations in the Universe soared past me and
vanished in a speck of Light. Almost immediately, a second Light
appeared. As I passed into the second Light, I could perceive forever,
beyond Infinity. I was in the Void, pre-Creation, the beginning
of time, the first Word or vibration. I rested in the Eye of Creation
and it seemed that I touched the Face of God. It was not a religious
feeling. I was simply at One with Absolute Life and Consciousness.
..." ~
Mellen-Thomas Benedict
(This
unusual story is offered as an alternative perspective, which indeed
requires a very open mind. Should you want to read the article in full,
please click: www.NearDeath.com )
~
Contributed by Hospice Nurse, Denys Cope, RN, BSN
"This is an amazing account that confirms, for me, much of
what I know
Lessons he learned
The
mystery of life has very little to do with intelligence. The universe
is not an intellectual process at all. The intellect is helpful; it is
brilliant, but right now that is all we process with, instead of our
hearts and the wiser part of ourselves.
The
center of the earth is this great transmuter of energy, just as you see
in pictures of our earth's magnetic field. That's our cycle, pulling
reincarnated souls back in and through it again. A sign that you are
reaching human level is that you are beginning to evolve an individual
consciousness. The animals have a group soul, and they reincarnate in
group souls. A deer is pretty much going to be a deer forever. But just
being born a human, whether deformed or genius, shows that you are on
the path to developing an individual consciousness. That is in itself
part of the group consciousness called humanity. I saw that races are
personality clusters. Nations like France, Germany and China each have
their own personality. Cities have personalities, their local group
souls that attract certain people. Families have group souls.
Individual identity is evolving like branches of a fractal; the group
soul explores in our individuality. The different questions that each
of us has are very, very important. This is how Godhead is exploring
God's Self - through you. So ask your questions, do your searching. You
will find your Self and you will find God in that Self, because it is
only the Self.
More
than that, I began to see that each one of us humans are soul mates. We
are part of the same soul fractaling out in many creative directions,
but still the same. Now I look at every human being that I ever see,
and I see a soul mate, my soul mate, the one I have always been looking
for. Beyond that, the greatest soul mate that you will ever have is
yourself. We are each both male and female. We experience this in the
womb and we experience this in reincarnation states. If you are looking
for that ultimate soul mate outside of yourself, you may never find it;
it is not there. Just as God is not "there". God is here. Don't look
"out there" for God. Look here for God. Look through your Self. Start
having the greatest love affair you ever had ... with your Self. You
will love everything out of that.
I
had a descent into what you might call Hell, and it was very
surprising. I did not see Satan or evil. My descent into Hell was a
descent into each person's customized human misery, ignorance, and
darkness of not-knowing. It seemed like a miserable eternity. But each
of the millions of souls around me had a little star of light always
available. But no one seemed to pay attention to it. They were so
consumed with their own grief, trauma and misery. But, after what
seemed an eternity, I started calling out to that Light, like a child
calling to a parent for help. Then the Light opened up and formed a
tunnel that came right to me and insulated me from all that fear and
pain. That is what Hell really is. So what we are doing is learning to
hold hands, to come together. The doors of Hell are open now. We are
going to link up, hold hands, and walk out of Hell together. The Light
came to me and turned into a huge golden angel. I said, "Are you the
angel of death?" It expressed to me that it was my oversoul, my Higher
Self matrix, a super-ancient part of ourselves. Then I was taken to the
Light.
Soon
our science will quantify spirit. Isn't that going to be wonderful? We
are coming up with devices now that are sensitive to subtle energy or
spirit energy. Physicists use these atomic colliders to smash atoms to
see what they are made of. They have got it down to quarks and charm,
and all that. Well, one day they are going to come down to the little
thing that holds it all together, and they are going to have to call
that ... God. With atomic colliders they are not only seeing what is in
here, but they are creating particles. Thank God most of them are
short-lived milliseconds and nanoseconds. We are just beginning to
understand that we are creating too, as we go along. As I saw forever,
I came to a realm in which there is a point where we pass all knowledge
and begin creating the next fractal, the next level. We have that power
to create as we explore.
And that is God expanding itself through us.
Since
my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have
learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each
one of you can do this. You do not have to die to do this. It is within
your equipment; you are wired for it already. The body is the most
magnificent Light being there is. The body is a universe of incredible
Light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this body. That is not what
is happening. Stop trying to become God; God is becoming you. Here.
The
mind is like a child running around the universe, demanding this and
thinking it created the world. But I ask the mind: "What did your
mother have to do with this?" That is the next level of spiritual
awareness. Oh! my mother! All of a sudden you give up the ego, because
you are not the only soul in the universe.
One
of my questions to the Light was "What is Heaven?" I was given a tour
of all the heavens that have been created: the Nirvanas, the Happy
Hunting Grounds, all of them. I went through them. These are thought
form creations that we have created. We don't really go to heaven; we
are reprocessed. But whatever we created, we leave a part of ourselves
there. It is real, but it is not all of the soul.
I
saw the Christian Heaven. We expect it to be a beautiful place, and you
stand in front of the throne, worshipping forever. I tried it. It is
boring! This is all we are going to do? It is childlike. I do not mean
to offend anyone. Some heavens are very interesting, and some are very
boring. I found the ancient ones to be more interesting, like the
Native American ones, the Happy Hunting Grounds.
The
Egyptians have fantastic ones. It goes on and on. There are so many of
them. In each of them there is a fractal that is your particular
interpretation, unless you are part of the group soul that believes in
only the God of a particular religion. Then you are very close, in the
same ball park together. But even then, each is a little bit different.
That is a part of yourself that you leave there.
Death is about Life, not about Heaven.
I
asked God: "What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is
right?" And Godhead said, with great love: "I don't care." That was
incredible grace. What that meant was that we are the caring beings
here. The Ultimate Godhead of all the stars tells us: "It does not
matter what religion you are." They come and they go, they change.
Buddhism has not been here forever, Catholicism has not been here
forever, and they are all about to become more enlightened. More light
is coming into all systems now. There is going to be a reformation in
spirituality that is going to be just as dramatic as the Protestant
Reformation. There will be lots of people fighting about it, one
religion against the next, believing that only they are right. Everyone
thinks they own God, the religions and philosophies, especially the
religions, because they form big organizations around the philosophy.
When Godhead said, "I don't care," I immediately understood that it is
for us to care about. It is important, because we are the caring
beings. It matters to us and that is where it is important. What you
have is the energy equation in spirituality. Ultimate Godhead does not
care if you are Protestant, Buddhist, or whatever. It is all a blooming
facet of the whole. I wish that all religions would realize it and let
each other be. It is not the end of each religion, but we are talking
about the same God. Live and let live. Each has a different view. And
it all adds up to the big picture; it is all important.
I
went over to the other side with a lot of fears about toxic waste,
nuclear missiles, the population explosion, the rainforest. I came back
loving every single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom
cloud; this is the holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as
an archetype. It, more than any religion or philosophy on earth,
brought us together all of a sudden, to a new level of consciousness.
Knowing that maybe we can blow up the planet fifty times, or 500 times,
we finally realize that maybe we are all here together now. For a
period they had to keep setting off more bombs to get it in to us. Then
we started saying, "we do not need this any more." Now we are actually
in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is going to get
safer. So I came back loving toxic waste, because it brought us
together. These things are so big. As Peter Russell might say, these
problems are now "soul size." Do we have soul size answers? YES!
The
clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there
will be more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into
ecology, go for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming
aware. Go for it with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is
part of a larger thing. Earth is in the process of domesticating
itself. It is never again going to be as wild a place as it once was.
There will be great wild places, reserves where nature thrives.
Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the future. Population
increase is getting very close to the optimal range of energy to cause
a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will change
politics, money, energy.
What
happens when we dream? We are multi-dimensional beings. We can access
that through lucid dreaming. In fact, this universe is God's dream. One
of the things that I saw is that we humans are a speck on a planet that
is a speck in a galaxy that is a speck. Those are giant systems out
there, and we are in sort of an average system. But human beings are
already legendary throughout the cosmos of consciousness. The little
bitty human being of Earth/Gaia is legendary. One of the things that we
are legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary dreamers. In fact, the
whole cosmos has been looking for the meaning of life, the meaning of
it all. And it was the little dreamer who came up with the best answer
ever. We dreamed it up. So dreams are important.
After
dying and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our DNA
experiments we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will
be able to live as long as we want to live in this body. After living
150 years or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you will
want to change channels. Living forever in one body is not as creative
as reincarnation, as transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of
energy that we are in. We are actually going to see the wisdom of life
and death, and enjoy it. As it is now, we have already been alive
forever. This body that you are in, has been alive forever. It comes
from an unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond.
This body gives life to the next life, in dense and subtle energy. This
body has been alive forever already.
Mellen-Thomas Benedict
mellen-thomas.com
P.O. Box 1848, Soquel, CA 95073
Phone: 
(408) 427-5554
from www.near-death.com
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