When information or ideas become beliefs it only means the information was thought repetitively by the believers, not that the information is true.

The biggest danger in our world is not questioning our beliefs, but the assumption we have all the answers. The danger is not in the possibility of new information but the inclination to run from it. The danger is not in dramatically new ideas about life and our Creator but trying to create a better life with the same old ideas.

Understanding Who We Really Are

In my research I have found the most powerful way to understand life and who we really are starts with understanding the experience of death and who we become — after this life.

Before we can heal from abuse and became the person we desire, we have to gain an understanding of the full potential of who that person could be.

At the moment right after death, when your life force leaves your body, science has measured your body is immediately 21 grams or ¾ of an ounce lighter. Something has left your body.

What is this about?

In his book and documentary movie, Life After Life, which have sold over 13 million copies, Dr. Raymond Moody interviewed over 2,000 people who had been declared dead for as many as three days and returned to live again in their bodies.

I found his documentary movie to be incredibly fascinating and highly recommend you view it, if for no other reason than another perspective on life.

For 30 years, Dr. Moody researched to uncover if there is, indeed, life after death. By looking at the near death experiences of thousands of people Dr. Moody uncovered how we could choose to live if we desire to create what we want in our lives.

During the research, Dr. Moody found prior religious belief did not have a bearing on whether a person had a near death experience. And when the people interviewed for the research returned from being medically dead, these people had a dramatically new view of life.

Whatever desires for external satisfaction that were important in their lives before death, be it money, power or fame or many of the other things people seek, after their resurrections these people said the most important thing to them is love and their main life purpose is to seek authentically loving relationship with other people. They have no doubt that there is a God. They know there is life after death.

After a medical doctor was declared dead by doctors he reported that he could see the medical staff but they could not see him. The medical doctor searched the hospital looking for his body. Finally he found a body which had his fraternity ring on its finger.

But what if, as the body is dying, this is just hallucinations or a natural shutting down process of the brain?

People who have come back from death have given very accurate details of what went on after their deaths. They could not have known this information unless they were still, in some form without their bodies, alive and able to intelligently gather and process information.

A medical worker was part of a team who resuscitated a young woman who had been pronounced dead from excessive bleeding but came back to life. When the patient came back to life, she grabbed the medical worker saying when she was out of her body the patient saw a shoe on a ledge on the upper floor of the hospital. The medical worker was able to go to the ledge area and verify the shoe was in the location exactly as the patient specified.

A Russian doctor said his experience with death was amazing. He was everywhere he thought about and, at the same time, with his dead body in the morgue. He did not have to leave one place for another. He could be in New York, Texas and Moscow simultaneously. There was no distance or time.

The Russian doctor said when he was dead and out of his body, he could communicate with very little children in bodies who couldn’t speak or walk yet but were just coming from the place the doctor was going. He reported this was an amazing spiritual communication without words, but a mental, energetic communication.

The Russian doctor explained as he was leaving his body, he could feel the pain of the body. After death, he was in darkness and could not see anything. He realized he was not in his body. It scared him to be without his body and still alive.

The Russian doctor’s training was in science. As a doctor and scientist, in his thinking it was impossible to be somewhere without his body. He humorously said it scared him to death to be without his body but he was already dead.

He found it amazing to be dead, yet have the ability to think and understand. One of his first understandings after death and outside his body was that by simply thinking, he existed and was alive.

His next desire was to move from darkness to light. So he began to think about light. When he did, he saw light in the darkness. His next thought was to go into the light. When he thought this, he immediately, without a body or the need for physical action, moved to the light.

One of the most common patterns with the thousands of people who have died and lived to tell about it is the power of their own thoughts creating what they experience.

They report that the life force within all of us, allowing you to feel and think as a human, lives on after you leave your body. This life force is your emotions and your thoughts — your ability to think and feel.