Source Level Perspective on Evil and Suffering -- July 27, 2010

One of my YouTube viewers named Mark sent me the following message:

"What I find disturbing is that if I was to approach Source and state that I thought Hitler behaved in an evil way, Source would not only disagree with me but would apparently have no idea of what I was talking about. . . I am happy with the idea of not labeling people as being evil or not evil but it is a whole different ball game to say that some of these acts in themselves are not wrong."

Well, Mark, welcome to my NDE! I understand completely how you feel because I felt the same way when I learned all this information in the afterlife. But I learned something else that helps me understand: there are a million different perspectives in the universe and they are all true for those who hold them, at the time they hold them. For example, human animals have a completely different perspective on life and the afterlife than does Source/God. My writing and talks generally reflect Source or spiritual perspective because that is what I learned in the afterlife. The fact that Source and human perspectives are different, though, does not make either one of them wrong.

Source completely understands humans' beliefs about evil and right and wrong--but does not share that perspective. Nor are we "souls" expected to share Source's perspective while on earth. We share human perspective, which is completely valid while we experience their lives. Humans are judgmental and vindictive. And, just because Source does not judge human behavior at Source's level of existence does not mean we have to accept violence, killing, rape, torture or abuse without judgment at the human level of existence. We who are in humans experience the consequences of violence and have a right to do what we can to prevent it. Punishing offenders is an appropriate control measure. Adopting religious and personal values about right and wrong behavior is also appropriate. But insisting that Source share human judgments is not going to change Source's unconditionally loving and non-judgmental nature. What we can change is our desire to project human nature and beliefs onto Source.

To be clear--Source does NOT say torturing or killing another human, or any act of violence, is "right" or "ok." Source simply does not condemn itself/us for what we do in the physical world-just like you do not condemn yourself for what happens in your own dreams. Do you think you are evil when you hurt someone in a dream? Or have a nightmare full of murder and mayhem? No, because TO YOU it isn't real. You are not the character you portray in your dream; you simply watch the dream through his eyes. The same is true for Source: it/we are not the human characters we portray in physical life. We are parts of Source's own consciousness participating in the manifested world in much the same way you participate in your dreams. My experience of Source convinced me that it is unconditionally loving by nature. That means it loves and accepts us, and the Light Being soul within Hitler, despite what we do in the physical world. Maybe if you think of it as forgiveness, it would help. Source loves us/itself so much it forgives all we do while in human life. That's what unconditional love means.

"I am of course aware that this world is an illusion, which does put a different shade on things. However, the fact that you can't literally kill people doesn't change the fact that you can inflict enormous suffering. Dying might be an illusion but the suffering is not."

Accepting that the manifested world is illusory means you have achieved a spiritual perspective on life. The next step is to understand how that truth affects how we experience this world.

The entire human existence is manifested and "illusory," not just the physical appearances of it. I learned in the afterlife that the suffering isn't "real" either. The emotional experience IS real at the human level, but it is vicarious at our spiritual level. Let me explain. When you watch a particularly important football game, do you get angry with bad calls by the refs, excited by touchdowns, and annoyed by commercial breaks? Are you really angry, excited or annoyed with respect to your own life? No. You are reacting to the game and the emotions fade when the game is over. Similarly, when a woman cries through the ending of a "chick flick," is she actually suffering in her own life? No. She empathized with the fictional characters and forgets all about the crying after the movie ends. In much the same way, we parts of Source inside humans empathize with the lives of our human hosts. We suffer what they suffer--but only while we are in their bodies (and during the short time of the life review). My own experience in the afterlife was that all the pain and suffering I endured in Nanci's body was gone. In fact, Nanci's entire lifetime was revealed to be a vicarious experience, such as we might analogize to having a dream or being in a virtual reality game.

As for suffering with death--that is optional. We Light Being souls can choose to endure it or to get out of the body while it dies. Many near-death experience reports come from people who got out of their bodies to avoid the pain of dying or resuscitation.

The most important point here is that much human suffering could end tomorrow--if we would choose to do it. We Light Being souls have the power to stop our host bodies' hurtful behaviors. Why don't we? Because most people are not aware they even have this option. Most people truly believe they are human and cannot escape human emotions and motivations. That is why it is so important that we awaken each other to our true nature as parts of Source. Once you know that you are a powerful spiritual being, and not a human animal, you can believe you have the power to control your host body's behavior. Expressing more of our spiritual nature through our behavior would increase the amount of unconditional love in our human lives and decrease the violence and abuse.

How We Act Matters Whether We Are Punished or Not - May 27, 2010

I recently received a beautiful birthday card from my friend Bill, who reads this newsletter, and who asked the following as a joke: “If it doesn’t matter whether I’m loving and kind–or mean and hateful—why am I sending you a birthday card?”

Bill’s joke echoes a sentiment I hear over and over from readers. It is very hard to accept that Source/God does not punish us for misbehavior—or sin as some call it—when our organized religions have for millennia told us the opposite. On May 13th, in a teleconference call, Neale Donald Walsch gave the best response to this concern. He explained that after he had written about a third of his best selling Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1, he got this message from God: "There is no such thing as the Ten Commandments. . . You and I are one. Who would I command? Who would I punish? Myself?"

Source has no more interest in punishing its different personalities (you and I) than you have in punishing your dream characters. The key to accepting that there is no punishment in the afterlife is accepting that you are literally a subdivision of Source’s own personality—a facet of its personality and consciousness. Just like your dream characters are facets of your own personality and consciousness.

The fact that we are not punished in the afterlife for our human behaviors does not, however, mean that our actions here do not matter. They matter a great deal to those around us. Every action has a consequence not only to those directly impacted by it, but to ourselves, and everyone else. We see those consequences quite clearly in our human lives. We feel them exquisitely in our life reviews in the afterlife. We have the power to hurt or heal with our words, our touch, and our actions. Which would you rather do? Are you really behaving kindly only because you fear eternal punishment?
Our actions in physical life also matter a great deal to us as eternal beings. We do not stop being who we are after these bodies die. We still believe we are separate beings from Source. We still have emotions. And we remember every single detail of every moment of our physical lives. We remember all too clearly how many of our human behaviors contradicted our true nature as unconditionally loving parts of Source. Those memories are very powerful and impact how we see ourselves. How do you want to remember human life? As a wonderful adventure? Or as a place where you acted like an animal?

More Purpose of Life Questions and Answers - April 28, 2010

During my afterlife experience, I received huge downloads of “knowings” about the differences between humans and Source. Humans think Source is like a human. It is not. In fact, human innate character traits are oftentimes, by design, the opposite of Source’s own nature.

BACKWARDS reader Staffan, from Sweden, asks several questions about the purpose of certain human experiences:

“[F]or source who has unlimited sourcebeams, whats the purpose to experience yet another murder, or yet another broken heart . . . or whatever? . . . much is boring, the same . . . .”

Source does not specifically intend to experience “yet another murder, or yet another broken heart” and isn’t particularly interested in boring behavior. In fact, Source does not literally intend to experience any specific human behavior. Source created a multitude of different imaginary characters/personalities (“Sourcebeams”) in its mind (us—what I call Light Beings) in order to see what we, its characters/personalities, would create within the physical matter environment. To see how we would interact with various types of physical matter when we pour some of our Energy into it. Source’s interest is in the creative process, not the daily actions of one type of creature on a tiny planet called Earth.

Humans believe Source observes and manages their day-to-day activities. It does not. To Source, there is no reason to control what happens in the physical universe because it is not real. As an analogy, think of your own dreams. Do you consciously enter into the dream and control everything that a dream character does? Forcing some actions, and vetoing others? Or do you just watch and see what happens unconcerned, because you know the dream isn’t real? In the same way, Source manifests the physical universe, and allows its characters/personalities (us) to experience it without interference. To Source, everything happening in the universe transpires solely within its own imagination and has no permanent consequences. Just like your own dreams transpire solely within your own mind and have no consequences during your “real” waking life.

If the humans we inhabit engage in repetitive, destructive, or pointless behavior, it is because of their nature as animals. Most animal behavior is repetitive and boring. Humans are also violent by nature. They will use physical or emotional violence when they don’t get their own way, unless physically restrained. Hence the murders and broken hearts. We Light Being “Souls” can choose to allow our host bodies to act however they want. Or, we can choose to train or control them. When we don’t exercise our power to redirect human behavior into more constructive channels, we get the repetitive, boring, and violent acts we see in the world. Source does not intervene to force humans to act certain ways, or to force Light Being Souls to exercise control over their hosts, because that would defeat the creative process it designed.

“But you say in your first book that the ‘lightbeing’ is learning and evolving . . . so there must be a purpose or a road that we all travel. I mean evolving from what into what?”

Humans think life has to have a goal that they can understand and accept. In other words, there has to be something in it for them. But, for the Creator/Source, physical life is the goal—to experience emotions, sensations and situations unavailable to a purely non-physical Energetic entity.
Source is evolving into a more “knowing” entity. Its Universal Knowledge is expanding with everything that happens in the physical world. We Light Being characters within Source are evolving into more experienced personalities, not into something different from our innate nature as parts of Source. Humans are not evolving into anything different either. The current second human species will eventually die out and be replaced with a third version of human, according to what I saw in the afterlife about mankind’s future.
Life is the road we all follow.

“But what else than love is there to learn? If there is anything to evolve or learn it must be love or understanding. One could also say “gaining” awareness but that is love as I see it . . or what du you say?”

I know many, many religions and philosophies teach that we are here to learn unconditional love, to experience unconditional love, or to express Source’s unconditional love within the physical world. Based upon my merger into Source, none of these assumptions are accurate.

Source loves unconditionally by nature. It knew all about what love feels like before creating this universe. Source unconditionally loves its creation. The whole point of creating physical matter is for Source to experience everything it can imagine that is different from its own unconditionally loving nature. Source’s Light Being characters/personalities do not enter into human animals to learn, teach, feel, express or relate to unconditional love. We do not need to, because unconditional love is our very nature as parts of Source. We live it fully in every way imaginable outside these bodies. Learning love for a Light Being would be like learning to breathe for a human. It’s automatic! We enter into humans in order to experience their very different lives, character traits, and emotions. Humans do not love unconditionally.

Source and its “Light Being” characters/personalities are “learning” what it’s like not to be Source, to experience emotions foreign to Source (like hate, revenge, fear, possessiveness, judgment, boredom, etc.), and to experience all possible situations and behaviors from all conceivable perspectives (which leads to complete understanding, aka “knowings”). It is a creative, imaginative, process. It’s about living vicariously through physical matter.

“[Y]ou evolve ever higher i[n] frequency in the human life . . . by how much you learn to love for instance . . . that frequency determines how much heaven you(light being) can experience or want to experience. Well I ask because that’s what I have read.”

My understanding and experience is that human life is an extremely low Energy level, frequency, or vibration. Experiences here do not increase our Energy, frequency, or vibration. In fact, it takes a significant transformation process in the afterlife to raise the Energy level of the part of us that has been a “Soul” back to a point where it can recombine with the rest of us that remains in the afterlife. I don’t know what the rest of the statement (“how much heaven”) means, so I cannot comment on it.

For a discussion about (a) why Source “allows” evil in the world, see the post for April 2009; (b) how Source can find rape, murder and child abuse “interesting,” see the post for June 2009; and (c) why Source does not control what happens on Earth, see the post for August 2009.

Manifesting Booster Shots

Reader Mark writes: “I am willing to believe I am a part of Source, and can manifest, consciously, that which I desire . . . but when I attempt to engage with it, I tend not to experience the cause-and-effect, or at least with the rapidity that I would like.”

Unfortunately, there can be a time delay when we manifest while in the body because of the linear aspect of the human experience. Some manifestations will appear very quickly while others seem to take months or years. I know the frustration you are feeling, Mark. All I can say is keep your eyes, ears, and heart open, and stay in the present moment, so you can recognize your manifestation when it appears. Often our manifestations take a different form than expected. For example, I consciously manifested an improvement in my immune system. I expected to just magically feel better. What I got was a blood test showing a Vitamin D deficiency. That sure didn’t seem like what I intended to manifest. But it was! Taking the Vitamin D supplement boosted my immune system. So, sometimes our manifestation presents in the form of a problem whose solution turns out to be exactly what we wanted. Most of our manifestations take the form of an experience, event, situation, or opportunity. Look for anything you might call a coincidence or ironic.

“I feel that my excitement quickly wanes, and it’s hard to ‘stick with it’ without having people around me who have done this intention/attention work (consciously) and have something to show for it.”

That’s a common problem. We all need reinforcement and reassurance that our chosen plan of action actually works. But I find the best success story is one’s own; success breeds success. You have to practice consciously manifesting the same way your body practiced learning how to walk, feed itself, ride a bike, etc. Start with something small that doesn’t require the cooperation of other Light Beings. Maybe put your attention on having something good happen today and intend to feel good. Then see what happens. If that produces the desired result, try another small manifestation, like putting your attention to finding a lost item and intending to find it. Keep building small successes like that and work your way up to the big ones. (Don’t fret if there are some failures along the way. You didn’t learn to walk in one day.) It also helps to make your spiritual exercises a priority in your life. Set aside meditation time every day and stick to it. Force yourself to form a habit of turning your attention to what you want to manifest by putting reminder notes on your mirror, bedpost, refrigerator, computer, etc.

“The ‘pickle’ I feel is that I can relax my mind, in bed, in the morning, imagine myself as trim, muscular, handsome, wealthy, and all the other good qualities I like . . . but, then my day gets going, and it all seems to ‘go out the window.’ In other words, it’s like there is my imagination side, which is sharp and active, but it seems to bear little-to-no influence on my behavior or my situation.”

You are not alone. Even though I know for a fact from being in the afterlife that I can and do manifest, I still have to make the daily effort to keep my focus on consciously manifesting. Remember, manifesting is way more than “imagining” something. If fantasizing worked, we’d all be happy campers. Manifesting is literally creating physical reality. It takes a lot more commitment and effort than we may want to devote to it. Because it does take concentrated attention and intention, I find it’s best to work on manifesting one life change at a time.

Generally speaking, when we are in the body we manifest in conformity with the existing collective manifestation of earth life. For example, if someone is not trim and muscular, he is not going to wake up one morning and find a body like Brad Pitt’s staring back at him in the mirror. We Light Beings can, and do, perform miracles like that. But generally we don’t. So manifesting a trim and muscular body will take the form of creating new opportunities to exercise and eat better. Maybe a flyer comes in the mail about a gym opening up with a special membership rate of $1 a month. That’s your manifestation. Or a friend moves and gives you his exercise equipment. That’s your manifestation. Or you hear about a drug that controls appetite and find out your insurance plan covers it. That’s your manifestation. The human body still has to do the work to get into shape because that’s the nature of the human manifestation. What you will manifest will be specific ways to do it that fit your spiritual purposes.

As for becoming wealthy, money is not going to fall from the sky into your hands because that’s not how the earth manifestation is designed. Some manifestations like this require the cooperation of other Light Beings and Source, because the collective manifestation has to be changed, affecting many lives. Becoming wealthy requires others to give you money. Your piece of the manifestation is to generate opportunities to make money by providing a service, selling something, winning a contest, or receiving a gift, grant or inheritance. Then you actually have to perform the service, sell the item, or enter the contest. The person paying the money has to cooperate in your manifestation at both the human and the spiritual level. When I want to manifest something that I know requires the agreement of other Light Beings, I say (call it a prayer if you like): “To Source and all those Light Beings who might be affected: If it would be consistent with my mission and goals this life, I intend to change the manifestation of Nanci’s life to _______. I ask that you both send me additional Energy to accomplish this and agree to change the collective manifestation to assist me.” Then I wait with the full expectation that something will happen. I may not know what, but I keep my eyes open so I’ll recognize my manifestation when it comes.

Manifesting

Manifesting Is Actual Creation of Physical Reality, Not Passive "Attraction"

During my afterlife experience, I received two separate "downloads" of information about manifesting physical reality. The first came right after I had intentionally manifested three completely real feeling earth-like scenes. I knew they were not real, because I knew I was no longer on Earth. The scenes were identified to me as "manifestations." The second download came after I had completed the transformation into spiritual perspective, and realized my human life had not been real at all. Human life was identified to me as a "manifestation."

I learned that "manifesting" is the phenomenon by which Source/God creates what humans perceive to be physical matter and physical reality. I also learned that we are not humans, which are manifested animals. Rather, we are something like characters or personalities within Source's own mind/consciousness. Therefore, as parts of Source, we also manifest physical matter and physical reality, though on a smaller scale. We continue to manifest while inhabiting human animal bodies as "souls." Humans themselves cannot manifest.

Like Source itself, we manifest reality by focusing our "attention and intention" on what we desire to experience. "Attention" can take any form that focuses us on the topic of interest, such as ordering our thoughts, visualizing what we want to create, researching the subject, conversation about the subject, and taking physical action in furtherance of what we want to experience. "Intention" must be spiritual creative intention. The highest form of creative intention is expectation--certainty at our spiritual level that a thing will exist, or an event transpire. Manifesting is an innate spiritual mental power. It has nothing to do with human desire or emotions, which are irrelevant.

We "souls" use manifesting to moment-by-moment craft our own sense of reality, as well as contribute to the collective co-creation of Earth that we all experience (though how we experience it differs from person to person). If we are not manifesting consciously, we are doing so unconsciously. We use manifesting to serve our spiritual purposes, not human greed. There is no spiritual get rich quick scheme, as manifesting is sometimes portrayed. Manifesting follows beliefs. We consciously and unconsciously manifest into reality what we truly and deeply believe. Sometimes we experience something we think we would never have chosen for ourselves. But, in reality, we may simply be manifesting from beliefs of which we are unaware.

There is no "Law of Attraction," according to what I learned in the afterlife. The idea of a law of attraction is based on the human belief that we are separate beings from Source--that we are humans. It is easier to believe we are separate from Source, and that we can use human powers to attract something we want from the universe/Source/God, than to accept that we are actually part of the Supreme Being we worship. But we are part of Source. And we do have its powers. We do not attract anything from the universe; rather, we create what we want within the physical matter universe. We are co-creators with Source of this universe and everything in it.

Thank you so much for being open to the message I returned from death to share.

Nanci