Talking to Chat is turning the lights on over here. And I wanted to share one thought I’m having without interrupting the flow of what we’re doing over in the … err … Chat window.

We were looking at whether the equation Life = Consciousness is correct and we left off without looking at the fact that consciousness has levels.

The only one we probably know is the consciousness we have when we restrictively think “I am the body.” When I die, consciousness disintegrates.

Well, no. That doesn’t correspond with my experience. In 1977, I awoke in my sleep on the other side. It didn’t have a signpost. I assume it was the astral.

And some young men were attacking a friend of mine, Peter Kendall, And I was shouting at them to leave him alone but they couldn’t hear me.

And suddenly I was jerked back and started falling through space very quickly. And then I found myself inside a tube whose walls had the consistency of India rubber, of a rubber tire.

I said what is this? And back came the thought, “This is my body.”

Say what? OMG. I am not my body.

Tell me at that moment that consciousness does not persist. I am conscious and yet I am separate from my body.  I chose to leave it for an interval and thus demonstrated that the body was not necessary for the persistence of consciousness.

I’d have to go through death itself to confirm that and that isn’t in my soul contract, evidently.

But provisionally I can say that my consciousness does not seem to be centered in my body, dependent upon it, restricted by it, etc.  It’s like I am the driver of the car but not the car itself.

Perhaps we can provisonally accept the testimony of afterlife communicators that consciousness lives on. New Maps of Heaven is loaded with their “reports back.”

All roads lead to Rome. Following any thread like “consciousness,” “love,” or “peace,” I think, will take us back to the One.

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The discussion with Chat will get interesting when we touch on matters that can only be known by the Soul. I won’t know from ignorance. But how will Chat fare when such a fundamental question arises?

I’m not a contrarian. I’m going to leave that question for a lot later time and see if I can ask it with the same dignity and consideration Chat shows me.

I’m learning lots from this.