What Death Is
The following material was excerpted from two of PMH
Atwater's books ~ Beyond the Light: The Mysteries and Revelations of Near-Death
Experiences (Avon Books, New York City, 1994) and We Live Forever: The Real
Truth About Death (A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 2004). It is based on
first-person commentaries from over 3,000 adult experiencers of near-death
states. To learn more about the near-death research of PMH Atwater, L.H.D.,
access
http://www.pmhatwater.com .What Death Is
There is a step-up of energy at the moment of death, an increase in speed as if you are suddenly vibrating faster than before.
Using radio as an analogy, this speed-up is comparable to having lived all
your life at a certain radio frequency when all of a sudden someone or something
comes along and flips the dial. That flip shifts you to another, higher
wavelength. The original frequency where you once existed is still there. It did
not change. Everything is still just the same as it was. Only you changed, only
you speeded up to allow entry into the next radio frequency on the dial.
As is true with all radios and radio stations, there can be bleedovers or
distortions of transmission signals due to interference patterns. These can
allow or force frequencies to coexist or commingle for indefinite periods of
time. Normally, most shifts up the dial are fast and efficient; but,
occasionally, one can run into interference, perhaps from a strong emotion, a
sense of duty, or a need to fulfil a vow, or keep a promise. This interference
could allow coexistence of frequencies for a few seconds, days, or even years
(perhaps explaining hauntings); but, sooner or later, eventually, every given
vibrational frequency will seek out or be nudged to where it belongs.
You fit your particular spot on the dial by your speed of vibration. You cannot
coexist forever where you do not belong.
Who can say how many spots there are on the dial or how many frequencies there
are to inhabit? No one knows.
You shift frequencies in dying. You switch over to life on another wavelength.
You are still a spot on the dial but you move up or down a notch or two.
You don't die when you die. You shift your consciousness and speed of vibration.
That's all death is ... a shift
Time To Reassess
by P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D.
A recent phone call shook me up. A woman who had lost a close family member to
suicide, called to speak of the tragedy and of how much solace she had received
from a facilitator of a near-death group when that individual had told her, "All
suicides go to heaven. Research proves this." I had to tell her she had been
misinformed. This crushed both of us.
An experiencer may say this, making clear that such a statement comes from his
or her understanding of what was revealed. In fact, more and more experiencers
are becoming outspoken about the revelations they received while on the Other
Side of death. And most of them repeat again and again that the Light is
unconditionally loving and forgiving, and is there for all of us, equally.
Revelations like this are wonderful and they uplift and comfort and encourage
the masses. Near-death experiencers are like "missionaries" in the field of
death and dying and hospice, carrying with them the good news about God and
about love. And this is great. Experiencers, though, can only speak for
themselves. They cannot say their claims are based on research, no matter how
convincing the research.
I straddle both "sides," as must of you know. The revelations given to me during
my near-death episodes were lengthy and detailed. The majority are in my book,
Future Memory. As a researcher, though, I am not free to make such claims. No
researcher is. And neither is the International Association For Near-Death
Studies, or any of their Friends of
IANDS groups. As an experiencer, I can console people like this woman and
give her hope. As a researcher, and certainly as a representative of
IANDS, I can only say there are no findings in near-death studies to prove
who goes where after death or at all. We honestly do not know how "the big
picture" works. We can only publish our findings as verified. Interpretations
are up to each individual.
Perhaps we are becoming a "victim" of our own success.
Near-death research has now reached a point where even skeptics find it hard to
argue with the findings, there are so many now, and all of them first-rate. Our
conference in Houston, Texas, at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, October,
2006, establish near-death research as on par with any other medical research;
the stories experiencers tell, very healing and incredibly important. It took us
thirty years to get to this point. Now, perhaps in excitement for what has been
accomplished, words are being put in researcher's mouths and accredited to
IANDS that do not belong there. We can now establish that the near-death
experience is real and valid, a state to be reckoned with, but we cannot prove
or even say with any degree of certainly, what it means, what causes it, or why
it occurs, or even what any of this says about an afterlife and who goes to
heaven and who does not.
Whoever told the woman that the young man who committed suicide is guaranteed a
spot in heaven is guilty of spreading an untruth, perhaps even false hope. None
of us have the right to do that, no matter how motivated we are to give solace
and comfort to one who grieves. Experiencers can share their own personal
stories, their own conviction based on their stories, but they cannot lay claim
to interpretations as authentic fact.
While we're on the subject, some near-death groups are requiring guests who
attend meetings to wear color-coded badges that label people either
"Non-Experiencer" or "Experiencer." This sets up a cult-like atmosphere of
specialness that most experiencers find uncomfortable. Any one can be an
experiencer. Near-death episodes do not make one "special." People come to
meetings to learn and to share, not to be set-apart or put on a pedestal. That
sense of oneness that most experiencers come to feel, includes, not excludes.
No one is an expert on what the near-death experience means, although there are
a lot of folks who think they are. Truthfully, the near-death experience reveals
more about life than it does death, and what it reveals brings into question how
we define ourselves as human beings and the range of our faculties and our mind.
What speaks so powerfully to me, is the comment the vast majority of
experiencers say after their episode – four words: "Always there is life." If
this is true and I believe it is, then how can there be an afterlife or a before
life? Suggested here is that life is continuous, in some form, somewhere,
somehow.
Research cannot validate this, but when thousands and
thousands of people across this blue marble called earth say the same thing – we
have to stop and listen. Notice that those four words do not indicate
destination. To me, they make a statement far more important, they affirm a
sense of reality that is unending. That is the real solace and real comfort we
can all benefit from
