From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article <4egi40ds0hfeho88ieodk3r3rg6ltuqf12@4ax.com>, Revat   
    wrote:   
      
   > I don't if it has been discussed to death or not, but I just read an   
   > excerpt form George Ritchie's Book about his after life experiences   
   > and was wondering what people thought of them and whether the books   
   > were worth getting.   
   >   
   > Some things though just don't sit right with me. He says he was met by   
   > Jesus. How can everyone that dies be met by Jesus ? I mean how many   
   > people die every second on this planet ? How could Jesus possibly be   
   > seeing them all ? He took George Ritchie for a bit of a tour so it was   
   > happening in real time.   
   >   
   > Another thing was the suicides. For some people life in this world is   
   > never-ending suffering and they end their lives to stop it. But it   
   > seems even in the afterlife the suffering goes on .. "chained to every   
   > consequence of their actions" Jesus told George Ritchie when he was   
   > shown suicide souls. Are some people just supposed to suffer torment   
   > forever ?   
   >   
   > Cheers,   
      
   People first find what they expect to find -- as another poster said,   
   creating their own realities while they hover on the lower astral   
   levels, still turbulent with the concerns of their life.  I think   
   this is probably how ideas like "Heaven", "Hell", and "Purgatory"   
   persist -- embarked upon one's subsequent life one encounters whatever   
   the local religion presents as its version of reward and punishment   
   after death, and deep in the subconscious there is a little shiver   
   of recognition that can be very convincing, even though it's based   
   on a remembered impression of something self-created from the common   
   pattern back between the last life and this one.   
      
   Suicides are souls learning that suicide is an unpleasant and non-   
   progressive act, although sometimes it really is the only reasonable   
   way out of a truly impossible situation (the Gestapo are torturing   
   you, and next time around you know you're going to break down and   
   betray your fellow resistance fighters to them . . .).  The only   
   punishment, I think, is persisting in the state of misery and despair   
   that pushed you to the deed until you work your way out of it and   
   can move on.   
      
   C.   
   --   
   Crow   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)