Mari Swa:
There is a common factor that appears in a lot of the data that comes to us describing the other side, the so-called spirit world, and it is that the value and the meaning of an experience on the physical side is different than when the same soul interprets that had experience once it is on the spirit side. It is clearly noticed that any unwanted, dramatic, and even traumatic experience a person has had on the physical side does not hold the same meaning, does not hold the same interpretation, nor does it have the same emotional value once the person has crossed over. Something horrible and traumatic on the side of the living is seen as something great and very natural to the person’s soul once it has crossed over. And that goes for all what has been experienced while in the world of the living. And quite frankly, that is not only very disturbing but quite worrisome as well.
When there is a positive and very beautiful event happening while someone is on the physical world, it will continue to be appreciated and taken as something positive once the person has crossed over. So basically, once in the spirit world, positive experiences continue to be taken as positive, but negative experiences are transformed into positive ones, or the interpretation of them is what changes. But then again, it depends on the point of view and of the value each person, each soul, gives to said experiences occurring on the physical side, so it cannot or should not be generalized. Yet all the data points in that direction, and there is quite a lot of it.
And in this case, for what it is worth, I am talking from a personal and experience memory point of view, as I do hold clear recollections not only of past lives but also of how it is like to be in between lives as well in the spirit world, although that last part is much shadier than my memories of past lives. But not only talking from a personal point of view, because anyone on Earth can also research this subject on their own and most probably come to the same conclusions I have found. For example, researching the valuable work of Dolores Cannon or the work of Ronlyn L. K. Kilder, where this point comes up all the time. And as a footnote, they both have crossed to the other side.
The first thing that is worrisome about this change of values and of meaning of all experiences had on the physical side is that it makes us think that whatever we decide while in the world of the living may hold absolutely no value at all once we cross to the spirit side, almost as if we did not matter at all, and neither do our wishes, our most cherished values, and our suffering. So should we decide while in the world of the living that this is our last incarnation, it may not mean anything once we’ve come to pass, with it sentencing us to another incarnation in the physical, and yet another, and another, where we most probably would be wishing the present one to be our last.
We can only theorize as to why this occurs, but what I conclude is that when we pass over, our consciousness expands so much that our interpretation of the events that occurred while alive changes dramatically. That would mean two things: that said expansion of consciousness causes us to stop being who we were while among the living, and that all the negative events we experience while alive and all our suffering is nothing more than an illusion. And any unwanted event is only seen in a dramatic, suffering way while experiencing it through the lens of the physical body.
An example of this is the following. This one is taken from a Dolores Cannon extract, and I’m only using it for it to be researchable for those of you who would like to take this subject even further on your own, but I cannot tell you where it is exactly, as I’m writing only from memory and I honestly don’t recall where it is within all her works and articles. A female construction contractor in Iraq during the war was traveling in an armed convoy that was hit by an improvised explosive device. Many there were killed, but after having a strong near-death experience, she survived, but she lost an arm. She remembers clearly that when she was on the other side, she found herself talking to what she interprets to be one of her spirit guides, and she remembers being totally happy and fascinated about being able to go back into the physical world and having the opportunity to experience what it is like to go through the rest of her life without an arm.
Another example, this one from Dolores Cannon, is that people who are terrible enemies while alive turn out to be the best of friends once they crossed over to the spirit world because there they know life in the physical is just a game.
And as a personal example, I remember I was rock climbing for sport in one of my past lives, and I remember getting trapped in a place far above in the rocks and on the face of a mountain where I could not go any further up and I could not go down retracing my steps either. So I was forced to make a move no matter what, and I jumped to grab a rock to one side of me, a rock that once I was hanging from it started to break loose from the mountainside. I remember the terror I felt when I realized my mistake and that I had no chance to save myself. All in a few fractions of a second, I felt a deep sadness knowing I was going to die. I remember falling, still hopelessly holding on to the rock that was falling with me, and I remember the feeling of uselessness of that sport and repenting taking it as a pastime, as well as the anger I felt against myself, all that in the few moments it took me to reach the ground and die.
But then, once on the other side, my thoughts were about the awesomeness of the ride and of all the experience I had gained from that fall and the experimental knowledge necessary to value life from that new angle. I was basically euphoric about what had just happened. I remember that all what my short lifetime that had just ended taught me was always of a positive nature, leaving a satisfactory and happy feeling, including everything that when alive I had felt to have been negative and unwanted experiences, except perhaps the realization that I had to go back in again to finish all what I had left undone. But it was more of a feeling of that being a nuisance and a waste of time, although of course, time does not behave the same way while on the other side. But that was my feeling, just: oh no, I must do all that again. That.
