The Celebration Part of Death

So what did this assassinated public figure named Charlie Kirk learn upon his physical demise?  What will we learn upon ours? 

What would the Dalai Lama say?  Or the Pope?  Or Jesus?  Or other avatars such as the Buddha, Paramahansa Yogananda, and any saint or sage of our choosing?  What do we feel are the criteria upon which our opinion about Charlie Kirk’s death contributes to the health of humankind?  

“What questions do we need reasonable answers to in order to have the life we want rather than the life we feel stuck with?”  This inquiry may be less than commonplace, but it is one of growing significance as we awaken in kindness, compassion and understanding as the consequences of our ignorance become ever-more evident to us.

Here are three questions I have benefitted from chewing on pretty much my whole life: 

1. Who am I?  
2. What is the purpose of life?  
3. How does the universe work?

The answers I’ve discovered are, in short: 

1. Manifestation of God (as is all of existence).  
2. Conscious oneness with God.  
3. Everything serves the inevitable fulfillment of that purpose.  

Which is why I quip we’re all going to heaven whether we like it or not.

That said, my sense is that perhaps the first thing we learn upon our physical demise is that we don’t die.  We were never really a human being to begin with.  We’re a soul on our way to inevitable oneness with God.  Our adventures in the worldly-world over however many incarnations it takes to achieve that oneness are solely a servant to that end.

That’s my two-cents of what Charlie Kirk was reminded of upon his physical death: how and why his choices, loving or otherwise, in this and previous incarnations—draws to him his every experience on his journey to Oneness.

This is why I find the spirit of the universe to be playful, loving and deep—making death worthy of celebration.