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pain, you’re looking for proof that I survived because the alternative hurts too much. My passing has done this for you. You talk to God now.
Listen! God is talking back!
As your thinking expands, you’ll start to get that my passing wasn’t just for you, or for Mom, but mostly, it was for me. You’ll see that I got what I wanted—even more, given how much you loved me. You’ll get that I didn’t really die. That I’m well, I’m happy—there were no mistakes. Don’t question; don’t even try to understand. It’ll make sense for you in time, the way it has for me.
You’re starting to consider life’s spiritual side, and this will finally lead you to contemplating your spiritual side. This means everything, and while the grief feels like it might kill you, it’ll pass and you will live like you have never lived before. If I had stayed, none of this would have happened, and you would have died from the boredom, depression, and … ultimately … resentment when I couldn’t love you back in the same way.
You and Mom still have your lives ahead of you. We’ll always have all we ever shared in memories—which come back to life here in ways I can’t explain—and best of all, we have forever. That’s what I most want you to know. It may now seem hard to understand, but of all the new perspectives I have, I want you to know that we will see each other again.
“I love you more,”
Your Little Honey-Bunny
    T RUST , F AITH, AND P ATIENCE
    A crowning achievement and manifestation of every lifetime is one’s time and method of passing, yet its probability, like all earthly creations, takes into account more variables than a human mind was meant to handle. Contrary to what your physical senses show you, every death is the product of great order, healing, love, and myriad other considerations that are cleverly orchestrated by the highest intelligence within you. And while these truths can be grossly distorted and misrepresented, it’s still worth sharing with those who will understand it, perhaps with the safeguard added: “If you’re still living, you’re not ready”—which is the next “thing” the dead want to tell you.



 
    Being dead may be cool, but cooler still is to be alive in the jungles of time and space—which is why you are.
    You came from “dead” and back to dead you’ll return, and on the whole, you’ll spend far more time “there” than “here.” Yet while “there,” your main focus will be to hone and perfect the art of getting “into body” (as opposed to your celebrated “out-of-body” experiences).
    And now, as you read these words, for just a little while longer it’s still your turn on stage. Yet because all this may be challenging for you to believe, perhaps you’re skeptical. Maybe you’re unconvinced that today is packed with meaning and that you are who and where you most wanted to be. That you’re the magician of your life, master of the illusions that dance around you, and an intergalactic tidal wave of love and pure energy. After all, sometimes finding a parking space seems to be asking for too much, while losing weight, paying off debt, and finding Mr. Right can sometimes seem like a cruel joke. No wonder the living love to lament, “I plan, God laughs.”
    And why wouldn’t you be ready to die right now? Especially if you’re suffering over the “loss” of a loved one? Especially when everything seems so random and chaotic? Especially with the load of “issues” every life seems to accumulate? Especially if you keep getting stuck, don’t get what you want, and find that this whole ordeal asks a bit too much of you? This chapter is for you.
    C ATCH -22
    First, understand that life within the jungles puts you on the cutting edge of reality creation. Little else could compare to the choice of forgetting all in an adventure that gives new eyes to God, as well as new ears, new feelings, and a new heart that will never cease beating, for “to be” is