Death Experince (its long but worth it....)
THROUGH THE LIGHT

Mellen-Thomas Benedict's near-death experience



Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience
in 1982. He was dead for over
an hour and a half and during that time, he rose up out of his body and
went into the Light. Curious about
the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and
even beyond, into the energetic Void
of Nothingness behind the Big Bang. Concerning his near-death
experience, Dr. Kenneth Ring has said, "His
story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive
research on near-death experiences."

THE ROAD TO DEATH

In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was
inoperable, and any kind of chemotherapy they
could give me would just have made me more of a vegetable. I was given
six to eight months to live. I
had been an information freak in the 1970's, and I had become
increasingly despondent over the nuclear
crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did not have a
spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a mistake, and
that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. I saw no way
that we could get out from all the problems we had created for ourselves
and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what I
got. That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It
can feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had
a seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried
all sorts
of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped.

So I determined that this was really just between me and God. I had
never really faced God before, or even
dealt with God. I was not into any kind of spirituality at the time,
but I began a journey into learning about spirituality and alternative
healing. I set out to do all the reading I could and bone up on the
subject, because I did not want to be surprised on the other side. So I
started reading on various religions and philosophies. They were all
very interesting, and gave hope that there was something on the other side.

On the other hand, as a self-employed stained-glass artist at the time,
I had no medical insurance whatsoever. So my life savings went
overnight into testing. Then I was facing the medical profession
without any kind of insurance. I did not want to have my family dragged
down financially, so I determined to handle this myself. There was not
constant pain, but there were black-outs. I got so that I would not
dare to drive, and eventually I ended up in hospice care.

I had my own personal hospice caretaker. I was very blessed by this
angel who went through the last part
of this with me. I lasted about eighteen months. I did not want to take
a lot of drugs, since I wanted to be as conscious as possible. Then I
experienced such pain that I had nothing but pain in my consciousness,
luckily only for a few days at a time.

THE LIGHT OF GOD

I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew
that this was it. This was the
day I was going to die. So I called a few friends and said goodbye. I
woke up my hospice caretaker and told
her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead
body alone for six hours, since I
had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I
went back to sleep.

The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near-death
experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing up, but my
body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of
my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid
that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the
house, I could see around the house, I could see under the house.

There was this Light shining. I turned toward the Light. The Light
was very similar to what many other people have described in their
near-death experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you
can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go to it like you would want
to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms. As I began to move
toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the Light, I
would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said, "Please
wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this;
I would like to talk to you
before I go."

To my surprise, the entire experience halted at that point. You are
indeed in control of your near-death
experience. You are not on a roller coaster ride. So my request was
honored and I had some conversations
with the Light. The Light kept changing into different figures, like
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas, archetypal images and signs. I asked
the Light, "What is going on here? Please, Light, clarify yourself for
me. I really want to know the reality of the situation." I cannot
really say the exact words, because it was sort of telepathy.

The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that your
beliefs shape the kind of feedback
you are getting before the Light. If you were a Buddhist or Catholic or
Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own stuff. You have a
chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do not. As the
Light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really
seeing was our Higher Self matrix.

The only thing I can tell you is that it turned into a matrix, a mandala
of human souls, and what I saw was
that what we call our Higher Self in each of us is a matrix. It's also
a conduit to the Source; each one of us comes directly, as a direct
experience from the Source. We all have a Higher Self, or an oversoul
part of our being. It revealed itself to me in its truest energy form.
The only way I can really describe it is that the being of the Higher
Self is more like a conduit. It did not look like that, but it is a
direct connection to the Source that each and
every one of us has. We are directly connected to the Source.

So the Light was showing me the Higher Self matrix.
And it became very clear to me that all the Higher Selves are connected
as one being, all humans are connected as one being, we are actually the
same being, different aspects of the same being. It was not committed
to one particular religion. So that is what was being fed back to me.
And I saw this mandala of human souls. It was the most beautiful thing
I have ever seen. I just went into it and, it was just over-whelming.
It was like all the love you've every wanted, and it was the kind of
love that cures, heals, regenerates.

As I asked the Light to keep explaining, I understood what the Higher
Self matrix is. We have a grid around
the planet where all the Higher Selves are connected.
This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy around us,
the spirit level, you might say.
Then, after a couple of minutes, I asked for more clarification. I
really wanted to know what the universe is about, and I was ready to go
at that time. I said "I am ready, take me." Then the Light turned
into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a mandala of human
souls on this planet.

Now I came to this with my negative view of what has happen on the
planet. So as I asked the light
to keep
clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how beautiful we
all are in our essence, our core. We
are the most beautiful creations. The human soul, the human matrix that
we all make together is absolutely
fantastic, elegant, exotic, every- thing. I just cannot say enough
about how it changed my opinion of human beings in that instant.

I said, "Oh, God, I did not know how beautiful we are." At any level,
high or low, in whatever shape you are in, you are the most beautiful
creation, you are. I was astonished to find that there was no evil in
any soul. I said "How can this be?" The answer was that no soul was
inherently evil. The terrible things that happened to people might make
them do evil things, but their souls were not evil. What all people
seek, what sustains them, is love, the Light told me. What distorts
people is a lack of love.

The revelations coming from the Light seemed to go on and on, then I
asked the Light, "Does this mean that
humankind will be saved?" Then, like a trumpet blast with a shower of
spiraling lights, the Great Light spoke, saying, "Remember this and
never forget; you save, redeem and heal yourself. You always have. You
always will. You were created with the power to do so from before the
beginning of the world."

In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY
BEEN SAVED, and we saved ourselves
because we were designed to self-correct like the rest of God's
universe. This is what the second coming is
about. I thanked the Light of God with all my heart. The best thing I
could come up with was these simple
words of totally appreciation: "Oh dear God, dear Universe, dear Great
Self, I love my Life."

The Light seemed to breathe me in even more deeply. It was as if the
Light was completely absorbing me.
The Love Light is, to this day, indescribable. I entered into another
realm, more profound than the last, and became aware of something more,
much more. It was an enormous stream of Light, vast and full,
deep in the Heart of Life. I asked what this was.

The Light responded, "This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna
water to your heart's content." So I
did. I took one big drink and then another. To drink of Life Itself!
I was in ecstasy. Then the Light said, "You have a desire." The Light
knew all about me, everything past, present and future. "Yes!" I whispered.

I asked to see the rest of the Universe; beyond our solar system, beyond
all human illusion. The Light then told me that I could go with the
Stream. I did, and was carried through the Light at the end of the
tunnel. I felt and heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a
rush! THE VOID OF NOTHINGNESS

Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of
Life. I saw the earth fly away. The
solar system, in all its splendor, whizzed by and disappeared. At
faster than light speed, I flew through the center of the galaxy,
absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that this galaxy, and all
of the Universe, is bursting with many different varieties of LIFE. I
saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not alone in this Universe!

As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center of the galaxy,
the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy. The super
clusters of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At first I
thought I was going somewhere; actually traveling. But then I realized
that, as the stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also
expanding to take in everything in the Universe! All creation passed by
me. It was an unimaginable wonder! I truly was a Wonder Child; a babe
in Wonderland!

It seemed as if all the creations in the Universe soared by me and
vanished in a speck of Light. Almost
immediately, a second Light appeared. It came from all sides, and was
so different; a Light made up of
more than every frequency in the Universe. I felt and heard several
velvety sonic booms again. My
consciousness, or being, was expanding to interface with the entire
Holographic Universe and more.

As I passed into the second Light, the awareness came to me that I had
just transcended the Truth. Those
are the best words I have for it, but I will try to explain. As I passed
into the second Light, I expanded
beyond the First Light. I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond
all silence. I could see or
perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity.

I was in the Void.

I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the
beginning of time - the First Word - the First vibration. I was in the
Eye of Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was
not a religious feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and
Consciousness.

When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could
experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning
and without end. That's a mind-expanding thought, isn't it? Scientists
perceive the Big Bang as a single event which created the Universe. I
saw that the Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs
creating Universes endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that
even come close in human terms would be those created by supercomputers
using fractal geometry equations.

The ancients knew of this. They said Godhead periodically created new
Universes by breathing out,
and de-creating other Universes by breathing in. These epochs were
called Yugas. Modern science called
this the Big Bang. I was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see
or perceive all the Big Bangs or Yugas creating and de-creating
themselves. Instantly I entered into them all simultaneously. I saw
that each and every little piece of creation has the power to create.
It is very difficult to try to explain this. I am still speechless
about this.

It took me years after I returned to assimilate any words at all for the
Void experience. I can tell you this now; the Void is less than
nothing, yet more than everything that is! The Void is absolute zero;
chaos forming all possibilities. It is Absolute Consciousness; much
more than even Universal Intelligence.

Where is the Void? I know. The Void is inside and outside everything.
You, right now even while you
live, are always inside and outside the Void simultaneously. You don't
have to go anywhere or die to get there. The Void is the vacuum or
nothingness between all physical manifestations. The SPACE between
atoms and their components.

Modern science has begun to study this space between everything. They
call it Zero-point. Whenever they
try to measure it, their instruments go off the scale, or to infinity,
so to speak. They have no way, as of
yet, to measure infinity accurately. There is more of the zero space in
your own body and the Universe than
anything else! What mystics call the Void is not a void. It is so full
of energy, a different kind of energy that has created everything that
we are. Everything since the Big Bang is vibration, from the first
Word, which is the first vibration. The biblical "I am" really has a
question mark after it. "I am - What am I?"

So creation is God exploring God's Self through every way imaginable, in
an ongoing, infinite exploration
through every one of us. Through every piece of hair on your head,
through every leaf on every tree, through every atom, God is exploring
God's Self, the great "I am". I began to see that everything that is,
is the Self, literally, your Self, my Self. Everything is the great
Self. That is why God knows even when a leaf falls. That is possible
because wherever you are is the center of the universe. Wherever any
atom is, that is the center of the universe. There is God in that, and
God in the Void.

As I was exploring the Void and all the Yugas or creations, I was
completely out of time and space as
we know it. In this expanded state, I discovered that creation is about
Absolute Pure Consciousness, or God,
coming into the Experience of Life as we know it. The Void itself is
devoid of experience. It is pre-life,
before the first vibration. Godhead is about more than Life and Death.
Therefore there is even more
than Life and Death to experience in the Universe!

I was in the Void and I was aware of everything that had ever been
created. It was like I was looking out
of God's eyes. I had become God. Suddenly I wasn't me anymore. The
only thing I can say, I was looking
out of God's eyes. And suddenly I knew why every atom was, and I could
see everything. The interesting
point was that I went into the Void, I came back with this understanding
that God is not there. God is
here. That's what it is all about.

So this constant search of the human race to go out and find God ... God
gave everything to us, everything
is here - this is where it's at. And what we are into now is God's
exploration of God through us. People
are so busy trying to become God that they ought to realize that we are
already God and God is becoming
us. That's what it is really about.

When I realized this, I was finished with the Void, and wanted to return
to this creation, or Yuga. It just seemed like the natural thing to
do. Then I suddenly came back through the second Light, or the Big
Bang, hearing several more velvet booms. I rode the stream of
consciousness back through all of creation, and what a ride it was! The
super clusters of galaxies came through me with even more insights.

I passed through the center of our galaxy, which is a black hole. Black
holes are the great processors or
recyclers of the Universe. Do you know what is on the other side of a
Black Hole? We are; our galaxy;
which has been reprocessed from another Universe. In its total energy
configuration, the galaxy looked like
a fantastic city of lights. All energy this side of the Big Bang is
light. Every sub-atom, atom, star, planet, even consciousness itself is
made of light and has a frequency and/or particle. Light is living
stuff. Everything is made of light, even stones. So everything is
alive. Everything is made from the Light of God; everything is very
intelligent.

THE LIGHT OF LOVE

As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge Light
coming. I knew it was the First Light;
the Higher Self Light Matrix of our solar system. Then the entire solar
system appeared in the Light,
accompanied by one of those velvet booms.

I saw that the solar system we live in is our larger, local body. This
is our local body and we are much
bigger than we imagine. I saw that the solar system is our body. I am
a part of this, and the earth is
this great created being that we are, and we are the part of it that
knows that it is. But we are only that part of it. We are not
everything, but we are that part of it that knows that it is.

I could see all the energy that this solar system generates, and it is
an incredible light show! I could hear the Music of the Spheres. Our
solar system, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of
light, sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other
star systems can spot life as we know it in the universe by the
vibratory or energy matrix imprint. It is child's play. The earth's
Wonder Child (human beings) make an
abundance of sound right now, like children playing in the backyard of
the universe.

I rode the stream directly into the center of the Light. I felt
embraced by the Light as it took me in with its breath again, followed
by another soft sonic boom.

I was in this great Light of Love with the stream of life flowing
through me. I have to say again, it is
the most loving, non-judgmental Light. It is the ideal parent for this
Wonder Child. "What now?" I wondered.

The Light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal
beings. We have already been alive
forever! I realized that we are part of a natural living system that
recycles itself endlessly. I was never told that I had to come back.
I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what I had seen.

I don't know how long I was with the Light, in human time. But there
came a moment when I realized that
all my questions had been answered and my return was near. When I say
that all my questions were answered
on the other side, I mean to say just that. All my questions have been
answered. Every human has a different life and set of questions to
explore. Some of our questions are Universal, but each of us is
exploring this thing we call Life in our own unique way. So is every
other form of life, from mountains to every leaf on every tree.

And that is very important to the rest of us in this Universe. Because
it all contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of Life. We are
literally God exploring God's Self in an infinite Dance of Life.
Your uniqueness enhances all of Life.

HIS RETURN TO EARTH

As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor
was I told, that I would return to the same body. It just did not
matter. I had complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As
the stream merged with the great Light, I asked never to forget the
revelations and the feelings of what I had learned on the other side.

There was a "Yes". It felt like a kiss to my soul.

Then I was taken back through the Light into the vibratory realm again.
The whole process reversed,
with even more information being given to me. I came back home, and I
was given lessons on the mechanics of
reincarnation. I was given answers to all those little questions I
had: "How does this work? How does that work?" I knew that I would
be reincarnated. The earth is a great processor of energy, and
individual consciousness evolves out of that into each one of us.

I thought of myself as a human for the first time, and I was happy to be
that. From what I have seen, I would
be happy to be an atom in this universe. An atom. So to be the human
part of God ... this is the most
fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our wildest estimation of
what blessing can be. For each and every one of us to be the human part
of this experience is awesome, and magnificent. Each and every one of
us, no matter where we are, screwed up or not, is a blessing to the
planet, right where we are.

So I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby
somewhere. But I was given a lesson on
how individual identity and consciousness evolve. So I reincarnated
back into this body. I was so surprised when I opened my eyes. I do
not know why, because I understood it, but it was still such a surprise
to be back in this body, back in my room with someone looking over me
crying her eyes out. It was my hospice caretaker. She had given up an
hour and a half after finding me dead. She was sure I was dead; all the
signs of death were there - I was getting stiff.

We do not know how long I was dead, but we do know that it was an hour
and a half since I was found. She
honored my wish to have my newly dead body left alone for a few hours as
much as she could. We had an
amplified stethoscope and many ways of checking out the vital functions
of the body to see what was happening. She can verify that I really was
dead. It was not a near-death experience. I experienced death itself
for at least an hour and a half. She found me dead and checked the
stethoscope, blood pressure and heart rate monitor for an hour and a
half. Then I awakened and saw the light outside. I tried to get up to
go to it, but I fell out of the bed. She heard a loud "clunk", ran in
and found me on the floor.

When I recovered, I was very surprised and yet very awed about what had
happened to me. At first all the
memory of the trip that I have now was not there. I kept slipping out
of this world and kept asking, "Am I
alive?" This world seemed more like a dream than that one. Within
three days, I was feeling normal again,
clearer, yet different than I had ever felt in my life. My memory of
the journey came back later. I could see nothing wrong with any human
being I had ever seen. Before that I was really judgmental. I thought
a lot of people were really screwed up, in fact I thought that everybody
was screwed up but me. But I got clear on all that.

About three months later a friend said I should get tested, so I went
and got the scans and so forth. I really felt good, so I was afraid of
getting bad news. I remember the doctor at the clinic looking at the
before and after scans, saying, "Well, there is nothing here now." I
said, "Really, it must be a miracle?" He said "No, these things happen,
they are called spontaneous remission." He acted very unimpressed. But
here was a miracle, and I was
impressed, even if no one else was.

LESSONS HE LEARNED

The mystery of life has very little to do with intelligence. The
universe is not an intellectual process at all. The intellect is
helpful; it is brilliant, but right now that is all we process with,
instead of our hearts and the wiser part of ourselves.

The center of the earth is this great transmuter of energy, just as you
see in pictures of our earth's magnetic field. That's our cycle,
pulling reincarnated souls back in and through it again. A sign that
you are reaching human level is that you are beginning to evolve an
individual consciousness.

The animals have a group soul, and they reincarnate in group souls. A
deer is pretty much going to be a deer
forever. But just being born a human, whether deformed or genius, shows
that you are on the path to developing an individual consciousness.
That is in itself part of the group consciousness called humanity.

I saw that races are personality clusters. Nations like France, Germany
and China each have their own personality. Cities have personalities,
Families have group souls. Individual identity is evolving like
branches of a fractal; the group soul explores in our individuality.
The different questions that each of us has are very, very important.
This is how Godhead is exploring God's Self - through you. So ask your
questions, do your searching. You will find your Self and you will find
God in that Self, because it is only the Self.

More than that, I began to see that each one of us humans are
soulmates. We are part of the same soul fractaling out in many creative
directions, but still the same. Now I look at every human being that I
ever see, and I see a soul mate, my soulmate, the one I have always been
looking for. Beyond that, the greatest soul mate that you will ever
have is yourself.

We are each both male and female. We experience this in the womb and we
experience this in reincarnation
states. If you are looking for that ultimate soul mate outside of
yourself, you may never find it; it is not there. Just as God is not
"there". God is here. Don't look "out there" for God. Look here for
God. Look through your Self. Start having the greatest love affair you
ever had ... with your Self. You will love everything out of that.

I had a descent into what you might call Hell, and it was very
surprising. I did not see Satan or evil. My
descent into Hell was a descent into each person's customized human
misery, ignorance, and darkness of
not-knowing. It seemed like a miserable eternity. But each of the
millions of souls around me had a little
star of light always available. But no one seemed to pay attention to
it. They were so consumed with their
own grief, trauma and misery. But, after what seemed an eternity, I
started calling out to that Light, like
a child calling to a parent for help.

Then the Light opened up and formed a tunnel that came right to me an
insulated me from all that fear and
pain. That is what Hell really is. So what we are doing is learning to
hold hands, to come together. The
doors of Hell are open now. We are going to link up, hold hands, and
walk out of Hell together. The Light
came to me and turned into a huge golden angel. I said, "Are you the
angel of death?" It expressed to
me that it was my oversoul, my Higher Self matrix, a super-ancient part
of ourselves. Then I was taken to
the Light.

Soon our science will quantify spirit. Isn't that going to be
wonderful? We are coming up with devices
now that are sensitive to subtle energy or spirit energy. Physicists
use these atomic colliders to smash atoms to see what they are made of.
They have got it down to quarks and charm, and all that. Well, one day
they are going to come down to the little thing that holds it all
together, and they are going to have to call that ... God.

With atomic colliders they are not only seeing what is in here, but they
are creating particles. Thank God
most of them are short-lived milliseconds and nanoseconds. We are just
beginning to understand that
we are creating too, as we go along. As I saw forever, I came to a
realm in which there is a point
where we pass all knowledge and begin creating the next fractal, the
next level. We have that power to
create as we explore. And that is God expanding itself through us.

Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have
learned how to get to that
space almost any time in my meditation. Each one of you can do this.
You do not have to die to do this.
It is within your equipment; you are wired for it already. The body is
the most magnificent Light being there is. The body is a universe of
incredible Light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this body. That
is not what is happening. Stop trying to become God; God is becoming
you. Here.

The mind is like a child running around the universe, demanding this and
thinking it created the world. But
I ask the mind: "What did your mother have to do with this?" That is
the next level of spiritual awareness.
Oh! my mother! All of a sudden you give up the ego, because you are
not the only soul in the universe.

One of my questions to the Light was, "What is Heaven?" I was given a
tour of all the heavens that have been created: the Nirvanas, the Happy
Hunting Grounds, all of them. I went through them. These are
thought-form creations that we have created. We don't really go to
heaven; we are reprocessed.

I asked God: "What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is right?"
God said with great love: "I don't care." What an incredible grace. It
does not matter what religion we are. Religions come and they go, they
change. Buddhism has not been here forever, Catholicism has not been
here forever, and they are all about to become more enlightened.
More light is coming into all systems now.

Many will resist and fight about it, one religion against the next,
believing that only they are right. When Godhead said, "I don't care," I
understood that it is for us to care about, because we are the caring
beings. The Source does not care if you are Protestant, Buddhist, or
Jew. Each is a reflection, a facet of the whole. I wish that all
religions would realize it and let each other be.

It is not the end of separate religions, but live and let live.
Each has a different view. And it all adds up to the big picture.

I went over to the other side with a lot of fears about toxic waste,
nuclear missiles, the population explosion, the rain forest. I came back
loving every single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom
cloud; this is the holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as
an archetype. More than any religion or philosophy on earth, that
terrible, wonderful cloud brought us together all of a sudden, to a new
level of consciousness.

Knowing that maybe we can blow up the planet fifty times, or 500 times,
we finally realize that maybe we are all here together now. For a period
they had to keep setting off more bombs to get it in to us.

Then we started saying, "we do not need this any more." Now we are
actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is going to
get safer. So I came back loving toxic waste, because it brought us
together. These things are so big.

Clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there
will be more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into
ecology, go for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming
aware. Go for it with all your might, but do not be depressed or
disheartened. Earth is in the process of domesticating itself and we are
cells on that Body.

Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of energy
to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will
change politics, money, energy.

What happens when we dream? We are multi-dimensional beings. We can
access that through lucid dreaming. In fact, this universe is God's dream.

One of the things that I saw is that we humans are a speck on a planet
that is a speck in a galaxy
that is a speck.

Those are giant systems out there, and we are in sort of an average
system. But human beings are already legendary throughout the cosmos of
consciousness.

The little bitty human being of Earth/Gaia is legendary. One of the
things that we are legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary dreamers.
In fact, the whole cosmos has been looking for the meaning of life, the
meaning of it all. And it was the little dreamer who came up with the
best answer ever. We dreamed it up. So dreams are important.

After dying and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our
DNA experiments we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we
will be able to live as long as we want to live in this body. After
living 150 years or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you
will want to change channels.

Living forever in one body is not as creative as reincarnation, as
transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of energy that we are in.
We are actually going to see the wisdom of life and death, and enjoy it.
As it is now, we have already been alive forever. Here's to life! Here's
to death!

Here's to it all!


Mellen-Thomas Benedict

P.O. Box 1848, Soquel, CA 95073
Phone: (408) 427-5554