going on with Jhananda?

[Jhanananda]

Thank you, Michael and David, for expressing your kind thoughts. Parents never get over the loss of a child, so I don't expect to do so, but I plan to just keep moving forward.

[Tad]

Condolences as well.

 It is rough when children pass away before their parents.

[Jhanananda]

Thanks, Tad. Material existence is characterized by suffering. If I suffer, then it is because I have craving and covetousness for the material world. Loved ones are perhaps the most difficult aspects of the material world not to have craving and covetousness for because we associate them with love. Love (piti) is an abstract internal experience that we associate with loved one in the material world, but loved ones come and go; whereas, love is something that exists beyond this world, because we have the most intense and transformational experiences of love as an interior religious experience. So, we spend our life in the interior pursuit of love. By making our life more about meditation, then we withdraw from the material world and become more interior. First comes the experience of interior love, then the interior experience of a still mind, which is even more blissful, then we keep pursuing the remaining ecstatic interior states until we die, then we remain in the infinite immaterial domains and never come back.

[rougeleader115]

Thank you for continuing to give us guidance during this time. I’m sorry for your loss.

[Jhanananda]

Thank you, rougeleader115, for expressing your kind support.

[Jhanananda]

There are many beautiful things about the Out-of-Body experience. One of those is being able to make contact with loved ones who have passed on. All of yesterday I felt intense depression. Instead of trying to bury it under the ecstasies I just let it run its course. During last night's Out-of-Body Experiences I met up with my recently dead son. I was weeping and telling him I missed him.  He consoled me by saying, "I am always with you, dad." I then woke up sobbing. A parent never gets over the death of their child.

[Michael Hawkins]

There are many beautiful things about the Out-of-Body experience. One of those is being able to make contact with loved ones who have passed on. All of yesterday I felt intense depression. Instead of trying to bury it under the ecstasies I just let it run its course. During last night's Out-of-Body Experiences I met up with my recently dead son. I was weeping and telling him I missed him.  He consoled me by saying, "I am always with you, dad." I then woke up sobbing. A parent never gets over the death of their child.

This is beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time, Jeffrey.  I'm happy that you were able to connect with your son in the non-material world - it helps with navigating the suffering that exists in this world.

[Jhanananda]

This is beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time, Jeffrey.  I'm happy that you were able to connect with your son in the non-material world - it helps with navigating the suffering that exists in this world.

Thank you, Michael, yes the material world is a cruel, hellish domain.  I just cannot understand the craving and covetousness that people have for this hell. But, being a mystic with access to the astral plane, then we can visit with our loved ones, and so many other beings beaming bliss, joy and ecstasy out to the infinite universe from the heavenly host.

[Tad]

Hi Jhanananda,

I wanted to check if you are still working on your book. I think it would be great to have the essence of this forum and GWV summarized in a single book.

[Jhanananda]

Thanks for asking. Yes, my plan is to complete my book on the religious experience, but my decline in health 6 years ago has forced me to focus upon my health. So, now that I have fully recovered from COPD, which required a great deal of research, then I am now focused upon finalizing that research into book form, then I plan to return to completing the book that you have requested.

[Jhanananda]

Two nights ago while out-of-body my son came to me and held me. We were surrounded by water.

He said, "Wake up dad."

I woke up and found my body had not been breathing for a while and was deeply depleted of oxygen due to sleep apnea, which is common for people who travel out-of-body, even though I was wearing a CPAP mask that had been modified to be a multi-gas Powered Air Purifying Respirator. It got me thinking that at 71 I shouldn't expect to live much longer, and death by sleep apnea during an OOBE is a pretty decent way to die.

[Jhanananda]

Sorry folks, the forum was down for three days. The web host helped me get it up and running just now.