Question: Many people who have had near-death experiences say that they go into this totally positive place where they meet the Creator God, and suddenly they know everything that is, ever was and ever will be. This sort of feels off to me. It sort of implies that if I already know everything, what more self-transcendence is there? I feel like people describe the outer body experience this way, because it is such a massive contrast from their earthly experience. Can the masters give me their perspective?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.
Well, you need to understand here that a near-death experience is an experience where the person steps outside of its normal state of consciousness. There are, of course, many ways that you can step outside your normal state of consciousness, which is what many spiritual tools and techniques are meant to achieve. But for some people, they cannot do this unless they have the death of their physical body, because only then are their minds freed from identification with the body.
What this shows you is that most of the people who have a near-death experience have a clear attachment to the body, which means they are not at a particularly high level of consciousness. Because then you can step outside your normal state of experience, or state of consciousness, without the death of the body.
Where a person goes after the death of the body, whether it is temporary in a near-death experience or the permanent death, is determined by the person’s level of consciousness. And what you experience there is determined by your level of consciousness. Now, some people go into seeing visions of hell as a result of a near-death experience, and others experience what they call visions of heaven. And there are some that experience what they call the Creator God, but it is not what we call the Creator. It is this mental image that is created in the lower identity realm of this all-knowing, all-good God, such as you see in the monotheistic religions. And the purpose of this is really to give them a contrast to their normal level of awareness.
The question is whether they will use it that way, use it to transcend their level of consciousness as some do, or whether they will use it to validate the beliefs they held, such as, for example, their Christian beliefs, their belief in the Christian image of God. As a spiritual person, you can be inspired by near-death experiences, but you cannot take everything that these people experience, or what they say about it, literally. Now, you are correct in your observation that the reason why people feel like they know everything, is that it is such a contrast to their normal limited state of consciousness. It is possible to contact the higher identity realm, or the lower identity realm, and experience beings who have a much broader consciousness than people have on earth. And this can give you the impression that these beings know everything, because they know much more, and they see much more than you do on earth. But no one knows everything, not even the Creator, as we have explained that free will is the ultimate law.
And free will cannot be predicted, or it would not be free will. What you see in some of these people is that they have accepted this false image of God that Maitreya talked about—the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God, that supposedly is in control of everything. But as Maitreya explained, that God does not exist in reality, but only as a collectively created entity that people have fed their energy into for a long time.
No one knows everything. Of course, as an ascended master, you have a much broader perspective. And you can know many, many things. I as an ascended master, if I really want to know how Alpha and Omega at the highest level of the world of form, what they know about a certain topic, then I can raise my consciousness and contact them, and therefore experience what they experience. But even they, of course, do not know the future in detail. They may be able to see certain trends and project. And you could say, of course, that the Creator knows that ultimately all spheres will ascend.
But how long that takes and exactly how it unfolds, it is not possible to know because of free will. But again, you can always say that for people at a certain level of consciousness, even these near-death experiences have a certain value in potentially opening people’s minds to the fact that there is much more to know about life than what you know here on earth, even in the outer religions or scientific materialism or political ideologies.
We can say that many people think, because they have this religion that is the ultimate truth, that they know everything that is important to know. And it can be valuable for such people to experience that they do not know everything and that there is much more to know. Of course, you can say that nobody who is in embodiment on earth and who has a near-death experience and comes back can actually know everything because, how could the limited awareness that you have, know literally everything? It can only have a sense of an expanded consciousness where you feel like you know everything, you know so much more than what you know when you are in embodiment.
And this can then give you a valuable perspective that can potentially help you expand your consciousness and open your mind to new knowledge, which has happened to many people who have had a near-death experience and many people who have read about them.
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