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Articles about afterlife (0-50 of 186)
- Cultural Figures As Gifts
By: Aruna Kavuri | - For the holidays, cherubs and angels in the form of figurines, ornaments, statues, and even sitting at the top of the Christmas tree are a time-honored, classic gift. These cultural figures have been adored for centuries because of what they symbolize to the people who collect them.
Most of our representations of cherubs consist of chubby babies with adorable faces and little wings, frolicking up in the clouds, occasionally shooting an arrow of love into the hearts of lovers. In the Bible ...
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- Spirituality In Art
By: Dianne Aceto | - Spirituality was one of the original themes of artistic works. Whether expressed in sculptures or carvings of idols, the architecture of places of worship or the paintings of Old Masters spirituality has been a focus of artists since earliest times.
Initially, art was used in corporate worship and to try and win favor from higher beings. For example, the ancient Egyptians believed their pharaohs were deities, so they constructed elaborate tombs and filled them with treasures to carr ...
Tags: Meditation spirituality, Meditation and relaxation, Art inspirations
- The History Of The Tie Rack
By: timbowman | - Adornments for the male neck first appeared in Pharonic Egypt, and later in China under Emperor Shih Huan Ti, c. 210 BCE. The Emperor, terrified of what awaited him in the afterlife, desired to take his army with him. His advisors counseled against this plan, recommending instead the creation of a terra cotta army to be buried with him. The Emperor consented, to the relief of his troops, and a scaled down army of some 7,500 soldiers was crafted in exquisite detail including the adornment ...
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- Amulet
By: Amrit | - An amulet is a small object carried or worn and mostly offered to god/goddess and deflects negative thoughts. The small object worn around neck as a charm as an evil protector. An amulet is believed to be magically awarded as a power. An amulet impression symbol promotes well-being, and a gesture for good luck ( known most commonly among the other communities). Wearing a religious jewelry does not include an amulet. In the past, Egyptians amulets were made used as necklaces, rings , and bracelet ...
Tags: amulet, evil protector, amuletum, gem, gemstone, Evil eye, Horus
- Best Horror Movie List
By: Brian Jones | - No matter how much we fear, we keep coming back for more. Moviegoers for over a century now have become increasingly demanding, and moviemakers have never stopped stretching the possibilities of visual entertainment. There are two reasons why the cinema screen is so big, explained one movie critic. One: it's because there's a lot of people watching it. Second: it's to put each individual into movie itself, as if he were wearing a pair of virtual reality goggles and it was him in the lead role. I ...
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- I Will You All My Worldly Goods
By: Michael challiner | - It makes sense to make a will. Most of us realize that, but actually getting around to it seems such a hassle. How much thought went in these "wills with a difference"?
The famous magician and escapologist, Harry Houdini, couldn't escape death. Having died from a burst appendix, one of his biggest surprises came with the reading of his will. His magicians equipment went to his former partner Theodore, who was also his brother. His magical powers didn't work on the next item - his ...
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- Cheating Behavior And Prevention
By: Addison Kross | - There are those who have been guilty of being unfaithful and there are those who have felt the sting of finding out that someone they cared for cheated on them. There are others who fear that their loved one may someday commit this act and there are yet others who fear they will one day be tempted into infidelity and will fail to resist.
Most people at one time or another have some dealings with infidelity during the course of their romantic life. Though it may be a removed as ...
Tags: cheating, having an affair, catching a cheater, is he cheating, is she cheating, infidelity warning
- New Movie Trailers
By: Richard Cunningham | - I know. You go to the movies almost every single week, you cried when Gene Siskel died, you hope that Roger Ebert will still be reviewing movies for a long time. You set your TiVo to record your favorite films even though you already own them on DVD. And of course, you simply must see the new movie trailers when they come out in the theaters. In short, you are a movie maniac and you simply cannot get along with your films.
Personally, I'm a film buff myself and I always want to k ...
Tags: Trailers, New, Movie
- Effective Pr Through Postcards
By: Kat Nocom | - As early as the 1920s, learning specialists have agreed that visual aids are 40% more effective in achieving information retention compared to audio's 15%.Companies have now turned to public relations agencies to foster a solid relationship with their target market and media, scoring big with public opinion polls. Postcards would be your best alternative when trying reached a targeted audience. As a PR practitioner, you need to be both prudent and effective in your campaigns. Why postcards? See ...
Tags: postcards, postcard printing
- Strangest Mlb Merchandise
By: Chris Sargentelli | - MLB merchandise just keeps getting weirder. Last week the New York Times ran a really weird article about Yankees Sod, a new product thats pretty much just what it sounds like. It is grass thats been licensed by the New York Yankees for sale to fans. The turf actually comes from the same 80-acre plot as the grass that was recently installed in the new Yankee Stadium. If you go to a New York-area Home Depot you can pick up a a five-square-foot patch of this grass for around $7.50.
Tags: MLB, Yankees, New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Chicago Cubs
- Films To Look Out For In 2010
By: Musa Aykac | - Movies and storylines are just getting better and better and people love flocking to the cinema to watch some great movies a huge range of big budgets and blockbusters. 2009 has been a successful year of block buster hits, but what can we expect to see in 2010? Let's have a look at a few movies that are lined up for 2010.
A Night Mare on Elm Street
We all remember the original a few decades ago; it was probably one of the scariest films that I and a lot of people had watche ...
Tags: movies, films, cinema
- Think About Interview With Fantasy/science Fiction Author
By: durgesh | - Barry Maher is the author of Legend, a book that has attainted cult status in many science fiction circles.Legend is the dark urban fantasys answer to Dune. The novel will electrify readers, challenging their views on such societal concepts as groupthink and religion.
After reading Legend, I had the opportunity to ask Barry Maher about his novel, his work as a consultant, and whether hell consider returning to the world of speculative fiction.
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- Download Bleach Episodes
By: Jally Wards | - There is a wide ranging list of animated TV shows, still Bleach has been very successful to make a unique image among the audience. This show is about a high school student Kurosaki Ichigo. Kurosaki is different from any ordinary kid, as he had the psychic ability to see ghosts. Since his childhood, he has been seeing spirits who hasnt been able to cross over to the alternate world. Then one day, Kurosaki's life takes a U turn when an evil (beleaguered spirit, Hollow) attacks him and his two ...
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- How The Archaic Egyptian Religion!
By: GAURAVBOKEN | - The Egyptians did not have one single, monolithic, centralized, unchanging religion. All of what we deem Egyptian Religion is in a constant flux which varied from region to region and of course era-to-era. /; Trends in any of the beliefs and practice did not develop in any one single direction. But instead underwent a constant flow. Because of this, unlike our modern society it is increasingly difficult to separate what is sacred and what is profane.
The Egyptians ...
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- Mummification And The Book Of The Dead
By: Juha Wihtahousu | - The ancient Egyptian mystic writings, The Book of the Dead, describes a great deal of mummification. Numerous of the ancient Egyptians learned things of this script, so mummification was essential when a person deceased to move to the other world. This article will tell you some information that are interesting about mummification. Nowadays we know that mummification process was very important for the individuals of ancient Egypt. Also, cats were mummified after death.
Preserving so ...
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- Why I Am An Atheist
By: sheldon archer | - The better known religions are of course Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, and Hinduism. However there are many more, for example, The Amish, The Brethren, Children of God, Christadelphians, Christian Science, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Community of Christ, Eastern Orthodox churches, The Family, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Polygynists, Jehovah's Witnesses, LDS Restorationists. Messianic Judaism, The Process, Progressive Ch ...
Tags: God, religion, death, afterlife, Atheist, believer, Christian, Musl
- Psychic Mediums And The Spiritual Afterlife
By: Jon Lind | - Many, if not most people believe that our spirit lives on after bodily death and survives on another plane of existence that we here on earth generally don't have access to. Many people also believe that it is possible to contact the spirits that have left their bodily existence. Mediums today use the mind as a receiver and relay information to those who want it. Evidence of a spiritual afterlife from this process can be very convincing.
Those whose spirits live on who have been c ...
Tags: Psychic, Psychics, Psychic medium, Psychic Mediums, Mediums, Medium, Psychic reading, Psychic power
- Charms Bracelets: Symbolism In Accessories
By: Lawrence White | - Charm bracelets are worn around the wrist and there are also charm anklets, charm necklaces and charm rings. Personal charms are carried on these items and they can be either decorative adornments or hold significance for the important things in the owners' life.
Possible beginnings of the idea behind the charm could include, the warding off of evil spirits or bad luck. The wearing of charms can be dated back to ancient Egypt where charms were used for symbols of faith and luck a ...
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- The History Of Wine And The Wine Merchant
By: Dominic Donaldson | - Wine making is as almost as old as civilisation its self, society looks back and finds that its roots started in Mesopotamia. Wine historians look back and see that the earliest evidence of grapes being cultivated for wine dates all the way back to 6000 BC in the Ancient Middle East. The Egyptians recorded images of the grapes they harvested on the walls of their tombs and bottles of wine were placed within the burial for the pharaohs in the afterlife. Here in this article we shall look briefly ...
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- The True Nature Of Who You Really Are Is Nothing At All
By: ANIL BOBAL | - The true nature of who you really are is nothing at all. In the experience of being something, you move away from this state of nothingness.
It is not possible to experience being nothing for that realization is a state of being. In the world of the absolute or nothingness there is no being. Consciousness, is nothingness being something-"I am" this or that. Consciousness is a place in time, a focus of the nothing state wishing to experience something. As an individual of this nothi ...
Tags: Self Improvement, Motivation & Inspiration
- The True Nature Of Who You Really Are Is Nothing At All
By: vivekrenu | - The true nature of who you really are is nothing at all. In the experience of being something, you move away from this state of nothingness.
It is not possible to experience being nothing for that realization is a state of being. In the world of the absolute or nothingness there is no being. Consciousness, is nothingness being something-"I am" this or that. Consciousness is a place in time, a focus of the nothing state wishing to experience something. As an individual of this nothi ...
Tags: Keyword - Self Improvement, Motivation & Inspiration
- Burials Through Time And Funeral Directors From The Past - The Vikings
By: Phil Byrne | - The Vikings had a fearsome reputation as violent raiders and some would say that their funeral rites were no less horrifying than their reputation.
In Viking culture the 'level' of violence appeared to depend on the deceased's social standing.
Chieftains for example, were often 'buried' on burning ships and one of the leader's thrall girls - a slave in Scandanavian culture - would voluntarily accompany her master in death. Prior to cremation, she would have sexual intercour ...
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- Embalming: Your Questions Answered
By: Sarah Matthews | - Heartthrob James Dean wanted to live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse. Well, it wouldn't stay beautiful for long unless he made arrangements to have his body embalmed. This method of corpse conservation literally means to treat a dead body with special chemicals and preservatives to prevent decay. And while it may sound a bit morbid, to say the least, it's a method that has been around for a long time, so it must work!
Why Embalm?
We embalm for a very basi ...
Tags: afterlife, alive, blood, corpse, cremated, dead, decay, die,
- How Online Technicians Fix Your Computer Issue
By: Emma elle | - Your PC has got a virus manual and you abasement to abide all your aggregation invulnerable. After carrying your PC into your abutting system central, you are told by techs that your computer is absolutely harder infected. Then, you are told a lot of the able bringing terms. But, you don't human any advantage and you spiral to get it serviced by them for the according value.
This all happened because you didnt off any adverse prize. What if there is anyone to acclimation of ...
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- Classic Bird Tattoo Designs For Men And Women
By: Jeff McDougall | - Bird tattoo designs have always been extremely popular when compared to other designs, and this is basically because birds have always in almost every culture been considered as symbols of freedom and also of the spirit, soul and importantly of beauty. Their ability to soar high above the ground has earned them the reputation of being close to the gods. Certain religions even consider birds to be the creatures that pass on departed spirits to the afterlife.
Due to the religious and myst ...
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- Best Macintosh Games In Town
By: David H Urmann | - Macintosh is a computer war game that is played by many people. This has been in the market for quite some time. Know the cheats in Macintosh and try them.
Many people nowadays, especially guys, are addicted to computer games. Some play for leisure; others are more serious gamers.. Newer versions of the games are always coming out to keep up with the rising number of gamers. War games are one of the most popular.
There are many platforms available to choose from. O ...
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- Healthy Lifestyles, Ancient Wisdom - From Aristotle To Alexander, His Horse To Me
By: Derek Dashwood | - The immediate response of the state murder of Socrates saw the people of Athens arise in disgust as one. They harassed and hounded those Governing 30 out of Athens: death, rejection, forever out of any inner council of wiser gentler Athens.
This was the Athens Alexander arrived in, and took note. Heroic to a fault, he saw his chance for immortality, and it would seem to live great and die in glory may have become "fixed" in his young mind as a scholar with other princes of other ...
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- Help For Those Who Have Lost A Loved One Or Need Help Planning
By: Matt Wagner | - Death is a natural part of life. But, it can be a tough topic to deal with. Most of us love our lives and want to hold on to it. We also want to hold on to those we love. We don't want to face the issue of death unless we really have to. And, some people never face it. As a result of that, they either end up with a fear of death, or they get severely depressed when someone that they love dies. Some people, however, feel the opposite about death. They understand that it is natural. They do g ...
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- Hell Or Heaven: Firsthand Authors Describe Your Fate
By: Brian F Connors | - Our earthly existence demands that we plan for our future in the best way that we can. We must conduct our affairs in this life in a prudent manner regarding investments, education, insurance and such to guide us towards the goal of safety and contentment. But what about a strategy regarding the afterlife when our brief stay on this planet is over?
Bill Wiese and Don Piper are two authors who describe in vivid detail the ultimate outcomes of our worldly lives in books respectivel ...
Tags: Life after death, afterlife, salvation, life after death experiences, near death experiences, judgement day, plan of salvation, salvation is here
- The Afterlife Science Or Fiction?
By: Roger Rogers - Jesian | - One of the disadvantages our human race has, is, that no one really knows what will happen to us after we die. This is the main factor why we live in this troublesome world where ignorance, wars and famine are widespread.
Other civilizations on distant planets may have the knowledge of what the afterlife has to offer. Therefore, they do not require any machines to survive their tranquil life span and so they do not need to seek communications with other planets as we do.
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Tags: spirit, soul, afterlife, atoms, subatomic particles, ego, heaven, peace, mother earth
- Egyptians Believed In Magical Powers In Daily Life And The Afterlife
By: Terry Kubiak | - One of the most interesting and collectable artifacts from ancient Egypt is the usabti, the magical statue found in tombs. Magic played an important role in the daily life of the ancient Egyptians. Part of their magic was the belief that amulets and statues would protect them from perils, both real and imagined, in their daily lives and in the next world.
During Egypt's Middle Kingdom period, small statues began to be placed in the tombs of the deceased. These statues were intende ...
Tags: magical powers, collectable artifacts, ancient Egypt, usabti, magical statue, amulets, afterlife,
- 3 Steps To Effectively Use Probiotics After Taking Acne Antibiotics
By: Naweko Nicole Dial | - Once you get acne under control, the first thing on your mind is probably socializing, shopping and generally leaving your skin related health woes behind. But if antibiotics were apart of your acne axing regime, you may want probiotics to be apart of your acne-afterlife.
Patricia Raymond, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, finds that antibiotic usage can negatively impact the colon. Raymond explains, "As antibiotics work to treat a di ...
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- The Challenge Of Death And Dying: Caring For Aging Parents
By: Julie Redstone | - The process of dying is one of the great stages of learning of the human soul, often met with fear and resistance, yet even in the presence of these, filled with the growth of the soul in its appreciation of its relationship to life.
There is no one way to experience dying so that it produces the maximum amount of growth. For some, the sense of flow from one aspect of life to another is intuitively felt, even if nothing in the earlier stages of life has been articulated as a spi ...
Tags: death and dying, life after death, dying, afterlife, aging, people dying, caring for the elderly
- The Loneliest Place In Creation
By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - The loneliest place in personal experience would have to be part of nothing.
Many people believe we are one with each other-joined with an eternal mass of nothing-formless and shapeless energy. This mass is often referred to as God. From the realm of nothingness matter is shaped into physical forms and beings, and given awareness or personal identity apart from what created it. But it is still connected by the ever flowing waves of the subconscious.
From nothi ...
Tags: nothing, matter, illusion, existence, heaven, hell, afterlife, God, true nature, life's purpose,
- Through Death Into Light
By: Julie Redstone | - This is a true story of beings and energies, and the passage after death into greater light. Some of it is metaphor, but the overall principles of ascendance are not. The character of the ancient one has a place in the hierarchy of light, and the blessings offered and help given to the departed are very real.
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At the edge of the Garden of Eden, at a place not far from where the wilderness meets the cultivated landscape of fruit trees and flowers, sta ...
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- When In Rome--do What The Romans Do!
By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - If you have taken the time and expense to visit Rome, why would you be concerned about home?
So, you have planned this trip to Rome for months-you need to get away, to forget about things for awhile and enjoy all that Rome has to offer. Everyone needs a vacation, a change of pace, an opportunity to experience something different.
So why is it that two days after you have arrived in Rome, you are thinking about things at home? Your focus is not where you are. ...
Tags: spirit, our true nature, afterlife, life after death, purpose of life, creation, evolution,
- Nothing Is Who You Really Are
By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - The true nature of who you really are is nothing at all. In the experience of being something, you move away from this state of nothingness.
It is not possible to experience being nothing for that realization is a state of being. In the world of the absolute or nothingness there is no being. Consciousness, is nothingness being something-"I am" this or that. Consciousness is a place in time, a focus of the nothing state wishing to experience something. As an individual of this ...
Tags: nothing, emptiness, the afterlife, death, heaven, hell, spirituality, enlightenment, past life,
- The Afterlife
By: dave4 | - The afterlife is something that thousands of people think about every day. Also, there are many possibilities that can happen after death. One, you go to heaven or hell, two, you roam the Earth and/or space as a spirit, or three, nothingness. In reality, the latter choice is the most likely. Explained here in this article are a few theories that support the first two choices.
Whenever you lose your memory, it's like the event never happened. For example, many people who get concus ...
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- The Soul Will Take Care Of Itself
By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - If you come from perfection and you are going back to perfection-then, is what you experience in between-imperfection? Of course it is not!
The experience of being imperfect is an illusion-a thought manifested into an experience that would seem to be imperfect.
Imperfection can only be imagined. That which is perfect will always be perfect-it cannot be anything else. You are a creature of perfection experiencing all forms of perfection, and so called imperfect ...
Tags: afterlife, death, soul, purpose, enlightenment, spiritual awareness, God, awakening, redemption,
- What If This Were Your Final Moment?
By: ann777 | - What if you were hit with a sudden tsunami right now, without warning? You're lazing on a beautiful beach, when suddenly this humungous skyscraper of water is leaning over you! You have nowhere to go. In fact, you don't even have time to collect your thoughts and get up! What do you do? How do you react in that split second?
In situations such as this people have seen their whole life flash before their eyes. As I'm writing this, the Lord is reminding me of that very same thing I ...
Tags: salvation, dying, life, heaven, sudden, afterlife, God, Jesus
- Enhancing Your Scent Of Smell: How Perfume Came And Stayed!
By: Thomas Salathe | - We think nothing of wearing perfume now, but thousands of years ago, its use was more than just cosmetic. Perfume was a main ingredient in the preparation of dead bodies for the afterlife. It was used as part of the embalming process and was even applied on manuscripts to keep pests away. Perfume was also used for worship to honor gods and with wine to enhance its flavor. It was also applied as fumigation, to keep pestilence away.
Perfume throughout history
Centuries ag ...
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- Magical, Mystical Halloween
By: Peter Koonz | - If you are wondering about the origins of Halloween, you can find that there are many different stories and origins of how the holiday started. Some say that it is a day of Satan, or the worship of evil spirits and the practice of witchcraft which they believe is Druid religion. There are others who believe it was a day for the ghosts of the dead to come back and settle the scores on people who had done them wrong.
A few stories have been told about the spirits that had past away ...
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- The Role Of Animals Of Ancient Egypt
By: Melanie Light | - Copyright 2006 Melanie Light
To the ancient Egyptians, animals were created by the gods and given rights equal to that of mankind. They saw animals not as their subjects, but rather as independent beings, and treated them with respect. [A]
The Nile served as a source of food and was the most important factor to the agriculture of the region. Fish were plentiful and could be eaten roasted, boiled, salted, preserved, or simply dried in the sun. Because the Nile would ...
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- Death Is Planned Lovingly At The Highest Level
By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - In the abstract world of the esoteric, souls are planning their rebirthing into the physical world.
In the formless body of the creator, individualized pieces (souls) of the creator meet with others souls to plan out their new lives, the circumstances of their births, what they want to experience in this lifetime, and the time, place and circumstances of their death.
In the greater picture, the body is an illusion-it is a vehicle for the soul to experience ph ...
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- Varying Concepts On Death And Dying
By: Luise Volta | - We have been offered as many approaches to death and dying as we have religions, philosophies and direct experiences. Throughout a long life, each of us may even evolve though a series of beliefs in what it is that most of us can't fathom; namely, death.
The door of this off-putting subject is now being opened by a new breed, the Hospice Professional, who attends to the needs of those on the brink and their families. Also, psychologists offering grief counseling are available to m ...
Tags: death, dying, death and dying, sogyal rinpoche, elizabeth kubler ross, autobiography of a yogi, yogananda
- Spinal Cord Injury ? The Afterlife
By: Michael E. Hylton | - Am I talking about death here? No, Im talking about life after a spinal cord injury. Why did I phrase the title of this article as I did? Because for many people who suffer a spinal cord injury, their first thoughts after being informed of paralysis, or wheelchairs, or a severed spinal cord, causing the patient to never be able to walk again, is indeed death. Why did I even live?
I know that was one of my earliest thoughts after I was able to understand what was going on. ...
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- Suicide Is The Cause Of All Death
By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - Before life, the soul chooses what it wants to experience in the physical world. It chooses its parents, the time and place of birth and it chooses the circumstances time and place of death. The soul does not come blindly to this life. It has chosen parents and time of birth to best facilitate what it wants to experience.
After birth the soul gives up control of its circumstances to the will of the ego. The ego is given unconditional freedom to choose the direction of the body ...
Tags: suicide, death, transformation, afterlife, soul's purpose, departed ones,
- Egyptian God Osiris
By: Mar | - Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of the dead and the underworld. At the height of the ancient Nile civilization, Osiris was regarded as the primary deity of a henotheism. Osiris was not only the merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River. Beginning at about 200 ...
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