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CHAPTER 1: Introduction
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.1
—Albert Einstein
21/12/2022 23:13
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It was amazing! I knew I was being held in unlimited love, and that love was forever. It was like loving the way God loves, and when that happened, my heart opened and it felt like my soul touched the unseen creator. I knew God exists and that we are a part of everything
23/12/2022 19:28
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And that love of God felt like the first time you see your baby or the first time you fall in love—multiplied by ten thousand
23/12/2022 19:53
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I realized that the “I Am” was who I was and always had been and always would be. What bliss! I had a choice to rest in this truth and stay on the “other side,” or I could continue to play the “game” of being an imaginary person. As I realized this, I mentally “turned around” and saw a light that was brighter than a million suns but didn’t hurt my eyes. That light radiated all-encompassing and unconditional love and “felt” sentient—it had a presence—like it was God
23/12/2022 19:57
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CHAPTER 2: The God Study
God took over my reins, in the sense that “I” no longer existed—only He existed. I felt overwhelming bliss, love, and compassion. The True Home and the True Self of all things were miraculously revealed to me.
Ever since then, I know that God is. It’s no longer a matter of faith or belief for me, but one of knowing because I have seen Him as He is. And He is loving, compassionate, and forgiving—which I hadn’t expected. It’s like He picked me up in the palm of His hand, and I’ll always be thankful to Him for that; in fact, tears of gratitude still come to my eyes thirty years later.
23/12/2022 22:08
God treats me as the apple of His eye
my name is tattooed on His palm
simeini kaChotam al libbecha kaChotam al zeroecha
───
He said to me “Do you know who I am?” And I knew he was God the moment I looked into his eyes. I said “yes,” and even though I felt ashamed and so unworthy, I felt loved like no other
23/12/2022 22:39
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I no longer fear death. I have a connection with God that is very personal and is forever. It’s not limited to this earth. I see life and death differently. I miss people who die, but I’m thrilled that they are at peace and no longer suffering the limits of this life
23/12/2022 22:43
───
After my experience, I felt greatly comforted. I knew that God loved me and was always with me. I know now that no matter what this life brings, it will all work out, because God has it all under control. I trust that He will make everything work out for the good of everyone
23/12/2022 22:46
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CHAPTER 3: Encounters with Love
I came to realize that God is more loving and caring than I could ever imagine.
27/12/2022 23:22
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No human can ever love with the love I felt in that light. It is all-consuming, all-forgiving. Nothing matches it. It is like the day you looked into the eyes of your child for the first time magnified a million times. It’s indescribable
27/12/2022 23:22
───
Something very nice and loving came back in me. I left all my negative feelings behind and returned a newer me
27/12/2022 23:32
───
I was enveloped by light and felt one with everything—all-seeing, all-knowing.
This experience gave new meaning to that saying, “God is Love.” The love was like an energy that connected every molecule in the universe.
After I adjusted to being in the light, I was offered choices for what would happen next. My consciousness continued to expand, and I realized that if I let it continue, I would not be able to return from death. I don’t know how to explain it, but I could hear that point approaching and knew I had to stop it.
27/12/2022 23:39
───
CHAPTER 4: Universal Love
I look into the Light’s source and see a massive, human silhouette that is radiating with the brightness of thousands of suns. Even though I’ve never seen this form before, I recognize it and it speaks to me: “Andy, don’t be afraid. Andy, I love you. Andy, we love you.”
28/12/2022 22:50
───
God was there. Or more accurately, a great Fire or Light that I understood “represented” or “stood for” God. (But it was also really God. I can’t explain this paradox; it was just something I had to accept. But that wasn’t a problem because there was no “intellectualizing,” just the raw, naked experience of the Presence of God.)
28/12/2022 23:02
───
I felt this was God appearing to me as I had always imagined him: an old man with a large beard. He had taken on this persona so that I wouldn’t be afraid. I felt safe. I have never felt so safe in my life.
28/12/2022 23:30
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CHAPTER 7: Insight and Revelation
I was suddenly amazed that I knew everything there was to know, even reflecting to myself, “So that’s how it works.”
31/12/2022 22:57
───
It was like I was a computer and receiving an endless download of knowledge. I asked questions and received answers immediately. Anytime I posed a question, the answer was presented
31/12/2022 22:58
───
CHAPTER 8: Heaven
Epictetus’s maxim: “All religions must be tolerated . . . for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
31/12/2022 23:18
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CHAPTER 9: Hellish Encounters
He then asked, “Why would you want to leave me?” I don’t remember responding. Then He asked, “How do you feel about being dead?”
01/01/2023 18:52
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CHAPTER 10: God and Religion
God is everything that can ever be and everything that can never be at the same time, and I’m merely human, so I can understand it only in human terms. Even the best of humanity is still human, so everything will be anthropomorphic. It’s like a chair looking at a table and thinking that it sees a strange chair with no back. The chair may never know it is a chair, but it will still function as a chair. It may never question that it is a chair or look beyond its chairness, and yet it will be a chair just the same.
01/01/2023 19:43
───
The universe is full of Order, so it always finds a way to balance everything because it can’t exist without perfect balance
01/01/2023 20:03
───
What is the right religion?”
The man told me: “They all are. Each religion is a pathway trying to reach the same place.
01/01/2023 20:07
───
I didn’t feel that the God I met was of a specific religion.17
I still attend church but now treat attendance as more of a cultural experience than a religious or spiritual experience. Many times I’d like to take over the pulpit and tell people what is really on the other side and that the guilt preached by Christian churches is completely inappropriate
01/01/2023 21:55
───
I’m not involved in any religion, but I respect everyone and their religion. I no longer look down on people for that aspect of their lives. But I do know that God, in whatever form you choose to believe in him, is real and does exist. But from what I experienced, God is bigger than anything anyone could conceive
01/01/2023 23:09
───
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.1
—Albert Einstein
21/12/2022 23:13
───
It was amazing! I knew I was being held in unlimited love, and that love was forever. It was like loving the way God loves, and when that happened, my heart opened and it felt like my soul touched the unseen creator. I knew God exists and that we are a part of everything
23/12/2022 19:28
───
And that love of God felt like the first time you see your baby or the first time you fall in love—multiplied by ten thousand
23/12/2022 19:53
───
I realized that the “I Am” was who I was and always had been and always would be. What bliss! I had a choice to rest in this truth and stay on the “other side,” or I could continue to play the “game” of being an imaginary person. As I realized this, I mentally “turned around” and saw a light that was brighter than a million suns but didn’t hurt my eyes. That light radiated all-encompassing and unconditional love and “felt” sentient—it had a presence—like it was God
23/12/2022 19:57
───
CHAPTER 2: The God Study
God took over my reins, in the sense that “I” no longer existed—only He existed. I felt overwhelming bliss, love, and compassion. The True Home and the True Self of all things were miraculously revealed to me.
Ever since then, I know that God is. It’s no longer a matter of faith or belief for me, but one of knowing because I have seen Him as He is. And He is loving, compassionate, and forgiving—which I hadn’t expected. It’s like He picked me up in the palm of His hand, and I’ll always be thankful to Him for that; in fact, tears of gratitude still come to my eyes thirty years later.
23/12/2022 22:08
God treats me as the apple of His eye
my name is tattooed on His palm
simeini kaChotam al libbecha kaChotam al zeroecha
───
He said to me “Do you know who I am?” And I knew he was God the moment I looked into his eyes. I said “yes,” and even though I felt ashamed and so unworthy, I felt loved like no other
23/12/2022 22:39
───
I no longer fear death. I have a connection with God that is very personal and is forever. It’s not limited to this earth. I see life and death differently. I miss people who die, but I’m thrilled that they are at peace and no longer suffering the limits of this life
23/12/2022 22:43
───
After my experience, I felt greatly comforted. I knew that God loved me and was always with me. I know now that no matter what this life brings, it will all work out, because God has it all under control. I trust that He will make everything work out for the good of everyone
23/12/2022 22:46
───
CHAPTER 3: Encounters with Love
I came to realize that God is more loving and caring than I could ever imagine.
27/12/2022 23:22
───
No human can ever love with the love I felt in that light. It is all-consuming, all-forgiving. Nothing matches it. It is like the day you looked into the eyes of your child for the first time magnified a million times. It’s indescribable
27/12/2022 23:22
───
Something very nice and loving came back in me. I left all my negative feelings behind and returned a newer me
27/12/2022 23:32
───
I was enveloped by light and felt one with everything—all-seeing, all-knowing.
This experience gave new meaning to that saying, “God is Love.” The love was like an energy that connected every molecule in the universe.
After I adjusted to being in the light, I was offered choices for what would happen next. My consciousness continued to expand, and I realized that if I let it continue, I would not be able to return from death. I don’t know how to explain it, but I could hear that point approaching and knew I had to stop it.
27/12/2022 23:39
───
CHAPTER 4: Universal Love
I look into the Light’s source and see a massive, human silhouette that is radiating with the brightness of thousands of suns. Even though I’ve never seen this form before, I recognize it and it speaks to me: “Andy, don’t be afraid. Andy, I love you. Andy, we love you.”
28/12/2022 22:50
───
God was there. Or more accurately, a great Fire or Light that I understood “represented” or “stood for” God. (But it was also really God. I can’t explain this paradox; it was just something I had to accept. But that wasn’t a problem because there was no “intellectualizing,” just the raw, naked experience of the Presence of God.)
28/12/2022 23:02
───
I felt this was God appearing to me as I had always imagined him: an old man with a large beard. He had taken on this persona so that I wouldn’t be afraid. I felt safe. I have never felt so safe in my life.
28/12/2022 23:30
───
CHAPTER 7: Insight and Revelation
I was suddenly amazed that I knew everything there was to know, even reflecting to myself, “So that’s how it works.”
31/12/2022 22:57
───
It was like I was a computer and receiving an endless download of knowledge. I asked questions and received answers immediately. Anytime I posed a question, the answer was presented
31/12/2022 22:58
───
CHAPTER 8: Heaven
Epictetus’s maxim: “All religions must be tolerated . . . for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
31/12/2022 23:18
───
CHAPTER 9: Hellish Encounters
He then asked, “Why would you want to leave me?” I don’t remember responding. Then He asked, “How do you feel about being dead?”
01/01/2023 18:52
───
CHAPTER 10: God and Religion
God is everything that can ever be and everything that can never be at the same time, and I’m merely human, so I can understand it only in human terms. Even the best of humanity is still human, so everything will be anthropomorphic. It’s like a chair looking at a table and thinking that it sees a strange chair with no back. The chair may never know it is a chair, but it will still function as a chair. It may never question that it is a chair or look beyond its chairness, and yet it will be a chair just the same.
01/01/2023 19:43
───
The universe is full of Order, so it always finds a way to balance everything because it can’t exist without perfect balance
01/01/2023 20:03
───
What is the right religion?”
The man told me: “They all are. Each religion is a pathway trying to reach the same place.
01/01/2023 20:07
───
I didn’t feel that the God I met was of a specific religion.17
I still attend church but now treat attendance as more of a cultural experience than a religious or spiritual experience. Many times I’d like to take over the pulpit and tell people what is really on the other side and that the guilt preached by Christian churches is completely inappropriate
01/01/2023 21:55
───
I’m not involved in any religion, but I respect everyone and their religion. I no longer look down on people for that aspect of their lives. But I do know that God, in whatever form you choose to believe in him, is real and does exist. But from what I experienced, God is bigger than anything anyone could conceive
01/01/2023 23:09
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haleigh_stockton's review against another edition
5.0
This book was fascinating! It’s also a very quick and easy read, less than 300 pages.