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Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 1 - Key Finding 26

Question: Greeting by religious figures- Does Jesus ever greet new soul arrivals and, if so, is this an appearance which is simultaneously repeated for numerous arrivals?

Spirit Guide: The answer to both of your questions is yes. The reason that someone feels that they are being met by Jesus is that they have a very strong Christian belief on earth. They do not understand, they accept Jesus as the man and do not accept that Jesus is not just the man but is the Christ energy that is within them. But, because that is what their very strong earth-bound belief is, they feel that they are met by Jesus the man. This is an energy that they have the consciousness of and, because each individual has their own consciousness when they make their crossing over, the appearance of Jesus the man is able to come to all of these individuals in their own personal way. Thus it follows in all religions on earth as a person crosses over.

Question: Speaking of Jesus, I seem to recall in some of my readings that when Jesus does greet a new soul arrival it is almost as if it was an image of Jesus without the true personality because very little conversation gets spoken, perhaps just a ceremonial gesture and word of welcome on the part of Jesus which makes me think that its not really Jesus but it is some sort of image of Jesus that is provided these people that arrive.

Spirit Guide: This we agree with very much so and that is what we were trying to say about their own individual consciousness. They do not accept the fact that the Christ spirit that the man represented is actually within them. They are too connected with the image of the man and not what the Christ consciousness of the man was about.

Question: But I presume that there is a spirit who was in his most recent incarnation in the body of the person known as Jesus and that that spirit exists today in a heavenly realm.

Spirit Guide: This is very much so as many of the spiritual teachers such as Buddha and others who walked your earth, who have left earth as a human being, who have a spirit consciousness. But, if you had thousands of persons every minute that expected to see Jesus, it would be a terrible imposition on the spirit of Jesus to have to be able to greet and interact with all those people. And that is what we're saying, that is not truly what happens. They are greeted, as we said to you, on their own individual consciousness of what Jesus was. They are not greeted by the actual spirit of Jesus but their consciousness of who they believe Jesus to be or Buddha or whatever their spiritual connection was on earth.

Agreements

Seth Speaks by Roberts

Seth: Christianity has believed in a heaven and a hell, a purgatory, and reckoning and so, at death, to those who so believe in these symbols, another ceremony is enacted, and the guides take on the guises of those beloved figures of Christian saints and heros. Then with this as framework, and in terms that they can understand, such individuals are told the true situation. Mass religious movements have for centuries fulfilled that purpose, in giving man some plan to be followed. It little mattered that later the plan was seen as a child's primer, a book of instructions complete with colorful tales, for the main purpose was served and there was little disorientation. In periods where no such mass ideas are held, there is more disorientation, and when life after death is completely denied, the problem is somewhat magnified.

Life Between Lives by Michael Newton

...at the initial contact with their guide, a devout Christian client might exclaim, "Oh, I see Jesus!" A variation of this theme could be a statement to the effect of "An angel has just come to meet me." There are clients with firm theological convictions who tend to believe their session is a religious rather than a spiritual experience. Thus, conscious preconceptions toward religious doctrine are manifested here....They soon realize this preeminent being is their own personal teacher who has been assigned to them from their beginnings rather than a great prophet from one of the world's major religions.

Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon

Cannon: Some people believe that the form of Jesus' spirit will contact you to guide you at the time that your spirit leaves your body.

Spirit: It is entirely possible; however, not mandatory or in all cases. It is sometimes done if the individual crossing over requests or desires to see this Jesus energy, and so it is in fact the Jesus energy which would manifest itself...

Disagreements

Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton

In all my years of research, I have never had a single subject who was met by a major religious figure such as Jesus or Buddha. There has been no instance where individuals have reported during between-life regression sessions that they have actually been met by a major religious figure such as Jesus.

Question:  Under what circumstances, if any, would such a greeting appear to be made to an individual crossing over?

Spirit Guide Commentary (12/8/08 and 12/21/08) It is our understanding that those who believe in Christ, those who believe that they will see Christ when they cross over, as we have said before, they will see the essence of Christ. That is what they had prepared themselves for. As far as others saying they never encountered or heard of this before, does not mean that it is not so. It is not just the Christ consciousness that comes to someone who has crossed over. If they believe in Islamic religion, Jewish religion, Buddhism, whatever and whoever their spiritual leader is, they too can meet with the consciousness of such leaders when they cross over. So this is just not something for those who are of the Christian beliefs but for those of any spiritual belief who have a leader and a higher consciousness and who are crossing over will meet with that consciousness.

Followup question: If an individual perceives an energy of Christ consciousness, from where is this energy coming from--from one's own conciousness, from one's spirit guide, from the spirit of Christ, or from God and what does this energy represent?

Spirit Guide Commentary (9/8/08 and 12/21/08) The energy represents the oneness, the power that we all have within us to change immediately, the ability to move closer to understanding total unconditional love, the ability to carry that thing unknown on earth and then, when one crosses over, to see and feel the essence of all of that spirit of the Christ they knew. This is for any religion that someone has the faith and belief in, not just Christian religions.

Followup question: So this energy is coming from one's own consciousness?

Spirit Guide Commentary (9/8/08) This is true but they will meet the Christ consciousness,the one consciousness that is within all of us to one degree or another. There are just some who carry a bit more and have a deeper faith in knowing. It is not anything that is mysterious. It is just the way we evolve on earth.

It is not possible to resolve the difference that Dr. Newton has noted with his regressed patients with respect to perception of a Christ-like figure upon crossing over. The spirit guides speaking in Afterlife 101 strongly emphasize the existence of a Christ consciousness within all individuals with Christian beliefs, and similar consciousness associated with other earthly belief systems.