Heaven - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/26/23

Your Spiritual Evolution. He is a very eloquent speaker, as you'll find out, on a wide variety of spiritual topics. Has lectured around the country, appeared on numerous programs and media shows, and leads the workshops and training classes offered at the Institute. With Barbara Dmitri Welcome back, way too long. How have you been.

Of course, people have had experiences with it, and as you know with Barbara, a lot of in the books are from her own experiences, and so we try to share that this is something real and it's something for everyone. It's we're all aspiring to it. And the book is called Heaven and Your Spiritual Evolutions. So what we actually say is you don't go to heaven, you grow to heaven. It's an evolutionary process and we're all part of that process.

then we earn the ranks of heaven. But the idea is there's just too much to learn in life to get it all in one lifetime, So you come back multiple times as part of this grand evolutionary process, and everything you do matters. It's part of the journey. It's part of the learning experience, and eventually it gets you to that those higher realms. And of course there are many stages there. You don't go from here just to heaven.

The Bible talks about, you know, in my father's house are many mansions, So there are many stages of development, There are levels of consciousness, but they're actual, real places that you can be part of.

where your heart is. It's are you really trying to better yourself? Are you really trying to contribute to the world. You know, they say leave the world better than the way you found it, right, and hopefully you're all doing that. But you also want to leave the world in a higher level of consciousness than when you started, so that you really finish and you say, you know, I learned something. You know, I'm not the same person as when I started on my this life.

even crossed my mind. But I was having these you know experiences. I called them my inspiration moments. They came without any control. They were definitely heightened states of awareness and insights, and it was just a beautiful feeling and they got so strong. I had what I called my soul in the road, the Damascus moment. It was definitely a very strong spiritual awakening, but even then I didn't know exactly what it was. And then when I realized

it was metaphysics, I that was it. I realized it's like falling in love and realizing this is the love of my life. And I couldn't look back. And about a year later, I met Barbara at a at a dinner party, and you know, that night, after talking with her, I realized, Wow, I found my spiritual teacher.

they're not really ghosts. I mean, we call them ghosts because they kind of look like apparitions, but they are. They're people that are so focused, either through a tragedy or something, they can't shake the earth vibration. I mean, I had the experience with an earth bound spirit when I moved into a house I was living in. It was a probate house and the gentleman that had lived there before died of Agent orange, remember from the Vietnam

War era. And first night I'm sleeping there, you know, I wake up early in the morning and I see two hands trying to choke me. Ye, thinking, wow, this is one crazy dream. But it wasn't a t I was wide awake, you know, and it was him. He didn't know he died, and he thought I was an intruder in his house. He was trying to protect his property, and it was like three days of prayer to communicate to him, You're not you know, you're not out of the physical life anymore. It's time to go home. It's

time to go to your spiritual home. So it's really a good idea to study things like the afterlife because when it is your time to go home, whether you're really Liota or again, I don't know what his personal beliefs were, but what happens is they do take you to the other side. You do go to this place where basically they tell you, you know, you passed on. And again some have a hard time even there because it feels so real and they think I'm not I'm

not dead. I'm talking to you and you're talking to me, you know, and then when they realize they're not where they think they are, they can go into a bit of shock. Yeah.

there is a time. And it sounds like from what you're saying, you know that that was his time. So what they do is they take him to Usually there's like these healing places. Now, he probably didn't need to go there a long time unless he was very sick. But if you've gone through protracted illnesses, your astral bodies is disturbed and they have to they have to heal it. And then you given that opportunity to come back and sort of visit Earth to sort of say your goodbyes.

It's not the only time you could come back, but it's sort of a formal process. Not everybody takes it, but many do. And of course they don't see you, but you can kind of see how you left the world right and obviously if you you know, left in a pretty good place and now my family's taken care of. Look I made these good impressions you feel, you know, like you again accomplished, and yes, sometimes you realize, gosh,

I left a lot of unfinished business here. And then when that's all over, they take you back to the other side, and of course there is that dramatic moment where you are taken to a place where they play back your book of life and you see scenes from your last life, but you don't see it like you remembered it. You see it objectively, like it really happened.

You know, sometimes you rationalize ours. But there you see all the motivations, everything that was going on, and they show you see you accomplish this, this, this, oops, you left these things left undone, and it kind of starts to prepare what might be your next incarnation. After that, then you do have It's true, you do have the reunions with loved ones. No love is ever lost if they're on the other side and they haven't reincarnated. It's

joyful times. And believe it or not, even you know if you're taking care of a pet for twenty years that that animal loves you, it's going to wait for you on the other side and you'll get to have a reunion with that too. And you do realize how important love is. It crosses the boundaries of space and time.

It's not a platitude, it's a reality, you know. And then the transision process at that point is done, and then you have a life on the other side, and you know, people, there is a beautiful, rich life we have on the other side. There's people we interact with, there's activities we get engaged with. So there's a whole life there. Now, if our life was not cut prematurely short,

then we will spend time on his side. You could spend seventy eighty years there, you know, yeah, earthy buyer years exactly, and during that time you're having a life there. But here's a really beautiful thing. You know. A lot of people think the other side is just for the time when we die, and it's really not. We're getting help from the other side, like right this minute, the inspirations we're getting, the support we're getting, it's coming from

those inner worlds. And let's say, you know, they start to tell you, well, in this next life, you know, you're going to be an artist, or you're going to be a doctor, or a painting whatever it is. You start doing some of the skill set on the other side to build up some of the power so that when you're coming here, you have more of a desire to do it and more have a skill to do it.

So in some ways you have been preparing for the life you're living right now before you even got here, you know, And it helps to understand a little bit in addition to past lives, why do I have a desire to go in this direction, and why maybe do I have these natural talents that I have, or why am I enjoying these successes? You know, success is earned. It doesn't just happen. We've earned it. We should never commiserate, Oh, you got so lucky you were born rich, or this,

that and the other. We earn these things, and then it's how we build on that in the life so that the other side and this side are intimately connected to each other. And through things like meditation and prayer, you really are connecting with that other side and you're receiving from it. I mean, we think of all the great inventions, all the things that have truly benefited humanity, they came from the inner world, those weres, you know.

Handled the great musician when he wrote that famous Hallelujah chorus. He said, I was in tears when I was writing it because I literally felt like I was in heaven and he was describing musically what he was experiencing, and of course that music is still uplifting as sweat for four hundred years later.

And yes, sometimes they're sort of bringing back some of the trauma, whatever it was, from that life previously. But if it was your time, if you if you finish your karma, then you have to spend time on the other side to build up more power to enjoy the other side, to assimilate the things. You know, all these experiences we've had here will have time when we get to the other side to assimilate, to reflect on it, to build on it where our successes where maybe where

we could have done a little better. Again, it's like school. So if earth is school, we have our year at school and then we go home and then we come back for another grade.

And when they take him back to Earth and he sees his wife in the backyard and he's realized, oh my gosh, she's the most relaxed I've ever seen her. He realized, oh, maybe I was a little too tough.

You know maybe I was a little too inflexible. So yes, sometimes we see things when we're not in the heat of whatever we're doing, in a clear light, and you know that regret is part of the learning, right because he's not going to do that in his next lifetime again, you know, so his soul is going to learn that life. And the good news is, you know, there's no sin past redemption. Yes there are darker regions on the other side, but there's no eternal hell. Were always have this opportunity

to come back into the light. So when we make mistakes, it's part of the learning process. What the divine shares with us is, Look, you're gonna make mistakes, you're in school, but we do sometimes see you make the same mistake twenty thirty times. Try to learn from that mistake. Don't just keep doing the same thing over and over again.