INNER LIGHT MINISTRIES JOURNAL VOLUME 17 NUMBER 4
MEDITATION –
DECEMBER, 2006
DYING THE LITTLE DEATH DAILY by Jim Gordon, President of ILM
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(from the talk, Greater Depth In Meditation - 9/6/05) he one thing in life that is inevitable is death, death of the physical form. But the soul lives on! And if in our meditation we can wake up to the knowing of our own soul, and know that we are soul, not body, then when we approach that process of death of the physical we realize what is really taking place — that if anything it is a gift that is being given. It is a great gift to walk up to that door of death and to be able to leave this physical body behind one more time, and not have to come back, because you have been ‘dying a little death daily’ in meditation. The Sound and Light meditation is an action where we are experiencing death ‘right now’ in meditation: we are leaving the physical form, we are traveling as the soul into the realms of God, and then coming back into the physical body. This is an action of dying — the only additional thing with the final death is that when we leave, we don’t return; the body stays behind and we continue the journey.
So it’s a very interesting process for those who have been practicing the Sound and Light meditation to be in the action of dying, to release the physical form when we approach that point of energy of death inside, where we break free of the physical consciousness, where we break free of the physical form, and we wake up in the soul. And in that action of awakening, we can travel the inner realms of spirit. I’ve been with a number of people who are dying who are not initiates into the Path of Sound and Light, and they are fearful, they are fearful to let go of this body and to go on to what is next, because they don’t know what’s next, they don’t know where they are going. They may have been promised certain things by their religion but they don’t know if that is really going to be happening, they don’t know what it’s going to look like. They don’t know what it looks like to leave the body, and they don’t know who is going to be there to greet them — is it going to be God, Jesus, Mohammad, the devil, who? They think, “What do I really trust out there,” and so they lie
there and they are dying but they are ever holding onto the body, they are ever doing anything they can to stay in the body. They just don’t want to let go because they don’t know what’s out there or they don’t know where they are going. “Am I going to go to heaven, am I going to go to hell, am I going to go to purgatory? Limbo? Philadelphia? What? Where?” And some people who have been meditating will, at the death of the physical body, finally, for the first time, allow themselves to go far into the experience of soul travel. These people won’t allow themselves to enter into that experience before dying, that is, in their meditation, because they don’t know what to expect beyond the physical. And then there are those initiates who aren’t meditating, and therefore aren’t truly aware inwardly of the journey of The Path of Sound and Light. They might know it only outwardly, thinking, “Gosh that sounds good; gosh I hope that’s true.” That person is living life just like those who aren’t initiated: living in the wonder, living in the fear, living in the doubt, and it’s going to cause that person to hold back. It’s going to cause that person, at the moment of death, not to trust and to move forward with that action that is the Holy Spirit, that is the “audible life stream,” that can and will lift them to their liberation. I’ve now witnessed death with a few of the initiates that we have in Inner Light Ministries. Several people have died since they received initiation, and I do know that those people who had been doing their meditation have gone higher. They may not have received full liberation, they may not have gone into the soul realm and beyond so that they no longer have to return here, but they have gone higher than they would have if they had not received initiation. And they stand freer because they stand in the Light of God, they stand in the movement of the Holy Spirit. And if they come back into incarnation here, they come back in a whole different flow, a whole different action than they have ever experienced before. Their physical body will be very different and the opportunities here will be very different, because the Grace that is the initiation will be there with them, (MEDITATION continues on page 15)