I shed a tear when I wrote this today. It is my conclusion and now my belief having read Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch...
There is only one supreme being and we are all fragments of the one, the whole.
As fragments, we are parts of the whole experiencing itself, therefore we are God, every one of us. We have all experienced the absolute as it is where we came from and where we will return to. In the absolute, there are no contrasts - no up or down, no right or wrong, just pure being.
In order to experience itself, the whole broke off into smaller parts and subsequently souls.
Each soul chooses a physical life in order to experience something in particular, such as forgiveness - to look back on ourself (the whole) from a certain perspective. The soul then envelopes the physical body, therefore we are not our body (as Robert Monroe says 'we are more than our physical body').
We never 'die' and no-one can ever 'kill' us, we are eternal and the soul cannot be destroyed.
There is free will always. No judgements, no sin, no right and no wrong. Only those that we impose on ourselves and each other.
There is always an open path back to the whole. The joy is in finding the path, returning to the absolute and then starting the whole thing over again - the cosmic wheel.
The ultimate realisation is that nothing matters.
God/the whole has no reason to punish or judge itself. Why would it? It can only love itself. We should see ourselves for what we really are - one being, never seperated from God.
I find this the most beautiful way of looking at life and death.
