By Gonny Near-death experiences are full of beauty. People leave the body, float in light, and suddenly see their parents, a lost child, angels or even Jesus Himself, they get a sense of timelessness, knowing all the answers, seeing different dimentions….the list is long. They come back deeply changed, often saying: “Now I know death is not the end.”
And yet, A Course in Miracles gently asks us to look deeper.
Because if you see something, and if there is still an observer meeting an other, then it is still part of the dream. Even if it glows with light. Even if it feels more real than life on Earth.
The ego is clever. It offers endless layers of experience: everyday struggles, mystical visions, channelings, past-life memories, or intergalactic guides. Each layer feels more elevated than the last. But the Course says:
“Perception is a mirror, not a fact.” (W-304.1:3)
All these experiences reflect our beliefs. If you believe in reincarnation, you will “remember” other lives. If you believe in guides, they will appear. If you believe in twelve dimentions, there will be twelve dimentions. If you believe in Jesus, He will stand before you in light.
Not because those figures exist independently, but because Love meets you in the form you are ready to accept.
The Holy Spirit uses any illusion, even the highest ones, not to keep you dreaming but to lead you gently out.
So what about Jesus?
The Course is clear: “The name of Jesus is but a symbol. It represents a love not of this world.”
This means the Jesus that appears is not the historical man from 2000 years ago. He is a symbol…a form of Love that you can recognize. If you trust Him, He will appear. If you prefer Mary, or Buddha, or Bashar in a starship, they will come instead.
They are all the same: helpful symbols, bridges within the dream. They are not the destination.
Are our loved ones real when we see them again after death?
In BDE’s people often say: “I saw my mother, she was young again, shining with love.”
But even that mother is a symbol, a projection of your Mind. She represents comfort, acceptance, forgiveness…whatever you most need at that threshold.
And yes, it feels real. But the truth is even simpler:
The comfort you felt did not come from “her.” It came from you. It was always your own Love, showing up in the form you were willing to believe.
Why reincarnations, channelings, guides?
Because as long as you think you are a self who needs experiences, the dream will happily provide them. Over and over and over again until you wake up.
You may come back as ‘Spirit-You’ . Or ‘Bashar -You’. Or a ‘healer -You’in ancient Egypt. Or a ‘child-You’ on another planet.
And none of that is wrong. But all of it is still dreaming.
Awakening happens when the experiencer itself dissolves. When there is no longer an “I” who sees, but only Being. Not “I experienced Light.” But simply: Light Is.
The confusion about “others”…..
This is where the ego fights back. It whispers: “But what about all the others? My parents, my friends, my children, my teachers? Surely they exist too…now here with me in this body and their bodies!”
The Course answers with radical clarity: “There is one Son of God, and he is whole.”
All your “brothers” are symbols within your dream. They are not separate beings living lives apart from you. They are mirrors of your belief in separation, until you choose to see them differently.
Singularity is the end of “the other”
This is why the idea of Singularity is so important. Not the technological singularity people speak of, but the divine Singularity that ends the dream of multiplicity.
It is not the uniting of many into one. It is the recognition that there was never anything but One.
The moment you no longer need the symbols of “others,” you awaken. The father, the mother, the Jesus, the Bashar, the angel… all fade into the shining simplicity of what you are.
So what really happens at death?
If you still believe you are someone, you will wake up somewhere.
In another body, another realm, another set of guides.
But when the belief in “someone” is gone, when even the holy figures are no longer needed, then nothing remains but the Self as God created It.
Not a memory.
Not a vision.
Not an identity.
But pure Being. Pure Love. Pure Singularity.
The final truth is simpler still:
There are no others…there is no past…there is no journey.
There is only the One…unbroken…whole…eternal.
And this is what Singularity means: Not that you become it, but that you realize you never left.
“I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
That is not poetry. It is the end of the dream.
With love and light,
G.