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Dying—a painless process.

We have talked about death and now we would like to
enlighten you to the experience of dying. Many people seem to fear
the dying process and do not realise that it is a painless process. You
are aware that when a person undergoes surgery they are anaesthetised
so that they do not feel the pain of the surgeon's scalpel. The
anaesthetic alters the patient's consciousness away from the pain
sensors. For some time after the operation the patient is under the
influence of the drug and when that wears off the pain returns. The
process of dying is somewhat similar.

Imagine a person who is suffering from a disorder that is
causing them terrible pain. The pain could be so bad that they feel
death would be preferable, even with the fear they might have
around it. On the physical conscious level they fear but on a
spiritual level they know that the relief will come when they
detach from the physical body. Spirit does not experience pain.
The only suffering a Spirit can

experience is the absence of God’s Love. The further the Spirit is from
God the weaker is the feeling of that Love. In the physical body the
Spirit can experience all the emotions associated with that pain that
the body is feeling. That person in that pain cannot translate their
feelings into spiritual understanding because firstly, they do not
always have the spiritual education to correctly analyse and secondly,
the pain is so intense that they cannot rise above it. When that person
can understand the cause and experience of their disability then they
can make rational choices to recover from the malady or to choose the