Why Wait Till Death? Do Your Life Review Now.

Omraam said in "The Book of Divine Magic," "Very few people are aware of the effects they produce; they gesticulate, throw black looks and say all kinds of negative things, without in the least realizing that the cosmos is an immense sounding board and that all their manifestations bounce off it and come back to strike them... 'You reap whatever you sow! And for every grain of wheat you sow you will reap ten'... From now on, then, be very careful not only about your acts but also about your thoughts and feelings and desires because, although it is others who bear the brunt of them to begin with, in the long run it is you who will be injured."

Part of a near-death experience is the life review when you reexperience every act, word, thought, and feeling not just from your own point of view but also from everyone else's. You feel the slap and rejection you gave someone, for example. It can be quite a harrowing experience. People who have taken psilocybin and other entheogens go through a similar emotional experience of meeting relatives and others they have karma with.

But as the ego and its sense of separateness is dissolved in these purging experiences, the person (pure son) enters the bliss of oneness. We will all face a life review sooner or later. Why not make it sooner?

In the 1990 movie, "Flatliners," medical students give each other near-death experiences but revive each other too soon in the middle of their life reviews. Past relationships come back to haunt them, leaving them feeling unresolved and fearful of death being only a negative experience. But some of them come to understand that you have to make amends with those you have hurt now.

The 8th and 9th step of Alcoholics Anonymous are: "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," and "Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

After watching "Flatliners" in 1990, I realized that I had heavy karma with my departed grandmother and never told her that I was sorry and asked for her forgiveness. As I lay in the zone between waking and sleeping, which is a type of near-death experience (See Sleep, A Prelude to Death from April 8), her soul came to me and forgave me. I felt a tremendous relief.

We need to do this with everyone we have karma with, everyone we have had negative thoughts, feelings, words, and actions toward whether still alive or dead. If we do this now, our life review will be less harrowing and we can even enjoy a bit of heaven on Earth now. The 12 steps of AA are for everyone, for we are all addicted to our egos, which cause us to hurt others and eventually ourselves.