Afterlife Experience in Dreams

When it came to direct knowledge of the divine, I felt everyone had access to the 'spiritual realm' through their own 'dreams' at night during sleep.  When my friend pressured me to share my 'vision' that occurred during my 'death' scene - I told them they could jump out of their own bodies and travel to the source for their own minds understanding of any given subject.   I had read a book that mentioned this and I had persuaded my friends in the past to give it a try for themselves.   They reported success so I felt it as something everyone has access to.  I felt it was on a need to know basis and only information you current mind needed would be given. 

In Greek mythology, Hypnos (Ὕπνος, "sleep") was the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thánatos (Θάνατος, "death"); their mother was the primordial goddess Nyx (Νύξ, "night"). His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines.  ~ Wikipedia

There is a vast accumulation of data proving that the ego or individual can and does leave the body during sleep. We are told that if the ego leaves the physical body during sleep he does so clothed in his mental and astral ‘bodies’, in which he is as mobile as electricity. The physical body is left enveloped in its etheric body or couble, that counterpart of the human being formed of ‘condensed ethers’, through which the life-forces are fed to the tissues from the surrounding ethers.

Man’s various ‘bodies’ are linked together by a vital elastic cord, operating rather like an electric current without the wire. This cord is a kind of umbilical cord which joins the ego and his vehicles to that part of Mother Earth which is his physical body. When it snaps he is born into the ‘after-life’ and we say that he is dead. This cord is referred to in the Bible as the ‘Silver Cord’. As long as it is intact the travelling ego is able to get back into his body as surely as a telephone message can travel along the wire. ~ Finding the Third Eye

I had the book referenced above with me during this period in 1988 and passed it among my friends to read.   To me, the difference between 'sleep' and 'death' was the binding that took place with what is referenced as the 'silver cord.'   As long as a person had the 'silver cord'  intact, they could and would get back from that 'realm of light' with ease. 

My friends asked how it was possible and I told them they had to have more than a belief and conviction when they approached this in meditations and prayers.   They had to have a cause, purpose and a knowledge that a request would be granted with authority.  

My understanding of it was - there was a hierarchy or chain of command involved.   I worked with two main deities in my out of body experiences.  I called them the 'Real Mom' and the 'Real Dad' of my inner and hidden soul.   I told them that the 'Real Dad' was a disciplinarian.  There rules and conditions that had to be met.  As I told one friend,

"You can't ask God to give you proof of his existence by coming to you in a dream.  That exposes your doubt and the Father don't work with doubt what so ever.  Your request will be rejected.  Best bet is to go through the Real Mom.  She is a pushover and not as strict as the Father.  The Father expects you to go though the Mother anyway."   

I told my friends to avoid seeking proof for the sake of the mind.  It would never work that way.  Instead, I told them they had to search their own inner hearts because the truth of the existence of our spiritual Creators was hidden in our hearts.  (Inner spirit.) 

I told my friends that you didn't have to have a serious injury or mishap that sent your body to the hospital to have relationship and divine encounter with our Creator in spirit.  You could say your prayers at night before you went to sleep and take a trip home through the open doorway of your own dreams.