Death from the Perspective of a Lifelong Atheist

This article is dedicated to James who passed to spirit on 22^nd May 2023.

I need to set the back story to this article for you all otherwise it may not actually make much sense to you.

My 34-year-old friend died through a rare form of cancer accredited to coming into contact with Asbestos, most people who have this cancer are in the twilight years of 70 plus just like me, it’s classed as an industrial disease, here in the UK and his death will be investigated by the Coroner at an Inquest.

When I first became active spiritually after my awakening I was still working as a builder and at times James would be working on the same projects, he and many of our co-workers all took the P*** out of my new found beliefs at every opportunity they could, and because I was not worried that they may think or that I was mentally ill, they would often ask silly questions like can you ask your guides for this weeks lottery numbers, or ask my grandad where his stashed the family jewels.

In the construction industry you either develop a thick skin as they say or fail due to the general apathy of most unskilled workers, I can say hand on heart that I really didn’t mind these questions and the general banter that went with them, I saw each one for what it really was a genuine thirst for knowledge set out in a way to seem trivial and full of humour, but in reality it gave me the greatest opportunity to sow the spiritual seeds that would hopefully one day lead to a greater awareness for those asking the questions, it wasn’t my job to preach or convert these macho guys into spiritualism only to sow the seeds that would or would not grow.

So James found recreational drugs at around 12 years of age the usual pills and cannabis mainly, but he did go onto other harder drugs from time to time, I employed him and subsequently sacked him a good few times due to being under the influence of drugs and being a danger to himself and others on sites, but you couldn’t fault his work ethic and his grafting when he was clean even if it was only till payday when he could then again buy drugs.

He did give up all his vices about 3-4 years ago after his anxiety got worse and his general health declined a bit, but I didn’t know any of this until one day out of the blue I got a message from him telling me he was dying from Asbestos poisoning, my initial reaction was well he’s off on one of his drug fueled sessions and has mistakenly sent me a message intended for someone else, some days later he got in touch by phone to tell me he really was ill and told me where he was in a local hospice.

So when we went to visit him in the Hospice we were quite surprised at the state he was in physically, he was wheelchair bound and bloated and quite weak physically, over the next few weeks we visited most days and met one of his other visitors who regularly visited him in the evenings sadly this friend thought it was a competition for his friendship and wasn’t too happy to see me there either.

Over these weeks his health deteriorated quickly, and it soon became clear that he didn’t have long left to live, his medications were becoming more powerful and more frequent, and he dozed in and out of sleep for longer periods, on his final day when we arrived, he was sitting up in bed having just had a wash and was quite chirpy in his manner.

Imagine my surprise when the doctors came with the nurses and stood around his bed and James opened his eyes and looked at us all, James blinked a couple of times and cleared his vision and said “ oh my goodness look at the blue light around you all, then pointed to me and said John yours is the brightest of them all”, the nurses and some of the doctors passed this off as an hallucination, but his Consultant my wife and I knew differently he was now able to see our auras.

Shortly after the doctors left he got quite agitated and told his mother’s partner that his mother who had died in the same bed in the same ward two years earlier was really upset and to go outside and comfort her, he didn’t know what to do and started to say that your mums not here but we told him to go outside of the ward for a few moments and pretend that he was comforting her, when he came back James then called him close and gave him a hug and said thanks for doing that and that Ken his best mate who had died 5 years earlier wanted to tell him something, and he gave him a personal message.

After one of his dozing periods he woke up and said he was in pain, I said do you want me to get the nurse for a top up of his meds and he said “no they cant help me with this pain but you can, he told me his energy was stuck in his sacral area, and could I move it up for him as I put my hand below the area I could see and feel the ties that were keeping him here and gently released them and allowed the energy to move upwards he said Ahh that’s better and dozed off again”.

When he woke again, he was even more lucid and he said, “how do I let go do I need to submit”? I said yes mate submit to those who are waiting to take you onwards there is nothing to fear all of your pain will soon be gone and you will have more freedom than you ever thought possible. He then looked at both of us and proudly exclaimed ”I’m higher than you two now I’m looking down on both of you why is that”?

I told him that he was now standing at the gateway to the spiritual realms and that we could not go with him through that gateway as it was not our time yet, he understood and said again “if I submit will I reach my goal”? I said yes James that is all that is required and you will be free, but we need to leave you now as we had our dog that needed to be fed her dinner we had left her for 6+ hours, we didn’t say goodbye just that we will see you again soon, he was happier than I had seen him in a while and we left him starting to doze off again smiling.

We had not left his side for longer than the 30 minute journey home to receive a phone call to say that he had just passed peacefully, sad as it was for someone so young to pass over in such a painful diseased body, we were happy that he was now at peace and no longer in pain, and we were also so grateful to him for the proof he gave us that when you are about to transition you once again can see and interact with the spirits of your passed loved ones.

That was on the 22^nd of May this year a Monday evening, prior to this passing of James we had also lost to the spiritual realms two other friends in quick succession, both of whom were very spiritual people when here on the earth plane, as we sat in our spiritualist open circle two days later we were visited by all three of them and received some uplifting messages, James has now come back a few times to learn and teach from his new enlightened perspective.

So, we now know that when we are born we can see spirit and interact with it also that when we pass back to spirit realms we can again see and interact with them again, it is that period in between no matter how short or long that we really need to constantly refocus on the spiritual realms, as everything we learn in life adds to the process of burying that connection if we don’t keep bringing it back.

I will leave this sort of Epitaph of sorts to my friend James knowing that he was with me while I wrote it, and I could hear him chuckling saying “well I’m famous now someone has written about me in a good way”. Bless you my friend and visit often I am always happy to listen to whatever you want to tell me.

In love light and truth always. John.

Bio: Both my wife and I are healers here in the United Kingdom, and together we run a healing sanctuary called Reaching Out Therapy, during this pandemic all of my healing work has been done remotely this is about the only good thing to come out of this pandemic for me. I will connect my energy to that of the person in need of healing, we then use a media platform like facebook, whattsapp or skype to send written information regarding what we have found and worked on, we do charge for our healing services and payments can be sent directly to my bank or via paypal.

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