Many years ago I decided it was most likely that there is a continuation of existence after death. That decision, based on inward inquiry and a rudimentary truth sense, predicated how I lived my life for it seemed to be a smart investment to strive for spiritual substance over material ephemera. Besides the circumstances of my life had kicked me out of 'reality'.
Some 45 years after that decision I recieved an inner sense of absolute certainty that I had done well enough (not great by any means) to be assured of the continuance of my personality after death. Suddenly death wasn't an end of anything but a vital transition to enable my continuation in a new body with added semi-material senses and mental capacity more capable at comprehending spiritual realities.
That sense of certainty sparked an increased interest about making that transition. I recently ran into one of the quotes from The Urantia Book that had opened my mind to a different possibility long ago.
""Natural, physical death is not a mortal inevitability. The majority of advanced evolutionary beings, citizens on worlds existing in the final era of light and life, do not die; they are translated directly from the life in the flesh to the morontia existence."
55:2.1 (623.1)
Now I don't personally expect to experience translation. It seems to me that I have way too far to go, spiritually speaking. However I feel that there is a mid-point between death and translation. That I've been given. The faith certainty of transition to continue my existence and the possibility of eternal existence. It is the product of trying the best one can to find God here on earth.
Anyway I'm going to add articles on enlightened viewpoints of death and dying to this topic.
