Down at the last NDE RandR in Virginia Beach, some of us sat around discussing what Tom meant when he said that NDEs in which people see dead relatives and beings in white are only experiencing the early stages of a full blown NDE. Yes, their experience would be the ultimate for them and there is nothing to be taken away from them for having had one. But there is much more to go.

Tom mentioned that he was interested in people who came back with detailed knowledge of future technologies. I added that it wasn’t because of the technologies themselves, but because of where that person had to go to get that knowledge.

I came up with the analogy of someone who walked over to the door and saw the beach and the ocean. That person might come back to the group, who had never seen either one, and go on brilliantly describing all they’d seen. It would be the ultimate they’d ever experienced, and that is not to be diminished.

But now compare that to someone who came back with wet feet and handfuls of sand. That person would have had an entirely different experience from the person who had ‘only’ looked through the door. Not to put one above the other, or make one more pure or more valuable than another. Each person got exactly what they needed for their own personal growth.

But Tom would be expecting the person with the wet feet and sandy hands to be able to do things similar to what Tom could do. He looked for people like that to join him in continuing to purify themselves, during a meditative state, in order to connect with the spiritual entities which had surrounded the Earth at that time. None did.

The people who might have been able to join him became distracted by some of the common frailties of the human condition. Some found they could make money with their new found psychic abilities. Some set themselves up to be local heroes. One fellow, who was to be a fully equal companion to Tom, lost all of his abilities through the distraction of making money. He nearly died from the realization of what he’d lost.

It is essential that we keep an eye on ourselves, on our true intentions, which are far deeper than our stated intentions — no matter where we are on the ‘spirituality meter’.

Stated intentions are those we create from thought, from mental impressions of things we’ve experienced in the past. Our true intentions are those which live within us, often guiding us from out of sight, and justified by the thought process. Those are much harder to find, but it is essential that we do as they can become limits to our effectiveness, no matter what our thought processes may be.

The world is replete with people who desperately believe in things which they simply want and may even be provably untrue, yet they are unwilling, or unable, to see beyond their own thoughts and desires. Holding on to such concepts creates a kind of fog through which spiritual impulses become difficult to discern.

When your time comes to pass over and go through your life review, all current justifications, excuses and explanations will be for naught. There will be no head games. You may as well apply a high degree of self-honesty and find your frailties now. All will be known to you then, and already is to God right now. And, if you do manage to eliminate some of your common human foibles, you will be much more spiritually effective in this world right now.