Life Review, Karma & Intentions

Perhaps you’ve heard that your life flashes before your eyes at the moment of your death. In the world of NDEs that’s called a ‘life review’ where you re-live every action, every moment, every thought, every desire you’ve ever had. And, you also get the astonishing experience of re-living the affect you’ve had on everyone you’ve ever met, or even thought about — as if you were them.

Heavy stuff.

To boil it down, the life review can be summed up in three sentences:
What did you do?
What did you learn?
What did you Love?

‘What did you do’ refers to every action or thought you’ve ever done or had, without distraction, avoidance, justification, or explanation. It is simply, honestly, and completely – everything you did.

‘What did you learn’ refers to you having learned something from each of those experiences, whatever they may be.

‘What did you love’ is the big one. It can be divided into two categories. “Were you loving outwardly for the benefit of all?” Or, “Were you loving inwardly, satisfying your own selfish desires?”

This last one will matter a lot at the moment of your life review. Imagine being in the presence of ultimate Love. It will be Loving you, Loving everything you’ve ever done, while you see yourself selfishly loving your own desires, and not living up to the love you’re capable of, the Love shining upon you right then.

As has been related, there are no ‘head games’ or justification at that moment. There is only you, laid bare in front of ultimate Love. I’m told the emotions are so powerful at that time that if you were alive right then, the intensity of them would kill you. That’s the moment where the phrase, “We are not judged. We judge ourselves,” comes from, and sometimes quite heavily.

So, for many reasons, it’s best for us to be as clear as possible about ourselves right up front. Doing so advances our own spiritual growth, benefits humanity at large, provides for a much more satisfying life review, and all it takes is self-honesty.

Please don’t ask me to fully explain karma, but I’d like to mention a nuance I’m aware of.

Life itself has choices. Everything we do is done from our free will. Whatever choices we make are ours to make, and we will learn from them.

But, if you’ve come here to do a certain job and instead become distracted by some selfish desire of yours, that’s called a sin of omission — you did not fulfill your contract, and you therefore carry the responsibility of that unfulfilled promise. You’ve added to your karmic load. You continue living without the spiritual enhancement you would have had if you’d done your job. And humanity struggles along without the enhancement you were to have provided.

Heavy stuff, indeed,

So, as J. Krishnamurti says, “When there is no hate, when there is no fear, when there is no ambition, when there is no self-concern, then there is love. Be free from hate, from ambition, from greed.”

And really, you may as well face yourself now. Not intellectually, by ‘setting an intention,’ but by searching your heart to find what your deepest intentions truly are.

It would help us all to do so.