By Mike Dooley
From the afterlife—a new point of view in your life
“I understand this can come as a surprise, and also you be aware of I’m no longer keen on utilizing stale one-liners, but—‘reports of my demise were vastly exaggerated.’ I’m as alive now as i used to be at the day we met, other than, might be, extra so.”
If the useless might converse, don’t you ask yourself what they might say to these folks they’ve left at the back of? What could they let us know to assuage our sorrow for his or her loss, calm our fears of what occurs after we die, and fireplace us as much as stay the very best lives we will be able to correct now?
In pages full of knowledge, humor, and, definite, pleasure, New York Times best-selling writer Mike Dooley explores our such a lot urgent and profound questions about the afterlife—and this life—from the clean standpoint of these who've made the transition to the subsequent part. one of the revelations and insights they share:
• We have been prepared; you're not.
• There’s no such factor as a satan or hell.
• We’re sorry for any ache we could have caused.
• Your pets are only as loopy, terrific, and loving the following as they have been there.
• not anything we are saying can arrange you for the great thing about the instant you arrive.
You’ll research that our household should not misplaced to us; that our time in the world is either a faculty and an experience; that, all appearances on the contrary, lifestyles really is reasonable; and that we have got it in us to reshape our personal fortunes, beginning at the present time.
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On the contrary, they represent the Civil War as a series of secular Calvaries, scenes of Christ-like sacrifice played out in the absence of any reference to salvation or resurrection. The suffering recorded by the poetry is neither redeemed nor alleviated. Instead it becomes the occasion for a compassionate intimacy that is necessarily momentary. For the Whitman of Drum-Taps, empathy replaces transcendence. Two major differences divide the 1865 Drum-Taps from its reduction in Leaves of Grass. First, a difference of voice.
It did so, moreover, not only as a political ideal but also as the principle that legitimated Whitman’s life’s work as a poet or, as he put it, as “the Answerer” in whom democracy would find its spiritual voice: One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join. He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee, And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field, And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
Spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers! Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither, Your schemes, politics, fail—lines give way—substances mock and elude me; Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess’d soul, eludes not; One’s-self, must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure; Out of politics, triumphs, battles, death—what at last finally remains? When shows break up, what but One’s-Self is sure? The Dresser An old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me; Years hence of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances, Of unsurpass’d heroes, (was one side so brave?