There is an ‘Other Side’, and everyone who passes on goes there when their life is completed. Your soul leaves your body or vehicle behind. This is true as true can be. Also, just because someone goes to the other side does not make him or her any more evolved; your intelligence quotient is not enhanced one point when you pass on. Evil persons can become evil discarnate entities. The direction you choose to take in life will continue in the after life. Without a physical body what remains is the resonance of our deepest inner core of sub-consciousness, which can be referred to as our soul that part of us considered to be eternal. You are a spark of the Divine and today is the time to live in Christ Consciousness.
As a speech and language pathologist, licensed in 1977 by the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance, I have had the opportunity to work with over 20,000 thousand communication impaired persons. I have regularly seen individuals in trauma and death, and have been at bedside numerous times as the last breath was exhaled and the remaining soul or their will power to live, vacated the physical body. I have also done therapy with numerous loving and intellectually gifted blind children, who have tragically bitten off all of their own fingers out of frustration. Straight after their birth, the doctor strongly recommended to the bewildered parents, that the best place for their disabled newborn would be a lifetime of residency in a state hospital. In some hospitals, being blind makes you an easy target, resulting in hopeless suffering and anguish to the point of self injury. This choice inevitably leads to a tragedy that eliminates Braille learning opportunities resulting in 50 plus years of indescribable isolation nightmares while financed by a finite and diminishing health care budget.
Humanity's capability for self-empowerment and control over its environment has been increasing exponentially along with expanded material expectations. At the same time, our societal criterion of moral judgment and self-control has now dissolved into multimillion-dollar 30-second SUV commercials during a football event composed of the Raider Nation against whomever. Dare I ask? What does this advocate for America in the twenty-first century? Will modern man watch reality television programs about terrorism getting the highest ratings therefore demanding the most expensive commercials?
Now more than ever, there is a call for a globally shared understanding of the purpose of existence that is, the circumstance of our human interdependence. The next step of our evolution mandates that each person define their own limitations, and integrity of internal and external aspirations. This requires, on this earth plane, a spiritual consciousness expansion by the populace to strike a harmonic balance between community’s need, individual excess, global scarcity and local riches.

The Gnostic Didymos Judas Thomas recorded

The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us how our end will be.” Jesus said, “Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 7:51 PM