Note: If you can't read this page properly, click here. Dear %$firstname$%, This week's I Listen to Spirit Blog asks about the Death Transition. (Next week's will continue on the subject, with "Viewing Our Life From Beyond.") Dear Guides, What happens when we die? Excerpt from Minda Bernstein's channeling on 6.14.2010: Dear Ones, "You each choose long in advance the moment which you foresee will be a good time for your passing over back into pure Source Energy. This "moment" is extremely flexible, and your decision and soul direction on this event can change many times during the day-to-day events of your life. . . . When the time comes when all things converge to underline that this is the opportune time for you to cross over, you have an agreement between the multiple levels of your soul's activities, those that are more or less conscious on the Earthly plane and those on the higher planes. When all of these are in harmony on this decision, the territory is prepared and the choice is made as to how it will occur. Then all things align to invite this blessed moment to occur. . . . Once you realize that you are in the body-less state, you begin to be filled with another kind of awareness. It infiltrates your consciousness and you transition to get used to this. This is typically a very welcome experience and discovery, where the shedding of burdens slowly filters through your consciousness and your focus withdraws from the world you have left behind. Your inner eyes begin to function and you begin to sense the new atmosphere in which you find yourself. . . . At this time, you will become aware of those souls who are waiting for you. They may appear to you in forms you recognize or they may be pulsating love and pulling you with a magnetism which is compelling, full of a goodness that you have longed for, a fulfillment that you have only dreamt about." This answer continues in Minda's "Dear Guides" Journal. Join "Dear Guides" by clicking the button at right. To order today's full "Dear Guides" Journal channeling (4-5 pages) on this subject for $3, go to the Beauty & Spirit Welcome page and enter "39. Death Transition" in the Paypal box. Again I am intrigued at how well my "illustration" matched Minda's channeling, done simultaneously. O blessed times! I am so in love with my new studio. (This is the one for easel work - I got to move it in here when we moved my husband's office out recently.) Pictures don't do it justice, but here is a glimpse. I am in heaven. (And I didn't have to die to get here! Although maybe at times it felt that way.) The first painting I finished in my new studio is called, "Cherished Moment." Do you ever have moments when you suddenly become aware - your breath suspended and your hair on end - that everything is alive and vibrating with Presence? I just stay right there and experience it, drink it in. Actually, today's channeling talked about that! At the moment of death, "you become acutely aware of the value of having mastered the challenge of living in the present moment." In this case, the moment that inspired this painting occurred as I stood in front of the washing machine. Okay, not glamorous, but I'll take it! In blessed gratitude. With love, Julie Julie Bernstein Engelmann Email: julie@julieengelmann.com P.S. We hope you will post your comments on the blog. P.P.S. You are welcome to share this Beauty & Spirit Note with friends! P.P.P.S. Friends, you can sign up yourself at any of the sites below. Welcome to the Beauty & Spirit Note! Sign up & click to past issues. Julie's artist site: www.JulieEngelmann.com Minda Bernstein's channeling site: I Listen to Spirit Frank Butterfield co-produced with Julie: A Communion of Light: Creating Money The Beauty & Spirit email list is housed securely on the email server of my husband Chip Engelmann's site, www.ChipEFT.com, using his autoresponder program. © 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann and Minda Bernstein