Journey of the Soul

By Sam Oputa

After death...then what?

Can anything be more agonizing than the burden of an idea that we are doomed to die at the end? Imagine all your struggles on this earth, and the experiences you had acquired, will one day be gone as that flash of life energy leaves the encumbered casing. That is exactly what most people accept to be true.
Our inability to understand our soul's journeys is our inability to understand our physical and immaterial existence. That most of us cannot differentiate physical material and nonphysical immaterial existence is reason enough not to understand creation and its purpose. But once we understand, we begin to see the purpose for physical material death and the reason for the immaterial part of us to rejuvenate by taking a new cocoon—a new body—to continue its journeys and its purpose to learn and experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sam Oputa
• Release date: Jun 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393756774

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Journey of the Soul

Sam Oputa

Sam Oputa, Copyright © 2018

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The author is hereby established as the sole holder of the copyright.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.—Søren Kierkegaard

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One

Heaven, Hell, or Reincarnation?

Chapter Two

The Journey of a Soul

Chapter Three

Creation of Atoms

Chapter Four

The Journey of Jaime’s Son

Chapter Five

The Akashic Records

Chapter Six

Understanding the Soul

Chapter Seven

The Process of Living and Dying

Chapter Eight

Reincarnation

Chapter Nine

Creation as the Answer to Nonduality

Chapter Ten

Soul’s Journey as Human

Chapter Eleven

Sinners’ Souls Punished?

Chapter Twelve

The Return of a Soul

Chapter Thirteen

Return of a Loved One

Chapter Fourteen

Journey of the Soul: Death

Chapter Fifteen

Reincarnation: Transfer of Experiences

Chapter Sixteen

Conclusion

Some of the Takeaways

Bibliography

About the Author

Raised in an environment where there was no religion, and even where there were pockets of it, religion was never forced. No one cared what you practiced.

Sam Oputa was fascinated by religion and how it was subtly used to manipulate our thought processes. Though curious about religions, Sam’s deep interest lies in spirituality.

Sam attended Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is also the author of God Is Not Enough, Messiah Needed; Faith or Reason, All The God We Cannot See, and Why Was Man Created?

Other books include Akashic Records or Free Will: Finding Your Calling, Immaterial Existence, and Hidden Barriers in The Setup.

Preface

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Your spirit did not accept to be encumbered in your biological body because you are supposed to worship those God(s) you hear a lot about. Your spirit is here to be the eyes, the hands, and the legs of Consciousness.

You are here today to learn and experience this materiality on behalf of Consciousness. Anyone who tells you any differently is either being manipulatively mischievous with intent to knowingly disinform or ignorantly misinform or just simply being mischievous to attain a personal gain.

If the bedrock and basis for this misinformation is religion, then they are simply naive because religion has no purpose and has nothing to do with creation.

The reason for creation in the first place is to provide the building blocks for the hardware that would support life. Thus, the hardware

becomes the vehicle with which Consciousness can experience duality. The hardware (living things) subsequently become the eyes, legs, hands, and mind that must experience perceptual truths on behalf of Consciousness. Religions were never a part of the reason for creation.

We are spirits that have bodies. You are a spirit, and you cannot return to the spirit world with your physical body. Always remember that the food of the spirit is knowledge, and the faster you learn and experience knowledge, the earlier you move to higher planes and higher modes of existence.

Today, we are here on Earth; tomorrow, it might be in worlds yet to be known to our realities and to the contemplations of our minds. To us, there is death. To immateriality, death does not exist. What exists is a mode of existence of materiality that aids the spirits to appear material. Such materiality could be in the form of a goat, a fish, a bird, a plant, or a human being.

You may reminisce all day long, but the conscious truth is: You are here in one of those material states now. You are here for a purpose.

If you are reading this, you have completed one leg of a two-legged journey. The one leg of that journey you have completed is your birth. If that day was documented, you will know your birthday. You were born on that day and time for a purpose. Everyone was born for a purpose. 

Every human being came into this world through the womb of a woman. Biology teaches us that there is no man or woman that had another beginning other than by birth. As we came mysteriously, so shall we travel back to whence we came. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about the journeys. There are two mysterious things about life: When you are born and when you realize the reason/purpose why you are here.

Meanwhile, whether you will accomplish your purpose on Earth is a question most people may never be able to answer. Some of us do not even know that there is a question to finding our purpose that exists. This does not mean that the answer is not there for your picking. You just do not know how to find it; talk less of picking it.

How can you even begin to answer the question of the purpose of your existence here? It is very likely that you may never know or understand what your purpose is on this earth.

Whether you will accomplish that purpose or not, you must complete the second leg of the to-and-fro journey. We, all of us, must journey back to whence we came. And you already know this to be a given. Just as we were all born, we must all die.

Well, we are all living a life to experience creations and to learn.

Whether we fulfill our specific purpose is the answer to whether we shall be back again . . . and again to learn some more about creations here or move to another multiverse to learn about higher levels of intelligence and existences.

But you must fulfill your purpose here. To do that, you must find your purpose and fulfill it, or you will keep journeying back to Earth to loved ones who may or may not know that you are back. Even you may not know that you are back or had past lives unless you go to find out.

The means to finding out are many.

This work was inspired by a mother who lost a very young son. She kept wondering if she will ever meet her son spiritually again. She was asked if she had an extended family—sisters, brothers, cousins, and nephews—who are married. The question was asked because with the extended family, the son is most likely to reincarnate in the family. She answered in the affirmative.

Meeting her son in the spiritual realm may have a complex and complicated explanation.

This is because the son may have lived other lives even as a father or mother or daughter or an uncle. However, the soul that will possess any hardware (body) is already known and recorded in the astral plane.

She too—now the mother—may have lived other lives as a sister, aunt, father, etc., to the recently passed son. The assignment and agreement on how these lives would be lived have been decided and recorded from an etheric realm, a dimension we refer to as the Akashic realm. Some simply refer to it as the Akashic Records.

When told that the son may already be here back in the flesh in another body through reincarnation, she looked as though in disbelief and feigned some gestures suggestive of an insane shaman—the priest suggesting that her son might be back already. She said what most people who had lost a loved one would say.

My son is in heaven looking down on us as we speak. But here is a priest telling her that her deceased son could be here in the flesh in another body. She could touch and talk to that old soul again that is now in a new body if she dared to find out.

There are chapters where you would find snippets of the afterlife in the Bible. But as you read this book, please bear in mind that the Bible is an ontotheological literary hybrid just like all religious mythos. Some of the stories therein are derived from astrolatry—the worship of stars—like the sun and other heavenly bodies as gods and the association of deities with heavenly bodies.

Indeed, even the planetary system was associated with deities. The most common of which are the sun gods and moon gods.

If you are observant, you may see or start to notice the stars or the moon and the sun on buildings’ tops and relics that are symbols that recognize a country.

You would start to notice a pattern. That those ancient stories begin to manifest in various modern religious stories and practices is a given if you compare.

These are religions in modern times that want you to distance yourself from practices that they have termed pagan practices.

When propaganda became necessary to con the weak in societies, it became very important to reinvent old practices as paganism. Though Christianity was a koshered version of paganism, it mocks the sensibilities of reasonable people. Christianity lacks spirituality just as much as it is the equivalent or worse than paganism. I am not suggesting paganism to being bad, by the way. Paganism was a coinage by Christian concepts to demonize practices that existed before Christianity.

They claim in their propaganda that you must distance yourself from such practices. They even reward you with instant death if you do not succumb to such propaganda.

Another good example of the similarities is a comparison of what was not done, doable, or permitted in your lifetime as narrated in the Egyptian Book of the Dead compared to what was adopted as the so-called 10 Commandments reproduced in the book of Exodus.

From Spell 125 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead where the narration (in no specific order) goes: I have not stolen translated in the modern Bible as: Thou shalt not steal. I have not killed

found its way in Exodus as: Thou shall not kill. I have not told lies translated in the Bible as: Thou shalt not bear false witness.

Have you not heard some people say that modern laws came from the Bible? Some of us believe that our law system came from the Bible. Is it not surprising to hear such extrapolations as some kinds of truths notwithstanding that our Founding Fathers did everything they could to keep all religions at arm’s length from the Constitution?  Our Constitution is workable today because our Founding Fathers learned and adapted from the world’s older civilizations. They knew what to accept and reject.  Our Founding Fathers knew something else: They were masons—a practice not given to unknowns and beliefs through faith. Our Founding Fathers learned a lot from Egyptian practices and the Hellenistic period, and little, if any, from Christianity.

It is good to point this out now so that you do not get into a habit of inappropriately comparing the Bible with certain concepts you are about to read. This is because there are many names, adjectives, phrases, spiritual and nonspiritual, astrolatry, astrology, and astrotheological motifs in English and other languages that relate to light and are intended for deception.

As an example, any reference to the light of the world simply means what a reasonable man would assume—the sun. There is nothing in this book intended whatsoever to deceive. Like in all my works, this one is intended to illuminate too.

Chapter One

Heaven, Hell, or Reincarnation?

Heaven and hell are the two places of choice, we have been told, time and time again, where you will be returning to when your time on Earth is up. That is a scary concept to learn. People usually become afraid of a place with perpetual eternal suffering. If you did not know any better, you’d be worried too.  Can anything be more agonizing than the burden of an idea that we are doomed to die at the end? Imagine all your struggles on this earth, and the experiences you had acquired, will one day be gone as that flash of life energy leaves the encumbered casing. That is exactly what most people accept to be true. You may ask of what importance there is that we must acquire perceptual truths, and why must we restrain ourselves from doing bad deeds? What are we afraid of? Perhaps we fear the unknowns. The fear that after all our torturous anxieties to live better lives, after we have restrained ourselves and had a foregone chance to live it up in the present, caring about nothing—good or bad—we find out, perhaps wrongly or rightly, that there was after all neither heaven nor hell. We think, perhaps we could have lived more precariously, living thoroughly in the present, in the gratification of sex and all manner