Afterlife

By Robert Greenough

George Cunningham, a good and respected citizen, is killed instantly when his automobile strikes a tree along an icy country road. He finds himself in Heaven, where he is confronted by a soul, Ashur. Ashur, George, and all other souls, not having body to talk, hear, see, touch, or smell, communicate totally by thought transmission.

He is subjected to examination by Ashur to determine his ability to remain in Heaven for eternity. Ashur orients George to a concise history of development of the cosmos, earth, souls, life development, and incarnation of soul to the human body of man. George becomes the soul for a new generation of human, with a surprise outcome that is reasonable, even rational. He learns the truth in Biblical portrayals and reporting, with communication possible between soul on earth and soul in Heaven.

The book includes a helpful and extensive Glossary.

Technical information is easy to understand ,written by a common person for the common person

Bystanders questioning facts stated in todays religions will be especially interested in this reading.

The author considers Afterlife the apex book of his trilogy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514450376

Robert Greenough

Robert Greenough was born in the year 1927, at a newly-born-itself community of Royal Oak, Michigan. My father was a realtor and builder who helped, in a small way, to make its growth happen. My parent’s, and life, were quite normal, considering I was the youngest of five children, observing the world about, and exposed to a loving family relationship, honoring the principles of business, ethics, spirituality, and other worldly matters. I “adventured” the U.S Army Air Corps, from airfield control towers, during 1944 through 1946. Continuing my education, college was generally normal, studying business, organization, people, motivations, and with an eye to the scientific and mechanical aspects of life. I received the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration from Michigan State University (1950), and later, the degree of Master in Business Administration (1958) from the University of Michigan. Following graduation, various courses in science, mechanics, and Law were “sprinkled in” as interest, family of six, and funding allowed. I rose to positions of responsibility and leadership in the commercial, marketing, government, and automotive fields, as well as having my own entity in business consulting, generally in personnel administration, plus accounting and taxation services. Ownership in rental property and services allowed independence in my thoughts. I have authored several books and papers. Some were motivated to get rich (falling short of the goal) and others, primarily to explore on paper my own thoughts in life. An extensive home library for self-study, on a wide variety of subjects, has been assembled.

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Copyright © 2016 by Robert Greenough.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Afterlife, a Trilogy

Introduction

PART I

The Story

Scope

George Cunningham

Entry

Awakening

The Test

Assignment

Reasoning

Waiting

Repose

The Bridge

Summary Thoughts Regarding Christ

History in Heaven

A Rational View

Number of Souls

Clarification

Still Unanswered Questions

The Council for Soul Assignments

Life of Donovan

PART II

Also

A Selection Of Articles Concerning

Religious

Physical

Mental

& Soul Evolution

Existence of Soul and God

The Proof of Soul Existence

Myths and Miracles

Christian Mythology

The Power of Positive Thinking—And How It Works

Multiple Creations

What Is This Antimatter Universe?

Thoughts of Spirtuality

Gnosticism

Odd Communication

Communication between Groups

Communication between Souls

Communication in Afterlife

Soul-to-Soul Communication through Music and Mathematics

Music Is a Communication Language

How Old Is God?

God Is the Greatest Scientist

God Created the Genome System

Incarnation

The Brain and the Mind

Conclusion

Is the Story of Moses True?

Summary

Addendum

Glossary

Books and Articles by the Author

Do We Live in Two Worlds? Reconciling Science and Soul

Wonderful Worlds

Afterlife

Flatlander in the North

Timelines of the Physical Earth and of Evolution

A Bit of Philosophy (unpublished)

We Were the Youngest

Thoughts (unpublished)

Magnificent Change (unpublished)

English Kings and Queens (unpublished)

Indians in the Americas (unpublished)

Indians, the Old West, and the Civil War Period (unpublished)

Timeline: The French Period in North America

When We Were Colonies (unpublished)

Memories (unpublished)

History of World Countries (unpublished)

Notes Concerning the History of Thought Regarding the Soul within Man and the Spirit World (unpublished)

Bible, Science, and History (unpublished)

The Dansville House

To my now deceased wife, Fay;

to my parents; and the parents of Fay.

I am sure all made the cut in heaven.

I told my wife of sixty-two years

"Someday we will meet in heaven, to live together for an eternity.

My question is,

will you get tired of me?"

She just threw up her hands.

Afterlife, a Trilogy

The book you hold in your hand is the third in a series, a trilogy, to explain our existence as human beings. Two previous books were exploratory expositions incorporating the beginning of time, the formation of intense gravitation of a black hole, the big bang with subsequent expansion, the formation of matter and antimatter elementary particles, the annihilation of protons in elementary particles, the formation of the cosmos and the stars (later including our sun, planets, galaxies, and other celestial objects).

The author has put together three books in a trilogy exploring the following:

1. How was Earth and our cosmos created?

2. How did we develop as plants, sea life, creatures, and humans?

3. What is spiritualism?

4. What made us human?

5. What is our relationship with God—even, is there a God?

6. How does that relationship transpire?

7. What happens after we die?

8. Is there reincarnation to future life?

The first book, Do We Live in Two Worlds? Reconciling Science and Soul, is a reconciliation of science and philosophy of religion. It proposes that there are two worlds in our existence.

One, of course, being a world consisting of matter—those things that we can experience through hearing, of sight, smell, taste, or touch. We experience these sensations through our brain each and every day.

The scope, in addition to man, also covered the evolution of fishes and oceanic life, of plants and creatures, and of prehuman humanoids; the formation of soul; the incarnation of soul to the humanoid creature; the relationship between soul and man; and the development of culture with modern man.

The companion books are Do We Live in Two Worlds? A Reconciliation of Science and Soul, ISBN 978-1-4669-6584-3 (softcover), ISBN 978-1-4669-6585-0 (hardcover), or ISBN 978-1-4669-6583-6 (e-book), and Wonderful Worlds, ISBN 978-1-4669-3244-9 (softcover) or ISBN 978-1-4669-3243-2(e-book).

The second existence, in another world, is one of antimatter. The existence of antimatter, the electrical opposite of matter in elementary particles, is currently being explored in experiments through a multibillion-dollar construction and experiment project, named the European Organization for Nuclear Research (or CERN) located on the border of France and Switzerland. Through experiments, the further existence and qualities of antimatter and its relationship to another nonphysical world in further dimensions of time and space will become better known to science.

That nonphysical world may well be the world of the invisible, of God, and of soul. The world of God may be timeless. The world of soul is here advocated as having united with living creatures of our matter world, forming some of those living animals into human beings, and through a progression of animal or human species since physical creation.

In this book, written to tell how afterlife might be, there are certain parameters that should be considered.

1. Man has a soul, incarnated to his animal body some 880,000 years ago in the Homo erectus species.

2. In secular death, the soul parted from the physical body and has advanced to an existence in heaven or what the author calls the existence of afterlife.

3. The soul has developed certain characteristics during its existence on earth.

4. Some qualities of soul are commendable, reflecting how a responsible person should be proud. Other qualities were not honorable, and he (or she) now stands to be judged on the total performance during secular life.

5. In the parting of the soul from the body upon death, the soul does not possess certain abilities of hearing, sight, speech, smell, and touch. The soul does not possess these traits, yet it has the ability to communicate through his or her mind with other personalities with whom they meet in afterlife. Communications between souls are discussed later.

6. The experiences of souls exist in afterlife without physical change in time or space. The soul is free to experience travel to former periods and locations in afterlife.

7. The soul will experience reincarnation for rebirth on Earth, for guidance of the physical body during that person’s lifetime.

8. The soul, in some future life and secular death, will again be judged and exist in an afterlife.

9. No one knows the accuracy of this portrayal. There are no substantiated returns or reports after death to validate or dispute the accuracy. There are certain biblical books and reports available, but in the interest of balancing religious doctrines, and perhaps myth, with logic and reason, this book is written for the reader’s objective evaluation.

10. One basic difference between biblical portrayal and concepts stated here in Afterlife lies in the capacity for communication and of bodily existence. No portrayal is presented here of any large throne room, persons of heavenly saints attending, or presence of lambs or lions commonly held in Christian lore. There will be moments of trial and interpreting the mind of the soul, and attempt to discover the worthy existence in afterlife. The elements of souls were created at the big bang era of time, with matter developed to form living molecules, and later into creatures and features of earth life.

11. Elements of souls, in antimatter, were joined with the animal body of prehumans in matter at a certain point in man’s evolution, proposed to be about 880,000 years ago, in the species of Homo erectus, a forerunner of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens, modern man.

12. Man developed culture including agrarianism, with cultivation of elemental forms of agriculture, combined with training of animals, thus evolving animal life to exist with and better serve man.

13. From this era of agrarianism, starting about 10,000 years BC, man evolved mental abilities, step by step, to the status that man exists today, as advanced human beings with developed souls.

14. Man also developed thoughts regarding his own beginning and existence, where he came from, and what happens when he dies that was different from the decaying remains of himself and deceased animals of the forests. Man respected other men, interring deceased fellow men in burial, even including remembrances that could be used in a form of later life. This respect for the deceased fellow men was a turning point between animal and man. Animals of the forests were left to disintegrate, while fellow men were respected in burial, with recognition of another life in the future.

15. The author cautions that some ideas expressed here are abstract and fly in the face of presently understood maxims.

The sources of information are widespread in subjects of particle physics, natural science, geology, anthropology, archaeology, theology, philosophy, medicine, and nearly all subject that interrelate in our earthly being.

Writing the book Afterlife may be considered an effort to explain science to the public as it relates to philosophy and theology and, therefore, increase knowledge and acceptance of possibilities beyond the present limits. This is an effort to seek a kind of spiritual truth that science seems presently unable or unwilling to address.

Knowledge has been gleaned from the Bible (different versions), science, history, culture, geology, philosophy, anatomy, biology, biochemistry (genomes), and from many other publications.

Introduction

This book may be one of the strangest books you have ever read. It encompasses thoughts professed by standard theology and philosophy—and some original to the author—of events that are deemed real, conceivable, logical, and practical, all of an equal possibility.

Depending on your past exposure to somewhat weird conditions, this book can introduce you to unique terms and situations occurring in your life. We will discuss the soul as an integral part of your makeup as a human being.

We will discuss dimensions or conditions that describe different phases in the existence of things, both seen and unseen, in addition to the three physical dimensions of matter—height, width, and depth—plus a fourth dimension of time.

We will discuss antimatter, the attribute, unlike matter that we experience in our everyday living, but just the opposite in electrical charge, which contains positive-charged protons. Antimatter is largely unseen in everyday life. There is no matter in heaven.

We will discuss forces, such as electromagnetic forces, that can attract or repel elements of matter. We can observe the force of gravity, although our modern state of information has still not fully determined qualities of its origin and existence, from the smallest imaginable conditions within atoms and quarks to cosmic-size existences observable in stars, planets, moons, and galaxies, all attracting qualities of matter.

If these terms are outside your working vocabulary, do not fear reading this book. As author, I am dedicated to describing them in a manner understandable to the common reader, avoiding, insofar as possible, technicalities of science writing.

This book is largely about the soul—not in a religious sense but as a part of our human existence. When we die, the physical body will remain in the grave or be cremated, or go to the ocean depths in some tragic accident, or whatever.

But the soul remains on, and that soul becomes existent in heaven and in afterlife, which I have chosen for title of this book.

The elements of soul were created in the big bang, analyzed and dated by scientists to be 14.7 billion years ago, as positive-charged elementary particles, which are antimatter in additional dimensions, while negatively charged elementary particles formed the matter of our physical world and galaxy.

The soul is portrayed as an instrument of God and perhaps even as an extension of God. The soul is an invisible, intangible presence within the human being. The soul within each of us has a duty as a guardian soul of our presence. The soul will urge the human brain to perform certain right actions, but it is the free choice aspect of all humans to either follow a sense of right versus wrong or to follow some other avenue or program.

Time-honored concepts told of in the Bible and pronounced from the pulpit of many churches, are challenged with alternative, logical, and practical views presented here. The reader is challenged regarding the truism in certain basic stories that are foundations of Christian beliefs. Are these mythologies of Christianity like the parallels of Hindu mythology?

Contrary to a possible first thought of the reader, the author is by no means an atheist. These challenges are not to attack Christianity but, conversely, to actually promote a rational view of Jesus Christ and God in a logical, reasoned, and perhaps true reporting. Such acts are intended to expand the strength and beliefs of Christians and other believers.

Man was endowed with ability to question and to propose answers to those questions. Man was endowed with qualities of emotions that separate him from other creatures to make him human in nature. In this quality, man exhibits a oneness with God, the designer of our soul.

These are all qualities that promote man’s current status as a living, human being on earth today. If it were science, it would be called scientific development through inventions and system changes, a bulwark of progress in science. In summary, God is the greatest of all scientists, and there is actually no need to separate the world of science from the world of God. Separation lies in the minds of man and his own interpretations of godly events in life.

I write this book as a common man, driven mostly to seek answers to why and how our existence and cultures exist. I am curious by nature, perhaps not unlike millions of people on Earth today. I have been blessed with curiosity, a degree of formal education, and time for self-study with a home library of over two thousand books.

The book construction is by one who is scientifically-minded, respectful of all religions, and open-minded to newly recognized possibilities. I respectfully request that the reader also be open-minded to perhaps radical ideas.

The science world does not disagree with the existence of God. The science world merely seems to disagree with the interpretations, supposedly historic theology, written by man.

In this book we question the truism in the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments. With the story of Moses, there is conflict even in the dates or period of the reported events, as well as in the logic of important factors of the report.

The author poses the question of whether Jesus Christ was brain-dead at the crucifixion, a question raised by Gnostics at the time. Some events reported by eyewitnesses were not written until tens of decades and more following the crucifixion. Other events also produce questions of timing and whether reporting events was actually in the lifetime of the supposed disciples.

Reincarnation to body of another soul, making that person human, is regarded as a miracle in life that could only be an act of God. The author does not propose any logical explanation.

I am not the first to explore some events expressed here. But I may be one of the first to place the cited pieces into a comprehensive portrayal of possible happenings, and the thoughts are presented for analytic study.

These challenges are not to attack Christianity but, conversely, to actually promote a rational view of those events in a logical, reasoned, and perhaps true reporting. Such acts are intended to expand the number of believers in God, Jesus Christ, and Moses. The worthiness of Jesus Christ cannot be disputed in that he was an exceptional human being and had a unique soul connection with God.

You may not agree with all that is presented here, but please be open-minded and analytical. I welcome you to this exposition.

PART I

The Story

Scope

The sources of information are widespread in subjects of Newtonian science and particle physics, natural science, geology, anthropology, archaeology, theology, philosophy, medicine, and nearly all subjects that interrelate in our earthly being.

In a way, the writing of Afterlife may be considered an effort to explain science to the public as it relates to philosophy and theology and, therefore, increase knowledge and acceptance of possibilities beyond the present understanding. This is an effort to seek the kind of spiritual truth that science and religion seem presently unable or unwilling to really address.

Knowledge has been gleaned from the Bible (different versions), science, history, culture, geology, philosophy, anatomy, biology, biochemistry, genetics, and from many publications in other fields of study.

This has been formulated into the author’s conception of how conditions might exist in an afterlife, with exploration of reasons and possibilities. The book is out of the box thinking of experiences not previously accepted that were held to be truths or were conservative in nature. Many thoughts are new, radical, or creative ideas or concepts.

What is heaven really like? Nobody knows, but it is revealed to the inquisitive mind to be a very plausible and understandable scenario. George Cunningham, our fictional subject, is oriented in heaven by a timeless soul or guide to creation in a realistic sense that coincides with findings in modern-day science. He is tested in heaven for ethical, moral, and communal values. The test is programmed for his acceptance to heaven or for reincarnation, but George makes some controversial analyses in the meantime, based on his own experiences in life and from passing through the elements of heaven.

George Cunningham will find, from his death and his following existence in heaven, a sense of knowing his own moral worthiness and truths that he has pondered in his worldly life. He will be introduced to Ashur, who explains the history and creation of both soul and earthly matter, with life and creation of antimatter, with creation and evolution of soul. He will learn of the incarnation of