In Seth Speaks, he says some people who commit suicide or suffer unexpected, traumatic deaths are so shocked by their after-death condition (without a body, life as they knew it over) that they can’t come to terms with what happened and can’t move on to the higher realms where they would have gone if they were content at the time of death.

They’re taken back to an earlier point in their lives and are allowed to live it out again, differently, until they’re better able to handle the reality of what happened. At this point their helpers or guides move them along to where they’re headed without incident.

This made me wonder, with fear, if I’ve died before and this life is not as “real”, in a sense, as it was before I suffered my death.

As with most people, I’ve come reasonably close to death, whether it was just missing a bad car accident, surviving a bad lightning storm in a boat, or blacking out and waking up not knowing how I got where I was when I awoke. I wondered if perhaps I had died suddenly but was unable to handle the situation, so was allowed to live my life in a sort of parallel world different from the one in which I had previously lived. That I had died a real death and at that moment my worlds branched off into two (or more) worlds: one in which I was dead and another in which I persisted, the latter being the one in which I’m focused as I type this.

When I wondered this, I had a moment where I half expected everything to blur and to be told that now it’s time, my recent life has been an illusion created to help me deal with the reality of my death a few years back. Fortunately, everything stayed in focus and things are the same as they ever were.

So as you read this, think back to times where you narrowly escaped death. Have you died? How many times? Is the world in which you’re currently focused, reading this post, just a parallel world that branched off from your previous one in which you actually died? Is it possible that every time you die before you’re content with life, your worlds simply branch off and you continue to live until you’re ready to die?