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This Side of the Gate
 

Excerpts
 

      The Champ

“Every age produces its heroic figures, those who transcend the benchmark of past accomplishment, attaining heights that so inspire the imagination of the society in which they live that they are forever immortalized. Every athlete aspires to such greatness, but only a few realize the fulfillment of their dreams.” 

 

The Psychic’s Son

“Some people violate their principles with impunity, apparently without consequence, while others suffer terrible anguish in the unforgiving grasp of their conscience. The lack of conscience, frequently characterized by the absence of both remorse and compassion, is most often associated with sociopathic personalities; however, it is also indicative of those who tread the Path of No Return, having consciously made the choice to violate the Soul of Humanity.” 

 

The Sacrifice 

“Ordinarily, the Law requires everyone to move on to other realms of consciousness from the moment of death. Of course, that requirement does not apply to those who have passed their lives in darkness. They remain earthbound, consumed by the fire that resides within their lower natures, be it a year, a decade, or a century. The exception to the rule allows the deceased to make occasional visits to friends and family. Rarest of all are those exceptions that allow the deceased to remain behind so that they might ply the earth unseen in the service of a loved one. It is a rare dispensation, one that is only granted to satisfy the love of the Soul, and not the longing of the personality.” 

 

The Egyptian Landowner

“Death need not be a tragedy. Almost everybody is greeted by friends and family the moment they pass through the gate; however, it’s not unusual for the deceased to ignore their pleas and refuse to step into the Light. So when your loved ones arrive, it generally means only one thing. The most sensible course of action is to trust the people that you love.” 

 

The Administrator

“Given a moment’s reflection, perhaps you would agree that life is not unlike a gold mine, ever holding the promise of hidden treasure concealed within a maze of possibilities. And so it was that a rare type of gold was unexpectedly struck in the mine. It was found at the very bottom of the most unlikely shaft, and it was found in the person of the fallen Administrator. He had been a tyrant when saddled with privilege, but as a mineworker he became an altogether different sort of man.”

 

The Warrior

“The specter of death offers everyone the opportunity to examine the past, to take a fresh look at what’s truly important in life. Those fortunate souls who take advantage of that opportunity invariably transition to the other side of the gate ready and able to make the most of their afterlife experience. Truly, death sometimes ushers in the night, but more often than not it announces the dawning of a new day.” 

 

The Bamboo Garden

“Truly, the quality of life beyond the grave is directly correlated to the good accomplished during any given lifetime. Sincere effort is always rewarded, because effort and motive constitute important aspects of both spiritual and moral development. A life characterized by love and service guarantees countless blessings, whereas a life marred by habitual cruelty guarantees an earthbound existence. Fortunately, the earthbound condition is not permanent, because most people repent their sins rather than suffer indefinitely in a world of unrelenting darkness. Some, however, refuse all help, and remain trapped in the earthbound world, right up until they are reborn in the flesh.” 

 

The Bandit

“Dreams frequently signify nothing important, reflecting instead the purging of the subconscious mind. It also happens, however, that the Soul communicates through the medium of dreams, employing symbols and awakening memories likely to motivate the personality.” 

 

The Master Warrior

“Led by the Master Warrior, the Mongols fell upon the hapless village, killing every man, woman, and child. Every animal was slaughtered, every home burned to the ground, every field set aflame. Not even the smallest remnant was left as witness to the people who had occupied the land. When the Khan ordered complete destruction, the Master Warrior knew exactly what was expected of him. He felt no remorse and experienced no guilt, because he was a hardened warrior dedicated to the Khan.” 

 

The Sacred Word

“Life can be exceedingly strange, frequently because the Law of Karma is infinitely complex.  For instance, the effects of ancient causes invariably arrive unexpectedly, hence the difficulty associated with connecting them to their source. The dynamic is further complicated because the effects of past causes sometimes appear in reverse order in relation to their causation. Hence, effects may appear in childhood despite having originated in the life of an adult. Similarly, childhood fantasies from one incarnation sometimes reappear in the twilight years of a later incarnation. Additionally, karmic influences from multiple sources frequently manifest in concert. It also happens that teachers and students exchange roles from one life to the next.” 

 

The King

“Most people would probably agree that sooner or later greed and corruption return to their source; however, the fact that they return bearing greater mass and velocity is seldom recognized. That’s what happened to the King. One of his edicts went awry, adversely affecting a very powerful adversary, an influential family known to oppose his every decree. It happened that their eldest son accepted a commission in the army, only to perish under suspicious circumstances. Steeped with intrigue and fueled by thoughts of revenge, the aggrieved family members hatched a diabolical plan. The King would suffer an irreversible loss. He would share their pain. Thus it happened that the King’s only child, a boy of twelve, met with an untimely death at the bottom of a well.” 

 

The General

“According to those who judged him cold and ruthless, the General’s worst attribute was his apparent indifference to the loss of life. They had to acknowledge that he mourned for the dead and attended to the wounded, that he said all the right things, but only after the battle was long over. Both during and immediately after a fight he was like a man possessed, not by demons, although that was certainly a possibility, but by a caveman mentality that waged war for the sake of brutality.” 

 

The Major

“Fear arrived without warning, camouflaged like it was by the taste of victory upon his tongue. It entered through the solar plexus, but quickly took possession of his facial features, announcing its presence for all to see. Some thought it pain, but the veterans knew the look, and understood what it was that had struck such a pose upon the Major’s face. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The possibility, even though remote, that he might survive, not as a whole man, but as an invalid, terrified the Major. Death was his only hope. Many a soldier has welcomed an honorable death, but rare is he who blithely accepts the incapacitating wound.” 

 

The Counselor
 

“He knew beyond any shadow of doubt that suicide was wrong, but it made no difference. He was going to kill himself, and then he was going to be reunited with his wife and daughter. Once again he was entirely wrong. Suicides rarely reunite with friends and family. Once their earthbound existence is over they almost always take birth without having experienced the higher planes of consciousness. In his previous life he had leapt to his death, but the circumstances had been such that he was not heavily penalized. Things would be different this time. This time he would lose more than his life, because he was about to create some very serious karma.” 

 

The Boy and His Master
 

“The science of crystal technology was founded upon the discovery that everybody radiates energy into the environment. When that energy is scattered and misdirected it presents as confusion and lack of motivation. When focused and directed it manifests as willpower. Thus when a dedicated group of people sharing a common purpose come together they have the power to set a mighty force in motion. The larger the group, the greater the force, and when the group numbers a thousand or more the power is tremendous. Imagine the great good that could be accomplished when an entire nation embraces such a principle, and sets its will to the achievement of a lofty purpose.”