Lessons from the Afterlife

Matthew McKay, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, professor of psychology at the Wright Institute, founder of the Berkeley CBT Clinic, and cofounder of the Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinic, which serves low-income clients. He has authored and coauthored more than 40 books, including Seeking Jordan, The Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife, and Love in the Time of Impermanence. The retired publisher of New Harbinger Publications, he lives in Berkeley, California.

INTRODUCTION

Why Are We Here? What Is This Place?

1 What Is All, the Divine, God?

All’s Limited Power • Devotion to All, the Divine, God • We Are All • There Is No Judgment, No Good or Bad • How Judgment Hurts Us • One Consciousness • How All Creates • Why All Creates • How Consciousness Uses Matter

2 The Nature of Matter and Energy

Primal Energy Is a Form of Waiting • Primal Energy Is the Source of Consciousness • The Vast Sea of the Universe • The Relationship between Matter and Energy

3 The Nature of a Soul

What Souls Learn Lasts Forever • The Physical Challenges of Incarnation • Overcoming the Urge to “Other” • A Soul’s Missions • Lessons from Choices • Lessons Only Possible in Incarnate Life • Lessons of Love • Lessons from Experience • Pain in the Material World

4 Love and Entanglement

Gravity • Entanglement • Entanglement and the “Other” • Entanglement and Nonduality • Love’s Gravity Is the Center that Holds

5 Love on Earth

Love in the Face of Pain • Love, the Source of All Connection • To Love Everything • Love and Merging • Love and Attention

6 Time and Impermanence

Time Is Beautiful • Reality, Choices, and the Future • When Time Stops • Impermanence and Reality • Embracing Impermanence • Time and Reality • Time in the Physical and Spirit Worlds • Observing History

7 Discerning Reality: Illusion vs. Meaning

The Material World Teaches • Finding Meaning • Everything Changes, but Something Remains

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