Today we are exploring deeper into your divine nature and how to consciously tap into it for protection, guidance, and personal empowerment. We established in the last episode that according to western scriptures, we are made in the image and likeness of God. When God speaks, I AM, a unique manifestation of himself becomes conscious of itself as a unique identity. This is our first awareness of self when we speak, “I AM.” So today we're exploring deeper into your divine nature and how to consciously tap into it for protection, guidance, and personal empowerment.Again, this part of yourself is referred to as the I AM Presence, made in the image likeness of God and pure light, fiery essence. It's a powerful Presence. It's not something separate from you. It is you, dwelling in the higher spiritual realms.When God created you in his own image, this means that you have free will and the power to create. He expected us to create a heaven on earth. God created heaven in the spiritual realms and man who is given dominion over the earth and is a creator in the physical world was expected to do likewise.Stepping into a larger dimension of yourself means not only to awaken to this part of yourself that exists beyond the physical, but it also means deeply connecting with that divine presence. Once awakened and connected to this reality, you're then able to access the love, the wisdom, the power of the divine presence that resides within you for your guidance, inspiration, and powerful, deliberate creation. Let me tell you a story about my friend, my dear friend, Daniel Brinkley, who's New York Times bestselling author. You may know of him.In his third book, The Secrets of the Light, Spiritual Strategies to Empower Your Life, he boldly states that we are “great, powerful, mighty spiritual beings of light living in a physical world with dignity, grace, and purpose.” How can he make such a bold claim? Well, Daniel's had three near-death experiences where he was pronounced dead. His first experience was in 1975 at the age of 25. He was struck in the side of the head by a bolt of lightning while talking on the telephone during a storm, which by the way, reminds us to never do the same. And he describes in detail what happened to him. Now, keep in mind, he had never even heard of a near-death experience, and he said he wouldn't have believed it if he had. Using his own words, he said, “I never gave any thought to that kind of crap until the day I landed the starring role in my own death extravaganza.” Daniel has a great sense of humor. He said he immediately found himself, after the strike of lightning, tumbling down a tunnel and into a brilliant light where he entered a realm he had never even imagined existed. He describes it using these words, “a glistening crystal city and a sanctuary of universal holiness where he was swaddled in the rapture of divine love.” These are beautiful words coming from a young man that was actually quite coarse, as you'll see, in his life. While he was experiencing this, he said his mind and heart and soul just burst open and he realized at that moment that we can't really fathom this experience of wholeness in our human condition while we're on earth. But he instinctively knew that this was the waiting for each of us. He said he then found himself in a hall of knowledge where he encountered 13 beings of light and these beings of light infused into his consciousness visions of the world to come. As a result, he later shared these prophecies that he was given and most of which have already come to pass.He also experienced what he calls the panoramic review of his entire life on earth. Now, by his own admission, up to that point in his life, he was not a very nice person. He said he was the “town bully everybody loved to hate.”He describes this life review as seeing holographically every single thing he had ever thought, every word spoken, and his every action. Not only did he see it from his own perspective, he experienced this added dimension of becoming every person that he had interacted with, feeling exactly what they felt as they encountered him. As you can imagine, this was quite disturbing for him as he witnessed some of the brash and sensitive actions toward others.I mean, he said he experienced shame and guilt as he witnessed his own behavior, as well as the whole range of emotions from one extreme to another. Nevertheless, he says that this review of his life was the pinnacle of his experience there. The impact of this review and his entire experience left him a changed man.All of this happened in 28 minutes while he had been declared dead. Then he says, against his will, he returned to his lifeless body. He didn't want to leave that place.It took him years to physically recover. As unbelievable as it may sound, he survived two more near-death experiences, once with another lightning strike, and the other a massive heart attack. He writes about these ...
