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Well, we know for a fact from millions and millions of people having out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences that the biological brain is not the source of consciousness, that we continue beyond the biological brain. And that's important because, in other words, we know we continue. And if we continue, then we should be planning for the rest of our existence.

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Everybody thinks of death as the end, and it's actually the beginning of a whole new life for all of us. There's 8 billion people on the planet, 8 billion, and most of them have no knowledge whatsoever of what awaits them for the rest of their existence.

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That latter book (Higher Self Now) is also the basis for an online course called Our Incredible Journey, which we're now hosting on the Hemi-Sync website. And in that course, he and his wife Susan, who's an end-of-life doula, have really thought through the death and dying process in tremendous detail. And they offer people the opportunity to treat it as the tremendous platform for spiritual growth and transformation that it truly is. So I think you'll enjoy this. Here is Bill Buhlman.

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Thanks. And what are some of the things we've learned through over 40, 50 years of documenting and experiencing out-of-body experience, near-death experience? What are some of the highlights that people need to understand and be aware of? Well, we know for a fact from millions and millions of people having out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences that the biological brain is not the source of consciousness, that we continue beyond the biological brain, which is important because many societies still don't have a hard time accepting that. And that's important because in other words, we know we continue.

And if we continue, then we should be planning for the rest of our existence. Everybody thinks of death as the end, and it's actually the beginning of a whole new life for all of us. There's 8 billion people on the planet, 8 billion, and most of them have no knowledge whatsoever of what awaits them for the rest of their existence, which is mind-blowing when you think about it.

I mean, it's shocking. And unfortunately, the current belief systems, and I'd almost hate to say it, but the religions don't really prepare us for our continuing journey of consciousness. The terms heaven are meaningless.

Everybody's going to heaven. What does that mean? There's no specifics. And that's what we need.

We need true, we need knowledge based on observable observations that people have had. And there's millions of people who have observed the non-physical realities and have come back to report upon them. And unfortunately, there's probably a few billion people who are not even aware of that.

Yeah. So let's start with the concept of heaven. And you touched upon religion as well.

And that's, I think, where a lot of people have their initial ideas of the afterlife formed. So let's talk a bit about how non-physical reality is shaped and formed. What creates it? What is heaven exactly in terms of how most people think about it? Well, from my 40 plus years of having out of body experiences, it's an incredibly subtle, thought responsive, multi-dimensional continuum.

And the physical world that we find as being the center of the universe is not the center at all. The physical world, our entire physical universe is a thin epidermis of reality. And when we die, we transfer consciousness to an inner part of ourselves, another part of ourselves, which already exists in these inner dimensions.

Many people are involved in heavily into meditation and moving their consciousness inward. And what we discovered is that there's billions, countless realities that exist just out of our electromagnetic field. And that's where people go when they die.

There's these countless realities that are created by collective thought. And when people die, they go to the reality that resonates with them. Often to a reality that is part of their loved ones who passed before them into this other realm.

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In other words, there's really no death. There's just a transformation, a transition of consciousness from the dense outer part of us to this more subtle, higher vibrational inner part of us. And that is where these other realities exist.

And it's amazing. It's incredible. And it's about time that this is discussed because death is an opportunity.

It's not the end. It's an opportunity for us to enlighten and expand our ability to enter a higher thought-responsive realm. And it truly is an incredible, at least in our lifetime, a one-time opportunity.

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Yeah. That's why it's important to let go of fears and to let go of negative programming and to let go of all the limitations that we place upon ourselves. And so, these nonphysical afterlife realities, they're thought-responsive.

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Like tends to attract like. So, if you believe in, say, Christian heaven, you'll probably go to a place where there are other people that believe in a Christian heaven. And I think the important takeaway from what you're saying is that we can prepare for this now and have some of these experiences now while we're here in a physical body.

And that journey is inward, right? It's actually not outward, even though kind of conceptually we think that it's out there. It's actually within us. Absolutely.

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People have these expectations that are, but people go to where they're comfortable. That's the bottom line. If you're comfortable with your religion, and you're comfortable with a certain kind of environment, that's the reality you will gravitate to, and limit yourself within.

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I talk about this extensively in my book, Adventures in the Afterlife, where these consensus, it's not a matter of good or bad. It's a matter of, do you want to limit yourself to a single reality, when there are maybe billions of potential realities available that are maybe better, maybe more advanced, maybe more enlightened, maybe just more opportunities to grow and to learn. That's what's important here.

Don't limit yourself by the first reality that you experience. What makes us comfortable is actually what limits us. What limits us really is our beliefs about things, about reality, our attachments, and our fears as well.

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Just the very thought that we are a bipedal humanoid, people take it for granted, but that's a limitation we're putting on ourselves. Consciousness doesn't have that true. I've said this many times that consciousness is not human.

It's not dog or cat. Consciousness can take the form it needs to learn and grow. It uses various external forms to achieve the goals it wishes to achieve, which is learning, growing, evolving through experience.

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That's why we're here. We're learning through experience. Since we're immortal, and this is one thing that's not talked about, everybody thinks this is like many people think this is a one-trip journey.

You can't learn it all in one trip. It's silliness almost to think that that's the case when there is so much going on, and we are so much more expansive. In other words, everybody's created a box for themselves, but you really have to work on yourself to work your way out of that and to expand your self-awareness and start breaking through these limitations that we create the limitations ourselves by what we choose to believe.

That's an important point. Maybe all beliefs are flawed. Maybe everything that we've been taught since birth could be flawed because we're in such an egocentric, form-based reality.

If soul is truly powerful and immortal, imagine what the potential is beyond our expectations. Absolutely. You think of that potential and you name it as the higher self.

That's the soul that is liberated from these fears and limiting beliefs from non-physical form. That's why your book is called Higher Self Now and serves as the text of the course. Can you tell us a bit more about the higher self, what it is, how you came to understand it? To me, the higher self is a broad term.

It means the highest spiritual aspect of yourself that you can access. I think that's the goal. Instead of thinking, I feel at death, it's highly important.

To put it in a nutshell, it's important to really begin focusing on the highest spiritual aspect of yourself as you approach this important transition that we unfortunately call death because it's just a transition. That's why I named the book Higher Self Now, which by the way is included in the course as a download, if I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure. That book was the premise for the entire workshop that I originally did at Monroe Institute.

That was a four-day course. Now it's been transitioned into an online course that you're offering, giving it much more availability to many more people. The higher self is really this part of ourselves that is so important that we begin to become aware of and begin to know we have the potential to connect with this higher part of ourselves.

It doesn't matter the terminology, there's different words for it. Spiritual essence is commonly called. It doesn't matter the term, but we have that ability.

The more that we focus upon that aspect, especially at the moment of transition, let's just say the better our transition will be, but what are most people focused on? At death, they're fearful. They're not given really details. They're told these generic terms about heaven and blah, blah, but they're given very little true information about this multidimensional continuum they're entering and the thought responsive nature of reality and all the potential that's available.

This is so important that we begin to refocus from the denseness of matter and the fears of matter into this highest aspect of us. You don't do many of these interviews anymore. The reason for that is you had your own brush with cancer several years ago and it's difficult for you to speak for an extended period of time.

Actually, while I was recovering, I wrote Adventures in the Afterlife. That was the motivation behind that book and also Higher Self Now because it imparted to me the absolute knowledge that this transition is something that needs to be prepared for. I mean, it's not because many people never even think about it and the more that we're prepared for our transition, the more that we can be, let's just say, ready for the shift of consciousness that occurs at death so that we can go to the highest dimensional space that is available to us and experience what many people call an enlightened transition.

I think this is probably the most important thing we can do in our lives, really. Everybody's focused on the material. I get it.

We have to be focused on survival, but as you get older, I'll be 73 soon, you realize that death is an opportunity for an enlightened transition into a much higher state of consciousness, but it's up to us to take the reins. We can't depend on anyone else to do it for us. We have to take control over our state of consciousness and have our own goals in place.

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Because the consciousness is all we can take with us, really. Exactly. Nothing else goes.

So that is why it's so important to focus on it. Yeah. And in terms of taking those reins, you have a very concrete action plan for doing that, which you call the Spiritual Directive.