Make it a Star Game

“If I could give you a gift, it would be to find the glory inside yourself, beyond the roles and the drama, so you can dance the dance of life with a little more rhythm, a little more abandon, a little more shaking-those-hips.”
~  William Cohen (Billy Fingers)

I’ve been reading a book entitled “The Afterlife of Billy Fingers” (how my bad-boy brother proved to me there’s life after death) by Annie Kagen.   It came highly recommended by a number of sources, and I was intrigued.

A few weeks after her brother’s death, Annie begins to experience communications with her brother and begins to record them in a journal …

After being absorbed up and through a healing tunnel of light, Billy describes being given time to review his life.  He was surrounded by a cosmic wind, like a slow tornado, which contained some kind of magnetic force around it’s edges, like snowflakes on a car windshield.  When the whirling stopped, the crystals formed a ring around him.  And it was like someone pressed the start button, and the crystals become a cosmic movie playing all around him …

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“The entire movie is playing all at once and the images are holographic with an uncountable number of multi-dimensional, true-to-life images circling around.   I am watching my whole life … fast-forwarding, rewinding, zooming in and out.   I see where my genius was, and where I might have done better.  I don’t feel moralistic or judgmental about any of it, it all just seems interesting.”

“What’s really great is that this hologram has a special feature … My hologram is expandable and I can live out every “what if” in my life.   I can follow all the different paths I didn’t take when I was alive and see how they would have turned out.”

“What’s surprising, though, is that it doesn’t seem like one way is more valuable than any other.   I don’t have a preference.   It’s all fascinating, and I have no regrets.  My new viewpoint takes the difficulty, the struggling feeling out of it.   There is no judgment day.   I have an absolute acceptance of myself and everything I’ve done.  Being in the divine presence with the higher beings in their unconditional love, you begin to feel that way towards yourself.  Unconditional.”

“You get to see who loved you, who hated you, what they did for you.  There is no right way for things to turn out.   Some endings are happier, some not so happy, but it’s not just the happiness percentage that matters.   It’s the music of it.  Most people’s lives don’t have enough music.”

“Don’t be overly concerned about how you look in the eyes of others.  Play your part in the cosmic drama, but never forget that you choose the way you see yourself.  Don’t let others do the casting.”

(human time goes by, and Annie is again contacted by her brother Billy ….)

“I thought I’d never get tired of watching my hologram.  But after awhile it becomes clear that all roads ultimately led me to the same place – the present moment, which is more fascinating than looking back at the life I left behind.    As I lost interest, the images began to fade, and I’m with the Light Beings.   The kindness and understanding from them now comes to me from myself.  I’m becoming the Universe”

“If there is one thing worth doing on your planet, it’s discovering self love …”

“There is no one to forgive, because we signed up to do this dance together before we were born.   Life’s more a kind of experiment chosen for soul-type reasons.   We are meant to learn.   Everything you need is inside you.   Earth is just a stopover.   A kind of game.  Make it a star game.”

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I was thinking about these passages in the book this morning.   If all roads lead to the same place, it sure does take the pressure off, doesn’t it?   It’s like when we get dejavu.   We are just living out our destiny.   There’s no fighting it.   We get so tied up in wanting to make the “right” choice.   We do so much in this life out of obligation, and feel the struggle and resistance.   And sure, maybe some of our choices could be better, and would make life less painful.   But that’s just part of living.  It’s our bargain for being given this human life.  And the more we are able to relate to our glorious soul-self, the easier the ‘pain’ is to accept.