"Beliefs and thoughts are energy, the quality of these beliefs and thoughts is consciousness." Mitsuko Kashiwada.

   If we exist with God after we die, then did we live with God before we we entered our bodies? What was the nature of that consciousness? What will it be after we are no longer wearing our flesh?

   There is a school of thought that all of life is vibrational energy. We simply "vibrate" at different levels of consciousness.

   This view is not inconsistent with the major faiths. It simply tries different language to describe our relationship with God.

   Love is energy. When we vibrate at Love's "frequency" we are in our best energy. When we exist away from Love, we are in the worst energy.

   Foreign as this way of thinking seems, I find it meaningful. 

   Asleep, we are in a different energy. Under anesthesia, we enter a different vibrational state. In a coma, we occupy yet another state.

   But, what about in our death? Is it possible that the dead are not so much deceased but instead are occupying a different consciousness – a different vibrational energy?

   Language cannot successfully grasp the concept of eternity. Yet, with the use of language about energy, we may begin to understand our own existence, and that of others, in a different and more powerful way. 

   Faiths teach us that there are ways to guide our energy so that our consciousness aligns with Love. Prayer, religious ritual, and other daily practices can open our hearts so that hope and compassion flow through us.

   Illness is, in an important way, a different vibrational state. Perhaps that is why illness can be healed by caregivers who bring Love's light to the sick.

-Reverend Erie Chapman