Lessons from a Suicide
Sandra Rogers' near-death experience

On April 30, 1976, Sandra Rogers put a gun to her heart and shot herself. Instead of the nothingness she sought from suicide, she had endured a near-death experience. A brilliant and loving Light, she identified as Christ, presented a review of her entire life and all the events that brought her to the point of her suicide attempt. This Light gave her access to unlimited knowledge. She was told that she could remain in the Light, provided she later is reincarnated to reexperience and overcome all that brought her to the point of suicide. Or she could be revived to live out rest of her life and overcome her problems here and now. Obviously, she chose not to stay in the Light so that she could resume her life and not have to face the same problems in a future life. She was allowed to take only as much knowledge as she needed to sustain her, and was told she would be given insights along the way as she finished out the rest of her life. When she asked why she could not take all the knowledge back with her, she was told that it would result in her appearing and being considered "abnormal" to the rest of society. She then realized that people such as the mentally retarded are special people who know much more than they are able to express. On April 28, 2000, Sandra died from complications resulting from her suicide attempt.  The following are some insights from her near-death experience taken from her book Lessons From The Light reprinted by permission.

Listen to that small inner voice in your thoughts;  it is the voice of God.

Our soul is a part of God and God is a part of us; therefore, our souls are immortal and eternal.

Hardships are necessary for the growth of our soul.

Those born with mental or physical afflictions are more spiritually advanced than others, born to help others evolve spiritually.

The physical body the spirit enters is chosen prior to birth.

If an addiction isn't conquered before your physical death, it could keep your spirit earthbound.

Earth is only one plane of learning;  there are many.

Hell is a state of being we create by being away from God until we choose to return to Him.  It is a state totally devoid of love.

All you do and think is known to God, and God understands everything perfectly, and loves everyone just the same.

All pain we feel or cause is felt by God.

In order to become one with God, work must be done to remember or find the truth.  The truth is this: your true self is a spirit and your spirit is one with God.

Love, being God, is too immense and profound to ever be fully understood or experienced in the physical world.

The universe is God's cathedral.

God created differences in religion because of the different lessons we all need to learn.

When you do unto others, you do unto God and yourself.

The beginning of all sin is seeing self as separate from others and God.

There are only two "true" religions - the religion of love and the religion of fear.

Communication in the spiritual world is telepathic. Your thoughts are answered as rapidly as your mind can send and receive them.

When you die, everything you have said, thought, or done will be known by all.

There are no secrets in the afterlife.

Spirits with evil thoughts avoid the Light because they are too ashamed to have their life revealed.

Spirits with like thoughts are drawn to each other in the afterlife.

God's paradise for us is Love.  We can create paradise again if we learn to love one another as ourselves.

There is one God who is worshipped through many different teachings of many different religious faiths.

The gods of one faith are the angels, saints, or supernatural beings of other faiths.

In the search for truth and understanding, all paths lead to Love.

God is Love, Light, and the energy in all.  God is the source of perfect Love and all life.

God loves and forgives you, and expects you to love and forgive others.

The only thing that lives forever is Love.

About the Light of Christ Sandra Rogers writes: "During my youth I grew up believing that God is unfair.  I was taught that when Jesus said,  'I am the way, the truth and the life: no one cometh to the Father, but by me'  this meant that only those who publicly profess their faith in Christ go to heaven.  I felt if this were true, God is unjust because not everyone wants, or has the opportunity to be exposed to, Christian teachings.  I asked the Light, which I call Christ, how people from other religions get to heaven.  I was shown that the group, or organization, we profess alliance to is inconsequential.  What is important is how we show our love for God by the way we treat each other.  This is because when we pass to the spiritual realm we will all be met by Him, which substantiates the passage 'no one cometh to the Father, but by me.'

" The Light showed me that what is important is that we love God and each other, and that it isn't what a person says, but the love in their being that is examined in the afterlife.  In reviewing and reliving your life, your acts and thoughts of love bring you and God great joy, and your acts and thoughts of indifference, selfishness, and anger bring you and God deep remorse.  We are all part of God's family, and are all interconnected.  Those organizations, or religions, which claim some singular relationship with God, claim superiority over others, or exclude people for various reasons, go against God's law that we love one another as we love ourselves."