Lessons from the Afterlife

A guided journey to discover your soul’s answers to life’s great questions. Human life is surrounded by mystery. At the centre of this mystery is the question: Why are we here? is there a purpose to our existence, a reason why we’re experiencing the beauty and pain of physical life? There is also the mystery of the universe itself. What is it and where did it come from? Religious and spiritual traditions have created complex cosmologies to answer these questions, but each tradition has a different answer and we are left with profound uncertainty about deeper reality. As psychologist Matthew McKay reveals, we can each discover our own answers to these questions, our own inner truth, by connecting with the wisdom of our souls. In this guided workbook, McKay offers a step-by-step process to unleash the unconscious and intuitive wisdom held in the awareness of your soul. He explains how to use “deep knowledge meditation” to access all of your soul’s accumulated knowledge, everything you have learned across all of your incarnations. Channeling his late son, Jordan, a discarnate soul who has lived hundreds of lives, McKay shares Jordan’s lessons on the mysteries of human existence, including what the divine or god is, the nature of a soul, the nature of matter and energy, the role of love in our lives, and the origin of the universe. Accompanying these channeled teachings are journal prompts from Jordan, to be used with deep knowledge meditation, to help you listen to your heart and shine a light on your own deepest wisdom and soul knowledge. Guiding you on a journey of self-discovery, this book offers the opportunity to find your soul’s truth about your life’s purpose and the nature of physical reality.

Matthew McKay, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, professor of psychology at the Wright Institute, cofounder of Haight Ashbury Psychological Services, founder of the Berkeley CBT Clinic, and cofounder of the Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinic, which serves low-income clients. He has authored and coauthored more than 40 books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook and Seeking Jordan. The publisher of New Harbinger Publications, he lives in Berkeley, California.

INTRODUCTION Why Are We Here? What Is This Place? 1 What Is All, the Divine, God? All’s Limited Power • Devotion to All, the Divine, God • We Are All • There Is No Judgment, No Good or Bad • How Judgment Hurts Us • One Consciousness • How All Creates • Why All Creates • How Consciousness Uses Matter 2 The Nature of Matter and Energy Primal Energy Is a Form of Waiting • Primal Energy Is the Source of Consciousness • The Vast Sea of the Universe • The Relationship between Matter and Energy 3 The Nature of a Soul What Souls Learn Lasts Forever • The Physical Challenges of Incarnation • Overcoming the Urge to “Other” • A Soul’s Missions • Lessons from Choices • Lessons Only Possible in Incarnate Life • Lessons of Love • Lessons from Experience • Pain in the Material World 4 Love and Entanglement Gravity • Entanglement • Entanglement and the “Other” • Entanglement and Nonduality • Love’s Gravity Is the Center that Holds 5 Love on Earth Love in the Face of Pain • Love, the Source of All Connection • To Love Everything • Love and Merging • Love and Attention 6 Time and Impermanence Time Is Beautiful • Reality, Choices, and the Future • When Time Stops • Impermanence and Reality • Embracing Impermanence • Time and Reality • Time in the Physical and Spirit Worlds • Observing History 7 Discerning Reality: Illusion vs. Meaning The Material World Teaches • Finding Meaning • Everything Changes, but Something Remains APPENDIX How to Channel