Between Two Worlds: Lessons From the Other Side

by Tyler Henry

I began to meet people and investigate the various offerings, and before long, my head was spinning. Auras? Chakras? Reiki? I kept an open mind, but all of the new exposure just kept leading me back to one fundamental question: What did I believe?

was reminded of one of the earliest insights I’d ever been given from my guides: being on life support is like wearing locked handcuffs.

More than that, the thought of hell was plainly contradictory to the idea of a loving God. If God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and ever-present, then why would such an awesome and wondrous force waste His time demanding to be worshipped, by pain of eternal torture? It sounded like the kind of behavior one might expect from a base and tyrannical human being, not an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator.

I always tried my best to be objective in my journey through faith. In the end, I found myself caught in a mental battle

between having faith in organized religion, versus trusting in my own ...

I made my shift from the belief in a religious God to a spiritual God.

I now view God as a force that we are all not just the result of—we are also a part.

What gave me that unexplainable feeling of fulfillment as we worshipped together in church was not the “rightness” of the words we were singing together or the doctrine we were supporting. It was the feeling of connection between people in a congregation, as they expressed collective gratitude to the Creator. This feeling of fulfillment doesn’t

require religion at all. It is available to any group of souls communing through interconnected passion and selfless dedication to a force greater than themselves. My spiritual sense tells me this is where God lives. No matter how it is manifested, ...

With the past stirring regrets, and the future provoking anxieties, it’s important that we live in the present moment. It is, after all, all there ever really is.

I strive to encourage people to live their lives in such a way that they’ll never need help from someone like me. When we live each day with kindness, compassion, and communicative love, there is no business left unfinished.

A life well lived is not harmed by death.