Q: Hi, John. I wanted to ask about the state of being after death. What is happening after death to the being?
John: After you’ve died, you will purely be what you really are.
Q: Why is it important to pursue it in this lifetime? What is the point of this?
John: The whole point of being born and being here is for you to be what you are after you’ve died, while you live.
Q: But what is really there? I mean, after you die you become what you really are or you realize what you really are, but what is it?
John: Levels and levels and levels of you being love. After you’ve died when you meet someone, as soon as you meet, you know everything. As soon as you meet, you directly know everything about each other. Everything shows: your whole past shows, what you were in this life all shows. There isn’t anything that’s concealed. And as you meet, you fully – as love – commune.
Q: What is this love which is the only thing which is true? Why is it the only thing which is true?
John: Love is your real beingness. Love is movement of you. It’s how you really move. It’s very different from how you move in your self. In your self you move as thought and feeling, will and emotion, but what you really are moves as love. What you really are moves as the intimacy of love.
Q: I’m just curious about what’s going on in this room from an energetic perspective. What is being experienced here, and why?
John: It’s different for each one. Basically, what’s experienced are some of the unseen levels of reality, the unseen levels of you, the levels of your being. It’s those levels that I’m moving here.
Q: And is it something that happens between of all the people here, or is it you in front of everybody? I’m asking if there’s something special that happens between the members of this group as well that creates this, or is it you in front of us?
John: It isn’t so much me in front of you, but it is what I’m doing in this room. As that opens up in each person, something similar starts to flow between those who are opened. It turns into an interconnective flow.
Q: And when this flow is open between the people in this room, when people are interconnected, what does that reveal?
John: Love and levels of reality experienced that are quite unusual.
Q: And how is it possible to reach this level of interconnectedness when you are not around?
John: It’s more difficult when I’m not around because then I’m not facilitating it, but the availability of those levels in you is all there. If you unconditionally open within, you come into some of these levels.
Q: Is there anything practical, like a practice that can be done in order to open this level when you’re not around, that you can suggest?
John: Do you know that there’s something deeper within than your self? Not do you experience it, but do you know that it’s there? Then be given to that knowledge, and let that knowledge take you. That’s how.
548 – Right Side Up: No Longer Taking Your Stress to Heart
The responsibilities that come with working in the world can feel stressful. Is there a way of moving more lightly in it all? John explains how it’s all dependent on what we belong to, within.
547 – Profound Honesty: Being Okay When You Don’t Feel Okay
Shame, fear, anger … is it really possible to be okay in any circumstance, even when feeling attacked by others? There is transformative potential, and John explains.
546 – Less and Even Less: Why Weakness is Your Way Home, Within
Contrary to worldly conditioning, weakness isn’t something to conceal or avoid; it’s actually key to embodying a full spectrum of awareness. John describes the journey, and what it requires.
545 – From Fighting to Flourishing: A New Way Forward with Your Teenager
For this mother, who is struggling in relation to her teenage daughter, what begins as a hard lesson to learn becomes a beautiful crossroads that will deeply change them both.
544 – Evolving as Pure Awareness in War and Peace
An epic conversation that reveals what we’re here for, how to help people suffering the effects of war, what can change the planet, and why it’s up to us.
543 – Rebuilding Your Relationship For a Higher Purpose
Entering a sexual relationship too soon has created suffering for this couple. Is it possible to start over, and build the kind of commitment that will survive the inevitable difficulties?
“My sole purpose is to be, in life, what we are after we’ve died. Through openness and softness of heart and core-splitting honesty at any personal cost, I live as that while actualizing the same in others I meet. I am available as a resource for anyone who recognizes and values this way of being.”
– John de Ruiter
