Excerpt of Chapter 4 Life Unfolding As the Fruitage of
Attained Consciousness
By Joel Goldsmith

Not Death But Transition

You may have experienced in your life either regret that you did not accept more education when you had the opportunity to receive it, or you may be experiencing great joy because you did accept the opportunity to receive education when it was given you. If you did not accept education, you may have experienced some hardships since then that might have been avoided, or you may not be in quite the position in life you would be had you accepted that education. If you did avail yourself of the opportunity for education, you are probably now in a better position in life because of that acceptance. In other words, what you sowed in the area of education, you are reaping now in a more abundant life.
    This same truth applies to your spiritual development after you leave this plane of life. For all of you, there will come a day when this parenthesis is removed, and you will pass from this experience into another. For those uninstructed in truth, it is called death. Actually it never is death, and for those instructed in truth, it is not even a claim of death: it is really a transition from one experience into another. It is very much like growing out of childhood into early maturity, and then growing out of that early maturity into the later years of maturity without having to die to do it. It is a gradual evolutionary process, a transitional experience. Eventually the day will come when you will leave this scene. Those on the spiritual path will accomplish this when their task has been completed, and not before.
    Can you know what your experience will be? The answer is yes. The sowing that you do today will be the reaping you do then. The higher you go in spiritual understanding, the deeper and richer the spiritual consciousness that you attain here, the deeper and richer the consciousness that you will have as yours there.