After reading and hearing of Christ
appearing in many individual’s NDEs
Near Death Experiences
especially those of atheists

I became a believer in Christ

but not like you’d think

I don’t believe in “only ways”
as in the “we have the only way to God”
as some religions, sects, and cults claim

I believe as the Sufi’s believe:
there are as many paths to God
as humans have souls

I don’t believe you either go to heaven
or to hell

in fact, I don’t believe in hell
I do believe in different levels

in the afterlife, like rungs on a ladder
a Hitler is at the bottom

a good person closer to the top
the highest spiritually evolved at the top

however, through redemptive, spiritual work
even a Hitler can eventually get to the top
in my belief

I don’t know if it requires coming back
to this world for many lives
or if the school for souls is in the afterlife

I don’t believe in The Second Coming
if Christ was coming back
I think he would have by now

I don’t believe in the Rapture
believers rising into the heavens

I’m not about being a churchgoer
I would probably disagree with the dogma

once I was told as an old man who doesn’t drink
or go to bars, I should go to church to find a woman

but, to me, that would be like a sacrilege
misusing a house of God like a tawdry dating site

as for the kundalini energy that rises in me
one could think since some Christians mistake
it as demonic, Christ would probably shut it down

not so, it remains unaffected still rising upward
and I’m sure some Christian mystics experienced this
kundalini energy too but by different names

I believe in Christ as a Cosmic Christ
personal and impersonal aspects of the Absolute

I see my relationship to Him more like having
an ultimate guru but far more

and I believe when I die, I will meet him at the door.

Bob Boyd