聽神談【死後靈魂的視角會變大】
在死亡的第二階段，靈魂明白了心智及其所有的意念（mind, and all its thoughts）不是真實的，也就是說，心智不是靈魂真正所是。
受限心智的所有意念，來自人類經驗的有限視角，在死亡的第二階段遭遇極大的衝擊，因為死後靈魂的視角如此廣大，不同於靈魂和身體在一起時的觀點。
靈魂開始從這擴增的視角(enhanced perspective)來創造及經驗自己。一旦靈魂知曉了它不是一個身體，它的視角會極大的提升擴增，隨著你所能想像的出來。這將靈魂推進了死亡的第三階段，所有的意念——不光是「壞的」意念，甚至是他們認為「天堂」的意念——都被拋棄，而終極實相被體驗了。
因此，即使某個人真誠的相信他必須受苦，他應該受苦，受苦是他在上帝眼裡贖罪的唯一方式，贖罪這一意念，及受苦這種方法，在靈魂擴大了的視角看來，都不再有意義。
摘自《與神談生死》第16章
ALL the thoughts of the limited mind, emerging from the limited perspective of human experience, are impacted greatly in the second stage death, precisely because the perspective of the soul in the Afterlife is so much greater than and so different from what it was when the soul was with the body.
It is from the place of this enhanced perspective that the soul begins to create and experience itself. As soon as the soul sees and realizes that it is not a body, its perspective shifts greatly, as you can imagine. This is, in fact, what propels the soul into the third stage of death, when all thoughts--not just "bad" thoughts, but even their own thoughts of "heaven"--are dropped away, and Ultimate Reality is experienced.
And so, even in the case of the person who believes sincerely that he must suffer, that he deserves to suffer, that suffering is the only way to redeem himself in the eyes of his God, the very idea of redemption, and suffering as a means to achieve it, becomes no longer meaningful within the enlarging perspective of the soul.