8. Training to Be in Rhythm with the Spirit World

I have a depth of spiritual experience. The spirit world is a place overflowing with the elements of love. On the earth we breathe air, but in the spirit world people live by inhaling love. The love you give and receive in the spirit world is not secular human love. It is true love. (145-267, 05/15/1986)

When you go to the spirit world, this is what you will find. Those who are well-endowed with love for their parents, brothers and sisters, spouse, and children – that is, those who experienced deep love in their family life – enjoy great freedom. They can go anywhere without restriction. On the other hand, those who did not experience love on earth are narrow-minded, and in the spirit world they find themselves isolated and alone, with no freedom whatsoever.
The love between parent and child is a vertical relationship, the love between husband and wife is a horizontal relationship, and the love among siblings is a relationship that circles and surrounds. These three relationships differ from one another. Therefore, only when you experience deep love through each of these three mutually distinct interactions on earth can you circulate freely – vertically, horizontally, and in a circle.
For example, a person who did not taste parental love because his parents died early is in a rather tragic position because he is missing an important experience of love. Likewise, those who did not experience the conjugal love relationship of husband and wife, as well as love in the family, live a destitute existence in the spirit world because they lack those crucial life experiences where they were supposed to develop their love.
Those who had no brothers and sisters on earth will also be in an impoverished state in the spirit world, because they lacked the opportunity to develop that dimension of love. (Blessed Family-1062, 01/01/1977)

There is a reason why we need to get married. We marry to have the full experience of parental love, conjugal love, and children’s love.
Such experiences are necessary because the spirit world is filled with the air of these loves. The reason you need to have a family is to train yourself to be in rhythm with the spirit world. Those who go to the spirit world without these experiences of love cannot follow the rhythm there. It will be as if they are missing a nose to inhale the air. (Blessed Family-1062, 04/03/1977)

You are born from your father and mother. On a more fundamental level you are born from God, who made you by employing your father’s seed and your mother’s womb.
God is your True Parent. You will find Him by first knowing the love of your physical parents and then experiencing the universe as your parent. Relating to your physical parents is just a temporary stage. In time you will greet the moment of your death; it is a jubilant time when you will go to meet your True Parent.
You will meet your True Parent in a place overflowing with His true love. This is the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven, where the atmosphere is composed of love – parental love. It is not a love for oneself; rather, it is an unconditional, giving love in keeping with the principles of service and sacrifice. To make the grade there, you must love humanity and love the universe. Life on earth is the training ground for you to develop such love. (105-108, 09/30/1979)

Do you know how important your life on earth is? You only live it once. It is a brief moment that only comes once. Compared to the expanse of eternal life, earthly life is but an instant. It seems too short. Therefore, during this moment we must look beyond our physical life and prepare ourselves for the spirit world. (207-99, 11/01/1990)