You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

ealizing death / 147
On DEATH: WRiTTEn fOR CHRiSTiAn
Everything in the universe is made of the same one
substance. Some call this substance God, some consciousness,
some VOID or Emptiness, some just call it THAT.
And, what are we? We are made of THAT ONE
SUBSTANCE, which has condensed down.
And, what is Death? Just as THAT ONE SUBSTANCE
condenses down to form us, so too, it thins out into THAT
ONE SUBSTANCE again.
Never losing its true nature, always being THE SAME
SUBSTANCE.
Like gold being made into jewelry; a ring, a watch,
and a necklace. However it never loses its underlying true
nature as the substance called gold.
Such is Death. The melting back down into gold or
the thinning out back into THAT ONE SUBSTANCE.
And Christian is THAT ONE SUBSTANCE. And so we
lovingly called him VOIDIAN.
DEATH’S WinDOW
For most of my life, “I” had a huge drive to understand
death. And so “I” pursued its understanding through
meditation and death practices for almost three decades.
In October 2000, “I” had an opportunity to find
out where the “rubber meets the road.” Through a medical
mistake, an inappropriate procedure was performed on me,
and through this procedure “this body” experienced the
symptoms of heart attack.
On a psychological level and an emotional level “I”
felt nothing. However, a huge window opened and appeared
before “me.” As “I” looked through the window, there was
only VOID. Sometimes during the eight days of this experience,
the window was 10 feet away, at other times, “I” was