Re: death, etc. Robert Monroe was not a "religious" man by any means, and it seems that throughout his life he kept a healthy amount of skepticism even to his own experiences and perceptions.
But, we find some very interesting and seemingly "fantastical" accounts in his work having to do with the ability of humans to transcend the physical rule sets that most of us think we are always and completely bound to.
In two different accounts, Monroe met some humans from very, very long ago in time and in another account some humans from about 1500 years or so in the future from now.
Both of these far past and future groups of humans seemed unusual and had a lot of commonalities in various respects. One, they had lived for a very long time in the same physical vehicle and two they had a complete mastery over their physical environment. They could manifest physical "objects" out of seeming nothing. They could change weather patterns with just thought and will. They had full telepathic communicative abilities.
But, for these purposes, the emphasis is on the very long time of having lived. It almost reminds me of some of the OT biblical accounts of individuals and even groups of humans living a very long time without the experience of physical death.
Then, another Monroe account relates to this issue. Monroe asked his I/there if he could meet the most mature (spiritually/consciousness wise) human living in his time-space reference. He was led to meet a person whom he first thought of as "He/She".
Among the many unusual things Monroe learned about He/She, Monroe learned through complete telepathic communication that He/She though this person utilizes a seeming physical body, has lived one very long continuous lifetime which it seems Monroe just quickly spouted out in his excitement and surprise, "1800 years". That figure, though not fully accurate, is suspiciously close to how old one Yeshua would be if the Gospels are correct about his "Resurrection" show.
Indeed, Monroe hints later on in the conversation that He/She seemed to be already well known about in some way, but not being religious himself (with little tolerance for religious, dogmatic Christianity for much of his life) he projected "but no one really believes you exist." Also mentioned that he was occidental in origin, hence not Asiatic like we might expect this person to be some exotic Tibetan Monk or some such
Nope, just a simple Jew who filled himself up with love to the nth degree. (well to be fair, Palestine sort of straddles the line between being occidental and oriental, but being primarily inhabited by peoples of caucasian descent is definitely more "occidental").
Then, you have other sources which support these accounts, ones that came before Monroe and ones Monroe was not particularly interested in. For example, Edgar Cayce's guidance said that Yeshua did "resurrect" a physical body fascimile which could interact with inphysicals in a physical like way, and yet not be bound by physical laws.
Then, Rosiland McKnight who was one of Bob's early explorers back in his lab, well her guidance also said that Yeshua (Jesus) could do some remarkable things and were doing these things before he was crucified. They mention that he could so raise the vibrations of his physical body, as to dissapear from the physical perceptions of inphysicals he was near.
They called this moving into his spiritual body, and having mastery of the levels "below" (read slower vibratory) than the "spiritual body" (read, pure consciousness). They also mentioned that the human belief and experience of aging was illusionary, and that if a person knew and lived reality enough, they could transcend this illusion. Something very similar to what Cayce's guidance also said and outlined.
Most of these sources are well respected in non religious, but nonphysically oriented circles and have verifications in connection with their info in some areas (Cayce's work A LOT).
But, don't take their or my word for it. Sincerely intend to hook up to the most spiritually aware, helpful, love attuned and expanded consciousnesses while feeling feelings of love and/or gratitude and ask them or your "higher self" if these are true or not.
I have, and have gotten answers, so i do know that these sources are not full of it when it comes to the seemingly "amazing" potential of humans who are fully matured in their consciousness. Jesus, or Yeshua as i prefer, was just one who did this in record time, and if Cayce's work is to be considered, then it wasn't his only life of such mastery over matter and it's probable "rule sets".
I've also have been given various kinds of guidance that it is probable that i will do some of these things later on in this life. This guidance has come from both within (dreams, meditation, etc), and from without (other sensitives).
So do i "believe" in this kind of stuff? No, i know it's a reality, but i suppose i won't be 100 percent certain until i do some of these things myself. But i'm about 99 percent certain now.
It's limiting to project our dislike of dogmatic, religious Christianity onto Yeshua and put him in a box because of the former.
He was all about freeing us from the boxes we put ourselves in, and the main way to accomplish same is to choose love (and through experience and challenge).
One such box, one of the strongest and most persistant boxes out there, is the belief that a human needs to transition from the physical dimension into others. If we truly understand that ALL of this, both physical and nonphysical is nothing more than just data and information with a seeming quality of vibration, and that all is completely connected and One, then one will understand that to phase into or be aware of any nonphysical dimension, does not require that one needs to completely "leave" this slow vibratory "physical" dimension.
Our bodies "die" for two main reasons. One, we don't love and live reality enough, and two we expect to, we believe so, and so we do. But as "He/She", Yeshua, those far past and further future humans, and others have shown or different nonphysical guidances have outlined, this isn't a necessity.
So, in reality, religious Christianity isn't too far off in it's claims about Jesus. They are just off in making it seem like only he could and has done these kinds of things. They are off in putting him on an unreachable pedestal. And they are off in various other ways, but that's not germane to this conversation.