What are your views on the power struggles we see happening in the world all the time, usually based on money, religion, race, and so on?

To me, money in and of itself has no power, other than what we choose to give it. And it’s the same with everything in this dimension. Anything can be used for good or bad, but in and of itself, everything is just neutral. Nothing has power until we choose to give it power by using our own judgment and discernment. We put our judgments (both negative and positive) on to money, religion, race, and so on. We create certain beliefs about them to give it an emotional charge, and presto, you have created a situation of people either becoming stronger because of their beliefs, or fighting to defend their beliefs. And I’m not saying that this is a bad thing – it is a necessary part of being in this world. We have emotions, and we put our emotions into our beliefs, including our beliefs about money. We could have put those same emotional charges onto something else, another commodity or system of exchange, and that would have held the same power and charge that money currently does.

Now let me tell you what happens when you have an NDE. Imagine awakening, and realizing that you are without your body, without your beliefs, without your culture, without your race, yet you still continue to exist! It's an amazing realization to find out that I am not all those things, and I am merely expressing through them at this point in time! None of those things are actually real.

There is absolutely no judgment in that state, because there is nothing to judge. You are pure consciousness. And also, there is no discernment. All that is only part of being here in the physical body. Being in this physical state is the state of separation, which causes us to compare, judge, discern, compete, and so on. In our pure consciousness state, we are all one. We are all alike. Regardless of who and what you are in life, in pure consciousness, we are all one.

So now I know that my physical body is not who I really am. Being in a physical body creates the illusion of separation. But when I shed the body, I realized that we are all connected. We are all part of this pure consciousness state. This infinity state.

A lot of people don't like to hear that there is no judgment after we die. There is comfort in knowing that people will be punished on the other side for their wrongdoings in life. But punishment, discernment, etc. are a here thing, not a there thing. That’s what we have laws for. And rules, and systems. On the other side, there is total clarity of why we are the way we are, and why we did anything we did, no matter how seemingly unethical it felt in life. But I believe that those that hurt others only do so out of their own pain, and their own feelings of limitations and separation in life. Those in fact need the most compassion, not judgment and further suffering in the afterlife. A happy and loved person who feels the oneness, knows that to harm another is the same as harming oneself.

When one realizes this truth, we lose the need to follow external rules and regulations, religions and doctrines. I personally don’t worry about those things much. I don’t like to live by hard and fast rules. All I do is get in touch with my inner self. As long as I am expressing from my own inner truth, that’s all I am expected to do. That is my only purpose – I can’t be anyone else except me, and I can’t express anything except my own truth. And I believe that is all any of us are here to do. You and me and every single person, creature and thing, is just the universe expressing itself.

Anita Moorjani (www.anitamoorjani.com) was born in Singapore and then lived in Sri Lanka until she was 2 years old. An ethnic Indian, her family then moved to Hong Kong where she grew up speaking fluent Sindhi, Cantonese and English, as well as being conversant with a multitude of cultural idioms. She was educated in English schools and her career entailed her traveling all over the world using her multi-cultural, multilingual background in a variety of business and social settings. In December 1995, she married her husband and soulmate, Danny.

In April 2002 she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and after nearly 4 years of battling the disease, she was taken to the intensive care unit of her local hospital in February 2006 where she was given less than 36 hours to live. Her remarkable NDE and seeming miraculous recovery from cancer has created enormous interest and commentary on an international scale.