I would like to tell you something about the other worlds. We have many bodies; there are different names for them; let’s just say the physical body and another kind of body, the psychic body. The people who drink wine, and who smoke and take drugs, or something like that, are doing damage to their spiritual bodies, the material body and also the spiritual body. And after they die, the people in Heaven have to heal them, cure them and help them like a medical doctor does here. After a long course of this kind of treatment, these people recover and then reincarnate as human beings again. They undergo many experiences like that until they learn their lessons, then they want to practice spiritually, and then they can become higher.

On another planet we call “Venus,” they have many small “hospitals” like that for different kinds of people. And the people who live in that Pure Land are very highly intelligent people, very spiritual, very high level. They are mostly nearly Masters, most of them can become Masters. And they don’t use medicine or equipment to heal these kinds of people. They use different kinds of energy, rays or light to heal this kind of patient.

Just like here in this world sometimes we use different laser rays to heal people, to treat cancer. These people are only like higher scientists, better scientists. Masters are just more highly developed scientists. They know how to change the energy in the atmosphere, and make you become different. Just like if you’re a good scientist in this world, you can change sunlight into energy, into electricity.

“Venus” is just one of these Heavens. Don’t be attached to the name. Because there’s not only one Heaven; there are many Heavens curing people like that. Many sentient beings of other pure lands also help us all the time. They use the energy of light to help the patients there, the people on Earth, and the beings in hell. They help a lot of poor people and desperate people, praying people and suffering people.

You often hear of people who kill themselves for certain reasons. But that’s not the only way to commit suicide. There’re two kinds of suicide. To kill this material body is very bad but it’s not the worst. When you kill your spiritual body it’s even worse. You can kill it by taking alcohol, by taking drugs, by taking care of just the material life, and never going to church, never going to temple, never going to any spiritual discourses, never meditating, never practicing spirituality, never reciting any holy names, never getting in touch with the virtuous teachings of any religions, and every day you’re just sociable, have liquor and meat, go dancing and listen to music, watch TV, read newspapers, and do all kinds of things except taking care of your soul. This is destroying the spiritual body. This is terrible.

If you have relatives who practice spirituality, who have faith in the Truth, then at least you can go to Heaven after you die. It doesn’t mean that you go with them, but you can ascend to Heaven because of their merits. But after going to Heaven, you lie there like a dead body.

Normally after you die, you have a light body, but these kinds of people have no light. Their appearance looks like this body, but with no feelings. Because your mind is so much attached to material things, in your mind, you bring this body with you to Heaven.

It’s not the same body, but they create another body that looks like this body in their minds. That body looks like stone, or like wood, with no feelings, no thinking, no intelligence. Because their relatives practice or have faith in the Truth, they have a little of this merit so they can go with them to Heaven because of the blood linkage. But they don’t have a clear consciousness up there, they don’t know their relatives. The angels take them, and put them into the hospital. And they lie there for a long, long time like a piece of stone.

And then all the good people, the people there have to heal them with their light, their own power, and use their power and their love to pour into that body, to pour their love and energy of light into that body. For a long time it’s like that, and then they can begin to live again. Then they can recognize their families, their loved ones who live there. Then they are happy together.

But that’s so if these people are not too heavy, with heavy karma, otherwise even if many people help them, they can’t receive their help. Some are so heavily bound in their own bad thinking, in their own bad way of life, that they can’t receive this loving help. So they become forever lost in the darkness. This kind of case is very sad, of course, but there are some cases like that.

And therefore the people who meditate, or at least who go and listen to the words of the Bible, or the Buddhists, at least they are in contact with the higher power and there are some protective things. The higher power protects them a little. The more you practice, the better.

Of course, if you’re in direct contact with the Light of God, you can see the Light in this life already. And you’ll definitely go to the higher region. Like in our Method, you see the Light on the first day you get initiation. Otherwise, all the people who do it slowly see the Light after they die, or slowly see the Light later after practicing for many years. Because in the higher world they only use Light for everything, to make babies, to make clothes, to make houses, to make trees, to make every comfortable thing for themselves; everything is made of Light. And even in Heaven, there are also different levels, like in our country there’re some rich, poor and middle class. But in the high Heaven, they don’t fight with each other.