Life in the Light: Who We Become

What's it like to cross over to the other side? What's life like there? And how do you change once you're in the Light?

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Hi, I’m Andrew Lightfoot, and I’m part of Joy’s family in the Light. I wanted to share some things about my life in the Light with you, because I wanted you to know that life in the Light isn’t just about living, but about being. And that’s the main distinction: being is a state of knowing how you want to be, what your truth is, and what you need. What I’m finding is that you can reach these states of being here on Earth, too. We’re finding that we’re learning so much by being here again, with Joy, and we want you to know that we’re here for you no matter what. I’m going to be here, always, so if there’s anything that you need, let me know. I’m around to help. Now, on with the show.

What’s the most important thing that you’d want to share with people about living in the Light?

There are a million things I want to tell you about being in the Light, but the first thing is this: the Light is not a realm you go to after you die; the Light is where you originate and where you return to after your life’s lessons. And that fact is the one thing that I think everyone needs to know, because it wasn’t what I knew before I came back here and it’s something that I think will help in understanding where you are on your life’s journey. 

Can you tell me a little about your life before you returned to the Light?

I was working in information technology for a network of hospitals, where I was the network administrator. In my off hours, I was hiking, biking and mountain climbing. I liked cooking, and I was thinking of getting a dog. At the time, I was reading books about philosophy and religion, which I knew would be important to me in the long run, but I didn’t know why until I came into the Light.

How did you end up in the Light?

I was trying to be in the light of my life, when I looked around at what I was doing and I realized that I was doing a lot of things that weren’t really helping me. Among them was the fact that I was abusing prescription meds (opioids) that I had been prescribed for a heart attack I’d endured about a year before. So what happened was that I went for a hike one day, and while I was on the trail, I collapsed. The official cause of death was an aortic aneurysm, but for me it felt like I was walking onto the trail one moment, and in the next I was high above the trees. When I turned around and looked behind me, my brother, who had been in the Light for nearly twenty years at that point, was there waiting for me. 

What do you think is important for people to know about your first days in the Light?

When I first got there, I met a mother figure who had been my mother in past lives. She guided me toward my truth, which was that I’d made a plan before coming into being on Earth, but that I’d let those plans fall through. But she reassured me that it was all alright, because I was going to be able to follow through on them now, in my new life in the Light.

And that’s what I’ve been able to do: I’ve been able to make amends for the things that I didn’t get right, and I’ve been able to grow into the person I am today, which isn’t to say that I’m done changing, just that I’ve gone through a process of understanding who I really am outside of who I thought I needed to be when I was in my previous lifetime. 

What do you do now in the Light?

I work with people to find their light. That means that I’m working with people who are in the Light realm who aren’t necessarily always in the light of their lives. What I mean by that is that there are people here who are still trying to uncover who they are and what they need.

It isn’t that you come into the Light and everything has changed who you are. It’s more like, you go through a process of healing, where you have a lot of information about who you were, who you’ve been, and how you’re working through those things you went through in this and past lives. You also don’t have to worry about earthly things, like earning money, or where you’ll live, or whether your relationships are in the Light. That’s all taken care of. So you have this time and space to really get into what you want, and that’s where the healing takes place.

What happened to me was that I went into the Light and wound up in a situation where I was helping people to evacuate from an area where there were wildfires. People in the Light have delicate ecosystems, meaning their bodies need a lot of light in order to function well, and we need to be careful about what we’re breathing in. The wildfires put a lot of people’s wellbeing into jeopardy. So I went in and helped people to evacuate, and that’s where I realized that what I wanted was to help people.

Where previously, I had wanted to help people in order to help myself to understand my position in the world, what this experience showed me was that I had a deep desire to help people to be or stay in their light. 

The work I’m doing today is mainly about helping people to understand who they are, what they need, and how to get there. I run a website called Starlight and a podcast network called Project Glimmer, where we talk about the flipside of what we’re talking about here on The Glimmering Notebook. We’re working in collaboration; Joy writes for us and now we’re writing for you. We want people in the Earth realm to understand that we’re all going through the same things.

While we’re in the Light, we have access to a lot a great wealth of information that gives us the ability to help the people we love and are working with on Earth, but we’re also living our lives much in the same way you’re living yours. There’s so much to unpack here, and we want to in upcoming posts. There’s just so much we want to share. But suffice it to say that while we’re here in the Light, we’re continuing to learn and change. 

When did you decide that you wanted to look different in the Light, and what did that involve?

In my earthly life, I never felt quite like myself. I looked quite different than I felt, which is to say that I often looked in the mirror and thought, That’s not me. I never felt like I was looking at myself.

So when I came into the Light and they told me I could look whatever way I wanted to, I knew that I wanted to change. Some people come into the Light and they’re completely happy with the way they look, and I think that’s wonderful. But for me, I wanted to be taller and broader. I also remembered a past life where I looked like what I felt like when I was in my last life on Earth. This person was gentle, kind, and good humored, and that’s what I wanted to be.

So I changed, and that change happened gradually, over time. The way it works is that you tell the system (and there’s so much more to unpack here) that you want to change, and then that change happens over the course of time. Everyone’s different. My changes happened over the course of maybe a week, and that’s because I was changing myself to look more like the way I’d looked in past lives. So much more to say about that, but for now I’ll leave it at that.

I look like myself now, and I feel comfortable in who I am, and I love that. 

Did changing the way you look change the way you dress? 

I want to note that when I changed the way I looked, it did shift the way that I wear things. By that, I mean that I’d never been that comfortable trying new things when I was in my last life on Earth, but in the Light it was easier to test drive new looks.

My friend Aurelia, who will be writing more about style and taste here, worked with me to identify what it was that I wanted to wear. I loved this process because it allowed me to hone in on what I really like.

What I want to say here is that working with Joy has also helped me to really figure out what I want to be walking around in, because now that I’m also in the Earth realm again (more on that later), I’m finding that I want to be a more casual, more hipster focused version of myself. We’re all finding that we’re dressing a little differently now that we’re living in Maynard. Really, way more to unpack here, but for now let’s just say that we’re enjoying the process of moving back and forth between realms, and it’s changed the way that we look, feel, and act. 

What are you currently reading?

I’m reading a book called The Nine Lives, written by a guy in the light called Neil Hoffman. It’s about how you can go about understanding what you need in order to be in the Light realm in the way that you want to be. I’m reading it to further understand what it is I want to do while I’m here in the Light, and also what I want to do when I’m here in the Earth realm, because, as you may already understand, I’m moving between realms by being here with Joy and the rest of our family.

So we’re all realizing that in the Earth realm, there’s a time restriction that I actually find really valuable, because it’s helped me to prioritize what it is that I want to do with my days.

There’s much more to say about this, but in the Light realm, we have about eighteen more hours per day, and those hours can be moved around in a way that allows you to have a lot more control over your time, so suffice it to say that being back on Earth has put me back into the reality that I’d almost forgotten about.

Here, I need to be much more intentional about what my interests are blossoming into, because I do need to think about where they’ll spiral out into. That’s why I love being here, too, because it allows me to think about where I’m going with things, rather than simply following them willy nilly. (I know this is one of Freddie’s favorite sayings, but what you’ll find when you connect with your family in the Light realm is that you’re all saying the same things and you have been, most likely for your entire life.) 

What are you listening to?

Okay, so my favorite musical artist in the Earth realm at the moment is Harrison Storm. (Check out my Soul Prompt for my favorite song of his.) My favorite musical act in the Light is called The High Tops. They pump up the jams, which is my way of saying that they pump me up to be in my light, and that’s what I like most about them. I also like The Cherry Bombs, because they do the same. 

As far as podcasts go, I do have to say that The Glimmering is my favorite podcast of all time. I know this makes Joy really, supremely uncomfortable because she’s looking at me like she doesn’t want me to say this as we’re writing together, but it’s true. The reason being that she wrote it while we were in separate realms, but everyone in our family was working with her on making it what it became.

This isn’t to say we’re taking credit for it—no way. We were, though, sending her signs, synchronicities, messages, and music to help guide her toward her truth, which was that we were all there for her, loving her from the Light. And now, we’re loving her from the Earth realm too. That’s a whole ‘nother story for another day, but suffice it to say, The Glimmering gave a lot of people in the Light hope, too, because it reminded them of their light, and that they have magic within themselves, as well. We were all sending the people we love on the Earth realm signs, but we hadn’t realized they might be piecing together the signs in the way Joy was, and that’s what gave people here so much hope.

We’re working with other realms to help them to understand that they can do this, too. It’s so valuable to understand that we’re all learning from each other, guiding each other, and learning to be in the light with one another, whether we’re here or here, as we like to say in our fam. 

What has surprised you most about your life now?

I’ve been able to connect with my soul light in a way that I never expected to. So what I want to say is that this will happen when you connect with your light within, whether you’re doing that in the Earth realm, in the Light, or in the Galactic Enterprise.

And by that, I mean that you’ll connect with your reason for being, your state of consciousness, and your love of everything you’ve always known to be true.

I want everyone to know that they can be in the light of their lives. All you need to think about is: what would you want? What would you need? What would make you happy beyond measure? This is what I’m hoping you’ll understand—this is what life here in the earth realm is all about. I’m learning all about that by being here again in the way that I am, between the light and the earth, and in the light of my life. I’m so glad that I get to be here again, being who I really wanted to be and being fulfilled in the work that I love, which involves being here to talk to you about all the ways that we can help you to live out the life of your wildest imaginings while you’re here in the earth.

If you ever need anything—anything at all—please let me know. You can reach out by saying, “Andrew Lightfoot, I need you,” and I’ll come calling. I can help with anything and everything, so please let me know. I would love to work with you on your inspiration, your dreams, and your life’s quandries. I love you more than anything, and I will love you always. Love, Andrew