Jurgen Ziewe, an afterlife traveler, is arguably the world’s most respected authority on what happens in the afterlife. He visits it regularly, writes books about it, and illustrates what he finds. What he says about sports over there is the topic we’ll be looking at today.
One of the first principles of the afterlife is that what happens here also happens there. All spirits speaking through mediums confirm this truth. This principle applies to sport. But sport is much more responsive to consciousness than here. “Just substitute muscle power with mind and feeling power and you will get an idea of how sport works on the Astral plane,” he writes. Copilot, summarizing his view, says, “Activities like sports persist, but they become more fluid, creative, and mind-driven, not constrained by physics.”
Let me give you an example, taken from my book The Afterlife Therapist.
One day, on one of his excursions to out-of-sector worlds, and with children on his mind, Aiden watched a game of soccer, or what Indians called football, on one of the many fields….He remembered how his father told him the game was three-dimensional. “It’s not played on a rectangular field like on earth; it more resembles a shoebox than a flat surface.”
He joined a small crowd of spectators, most of them dressed in the usual spirit robes, but a few of the women in colorful saris. The field of play was in fact three-dimensional, with height as well as length and width. The goals, shaped like a square propped up, stood at opposite ends of the shoebox halfway between the “floor” and the “ceiling”; they were marked by a faint sheen of red “paint” one could see through to mark the boundaries. The players, all of them hovering above the ground, some upside down, others at a lean, attacked or defended the “net.” They looked like wasps, fifteen to a side. Mind met mind in an effort to control the flight of the ball. There wasn’t any kicking, but the ball flew around as if there was.
Aiden asked the man next to him if he had any personal interest in the game.
“My name’s Ganesh,” said the man in friendly Indian English. “I’m a newcomer. One of the kids is my grandson. He was killed in a traffic accident in Mumbai when he was nine. Tragic for his parents, but not for him. He loves it over here. He lives with me. Are you new?”
“My name’s Aiden. They say the game is for training the mind.”
Ganesh extended his hand. “That’s right. But it’s also tremendous fun.”
They watched the “wasps,” mostly “buzzing” in place, whip the ball around at great speed. Aiden thought it behaved more like an electron than a soccer ball. At times it moved so fast one could barely see it. Teams scored at a fast pace, then immediately put the ball back in play.
When the game ended, one of the wasps, a bronze-skinned girl eight or nine, came over and addressed Aiden in a surprisingly confident and familiar way.
“I haven’t seen you before, sir,” she said.
“That’s right. I’m new here. How about you?”
“I’m an orphan. Would you like to be my friend?” (end)
Th bottom line, according to Ziewe, “is that sports do exist in the afterlife—but instead of physical exertion, they operate through mental and emotional energy, since reality there responds directly to consciousness.
Ziewe reports that he once wandered onto a playing field on one of his travels and got hit on his astral head by an astral ball. He was, of course, unhurt.
You might look at one of my afterlife novels to get a feel for the world that awaits us when we die. They make interesting reading!
“Let me just say that the experience of this side fills me with joy beyond comprehension. The important point for us to convey right now is that the reality of life in another dimension is what awaits all of us. If you can accept that as a guiding principle, then you will live your life according to higher values, no matter what is going on around you.” Dr. Frances Vaughan.
Stafford Betty, Professor of Religious Studies, CSUB, (ret) is the author of When Did You Ever Become Less by Dying? and Heaven and Hell Unveiled. His novels include The Imprisoned Splendor, The Afterlife Therapist and Guardians of the Afterworld. His latest book, The Hell Dwellers: A Novel about the Dark Side of the Afterlife is coming in 2026. Stafford can be found at staffordbetty.com.
Thank you for sharing this. Love Jurgen’s personal descriptions in the astral worlds. But I believe the ‘higher’ we evolve (beyond the astral realms) the desire and focus to compete – collectively or individually – lessens since ‘selfless Love’ would not want anybody to be a loser.
You might be right, Hans. But competition inspires excellence, and excellence is something we will hope to achieve at all levels of the afterlife. We won’t be able to ignore superior expressions of beauty and goodness in the higher realms. And we are likely to aspire to these. You might call this competing with ourselves rather than our betters. But our betters will be noticeably “better,” more advanced, more mature, perhaps more saintly. Will this recognition incite envy if we feel we could never reach their heights? I hope not. What do you think?
Thank you, Stafford. I think I come from a slightly different understanding, which is that we all have originally been ‘perfect, excellent spirit beings’ (created in the image of God) and some of us have ‘fallen’ from that perfect Absolute Reality into our temporary reality of time, space and the law of cause and effect. Most of us are now on our back Home and during that process some form of competition can definitely help us remembering our original strength and perfection. But in the end we are all very unique perfect beings which have zero need to compete or compare ourselves with others. I have outlined it in one of my videos. I merely offer this information and have no desire to convince anyone about this teaching : https://youtu.be/_gKgLRabGeU?si=BS_OTuRo9iL9COL4
Hans, you describe us all as “very unique perfect beings” who have fallen from our state of perfection. Where do you get this notion? I don’t find it in any of the literature reaching us from astral environments. Even in Christianity this view is contested, especially by St. Irenaeus. Are you hearkening back to the fall of Adam and Eve?
Thank you, Stafford, for your reply. Since you asked, I’m happy to share a little more about the source of my information.
I just released a new video in which I explain how I found this spiritual path, through whom these teachings came, and their source in the seven-dimensional reality. Having explored many of today’s spiritual and religious teachings, I found this material to be the most logical and comprehensive.
At the same time, I fully understand that some of these ideas may seem too radical or unconventional for many people.
Here is my new video: https://youtu.be/wlGvjtEoREw?si=t3qHlhL3CMZPvbTa
Hi Stafford, I just realized that I didn’t fully answer your question about ‘The Fall”. I have a special video that explains it is detail – if you wish to watch it: https://youtu.be/pcSkKjFdre0?si=tfldz5qoWw1_I_2L
Dear Stafford,
This is one of those subjects that may initially sound peripheral until one notices how consistently it appears across otherwise independent accounts.
Ian Lawton devotes an entire section of his comparative study Afterlife to “heavenly recreations.” He draws not only on Jurgen Ziewe, but on communicators reported through Emily French, John Ward, Anthony Borgia and Alice Gilbert, together with the out-of-body observations of Peter Richelieu, Frederick Sculthorp, Rosalind McKnight and Gordon Phinn.
The general pattern strongly supports your conclusion, though with an interesting qualification. Recognizable recreations certainly persist – chess, sailing, golf, billiards, surfing, skiing, motorcycles, cars, aircraft, theatre, music and much else – but the altered relationship between consciousness and environment changes their nature and sometimes removes their original point.
Henry Lanchester, for example, says that he can still play chess because it remains a contest of mental skill. Robert Hugh Benson describes sailing, but the boat responds directly to thought, while its movement produces extraordinary effects of color and musical sound in the living water. Benson and Philip Gilbert both suggest, however, that many earthly sports lose something of their purpose because the spirit body is immediately responsive to mind and no longer subject to physical limitations. Richelieu makes the same point rather humorously: golf and billiards soon become uninteresting when every shot goes precisely where one intends it to go.
Yet other accounts describe earthly recreations being preserved, modified or imaginatively expanded. Sculthorp reports beaches, surfing, sailing, cars, bicycles and even airplanes. Gordon Phinn describes skiing, water-skiing, vintage-car rallies and elaborate games based upon unaided flight. Ziewe supplies the underlying principle: in a thought-responsive environment, whatever can be adequately imagined can assume experiential reality.
Perhaps, then, the best synthesis is that sport does survive – but not necessarily as a carbon copy of earthly sport. It may be retained because of affection, familiarity and fellowship; transformed into forms impossible under physical laws; used to develop control of thought; or eventually outgrown when perfect execution removes the challenge. Recreation there seems to depend less upon muscular exertion than upon imagination, exhilaration, companionship and the education of consciousness.
That seems very close indeed to the three-dimensional football match you describe – which inevitably suggests Quidditch without broomsticks, the players flying freely through the whole volume of the field and directing the ball by mind rather than by hand or foot. Lawton himself makes essentially the same joke, suggesting that, if Gordon Phinn’s reports of elaborate flying sports are accurate, Quidditch must surely already be flourishing somewhere in the astral. Lawton also preserves Ziewe’s final qualification: however delightful these recreative worlds may be, their pleasures apparently pale beside the experience of still higher dimensions.
Best,
Paul
Paul, I could not agree more completely with what you write here. Thanks for expanding the research and information. I hope your final point is correct and that I will be mature enough to move beyond heavenly entertainment. At present I greatly enjoy sporting competitions involving my favorite teams, though I do detect a weariness and ultimate pointlessness when it begins to push aside deeper satisfactions.