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image author unknown ITC Gem 18: How Angel Pictures Are Delivered to Earth Editor’s note: I began my collaboration and friendship with ITC pioneer George Meek in the fall of 1991, and suddenly I was immersed in spiritual research… something I would have considered impossible just a few years earlier. I’d been agnostic all my life. George told me all about his many years of ground-breaking research, especially the Spiricom device that he and Bill O’Neil had developed in the late 1970s. With that device O’Neil had recorded more than 20 hours of dialog between himself and his spirit friends. George’s wife Jeannette had died two years earlier. Loree, a psychically gifted Cherokee woman, had been their housekeeper for several years, playing a part in George’s landmark research. When I visited George, I had a sitting with Loree, who channeled messages from various spirits, including my father-in-law John Hoys, whom I’d never met in lifetime. A few months later George arranged for me to travel to Europe and visit the researchers in Luxembourg who were getting what were probably the most amazing spirit contacts in history. The following report was written by Maggy in Luxembourg on October 27, 1992, a few months after I met her. I include my comments and explanation in [brackets around indented paragraphs]. Maggy wrote: – – – Begin CETL Report – – – Swejen gave us the following information: Good afternoon. This is Swejen Salter. I have good news about GA-2 (new communication equipment being built.). I was given permission to start the contacts via GA-2 soon. I am just coming from a meeting in which this was decided. I was also given a new assistant, Bill O’Neil. [All the major breakthroughs for ITC communications occurred in the spirit worlds, and all of the major decisions about what information to send to Earth were made by The Seven ethereal beings. Swejen Salter, a deceased human, was in charge of the “Timestream” sending station in the astral worlds, and she frequently met with The Seven regarding the communications with Maggy.] A few days later in a letter from the USA, George W. Meek told us about a message from the medium Loree (his wife’s former nurse and George’s present housekeeper). Loree ‘s message surprised us since it announced Bill O’ Neil ‘s cooperation with Timestream. The medium Loree had received the message from Jeannette Meek (George’s deceased wife)! This is a new case of cross correspondence and confirmation of spirit messages over a longer distance than between Luxembourg and Rivenich. On the same day we informed George W. Meek of our news and wrote a note of thanks to Bill O’Neil. [At the time, Maggy was collaborating closely with researcher Adolf Homes of Rivenich, Germany, and the spirits were arranging cross-contacts between the two stations, trying to the same information to both stations at the same time.] Spiritside: If we used the same transmission method for Seth 3 and Angele that we use for humans, you would not recognize them. They are not “real” humans anymore. [Angele is Angie Mreche, Maggie’s niece who had died as a sweet, highly sensitive young woman. Maggy was told that Angie had been a higher being who incarnated as her niece… not a typical human being.] Earthside: I remember picture transmissions of you and Angele on which your faces could barely be recognized. We did not publish these pictures. It is strange that your cloths were visible but your faces and hands fused with the light rays. Spiritside: These pictures were experiments which did not satisfy because you could not recognize too much. We then tried to find other methods. Although I do not yet belong to the group of entities such as Angele, I was at the moment of picture-taking in the same area of light rays as she was. Earthside: But you are already visiting the fourth level. Don’t you already have experience with non-human life? Spiritside: Yes, that is true, but to maintain the connection with you I have to take on the astral body again. What I still wanted to tell you is that to transfer the transparency that constitutes the body of a higher being, we need an adequate “transparent” method to visualize it in the density of your world. The technique we use is a “point by point” transfer until the face is recognizable. It is a “transcription” of what we see here. We might say it is a trans-visualization with the help of a common artificial intelligence (the computer program). During this talk Swejen again said how much Susanna Lehnoff, the wife of the painter Edouard Manet, and Jules Verne’s former wife (Honorine Deviane) have used their talents to help the experimental group of Timestream with their picture transmissions. Swejen also mentioned that both ladies at first were not at all interested in ITC experiments. Spiritside: We had repeatedly asked for their cooperation, but they refused by reasoning: “why be concerned with these contacts with earth when different and more pleasant possibilities are open to us here?” I persisted, and it came to several small arguments between us before I convinced them. They now accept that the contacts are important for everyone’s life. They have received great recognition for their work and their skills here at Timestream. I am now on friendly terms with both ladies and would be grateful if you mentioned them in your writings. I conveyed our gratitude to Swejen, to the ladies she mentioned and to all others who have helped. – – – End CETL Report – – –

04 ~Worlds Within Worlds – Ancient Human Timeline This article in the worlds-within-worlds cosmology stretches our minds to the boggle point. I’ve tried to keep it as clear and uncluttered as I can, just adding lots of links to details and source materials, which you’re welcome to ignore or explore. The controversial timeline below (which I’ve come to believe is reasonably close to the truth) was all woven together with information from… Ethereal messages via ITC, or instrumental transcommunication, the use of technology to get information from the worlds of spirit, History and science, especially astronomy, geology, and archaeology, Religion, especially the paradise “Eden” story of western religion, the 4-billion-year “day of Brahma” of eastern religion, and the knowledge of spirit realms held by most major religions, Solid physical evidence such as megaliths and Ica stones that might contradict mainstream science and religion, and Frontier science… what zealous, hard-headed skeptics on wikipedia toss together as “fringe science.” Our ancient past is not an easy subject to write about nowadays because of all of the polarizing views. For scientists, megalithic ruins found throughout the world are like elephants in the lab that no one wants to talk about. And new ideas about spirits and the origin of mankind can upset religionists. So writing about these things is like walking on eggshells. Eggshells and elephants… what could go wrong? Here’s the story…. The Cataclysm 4 Billion Years Ago A defining moment occurred 4 billion years ago that changed everything. Scientists call it the Late Heavy Bombardment, and it caused most of the impact craters on the planets and moons in our solar system. No one’s exactly sure what caused that massive onslaught of debris in the first place, but here’s what makes most sense to me: Billions of years ago a Saturn-sized planet circled the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The planet went by various names, including Eden and Marduk. Brilliant beings from finer spirit realms decided to spread life into the physical universe. To do that, they would have to “terraform” planets like Eden… making them habitable. To do that, some of those spirit beings would have to become physical beings. And to do that, they would have to develop what we today would consider to be giant, superhuman bodies as sort of protective outer shells around their spirit bodies (for the same reason that astronauts don spacesuits or divers wear scuba gear; it was the only way to live in an otherwise incompatible environment). So as the project got underway, those giant humans with their massive technologies began turning Eden (and presumably other large planets in other solar systems) into a paradise world. Here in our solar system they were not only terraforming Eden; they were also spreading their flourishing paradise to other, lesser planets such as Earth, Venus, and Mars. Around 4 billion years ago their technologies got out of hand, and Planet Eden was suddenly destroyed in a massive explosion. The only surviving Edenites were the colonists on Earth. (Some people believe the planet Eden or Marduk or Maldek was destroyed by an impact with another big body, but I lean toward the idea that advanced Edenite technologies caused the explosion 4 billion years ago, mainly because of the unimaginable force it would have taken to produce the kind of shrapnel illustrated below.) Comparative sizes. (The Eden picture is an artist’s rendition… obviously not the real Eden. Why did life survive only on Earth? Maybe just coincidence. Maybe Earth was on the opposite side of the sun from Eden when Eden exploded—like standing behind a brick wall when a grenade goes off—in which case Earth might have only suffered a planetary blast concussion from which it eventually recovered. Whatever the case, Edenites on Earth (and only on Earth) survived the explosion. The giant humans, who were well suited as stewards of a gigantic paradise planet like Eden in a peaceful universe, were now marooned on tiny Planet Earth under chaotic conditions. The biosphere had probably been badly disrupted by the explosion, and the heavens were rife with meteors, asteroids, and other planetary shrapnel. For some 3 billion years (tenuous years, at best) the castaways were able to continue engineering and managing Earth’s biosystems in relative peace. Then came a second defining moment—dinosaurs. They appeared on Earth shortly after the last ice age (sometimes called the Karoo or Paleozoic ice age, which ended 260 million years ago). Unlike most of the other living things on Earth, these new dinosaurs did not submit to the will of Earth’s human caretakers, and so it became a struggle to prevail. Some 33,000 Acámbaro figurines (left) and 15,000 Ica stones, which were dug up last century, were probably (and arguably) buried around the time that the dinosaurs went extinct, providing solid evidence that our giant ancestors once had to contend with dinosaurs. The three Ica stones in the picture show not just a human with a dinosaur but also an ancient astronomer and an advanced medical procedure. The lower photo was taken in the Berlin Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde). Note the relative size difference between humans and dinosaurs then and now. As mentioned, the peaceful Edenites were brilliant, superhuman giants by today’s standards, so their strife against the dinosaurs, whose gigantic bones we see in modern museums, would have been like us today battling crocodiles and snakes the size of cars and subway trains… probably without the aid of guns and other weapons. I suspect that the Edenites possessed advanced scientific and medical technologies for planetary management and for interacting with other dimensions (the spirit realms), but weapons were probably an alien concept… something that had no purpose before dinosaurs appeared on Earth. Carved stones dug up in Ica, Peru in the 1960s, and figurines dug up in Acámbaro, Mexico in the 1940s, are probably (though arguably) tens of thousands of years old. If so, they provide some of the best solid evidence that our gifted, giant human ancestors were on Earth during the time of dinosaurs… and probably much, much earlier. (There’s lots of other evidence of ancient human presence scattered around this website, for example here… and here… and here… but these pictures, along with the megaliths shown below, make the point well enough for this article.) And here are a couple of key ITC contacts that inspired me, in recent years, to formulate this mind-boggling scenario of our ancient beginnings 4 billion years ago. Unless I’ve misunderstood the meaning of the following contacts, the scenario above seems to make pretty good sense to me. Related ITC contacts (excerpts) Long, long ago when humans came to Earth from Eden (or Marduk), they lost mastery over nature after their dissension with the serpent…. Humans had to fight against nature and some of its most dangerous creatures. You call them monsters, but they were only life forms which defended themselves and their kind. These creatures did not subject themselves to the intellectual superiority of humans and had to be defeated and destroyed by cunning and strength. Human civilizations prevailed. Of these times long, long ago, only legends were handed down. Do not scorn them. The day may not be far off when your sciences will dig up the skeleton of a dragon.… The animal consciousness has been forced on humanity. Humans themselves are not bad. Prior to the last ice age men lived peacefully together, man with man and man with animals. Dawn of Global Civilization After finally vanquishing the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Edenites gradually regrouped and started building what might be called the foundations of modern human civilization. Plato spoke of Atlantis as a vast island empire in what is now the North Atlantic Ocean. Other sources talk about various ancient, mighty civilizations in various parts of the world that went by various names. Trying to figure out what really happened in those ancient times can cause some serious head-scratching, but certain facts stand out clearly. We only need to open our eyes (and maybe our minds) to see plenty of solid evidence that giant, brilliant, technologically advanced humans walked the Earth long, long ago. Megalithic ruins—gigantic structures—are found throughout most of the world, and there is simply no rational explanation for their existence—none—if we insist on believing that we today are the most advanced humans who ever walked the Earth. Solid, megalithic evidence like this picture insists that the ancient story of humanity has to include a highly advanced civilization that prevailed on Earth long before we did. This, in a nutshell, is probably what happened in that era long ago: After vanquishing the dinosaurs, the surviving Edenites developed an advanced civilization that spanned most of the globe and went by different names in different parts of the world (Atlantis being just one of those names). That’s why megalithic ruins have been found in so many locations. So after the demise of dinosaurs, giant humans were once again in control of the global ecosystem… more or less. Apparently the conflict that had raged between humans and dinosaur for millions of years caused Planet Earth to undergo a personality change. It was no longer a paradise world managed by human stewards, but a more savage world where competition and conflict would play a much bigger role. Eventually the Edenites themselves left the Earth (and presumably returned to the worlds of spirit), and the fate of human civilization was left in the hands of their descendants, whom we sometimes call Titans or demigods. Those Titans were like a hybrid race between the Edenites and smaller humans like us today. Those Titans in that ancient civilization apparently made some big mistakes, which instilled a noble-savage character into the terrestrial ecosystem, where life kills life to survive. Related ITC contact (excerpt): The “fall of Man” is a legend handed down from Greek mythology. It was maintained by the “Mysteries” and found its way into the schools of philosophy during the Greek classic period. Humans were considered to be descendants of Titans who had killed the young Dionysus-Zagreus. The burden of this crime weighed heavily on them. In a writing by Anaximander it is said that the unity of the world was destroyed by a prehistoric crime. In reality, these legends are based on a factual incident: the downfall of the civilization you often call Atlantis (also known by other names). This downfall was brought about by the descendants of the last inhabitants of Marduk who became marooned on planet Terra. This downfall came through reliance and blind trust in a massive technology…. You see, there was a “fall of Man,” but different from what you imagined. We know that many among you will not believe us. This does not bother us. We know that this is how it was. Today you may consider it science fiction, but you too will one day, once more, recognize its validity. The next time we shall speak of more pleasant things. I’ve speculated elsewhere on this website about the things that might have gone wrong with the “massive technologies” of that megalithic civilization. Possibilities include: Experimenting with humans, animals, and plants through genetic engineering and cross-breeding, Engineering sexual reproduction so that humans (and presumably other species) could perpetuate themselves with an endless series of short lifespans… (it’s likely that the Edenites themselves were asexual beings, simply coming to Earth for a long lifetime measured in millennia or eons, and maybe renewing their bodies periodically through spiritual processes, similar to the way we humans today reincarnate… but the Titans decided to change that by creating male and female versions, starting with the male… a decision that led to lots of thorny problems early in the development cycle), Creating devastating weapons, Transducing potent spirit world energies to physical (electromagnetic) energies with explosive results. But these are just four possibilities among many. Whatever the truth turns out to be, I’m confident that the choices made by the Titans (superhuman descendants of the Edenites) caused serious problems for humans and other life forms on Earth after the age of dinosaurs, and we today are still contending with the fallout from those bad choices. I base that confidence mostly on the three ITC messages listed earlier in the article. Conclusion So, let’s pretend that we could gather together all of the stories and theories and beliefs about our ancient human timeline from the archives of science, religion, and the frontier sciences… and then toss them all on the table along with the above article. If we then used Occam’s razor to start cutting away all of the material that’s too contrived or too complicated or at odds with solid physical evidence like the megaliths and ancient artifacts mentioned earlier… what do you suppose would be left when the cutting’s done? My money is on the article above, even if it’s a bit mind-boggling at the moment. . Granted, this timeline has plenty of holes and unanswered questions. One of the biggest: Why haven’t archaeologists uncovered any giant human skeletons among the dinosaur fossils?! If this cosmology is valid (as I suspect it is), then these things will eventually be resolved. Meanwhile, discernment is prudent, skepticism is understandable… and comments are welcome.

(Note: This article is based both on ITC contacts that I consider accurate and reliable and on information I gleaned from other sources (such as the work of the late George Meek and Frederick Myers and a classic book, Wanderer in the Spirit Lands), which explores aspects of spirituality that our ITC contacts avoided. Together those sources give a more complete picture of the spirit realms, but readers’ discretion is advised.) We all get one ultimate vacation during our lifetime. When we reach the end, Planet Earth says Bon voyage!… and then we awaken in the realms of spirit. This travelogue looks at what to expect of that grand adventure into the afterlife… with a few tips on planning ahead. After we die, we awaken in the spirit worlds with emotional baggage. Whether we travel light or lug a lot of stuff determines what kinds of experiences and opportunities will open up for us. Here’s a list of the main afterlife destinations, starting with the most visited and working down to the least visited by people fresh off the Earth:Paradise at noble level 3 (most visited) There are various afterlife models or roadmaps that describe the many spirit realms associated with the Earth. All of those models are subjective and arbitrary, including this popular model consisting of 7 light-and-pleasant realms above the Earth and 7 dark-and-disagreeable realms below. (As mentioned elsewhere, “above” and “below” refer to vibration, not space.) This 7-level model provides a frame of reference for the accompanying travelogue into the afterlife. Most people lead generally decent lives. They show kindness toward their friends and loved ones and pets, and they have empathy for the less fortunate. They don’t mind lending a helping hand. So these people awaken at level 3 after they die… sometimes called “going to the light” or “finding the light at the end of the tunnel.” Level 3 is an earth-like paradise. Their baggage. Despite their general decency and desire to help others, new arrivals might also have a special fondness for a nice home, comfortable clothes, a fancy car, good food, sex, exciting sports, or other carnal preoccupations. While these earthly distractions have no place or purpose in the finer realms of spirit, there are plenty of opportunities at level 3 to partake in them with people of mutual interest. That said, many good people over-pack their emotional baggage during a lifetime, so when they arrive at level 3 they go into a deep, rejuvenating sleep that lasts, on average, six weeks of earth time. While their astral body grows to the prime of life, their higher self works with other spirits to look through the baggage for excessive anger or guilt or fear or grief or craving or resentment or selfishness that might cause a problem in paradise. Small stuff can be tossed out, but bigger items could present a problem. By the time they wake up, most of them are well suited for a happy, new life in paradise. Still too much baggage? But a few of the new arrivals might still be too abrasive or impatient or quick-tempered or self-obsessed, even after a healing sleep. If they venture out into this new world and start to make people around them uneasy with their troubled feelings, those bristlers are moved along with their baggage to level 2, a sort of holding area, where they can further process their feelings for a while and then return to paradise once they’ve mellowed out. Things to do in paradise. Once they get settled at level 3, friendliness, peace, comfort, and enjoyment become a way of life. Whether they were artists, musicians, writers, entertainers, orators, historians, teachers, preachers, scientists, adventurers, explorers, engineers, or nature-lovers before they died, now they gravitate to communities of kindred spirits with common interests, and they find opportunities for earth-like pleasures and pastimes beyond anything they could have ever imagined on Earth. They thoroughly enjoy their new life in paradise… but something’s missing. When they feel ready, they can work with teachers and ethereal beings to purify themselves of earthly desires altogether, then ascend to level 4. Or they might do what most people at level 3 do: choose to reincarnate into another lifetime on Earth. (Many examples here of life in paradise… ) The earthplane at level 1 / level -1 The next most-visited destination for the afterlife vacation is the earthplane… a sort of shadow world of Earth… a misty, invisible realm of spiritual residue blanketing the physical planet. Many people who don’t make it to level 3 end up on the earthplane. Hm-m, how to compare? If paradise (level 3) were a happy, bustling city, the earthplane would be a lawless frontier town. The people here on the earthplane aren’t malevolent, just unrefined. There’s a lot of rowdy stuff going on here, and everyone who arrives here has to adapt to it… like businessmen and schoolmarms adapting to life among drunken cowboys, gamblers, and petty thieves. Their baggage. People arriving on the earthplane typically don’t realize they’ve made mistakes. They might not even realize they’ve died. Addicts, alcoholics, narcissists, warriors, and staunch materialists are just a few of the many people who often arrive in the spirit worlds in a state of denial. They’re so attached to earthly dramas that they’re unable to find peace and paradise. They stay close to the Earth and spend most of their energy fascinated by human affairs. They’re not malicious, but they’re confused and frustrated. They can clearly see people on Earth and get right up in their faces and even yell at them (but most of us carnals just ignore them because we can’t see or hear them. They’re just ghosts, after all). Alcohol and opiate alkaloids (cocaine, heroin, morphine…) present a special problem on the earthplane. These earthly substances disrupt the physical nervous system (by mimicking sugar and upsetting the body’s pleasure controls) and cause chemical dependencies during a lifetime. There are no corresponding nonphysical drugs available on the earthplane to stimulate the spiritual nervous systems of dead addicts and alcoholics, so these craving souls are often attracted to addicts and alcoholics on Earth. They intrude, invisibly, into an addict’s physical space in a parasitic relationship, getting the buzz from the carnal host while aggravating his urge to continue abusing alcohol and drugs. Once the dense, troubled spirits of the earthplane realize what’s happening to them, they might become aware of support groups and multilevel spiritual networks spread throughout the earthplane whose members help each other detach from the Earth and ascend to paradise. There’s always help for a lost or confused soul… if they want it. On the other hand, not everyone on the earthplane is lost and frustrated. There are also deceased druids, shamans, and scientists working with each other (and sometimes with “extraterrestrials”), experimenting with time-and-space manipulations, materializations, apports, crop circles, séances, physical mediumship, and other phenomena that impress and perplex (and sometimes provide some technical advancements and other benefits to) humans on Earth. There are waystations sprinkled around the earthplane like frontier outposts, where spirits from level 3 (and in rare cases from even higher levels) can come close to the Earth on noble missions, for example, to protect or to inspire certain people or to work on an ITC bridge. These aren’t especially popular assignments, but they appeal to certain adventurous souls and to finer beings who have an interest in the fate of the Earth. Things to do on the earthplane. So these are some of the main things to do on the earthplane—stay immersed in earthly dramas, meddle in the lives of people on Earth, work on projects in the spirit realm to directly affect the physical realm, or join a support group to rise above earthly preoccupations while migrating toward noble levels 2 and 3. (Personal accounts of life on the earthplane… ) Purgatory at savage levels -2 and -3 The third most-visited afterlife realm is probably the purgatory at levels -2 and -3, a dark, barren land. Newcomers can sense suffering everywhere, but they can’t see anything, so they often grope in the dark in search of a door or a way out. As they get acclimated, they begin to see everyone around them as shrunken, deformed versions of who they each used to be on Earth. They soon learn that most people arriving in purgatory enjoyed lifetimes of selfish pursuits that made other people suffer, but they didn’t let themselves feel regret for the pain they caused. So over the years the remorse grew inside them like a cancer until they died, sick of spirit, and then they found themselves in this desolate place to start the painful healing process. Now, as they get used to this decrepit land of suffering, they often see individuals or small teams moving through the darkness bearing light. These are service workers—members of those multilevel support groups that extend throughout many of the spirit realms to help souls rise. People at many levels of spirit can find these service workers, join their networks, and work together with many other souls whose main task is simply to help each other rise to finer realms. Some people in purgatory choose to heal, others choose to continue their misery for a while. Their baggage. Newcomers here often go through a short period of shocked disbelief and hopelessness, but soon they’re overcome by guilt, shame, and remorse. Sooner or later they all find hope as they begin their quest back toward the light. Things to do in purgatory. The main activity here is to suffer along with everyone else during the healing process, to feel remorse and self-pity… and eventually to try to help others, since giving a helping hand is often the first step toward getting a more powerful helping hand. Then there are plenty of opportunities for people in this dark realm to work with each other, to help each other along the path to inner peace and paradise by acknowledging their mistakes, purifying themselves, and moving onward and upward. (Personal accounts of awakening in purgatory… ) Summerland at level 4 Some people on Earth are exceptionally caring, empathetic, sensitive and wise beyond their years. They’re attracted less by earthly distractions than by love, good works in the community, and the quest for wisdom and knowledge. These bright souls sometimes awaken to a rarefied paradise beyond human description—level 4. Here they find the most beautiful artworks and most magnificent creations of human minds while they flourish in communities along the shores of glistening lakes and rivers… amid vibrant forests and meadows and parks of trees and flowers that glow from within. The world is filled with a vast array of ethereal colors beyond what anyone on Earth could even imagine. People have moved beyond the cycle of reincarnation by the time they arrive in the summerland, where love and peace are a way of life for everyone and everything. There are no more earthly lessons to be learned… no more karmic consequences to overcome. While people back at level 3 can choose to work with people on Earth by resonating with their noble-savage thoughts and feelings, that is no longer an option here at level 4, where everyone is pulled into the noble beauty of the summerland and can no longer harmonize with savage attitudes prevalent on Earth. In the summerland you often feel like you’re melting with the elements of a sublime paradise at the threshold to ethereal splendor (level 5) that thrives in formless brilliance and bliss beyond the illusions of time and space and structure. Their baggage. Everyone who enters the summerland travels light. On Earth we’re subjected to fears and doubts and animosities and cravings. Only a small proportion of us carnal humans can spend a lighthearted lifetime free of emotional baggage, so very few people go directly to the summerland after they die. Most people enter the summerland only after a period of learning and spiritual purification at level 3… once honesty, trust, and good will have become a way of life, and after all the crumbs of fear, doubt, desire, and animosity have fallen away into the lower levels. Things to do in the summerland. People at level 4 can manifest things just by thinking about them. They can travel by thought to distant stars and worlds among various dimensions. Such power of the mind, which is a way of life at level 4 and above, is rare at level 3 and nearly impossible on Earth because of the accidents and disasters that could occur as a result of the rollercoaster thoughts and feelings among noble-savage humans. People at level 4 can visit dispassing points where many dimensions intersect. These dispassing (or “dispassier”) points sometimes look like multistory buildings in which each floor takes you to a different spiritual level. You can go freely downstairs to visit level 3, level 2 or the earthplane at level 1, or you might have the credentials to go upstairs into ethereal realms at levels 5 and above. Getting those credentials into higher levels apparently involves some serious work at spiritual purification… and you usually go upstairs only by invitation from a resident of those higher levels. (Beautiful distinctions between paradise and the summerland… ) Lower hells at levels -4 to -7 A small proportion of people on Earth are especially malicious and predatory. They cause a lot of pain and suffering during a lifetime and stir up intense resentment and hatred among some of their victims. After they die, these dark-motivated individuals (and sometimes their unforgiving victims as well) are dragged down to dark realms where torture, terrible suffering, and malevolence are a way of life. The torturers often become the tortured. Ruthless, Machiavellian despots hold court in slimy, decrepit castles and chambers—horrid replicas of the places they’d inhabited on Earth—where everyone bears a hideous likeness to proverbial witches and warlocks. The lowest levels are said to have many pockets of sulfurous flames created by the collective, unrequited malice of the inhabitants. Spiritual purification facilities, which are present at the higher levels, can’t survive in these darkest of realms, so service workers from various levels are routinely assembled and mobilized. Finer beings from levels 4 and above are able to monitor the gruesome activities in hell and to locate certain individuals who are there by mistake or whose remorse and forgiveness (of self and of others) make them ready to be helped. Then, rescue teams from the earthplane descend into the darkness, get acclimated, locate the appropriate individuals, and return them to the earthplane. It’s dangerous work, as the rescuers themselves can get stuck or come under attack, but finer beings are able to observe the project closely through their multilevel networks, and to offer guidance and protection along the way. The individual rescue workers from the earthplane have gone through extensive training to learn how to remain even-tempered and task-oriented, and they perform individual rescues in pairs or in small teams. Though the lower hells have fewer inhabitants than any of the higher levels, all of those trapped souls have terrible suffering in common. Their baggage. They’re trapped there by the intense savagery of their thoughts, feelings, and intentions… hatred, envy, craving, and general ill will. Things to do in the lower hells. People prey on and torture each other, suffer, and commiserate until at last they feel remorse and empathy and find forgiveness. Then they are brought to higher levels in the course of healing. Normally the people in the lower hells are too dark of nature and too far removed from Earth to have any direct influence on our world. However, in certain eras terror and hatred can spread through a large segment of the population here, for example during bitter wars and revolutions, at which times dark portals open up on Earth through which waves of those terrible spirits can stream into our world to make the situation here much worse. Then noble legions of light workers quickly descend to our world to counter the darkness, and the battle rages on both sides of the veil. (grueling accounts of rescue work… ) Ethereal splendor of levels 5 through 7 A lifetime on Earth fueled largely by hormones and egos burdens all of us mortal humans with some amount of fears, cravings, resentments, regrets, or other troubled feelings. That emotional baggage makes it impossible for almost anyone to awaken in the ethereal realms after they die. The rare exceptions might be spiritual masters who’ve spent much of their lives in deep meditation, completely removed from the dramas of the world broiling around them. Even those enlightened humans can probably expect to awaken no higher than the finer reaches of level 4 after they die.. even though they’ve traveled through and experienced the ethereal realms during their meditations. Then, with some additional spiritual purification at level 4, they can soon leave the realms of form and structure altogether and move into level 5 as an energy being… a sort of integrated cloud of brilliant consciousness. Their baggage. Anyone entering the ethereal realms checks their baggage at the door. (Actually, by the time they reach the threshold to level 5, they no longer have emotional baggage.) Things to do in the ethereal realms. Ethereal beings are brilliant and formless, and typically live in clusters. An ethereal cluster is like a bank of supercomputers that exchange oceans of information instantly. They can create entire worlds and observe the activity going on throughout most of the spirit realms associated with the Earth (although most ethereal beings have no interest in the noble-savage affairs of Earth). Unfortunately, those who do have an interest in the Earth can’t simply sweep away the darkness of our world because it’s too tightly enmeshed with the light of our world. However they told us recently, “Mankind at the End Time should be led back to the principle. Light and darkness shall unite and form a whole again. What people experience now is not the actual beginning of the apocalypse, but only the first symptoms.” So apparently, at the end of an epoch, the dark and light realms around the Earth (levels 1 through 3 and levels -1 through -7) are somehow all pulled together, perhaps so that some general healing can be done, before the start of the next epoch. (Read more about that… ) (more about ethereal beings… ) Conclusions I believe these cursory descriptions offer a reasonably accurate glimpse into the spirit realms around the Earth, based on my 30 years of research into the afterlife… especially the groundbreaking work of Maggy Fischbach of Luxembourg. I believe there are certain principles that hold true throughout the vast omniverse. For example: Everything in the omniverse has, at the center of its being, a connection with the source, which resides beyond level 7, and nurturing that personal connection with gratitude is the main way to find peace and order, regardless of where in the various realms you happen to be living at the moment. Spiritual advancement means ascending toward the source, and one of the best ways to do that is to help others to move toward the source. (“Moving toward the source” means purifying one’s spirit to be more like the source, which is steeped in such noble values as love, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, empathy, and service to others.) (how the spirit realms all interplay with the Earth… ) (Note: The next article in this series is about the ancient human timeline that stretches back more than 4 billion years.)

This article is about that nebulous region where the physical body (or any other material structure in this material universe) blends into its spiritual counterpart… a spirit body (or spirit structure). We’ll consider some worldly and other-worldly principles that might come together and facilitate the blending-together of those bodies—the spiritual and the physical. Before 1990. I used to believe that if we could delve deep into trees and rocks and other material things, down into the tiny world of molecules and atoms and subatomic particles such as quarks and leptons, we’d find tinier and tinier systems… maybe extending downward, inward, forever. After 1990. After a spiritual awakening (compliments of George Meek) I finally had to admit that all structures are mostly an illusion, even though they seem solid and real to inhabitants of structured universes like ours. Reality exists beyond structure. It is a formless, living force that’s sometimes called spirit or consciousness. So then I deduced that if you could dig into a quark, what you’d actually find is reality… what science calls waves, and what George Meek called cosmic energy… akin to what religions have been calling prana, chi, shakti, and Holy Spirit. Then I slowly started to digest the Timestream contacts and other information that form the basis of the macyafterlife website… and a new picture started to emerge. In the past 20 years I think I’ve finally gotten a clearer understanding of “the everything.” Those other two cosmologies (the physical one and the spiritual one) have now sort of wrapped themselves together in my mind to form a new, more accurate picture of how our material world blends into the spirit worlds. New Cosmology The picture below is a very simplified view of how the omniverse (I believe) is nested… that is, worlds within worlds within worlds… and how it’s all nested in at least two different ways: physically and spiritually. The countless universes in the omniverse are all jumbled together in the same space like radio signals, each universe remaining distinct by its vibration… something that’s hard to envision with our five senses and brains, which are only geared to perceive our own physical universe. When we die. Nearly all of us will awaken in an astral world after we die. We’ll have a more multidimensional vision at that point, and it’ll be “natural” for us, then, not just to perceive the astral world around us, but also to get glimpses into some of those superimposed worlds around our world… some of them subtler and lighter than our new world, others darker and denser. If we’re lucky enough to awaken in an astral world at level 3 or level 4, we’ll be delighted to see that it’s an absolute paradise. All of the structures (buildings, forests, mountains…) are lighter, brighter and more vibrant than structures on Earth. Nearly all the people there are now in the peak of health and at the prime of life (age 25 to 35 in appearance), regardless of whether they’d died as oldsters, infants or invalids. Where the Body Meets the Spirit Okay, now that we understand that these two nesting arrangements (physical and spiritual) are integrated with each other, we can get a feel for how things come together and integrate between a physical structure and its closest spiritual counterpart… the astral structure. For this, we’ll focus on a physical human body and on the molecules and atoms that are its basic building blocks. Here we have physical bodies of five people at different ages, and their corresponding astral bodies. The astral body at level 3 is a copy of the physical body at the prime of life (age 25-35 in appearance). Apparently the astral body has the same organs, cells, and atoms that make up the physical body… but everything in the astral body is of a much finer substance. The atoms are much smaller and there is a great deal more “space” between them… which apparently is why we can’t perceive the spirits around us. They don’t reflect enough physical-world light to be seen by our physical eyes. Apparently the astral body is close copy of the physical body, limb for limb, organ for organ… down to the level of atoms and molecules. The main difference between the physical body and the astral body is that the astral body is of a much finer substance and vibration, making it essentially “invisible” to us carnal humans with our five physical senses. To complicate matters a bit, there is not just one astral universe (and there’s not just one astral body for each physical human being), but multiple astral universes (and multiple astral bodies) that get finer and subtler as they get closer to the source in vibration. (Referring to the 7-level model, structure begins to disappear at level 5, and by level 6 it is gone.) Eventually the astral body (as well as other structures) in the astral universes simply gets so subtle that it merges with the formless ethereal universes and disappears altogether. At this point we reach a finer level of reality, beyond the illusions of structure. We become a brilliant energy being or light being. Hm, that’s a little bit misleading. We don’t really become an energy being. We’re already a brilliant energy being and light being. That’s one of our birthrights of living in the omniverse. Shedding the various physical and astral bodies during our spiritual advancement is like shedding layers of clothing that are simply outer appearances of our true self… the soul. So spiritual advancement in the spirit realms is simply a matter of shedding the bodies one by one. The entity’s outermost self becomes ever lighter and brighter as it returns home to the source, bringing along a rich collection of experiences and memories that it’s gathered along the way. Spiritual advancement during a lifetime on Earth involves getting familiar with our spiritual make-up and reawakening the connection between the carnal mind (brain) and the various spiritual minds within us… especially the ultimate inner mind: the soul, which is a piece of the source that rests at the center of our being. When we die and shed the physical body, all sorts of fascinating possibilities open up for us, and that’s a subject of the next article in the series.

"It is the attitude that counts. For one may lie just as much with a look as with words."  Edgar Cace reading 4038-1

"Know that all that materializes must first happen in spirit, and the law of cause and effect ever remains. Hence in spirit it is purpose and ideal." Edgar Cayce reading 3412-2

Professor De Morgan Gave Meaning to “Spiritual But Not Religious” Posted on 13 September 2022, 9:58 The biography of famed British mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871) at Wikipedia is very informative and well presented, except for the section near the end when it cites psychologist John Beloff as declaring that De Morgan was barred from positions at Oxford and Cambridge because he was an atheist. The Wikipedia biographer seems to take some relief in noting De Morgan’s (below) atheism after having explained his interest in psychic phenomena. morgan Having just read Memoir of Augustus De Morgan by his wife, (below) Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (1809-1892), published in 1882, as well as rereading Mrs. De Morgan’s 1863 book, From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years’ Experience in Spirit Manifestations, I don’t see De Morgan as ever having been an atheist, unless one concludes that any person not accepting the teachings of the Church of England at the time was automatically an atheist. As I understand it, De Morgan earned his bachelor’s degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, but he elected not to pursue an advanced degree there, or at Oxford, because he would have had to declare himself in complete accord with the teachings of the Church. He could not accept the strict interpretations given to the Old Testament suggesting a wrathful God and had doubts about the nature of the Trinity, but he remained open-minded and his beliefs were in line with many Unitarians of his era. Sofie “He believed that Jesus Christ, the Son of God by the gift of the Holy Spirit without measure, was, as to his nature, a man like ourselves, except in His power of receiving the Spirit of God,” Sophia De Morgan explained in her 1882 book. “That His divinity was not, like that of the Father, the Source of all things, underived and self-existent. That the Father spoke through Him by the same Spirit, sending the message and the means of redemption or bringing back erring man to God. That the mission was attested by His words and miraculous works, and that He rose from the dead, and was seen to rise to Heaven, from whence He sends the Spirit to whose who are able to receive it.” She also recorded that he spent much time during his final years studying the New Testament. De Morgan’s mother was a fundamentalist Christian who grieved over her son’s rejection of Church doctrine and dogma. In a lengthy 1836 letter to her, he wrote, in part: “Your expressions amount to the following: – If you do not take it for granted that King James’s translators chose the right Greek, and turned it into the right English, and more than that, drew all their inferences correctly, God Almighty will punish you to all eternity.” Later in the letter, he added: “Before God I declare that I have examined closely the history of the early Church, together with abundance of controversy on both sides, not forgetting the books of the New Testament on which they are written, and can find nothing like the creed of the Churches of Rome or England. The former does not pretend to find what you call the essential doctrines of Christianity in the New Testament, but appeals to tradition. It is easy to rail at them, but to the best of my knowledge and belief, derived from historical reading and actual observation, the Church of Rome contains as much honesty as that of England, and a vast deal more knowledge. It would take one quarter as much evidence to make me a Catholic as to make me a Church of England man.” De Morgan’s brilliance was such that he did not require an advanced degree and he therefore became professor of mathematics at London University at the age of 22, a position he would occupy for 35 years. He is remembered today primarily for his contributions to mathematics, especially differential calculus, and logic (De Morgan’s Laws are credited to him, even though Aristotle offered much the same reasoning centuries earlier.) Philosopher John Stuart Mill referred to De Morgan as a mathematician with the attainments of a philosopher, logician and psychologist. While he is little remembered in the field of psychical research, his open-minded approach to psychic phenomena is said to have influenced Sir William Crookes, a renowned scientist of that era, to undertake his investigations of mediums D. D. Home and Florence Cook, even though many other scientists of his time scoffed at the idea and even refused to join Crookes in some of his experiments with Home. Although the lengthy preface to his wife’s 1863 book is simply signed “A.B.” De Morgan later admitted to a friend that he was the author of the preface and that his ideas and observations were in complete accord with those of his wife. The book explores the experiments, studies, and observations of both Mr. and Mrs. De Morgan in clairvoyance, clairaudience, automatic writing, deathbed phenomena and even near-death experiences, beginning in 1853, placing them, with Judge John Edmonds, Professor Robert Hare, and Rev. Adin Ballou, as among the earliest psychical researchers and possibly the first in Great Britain. Sophia De Morgan, while referred to as a “spiritualist” in some current biographies with a materialistic slant (apparently because of her interest, not because of any memberships), emerges as an objective investigator of psychic phenomena and possibly the first woman to devote her time and energies to psychical research. “When a strange tale reached us, twelve years ago, of noises which had been heard in America, and attributed to spirits, everybody laughed,” Sophia De Morgan wrote in the first chapter of her 1863 book. “As the stories multiplied, a few persons in England began to think they must have some origin at least, and to wonder why, if spirits could rap in the United States, they did not do so in our country…and at length curiosity was still further excited by the appearance of a medium in London. Mrs. [Maria] Hayden became the wonder of the day; but people fancied that they could detect imposture, and, though none was ever fairly proved, the interest flagged and the ‘medium’ returned to America, having sown the seed of a tree the extent of whose growth has yet to be measured…” Mrs. De Morgan recalled in their first sitting with Mrs. Hayden that they waited for 15 minutes or more before anything happened, and they were becoming impatient. They then heard some throbbing or patting sound in the center of the table, and Hayden said, “They are coming.” The sounds gathered strength and Hayden said that a spirit was there. The name of the spirit was spelled out by raps (Mrs. De Morgan would run her finger along an alphabet board until a rap sounded indicating the correct letter, the medium unable to see the board). “To my astonishment, the not common name of a dear relation, who had left this world seventeen years before, and whose surname was that of my father’s, not my husband’s family, was spelt. Then this sentence. “I am happy, and with F—- and G—-(full names given).” All three names were recognized by Mrs. De Morgan, In the 1882 book, a letter from Augustus De Morgan to Rev. W. Heald, dated July 1953, is quoted, De Morgan described his experience with Mrs. Hayden, explaining that it was his wife’s sister who had communicated. “After some questioning, she (I speak the spirit hypothesis, though I have no theory on the subject) was asked whether I might ask a question,” De Morgan recalled. He received an affirmative rap and then asked if he could give the question mentally. Again, the reply was in the affirmative. The question he mentally put to his wife’s sister (without speaking) had to do with the subject they once discussed in a letter. The reply came: C-H-E-S-S, which De Morgan confirmed as the proper subject. De Morgan then heard from his deceased father and after some conversation asked his father to give the first letters of an epithets applied to him (his father) by a periodical he was thinking of, one published in 1817. (It would have taken too much time for the communicator to give the complete epithets). The reply came, C-D-T-F-O-C, which De Morgan confirmed as correct, commenting that he was satisfied that somebody, or some spirit, was reading his thoughts. “This and the like went on for nearly three hours, during a great part of which Mrs. Hayden was busy reading the ‘Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ which she had never seen before, and I assure you she set to it, with just as much avidity as you may suppose an American lady would who saw it for the first time, while we were amusing ourselves with the raps in our own way. All this I declare to be literally true. Since that time, I have seen it my house frequently, various persons presenting themselves. The answers are given mostly by the table, on which a hand or two is gently placed, tilting up at the letters….Make what you can of it if you are a philosopher.” (While De Morgan does not say exactly what the letters stood for, his words suggest that it was something like, “Colonel De Morgan, the fussy old codger.” ) At a later meeting with Hayden, Mrs. De Morgan had the letters D, E, A, R, E, S, T come through the table and assumed that her name would follow, i.e., “Dearest Sophia,” but the complete message, which was from a long-deceased friend, read, “Dear Esther is with me, and we long to clasp you in our arms in this bright world of glory.” (Nearly all the messages came through without spaces between words.) “ Mrs. De Morgan noted that the name of the communicator and Esther were both known to her. De Morgan continued to sit on the fence concerning the spirit hypothesis, but, also in the preface of the 1863 book, he stated: “I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake, But when it comes to what is the cause of these phenomena, I find I cannot adopt any explanation which has yet been suggested. If I were bound to choose among things which I can conceive, I should say that there is some sort of action or some combination of will, intellect, and physical power, which is not that of any of the human beings present.” He added that “the spiritual hypothesis is sufficient, but ponderously difficult.” The fact that he did not put his name to the preface seems clearly to have suggested that severe sanctions from the academic world – both from the religious and the scientific sides – would have been imposed. Later, in 1866, he wrote, “I have for thirty years, and in my classroom, acted on the principle that positive theism may be made the basis of psychological explanation without violation of any law of the College.” Wikipedia needs to rethink its branding of De Morgan as an “atheist.” Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife, and Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. His latest book, No One Really Dies: 25 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife is published by White Crow books.

They are excellent. I too have so many of these image types along with ones that quite different in wispiness etc. We are pleased you are sharing your knowledge rather than not sharing. Have you read the excellent book on orbs, called "The Orb Project" by Klaus Heinemann and Michael Ledwich. One of them was a NASA scientist so it is a rigorous study. I loved that you can ask them to come into your photos or to stay out. We still do not yet have evidence of what they are. There is a lot of speculation but no definitive knowledge. Still that book is a classic on the phenomena.

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Background noise Any noise or nil noise Mindset of experimenter eg positive, negative, frustrated, prayerful at the beginning as in acknowledging those in the world who are mostly unseen Experimenter expectation if any- Place to note changes in the experiment atm : eg in one of my experiments I got an intuitive thought to use the camera in the phone. temperature and noticed changes Experimenter attention : if our mind wanders at what time, there maybe a change in the recording Have others listened: What do they think, are others input sought and recorded. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353304979_Differences_and_Commonalities_Among_Various_Types_of_Perceived_OBEs Select the link to read the article. As I understand it this is an ongoing research project. Phase 1 of the NDE OBE Research Project began on April 13, 2020 and ended on October 15, 2020. Its objective was to (1) identify and define differing types of perceived out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and (2) discover the differences and commonalities among them, focusing on any possible catalysts, the event itself, and the process from beginning to end. This retrospective study was exploratory in nature...

DID EDGAR CAYCE HAVE A NDE? One of the well-documented effects of near-death experiences is an increase in psychic and mediumistic experiences (see the pdf article by Cherie Sutherland Ph.D.). Researcher Neil Helm has speculated that Edgar Cayce, perhaps the best-known psychic of the 20th century, may have had an NDE. It seems that Edgar Cayce drowned at around the age of five and was pronounced dead by a physician. Helm suspects that he experienced being out-of-body and on the Other Side before reviving. Read more. From the Friday report Sept 9 2022

"We emphasise two points that many who know the truth of Survival [of physical death] still find hard to grasp. One is that things in any spirit plane are just as real, just as solid to those in that plane as similar things are to people on earth. The other is that in the higher spirit realms there is unimaginable beauty - far surpassing beauty of anything on earth." (Spiritual Light Chapter 12 on Spirit Life p. 602) This week's Friday Afterlife Report is now online at https://www.victorzammit.com/September9th2022

Thank you Christine. It amazes me that in 23 years Wendy and Victor have not missed a week. It truly is massive contribution to our spiritual knowledge and I love to promote their hard work.

also available as an eBook Poltergeists was first published in 1979 and rapidly established itself as a leading work on the topic. It has been frequently referred to as groundbreaking and a classic of the genre. Illustrative cases from all over the world are presented, dating from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. Included are destructive cases, fantastical cases, poltergeist assaults, phenomena that are allegedly brought about by a witch or a demon, and others which appear to be the handiwork of a deceased human being. Most cases are sourced from contemporary notes or diaries, often little known or unknown but nevertheless fascinating, with many translated from non-English language sources. The book includes a computer analysis of the leading characteristics of hundreds of cases of poltergeists and hauntings, and offers tentative conclusions as to the natural ‘clusters’ into which the cases fall. Poltergeists is essential reading for anyone who is interested in parapsychology and the paranormal. About the author Alan Gauld spent several years as a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge before moving to the Department of Psychology at the University of Nottingham, where he became Reader in Psychology. He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research Council for more than 50 years, and is a past president and a present vice-president of that Society. Tony Cornell was a member of the Society for Psychical Research Council. He authored various articles on psychical research matters, and was a frequent contributor to television and radio programmes dealing with the paranormal. Publisher: White Crow Books Published March 2018 428 pages Size: 210 X 140 ISBN 978-1-78677-039-4

also available as an eBook Do the spirits of the dead influence the living? Could some cases of mental illness be caused by spirit obsession or so-called possession? For years, psychiatrists and parapsychologists have grappled with the bizarre hallucinations and delusions of the mentally disturbed and some have wondered if there might lurk some level of paranormal perception—A reality that goes far beyond the five senses. The possibility first came to light early in the twentieth century, when Frederic Thompson a Massachusetts jeweller, claimed he was possessed by the recently deceased spirit of R. Swain Gifford, a celebrated landscape painter. One day Thompson suddenly began painting oils and drawing sketches in the style of Gifford, even though he claimed he had no formal training. Thompson’s paintings and sketches matched unfinished and never before exhibited work left by Gifford when he died, while others represented Gifford’s remote island home. Professor James Hyslop, a psychologist at Columbia who had recently resigned his faculty position to run the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) took on the case and spent years establishing that possession might be the root cause in some cases of both madness and multiple personality. Others followed in Hyslop’s footsteps: Dr Titus Bull, a neurologist claimed he cured patients by exorcizing them with the help of a Spiritualist medium; Dr Elwood Worcester, a social pioneer whose attempts to unite religion with psychology led him to confront cases of spirit possession; and Dr Walter Prince, a clergyman-turned-psychologist who cured paranoia by treating patients with exorcism. This is their story. About the author D. Scott Rogo (1950-1990) was an authority on the history of psychical research and authored many books and articles on many aspects of paranormal phenomena. His work has been cited in parapsychology journals including the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Journal of Religion and Psychical Research and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. He was researcher for the Psychical Research Foundation in Durham, North Carolina, and the Division of Parapsychology at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. On August 18, 1990 he was found dead at his home in Northridge, Los Angeles, having been fatally stabbed. His murder remains unsolved. Publisher: White Crow Books Published October 11, 2022 336 pages Size: 5.45 x 8.00 inches ISBN 978-1-78677-198-8

What the Nuns Forgot to Teach about the Spirit World Posted ~29 August 2022 While attending Catholic school during the 1940s, I became familiar with several of the stories about apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as she was referred to by good Catholics, the most notable at that time being those at Lourdes in France, Fatima in Portugal, and Guadalupe in Mexico, (below) A few years later, while in high school, I visited the Guadalupe church and observed the cloak revered by millions of Catholics – one in which an image of Mary is said to have mysteriously materialized from roses carried within the cloak. In spite of the fact that I parted ways with the Catholic Church more than 50 years ago, I suspect that those stories subconsciously triggered my interest in psychic phenomena some decades later. It was one thing to leave the church, quite another to completely erase those psychic stories with varying degrees of credibility from my memory bank at times when I was pondering on existential matters. Until I read Don Porteous’s recently released book, Spiritual Reality and the Afterlife, I had no idea that there were hundreds of reported apparitions of Mary over the centuries, not to mention countless other unexplained religious phenomena not directly related to Mary. I recall reading about and even seeing photos of the apparition that took place in Zeitun, Egypt in 1968 and not too many years ago reading extensively about the Medjugorje apparitions, which began in 1981 and apparently continue to this day. I even wrote an article about the Medjugorje apparitions for a national magazine and reported on them at an earlier blog, which can be found in the archives for October 3, 2016. I also recall reading about tears or blood flowing from statues of the Blessed Virgin in various places, but they were mostly tabloid-type stories with no follow-up reports and seemingly little credibility. The first section of the book explores the empirical evidence for the actual existence of a spiritual part of our human nature, distinct and separate from the physical body and brain, and what Porteous classifies as “Extraordinary Knowing,” “Extraordinary Knowers,” and “Extraordinary Events.” A key part of the evidence relates to people “knowing things that by all known laws of science they shouldn’t know.” He discusses psychic healing, spiritual healing, remote viewing, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, telepathy, ganzfeld tests, xenoglossy, and even spoon bending and psychic ping pong. The second section deals with the voluminous evidence for the actual survival of that spiritual part of us after the death and dissolution of the physical body and brain. It includes near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, deathbed apparitions, mediumship, and instrumental transcommunication. “Is it purely by coincidence that the deepest form of ‘trance mediumship’ – the source of such profound evidence for the continuity of life after ‘death’ – should have emerged in force at precisely that period when militant materialism was most active in the its denial of all things spiritual?” Porteous asks of the mediumship from 100-160 years ago. “The emergence of this particular form of mediumship was relatively brief, and appears to have been largely limited to the period of greatest need. Mediumship today, by and large, is just a pale reflection of such giants as Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Piper.” In discussing the case of “Patience Worth,” said to be the spirit of a seventeenth century English woman who communicated through the mediumship of Pearl Curran, an American housewife who had never traveled more than a few hundred miles from her St. Louis, Missouri home and had no formal schooling beyond the eighth grade, Porteous summarizes a very interesting language study. He notes that since the 1300s, other than the Bible, no English author of note has gone beyond 64 percent usage of Anglo-Saxon in his or her writings. From 1600 to 1878, 28 percent was the average found in English literature over that time period. Yet, in one of the books, Telka, dictated by Patience Worth through Mrs. Curran, the percentage of Anglo-Saxon words approaches 90 percent. And it should be kept in mind that much of what came through Curran was spontaneous and in response to requests or questions. “No matter how one chooses to approach it,” Porteous analyzes it, “it’s difficult to fathom how an absolutely undistinguished American housewife, who had never been outside the American Midwest, had absolutely no literary or historical interests and only an eighth grade education – could generate a linguistic production, a purity of Anglo-Saxon usage, that had not occurred in the English language in over 700 years.” Porteous wonders how anyone can possibly reconcile this with the known laws of science. Much of the second half of Porteous’s book deals with what he calls “The Great Convergence,” the sudden appearance in the mid-1800s of two separate streams of communication – one by spirits through mediums, and one by the Virgin Mary in her many apparitions – both at the same time that materialism swept over the world, as predicted by Mary some 300 years earlier. “The primary thrust of the ‘spiritualistic’ line of communication was the survival message – the demonstration of our continuing existence,” he explains. “The primary thrust of the ‘Marian’ line of communication, was to put our present ‘physical existence,’ as well as our continuing ‘spiritual’ existence, into their larger perspective, with the successful beginnings and further development of our afterlife being very much dependent upon the nature of our approach to our present life.” It is the second “thrust” that makes Porteous’s book more comprehensive and more compelling than any other book I have read dealing with the overall subject of God and immortality. He makes a strong case for the convergence. He further suggests that the spirit world was “intentionally mobilized for this intensive communication effort at this point in time.” (Emphasis his) Paradoxically, the biggest skeptics on the Church phenomena have been the Catholic clergy, while secular scientists have provided much of the best evidence validating some of that phenomena. Porteous notes that a number of medical teams, some of them hostile to any form of organized religion, have failed to discredit the six young Medjugorje visionaries. The studies have involved neurological and psychological testing, including polygraph and hypnosis, and some have taken place during their visions while in a state of ecstasy. One of the most intriguing observations at Medjugorje to me is that of the visionaries ascending a thorn-bush and stone covered hillside (Mt. Podbrdo) in about two minutes (to observe an apparition), whereas even an athletic adult would take about 10 minutes. One of the witnesses was Jozo Ostovic, the regional sprint champion. “I am running as fast as I can, but falling further and further behind, and so are the grown men running with me,” he is quoted. “We are gasping for breath, almost in tears, unable to believe what is happening.” A priest, Father Viktor Kozir, also an athlete, confirmed Ostovic’s report, saying the children seemed to be flying. Porteous states that the same thing was reported at Garabandal in Spain with a series of apparitions of St. Michael and the Virgin Mary between 1961 and 1965. It was said that four young girls, ages 11 and 12, covered ground at three time their normal rate and that they often ran backward on their knees at an incredible speed. One of the intriguing stories related by Porteous but not by the nuns at my Catholic school, at least to my recollection, is ”The Wonderful Crucifix of Limpias.” It involves a wooden cross with a carving of Jesus in his final agony, located in a church in Limpias, (below) a village in northern Spain. In 1919, many people reported seeing the upturned eyes of Jesus and his mouth open and close, and the gaze moving from side to side or at times even staring directly at the viewer. Some reported seeing tears and blood dripping and even perspiration, which was felt as well as seen. The witnesses numbered in the hundreds, including some medical and scientific men. Dr. Armando Penamaria Alvarez described his experience: “His glassy, pain-filled eyes…His lead-coloured lips..the muscles of the neck and breast were contracted and made breathing forced and laboured…then a frightful spasm, as with one who is suffocating and struggling for air, at which the mouth and nose were opened wide.” An outpouring of blood followed, Alvarez continued, after which his head sunk limply to his breast. “Attitudes towards these events were divided,” Porteous observes, “with firmly entrenched camps of both believers and disbelievers. The sceptics quite naturally attributed the entire affair to anything from fraudulently implanted mechanical devices to optical effects caused by an electric light bulb, to the usual litany of delusions, hallucinations or mass hysteria.” He adds that not everyone saw what others saw and that those who came to the church with the specific intent of the seeing the phenomenon, saw nothing at all. Porteous further notes that in a book about the events, the Rev. Baron Paul von Kleist provided the personal testimonies of several dozen witnesses, including a number of pure sceptics, some of whom attended with the intention of debunking the events. In the final chapters (Part 4) of his book, Porteous categorizes and summarizes the “teachings” of 145 different spirits, including Mary, quoting their actual words as coming through mediums or as passed on by the visionaries from Mary, noting their many similarities and occasional differences. Summarizing the main message, Survival, Porteous states: “In combatting the negative forces rampant in our world at this time, the spirits’ primary weapon is a very special piece of information: Our bodies may die – but life goes on.” But I liked Porteous’s comment on the importance of humor as much as those of the spirits: “The impression prevalent in some quarters (mainly churchly) of a heavenly afterworld marked by an unending state of pious solemnity, is enthusiastically laid to rest…” Where have you gone, Sister Anastasia Marie? I hope you know all this by now. Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife, and Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. His latest book, No One Really Dies: 25 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife is published by White Crow books.

Worlds Within Worlds 01- Our Connection to the Source Posted on 2019 February 9 by Mark Macy Of all the vast knowledge gathered by humanity across the millennia, I believe the information in this short article is the most fundamental and most important… and it has remained forever unchanged… maybe just said in different words. It’s stated below in a few different ways, which may sound repetitive, but each version has different nuances so that (hopefully) there are few unanswered questions. – MM Basic premise. There’s a simple, elegant way to enjoy lasting peace and happiness during a lifetime on this turbulent Earth… and there’s both a simple and a comprehensive explanation of how and why it works. First the simple explanation. Simply put… The two most important things in the entire universe are you and the source. That sounds like a massive ego problem, but it’s really the opposite. You refers to your complete self… the integrated, multilevel, real self. Your body, spirit (mind), and soul comprise the complete you. (The outer “you,” the physical body and brain with its ego, is insignificant in the universe, but at the innermost level you’re one with the omnipotent source, as the article explains.) The entire universe is an infinitely vast omniverse, which contains many physical and spiritual universes, all flourishing with life. The source is what religions call God or Allah or Brahman. It’s at the center of everything, and it creates and sustains the omniverse. This simplified diagram portrays physical humans on physical Earth, each with its respective soul… which is a piece of the source. Even though your carnal body has weaknesses and limitations, the real-you is just as important and brilliant and eternal as the brightest archangel. By fostering your connection to the source, the carnal-you can start to find unlimited power, peace, happiness, and understanding. For us humans, that oneness is a state of mind and a way of living and thinking which involves a big transformation… but in a moment we’ll look at a simple, effective technique that can help a bit in that transformation. Comprehensive explanation… At the center of everything is the source that creates and sustains it all. There are many material and spiritual universes, and there are countless entities inhabiting them… and at the center of every universe and at the center of every entity is a piece of the source… an eternal spark. Getting familiar with that inner spark through the outer mind brings an entity peace and oneness with all. This simplified diagram shows physical humans on physical Earth, their astral bodies on an astral earth, their ethereal bodies associated with an ethereal earth… all leading to the source (which is also the soul of each entity). In other words, 1) there is a source (sometimes called God, Allah, Brahman… ) that creates and sustains everything, 2) everything has a spark of the source within it and in that way is connected to everything else, and 3) greater peace and oneness await anyone or anything that consciously acknowledges and fosters that connection between its outer self and its innermost self… the soul. Like the story of the head monk at a Buddhist monastery who retired to open a vegie hot dog stand / enlightenment center… and all of his students lined up every day to ask for the same thing, “Make me one with everything”… … this simple technique can help to connect the conscious mind with the soul, so that we may achieve oneness with everything. For centuries mystics in India have called the heart “the seat of the soul.” So if we had the vision or the technology to look inside ourselves to see our spirit and our soul, we’d probably find the soul shining brightly in the center of our chest. Connecting to the source: a simple technique That’s a misleading subtitle. The fact is, we’re already connected to the source. To exist is to be connected. However, our dense, carnal brain and conscious mind have forgotten that connection because of the overwhelming distractions of the material world that flood our five senses. They’ve overpowered our finer senses that are associated with the connection. Normally it’s a huge job, involving years of devoted meditative practice, to transcend the noisy distractions and illusions of the material world and to begin fostering the oneness. On the other hand, heart meditation done frequently as a simple routine can make the job easier (again, because the heart is the seat of the soul). This technique (below) is a rather easy way to refine and to strengthen that connection by opening communication channels between our conscious mind and our soul. It’s a simple mantra that I introduced in another recent article and describe briefly below. The mantra: “Focus from the heart, gratitude for the lifetime, God’s will be done.” You simply relax, recite the mantra slowly in your mind, and synchronize it with your breathing, as I show in this short video: With the first few words, you move your awareness from the head to the heart. That’s the most important part of the exercise… moving your awareness so that it feels like you’re thinking from the chest, not the head. I’ve gotten in the habit of doing this several times a day. I can do it while lying down or sitting up, while driving, and even when enjoying a game of craps two or three times a year… (you don’t have to be a monk to do this. https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f642.svg ) Whether it’s to help me get back to sleep, or to relax in moments of stress, or to stay anchored in times of drama, or simply to get closer to the source, it works very well for me. It’s polished away most of my fear, anger, and other troubled emotions. I think it makes me a better person (if not a better craps player; I think while I’m rolling the dice, my spirit helpers and supporters are probably rolling their eyes and wondering, Are we done yet?) [I mention this somewhat embarrassing pastime of mine mostly to illustrate that we all have dramas in our lives that we get caught up in, and we can overcome those dramas by fostering our connection with (by turning our lives over to) the higher power at the center of our being.] Anyway, I hope it works for you. For a deeper understanding of the vast spirit realms, this might be a good place to start.

Worlds Within Worlds Within Worlds (00 – Intro) Posted on 2019 January 25 by Mark Macy Life can be complicated, tangled, and frustrating… until you embrace its essence. Then there’s a simple elegance to it. This series of articles digs into life and tries to sort it all out and to put it into perspective. By “sort it all out” I mean politics, economics, society, science, history, spirituality, afterlife, parallel universes, the omniverse, angels, ghosts, demons, God… well, everything. Or at least a big chunk of the “everything.” Or, more likely, a basic outline of a big chunk of everything, with the hopes of putting it into some kind of order that makes good sense. So with the next article I’ll start with the simple and elegant before digging into the tangled totality. Plan of Attack Here’s a basic strategy of the project: Complicated and tangled. Up until around 1990, I saw the living universe as a mind-boggling array of nested chains that overlap and crosscut and coexist with each other. Our own human chain, for example, might look something like this: The vast material universe, containing our Milky Way galaxy, containing our solar system, containing Earth… containing the global ecosystem, containing humanity, containing nations, containing states and provinces, containing cities and farms and communities… containing individual human beings, containing organs and tissues, containing cells and molecules, containing organelles and atoms… … and downward, inward (theoretically) forever. That’s what I tried to capture in the first book I started writing nearly a half-century ago… how we and our political and economic systems, our sciences, and other worldly institutions all fit into that nested chain. Simple and elegant. Then, once I got involved in afterlife research around 1990, I began to see a bigger picture… and that entire nested chain of physical life became just a tiny, tiny part of the big picture, which was… A vast omniverse consisting of countless physical and spiritual universes, all superimposed over each other in the same space and time (or maybe “beyond time and space” is more accurate)… all created and sustained by a central source… each universe remaining distinct by its vibration. That’s the simple elegance I mentioned in the opening: At the center of the vast omniverse is the source, which creates and sustains all of the many entities and worlds and universes throughout the omniverse. Everything in the omniverse has, at the center of its being, a direct connection to the source. Through that connection we can all find peace and understanding and oneness. Beyond that basic connection to the source, things start to get complicated, as each entity, world, and universe also has its own set of laws, compulsions, and realities that can seem hopelessly complex to their inhabitants. But all of these fragmented realities that spin off the source are illusory… imperfect. The only truth is in the source and in our own, personal connection to the source. Simply acknowledging our oneness with the source is the first step toward an elegant understanding and acceptance of life with all of its seeming complexities. Fostering that oneness, then, lets us relax into a peaceful existence, amid any chaos and confusion and suffering that may be going on around us. Now, to tie all of that stuff together…. That’s what I’ll try to do in this series of articles. It’s a daunting, nearly impossible task (that’s the downside) that might keep my mind active and clear for the rest of my life (and that’s the upside). Previews Just a few of examples of how I plan to sculpt articles for the series: Regulation. Discuss a few basic principles of regulation that could apply equally well to human relationships, social systems, body cells, jungles, spirit communities, and spiritual hierarchies. Such principles (if they exist) might help to quell the angry debate that always goes on about human rights, women’s rights, employees’ rights, state and provincial rights, nations’ autonomies, religious freedoms, multinational responsibilities, and planetary concerns (that is, the rights of brutally balanced ecosystems and of systematically spreading social systems to be protected from each other). That way, we might find certain parallels that work well for group leadership, national governance, corporate management, school and hospital administration, environmental policy, job supervision, parenting, self-discipline… and other such human affairs that are all really many names for the same thing: regulation. (Maybe a tighter focus on and elaboration of some of the ideas found here… ) Economics. Boil down the economic principles of the Vitality Ratio into a short article… and broaden it to take into account the vast worlds of spirit. Central source in the omniverse. Put our human lives on Earth into perspective of the bigger picture of all life throughout the countless physical and spiritual universes that are all connected to a central source that religions call God, Allah, Brahman…. (This is where the ‘simple elegance’ really ties it altogether, and it will be the first article after this introduction, probably based on some of the ideas found here…) . The plan is to post the articles on both websites.. keeping the original of each article, unchanged, on the noblesavageworld website, and then polishing and fine-tuning each article on the macyafterlife website in the coming years. That way, as the series evolves we’ll have an original version and a polished version. Next up: Our connection to the source

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