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JURGEN ZIEWE GIVES US AN UPDATE ON HIS WORK AND EXPERIENCES THIS YEAR "What did I do during the the 2021? This was the first question which is opening to a new series, of questions and answers in upcoming videos about Life and beyond. It is starting with the work I have undertaken during the last twelve months and the spiritual experiences and people which inspired".

Saturday, January 8 "Know that there is within self all healing that may be accomplished for the body."  Edgar Cayce reading 4021-1

(Note: Our house burned down in the “Marshall fire” last week (12/30/2021), along with the rest of the neighborhood. Until things get settled, new articles might be delayed. Meanwhile, here’s what’s been happening with Regina and me during the past week….) This is our neighborhood last year (below). Our house is tucked away in the trees at the start and end of the video clip (courtesy of googlemaps): Here (below) is our homesite after the fire (courtesy of our neighbor, who managed to get on-site the following morning, despite the lockdown, and snap a few pictures): https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/13b-ourhouseafterfire-newyearsday.jpg?w=480 And here’s how it all happened…. In the past couple of months we’ve had two unprecedented, hurricane-force winds sweep down from the Rockies, through Boulder, and across dry fields and grasslands… kicking up thick dust clouds that sandblasted our home 10 miles to the east. Being on a hilltop, our house was buffeted relentlessly in the 100-mph gusts. The second windstorm, last week, brought an added surprise. A small fire got out of control in the countryside south of Boulder, turning it into a raging inferno that swept across the dry fields and grasslands and destroyed rural homes as it moved toward our town (Louisville) and our neighboring town. (Superior). The thick squall of dust, smoke and ash indicated that something apocalyptic was heading our way. As our house filled up with smoke, my first thought was to sit it out in the basement, where the smoke hadn’t reached (I didn’t know the magnitude of the fire at the time). Regina insisted we grab our personal papers and files (which we’d gathered together and put into a plastic tub in the basement just a few months earlier), throw them in the car along with an overnight bag, and head out. It didn’t take much to convince me. By then, emergency vehicles with sirens were moving through the neighborhood with loudspeakers demanding we all leave immediately. I ran out, flagged down a police car, and was told to join the queue of cars heading out of town. A big fire was imminent. https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/13c-fireseenfromavistahospital.png?w=1002 View of the fire as it reached Louisville and Superior. (courtesy of Avista Hospital) When we moved into that house many years ago, it seemed like paradise. Regina had her desk upstairs facing the Rockies to the west and overlooking Harper Lake across the street to the north. We took frequent walks around the lake and through the rich, grassy open space to the west. It was always in the back of my mind that our hilltop refuge would be safe from flooding, but we’d be vulnerable to heavy winds that could do real damage to the neighborhood. (I’ve always ruminated on best-case and worst-case scenarios to keep things in perspective.) But the fire was a complete surprise! Anyway, we drove straight east through clogged streets for a few miles (it took an hour and a half) and checked into a Hampton Inn, certain that we’d return home in the morning. But as we watched the Channel 9 news on TV that night, it became more and more apparent that our house might not be there in the morning. It was at the northern fringe of the fire. (In the 9News report below, our house shows up at 4:38 in the video, so far still standing, and we had our fingers crossed.) Well, long story short, our entire neighborhood burned down. https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/13d-bouldercountymap.png?w=1024 This map shows the Boulder County area hit by the fire, where it originated, and our home (red star). (courtesy of googlemaps) https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/13e-bouldercountyfiresatellitesatelliteimage-marshallfireswath.png Regina and I are thankful for our spiritual understanding that’s been growing in recent decades—the idea that the only reality is in the source at the center of everything (including you and us and everyone and everything else) where nothing is ever disturbed, while the Earth and all of its structures, rough dynamics, and dramas are just fleeting and illusory. That’s something we consider to be a basic truth, but it certainly hit home for us that day. Our “illusion” disappeared, literally, overnight. For the first day or two I looked at our situation philosophically, even with humor— In recent years I’d been fretting more and more about the task of downsizing and decluttering. (When joking cousin Jim heard about the fire, he said with a chuckle, “There are easier ways to downsize, you know.” I laughed and replied, “I know, but it seems like the more we meditate, the more we seem to shape reality with our thoughts,” and we laughed some more.) Friend Clyde asked what he and his partner Janice could do to help in this difficult time, and I said, “You probably shouldn’t invite us over; we might never leave.” We laughed. As days passed, reality slowly set in. Or, more accurately, we had to move reality to the back burner in order to deal with the illusion. Where we’re going to live. (with friends for a week or two, then a rented, furnished apartment) Insurance—great gift, small curse. (We’re fully insured, fortunately, but insurers need to know structural details and a complete list of everything that’s not part of the house, its value, and when we got it… “If you can imagine turning the house upside down and shaking it, everything that drops or rattles needs to be inventoried”) How long to rebuild the neighborhood. (considering the scope of the damage—a thousand homes destroyed—a couple of years, at least) Temporary address changes to be shared with dozens of friends and businesses as we move around… Closing accounts for newspaper, waste disposal, lawn guys, tree guys, landline phone service (it took a full day of phone calls and emails to finally close our Centurylink account for our landline; lots of companies seem desperate to hold onto customers during the technology revolution)… Getting food, clothes, Internet… toothpaste, soap, razors, and other toiletries… kitchen stuff, bedroom stuff… Replacing jewelry, tools, extension cords, printer, TV…. And the irreplaceable stuff—family photos, memorabilia, my 40 years of afterlife research that includes hundreds of spirit face photos and cassette tapes of spirit voices coming through phone and radio… all lost. (Fortunately most of my research stuff is in on my websites, so copies can be salvaged, while family history now consists mostly of memories.) As I write this, it all seems overwhelming, but as long as we keep anchored in the reality of the situation—that the inner light can never be disturbed—Regina and I know that we’ll get through all of this external drama. Why? Because, like everyone else, that’s our lifetime mission: Get through Earth’s drama, learn from it, and help others through it. . Anyway, rest assured that Regina and I are fine. Our worldly stuff is gone, but in the bigger picture, all of that stuff is inconsequential. Even our lives here on Earth are fleeting. It’s our place in the grand, eternal scheme of the omniverse that’s all-important, not our place at 1021 Willow. I took some extra time to write this article because I’ll probably be using some of the information in the next article on my macyafterlife website… about “Apocalypse: Revelation”. Writing about our mini apocalypse gave me the chance (and incentive) to start writing the bigger piece. https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f609.svg ###

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They say English is the hardest to learn, but my old brain finds any of it difficult.

Life After Life Blog Digest January 2022 The Resurrected – Returning from Death https://lifeafterlife.com/blog/the-resurrected-returning-from-death/ By Dr. PMH Atwater The near-death experience is now the number one field of choice for scientists worldwide who study consciousness itself: what it is, where does it reside, what produces it, does it exist before birth and after death? We’ve come a long way since the early days of the “Moody Miracle” in the mid-seventies, and all that sensationalism about “tunnels” and “lights at the end of tunnels,” and people who “float around ceilings” and “fly through the air leaving their body far behind” and “greet the dead as if they were alive.” Today, such things as out-of-body experiences, apparitions, visitors at the deathbed, greeters in death, 360 degrees of unobstructed vision and unobstructed movement, the expansion of faculties normal to us, the presence and the reality of other worlds and other ways of living. . . all of this. . . and much more – is considered normal! The Early Years https://lifeafterlife.com/blog/ndes-the-early-years/ By Dr. Kenneth Ring I figure that before I kick the bucket, I should take the time to set down something of my personal story of how I became one of the early pioneers to study NDEs and, not long after, to co-found IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies. After all, I am one of the few who was there at the beginning and would like to take you back to those exciting days of high adventure at the outset of my life in NDEland. So, gather round, friends, sit a spell and I will tell you the tale of how it came to pass that I got involved with NDEs and how IANDS was born. In the summer of 1976, I was mired in the waning and turbulent days of a disastrous marriage, which would soon implode in violence and mayhem, causing me untold anguish as I reeled from the centrifugal winds that blew my marriage and my life to bits. But, fortunately, that’s not the personal history that’s relevant here, though for drama and trauma, it certainly made that year a pivotal one in my life. But a few months earlier, something else happened that would prove to be even more monumental for me, a life-changing event from which I would never recover. I remember the day it happened. It’s still vivid in my mind. I was sitting outside my house at the time, a few miles down the road from the University of Connecticut. It was summer and the weather was sunny and pleasant. I was reading a book. Hardly anyone had heard of it. Its author was a psychiatrist whose name was unfamiliar to me: Raymond A. Moody, Jr. The book, of course, as you now will have realized, was Life After Life. The-early-years-continued https://lifeafterlife.com/blog/ndes-the-early-years-continued/ By Dr. Kenneth Ring Meanwhile, I was working furiously to complete my book, Life at Death. I was lucky enough to find an agent for it and before I knew it, I learned that there was actually a bidding war going on for my book. I was amazed because I was at the time a completely unknown author – just a professor of no particular distinction and no professional reputation at all. Nevertheless, my book seemed to be a hot commodity and I finally accepted an offer from a then well know publisher. My editor soon became the head of the publishing firm, and I was thrilled to have her to advise me. I still remember how she courted me. She took me to “her table” at the fabled Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan. I remember only one thing that happened at the outset of our lunch that day. She reached across the table, and solemnly placing her hand on mine, told me, “This is just the beginning, Ken.” Wow, who me? But in a way, she was right. She quickly set up an extensive book tour for me, and in those days there were many television shows where authors like me would be invited to hawk their books. Before long, I was a guest on all the popular network shows of that era – Good Morning America, The Today Show, Donahue, Larry King, and so many more – dozens, probably, and radio shows, too. Questions On The Afterlife https://lifeafterlife.com/blog/questions-on-the-afterlife/ By Alicia Young Are we still married on the Other Side? My husband’s ex is a real piece of work. —MJ, Houston. I appreciate many organized religions have strong views on marriage, and if these views resonate for you, I respect that. What I was saw were two souls coming together, so that their partnership could be a vehicle for different lessons to play out. Let me add, what I observed suggested to me that many marriages are designed to be finite—to reach an impasse. The fact it would end is agreed in advance. The manner in which it would end (be it death, infidelity, or a vaguer sense of growing apart) is also designed to offer each party more chances for spiritual growth. Virtually no-one is left unchanged by a relationship breakdown, and that not only informs the people we are, but the partner we might become to someone else one day. Imagine a classic love triangle for a moment. Now, picture three actors gathered for a table-read of a script. One might elect to work on jealousy and possessiveness, another on self-worth. The third party who arrives might agree to play the role of a catalyst who doesn’t stay, but sparks a revelation or ushers in a new dynamic. Other times, this third person builds a life with one of the partners, that goes on to flourish and become permanent. Available Now In his new book, Dr. Raymond Moody looks at God and how his personal understanding of the Creator has changed over the course of his life and research into near-death experiences. Dr. Moody organizes his insights about God into 12 simple but profound ideas and walks us through them using stories and examples from his own life and from accounts of encounters with God in the hereafter. He looks at our society's beliefs about God, how religion can both help and hinder our relationships with the Divine, and how we can bring Source into our lives with a new understanding that transcends all limits. God Is Bigger Than the Bible is available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback. For more information click HERE. Also available is a treat from Kenneth Ring, PhD who is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut, the author of five books on near-death experiences (NDEs), including his bestselling Lessons from the Light, and cofounder and first president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). In these lively and often witty essays, Dr. Ring, best known for his pioneering work on near-death experiences, reveals his talents as a Kenny-come-lately humorist and would-be man of letters. Now in his mid-80s, Ring also touches on and goes into depth on serious topics, such as dealing with the COVID pandemic, the right-to-die movement, and the epidemic of loneliness. He also describes how he became interested in near-death experiences, and his explorations with psychedelic drugs. Reflections in a Glass Eye is available on Amazon in paperback. For more information click HERE. ©2022 Life After Life Institute | Asheville, North Carolina 28803

"There is plenty of advancement in any work – whether you are shining shoes or administering law, or whatever!"  ECRL 1688-6

"Each incarnation of an individual into a physical experience is an opportunity for the soul to better fit its true self, through the application of an ideal. A soul’s journey in the physical is to be lived Creatively. The Creative influence or force is how all move and have their consciousness, their being."  ECRL 1759-1

"Look not to the past but lift up your eyes to the hills of hope. Know that the place, the position, the environment in which you find yourself now is the starting point for the greater understanding."  ECRL 1695-1

I wished I spoke French is it Alain?

Life & Death Before Electricity – More Misery than Merriment Posted on 20 December 2021, 10:03 During a recent power outage, the result of stormy weather and high winds, I wondered what it would be like to live permanently without electricity. I wondered how it was for people a hundred or more years ago, living in darkened homes, even during the day – no artificial lighting, no radios, no televisions, no computers, no phones, no artificial heat or cooling devices, no refrigerators, no bidets, just the very basics. My thoughts wandered to Mary Lincoln, (below) the widow of our sixteenth president, who, having lost her husband to an assassin’s bullet and three sons to childhood maladies, resided in a Chicago hotel room around 1870. I pictured a dreary hotel room with basic furnishings and lighted only by whatever sun rays penetrated the window, then only a candle after sundown. I imagined her sitting at the window on a winter day in a very melancholy state, watching a horse and buggy go by every now and then wondering about the purpose of it all, whether there was any end to the monotony. Mary With no family to care for and no domestic duties common at the time, Mary Lincoln likely had little with which to occupy herself beyond browsing in nearby shops. Being gregarious, she probably got to know some of the merchants fairly well and felt obligated to occasionally make purchases, even if she had no need for the items. Based on historical reports, I imagined her going to mediums in the hope of communicating with her deceased loved ones, thereby giving her hope that there is some purpose behind all the adversity she had experienced. Going to the nearest saloon and numbing the pain like the men in similar despair was not an option for a proper woman. Apparently, Robert Lincoln, her only surviving son, didn’t see her shopping habits or interest in spirit communication as a way of coping with her grief and boredom, as he had her declared insane by a court of law and committed to a lunatic asylum. Fortunately, one Myra Bradwell, who had a law degree but was not allowed to practice law because of her gender, and her husband, Judge James B. Bradwell, both spiritualists, appealed the lower-court decision on her behalf and Mary was released from the asylum after just three months and three weeks of incarceration. Mary Lincoln’s Chicago residency came at a time when Darwinism was impeaching religion. “Never, perhaps, did man’s spiritual satisfaction bear a smaller proportion to his needs,” Frederic W. H. Myers, one of the pioneers of psychical research, said of that period. “The old-world sustenance, however earnestly administered, [was] too unsubstantial for the modern cravings. And thus through our civilized societies two conflicting currents [ran]. On the one hand, health, intelligence, morality – all such boons as the steady progress of planetary evolution can win for the man – [were] being achieved in increasing measure. On the other hand this very sanity, this very prosperity, [brought out] in stronger relief the underlying Weltschmerz, the decline of any real belief in the dignity, the meaning, the endlessness of life.” Myers added that there were many who were willing to let earthly activities and pleasures dissipate and obscure the “larger hope,” but some, like himself, were upset and searched for a serious remedy. As historian Donald J. Mrozek recorded it, the late nineteenth century was an age that emphasized energy and activity and in which “death became a special horror” especially for those who aimed at establishing power over nature. The liveliness and energy of that period, he stated, “necessitated that its ‘search for order’ would be accompanied by a search for meaning.” My pondering on the era brought to mind movies showing much gaiety, frivolity and mindless happiness during the late 1800s, extending through the first decade of the 1900s. I recalled a movie with scores of smiling, carefree, innocent people all leisurely strolling down Main Street after attending church in their Sunday best – the men cheerfully tipping their hats to each other, the women smiling with delight and hope, giving no heed to their marital bondage, the children hopping and skipping while anxiously awaiting an ice cream treat at the corner fountain, all the while the tails of parked horses wagging and keeping beat with a cheery tune and the rhythmic strides of the contented people. Was that an actual portrayal of the way it was, or was it really a doom and gloom scenario – empty streets, darkened homes, uncontrolled heat and cold, long hours of backbreaking labor, rat infestations, stench from the outhouses, the horse tails swatting swarms of flies, widespread diseases resulting in many premature deaths, teeth extracted with plyers and no anesthetics, poverty, hunger, grief, distress, and, if the new science was to be believed, total extinction, or oblivion, after it was all over? Perhaps the true picture is somewhere in between those two extremes, but my best guess is that it was much more misery than merriment. If there is any truth to messages purportedly coming from the spirit world through seemingly credible mediums and discerning researchers, the spirit world also took note of the misery and at least some of them in that world concluded that they should attempt to provide some relief, some light – a different kind of light than that aiding the eyes – to help those in the material world overcome the despair. Robert Hare, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and a renowned inventor, reported that his investigation of mediums during the mid-1850s resulted in communication stating that there had been “a deliberate effort on the part of the inhabitants of the higher spheres to break through the partition which has interfered with the attainment, by mortals, of a correct idea of their destiny after death.” Hare was informed by his father, in spirit, that a delegation of advanced spirits has been appointed to carry out the mission and that low spirits were allowed to interfere in the undertaking because they were, in effect, closer in vibration to the earth plane and therefore more competent to make mechanical movements and loud rappings. “Thus, it appears that at the outset, the object was to draw attention, and in the next place to induce communication,” Hare explained, adding that the manifestations quickly changed in character and that superior spirits replaced inferior ones as they experimented on their side and learned to manipulate matter. The phenomena went from raps, taps, and table tilting spelling out messages (so many raps, taps, or tilts for each letter of the alphabet) to the levitation of humans, musical instruments playing without human hands touching them, messages written without a human hand holding the pencil. They soon learned how to penetrate the veil in other ways, even to materialize their bodies, to control human hands to write messages from them, to take possession of human bodies to talk with us, to speak directly with us. They were experimenting on their side of the veil and their efforts often failed. When they did succeed, it was too mind-boggling for most people and especially for educated people grounded in science. It was opposed to natural law and so it was ignored or rejected as fraud. They called it humbug. Judge John Edmonds, who began his investigation of mediums in 1851, said he was told at one sitting that “these manifestations are given to mankind to prove their immortality, and teach them to look forward to the change from one sphere to another with pleasure.” Edmonds also said that he was “satisfied that something more was intended than the gratification of an idle curiosity; something more than pandering to a diseased appetite for the marvelous; something more than the promulgation of oracular platitudes; something more than upsetting material objects to the admiration of the wonder-lover; something more than telling the age of the living or the dead.” Edmonds further stated that he had “good reason to believe that there is in the spirit world much opposition to this intercourse with us, and that a combination has been formed to interrupt and, if possible, to overthrow it, and one mode is by visiting circles and individuals, exciting their suspicions of spirits, and bad thoughts as to their good faith and purity of purpose.” He did not explain the reasons for the opposition, but I can think of two possible reasons: 1) those opposed were unadvanced spirits who still clung to religious indoctrination that such communication is demonic; 2) our free-will decisions are tempered by the certainty of a larger life, thereby retarding our spiritual progress, i.e., the greater the adversity, the greater the lessons and the advancement. When Nathaniel Tallmadge, another researcher from the 1850s, asked John C. Calhoun, (below) his good friend in the earth life while also vice-president of the United States, the purpose of the manifestations he had witnessed, Calhoun replied: “My friend, the question is often put to you, ‘What good can come from these manifestations?’ I will answer it. It is to draw mankind together in harmony, and convince skeptics of the immortality of the soul.” John C Tallmadge had put the same question to W. E. Channing, with whom he was communicating through another medium at an earlier date. The response was: “To unite mankind, and to convince skeptical minds of the immortality of the soul.” However, as Stainton Moses, an Anglican priest and medium, was told, very low-level spirits, what are sometimes called “earthbound” spirits, were interfering with the communication of higher spirits and the desired results were not being obtained. The advanced spirits overestimated the ability of those in the material world to discern the messages, to separate the positive from the negative, and thus they began to withdraw. When people today comment that the phenomena observed by Hare, Edmonds, Tallmadge and others were probably all bunk because we don’t have them today, I suggest that it may have been better then, at least more dynamic than now, because people of that time needed it more than we do. They had rougher and tougher lives and much less in the way of luxuries and escape mechanisms than we do. Things were especially traumatic for them when science pulled the carpet out from under their religions. Their church was their only refuge, and there was no other place to turn. With all the comforts and escape mechanisms we now have, the spirit world apparently doesn’t see the need to intervene, and the resistance in the spirit world may be even greater now, as they see how lowly spirits interfered with what the more advanced spirits were trying to accomplish a century and more ago. Moreover, the world is much more skeptical today than it was a century ago. Some medium producing genuine phenomena would be labeled a fraud without any real investigation, and if an investigation were to take place the researchers would be looking for a materialistic explanation. A spiritual explanation will lack “proof” as the alternative is always something that science does not yet understand, i.e., super-psi, living-agent psi, the cosmic reservoir, etc. A spiritual explanation will always elude science. My further guess is that, absent all the “noise” we now have in the world from our electrical gadgets, the people of the nineteenth century were more open to spirit communication. They sat in front of a fire knitting or whittling, or on the front porch looking at the stars, and their minds were more receptive to such communication. Electricity has provided much light, but it is in some respects a “darker” world. Searching for and receiving the right kind of “light” is the challenge. Here’s wishing everyone more “light” for Christmas and in 2022. 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.

The Unobstructed Universe: Resurrecting Betty White Posted on 03 January 2022, 10:45 Over a period of some 20 years, beginning in 1925, popular author Stewart Edward White (1873 - 1946) wrote 10 books dealing with communication from the spirit world. They first came through the mediumship of his wife, Betty, (below) and then, after her death in 1939, from Betty through another medium. The Betty Book, published in 1937, and The Unobstructed Universe, published in 1940, were both top sellers and are today considered classics in the metaphysical field. Betty Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, White graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan in 1895 and in 1903 received his M.A. degree from Columbia University. His first book, The Westerner. was published in 1901, followed closely by The Claim Jumper and The Blazed Trail, the latter a best-seller and considered the best of his 40 or so non-metaphysical books. He (below) moved to California in 1903 and toured the state with his good friend, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, who referred to White as “the kind of young American who is making our new literature.” During World War I, White served in the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of major. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society for his work in mapping German East Africa. Hyslop Stewart Elizabeth “Betty” Calvert Grant was born in Panama in 1880, but raised in Newport, Rhode Island by well-to-do parents. She lived in Bermuda, Florida, and Jamaica, before moving to California, where she married Stewart in Santa Barbara in 1904. The Whites became interested in mediumship in 1919 after Betty discovered her ability to receive messages from purported spirits, referred to by her as the “Invisibles,” by means of automatic writing, trance voice, the direct voice, and clairvoyant sensing. “I had paid such matters very little attention; and had formed no considered opinions on them one way or another,” White wrote of his attitude before 1919, going on to say that he considered himself a skeptic and that spiritualism had meant to him either hysteria or clever conjuring. White emphasized that he and Betty were not interested in the usual communication from deceased relatives and friends, as they had suffered no recent bereavements. Their interest was in exploration, to find out what life was all about and why. They concluded early-on that the objective of the Invisibles was to awaken them to the spiritual forces about us and to recognize the need for a better balance between the spiritual and the material. Betty’s development seems to have been very similar to that of Pearl Curran, the St. Louis, Missouri medium for the entity calling herself “Patience Worth,” which took place between 1913 and 1937. White explained that Betty’s consciousness was not taken from her in the customary deep trance, describing it as more of a disassociated state. However, she was unaware of her surroundings and went “somewhere else,” still retaining her faculties of thought. He further noted that when he made a mistake writing down a word he had misheard, he was instantly corrected, even though Betty was lying below the level of the writing table with her eyes blindfolded. As an example, he wrote “attitude of mind” while taking dictation and was instantly stopped by Betty and informed that the correct wording was “altitude of mind.” “The pencil moved very slowly, and it wrote curiously formed script, without capitals or punctuation, or even spacing, like one long continuous word,” White explained the automatic writing by Betty. Betty assured her husband that she had nothing to do with moving the pencil or forming the script, at least consciously. Moreover, she struggled to understand what was written. Concluding that it was either an outside intelligence or directed by Betty’s subconscious, they continued to experiment. After a time, the words began to flow. Betty blindfolded her eyes and looked away from the paper in an attempt to separate herself from the writing as Stewart sat next to her as an observer. The automatic writing continued for several months before some experimentation resulted in Betty becoming a trance-voice medium with Stewart recording her words in shorthand. At times, she spoke in her own voice, at other times the Invisibles spoke through her and there was a marked change in voice, diction, and style. Occasionally, words would come through the direct-voice, independent of but near Betty. Subconscious Coloring “At present there is often considerable fluency, so that I have trouble keeping up with the transcription,” White recorded. “On other occasions there seems to be difficulty. Sometimes the direct voice speaks, at others Betty herself reports word by word as through taking dictation, and again describes her impressions and experiences in her own way. Sometimes, if difficulty arises, all three methods are tried.” As White understood it, Betty would, through the superconsciousness, be brought in touch with realities which she absorbed directly, and with ideas which came to her in words heard with the “inner ear,” sometimes by mental impression. These things were transferred down to her habitual consciousness and dictated to him. Betty often complained that what came through her was diluted and a “pale shadow of the actuality.” In effect, she had no vocabulary for them. Betty further explained that for nearly three years she struggled for comprehension, passing from automatic writing to what she calls “a curious state of freed or double consciousness in which I absorb experiences directly, somehow, and Stewart records them in words spoken through me, or by me at first hand impressions.” White continued to wonder what part Betty’s subconscious played in the communication. If it was coming from her subconscious, he reasoned, it was completely foreign to her usual consciousness and outside her remembered experiences. “The value of the thing offered must lie in itself, regardless of its source,” he concluded, adding that if it originated in Betty she is more of a wonder that he had supposed. He also considered the theory that she was tapping into some “universal mind.” He could not completely discount that theory, but saw it as nothing more than a far-fetched hypothesis to avoid accepting the spirit hypothesis. So much of it was foreign to both Betty and himself that he wondered how it could be coming from the subconscious of either of them. He finally decided “to accept, as a fact, that we were receiving through Betty, from outside, and apparently discarnate, intelligences, a graded and progressing and logically acceptable instruction on how to get along in life.” He and Betty nicknamed them the Invisibles, primarily because they insisted on remaining anonymous. They had all the characteristics of a “Group Soul,” a number of spirits speaking as one. “The balanced proportion, the balanced ration of life is the first thing to impress on the world,” the Invisibles communicated early in Betty’s mediumship. “Balance is the big thing to emphasize. The world is crippled now because of its withered spiritual faculties.” They explained that they were talking about the balance between the spiritual and the material, pointing out that overbalance on either side always results in trouble. “Welcome and accept all natural human instincts, all the savoring of life, but permeate them with the vitality of the spirit,” the Invisibles continued. “Those who savor even the highest forms of life without this permeation of the spirit will stagnate, sink backward, imprison themselves in matter. With them the spiritual sense becomes atrophied.” The Invisibles discussed perception, elimination, impetus, assimilation, constructive prayer, personal responsibility, the substance of thought, and other subjects related to bringing the spiritual life in balance and harmony with the physical life or, in other words, stimulating the consciousness to partake of the higher consciousness. “The active life means constant inflowing and outflowing,” they stressed. “You must never, never forget to be constantly giving out…Without this giving out there is no circulation…your outgo must equal your intake.” No Dead-Ends Many of the teachings of the Invisibles had to do with showing that causes and effects are not isolated, but smoothly continuous – that there are no dead-ends, not even death itself. When White requested more scientific explanations, the Invisibles told him that they can give reality as they can manage to communicate it to him. They cautioned him about being one of those “over-sane, over-cautious people who have never sensed intangible verities” and suggested that he escape more often from the limitations of his ponderable mind. White noted that there were many distortions in the communication, what he called “interruptions from opposing forces.” Betty learned to discern the “false messages” from those given by the Invisibles. “The false messages had always been delivered with feverish haste and great force in contrast to the calm and deliberation of other communications, especially those from my father,” Betty explained. “This ‘cutting-in’ haste had the virtue of making me able to recognize instantly and discount anything thus received.” White eagerly questioned the Invisibles as to the nature of life on their side, but was informed that explaining the afterlife was not part of their mission. Moreover, they told White that its detail is so unlike anything he knows about or can conceive of that any approximation on their part would convey false images. “If we gave detailed specifications of our life over here, it would be impossible thereafter to concentrate your attention on broad general principles,” they told him, “on the few simple lines of your effort. It is painfully difficult to eliminate and economize your attention. Only by shrouding other things in mystery can we occupy your minds in due proportion to the importance of the things we select.” It was made clear to White early in Betty’s mediumship that the Invisibles could not interfere with the free will of humans, but he still wondered why they don’t reach out to more humans. “It is hard for us to foresee here what will be the results of this more general belief and how much we dare reveal,” was the response. “The teachers are all very cautious, for reaction must be carefully reckoned before knowledge can be given out. There is so much danger in the present situation that it is one of the first things we are cautioned about, when we are allowed to give communications: that is to be very watchful and not go too far, to move slowly and cautiously for the present. We have to note results carefully. It is the most intensive and comprehensive campaign that has ever been arranged over here, they say.” It was also explained to White that there is an ebb and flow to such revelation. “The flood of the spiritual interest will soon rise to its height for the present,” the Invisibles told him shortly after the end of the Great War, “and then gradually subside – at least the fashion for it will – and then we shall see what really came in with the flood. Each tide brings a little more and we have to be content.” They further informed him that they work in rhythm, “allowing the force of each wave of effect to gain the effect of its power, to fall and break, to ebb back in gatherance for a new surge. The pause is fruitful. It allows the scum and windrift and jetsam to be floated away, leaving the sands clean for a new impression.” Their object, the Invisibles said, is not to convince the world of anything except the need for continued conscious spiritual growth. They noted that technical advances, namely radio and the automobile, were already running ahead of what people could assimilate, resulting in instability, and the same would happen if they offered too much spiritual growth to too many. “The conviction of one thing or another – or another, will come naturally and easily and inevitably to each individual when he rises by his own specific gravity to that point. It will come to the world generally only when the common consciousness, by its own specific gravity, has also risen to that point.” The Invisibles stressed the need for Betty to develop what they called “habitual spiritual consciousness.” But they didn’t want Betty to think this meant retirement into a cloistered nunnery. “It means simply that each day, when you finish your practice, you do not close the experience like a book, but carry it around like a treasured possession,” they explained. “Instead of being completely forgotten, it remains in the back of your mind, communicating its influences automatically to your actions and reactions, and ready at any moment, if specifically called upon, to lend a helping hand.” The objective, they said, is getting to know the higher self “and a gradual training of your spiritual muscles to maintain it, once recognized.” Don’t cease the multitude of routine and mundane daily activities, they added, but make the gradual growth and expansion of the eternal self the major business of each day.

Saturday, January 1 "(Q) Will the New Year unfold greater opportunities for my professional advancement and my greater service to others? (A) These are part of your own development and must rise within you by taking advantage of the opportunities which are offered you from day to day. As has so often been indicated, and as you will find in your experience, as we use what we have in hand, the greater opportunities are given."  ECRL 1472-9

"Friendships are only the renewing of former purposes, ideals."  ECRL 2946-2

George Hopkins was a farmer from Sussex in England, who died during harvest time in around 1900. He returns here, to speak to George Woods and Betty Greene and discusses how he attended his own funeral and discovered that he could not be seen by anyone - even the local parson ! George explains how he was met by his beloved wife and brother, who then took him 'home' to the Spirit World... Once a cattle farmer, he talks of his love for animals and shares his views on vegetarianism and human progress away from material things... “I did kill animals for food, but there are so many other forms of food that one can eat” Listen to George talk about his life. https://leslieflint.com/george-hopkins

“And there was my old dog racing about and wagging his tail and jumping up and down. I opened the door and went in, and there was a congregation of about a dozen people I had known. Another brother of mine and a sister, my wife’s people, they were all there, pleased and welcoming me and making a fuss of me. In fact, there was so much noise going on, chattering and talking all at the same time, the dog barking, it was a real homecoming". George Hopkins through Leslie Flint This week's Friday Afterlife Report is now online at www.victorzammit.com/December31st2021

Philosophy 12: Mystics: Why People Suffer Posted on 2021 December 26 by Mark Macy Which statement is closer to the truth? https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q1-clausewitz-1.png?w=181 There’s a lot of pain and suffering in our lives and in our world. We spend our lifetime free of pain and suffering. At first glance, from a lifetime of experience, the answer is obvious to us all: (1) is true and (2) is false. But according to mystics, in the bigger metaphysical picture that extends beyond a lifetime into eternity, (2) is closer to the truth, and (1) is largely an illusion. Mystics see the truth of oneness through spiritual eyes. They see beyond the duality (Earth’s darkness vs. the “inner light”). So let’s try to unravel human suffering to see if we can find “the truth” that all the great mystics talk about… and why, from the big picture, life on Earth is just “an illusion.” Overview https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q2-ckornfield-1.png?w=181 Lots of things on Earth can make us suffer— accidents, addictions, assaults, crimes, disasters, diseases, disorders, hunger, poverty, poisoning, war…. It’s a long list of obvious things that we’re all familiar with. There are also things beyond our material world that can make us suffer, but they’re less obvious, less familiar, more mysterious. During our lifetime, for example, our negative thoughts and feelings can cling to the Earth like static lint, getting caught in a sort of shadow around the planet, before drifting back to Earth into susceptible minds. After we die and get settled in paradise, we might choose to reincarnate into a new lifetime of pain and suffering on Earth because our struggle will somehow get us closer to “the truth.” Others might see us as derelicts and eccentrics. They may feel sad, compassionate, or repulsed by our pathetic presence, but we’ve chosen this difficult journey, before birth, for two or three good reasons that we probably don’t even remember. We might begin to sense an “inner light” that makes us realize that other people’s suffering is more problematic than our own suffering, which now starts to seem inconsequential. We might start behaving like a mystic. There are simple techniques or principles that anyone can use to become a mystic (without all the misery), while gradually shedding the scrappiness, judgment, and insecurities that come bundled up in the human package. Self-reflection is involved, along with the atonement, gratitude, and humility that come naturally through the process. As we adopt one of these simple principles into our daily life, our suffering diminishes and eventually becomes inconsequential, and the suffering of others is more painful to us. https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q5-akita-2.png?w=181 So that’s a roadmap for this trek into human suffering… a basic outline for the article below: Worldly origins of suffering, Other-worldly causes, and Beyond suffering: mysticism. Let’s start the adventure with a quirky analogy. If a fish could fall asleep and have a lucid dream about soaring over forests and towns, its first waking thoughts might be… … Whoa, why is everything so wet?! … Oh yeah, I live in the water. Duh. . If we have a dream about our dear, departed grandparents together in paradise, young and vital, smiling and beckoning us to join them, then wake up groaning in a hospital bed, our first waking thoughts might be… … Whoa, why all this pain? … Oh yeah, I live on Earth. Duh. And I’m in bad shape…. We all suffer to a greater or lesser degree throughout a lifetime. The reasons are complicated, but let’s try to keep them as simple and as brief as possible. From the top: Worldly Origins of Suffering https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q4-campbell-4.png?w=181 Planet Earth causes suffering for everything living on her. The ways we all treat each other (plants, animals, and humans) are sometimes called symbiotic relationships. They involve not just 1) mutualists (who ensure everyone wins) and 2) commensalists (who ensure no one loses), but three other types who struggle in win-lose dramas: 3) competitors, 4) parasites, and 5) predators. I suspect it’s those three win-lose symbiotic relationships—competitor vs competitor, parasite vs host, and predator vs prey—that cause most of the suffering in our world. They cause pain, inspire dark and hostile motivations, and stir up troubled and confused thinking. Those impure thought-forms spread like a disease into all human groups—friendships, families, businesses, and nations… even religions. As a result… Our societies cause suffering—in the form of chronic stress—with their rules and laws, their crime and punishment, their economic disparities, their pressure to conform, and so on. Peace and happiness in society can be elusive while those win-lose relationships fester with animosity, fear, greed, resentment, and other destabilizing emotions. We humans are biologically built for suffering. We have hormones, brains, and DNA that make us feel pleasure and pain. They can make us healthy or sick, happy or sad, passive or aggressive, loving or resentful, confident or afraid. They can make us sensitive or insensitive to the suffering of others. All of those familiar conditions of our world are probably the main causes of suffering in our lives, but there are also some imperceptible troubles that come into our lives from beyond, whether solicited or not. Other-Worldly Causes of Suffering The source emits a life-energy that creates and nourishes everything in the omniverse with vitality, love, truth, and service. As the pure life-energy leaves the source, it begins to vibrate very fast, then slower and slower as it moves out-beyond to create denser realms like our own material universe (one of the fine, white circles at level 1). As the vibrations get slower, all of the universes and worlds become less pure, more illusory. Out here in the fringes of the omniverse, where things are most illusory, the brutality of Earth’s symbiosis refracts some of the life-energy, forming a sort of shadow around the planet, which becomes a repository of all the dark, troubled thoughts and motivations of living things like you and me.This pulled-apart view of the all-that-is shows how everything is spiritually nested. Every entity (like a person or planet) has subtler bodies within it leading toward the source, which rests at the center of everything. Earth’s brutal nature deflects or repels* some of the life energy coming from the source, casting a sort of spiritual shadow around the planet—a repository of all the dark thoughts and motivations spinning off our world. It’s a troubled realm that across the millennia has inspired notions of ghosts, lost souls, demons, and hell. *While writing this article it occurred to me that Earth’s brutality probably doesn’t “deflect or repel” life-energy, but more likely REFRACTs it like a dark prism to create the shadow. (More about that in a moment.) This pulled-apart view of the all-that-is shows how everything is spiritually nested. Every entity (like a person or planet) has subtler bodies within it leading toward the source, which rests at the center of everything. Earth’s brutal nature deflects or repels* some of the life energy coming from the source, casting a sort of spiritual shadow around the planet—a repository of all the dark thoughts and motivations spinning off our world. It’s a troubled realm that across the millennia has inspired notions of ghosts, lost souls, demons, and hell. *While writing this article it occurred to me that Earth’s brutality probably doesn’t “deflect or repel” life-energy, but more likely REFRACTs it like a dark prism to create the shadow. (More about that in a moment.) After we die, most of us awaken in a paradise world at level 3, where human relationships have been filtered and cleansed. There are no competitors, predators, or harmful parasites at level 3. Everyone migrates into spiritual communities of like-minded people, and everyone is compelled to serve because mutualism and commensalism are the way of life. Then we’re generally free of suffering (at least physical pain is gone) until we choose to return to Earth for another lifetime, as most of us do… many times. That simple overview of Earth’s place in the all-that-is helps to explain how other-worldly conditions can cause us to suffer. Here’s a closer look at 1) Earth’s shadow and 2) the afterlife choices we might make to experience a lifetime of suffering…. Earth’s shadow I think of Earth’s shadow as a sort of dark mirror image of the omniverse. It’s formed as life-energy is refracted through the brutal symbiotic relationships of our planet. Love becomes hate, awe becomes fear, vitality becomes weariness, truth becomes falsehood, understanding becomes confusion, and so on. (read more… ) Earth’s shadow is inhabited by what we could call dark thoughtforms, or dense spiritual energies, or simply troubled and confused spirits. Unsettling thoughts spin off the Earth to form the shadow, then feed back to Earth in a cyclical way. Although we can’t perceive the shadow through our five senses, it’s around us all the time, leaking troubled thoughts into our world, into our societies, and into our minds. Turbulent influences from the shadow can stir up anything from assaults and wars to desolation and mental disorders like schizophrenia. In 1992 my colleague Maggy Fischbach of Luxembourg received a phone call from her spirit friend Swejen Salter (at level 3 in the diagram), who shed some light on Earth’s shadow. (read more about that spirit phone call… ) Swejen described a spiritual shadow around our world that plays a strange part in our lives. Here are some of the highlights of her explanation (the notes in parentheses are conjectures based on my research): It’s not a parallel world, not a spirit world, but just a sort of shadow of Earth that’s superimposed over our world like a close copy. It’s inhabited by people like us who’ve died and gotten settled in there (apparently at level -1 or -2 in the above “shadow” diagram), instead of ascending to paradise (at level 3). The shadow people are a little smarter than we are in some ways, a little dumber in other ways. They create the “crop circles” in our world that were making the headlines late last century (showing some technological acumen). (They may get help from “lesser extraterrestrials” like the so-called “greys” and “reptilians.”) They can disrupt an ITC communication bridge to make confusing, unwanted contacts, mimicking the voices of our spirit friends, and stirring up our fears and confusion (suggesting low moral behavior). Afterlife researchers need to be aware of them, since they can influence our work. As long as we stay anchored to the source and to our finer spiritual friends closer to the source (for example, through meditation, prayer, and inner work), the shadow entities can’t really do us any harm. crop circles Swejen only talks about the shadow world close to the Earth (probably level -1 or -2 in the shadow diagram above). That shadow world is a bit dim compared to our world, but not really dark. There are also (apparently) some very dark worlds in Earth’s shadow, which we’ve explored elsewhere on this site. (read more about the darkest reaches of ‘the shadow’…) So, Earth’s shadow is a perennial cause of suffering for us, but we can gradually overcome its effects with various spiritual techniques or principles like the one described at the end of the article. But enough about the shadow! (After all, we know that when we turn on the light, the darkness disappears. Darkness doesn’t really exist; it’s just the absence of light.) Let’s focus on things that are closer to the source but can also bring suffering into our world from beyond. Karma and Soul Purpose After a lifetime on Earth, we usually get settled into bright paradise living at level 3, and one of the first things we do is review our karma, a sort of ship’s log of our recent lifetime. This is what our spirit friends told our INIT group about karma and reincarnation: https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q6-dalai-2.png?w=181 The human soul returns to Earth often enough to learn all human life experiences…. Reincarnation is not always a process of reparation in this life for a past life. If people around you are hard hit by fate, do not always assume that they have to make up for past transgressions. Never judge! You may be wrong and are burdening yourself by your judgment. There are people whose grief and sickness were not imposed on them because of past karma. They used their own free will (at the spiritual level) to select a more difficult road (during a physical lifetime) to reach their goals faster. (read more about karma and reincarnation… ) The “sleeping prophet” Edgar Cayce shed some light on this idea of soul purpose (adapted from Your Soul’s Gift, chapter 10, by Robert Schwartz): In a private session, two wealthy sisters from New York City told Cayce that they were desperate to help their brother. “Our brother lives under a bridge. He drinks too much. He has squandered his share of the family fortune. For years we’ve done everything we can think of to help him turn his life around, all to no avail. What can we do? Our brother is beyond hope.” After going into a trance and accessing the Akashic Record, Cayce informed the two women that their brother was the single most highly evolved soul about whom he had ever obtained information. Out of his great love for you, Cayce explained to the sisters, your brother agreed before you were born to play this role so that you might develop greater compassion. Astonished, the sisters returned home with a newfound and deep respect, admiration, and gratitude for their brother, the courageous soul who so lovingly, so bravely enacted his very difficult role in service to them. Some people on Earth, like this derelict brother, are mystics in disguise. https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q7-elsa-1.png?w=181 (Note: The karma and soul plans that we make before a lifetime are soon forgotten as we grow up, then they simmer in the subconscious, gently nudging us toward our higher purpose.) So as souls prepare to come to Earth for a lifetime, some of them choose a lifetime of suffering. They apparently make that choice with good reason. For example: Karma. In a previous lifetime they caused lots of suffering, and so they want to make amends in this next lifetime by feeling the consequences of their misbehavior. Soul plan. Experiencing lots of suffering in this next lifetime on Earth will prepare them for important work they wish to accomplish next, whether in finer realms of spirit or during yet another lifetime on Earth, for example as a powerful healer or a brilliant prophet who can help the world in a big way. Suffering in this coming lifetime will wash away some negative karma to provide fertile ground for their soul mission later on. Karma and soul plan together. In this next lifetime they’re going to immerse themselves deeply in Earth’s drama with all of its pain, and before they die they’re going to see the light and transform. At least that’s their plan: At some point in their grueling journey they hope to realize that their connections to people, money, and things of this world aren’t working anymore, and they have to open up to the source, because everything else has failed them. In this way, they cleanse their karma, open up to the source, and then bring light to the world as part of their soul plan. They become world servers. The challenge of this lifetime will be to survive the drama in order to forge the connection before they die. Important: If we know someone who’s suffering badly—especially a loved one—the best thing we can do for them and for ourselves is to think of them as a “#3” (they’re doing soul work while cleansing their karma). But we don’t just hope. The more we can believe their #3 situation is the truth, the more relaxed we’ll be, and the more our refined life-energies will influence them in a favorable way. We need to believe and know that they’re here for a higher purpose. Worst case: no harm is done. Best case: Healing miracles will unfold as we all transcend suffering. … which brings us to the final section. Beyond Suffering: Mysticism Evelyn Underhill concludes her landmark book, Practical Mysticism, with this: Mysticism is the art of union with Reality… growing and stretching into more perfect harmony with the Eternal Order, until at last, like the blessed ones of Dante’s vision, the clearness of his flame responds to the unspeakable radiance of the Enkindling Light. In other words, people who refine their conscious connection with the source during a lifetime can become “mystics.” The process generally involves some degree of suffering (at least at first) as they become more sensitive to their part in Earth’s drama… then it diminishes. There are many ways to refine our conscious connection to the source, and most of them involve some form of practiced meditation. What works best for me is a simple heart meditation, in which I move my awareness—my thinking—from the head to the heart. Mystics in the Far East have long said, “The heart is the seat of the soul.” While doing a heart meditation, the brain sort of closes down as the body begins to relax with refined life-energy. I used to do this heart meditation sporadically, but in recent years I try to do it daily. (see how it’s done… ) https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q8-chimnoy-2.png?w=181 In any case, some sort of inner work is necessary to transcend Earth’s drama. As people become aware of the source or “inner light” within them and decide to refine their conscious contact, they’ll probably find techniques that work best for them. It always involves turning our back on the drama of this world as we turn inward (or “in-beyond” toward the source) So… that’s the simple truth discovered by all of the great mystics down through the ages: We have an inner light… a source of vitality, love, truth, and service that rests at the center of us all—at the center of everything. By making conscious contact with the source (sometimes through finer spirit beings closer to the source), we can begin to find our true self and to transform our life. And that, I believe, is the mystics’ truth. # # # . Reference Material Finally, here are some messages about suffering that our INIT group received from Timestream spirit group in the 1990s (along with my interpretation after each message). Much of the information in this article was derived from these messages, which were received by INIT member Maggy Fischbach of Luxembourg through her computer, TV, radio, telephone, and other devices. https://macyafterlife.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/12q3-rumi-2.png?w=181 1991, from ethereal being “Technician,” referring to Timestream member Richard Francis Burton: When a man has experienced all facets of earthly life, grief, joy, happiness, pain, suffering and exhaustion, when all search for knowledge has been satisfied and he has explored all corners of the Earth, when the wheel of life comes to a halt after many incarnations, then the time has come to look for new horizons. Apparently suffering is just part of the Earth experience that many souls want to experience before moving on to finer realities and leaving Earth behind for good. 1987, Technician: The grief and suffering people have to bear is closely connected to free will and personal choice which God’s power has granted to each of us as a great gift. Without free will there is no recognition of truth which comes from within. Therefore, blind obedience is not what higher powers want. You are living in a time when truth is easily distorted and false speculations about eternal life are quickly passed out as the only truth. God prefers the seeker and those who question. No efforts are spared to advance human thinking and individual initiative from its low animal instincts to a position of spiritual thinking. During a lifetime we bring suffering upon ourselves to a large extent, even though the conditions for suffering are deeply ingrained in our world and in our lives. As we seek the truth within, we can slowly transcend the physical suffering now. Then later, in the afterlife, we can transcend mental and emotional suffering. 1992, Swejen Salter: Many animal species exist here which are unknown on earth, such as paradise-like birds and colorful butterflies. The temperature is very mild. Personality and character are not changed by the process of dying. You do not wake up on the third plane with new knowledge. Psychic problems and conflicts are not abolished yet. Though there is no more physical pain here, we still know mental anguish and the pain of the soul. Again, physical pain on Earth ceases to exist in the afterlife. However, we might continue to feel some degree of mental or emotional anguish, depending on our life choices. Even then there are boundless opportunities to transform. It’s good to do inner work while still on Earth to alleviate some of the mental and emotional anguish before we die… to realize the truth of our oneness with the timeless source. Connect with the inner light… make conscious contact with the source… live accordingly.

Fantastic work Michael, have you tried to call someone in spirit to see if there is a response, this would go some way to verification with spirit?

"To live love is to be love."  Edgar Cayce reading 900-331