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The Amazing Stories of CJ’s Bus, Nicholas Green, and Others

 

CJ’s Bus

Born in 2003, the spirit of CJ Martin planned to exit soon after his second birthday but didn’t want his crossing to be that of just another two-year old boy. At the spirit level, he had a much bigger intent in his Life Plan, in conjunction with the spirit incarnating as his mother, whose Life Plan dovetailed with that of her son.

On Sunday, November 6, 2005, the 200-mph winds of an F3 tornado tore through southwest Indiana leaving a path of destruction 400 yards wide and about 11 miles long, and leveled many small communities in southern Evansville. In the end, it would leave 25 fatalities, making it the deadliest 2005 U.S. tornado.

At 1:45 a.m., it crossed the Ohio River, taking a direct hit on the 73-year old Ellis Park racetrack. The facility was severely damaged and several racehorses met their demise. The track suffered heavy damage; 11 of its 38 barns were destroyed and another 11 were damaged.

The tornado traveled to the northeast causing extensive damage to parts of Evansville, Newburgh, and Boonville. Tornado sirens had been sounding for about 30 minutes before the tornado hit, but at 2 a.m., few people were alerted, and the local NOAA transmitter was experiencing technical difficulties at the time, causing some weather radios to not sound an alarm.

For safety, little CJ Martin was staying with his grandmother and great-grandmother, and all three crossed over when their home was destroyed. Ironically, CJ’s home was not damaged, but Kathryn Martin, CJ’s mother, was obviously devastated by her young son’s crossing. She also noticed that in the days following a disaster, the parents of the community’s children had their hands full of talking to FEMA reps, insurance adjusters, etc., and had little time for their kids, who were often left for hours to amuse themselves.

When a 2006 tornado struck the community of Otwell, Indiana, Kathryn loaded coloring books, crayons, and juice boxes in her car, then drove to Otwell with a friend, and offered parents who had been impacted by the tornado the opportunity to grab a break by watching their children for a while. That allowed the parents to do whatever they needed to get their households back on the road to recovery.

What Kathryn did there was the beginning of her vision for CJ’s Bus. She acquired an old school bus, named it CJ’s Bus and converted it into a mobile rec. center, ready to be deployed to any devastated community. So many people got behind the idea, obviously with energy from the Other Side that CJ’s Bus has evolved into a $150,000 custom vehicle, manned by six childcare professionals. The fold-out sides protect a huge play area for dozens of kids.

If a loved one in your life crosses over in some unusual way, check in your Life Plan to see if that person’s means of crossing could be the pretext for something grander, as in the next story.

 

Nicholas Green

In 1994, Nicholas Green, a young boy on vacation with his family, crossed over when Italian bandits ‘randomly’ opened fire on the car his family drove while touring Italy. The Life Plans of Nicholas and his parents intersected to use Nicholas’ exit point to make a public statement. The parents offered Nicholas’ organs for transplant, and the resulting publicity revitalized Italy’s languishing organ donation movement, saving thousands of lives. The big point was that the American parents offered the organs to help Italian children.

The Greens formed the Nicholas Green Foundation, which every year, offers a grant to an Italian doctor to learn the latest organ transplantation techniques in the US.

“Donations go up every year,” says Maggie Green, “but the waiting lists grow longer and longer.” Meanwhile the Greens have made and sold more than 4,000 videos promoting organ donations round the world. They plough all profits from their book, speeches, donations and film rights into the Nicholas Green Foundation.

Thanks to the so-called ‘Nicholas Effect,’ organ donations in Italy have nearly tripled. And recently the Italian Parliament passed a ‘law of presumed consent.’ Adults who don't specifically say they are against donating their organs are presumed to consent to them being donated.

“It never fails to amaze me that a small, seven-year-old boy has touched and changed so many lives,” Reg Green says. “Nicholas would have been so very proud.”

Of course, reading this on the Soul Plane, you can visit Nicholas yourself, who will be keeping himself very busy working with the cause he initiated.

 

You can choose to not just let a loved one’s Life Light go out like a spent firework when they return to the Soul Plane. You can leverage the means of their crossing into a huge impact that makes for a real difference down here on Earth. Of course, you must coordinate your Life Plan with the Life Plan of the one who left, so you can take up the cause in your loved one’s name. Others have done it; witness the stories of Megan Kanka and Amber Hagerman, both of whom made their crossing count for major improvement down here.

Megan's Law requires law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding the identity and whereabouts of registered sex offenders. The basic information includes the offender's name, picture, address, incarceration date, and nature of crime. Aimed primarily at stopping the abuse of children by pedophiles, Megan’ Law was passed in 1995, following the 1994 rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka by a convicted child molester who, unknown to her family, lived across the street from them.

Amber Hagerman was a 9-year-old child who was abducted and crossed over in Arlington, Texas in 1996. AMBER officially stands for ‘America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response’ but was originally named in honor of little Amber.

Even if you don’t act on this, at least know of these magnificent ventures that flowed from the means of crossing of these four brave children.

ETs View of Death

All the ETs gathered around our planet told the US government recently that if it did not publically acknowledge the ET presence, the ETs would step up displays and mass sightings. A Cabal of generals and admirals within the U.S. military is blocking disclosure, so the sightings are being stepped up, as promised.

 During displays, the UFOs generally do not come in with heavy shielding, (which human orbital sensors could detect), because the ETs did not want to give the Cabal a basis to claim that UFOs were coming in with a aggressive military posture to start an ‘alien invasion.’ Of course, the lack of defenses leaves the UFOs vulnerable. On November 17, in a display over Latin America, one of our orbiting killer-satellites destroyed one of the UFOs with loss of all life. In the first image, it has fallen out of position, and in the second, it is breaking up. Afterwards, the other UFOs seem to turn red.

 

 Upon watching this footage, one Zeta crew-person tearfully said: “Do not mourn for us over this. We serve. There is no death. We are aware of this and so there is no loss experienced in any way. If your heart must be heavy, let it be as heavy as our heart is for Humans who are loved. Actions such as this document the delay of companionship between those who desire contact and those who want nothing more than to contact. This is the heavy burden of our hearts.”

 The current ET campaign of Displays-of-Presence is so important, and time is running out to get the U.S. to end its UFO Cover-Up, but the ETs (aka. Star Nations) are not going to risk any more losses of craft to Cabal weapons-fire and the UFOs are now coming in fully shielded.

Now the point of this post is to reveal how ETs regard crossing over. With a simple: “There is no death. There is no loss.”And that the greatest ET concern is us humans. Wow!

Bring ’em on. I like these guys.

Using material reported by Dr Richard Boylan (www.drboylan.com).

Chris Farley Lives On …

The previous two posts were about the joy and pleasure of working with two psychic mediums. One lives here in Goodsprings, Nevada (pop. 200), and channels Michael Jackson from the Other Side. Together, we brought in a book written BY Michael, not ABOUT Michael. Michael stipulated the book’s title as I Can See Clearly Now. The result is now available for purchase at Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/24gjb2x). Working with Michael was fascinating, and I spent about 40 hours interviewing him.

I have also had the privilege of working with another medium named Christine Toomey, who currently lives in Austin, TX. She brought in two fascinating books BY Princess Diana and comedian Chris Farley respectively. The first edition of Diana’s book was published in 2000, and went out of print. This second edition contains previously unpublished work from 2000 through 2007. You can read excerpts from the book at www.christine2me.com. It is now available on Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/322e6fr).

In her book, Diana tells of how she met Chris Farley on the Other Side and told him about Christine Toomey and suggested that he, too, write a book, which he did. Diana’s crossing was quite beautiful, whereas Chris’ experience was very different. He did not want to go and gave his spirit guide a really hard time, greatly testing his patience.

Initially, before editing the , I was expecting typical Farley slapstick, but the actual manuscript astounded me. The depth and clarity were breath-taking, yet still interspersed with his familiar ‘aw shucks’ mannerisms. The final result is truly delightful, yet still profound. Farley’s book is available at Amazon. Click here to go directly to the book’s page (http://tinyurl.com/27s7eyq), and you can read excerpts from the book at www.christine2me.com.

Here is the back cover text for your enjoyment:

“Comedian Chris Farley crossed over on December 18, 1997, and encountered Princess Diana on the Soul Plane. She suggested to Chris that he write a book through Christine Toomey, as Diana had done to deliver In Her Own Words. The result was Wake Up! You’re Not Dead … Yet! in which Farley tells his story of crossing over to spirit and life on the Other Side. Unlike Diana’s crossing, however, Farley’s crossing did not go well because he was unprepared, so his story is a plea for our preparedness for our own crossing.

“On his travels on the Soul Plane, Farley meets his hero, John Belushi, plus John Candy, John Lennon, Jesus, and, of course, Princess Diana. In the book, Farley talks extensively about the dangers of his vices – excessive consumption of drugs, alcohol and food – and how these hastened his departure from the Earth Plane. The book also includes a chapter by Farley’s spirit guide on working with your guides, a chapter by Princess Diana about her meeting with Farley, and a chapter previewing the events of 9/11/2001, channeled some 18 months earlier.

“Written in Farley’s unique style, this book entertains, challenges, informs and, above all, inspires you to WAKE UP!”

As with the books by Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the main thing about this book is its source – Chris Farley himself – who crossed over in 1997, a few months after Diana. As with Michael and Diana, he still has all the same mannerisms and concerns as when he lived in a physical body. The fact that Chris himself dictated the book speaks volumes about our survival of death, and goes a long way to dispelling fear of our own crossing.

As a footnote, when Farley had finished dictating his book through Christine, he was initially reluctant to have me as its editor because he thought I was disdainful of his slapstick style of comedy. He was right; I much prefer the form of humor found in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, for example. However, I persuaded him that what he had to say in spirit was much more important than anything he had ever said down here. It worked!

Princess Diana Lives On …

 The previous post was about the book I had the joy and pleasure of working on with a psychic medium who lives here in Goodsprings, Nevada (pop. 200). He channels Michael Jackson from the Other Side, and together, we brought in a book written BY Michael, not ABOUT Michael. Michael stipulated the cover design, and named the book I Can See Clearly Now. The result is now available for purchase at Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/24gjb2x). Working with Michael was fascinating, and I spent about 40 hours interviewing him, totally confident it really was him and not a figment of Lary’s imagination.

Back in 2000, I also had the privilege of working with another medium named Christine Toomey, who currently lives in Austin, TX. She brought in two fascinating books BY Princess Diana and comedian Chris Farley respectively.

So why did an English princess choose Christine, a relatively obscure American medium, and not some well-known Hollywood medium or one of the fine English mediums? Well, in the Introduction, Christine describes how, on the night Diana crossed over, the princess just showed up in Christine’s home and told her she wanted to dictate a book through Christine. Initially, Christine was reluctant, but Diana explained that Christine’s energy and hers are very similar, and that the result would be the book Diana wanted, and not the product of a Hollywood medium’s grab for fame. (Remember, this is the same reason why Michael Jackson chose Lary – because the result would be Michael’s book and not Lary’s.)

Also, Diana knew that Christine would have access to me as editor and book designer. This had three benefits: first, being a fellow Brit, I would ensure that Christine did not ‘americanize’ Diana’s language. Second, being pretty metaphysical, I would not freak out over the source of the transmission. And third, even if I say it myself, I’m a damn good editor.

Here is the book’s back cover text for your enjoyment:

“Rarely does someone capture the hearts and minds of billions of people worldwide the way Diana did. And even more rarely is that life snuffed out by a tragic death shrouded in mystery.

“The world grieved its collective loss, but was she truly lost? Here, In Her Own Words, Diana returns through noted psychic medium Christine Toomey to tell us of her hopes and fears for that life, what her soul intended for her life, why it cut it short, and what she went through during and after her death.

“Unlike other books that are about Diana, In Her Own Words is by Diana herself. These are her words—no interpretations or opinions—just Diana talking about her emotional problems, Charles and Camilla, her affairs, her beloved sons, and the spiritual awakening towards the end of her life that still continues on the other side.

“This book will shock you, surprise you, delight you, but most of all, it will reveal the enormous love that Diana has for humanity. Finally, her after-death experiences will dispel any fear you may have of the momentary transition we call death. Through Christine Toomey, Diana’s real contribution to humanity has just begun.”

In the book, Diana also talks about her life on the Other Side, and many of the folks she’s met there, including Jesus, Mother Teresa, John Lennon, and Chris Farley. It was Diana who suggested to Chris that he, too, write a book through Christine, which he did.

The first edition of Diana’s book was published in 2000, and went out of print. This second edition contains previously unpublished transmissions from 2000 through 2007, ending with the memorial service and rock concert that William and Harry put on for their mum. You can read excerpts from the book at www.christine2me.com. It is now available on Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/322e6fr).

As with Michael Jackson’s book, the main thing about this book is its source – Princess Diana herself – who crossed over in 1997. As with Michael, she still has all the same mannerisms and concerns as when she lived in a physical body. I spent several hours in interviews with Diana, and there was never a moment of doubt in my mind about it being her, as we chatted about England and things Christine could not possibly have known about. The fact that Diana herself dictated the book speaks volumes about our survival of death, and goes a long way to dispelling fear of our own crossing.

PS: I’ve also played the same role for Chris Farley, and his book will be available on Amazon in a few days – more about that book in the next post.

Michael Jackson Lives On …

I have had the joy and pleasure of working with a psychic medium who lives here in Goodsprings, Nevada (pop. 200), and who channeled Michael Jackson from the Other Side, to bring in a book written BY Michael, not ABOUT Michael. Between February and September of this year, I met regularly with the medium, Lary Glen Anderson, for a Michael session. Lary would go into trance, and I would interview Michael for the book. Along the way, Michael stipulated the cover design, and named the book I Can See Clearly Now.

 

The result is now available for purchase at Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/24gjb2x). Working with Michael was fascinating, and I spent about 40 hours interviewing him. Lary was completely ‘gone’ when in trance, so when he came back to conscious awareness, I had to bring him up to speed on what Michael had said.

Many people ask, why Lary, and not some well-known Hollywood medium? Well, Michael did originally approach several famous mediums but rejected them all because it became apparent that the result would have been the book they wanted to write, and not the book Michael wanted to write.

And why Lary? He and Michael became good friends in 1989, when Lary worked for Michael as a security guard on the Neverland Ranch. Lary tells the story in the book’s Introduction, but for now, here’s the back cover copy for your enjoyment:

The author used to work for Michael Jackson at Neverland Ranch and recounts his time there. After Michael crossed over, the author then used his psychic medium talents to allow Michael to discuss his life and set the record straight about the many lies told about him. Read the truth about Michael Jackson … in his own words.

“My name is Lary Glen Anderson, and this is my humble story about the most talented person I have ever met. He became a friend, and I was shocked when he crossed over.

“I have always had the gift of psychic mediumship, but it got even stronger after my heart surgery. As a medium, a psychic investigator and a believer in the other side, I was asked by my friend to write this book. Please read this book with an open mind and with love.

“Thank you.”

Here are Lary and Baby Girl, with me on the left, at ‘our’ table at the Pioneer Saloon, where much of the book was channeled. Baby Girl is the German Shepherd who just showed up in Goodsprings on the Friday before July 4 of this year. Michael told us she is a gift from him. She just walked up to me to be petted, so I fed and watered her. But when she and Lary met, it was love at first sight. When he goes to work, I dog-sit her, so she has company 24/7, which suits her just fine.

 

You can read excerpts from the book at www.lga-productions.com. The thing about this book is its source – Michael Jackson himself – who crossed over six months before he began work on the book. And he still had all the same mannerisms and concerns as when he lived in a physical body. In all, he and I spent about 40 hours in interviews, and there was never a moment of doubt in my mind about it being Michael.

PS: I’ve also played the same role for Princess Diana and comedian Chris Farley, and their respective books will be available on Amazon in a few days – more about them in the next blog post.

 And here is the star of the show:

Brian Diez, You’ve Got Some ’Splaining To Do

Late Saturday, August 28, 2010, Brian Diez, 26, of Lake Havasu City, reportedly entered the residence of his ex, and began shooting, leaving five occupants dead and one woman injured. The dead included ex-mate Deborah Langstaff and her two children by a previous relationship, and her current boyfriend, whose birthday the party was celebrating. Friends Brock Kelson, 20, and Deborah Nyland, 44, were also wounded, and Kelson died of his injuries early Sunday. Nyland was flown to intensive care in Las Vegas.

After the incident, Diez took Langstaff’s other two children he had fathered – 13-month-old Cole and 4-year-old Kaia – from the home and fled to Rancho Cucamonga three hours away. There, he found safekeeping for the youngsters with a family member before taking his own life, making six deaths in all.

On the Soul Plane, what are they now thinking? We know that nothing happens without prior planning  and the agreement of all concerned, yet what these six people hoped to achieve by playing out this very public drama of murder/suicide remains a mystery. Of course, there may have no intent to make a public statement. Maybe the five whom Diez murdered had ganged up on him in a previous lifetime and murdered him, and we just got to see karma being discharged. Of course, they all had exit points that day, otherwise they would have been just wounded, as was the woman in the hospital. But I find this veil annoying at times.

On the other hand, a Colombian airliner carrying 132 (126 passengers and 6 crew members) people recently crashed and broke into 3 pieces while landing during a storm on the Caribbean resort island of San Andres. With only one person crossing over (and that was due to a heart attack), it was what police called ‘a miracle.’ However, the fact that only one of the passengers had an exit point that day also undoubtedly helped.

Someone else without an exit point yesterday was two-year-old Dianita Barratt, who was spending the day at Jungle Island, Florida, with her mom, Diana, when she survived a stare-down with an escaped 500-pound Bengal tiger. In what officials called a ‘freak accident,’ a gibbon escaped its enclosure, wandered over to the tiger’s habitat and began pissing it off. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

To get away from the annoying primate, the tiger jumped its 12-foot fence and landed just a few feet away from the girl, who simply stood and calmly stared at the big cat. Equally calmly, the mother walked over, picked up little Dianita and walked away to safety. No exit points there!

Michael Jackson in His Own Words Six Months after His Crossing

An interesting thing happened to Lary, a friend of mine and fellow resident of Goodsprings, Nevada, and it opened into something neither of us expected to happen.

On June 25, 2009, he took a nap around the noon hour because he was working late that day in casino hospitality. Michael Jackson came to him in a dream, looking very upset. He said, “Lary, Lary, what’s happening to me? I don’t know what’s happening to me!”

He awoke from his nap, puzzled by what the dream meant. He turned on the TV and was confronted by the breaking news that Michael was dead. At first, he was sure it was a mistake, but all the news channels carried the same story, so he slowly accepted the horrible truth and a deep emptiness devastated him. (I later told Lary that Michael’s appearance on June 25 was a visitation and not a dream.)

Michael then showed up every night after that. Often, he would take Lary out-of-body and they would travel to the huge, rental mansion in LA where Michael had crossed over. They would walk in the garden and talk, and, of course, no one could see them, and in their state, they didn’t trip a security alarm.

One night, Lary asked Michael, “Why not just talk to me while I’m awake?” So Lary started hearing him in his head, and from then on, Michael would rarely leave him alone, even in the bathroom and shower. He often played tricks on Lary, too, such as hiding his car keys and moving things. But on the other hand, when Lary genuinely misplaced things, Michael would tell him exactly where they were.

One day, seven brand new shiny pennies appeared in Lary’s kitchen sink, and then he found some bird feathers beside his bed. (I told Lary that coins and feathers are the most common objects that those on the Other Side apport onto the physical plane, and that it’s just their way of saying “hi.”) Also, his TV would turn on and off by itself, and the phone would ring but no one was on the other end. And the radio would come on by itself just when one of Michael’s songs was playing, simply to let Lary know he was around and feeling playful. But he never once messed with the studio equipment in Lary’s radio station.

One time, Lary had just thrown his jacket on his bed and couldn’t find it later. Eventually he found it hanging up behind a door. We figure Michael was tidying up after him; he was a Virgo after all.

One Monday in January 2010, Lary and I had met for coffee and he was impersonating Michael to show me what Michael sounded like in his head. Suddenly, he was somewhere else other than in the restaurant, and his tone changed. He began moving his hands in a very unusual way on the surface of the table between us, so I quickly moved the cups out of the way. His left hand made clockwise circular motions, and his right hand made counterclockwise circles. After 30 years in metaphysics, I knew right then that Lary was now channeling Michael and not just impersonating him, so I simply said, “Hello, Michael.”

“Hello, Tony, how are you?” he asked in a voice that sounded exactly the same as when he was on Earth.

“I’m fine, thank you. You learned the skill of channeling back very quickly,” I observed.

“I have good teachers where I am,” he replied.

“So how do you spend your time where you are?”

“Well, I hang out with my kids a lot, even though they can’t see me. And the rest of the time, I’m with Lary.”

Lary seemed deep in trance at this time and made no recognition of hearing his name, so I knew this was not him playing a joke on me. Anyway, Lary is incapable of such a deception. Michael then said, “Lary is getting tired, so I’ll go now.”

“See you again, Michael. Bye for now,” I said.

As Michael left, Lary slumped forward and asked, “What the hell just happened?”

I replied, “Congratulations. You just channeled the King of Pop!”

Lary said, “My God, I’m so hot and vibrating like crazy.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “It gets easier with time.”

What I find compelling evidence is the surprise, and often amazement, when Lary comes out of trance and I have to fill him in on what happened and what Michael said, using Lary’s vocal cords. Anyone who knows Lary also knows that he is incapable of deception, so his reaction is absolutely genuine, and that really is the first time he is hearing the information. So I really was talking to Michael, while Lary was somewhere off in la-la land.

When a channeling session ends, Lary feels as if he’s just run a marathon, and is tingling and disoriented. He needs to readjust and focus on what’s going on around him, so I told him, “It gets easier with time.” Lary knows he was just talking with Michael at some internal level but can’t remember what was said, so when he hears the tape or reads the transcript, it’s all news to him.

During the third session, Michael announced to me that he wanted to write a book through Lary. He told me he’d already approached three famous mediums but that he’d rejected them because they weren’t open to what he wanted to do. The book would have ended up being what they wanted and not what Michael wanted. But he knew that with Lary’s level of integrity, the product would be exactly what he wanted.

Being new to writing and a novice psychic medium, Lary was on overwhelm, but Michael knew that a teacher was in Lary’s life who could coach him. That, of course, was me, who’s coached a number of mediums to do what they do. I am also a 12-time author, a ghost-writer, book editor and book designer. In addition, Michael told me he trusted my integrity to help deliver the book Michael wants. He described the cover he wanted and told us the book would be titled I Can See Clearly Now.

So why did Michael choose Lary? To answer that, we must go back 20 years to 1989. In March of that year, Lary went to work as a security guard on Michael’s Neverland Ranch, outside Santa Barbara, CA. They struck up a fast friendship upon first meeting, as Michael found that Lary was not star-struck by Michael’s fame, because Lary was already a huge hit in the entertainment world. He was one of the best, if not the best, Elvis impersonators of the day with his own very popular Elvis Mania show, and knew firsthand what fame felt like. So that era was how Michael came to know and trust Lary implicitly.

From January to July, 2010, Lary and I met several times a week, in the beginning using tape to record our sessions for transcribing, and later via direct dictation to me. Sessions often started with Michael telling me what was on his mind that day, usually involving his own three children, or sometimes a major news story such as the Gulf oil spill. I would then start the interview proper, based on my prepared questions involving the theme of the chapter we were working on that day. The result was a beautiful 96-page book, liberally sprinkled with public domain photographs.

The book opens with Michael describing the drama surrounding his crossing and his confusion over what had just happened (which resulted in him visiting Lary while the latter slept). Then Michael then moves on to his feelings about the private and public services, and his displeasure at seeing how his body looked in the open casket. Then he flashes back to the early years of the Jackson 5, and the infamous Pepsi commercial when his hair caught fire, which began his dependence on prescription painkillers. After talking about Neverland Ranch, he describes how he felt during the two molestation fiascos. Next, he talks about his marriages and his beloved children, while taking care to protect their privacy.

The book concludes with Michael describing his life on the Soul Plane – what he typically does and who he hangs with. (His favorites are Elvis and James Brown, so we have the three Kings performing together – the Kings of Rock, Pop, and Soul. Cool!) This is why this book is so important; it will introduce the concept of the survival of death to many, many people who otherwise would remain unaware. Michael has emphasized to Lary and I that the book will do really well. I hope he really can see clearly now!

I Can See Clearly Now will answer many questions that puzzle Michael fans and students of metaphysics alike. It is excerpted at www.lga-productions.com and is available at www.amazon.com. (Either click the link to jump straight to the book or go to Amazon’s site and search for I Can See Clearly Now. Scroll down to the tenth entry.)

Synchronicity At Work

The last post discussed synchronicity in general terms, and made the point that it clearly shows that we live in much larger reality than we know, run by unknown hands. By an amazing ‘coincidence,’ the latest version of Nexus magazine (Vol. 17, No. 3) carries a story about synchronicity from Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and posted on Listverse, http://tinyurl.com/lgmkbk. Here are a few examples from that article:

Poker Synchronicity

In 1858, one Robert Fallon was shot dead at a poker game for cheating. Fallon, the other players claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s $600. By the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin – only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!

Photographic Synchronicity

A German mother who had photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg. When World War I broke out, she was unable to return to Strasbourg, so she gave up the picture for lost. Two years later, she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter. When the film was developed, it turned out to be a double exposure, with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her son. Through some incredible twist of fate, her original plate was never developed, had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been resold to her.

Revenge Synchronicity

In 1883, a Henry Ziegland broke up with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl’s enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, however, Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree, so he was the only one of the trilogy still alive. Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. The huge tree was so big that he decided to blow it up with dynamite. Amazingly, the explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s head, killing him.

Presidential Synchronicity

The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America’s founders had some interesting facets. Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, showing drafts of it to Adams, who (with Benjamin Franklin) helped to edit and hone it. The document was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

There are many more examples of synchronicity, such as the last Hoover Dam worker to die was the son of the first worker to die.

My favorite example involves the book titled Futility: the Wreck of the Titan, written in 1898 by Morgan Robertson. The story involves the sinking of the ocean liner Titan, which strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic. This is eerily similar to real life, in which the Titanic sank 14 years later in 1912.

Both ships sank in April in the North Atlantic, having struck an iceberg, Titanic doing 22 knots, and Titan doing 25. On the Titanic, 2,200 people perished, with 2,500 on the Titan. Titan was 800 feet long versus the Titanic at 880.  Both had a top speed of 25 knots and were called ‘unsinkable.’ And Titan carried only 24 lifeboats, Titanic, a mere 20.

Please comment with your favorite synchronicity story.

Synchronicity – An Invaluable Resource

 

This blog post was inspired by an item on www.beliefnet.com/inspiration, and covers a very important yet often overlooked aspect of our lives – synchronicity – which has seven characteristics according to the article:

 

1. Synchronicity is Meaningful

Suppose you haven’t thought of an old college friend in years, but run across his name while tidying up your email address book. Later that day, you receive an email from him telling you that he is now following you on Twitter. This may be telling you that you both still have something of value to offer one another.

2. Synchronicity is entwined with our emotions

Suppose the death certificate of a loved one reads 5:30 a.m. and a clock stops at that exact time and never runs again. This After-Death Communication points to the emotional connection between you and your loved one. (Probably the most famous example of this is the story of Bishop Pike, bishop of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, whose son suicided by drug overdose. The bishop wrote a book about how he contacted his son through a medium and the Episcopalian Church banned him from ever teaching in any church. He died in 1969 in the Middle East, looking for the desert where Jesus was tempted by the devil.)

3. Synchronicity Is an Intuitive Phenomenon

Suppose you have a hunch that you should drive down a particular road, even though it’s not the way you usually go to work, and you later discover there was a huge traffic tie-up on your usual route. Pat yourself on the back. Honoring this form of premonition improves the chances of it happening more frequently in your life.

4. Synchronicity is Creative

Suppose you’re writing an article and are having trouble. Take a break and do something different. Later, maybe in a conversation with a friend, you may get a sudden insight that resolves your problem. It’s important that you stay open to receiving such  inspiration, regardless of its source.

5. Synchronicity comes in Clusters

Synchronicity shows up in the form of numbers, names, words, objects or symbols. Suppose you see the time 5:55 on your coffee maker, then you go out and see a car with ‘555’ on its registration plate. And all day, ‘555’ keeps cropping up. Pay attention to this – it’s a clear sign from the spirit world. If you Google ‘meaning of 555,’ you learn that it specifically means change is coming for you.

6. Synchronicity can have a Sense of Humor

Spirit often uses humor in the synchronicity it puts in our lives. Suppose you’re going for a job interview, and you help someone down in the parking lot, say. When you walk into the manager’s office for your interview, it’s the person you helped. Maybe this is spirit’s way of saying, ‘What goes around comes around.’

7. Synchronicity can be Global

Maybe during a natural disaster a weird cloud formation is visible to millions of people that looks like a huge angel in the sky, and the sighting gives survivors hope. This is spirit’s way of saying, “There’s a much larger force at work here.’

 

Synchronicity is defined as, “the meaningful coincidence of two apparently unrelated events or circumstances.” Spirit (your guides and/or your higher self) carefully orchestrate them in your life, so it’s important to recognize, honor and revere synchronicity when it happens, because it shows you’re part of something much larger, and that unseen hands are guiding your life.

11-Year-Old Medium Shocks Unitarian Minister

Michael Tymn maintains a great blog on the subject of survival of death (http://whitecrowbooks.com/michaeltymn), and in a post titled 11-Year-Old Medium Shocks Unitarian Minister, he tells the story of Unitarian minister, Dr. Horace Westwood. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1884, Westwood emigrated to Canada in 1904. In 1949, he wrote the book, There Is a Psychic World, telling the story of how he used a Ouija board and had excellent mediumship results with his wife’s cousin, Anna, who lived with them.

Westwood used all kinds of tricks to test Anna and her source – blindfolding, scrambling the letters, etc., but they performed flawlessly. Among the messages was one from Charlotte, a child whose parents Westwood knew. She had been in the adjoining ward of the hospital Dr Westwood was in for surgery in 1913, and crossed over aged six, before he left the hospital.

Charlotte gave her name and they discussed their shared hospital experiences, as well as the circumstances of her death. She revealed an intimate knowledge of her parents’ family life, both while she was on Earth, and then on the Soul Plane. She wanted Westwood to contact her mother, to let her know Charlotte was still alive, and ‘always near and so happy over baby brother.’ This proved that source of communication was not Anna’s subconscious mind because she didn’t even know about the brother.

Mrs. Summers called Westwood and requested that Anna be brought to their home. Through Anna, Charlotte answered all her mother’s questions, giving detailed information entirely beyond anything Anna could possibly have known. Bottom line: The parents were convinced that they had talked with their crossed-over daughter who was still very much alive.

Switching to automatic writing, Anna brought in messages from two controls: ‘Ruth’ and ‘Ralph,’ who said they had worked in Washington, D.C as typists for the U.S. Government, and died together about two years earlier in their late twenties. They turned Anna into an expert typist while they channeled through her; when not channeling, Anna was a ‘hunt and peck’ typist.

Again, Westwood tested Anna by blindfolding her, and again, she typed flawlessly. One evening, Westwood asked Ruth to play the piano through Anna, who had little musical talent. Ruth told him she would bring a gifted pianist friend named Kate. The following evening, the blindfolded Anna sat at the piano, and Westwood later said, “As long as I shall live, I shall never forget that night. [Anna/Kate] began with a slow melody, the like of which I had never heard before, for it was solemn in its majesty and almost unearthly in its beauty. As I watched the child play, the bodily action and the finger technique were entirely different from Anna’s own.”

At another sitting, a number of family friends had gathered, and Ruth asked each person to write a question on a piece of paper, leave it unsigned, fold the paper and put it into a container. Anna took out the pieces of paper one by one, and in each case, Ruth identified the writer and answered the questions. In two or three cases, the answer was, “I don’t know.” For one of the guests, Anna/Ruth mentioned his ‘well-stocked cellar,’ a no-no during prohibition. Of course, Anna herself could not possibly have known of the guest’s alcohol stash.

One night, Ruth and Ralph brought in a nameless spirit who told the group to call him ‘X.’ Westwood was blown away when X began discussing philosophical matters, some of which were beyond Westwood’s grasp, and light-years beyond Anna’s. “The general point of view was that the underlying, in fact the all-permeating reality was consciousness, and that the universe by and large was designed for ‘being’ and ‘beings in an infinite series of gradations,’” Westwood said, admitting that his intelligence was no match for X.

Westwood then did his own ‘book test.’ He blindfolded Anna and walked backward into the adjoining library. With his back to the bookcase, he selected a book at random. Without looking at the book, he opened it at random and placed it face-down on a table. He asked X to write the first 10 -12 words on the right page. X complied flawlessly – the text was perfect.

On Christmas Day, 1918, a young girl named Virginia, a member of Westwood’s congregation, crossed over due to a tobogganing accident. Two days later, Ruth communicated that Virginia was there, even though still dazed.

“The first symptom was that of bewilderment bordering on fear,” Westwood wrote. “In fact, the first words that came through were, ‘Where am I? I want my mother.’ I told her there was no need to be afraid, and that she was in the study of the church. Virginia then settled down and asked how her mother and baby brother were. Neither I nor Anna knew that she had a baby brother.” Westwood asked other questions of Virginia and later confirmed the responses as fact with Virginia’s aunt.

While Westwood claimed to have no interest in survival, he wrote, “I was forced to believe in it after my experiences with Anna, who lost her powers after about three years, upon the departure of Ruth and Ralph.”

 

Cases such as this one quoted by Michael Tymn provide much evidential material that the pseudo-skeptics would have a hard time dismissing.

I heartily recommend visiting Michael’s blog and reading the posts and archives, for he includes case-studies I hadn’t encountered anywhere else.

 

Another Case Proving Survival

The last post talked about Miles Edward Allen, author of The Survival Files, and Case 34, which is particularly evidential. Case 40 is also very powerful.

The story goes that in 1915, in Dublin, Ireland, a small circle of friends, observed by prominent psychic investigator, Sir William Barrett, was using a Ouija board. During the session, a spirit showed up who said his name had been Cummins and he’d been an officer killed in battle a month before. He said,: ‘Tell my mother to give my pearl tiepin to the girl I was going to marry. I think she ought to have it.” He also gave the name and address of his fiancée, and his family’s address in London.

The deceased officer's family replied that they knew nothing of any pearl tie-pin nor of a fiancée. The group assumed that the message was a subconscious fiction and forgot about it.

Six months later, when the War Office released the deceased officer’s effects, the family learned he had named his fiancée in his will, and among the effects was a pearl tie-pin.

The significance of this is that ESP is ruled out because no one alive knew about the tie-pin, so the only possible source of the information is the soldier himself, thus proving his survival of death.

For dozens more fascinating cases proving survival, see www.thesurvivalfiles.com.

An After-Death Communication Proves Survival

Author Miles Edward Allen, author of the must-read The Survival Files, presents dozens of cases proving survival, and his website www.thesurvivalfiles.com provides dozens more. Case 34 is particularly evidential.

In the final days of her battle with cancer, a woman named Mary Jasen promised her friend Christina, with whom she’d been friends for several years, “I will knock loudly on the refrigerator to get your attention. Now keep this arrangement a secret between us.”

Some five years later, with no such signal, Christina had given up any hope of hearing from Mary. Then, she had a dream in which she saw Mary and Len, Mary's widower, sitting at a picnic table in an unfamiliar park. In the dream, Mary turned toward Christina and said that she was fine and no one should worry about her. The next time she visited Len, Christina described her dream to him.

Len was impressed because he and Mary used to spend a lot of time in an area just like Christina described. What Len said next amazed Christina: “A few days ago, I was in the kitchen and was startled by loud banging on the refrigerator door. I was not scared because I somehow knew that Mary’s spirit was responsible, and I felt comforted.”

This is significant because it proves the source of the banging was not Christina’s unconscious mind. The banging was experienced by Len, who knew nothing of the agreement, which leaves us with only Mary's spirit as the source of the ADC, and provides proof of her survival of death. Mary also sent the dream to ensure that Christina and Len would meet up and have that conversation.

On a personal note, I've just received the proof of my latest book, Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which will be in Amazon in a few days. I'll keep you posted.

Beyond the Light by PMH Atwater

This is a brilliant article by PMH Atwater. It is reproduced in its entirety, with permission.

What It Feels Like to Die

Any pain to be suffered comes first.  Instinctively you fight to live. That is automatic.

It is inconceivable to the conscious mind that any other reality could possibly exist beside the earth-world of matter, bounded by time and space. We are used to it. We have been trained since birth to live and thrive in it. We know ourselves to be ourselves by the external stimuli we receive. Life tells us who we are and we accept its telling. That, too, is automatic, and to be expected.

Your body goes limp. Your heart stops. No more air flows in or out. You lose sight, feeling, and movement – although the ability to hear goes last. Identity ceases. The “you” that you once were becomes only a memory.

There is no pain at the moment of death. Only peaceful silence, calm, quiet. But you still exist.

It is easy not to breathe. In fact, it is easier, more comfortable, and infinitely more natural not to breathe than to breathe. The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in-between, expected or unexpected; the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you. You can still think, you can still remember, you can still see, hear, move, reason, wonder, feel, question, and tell jokes – if you wish.

You are still alive, very much alive. Actually, you’re more alive after death than at any time since you were last born. Only the way of all this is different; different because you no longer wear a dense body to filter and amplify the various sensations you had once regarded as the only valid indicators of what constitutes life. You had always been taught one has to wear a body to live.

If you expect to die when you die, you will be disappointed. The only thing dying does is help you release, slough off, and discard the “jacket” you once wore (more commonly referred to as a body).

When you die you lose your body. That’s all there is to it. Nothing else is lost.

You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earth-plane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

 

What Death Is

There is a step-up of energy at the moment of death, an increase in speed as if you are suddenly vibrating faster than before.

Using radio as an analogy, this speed-up is comparable to having lived all your life at a certain radio frequency, when all of a sudden, someone or something comes along and flips the dial. That flip shifts you to another, higher frequency. The original frequency where you once existed is still there. It did not change. Everything is still just the same as it was. Only you changed, only you speeded up to allow entry into the next radio frequency on the dial.

As is true with all radios and radio stations, there can be bleed-overs or distortions of transmission signals due to interference patterns. These can allow or force frequencies to coexist or commingle for indefinite periods of time. Normally, most shifts up the dial are fast and efficient; but, occasionally, one can run into interference, perhaps from a strong emotion, a sense of duty, or a need to fulfill a vow, or keep a promise. This interference could allow coexistence of frequencies for a few seconds, days, or even years (perhaps explaining hauntings); but, sooner or later, eventually, every given vibrational frequency will seek out or be nudged to where it belongs.

You fit your particular spot on the dial by your speed of vibration. You cannot coexist forever where you do not belong.

Who can say how many spots there are on the dial or how many frequencies there are to inhabit. No one knows.

You shift frequencies in dying. You switch over to life on another wavelength. You are still a spot on the dial but you move up or down a notch or two.

You don’t die when you die. You shift your consciousness and speed of vibration.

That’s all death is – a shift.

 

Although copyrighted, Dr. Atwater gives permission for this material to be copied – as long as proper credits are given, the books it comes from and her website are mentioned:

The material was excerpted from two of P. M. H. Atwater’s books – “Beyond the Light: The Mysteries and Revelations of Near-Death Experiences” (Avon Books, New York City, 1994), and “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death” (A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 2004). It is based on first-person commentaries from over 3,000 adult experiencers of near-death states. To learn more about the near-death research of P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D. access www.cinemind.com/atwater.

Evidence of the Afterlife

 

In his fascinating book Evidence of the Afterlife, author Jeffrey Long M.D. delineates the 12 common characteristics of the Near-Death experience. Long had also completed a survey of 613 NDErs (NDERF), and gives the prevalence of each of the elements. The following is taken from Long’s book, which is a must-read for any metaphysician. He also has an incredibly rich website – www.nderf.org – to support his work, and that offers months of great reading. The site also includes the accounts of those 613 NDErs. The 12 common elements are:

 

1. Out-of-body experience (OBE): Separation of consciousness from the physical body

Out-of-body experiences are often the first NDE element. The NDERF survey asked 613 NDErs, “Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?” In response, 75.4 percent answered “Yes.” (Comment: an NDE without going out of body is possible only if the Other Side comes to you rather than you going there.)

 

2. Heightened senses

The NDERF survey asked, “How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal, everyday consciousness and alertness?” Of the NDErs surveyed, 74.4 percent indicated they had “More consciousness and alertness than normal.”

 

3. Intense and generally positive emotions or feelings

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness?” To this question, 76.2 percent selected “Incredible peace or pleasantness.” The NDERF survey asked another question about a specific emotion during the NDE: “Did you have a feeling of joy? “ NDErs responded to this question with 52.5 percent selecting “Incredible joy.” A small percentage of NDEs are frightening to the NDEr. This topic is addressed in detail on the NDERF website.

 

4. Passing into or through a tunnel

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?” Of NDErs responding to this survey question, 33.8 percent answered “Yes.” (Comment: almost a third involve going somewhere; in with the rest, the energy or beings come to you.)

 

5. Encountering a mystical or brilliant light

The light may be described as brilliant, “like a million suns,” but virtually never hurts the NDEr to look at it. NDErs may dramatically describe their strong attraction to the light and their emphatic desire to approach or merge with the light. The NDERF survey asked, “Did you see a light?” NDErs responded with 64.6 percent answering “Yes.”

 

6. Encountering other beings, either mystical beings or deceased relatives or friends

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you meet or see any other beings?” In response, 57.3 percent answered “Yes.” When NDErs encounter deceased being, most are deceased relatives as opposed to friends or loved ones. Some NDErs encounter seemingly familiar beings, but they cannot recall having previously met them. Later in their lives some NDErs recognize a picture of a deceased relative as the being they encountered in their NDE. The relative may have died years or even decades before the NDEr was born.

 

7. A sense of alteration of time or space

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you have any sense of altered space or time?” To this question the majority, 60.5 percent, answered “Yes.” Another NDERF survey question focused only on an altered sense of time, asking, “Did time seem to speed up?” NDErs responded to this question with 33.9 percent selecting “Everything seemed to be happening all at once.”

 

8. Life review

Life reviews involve a review of prior events of the NDEr’s life. Fragments of one’s earthly life may be seen, or the review may be panoramic, covering all of one’s earthly life. The NDERF survey asked, “Did you experience a review of past events in your life?” To that question, 22.2 percent of NDErs answered “Yes.”

 

9. Encountering unworldly (“heavenly”) realms

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels, or dimensions?” To this question 40.6 percent of NDErs chose “Yes.” Asking this question in a more general way, the NDERF survey asked, “Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?” To this question 52.2 percent of NDErs responded that they encountered an unearthly realm.

 

10. Encountering or learning special knowledge

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order, and/or purpose?” To this question 56.0 percent of NDErs answered “Yes.” Another question asked, “Did you suddenly seem to understand everything?” To this question, 31.5 percent responded that they seemed to understand everything “About the universe, 11 and 31.3 percent responded that they seemed to understand everything “About myself or others.”

 

11. Encountering a boundary or barrier

The NDERF survey asked, “Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?” To this question 31.0 percent of NDErs answered “Yes.”

 

12. A return to the body, either voluntary or involuntary

The NDERF survey asked, “Were you involved in or aware of a decision regarding your return to the body?” To this question, 58.5 percent answered “Yes.”

 

Remember that while NDEs don’t prove the reality of life after death, they are pretty strong evidence, and NDErs themselves always return convinced of that truth.

 

So poke around the site and get the book, which goes into detail on those 12 elements. All good stuff!

A Reincarnation Story

The latest issue of Atlantis Rising runs a fascinating article titled “War and Reincarnation,” by John Chambers, telling the story of young James Leininger. At the age of two, James began to have frequent nightmares in which he screamed and from which he awoke with words like, “Airplane crash on fire, little man can’t get out.” He became increasingly obsessed with WWII fighter planes, identifying obscure aircraft parts. He made crayon drawings of crashing planes, signing them “James 3,” while insisting the pilot was “James 2.”

 

James’ mother and grandmother wondered if a previous reincarnation was involved, and consulted Carol Bowman, a therapist skilled in enabling children to access their past lives. To her, James revealed that his fighter plane, a Corsair, had been shot down by the Japanese, crashing in a bay near Iwo Jima. He described features of the Corsair and said he had flown from the ship Natoma, and mentioned a name, Jack Larsen.

 

James’ father, Bruce, was determined to get to the truth, and scoured military records on the Internet. He discovered that an aircraft carrier, Natoma Bay, had been stationed near Iwo Jima in March 1945. He tracked down pilots who’d been on the Natoma Bay.

 

At a reunion of the carrier’s veterans, he learned that a pilot named James Huston, Jr. had gone down on March 3, 1945. Bruce found and interviewed Jack Larsen, who knew where James Huston had gone down. The younger James told him, “Billy, Leon and Walter met me when I went to heaven.”

 

James’ mother, Andrea, tracked down James Huston’s family. His sister, Anne Barron, was still alive at age 84. She visited the Leiningers, and she and James shared a plethora of intimate family details that no one else knew.

 

Bruce took James, now six, to another veterans’ reunion, and without prompting, he identified many of James Huston’s friends. He became sad, telling his father this was because, “Everyone is so old.”

 

So, we’re left with the obvious question: was James Leininger really James Huston? The evidence in favor seems overwhelming though a determined debunker can always find ways to dismiss such cases. Anyway, stories like this explain why we choose not to remember past lives. Would you want to remember dying in a burning aircraft as it crashes? Or a Nazi concentration camp;? I know I wouldn’t.

[You can download this issue (#81) from www.atlantisrising.com]

A Senseless Killing … and In Memory of Cattel

 

San Diegans were stunned yesterday over the discovery of the body of 17-year-old Chelsea King, five days after the popular, straight-A student from San Diego County disappeared and two days after a registered sex offender was booked on suspicion of rape and murder.

Severe shock and denial among King’s classmates is giving way to anger and hurt, Traci Barkerball, King’s teacher for three years at Poway High School, said Tuesday night. “What bothers me most is the kids don’t feel safe anymore. Their sense of security has been taken away from them.”

 That loss of innocence is another tragic victim of the monster allegedly responsible for this unthinkable crime. Now that convicted sex offender John Albert Gardner III has been charged with murdering 17-year-old Chelsea King, the question is, “How could this happen?  How could a man who admitted he molested a 13-year-old girl in 2000 serve only five years in jail when he could have served 30? How could he wind up living yards away from an elementary school?

Just two years ago Gardner's electronic monitoring bracelet came off and already a 23-year-old jogger says he attacked her. Prosecutors say he raped and murdered King and might be linked to last February’s disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Dubois, whose body was discovered on Saturday, March 6. How could this happen?

In this case, there are lots of questions, but only one answer – it should never have happened. There is no excuse, justification or mitigation that can comfort the Kings or any of us for a murder and rape that simply shouldn’t have happened … except for the fact that it was an exit point, possibly chosen to bring attention to the fact that society routinely unleashes predators like Gardner back into an innocent and unsuspecting society.

 We have the technology to program an ankle bracelet with the GPS coordinates of a sex offender’s home and work locations, and a proscribed route between the two, and to sound an alarm when a deviation is detected. Maybe  Chelsea will be one more reason why society should do that, just as the Amber Alert system was created in 1996 as a result of the kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, a bright little girl, abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. The tragedy shocked and outraged the entire community, and led to the system that broadcasts alerts over the airwaves and on freeway signs to help prevent such incidents in the future. If that’s what it takes, so be it.

 On a totally different note, I just learned that Cattel, an icon of the Las Vegas metaphysical scene, crossed over yesterday. A brilliant astrologer, she maintained a great website titled “Stardate 2100” and ran a radio show of the same name, on which I was a guest a few times. My sadness at her departure from the Earth Plane is coupled with my elation at the thought that she is now rousting the Soul Plane. You will be sorely missed, dear lady.

Greed Costs Lives

Toyota is big news nowadays, due to the recall of 8½ million vehicles, mainly to resolve the so-called ‘surge’ problem that has been scurrilously covered up for about six years, during which time many Americans have died and a few have been thrown in jail for vehicular manslaughter.

On February  24, Mr. Akio Toyoda testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, saying in part:

“I want to discuss the philosophy of Toyota’s quality control. I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. At times, we do find defects. But in such situations, we always stop, strive to understand the problem, and make changes to improve further. In the name of the company, its long-standing tradition and pride, we never run away from our problems or pretend we don’t notice them. By making continuous improvements, we aim to continue offering even better products for society. That is the core value we have kept closest to our hearts since the founding days of the company.”

I believe he actually believes this and is a man living by the Japanese code of honor. The damage may have been done further down the food chain by some American guys who might have blind-sided the head honcho.

At the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Christopher Santucci’s job was to conduct defect investigations of automakers and some of his probes were into Toyota. At some point, while working at NHTSA, Santucci wrangled himself a job at Toyota – the very company he once investigated.

In 2003, Santucci left NHTSA and joined Toyota's team, working under the very man who’d been his Toyota contact: Christopher Tinto, who also used to work for NHTSA and joined Toyota in 1994. When the surging problem first surfaced, many people suspected the throttle control microchip and its programming. However, this would have been a very expensive problem to fix, so Tinto, VP of regulatory affairs in Toyota’s Washington office, and Santucci, who worked for him, helped persuade the NHTSA to end probes, including those of 2002-2003 Toyota Camrys and Solaras, court documents show. Of course, this would have gone on way below Mr. Toyoda’s radar.

Together, the two helped ‘negotiate’ with their former NHTSA colleagues to limit probes into Toyotas surging out of control, and convinced NHTSA to focus only on so-called ‘brief burst’ accelerations, ruling out so-called ‘long-duration’ surges of several minutes that have allegedly led to accidents and deaths. Santucci said they didn’t ‘negotiate’ but just ‘discussed the scope.’ However, Toyota internal documents do use the word ‘negotiate.’ One in 2006 says, “Toyota negotiated to reduce the response to provide much less data.”

Consumer watchdog Joan Claybrook headed up NHTSA way before Toyota’s problems, and says, “NHTSA ex-employees are key. They maneuvered and manipulated and I think bamboozled the agency.” So, did these two characters have Toyota owners and dealers chasing shifting car mats and sticky pedals, while Americans died in fiery wrecks and the real long-duration surge problem continued to lurk under the hood? (Of course, all deaths were by prior soul contract, but any greed factor that led to them generated karma with those who crossed over.)

Whoever is behind the cover-up has some explaining to do to a lot of people, starting with the man whose name appears on every car – a name they have dragged through the mud of waning public opinion. Such action has gone against everything Toyota has worked so hard to achieve over the last 50 years – a philosophy known as CANI – Constant And Never-ending Improvement.

Glad it’s not me who has that ’splaining to do …

[By the way, “Toyoda” takes 10 brush strokes to write in Japanese, while “Toyota” takes only 8 – and that is a lucky number over there.]

Does the Heart Have Memory?

This amazing article is currently circulating on the Internet and is based on the book by Paul Pearsall,  Heart’s Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy.

Pearsall’s book is based on 73 heart-transplant cases in which parts of the donors’ personalities appear to have been transferred to the recipients. Pearsall argues that the brain is not the only center of human intelligence. The heart, he says, is equally important in holding memory. He posits that the body is made up of cells that transmit ‘information.’ Cells communicate this information to each other electromagnetically. Thus a transplanted organ can continue to broadcast old information, something like amputees’ experience of pain in lost limbs. Phenomena like these suggest cells have memories.

For example, Glenda lost her husband, David, in a car crash, and made his organs available for transplant. A few years later, as part of a study by neuropsychologist Pearsall, she met the young Spanish-speaking man who had received her late husband’s heart. Filled with emotion, Glenda asked if she could lay her hand on his chest. “I love you, David,” she said, and the young man said, “Everything’s copacetic.” The young man’s mother, also present, was startled. “My son uses that word now,” she said. “He never said it before his heart transplant. I don’t know that word; it doesn’t exist in Spanish. But it was the first thing he said after the operation.”

Her son appeared to have changed in other ways too. Before, he had been a health-conscious vegetarian; now he craved meat and greasy food. He had loved heavy metal music; now he played nothing but fifties rock ’n’ roll. Glenda’s husband had been an ardent meat-lover and played in a rock ’n’ roll band. It seems that the heart has a memory, and transferred part of its previous owner’s personality to the recipient in a transplant.

The book provides other remarkable examples of transplanted hearts with memories. For example, an 8-year-old girl received the heart of a 10-year-old girl who had been murdered. The recipient ended up at a psychiatrist’s office, plagued by nightmares about her donor’s murderer. She said she knew who the man was. After a few sessions, the psychiatrist decided to notify the police. Following the girl’s memories, they tracked down the murderer. The man was convicted on evidence she had provided the first clues about: the time, the weapon, the place, the clothes he wore, what his victim told him. Everything the girl said turned out to be true.

And the heart of an 8-year-old Jewish boy who died in a car wreck ended up in a 3-year-old Arab girl with a dangerous heart condition. As soon as the girl woke up from the surgery, she asked by name for a type of Jewish candy an Arab girl could not have known existed.

These cases raise the fascinating question: If your heart contains a part of who you are, and you donate it upon your crossing, are you really gone? Does part of you live on in the recipient of your organ? Your likes and dislikes, and your hopes and fears continue to operate on the Earth Plane, so all of you didn’t cross over. Of course, you did cross over; it’s just that a part of your physical body continues to live for the rest of the recipient’s lifetime, but it remains a fascinating issue to reflect on.

As always, your comments are welcome.

Sea World Trainer Killed

Dawn Brancheau, the Sea World trainer who was killed in the afternoon of Wednesday, February 24, was dragged into the tank by the killer whale, Tilikum. Dawn, 40-year-old veteran animal trainer, was petting the killer whale when he violently turned on her, pulled her into his tank and drowned her under the water. The killer whale is allegedly responsible for two other deaths. Now, the investigation may shift its focus into why Dawn was handling the killer whale that had already claimed the lives of two individuals.

During the press conference, President of Sea World Orlando Dan Brown stated, “We have never in the history of our park experienced an incident like this, and all of our standard operating procedure will come under review.” However, in 1999, in the same Orlando Sea World Park, a homeless man was found dead in the tank with Tilikum. Additionally, there have been 22 incidents involving killer whales at Sea World, and several fatalities. And I’m sure that in every case, those involved were doing what they loved the most – working with these magnificent animals.

This is vaguely reminiscent of the 2006 death of Steve Irwin, the so-called Crocodile Hunter. Steve Irwin died in Australia doing what he loved best, getting too close to one of the dangerous animals he dedicated his life to protecting with an irrepressible, effervescent personality that propelled him to global television fame. The 44-year-old Irwin’s heart was pierced by the serrated, poisonous spine of a stingray as he swam with the creature while shooting a new TV show on the Great Barrier Reef.

Anyone who deals with Nature’s raw tooth and claw knows the risks, yet is prepared to pay the ultimate price of their work. And readers of this blog know there are no accidents – each crossing was perfectly planned and brilliantly executed … otherwise it wouldn’t have happened.

The difference here is that the stingray was in its natural environment, while the whale isn't, and may be subject to more stress.

Either way, more power to both the humans and the animals …

Swine Flu Pandemic? Blink and You’ll Miss It

Six months ago, the so-called authorities told us sheeple what ‘could’ happen as ‘the deadly Swine Flu virus’ got a hold of us. If you think it was bad in the U.S., the Brits went even crazier. Virologist John Oxford said half the population could be infected, and that his lowest estimate was 6,000 dead. Britain’s chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, talked about 65,000 potential fatalities, with 350 corpses a day littering the streets, reminiscent of the Black Death. The media went berserk, and the World Health Organization declared a ‘level six alert’ to prepare us for the worst. And if anyone questioned this drivel, they were dismissed as ‘extremists.’

When people started reporting swine flu to be even milder than ordinary flu, Donaldson accused them of complacency and told them, “Wait for next winter.” He bought 32 million masks for Brits, and spent more than £1billion on Tamiflu and vaccines. It was pure panic-mongering, and the media bought right into it. So who won?

The drug companies, of course, are laughing all the way to the bank. They’ve sold $1.5 billion worth of swine flu shots, in addition to the $1 billion for seasonal flu they booked earlier this year. And this is just a fraction of the $20 billion global vaccine market. According to Bruce Carlson, spokesperson for the publisher of an annual survey of the vaccine industry, “The vaccine market is booming. It's an enormous growth area for pharmaceuticals at a time when other areas are not doing so well.”

As always with pandemics, we the people foot the $1.5 billion bill for the 250 million swine flu vaccines that the government has ordered so far and will be distributing free to doctors, pharmacies and schools. In addition, Congress has set aside over $10 billion in 2010 to research flu viruses and educate (brainwash?) the public about prevention. While drugmakers pocket most of the vaccine revenues, doctors collect copayments for office visits for injections, and profit handsomely from these vaccinations. Pharmacies also charge co-payments or full price of about $25 to those without insurance. There’s an old saying that goes, “Find a need and fill it.” Well, now we’ve got, “Create a need and fill it.” But is expecting anything different from Big Pharma unrealistic? Your comments?

What Were They Thinking?

Three recent and amazing news stories had us wondering, “What were they thinking?”

University of Alabama

A biology professor at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus was charged with murder late Friday in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus. Those who knew her said Amy Bishop had never suggested she might become violent, and everyone from family and friends to her students said the intelligent and at times aloof teacher seemed normal in the hours before police say she opened fire in a faculty meeting Friday afternoon, leaving three dead and three wounded.

As to motive, Bishop didn't hide her displeasure over the fact she'd been denied tenure – a type of job-for-life security afforded to academics – and when that happens, you’re expected to resign rather than wait to be fired. Apparently, Bishop was up front about the issue, and often brought it up at inappropriate times, said William Setzer, chairman of the chemistry department.

Bishop was calm as she got into a police car Friday, denying that the shootings occurred. "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive." Well, seems three people had exit points that day, but when Bishop aimed her gun at another woman and pulled the trigger, a loud click said it was empty. Not an exit point for her.

Austin, Texas

Seems Texan Joseph Andrew Stack had a with a serious beef with the Internal Revenue Service that left one person dead and 13 people hurt - two critically - after he deliberately flew his small plane into a building where the IRS had about 200 workers. Loaded with extra fuel, the plane 'felt like a bomb blowing up' said staff sitting at their desks. "The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran."

Stack apparently acted alone, and was presumed dead, police said. He left a rambling suicide note on a website page two days before the crash in which he ranted against the IRS, the Catholic Church, tax loopholes, bailouts and his own sorry state of affairs. "Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," the page read.

He talked about the "storm raging in my head" and railed against taxation without representation. "Anyone who really stands up for that principal (sic) is promptly labeled a 'crackpot', traitor and worse," the page said.

Stack was angered by a "handful of thugs and plunderers (that) can commit unthinkable atrocities" including bailed out GM executives and the drug and insurance companies who "are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple." He hoped that "the American zombies wake up and revolt," and at times wrote that he was at a breaking point.

Florida

In this third story, no one died but Tiger Woods may have felt close at times. There’s no need to detail the bevy of beautiful blonde women left in his wake, in addition to his drop-dead gorgeous wife. Satellite radio shock-jock Howard Stern announced on February 25 that he's organizing a March 10 beauty pageant, for which the only entry requirement is that you're an ex-mistress of Tiger Woods. Segments will include swimsuit, talent and personality. So far, four have signed up. Meanwhile, reports of a Million Mistress March on Washington are believed to be exaggerated.

Apart from trouble with the missus, this fiasco has cost him plenty. On December 8, 2009, several advertisers tentatively suspended TV ads featuring Woods after the news of his alleged affairs emerged. Major sponsors initially pledged support and to retain Woods, but he was suspended by Gillette on December 11, and completely dropped by Accenture on December 13. On December 18, TAG Heuer dropped Woods "for the foreseeable future" from its advertising campaigns, and on January 1, 2010, AT&T announced the end of its sponsorship of Woods. On January 13, General Motors ended a free car loan deal that had been due to end on December 31, 2010.

A December 2009 study by two university economics professors estimated that the sponsor business losses caused by Woods' alleged affairs to be between $5 billion and $12 billion.

So again, we’re left shaking our heads and wondering, “What were they thinking? Clearly, they weren’t and had no clue what’s waiting for them on the Other Side.

Oh, well …

James Arthur Ray: Manslaughter Charges Filed

The news broke today that yesterday, Wednesday, February 3, self-styled New Age guru, speaker and writer James Ray was charged with three counts of manslaughter in connection with the three deaths that occurred during the sweat lodge he put on as part of his recent Spiritual Warrior retreat in Sedona. The sweat lodge was intended to be physically challenging in order to spur spiritual growth.

Ray is being held on a $5million bond and, if found guilty on all three counts, faces up to 37 years behind bars. He awaited transfer to the Camp Verde Detention Center, according to a statement by Yavapai County Sheriff, Steve Waugh. The statement also said, “Sheriff Waugh would like to thank the victim’s families for their patience while the Sheriff’s Office completed a thorough and comprehensive investigation. With the arrest of James Ray, Sheriff Waugh hopes the families of the three victims will now have some measure of closure to this tragedy.” Ray’s initial court appearance is scheduled for Thursday in Camp Verde Superior Court sometime today.

During the five-day retreat, for which attendees paid about $9,000, participants were pushed to their spiritual and physical limits by fasting for 36 hours and cramming into a 415-square foot, sauna-like hut – essentially a wood frame covered in tarps and blankets. Due to excessive heat and overcrowding, dozens of people were throwing up and/or passing out, but were urged to stay inside the sweat lodge. However, three (Kirby Brown, 38, James Shore, 40, and Liz Neuman, 49) did make it out, but not through the door. And 18 more suffered injuries, some requiring a trip to the hospital.

As opposed to murder charges, manslaughter means that, while Ray didn’t intend the deaths, his gross negligence played a major role in them.

Great Book from Dr. Jeffrey Long!

Over the period of ten years or so, Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist studied hundreds of personal accounts of near-death-experiences and found some consistent similarities over the stories, regardless of nationality, religion, race, culture, and other demographics. He published his findings in Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. He also recently appeared on the Today Show, and talked about the 9 arguments that prove the existence of life after death that he’s compiled over the years. Some of these arguments include:

• Although it can't be medically explained, people experience consciousness when they are clinically dead. Furthermore, that consciousness is much more vivid and lucid than normal, day-to-day consciousness.
• Blind people experience visual perceptions during their NDE, even though they do not dream in visuals. He includes stories from people blind since birth, with no perception of sight whatsoever, yet in NDEs, they had remarkable visuals. This is because blindness affects only the physical body and not the Etheric body.
• Children have NDEs similar to adults, though they may have never been exposed to this concept, so have not been contaminated by the accounts of others.
• The ‘life review’ that many experience reflects real events in their lives, so is not some generalized woo-woo ‘out there’ thing.

NDEs can and do happen to people of a wide variety of backgrounds, religions, belief systems, cultures, etc., and are amazingly consistent in their content.

Long presents countless enlightening and inspirational personal stories of NDE experiencers, who report that the overwhelming peace, love and joy on the Other Side changed their lives, and give them a purpose.

This book is a ‘must read’ for anyone serious about Death Without Fear.

What Dreams May Come

Last evening, I rewatched this great movie, starring Robin Williams as Chris, Annabella Sciorra as his wife, Annie, and his spirit guide, played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. After Chris crosses over in a car wreck, he tries to stay close to his wife as he enjoys a beautiful soul plane location for himself. In the beginning, his reality is static like a painting so he asks his guide how to make it move. “Use your intent,” he’s told. So far, pretty accurate. Sadly, all his efforts to communicate with Annie fall on deaf ears. If only she’d read this blog, she would have known he’d be trying that and have been more open to contact.

However, when Annie commits suicide, she is banished to a hellish existence. His guide tells Chris, “She’s gone to hell for all eternity.” That is soooo hugely not the way it is. Sure, any negative thoughts suicides may have could create unpleasant experiences, but no one consigns suicides to ‘the bad place.’ But they are free to go there if they choose.

Along with his guide, Chris goes searching for Annie in her hellish creations so he can spend eternity with her – a quest that literally takes him to hell and back. A priest on the edge of hell tells him, “Suicides can get pretty tortured. Be careful  – you’ve got no defense against hell. Once her reality becomes yours, there’s no way back.”

When Chris finds Annie, she’s so deep in guilt and denial that she doesn’t know who he is. However, she does finally recognize him when he moves to hell to be with her. At one point, he tells her, “What happens in our minds is true,” and he invites her to join him in the reality he has created.

In the end, his positive thoughts overpower her negative thinking, because one day, he wakes up in his reality and Annie is with him. So they get to enjoy together the beautiful ‘good place’ his thinking has created for her. (Incredible visual effects.) And in a truly tear-jerking moment, they are reunited with their two kids, who had crossed over years earlier, also in a car wreck.

Then, the kids encourage their parents to do their life over, this time making different choices. So, in a delightful twist, they decide to incarnate again, and meet up as a little girl and boy, playing with model boats on a lake … and she shares her sandwich with him.

Overall, this is a stunning movie, and pretty accurate about the ‘good place,’ but very troubling in its treatment of the fate of suicides. Anyone with a loved one who crossed themselves over should disregard that part completely. Far from being consigned to a fiery pit for eternity, they are given special healing and nurturing. How could a loving, caring universe do otherwise?

Happy New Year!

UFO or Rocket Failure? … You Decide

On December 10, this amazing sight appeared over Tromso, Norway:

  

 

The Interfax news agency said on Thursday, December 10: “The spectacular plume of light was produced in the wake of Russia's nuclear-capable Bulava missile. It was test-fired from a submarine in the White Sea before dawn on Wednesday. It was the 12th test launch of the Bulava and the seventh time the firing has ended in failure.”

“At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians,” said Pavel Felgenhauer, a leading Russian defense expert. He added, “Russia’s armed forces would consider the latest failure of the Bulava to be a major embarrassment.”

At least that’s the official story. However, in his December 17 newsletter, Messages from Matthew, Matthew offers a very different account (www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=115&z=2). He said:

 “This is the most profound sign yet from our brothers and sisters in other civilizations that the time is nearing for their presence to be properly acknowledged—there is no way that those who do not want that to happen can explain away this dramatic sign. The overall spiral represents the unbroken interconnectedness of all souls from our Beginnings in the light—the intense light at the center—and the blue spiral aimed at Earth is the most forceful evidence to date of their desire for us to consciously connect with them in the same spirit they have come. The timing and location are significant, selected to mark the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Obama for his vision and dedication to achieving world peace and to indicate that they are here to assist us reach this goal.

“As you have seen, an attempt was made to ‘explain it away’ as a Russian missile, and a different theory has it coming from HAARP. We could not help but smile at the bumbling around the missile claim and crediting that nefarious manmade grid system with the astounding display produced by the technology of your multidimensional brotherhood.”

 Also, on the UFO theme, on December 18, the news services reported that a giant pyramid which appeared to be a UFO hovering over the Kremlin has caused frenzied speculation in Russia that it is an alien spacecraft. Witnesses estimated it could be up to a mile wide.

 Film clips appear to show the object, and footage has been repeatedly playing on Russian television news channels. The shots, one taken at night from a car and one during the day, were both filmed by amateurs. The 'craft' was said to have hovered for hours over Red Square in the Russian capital. The clips of the 'invasion' have gone to the top of the country's version of YouTube. The identity of the shape has not been confirmed. Russian reports ruled out a UFO but police refused to comment.

 Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO analyst, said, “It’s one of the most extraordinary UFO clips I've ever seen. At first I thought this was a reflection but it appears to move behind a power line, ruling out this theory.”

 Below is a still photo of the pyramid, and you can see the video at:

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkpbNMHk3Xs

 

Now why is the UFO/ET connection relevant to the theme of this blog? It’s because of the ETs’ beliefs about death, reincarnation, and life on the other side. They lovingly regard the views promulgated by our organized religions as charmingly naïve. The ET presence such as those in these two stories are messages aimed at those in power who are blocking full disclosure of the ET presence around our planet. In effect, they are saying: “If you don’t come clean about the fact that we’re here, we will go over your heads and go straight to the people, who will then start asking questions as to what’s going on.”

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end

I recently found this beautiful little essay floating on the Internet. If the author happens to read this, please contact me so I can cite you as the source:

There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.

So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won't matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end. It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought but what you built, not what you got but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence but your character.

What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

What will matter is not your memories but the memories that live in those who loved you.

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters.

Me again. I would like to add to that, people don’t remember you for what you told them, but for how you made them feel. So, one way to live a life that matters is to make everyone you meet feel good about themselves … and in turn, feel good about you.

So, have at it … starting now. Pick up the phone and tell someone you love them. Or the next time you’re in the supermarket, tell the cashier at the checkout something that is sincerely true, such as, "What a lovely smile you have."

Picasso Reincarnated?

Pablo Picasso (1881 –1973) was a Spanish painter, who co-founded the Cubist movement around 1906. His early work, however, was delightfully simple, especially his Rose period of 1905 – 1906. Here are two examples from that era – Girl and Goat, and Womanflower:

  

Changing notes completely, this morning, NBC’s Today Show featured a story about Kieron Williamson, the seven-year-old English boy who paints in Picasso’s early style so convincingly and so quickly that this case screams either reincarnation or massive overlay. A batch of his paintings recently sold at a gallery for $28,000 in just 14 minutes. His paintings literally flew off the gallery walls into collectors’ arms.

On the Today Show, Kieron actually turned out a masterpiece in the studio in less than a half-hour. Here are a few examples of this young man’s genius. You be the judge:

  

   

Others liken his work to that of another Norfolk resident, Edward Seago (1910 - 19740). Here's an example of his work.

Whether this young man is channeling Picasso, Seago or just his higher self, he is a child-prodigy of the first order and has brought major spirit talent into this life, for the enjoyment of us all.

An Old Soul’s View of the News

As of now, there’s an incredible mix of stories in the news. The most tragic story concerns four police officers in Lakewood, WA, a suburb of Tacoma, who were in a coffee shop, just relaxing before their shift when they were brutally gunned down. The perpetrator was allegedly a 37-year-old guy who, nine years ago was serving a 95-year prison sentence and the governor of Arkansas paroled him. Between them, the four officers leave eight children missing a parent. Bottom line to this tragedy: every day, before you leave home, tell those you love that you love them, for you never know when it’s your day to die.

On a different note, there’s a tempest in a teacup over a couple who sneaked into a White House reception, and created a huge storm. The press has gone crazy with the story, making up lies about how the couple demanded money to talk to the media. Nice people, actually so definitely a “get a life” story.

Meanwhile, Wayne Dyer, the self-help guru, will need to call on himself to deal with his diagnosis of leukemia. More power to you, Wayne. Be strong, I’m rooting for you.

Down in Windermere, Florida, golfer Tiger Woods is at the center of a media frenzy for having a single-vehicle accident involving his SUV and a fire hydrant. Admittedly, the damage was extreme, but it’s his affair so to the press, “Get a life.”

Elsewhere in the U.S., Black Friday saw 195 million people begin their spending of an average of $343 each, for a total of a whopping $67 billion. That should get the economy rolling again. The biggest winner, apart from Wal-Mart, of course, was Amazon.com. Think about it … only 10% of people on this planet can read yet a bookstore is the second largest retailer in this country. How cool is that?

The news also reported that banks are finding it more profitable to let houses go into foreclosure than renegotiate mortgages, due to the huge fees they can charge defaulting homeowners. And remember, we the people bailed out these same banks, who are now turning families out on the street just in time for the holidays. Sounds a lot like Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life.  To the folk at BofA, Wells, Chase, Citibank and others, is this how you want to be remembered in the history books?

Senator John Ensign (R) of Nevada continues to be in the hot seat for having an affair with a staffer, and some people think it’s a big deal. Of course, he’s feeling some heat at home, but how does it affect his ability to represent my state? Definitely, “Get a life” time.

Back in the summer of 2009, Las Vegas headliner Danny Gans finished his autobiography The Voices in My Head and crossed over that same night, and the city was stunned at the departure of this legend at such a young age. Today his book was published, and his children talked to the media, revealing that at home, he was “just Dad,” who often turned to his kids for fashion advice. Now the kids are being strong for their mother Julie. Brave people! What a set of contracts!

In news of the bizarre, a Long Island Wal-Mart burned to the ground because a Christmas tree spontaneously caught fire – weird. And finally, a rogue turkey is terrorizing the town of Brooklyn, NY, and has a penchant for attacking cars. Great way to balance the forces of nature. You go, gobbler!

It’s Here … This Blog in Hardcopy Book Form

That’s right. I’ve formatted the first year’s worth of these posts in the form of a 300-page book titled Death Is Only a Word. To find out how to get YOUR copy, go to www.deathwithoutfear.com/death_is_only_a_word.htm. There, you will read how to send $20 plus $5 shipping and handling to my account at www.PayPal.com, and giving me your mailing address. Then I just put a copy of the book in the mail. The beauty of this format is that you can read this blog anywhere, rather than needing a computer hookup.

Also on the book front, I’ve almost finished writing Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which is a tongue-in-cheek book along the lines of Death Without Fear, only written for those already on the Other Side. Dandelion Publications will also be publishing this volume, due out in the spring.

Well, it’s now the day after Thanksgiving, and I hope you gave thanks for being alive, for each breath you took, and for all the people you love and those who love you. Trust me, after almost crossing over back in January of this year, you can be sure I did. Of course, knowing what happens when we cross over removes any and all fear of going to the Other Side, but I still enjoy life on this side of the veil, and am in no hurry to leave. There are too many beautiful women still unkissed.

The web site www.debunkingskeptics.com recently featured a great 4-minute video about  pseudoskeptics, who deny the reality of the topic of this blog, via an unthinking knee-jerk reaction. Here’s the gist of the video:

Most of us live with uncertainty in our daily lives, but pseudoskeptics are dysfunctional in that they cannot handle uncertainty, so they create a bleakly sterile world where everything is black-and-white. And their fear of uncertainty forces them to try to inflict their internal misery on the rest of us.

The more deeply we look into the universe, the less certain it gets, which pseudoskeptics deal with by going into mental paralysis. In fact, uncertainty runs the universe and our lives, and only by accepting this uncertainty can we grow. Pseudoskeptics who live black-and-white lives stunt their intellect and deny their true potential.

Belief without full knowledge is the very trait that separates humans from robots. Intelligence bases itself on assumptions that are insufficient, otherwise nothing would ever get done. Pseudoskeptics cannot accept that uncertainty is essential to form genuine intelligence. If you want everything sewn up in black-and-white, you lose a lot of the texture of life. Pseudoskeptics miss the shades and dapples in the texture, the unknowns, the unsolved elements of life – where the art of living lies.

Uncertainly keeps us thinking and alive. Pseudoskeptics never ask genuine questions or display curiosity, thus their intelligence is only half-formed. The only true stance in life is to question. Pseudoskeptics are dysfunctional in that they do not question. Functional people celebrate life's mysteries and not knowing for sure. It thrills us, yet strikes fear in the heart of pseudoskeptics.  Pseudoskepticism is a cognitive disorder, in which one clings to a simplistic black-and-white cartoon of the world in which all is reduced to a few elementary equations.

So, go ahead and relish your beliefs in the Other Side, the Afterlife, ETs and UFOs! It’s the fabric of life!

PS, I'm currently watching a documentary on the History Channel about how the British government is planning a program of disclosure about the UFO channel for next year. Finally!

ET Disclosure May Be Closer Than You Think

I recently posted that the Obama Administration might open up the UFO/ET issue through a program of disclosure. My remark was prompted by something in the latest Matthew Speaks newsletter which you can read at: (http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=113&z=2). Matthew says, “For several years various messengers of the light have been telling you about the spiritually, intellectually and technologically advanced civilizations surrounding you—soon you will hear this truth from persons in your world whom you trust and respect. … Members of the highest council that designed the master plan of Earth’s Golden Age have been observing the pace of flux in the collective consciousness, and they have agreed that the day is nearing when the presence of your celestial brotherhood must become widely known. … According to information reaching us about the ‘unveiling,’ it will be understated rather than dramatic, such as a simultaneous fleet of spacecraft decloaking or a host of visitors landing.”

However, the revelation may not come from Washington, but from the Vatican! Indication of this came in a radio talk show in Dublin, Ireland hosted by a guy named Gareth. His guest, a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer named Sweeps Fox, talked about a Vatican conference held last Thursday, November 12, to talk about the reality of our ET neighbors. Fox said he believes that the Vatican is getting the Catholic faithful psychologically ready for the world-wide acknowledgment of UFO/ET reality soon. You can listen to the interview yourself at: http://www.irishufology.net/streams/Sweeps-4FM-interview-Vatican-Hosting-UFO-ET-conference.mp3 

Fox said that it’s well-known that the Vatican has been involved in the ET issue for decades, and has operated its own observatory since the 19^th century. It currently operates a second facility in Arizona in conjunction with our own NASA.

Apparently, the Vatican wants to slowly leak the truth while at the same time upholding Catholic doctrine. The conference was ‘flying the kite’ of leakage to test the response of the faithful in readiness for full-blown disclosure.

This follows a papal appearance on Italian TV to talk about the subject and five appearances by Vatican prelate, the late Monsignor Balducci, who went much further … with the pope’s full blessing. Msgr. Balducci is famous for saying, a few years ago, “Belief in ETs is entire consistent with a belief in God.”

If what Fox said is true, then when the pope comes out publically with an announcement, the mainstream media will have a feeding frenzy and crawl all over the story and its implications. And, of course, they will demand a response from Washington, so President Obama will have no alternative but to come clean also, and suddenly every cat in the world will be out of the bag.

So why am I telling you this? Because it paves the way for face-to-face contact between us and our ET brethren, and that opens us up for meaningful dialog about life, the universe and everything. This obviously will include their views on life, death and the afterlife, on the nature of consciousness, on reincarnation, and so on.

Should be interesting …

Get a Life … and Keep It!

Today’s morning TV news told three stories back-to-back that demonstrate how upside down our society is. The first concerned the movie New Moon, the second installment of Stephenie Meyers’ four-book Twilight series, that opens with sneak preview midnight showings tonight. The movie tells the story of the triangle romance between Bella Swan (played by Kristen Stewart), a werewolf and a vampire. Yes, it’s a fascinating exploration of the mystery of the supernatural world, but the viewing public’s reaction is off the scale. Reminiscent of the Harry Potter movies, would-be movie goers camped out on sidewalks for days to get tickets for the movie’s debut, and those who were unsuccessful are still camped out waiting for tickets to the actual premiere. This puts the phenomenon in the ‘get a life’ hall of fame.

The second story was about another ‘get a life’ scenario that played out yesterday with the Sarah Palin book signing for Going Rogue, a mediocre tell-all that amply demonstrates her total lack of presidential caliber. Nevertheless, hundreds of people spent days camped out on the sidewalks of Grand Rapids, MI, to get the prized wristband that would get them into the bookstore. After not sleeping for 34 hours and spending nights outside in the cold, waiting for an autograph on her copy of Palin's book, one fan said, “I don't know who I am or where I am right now, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.” Another story that’s a candidate for the ‘get a life’ hall of fame.

On the other hand, the third story involved something that most people know nothing about, yet is the cause of untold tragedy, including, according to the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), over 500 deaths in the United States from 1996 to 1999 – substance inhalation, or ‘huffing.’

Unlike illegal drugs that are made difficult to acquire, products being inhaled include common household items such as Pam food spray and aerosol sprays intended to clean out computer keyboards. This contains the chemical difluoroethane, and the can labels have conspicuous warnings about misuse of the product. Well, it is being misused by kids as young as seven to get a temporary euphoric high. A wide variety of substances, including many common household products, are abused by inhalers. The 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse revealed that the primary population of inhalant abusers is aged 12 – 17, and in 2000, 18% of eighth graders admitted to have huffed at least once in their lifetime.

Short-term side-effects of this deadly practice include dizziness, hallucinations, delusions, belligerence, apathy, and impaired judgment. Long-term use can lead to depression, weight loss, poor coordination, irritability, and weakness, all the way up to permanent brain damage, organ failure and even cardiac arrest, although heart arrhythmia can occur on even the first use.

Parents of teens need to be especially vigilant about the signs of huffing, since the abused substances are simple household items and not readily identifiable as drugs of abuse, which makes them attractive to curious teens and pre-teens.

So, the first two stories were about semi-worship of cult figures by people investing huge energy to see their heroes and become part of the front-page story themselves, when they could instead just get a life and order the book from Amazon. The third story, on the other hand, should be front page news but isn’t. As a result, hundreds of teens and preteens will die.

Of course, all those deaths will be carefully planned, but the phenomenon reveals a generation with nothing more to live for than a momentary high off their mother’s can of Pam … and that’s sad!

2012 — the Movie: Hollywood Hype Gone Crazy

Last Friday, an apocalypse movie was released supposedly based on the Mayan Calendar predictions for the year 2012. According to the movie, the Mayan calendar forecasts total disaster as the Earth shifts its poles and/or collides with a rogue planet. Regardless of the source of the catastrophe, most, if not all, civilizations will perish.

Do not in any way contribute to this nonsense, or you could become a victim of Hollywood’s profiteering, and miss out on the truly momentous opportunity 2012 offers. Ask yourself a few questions:

·         What did the Mayans actually predict in the year 3113 BC when the current 5,125-year Long Count began?

·         Is this a program of the Dark Forces, intended to generate fear, possibly for further erosion of our freedom?

·         Is there actually a more beautiful picture for our world than the movie portrays?

Turns out, the Mayans didn’t predict anything because, back in 3113 BC, no one knew anything about what would happen 5,125 years later in 2012. And the Mayan calendar doesn’t actually end; just a new Long Count starts. And to be afraid of that is crazy. It would be like looking at your 2009 calendar and worrying about what happens on December 31, because it’s the last day. Well, duh. Go buy a 2010 calendar from the store, and you’ll see that you have 365 more days.

Renowned seer David Wilcock actually says on his official web site (http://divinecosmos.com): “Whether something big happens in 2012 or you live out your life naturally, in the Law of One philosophy, you still live by the same principles, and no matter what, it is very clear that things are going to get a lot easier and more harmonious in a very short time from now – 100 times more harmonious, to be exact.”

Most prophets actually predict that, as planet Earth moves into the Age of Aquarius, we gradually move into a wonderful 1,000-year era called the Golden Age, as the planet and her inhabitants ascend to ever higher and more loving frequencies. So, as you go to bed on the night of December 21, 2012, you can look forward to waking up on the morning of December 22 feeling great … and ready for Christmas. So it all boils down to what 2012 means for you; you can co-create the Golden Age with me or wallow in fear and trepidation of the apocalypse.

For their part, the Mayan elders are horrified at the overly sensationalized movie, because of the false notion it spreads of Maya culture and prophecy, especially as it plays on the emotion of fear, to the point of provoking severe depression, a sense of helplessness and even suicide. For example, NASA astrobiologist David Morrison writes a column called “Ask an astrobiologist” on NASA’s website. He has been receiving questions from people genuinely worried about what may happen in 2012, and some of them are very alarming. “I've had three questions from young people saying they were contemplating committing suicide,” says Morrison. “I've had two from women contemplating killing their children and themselves. I had one last week from a person who said, 'I'm so scared; my only friend is my little dog. When should I put it to sleep so it won't suffer?”

Please do not fall victim, or allow anyone you know to fall victim, to Hollywood’s profiteering or to groups spreading fear for their own agenda. Instead, let’s create a historical legacy that will serve humanity for all time. Let’s demonstrate that mankind can prevail, ascend into beauty, live in goodness, and enjoy creating a peaceful environment so that Earth can be proud of her residents and shine alongside our galactic family.

On the latter subject, many prophets are seeing widespread disclosure on the part of the Obama Administration of the reality of the ET presence on our planet. Then the U.S. can join France, Mexico, Bolivia and many other countries regarding disclosure. That will free our ET brothers and sisters to present us with free energy generators, incredible health technology, pollution reversal and countless other goodies we can’t yet even imagine.

Fort Hood Pressure Cooker Explodes

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a perfect storm waiting to happen. And it happened on Thursday, November 5, at Fort Hood, TX, claiming the lives of 13 people and injuring 30, including the shooter who was taken down by a quick-thinking officer, Kimberly Munley, also wounded herself. Hasan, a devout Muslim, had allegedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” Arabic for “God is great!” before opening fire in the crowded processing center, where military personnel had gone for flu shots and eyesight exams before deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just like weather events, this kind of storm doesn’t just come out of nowhere, and a senior officer admitted there were several missed warnings:

1. As a Muslim, Hasan believed the U.S. should not be occupying Muslim countries.
   
2. At Walter Reed, he frequently went into pro-Muslim religious rants when treating returning soldiers.
   
3. Hasan was the target of much harassment for being Muslim and wanted out of the Army.
4. The Army command structure was under strong pressure to put as many boots on the ground in war zones as possible, regardless of psychological fitness.
5. He dreaded his upcoming deployment on November 28 because he might have to take the life of other Muslims.
6. As a psychologist himself who dealt with soldiers returning from active duty suffering from post-traumatic stress, he needed close supervision to ensure his ongoing mental stability.
7. His Internet presence included posts about the nobility of suicide, equating it to throwing yourself on a grenade to save your colleagues.

I could go on, but as an Old Soul who can’t walk past an Army recruiting office without cringing, I’ll just register surprise that incidents such as this aren’t weekly events, and applaud the fortitude, loyalty and discipline of the men and women in the Armed Forces.

My interest lies in why 13 souls chose to have their incarnations take an exit point yesterday rather than undergo deployment to war zones or continue to be employed at the base. What was it about their lives that caused their souls to say, “Okay, we’re done here,” and pull the plug? This is puzzling because military service offers unlimited opportunities to souls for their incarnations to experience physical plane drama, hence growth – danger and heroism, tragedy and loss, challenge from bodily injury, etc.

Given this, it’s odd that souls would choose relatively mundane exit points. Of course, the grief of their loved ones will be every bit as real, painful and poignant as if the crossing had occurred on a battlefield.

Often, group crossings such as this are intended by the souls involved to draw attention to something, so maybe the intent of those 13 souls is to make a public statement about the impact of war on the human psyche. After all, President Obama is in the middle of the debate about whether to send more troops into Afghanistan. This incident is critical input to that debate.

Also, this country has just tipped the scale from Young Soul to Mature Soul – the events of 9/11 took care of that – so the nation feels very differently about war than in WWII, when the U.S. was a Late Young Soul country and its enemies were obvious. The U.S. went to war and, of course, prevailed against them, but today, as an Early Mature Soul country with no clear enemies, world events are gray rather than black-and-white.  And in many cases, we are our own worst enemy, as when the CIA pays Arabic operatives who are involved in the very drug war the DEA is trying to stamp out. (Many regard the rush to war led by the trio of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld made many people feel that the ‘axis of evil’ actually ran down Pennsylvania Avenue.)

Of course, we’ll never know why those 13 souls left, but it makes one wonder …

Good Hearts and Common Sense Prevail

Back on September 29, I posted the story of the Ohio couple who had been implanted with another couple’s frozen embryo. Well, that story played out yesterday … and ended well, very well, in fact.

At the St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, the woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a healthy boy. Sean and Carolyn Savage immediately handed the baby to his biological parents, Paul and Shannon Morell, of Troy, Mich.

In a statement, the Savages offered congratulations to the Morells. “At this time, we would like to offer our heartfelt congratulations to the Morell family on the birth of their son. We wish Paul, Shannon, their twin girls and their new baby boy the best, as they move forward with their lives together.”

The Savages asked for privacy, saying, “Our family is going through a very difficult time. We would like to thank people around the world for their support and prayers, and the medical professionals for their care and treatment throughout the pregnancy and delivery.”

The Savages said both couples had unused frozen embryos at a fertility clinic outside Ohio, which transferred the wrong frozen embryo back in February. Ten days after the transfer, a doctor at the clinic called, saying Carolyn was pregnant with someone else’s child. The Morells learned about the mistake a day later, and feared that the other couple would choose abortion, ending the Morells’ chance to have another child. They were relieved to learn that the Savages never considered terminating the pregnancy or trying to fight for custody, and were willing to go to term and hand over the baby without hesitation.

The 40-year-old Carolyn said, “In the beginning, we just knew this was someone else’s child. We didn't know who it was or if they didn't have children and this was their last chance for a child.”

How wonderful that this potential tragedy played out the way it did, with the two couples behaving like true Old Souls, especially the Savages, who seem to have done everything in their power to bring about a smooth transfer. And my heart goes out to Carolyn, who is the real heroine of the story. Due to complications, she can’t get pregnant again, so is planning to use a surrogate mother to bring their remaining embryos to term.

On a final note, we know that everything in our lives is planned carefully before we incarnate. Amazing that the souls involved planned to have this wrinkle in their lives.

What a story the newborn will have to tell when he grows up!

Overload

This post features a great article by Dolly Mae, a friend, client and all-round fun person, and is used with Dolly’s permission (www.dollymae.com):

 

Media Overload

Recently I was overloaded with negative input about potential disasters for the earth, natural and man-made. This overload produced a curious result. I was no longer afraid. I no longer worried. I decided I had little or no voice and even less input. In the face of such overwhelming negative potentials, our only recourse is Love. It was an odd experience, this retreat into a place of expansion and safety.

 

Our Power

Our consciousness is more powerful than any possibility of negativity. Thoughts are real.  We’ve heard this over and over, but what it means here is that our thoughts make our reality. Individually, each of us is responsible for what we think and thus create. Thoughts PLUS emotions create. Our consciousness has more power than any wave, virus, molecule or thought that could be beamed at us, spoken to us or come into our awareness. OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE OUR FUTURE! This is our true power.

 

Overcoming Fear

Mind control, hexes, spells and viruses are no more powerful than the energy you give them.  Years ago, I was ‘professionally hexed’ by a group of people who believed in such things. I always wondered what would happen if I came under the influence of Voodoo type negativity/ curses. At that time I was studying A Course In Miracles, and the lesson that day was, “You already are as God created you; therefore you cannot be added to or subtracted from.”  How perfect! I KNEW, beyond any doubt, that the hexing exercise needed a sender and a receiver.  I was not receiving. My joy at this awareness as the hexing was happening exceeded all bounds and I sent that joy coupled with love to the perpetrators. The next day, each member of that group presented themselves individually asking me how my night was. I was grinning from ear to ear in joy until my cheeks hurt. I looked them in the eye and said it was wonderful and thanked each one. Henceforth that group sought me out, asked my advice and included me in their ‘family.’ It was fascinating. Unable to influence me, they wanted my strength in their group.

 

Viruses and Such

Today we are faced with propaganda fear concerning viruses. Do not get caught up in the debates about the truth or fiction, the source, the intent or the outcome of a possible issue. Strength does not lie in the debate.  Your strength lies in your decision to use your mind to create the reality that is best for you. Remember, you cannot be added to, nor subtracted from. “You already are as God created you.”  So use your fine mind to align with health, wholeness and most of all Love.  All else is fear. Choose which one you wish to give your power to.  The native people say that within each of us is a wolf and a dog. Which one will you feed?

 

Overwhelm

Overwhelm does not mean complacency and giving up because you may feel powerless. Overload can blow the circuits of belief you have in other peoples’ agendas and ideas. Retreat within yourself into that place of power that has always been there. You are the creator of your own beliefs. Do not purchase those of others at great cost to yourself.  You get to decide. You are very powerful.  Feel resonance within and you will know what is truth for you. Throw out what doesn’t resonate.

 

Healing

Healing occurs in a moment. Your consciousness has a huge effect on it, within you or another. If you’ve ever done any healing, you know you need to clear your energy after working with someone. Clear your own energy after hearing negative statements that are fear-based. You can do this by washing your hands consciously, not out of fear but as a sacred cleansing. You can do this using sage, cedar, incense, visualizing yourself in a shower of golden light, using a singing bowl or bell, or any other consciousness lifting method. It is by your intention and thought that clearing and healing occur, not by the ‘accuracy’ of any method.  You cannot do it wrong!  Your consciousness is in control.  If you think you are wrong, you are.  If you think you are right, you are.

 

Surrender to the Master Within

Your surrender to your own power is the key to your own future and to the future of this planet. This is mastery. Nostradamus’ predictions stopped coming true two decades ago.  So too with Edgar Cayce’s predictions. They both said consciousness was the powerful key to shifting any negativity on this planet and in this universe. Our choice is between Love or Fear. If you find yourself in fear, choose again.

Choose Joy.  It’s always an option!

 

Me again. I’m grateful to Dolly for her inspiring words, which can easily be applied to the theme of this blog. Especially, do not buy into the fear-based thoughts on the subject, but dance to your own drum. You get to decide what’s true for you, no one else – not friends or family, not religions, not schools. No one!

When you tap into your Higher-Self, or the Superconscious mind, you discover that well of wisdom calmly residing deep inside your mind, or the clear voice of your soul. Once you find this inner voice, understand it, and listen to it, all your questions are answered. Then, it’s just a matter of trusting it.

And if anyone thinks you’re strange or weird for believing what you do, relish in your weirdness and ask them if the media overload of fear-based beliefs makes them happy.

Bet it doesn’t!

Compelling Evidence from the Other Side

The best evidence for survival of our consciousness upon leaving the physical body comes when a communicator from the Other Side reveals some news that is unknown to the sitters and is confirmed only some time later. Here are two stories that epitomize that evidence.

The first comes from a 1923 book, Guidance from Beyond, by Kate Wingfield, in which she tells of how Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858-1927), one of Great Britain’s leading barristers, denied all possibility of a future life. Now, Hall had a sister with whom Wingfield was a close personal friend. Wingfield, an automatic writing and trance medium, was staying with the sister when Hall, her brother, paid them a visit. The sister knew of her brother’s disbelief in such things, but asked him to participate in a sitting. Under much protest, Hall agreed.

From his pocket, Hall pulled out a letter which he had received the previous day. He folded up the letter, still in its envelope, and put it in another envelope, which he sealed. There was no writing on the outside of the outer envelope.  He handed it to Wingfield, and said, “Identify the location of the writer.”

In automatic writing, Wingfield wrote: “The writer of that letter is dead.”

This news added to Hall’s skepticism, so he asked, “When and where did the writer die?”

“He died yesterday in South Africa.”

In his account, Hall wrote, “I had mentioned no sex and given no indication of locality, and the answer, though curious, seemed ridiculous. To say that I was puzzled is to put it mildly. This letter, which I had received the previous day was from my brother in South Africa, mailed three weeks earlier. I had not told my sister of this letter and she could not have known of its existence.”

Three weeks after the sitting, Hall received a letter from a clergyman in South Africa dated the day before the sitting that said, “Your brother was found dead in his bed this morning.”

Hall wrote: “I need hardly say that I was staggered at the communication, and I came to the conclusion then, and I still believe, that this message can only have been communicated through Miss Wingfield by some agency outside this sphere. Telepathy, clairvoyance, thought-reading are eliminated absolutely. I was ignorant of the fact that the writer of the letter was at that moment lying dead in South Africa.”

Hall later determined that his brother had died about 36 hours prior to the receipt of the message through Wingfield and the death was unknown to anyone in England until three weeks later, when the second letter was received.

Hall wrapped up his account with, “I was, and am, convinced that there is an existence beyond so-called death, and that there are means of communication between them and us. It is not given to me to see visions or hear voices, or write down messages that are sent. I realize that I am not sufficiently detached from the earthly attraction of life to be allowed myself to pierce the veil. But am I for this reason to say that these things do not exist?”

 

Don’t you love it when a closed mind gets blasted open? The second story takes us back to May 7, 1915 in Dublin, Ireland. Hester Travers Smith, a prominent author and wife of a respected physician, was using a Ouija board along with Lennox Robinson, a world-renowned Irish playwright. They were both blindfolded, and the Rev. Savell Hicks sat between them to copy the letters indicated by the board’s planchette, or traveler.

The first message spelled out: “I am Hugh Lane, all is dark.” Quite a story unfolded, but being blindfolded, Smith and Robinson had no idea as to the message. Eventually, Hicks told them that the communicator was Sir Hugh Lane, director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, who had relayed that he’d been aboard the Lusitania and had drowned.

Although distressed, they continued the sitting, and Lane told them that there was panic, the life boats were lowered, and the women went first. He was the last to get in an overcrowded life boat, but fell overboard, and lost all memory until he ‘saw a light’ at their sitting. “I did not suffer. I was drowned and felt nothing.” To establish his identity, Lane gave Smith an evidential message about the last time they had met and talked.

Later that evening, the story came out about how the passenger ship had been hit by a German torpedo (the event that took the U.S. into WWI), but none of the sitters had known that, or that Sir Hugh Lane was a passenger on the ship sailing from New York to England. In her 1919 book, Voices from the Void, Smith wrote that she had known Lane had gone to New York, but not that he was returning from New York so soon and was on that particular liner.

Sir William Barrett, professor of physics at the Royal College in Dublin, later tested the Ouija board sittings at Smith’s home, and in his 1917 book, On The Threshold of the Unseen, he explained how two members of the group would sit blindfolded at the board, their fingers lightly touching the board’s traveler, which flew from letter to letter under the direction of a ‘control.’ Sometimes, the traveler moved so rapidly that the recorder had to use shorthand. Once, following a discussion about whether the communicator really was Lane, the latter was so upset that the traveler flew clear off the table.

 

Two great stories that involve information completely unknown to the sitters, so could not have been pulled from the minds of those involved. And the odds of them making such stuff up? Forget it! So, if you have any doubt about surviving your own crossing, forget that, too. What’s true for those two guys is also true for you. Whether you cross over on the Lusitania, the Titanic or an Arctic cruise ship tomorrow, the crossing over business is identical, and hasn't changed in a million years. Survival is just the way it is, so relax and enjoy the journey. Let the destination take care of itself … just the way it’s meant to.

Who Controls Your Mind … Especially about Death?

Are you aware of the thoughts that pass through your mind? Or is your thinking just a habit, with you on autopilot? With most people, their mind is like a child who accepts whatever it sees or hears without judgment … and in doing so, they’ve lost their freedom.

Thoughts and ideas flood at us from the media and the people around us, and we’re hit by about 60,000 a day. This barrage influences the way we think, which means most people let the outside world shape their inside experience.

You might think your thoughts stem from you, but are they really yours? Maybe they’re coming from the outside and you have unconsciously accepted them.  Every time you hear the phrases: “Rest in peace,” or, “Laid to rest” in regards to someone who’s crossed over, and you don’t scoff at the phrases, they may take root a little more each time.

The antidote is to deliberately attend to every thought that enters your mind regarding the subject. This way, you make your mind free rather than a slave to other people's opinions and thoughts. Do not leave your mind open to the thoughts of others, but become aware of the thoughts that enter your mind, and ask yourself, “Do I really believe that?” After due reflection, either accept the thought into your belief system or reject it as ‘other people’s opinions.’ You may be surprised to find out how many of your thoughts come from the outside, so resolve to buy into only those thoughts you select, and reject those that ‘just popped into my head’ from the outside.

The world out there is pretty screwed up on the subject of what happens when we cross over and what the afterlife is like, so train yourself to not accept every thought you encounter on the matter. Arm yourself with a body of knowledge that works for you, and become the master of your mind, not its slave. Do not let other people's opinions (including this one) rule your world view … unless, of course, you consciously choose to.

Doing so will reduce the stress level in your life, and increase your HQ, or Happiness Quotient.

Trust me!

Newspaper Tests

Precognition, i.e., prediction of forthcoming events that could then be verified, was very important in the spiritualist movement. An important technique for this was so-called ‘newspaper tests,’ in which a communicator described a news item that would purportedly appear in a future edition of a published newspaper. The message thus provided was intended in most cases to bring evidence of his identity. The tactics were similar to those of the book tests; until reading the newspaper, the sitter had no idea in what form the message would appear. The tests were designed to show that the information given at Mrs. Leonard’s sittings went beyond the subconscious knowledge of medium or sitter.

Charles Drayton Thomas received these newspaper tests in such quantity that reading them, he said, would weary all but the most determined psychical researcher. Here is one of his simplest examples, given at a sitting December 19, 1919. It was written down just after it was received at 3:10 p.m. and was to be verified in the London Times of the following-day. Thomas writes: Having been directed to the first page and rather more than one-third down column three, I was asked to look to the left where, almost in a line with that spot, would appear my name and a little above it that of my wife ... And within an inch of those names I was to see my wife’s age.

On examining that part of the Times the next day, Thomas saw his first name, Charles, and Clara, his wife’s name, within one inch of one another. Just one and a half inches above their name was the number 51, Clara’s age until one week before when she had had a birthday.

It was Drayton Thomas’ custom to mail a copy of the newspaper tests to the Society for Psychical Research as soon as he received them. He thus documented the fact that the information had been received the day preceding the issue of the paper to which it referred.

In considering the significance of these newspaper tests it is important to know the hour at which they were given. The sitting usually ended by 5:15 p.m., and a copy of the test was mailed to London about 6:00. This was long before the newspaper of the following day had been made up. Thomas ascertained this by visiting the printing office of the Times at 4:30 one afternoon. He was shown the galley trays in which the type for the first three columns of the next day’s paper was placed as soon as it was set. At that time, the trays held barely enough type for one-quarter of a column. As the news copy arrived, it was distributed among the various linotype operators and not again collected into one place until it was set on the type trays late in the evening, and the paper was not made up until still later. Thus, on the afternoon of the day before, no one alive knew exactly what item would be in a certain location on a certain page of the next day’s Times.

Yet time and time again communicators predicted that such and such an assortment of names and data would appear on a certain area of the front page of the next day’s Times. And Drayton Thomas would usually find them there.

The following items came one day for a Dr. Dyson, a medical friend of his. It was purportedly sent by Dyson’s brother, who had successfully communicated before (the prediction appears first, followed by the actual outcome in italics):

·         The first set of tests are for your friend from his spirit communicator whose name is about halfway down the first column of the first page of the Times tomorrow. Exactly halfway down that column appears the name Dyson, which is correct.

·         Very close to it is your friend’s name or one almost similar. Two and a half inches below Dyson is the name St. Andrew’s. Until receiving his comments upon these tests I had been unaware that his second name was Andrews. “Almost similar” – the apostrophe makes the difference.

·         A little below, say three-quarters down, is the name of a place which they have visited together and much enjoyed. Dr. Dyson on inspecting the paper found in this spot a mention of Filey (a coastal resort in Yorkshire), a place where he and his brother had frequently spent vacations together.

 

Sitters were particularly struck by the evidence of personal identity given in these newspaper tests. Thomas says: “It is not the case that a number of names are given on the chance that some of them may be appropriate. There is no fishing for names, no vague suggestions such as might be applicable to almost any sitter. My communicator evidences an intimate knowledge of our relations and friends, and succeeds by means of this type of test in introducing numbers of names that had neither been transmitted previously nor mentioned in the hearing of the medium when awake. The impression made upon me has been cumulative and logically compelling. I am convinced that it is no other than my own father who has repeatedly succeeded in giving proof positive of his identity.”

The sitting below was held at 6:20 p.m. on May 7, 1920. Seven tests were given from the first page of the next day’s Times. The result was scored as six correct, one failure:

·         Look near the top of column two on the front page for reference to a neighbor living very close to you. Your father senses that there are two names together which would both refer to these neighbors. You will understand. Four inches from the top of column two appears Birds. A few doors from us reside our friends Mr. and Mrs. Bird. The relevant words ran thus: “Wood of Birds-grove.”

·         Nearly halfway down column two is the name of a man at your Mission. But it struck your father that this name would also apply to someone whom he knew on Earth years ago, although not of the same family. It reminds him of it. For some years I have been attached to the staff of the Leysian Mission, London, and among our oldest workers is a Mr. Mason. Within an inch of the midpoint of the column appears the name Mason: the position was thus foretold with absolute precision. My father knew a minister of this name forty years ago and for some years we were on terms of unusual intimacy with members of his family.

·         In column one, about a quarter of the way down is your father’s name given in connection with a place he knew very well about twenty years ago. Between a quarter and half-way down the column is the name John and one inch above it is Birkdale. My father’s name was John, and Birkdale is the name of the only house he ever owned, a house he bought nearly twenty years before when retiring from active work, and in which he resided until his death.

·         Just underneath and very close is another place he knew. He sensed it was in the south of England, direct south, a good distance from London. He only lived there a short time; it was one of the places of his shortest residence. One inch below the above was Southampton, and as my father had lived at two places near that town, I supposed the indefinite description might be intended to cover the locality. This being much too vague for evidence, I inquired at my next interview if he meant Southampton. The reply was given that it was not right, “Newport was what he intended.” I replied that Newport was not mentioned in the paper, but on returning home discovered a quarter of an inch below Birkdale a name Newbury. Passing this as a failure, and taking no note of the subsequent introduction of Newport, there yet remains the assertion that one of my father’s brief residences had been at Newport. This is quite correct. Such incidental remarks are valuable clues to identity.

·         Lower in the column he saw, or rather sensed, a reference to Ramsgate or that locality. But quite close, within an inch of it, was the name of some people your mother will remember well as having been at Ramsgate. In fact, she had a reminder of them quite lately from someone she met. These three statements proved correct. At the bottom of the column was Herne Bay, which is near Ramsgate, and is where my father sometimes visited. In the same line and within an inch of it is seen the name Joseph, which at once suggested a ministerial friend Joseph Silcox who, after leaving Ramsgate, presently settled at Herne Bay and died there. My mother has frequently met the family since then, and tells me that twelve days before this test she was hearing about them from their minister.

·         Another Ramsgate name is very close also, but this is a name of one still at Ramsgate and in whom your mother would be interested. Here I inquired whether I knew this person. The reply came, “Yes, your mother told you about him.” On referring to the Times next day there was no doubt as to this name, which is in the notice after the foregoing, although at the, top of the second column. May we suppose that it was moved there owing to a few late insertions after these tests were selected? This notice is headed Preston. A gentleman of this name is still prominent in church and temperance work at Ramsgate and was well known to my father. My mother had been speaking to me about him exactly three weeks previously. It will be noted that the wording of the text implies knowledge that while the Joseph family is no longer at Ramsgate, Mr. Preston still resides there.

·         Near the bottom of column one is your Christian name and also the name Thomas, quite close. It was so. Three-quarters down column one, and within four lines of each other, appear Thomas and The Reverend Charles. The general accuracy of position in the above tests deserves notice.

 

So what’s going on here? From Drayton Thomas’ father’s references to ‘seeing’ or ‘sensing’ what would be in the next day’s newspaper (with the layout finalized in the small hours, long after the sitting), it seems he went forward in time to after the paper was actually printed. Then the father wove in some family trivia, which established his identity beyond question.

So the newspaper tests prove survival of consciousness upon crossing over. And they give us a preview of one of the abilities we can look forward to playing with on the Other Side.

Yee-haa!

How Mediumship Works

Talking to our loved ones via a medium is so important to piercing the veil that I’ve often wondered what’s going on when a medium conveys messages to us from the Other Side. I’ve just read a great chapter about this in a book about Mrs. Gladys Leonard (1882-1968).

The four important contributors to a sitting are:

1. Communicator – the person on the Other Side who is sending the messages.
2. Control – the nonphysical being who acts as a bridge between the communicator and the human medium. Using a control avoids the need for communicators and mediums to learn how to work with each other. The control also serves as ‘traffic cop’ to prevent all the communicators bombarding the medium at once.
3. Medium – the living person who receives the messages from the control and speaks them or uses automatic writing. (This is true for a conscious medium. Leonard was a trance medium, with Feda in control.)
4. Sitter – the person who attends the sitting either to ask questions or hear the messages.

How It Works

Back in the hey-day of spiritualism, a sitting would usually open with the medium going into trance and establishing contact with the control. Then the control would describe the communicator to the medium, who passed it along to the sitter, so the latter can establish the identity of the communicator.

Now, the important part of this is that the control has learned how to interact with the medium’s mind, and can drop words and impressions directly into it. Being in trance, the medium’s conscious mind has retreated, leaving the other parts of the mind open to the control’s input. One of the medium’s big challenges is to get out of the way of the control and stay out, and it took Leonard a while to get comfortable with Feda assuming control of her body, mind and vocal cords.

Once the sitter is satisfied that the communicator is who they say they are, the real process can begin … and this is when problems can arise.  First, the communicator needs to convey information clearly to the control, which requires tremendous focus on the part of the former so images and words can be accurately transmitted. Common scenes like children playing with animals are easy to send, but more esoteric images can get scrambled by the communicator or misinterpreted by the control. And names are next to impossible. For example, how would you send ‘Parkinson’ to someone when playing Charades?

The next problem is the frame of reference of the control, which determines how they interpret the messages from the communicator. He or she may jump to a conclusion about what the message means, and thus impress the medium with total garbage, which ticks off the sitter. Feda, Mrs. Leonard’s control, often caused huge problems due to her limited vocabulary and life experience. During times of war, many communicators would be military, who would want to convey concepts way beyond a girl who died in 1800 at age 13, which Feda did. This also limited the complexity of messages, which was a shame because sitters and communicators were often highly intelligent and very well-read.

This limitation was overcome when the communicator was able to dictate the message word-for-word to Feda, who then used Mrs. Leonard’s vocal cords to speak it word-for-word. However, the conditions had to be exactly right for this to work, and it depended on how the medium’s day had gone earlier. On days when it was not possible, Feda relied on interpreting thought-images sent by the communicator, which was sometimes hit-or-miss.

Another problem came when the communicator changed the subject but Feda didn’t pick up on the change and ascribed information about the new topic to the previous topic, so nothing made sense any more. Hours could be wasted as the sitter tried to figure out what was going on and why nothing was fitting together.

The final component in the process is the sitter, who forms a unified field with the medium, control and communicator, so the sitter’s energy is important. Suppose a husband and wife show up for a sitting, and the wife believes in the process but the husband doesn’t. His negativity will either kill any communication, or, if communication actually happens, could reduce its clarity.

When we look at all the variables, it’s a wonder that the process ever worked:

• Communicators may not yet have attained mastery of their energy after crossing over.
• The control simply may not be able to figure out what the communicator is sending, or even understand the words being used, so jumps to a conclusion, any conclusion, just to keep the sitting moving along.
• The medium may have an interest in the subject of a message and inject some personal slant that distorts the meaning.
• The sitter may have firm expectations about what constitutes a ‘hit’ and refuses to accept as valid anything that does not conform to that expectation.
• Some outside entity may disrupt the process out of curiosity or malice.

Despite the frustrations, mediums such as Gladys Leonard and Leonora Piper helped millions of sitters assuage their grief by providing a link to those on the Other Side.

Right on!

Rational Spirituality

The website of Ian Lawton (www.ianlawton.com) is a veritable treasure trove of articles and information about matters spiritual. Ian is the founder of Rational Spirituality, which offers evidence of the soul’s existence and multiple incarnations.  He is the author of several books, including The Big Book of the Soul and The Little Book of the Soul, both of which are great reading.  When you go to his site, the first thing you see is a beautiful presentation that reveals 10 important spiritual principles:

1. The soul survives independent of the physical body. Out-of-body experiencers often bring back verifiable evidence that could only have been gathered by their consciousness when their physical brain was non-functioning. 

2. Souls have many lives, not just one. Past-life regressions often bring up verifiable memories that are so obscure they could not have come from mere guesswork or fraud. However, they do not arise from tapping into some sort of ‘universal memory’ because they are often accompanied by strong emotions or unusual behavior. Also, when people recall their time between lives, or the ‘interlife,’ the evidence confirms the continuation of the individual soul from one life to the next. 

3. Our many lives are not linked by a karmic law of action and reaction. Regression evidence indicates that our successive lives are not governed by a ‘law of action and reaction.’ Instead, the so-called Law of Attraction suggests that we ‘create our own reality’ with free will and personal responsibility through our subconscious thoughts, emotions, attitudes and intentions. 

4. We reincarnate to gather experience so we can grow. We plan our lives usually to provide opportunities to work on lessons we have not yet mastered, and repeating a lesson does not mean we flunked in earlier lives. It just points to another round of detail being mastered. The more difficult the challenges we build in, the more likely it is that we are a more experienced soul striving to accelerate our growth. Newer souls plan simpler, less challenging lifetimes. 

5. The only judgment after death comes from ourselves. The notion of punishment when we cross over is a purely human invention intended to keep the masses under control. It may have stemmed from less-than-positive NDEs designed for ‘course correction’ for those who have strayed from their soul’s plan. 

6. We are responsible for all aspects of our lives because we plan and choose them. Interlife regression suggests that we choose who our parents will be, their circumstances, where they live, who our siblings will be, and the major events in our life. Knowing this prompts us to accept responsibility for our life, because not only did we choose the circumstances, but we also did so for the growth involved. So no putting the blame on others, some deity out there, or just bad luck. 

7. We always have free will to deviate from our life plan. Despite all the planning we put in, we have complete free will to stray from our chosen life path because otherwise, there would be no opportunity for growth. And we continue incarnating until we at the soul level have garnered all the Earth Plane has to offer. After that, we continue experiencing and growing in even higher dimensions, so completing a cycle of Earth lives is just the beginning. 

8. We are all One and all God. God is not a separate entity, but the matrix of all souls, so we are all part of one, interconnected whole. 

9. Soul consciousness is holographic, and represents the part and the whole all at the same time. How do we reconcile the matrix of soul connection with individual soul survival? The principle of holography says that each part contains the whole, yet is clearly distinguishable from it. 

10. The aim of the Source is to experience all that is and all that can be. What is the ultimate point of all this? Why does the universe even exist in the first place? The Source diversifies into the billions of individualized aspects of itself to operate in the various dimensions throughout the universe. As individualized aspects of the Source, we are fulfilling a small part of that objective by gathering experiences available on the physical plane. Imagine a huge jigsaw puzzle and you have some of the pieces. Without the pieces you have, the puzzle would be incomplete. 

Nothing new here to readers of this blog, but Ian’s presentation is beautiful and the accompanying music is gorgeous, so the site is well worth a visit if you have a few minutes to spare.

Amazingly, Not an Exit Point

We hear a lot about freak deaths, but here’s a recent story about a freak survivor. A 57-year-old Ohio guy is gassing up his truck when an out-of-control van hits him hard and knocks him to the ground. The van then hits two gas pumps, knocking them over on top of the guy, pinning him underneath them. The quarter-ton pumps then catch fire as the guy lies trapped beneath them.

If this had happened when no one else was around, it’s is an obituary waiting to happen, but four people then rush up, one carrying a fire extinguisher. While he’s putting the fire out, the other three struggle to pull the guy out from under the pumps. After 30 long seconds, he’s free … amazingly suffering only a few scratches.

Any one of three things could have killed the guy – hit by the van, crushed under the heavy pumps, burned alive by the fire – but it was not his day to die, not an exit point.

Don’t you love it when that happens?

The Strange Case of the Sweat Lodge Deaths

Two people strangely died Thursday evening after being overcome in a crudely built sauna-like sweat lodge during a spiritual cleansing ceremony at Angel Valley Retreat Center, a scenic Arizona resort. Authorities on Saturday identified them as 38-year-old Kirby Brown of Westtown, N.Y. and 40-year-old James Shore of Milwaukee, a director of business development at an Internet marketing company. They had paid between $9,000 and $10,000 to attend.

Nineteen other people were taken to hospitals, suffering from burns, dehydration, respiratory arrest, kidney failure or elevated body temperature. Most were soon released, but one remained in critical condition Saturday. (As a footnote, that person crossed over on October 18, and police announced they are treating all three deaths as homicides.)

Yavapai County Sheriff, Steve Waugh, said Saturday, “Detectives are focusing on self-help author James Arthur Ray and his staff as we try to determine if criminal negligence played a role. Between 55 and 65 people were crowded into the 415-square-foot space during a two-hour period that included various spiritual exercises led by Ray.” Waugh added that Ray refused to speak with authorities and has since left the state.

Brown was an avid surfer and hiker who was excellent physical shape. “She had no pre-existing health conditions that would have kept her from participating in an otherwise safe activity,” said a family spokesman. “That two people died and 19 others became ill indicates that something went horribly wrong.”

Autopsies on Brown and Shore were conducted Friday, but the results weren’t disclosed pending additional tests. Authorities have ruled out carbon monoxide poising as the cause and said participants were highly encouraged but not forced to remain in the sweat lodge for the entire time.

Ray and his staff had built the sweat lodge with a wood frame and covered it with layers of tarps and blankets, Waugh said. The sweat lodge – a structure commonly used by American Indian tribes to cleanse the body and prepare for hunts, ceremonies and other events – was 53 inches high at the center and about 30 inches high around the outer edges.

Joseph Bruchac, author of The Native American Sweat Lodge: History and Legends, said, “The number of participants in the lodge is appalling. If you put people in a restrictive, airtight structure, you are going to use up all the oxygen. If you're doing a sweat, you’re going to use it up that much faster. American Indian sweat lodges typically hold about 12 people and are covered with blankets made of natural materials, such as cotton or wool, so the air flow isn't restricted. I don’t see how the person running that lodge could have been aware of the health and well-being of that many people.”

Owners Michael and Amayra Hamilton had rented the retreat center to Ray for his five-day ‘Spiritual Warrior’ retreat that promised to “absolutely change your life.”

Well, that turned out to be true. A fascinating case of exit points taken … and during a spiritual event, no less.

Way to go!

Update: October 24

Sydney Spencer, a survivor, spoke in a TV interview on 10/21 of the cramped space and sweltering heat, and how people around her were collapsing and vomiting. Mr. Ray, while not physically preventing people from leaving, exhorted them to return to the sweat and tough it out. He said the event was all about pushing people beyond their limits. However, it turns out the physical body does have limits and will push back if over-taxed. The local sheriff's department is treating the case as a triple homicide, and is eager to talk to Mr. Ray.

Crossing Over with Lari and Tony

Would you believe that just outside of fabulous Las Vegas, in the semi-ghost town of Goodsprings, Nevada, where I live (pop. 200), someone is operating a radio station that also streams to the Internet via www.kghost.com? Would you also believe that Lari, the station operator, is a guy with a fascination for metaphysics? Given these two things, it’s probably no surprise that I’m now his regular Wednesday evening guest from 7 – 8 Pacific. We call our show Crossing Over with Lari and Tony, and you can listen by going to the above website and clicking the red “Listen Now” button. (During the day, while he’s at work, the station streams Country music, to which you can listen if you’re into it.)

Lari and I have a blast on our shows but I was saddened on the last show when a caller asked me if I believed in Satan and Hell. Sad that people still live in fear of such ridiculous notions, which would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

Of course, I told him that Satan was just a creation of the medieval Catholic Church in order to justify its existence – “If it wasn’t for the Church looking out for you, Satan would gobble you up.” Same with Hell, conceived to scare the peasants and keep them coming back every Sunday for another shot of salvation. Sad that organized religion is still pandering such arrant nonsense just so the priests can have job security.

It’s true, however, that Level 1 of the Soul Plane does sound a little hellish to me. Imagine being a truly mean, nasty person who crosses over. By the Law of Attraction, you will naturally be drawn to the level of the Soul Plane occupied by people just like you. The bad news for you is that they are all in an ongoing contest to see who can be the meanest, nastiest person on that level. Definitely not a tourist destination. (Read more about this in my book Death Without Fear.)

On the other hand, if you’ve lived by the Golden Rule (treat others as you would be treated) and honored the Four Agreements, you will end up in the idyllic Summerland, so named for its warm climate and perfect blue skies. Here unconditional love rules and even the trees talk to you as you walk by. Sounds like my kinda place!

Sadly the show’s archive system isn’t working yet, so if you can’t go on-line at 7 pm Pacific, you’re out of luck. Pity there isn’t TIVO for the Internet.

Until next time, keep on keepin’ on.

Handbook for the Recently Deceased

A few posts ago, I mentioned the book featured in the movie Beetlejuice, in which Charles and Margaret Maitland (played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) cross over by driving off a covered bridge and drowning. They return to their house and begin living in the attic, where they find a book titled Handbook for the Recently Deceased.  If you haven’t seen the movie, I strongly recommend it as a light-hearted romp through the afterlife. And, of course, Michael Keaton’s character, Betelgeuse, is a riot.

I thought how neat to find a book like that. Pity it doesn’t exist. Then the light bulb went on in my head and the rest is history. And, as promised, I did write it and it’s just about ready to send to my publisher. Of course, the book manifests here on the Earth Plane as a physical object, but on the Soul Plane, it will exist as an Etheric book (or e-book) that a newly crossed person can “grok” in its entirety, to give them a roadmap of what lies ahead for them.

Imagine you’re a newly arrived spirit on the Soul Plane. The book tells you:

• Who you really are – a vast, ancient soul who incarnated into a new human body to become “you” and to live your life to garner growth and experiences on behalf of your soul.
• How you meticulously planned that life, including when and how you would end it and return to the soul plane, or Home.
• The steps you took to leave the Earth Plane, whether slowly through illness or suddenly through accident or murder.
• All the ways you actually might have crossed over, and how easy and painless it was.
• For those left behind, how and why they are hopefully celebrating your time together rather than grieving your loss, ’cos you ain’t lost. You now know exactly where you are.
• About the adjustments you will need to make now that you have arrived on the Soul Plane.
• Wonderful, glowing descriptions of what the Soul Plane is like, and what you have to look forward to.
• And finally, about life over here and how it’s all about creativity, learning, growing and finding neat ways to serve Creation.

So, hopefully you now hold no fear about how it will be for you. In fact, you should be thrilled for your future.

The book ends with these words:

“Please remember that as souls, you all co-planned your lives together, including the time and means of your respective crossings back to the soul plane. You all planned it and signed off on it, but, of course, you’ll miss having your loved ones in your new life, so a little nostalgia for them is okay, but hopefully they are not grieving too badly because that holds you both back. Instead, encourage them to celebrate your life and accomplishments, and give thanks for your time together. You’ll all be back in cahoots with each other in no time.

“So, have no fear for yourself as you anticipate the wondrous journey ahead to a new life filled with love and joy. Soon the memories of your limited, worn-out physical body will recede, and it will have as much significance as your second-grade pencil case. After your review, orientation and Welcome Home party, you will look and feel better than you have ever felt since birth, with a whole slew of new senses and faculties, surrounded by the love and warmth of your soul family, and a whole world of new opportunities for growth ahead.”

It will be a while before the book is available through Amazon, but I’m intending to get it printed so you can order direct through my website: www.deathwithoutfear.com.

I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.

NDE of the Month at IANDS

Today, I was prowling the Internet and landed at the website of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) – www.iands.org. Every month, the site offers “NDE of the Month,” which is always a great read.

Experience entered into the IANDS Archives February 5, 2002:

I was with my partner at the time and we had been going through difficulties. I had felt this strong sense of loss and I felt that something was calling me. I then ended up taking chloroform. I could feel the effects straight away, this creeping relaxing feeling and the sensation of me slipping out of something that felt like prison. I could remember being in the hospital on the ceiling watching all these doctors and nurses attending to me. I could also hear my mum and brother talking to me asking me why this had happened. It felt warm and radiant like someone was with me at this time and they were conveying a feeling of peace and love that was something I had never ever felt before.

In no time I was traveling down this tunnel with beings on either side. It felt like I knew them all and they were talking to me asking me how I am and what had been going on in my life. They also showed me something that I could not recall but it felt familiar. After a while with them I was called towards the light and I felt so overwhelmingly loving, peaceful and knowing. I was asked a series of questions and given information about things by an angel with a staff and dressed in warrior outfit, resembling an African chief and then a decision was made that it was not my time and that I had a mission to fulfill and that I will return. I cannot remember anything after that.

I woke up in the same bed in intensive care and was told that I had died and was kept alive via a ventilator and I had been unconscious for 1 week. Since that time I have had flashbacks and been aware that there are spirit guides around protecting me and guiding me. I also have this strong sense that there was a vision of some sort given to me because it’s like I've been on this sacred mission regarding utilizing this experience to empower people and tell the world about the realms of the spirit and their advice and guidance for the human population, especially with the young people.

 

This account has many of the classic features of the NDE:

1. Being out of body, up high, looking down
2. A sense of being accompanied
3. Feelings of warmth, peace and love
4. Moving through a tunnel, with beings on either side
5. Being embraced by an all-loving Light
6. Meeting someone, in this case a warrior-angel dressed like an African chief
7. Being told you have a mission on Earth and must go back
8. Knowing you have that mission totally changes your life as you begin to execute it.

I strongly recommend checking out the site. The archives alone will keep you busy for months. And you can join the association for regular updates.

The Today Show Rocks! Science Investigates the Near-Death Experience

Two guys, Gary and Randy, worked together delivering furniture for a store, and were told so frequently that they looked so much alike that they could be brothers. Both men knew they were adopted, so those comments got them wondering. When they compared their birth certificates, to their surprise, they discovered they really were brothers. They also knew they had two sisters, also adopted out.

A woman named Joanne read about the brothers and the missing sisters in the local newspaper and realized she was one of the sisters. She showed up at the store and introduced herself. NBC’s Today Show ran with the story on September 23, and the three said they were looking for the missing sister. “She’s called Claire Marie and is aged 39,” Joanne said.

In Florida, the said Claire Marie saw the show and jumped up saying, “Hey, that’s me.” On September 24, the Today show aired the reunion of Claire Marie with her three siblings nationwide, with much hugging and backslapping.

Nice when something good happens on the TV, eh?

Also on the Today Show, this time September 28, anchorwoman Meredith Vieira ran a story about near-death and out-of-body experiences. Cardiac care nurse Karen Tucker said that patients can often describe the resuscitation measures used on them, even while clinically dead. As a result, two hospitals have joined up to explore what happens when we die, and to prove that such post-mortem memories are more than just the brain shutting down. The AWARE (Awareness during Resuscitation) study involves putting images on high shelves to see if people who go out-of-body can see them. Meredith said, “If someone is resuscitated and can describe the images, it’s proof that they were out of their body.”

Now, of course, readers of this blog know this, but remember, this is mainstream TV the subject seriously. How cool is that?

Also, on the MSNBC website for the Today Show, Dr. Sam Parnia, one of the doctors in the AWARE study, wrote a fascinating article. He is a fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center and author of What Happens When We Die. Here’s part of his article:

For many years colleagues and I have worked to establish a scientific method to study the elusive question of what happens when we die. Although a highly emotive subject that has traditionally been perceived as a subject for philosophical or theological debate, recent advances in medicine have finally enabled a scientific approach to answering this age-old question.

Contrary to popular perception, we now understand that biologically speaking, there is no ‘moment’ that defines ‘death.’ In fact, death is a process that begins when the heart stops beating and the lungs stop breathing, and as a consequence, within a few seconds the brain ceases functioning and enters into a ‘flatline’ state. From this point on, oxygen deprivation leads brain cells into a ‘panic’ state before they incur substantial damage and ultimately die over a period of minutes to hours.

A fascinating question that arises, then, is this: At what point during this process of cell death do we die? When exactly does the human mind and consciousness cease its activity? Is it at the moment the heart stops beating, or is it a few seconds, minutes, or even hours after the process of death has initially begun? Furthermore, what is the relationship between the mind and the brain during the state of clinical death?

After Flatlining
Although many independent studies have shown that the brain reaches a ‘’flatline’ state during clinical death, it has consistently been shown that 10 to 20 percent of people who are revived back to life report some activity of the mind and consciousness in the form of lucid, well-structured thought processes with reasoning and memory formation as well as the ability to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ actual events (which have in some cases been confirmed by hospital staff), raising the intriguing possibility that the mind and consciousness could continue functioning after we have reached the point of death and the brain has ‘flatlined.’

This intriguing possibility will now be tested using images that are strategically placed in specific areas in the hospitals, such that they are visible only by opening the ‘eyes’ and looking down from the ceiling.

What does it hope to prove?
The study intends to provide a scientific understanding of what happens when we die and in particular, what happens to the human mind and consciousness during clinical death.  Recent scientific studies of the brain during cardiac arrest and clinical death have consistently demonstrated a ‘flatline’ brain state, yet 10 to 20 percent of those who are resuscitated back to life people report lucid well-structured thought processes with reasoning and memory formation. In some cases, there have also been reports of the ability to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ precise details relating to events that had occurred during clinical death. If verified through large scale studies, these detailed perceptions may indicate a high level of consciousness in the absence of detectable brain activity during the early part of clinical death, at the very least. The AWARE study aims to determine whether the mind and consciousness can continue to function for a period of time during clinical death or whether the human mind ceases functioning as soon as the heart stops beating and the clinical criteria of death have been met.
Why study what happens when we die?
Traditionally, many of the major questions that mankind has faced have been tackled by philosophy or theology. However, in the last few centuries, science has gradually begun to seek, and has been able to provide to a certain extent, answers to such questions. One of the areas still eluding science’s grasp has been the question of what happens when we die, as well as the nature of the human mind and consciousness and their relationship with the brain.  
From a social perspective, we know that each one of us will one day face our moment of death. Therefore, it is imperative that we provide scientific answers to the question of what happens when we die.  
From a medical point of view, latest discoveries have provided doctors with the ability to push back the boundaries of death and reverse the process of death once it has started. With ever-improving scientific discoveries, we will be able to bring even more people back to life from clinical death. In order for the medical profession to treat its patients more appropriately and to address many of the ethical dilemmas that arise from medical and scientific progress, it is paramount for physicians to be able to provide a scientific understanding of what happens to the brain and body, and more importantly, the human mind and consciousness, during death.

How amazing is this? A medical doctor saying science must weigh in on the debate about death, and that the human mind can operate independently of the brain. Also, the very idea of scientists setting up a large-scale project to study NDEs and OOBEs is outstanding news, for it will remove the topics from anecdotal ‘woo-woo land’ and put them in the scientific literature for mainstream science to absorb.

Nice!

Human Tragedy in the Making: The Great Embryo Mix-up

At the other end of life from the topic this blog normally talks about are some very dramatic turns of fate. In Ohio recently, a woman named Caroline Savage had a baby through in vitro fertilization, but learned that another couple’s eggs had been implanted in her, so in effect, she was having someone else’s child, so she handed the newborn over to the genetic parents, Detroit couple Paul and Shannon Morell. They said in a statement that they would be ‘eternally grateful’ to Carolyn for her decision to give birth to their child despite the clinic's mistake. “It's been a long, difficult journey, and we're thrilled that our family is now complete," the Morells said. "We will be eternally grateful for his guardian angel, Carolyn Savage, and the support of the entire Savage family.”

A happy ending there, but not so elsewhere. In New Orleans, the Ochsner fertility clinic had to shut down when it was discovered that frozen embryos for hundreds of couples had been mislabeled. A spokesperson said there have been no problems to date, but parents naturally want to know if that’s true. Huge legal battles may ensue, as parents seek to force the clinic to conduct expensive DNA tests to prove that their child really is theirs. And what if it’s not? What happens then? Child-swapping that would horribly disrupt families? Or living knowing that they’re raising someone else’s child?

And what about all those thousands of mislabeled embryos? How are they going to be traced back to the genetic couples? And would the couples even trust the clinic to get it right?

Looked at from the perspective of the soul of the incoming soul, every detail is carefully planned, so if a fertilized egg from Couple A is implanted in Couple B, maybe the soul wanted Couple A’s DNA but to be raised by Couple B. If so, the egg mix-up is the perfect outcome. And yes, engineering this is child’s play to us at the soul level. (The next post talks about how the souls and spirit guides involved got four siblings reunited after 50 years of separation. Lot of engineering there.)

However, very few people could go along with this scenario, and most will scream, “My DNA! My baby!” and sue the clinic for millions in ‘pain and suffering.’ I guess sorting that mess out is why judges get paid the big bucks. One thing is for sure. Watching how this drama plays out will be really interesting.

Feel free to comment. What do you think should happen if Couple A discover that their newborn has the DNA of Couple B, but Couple A has formed a bond and doesn’t want to let the baby go. If you were the judge in this case, would you leave the baby with Couple A or order them to hand the child over to Couple B, the genetic parents?

Glad the decision isn’t mine!

Spiritual Conspiracy

The following thought-provoking email is doing the rounds right now, and is presented as is:

On the surface of the world right now, there is war and violence and things seem dark and chaotic. But calmly and quietly, at the same time, something else is happening underground. An inner revolution is taking place and we are being called to a higher Light.

It is a silent revolution, from the inside out, from the ground up. This is a global operation. A spiritual conspiracy! There are sleeper cells in every nation on the planet. You won’t see us on T.V. You won’t read about us in the newspaper. You won’t hear about us on the radio. We don’t seek any glory. We don’t wear any uniform. We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles. Most of us work anonymously, quietly, behind the scenes, in every country and culture of the world. In cities big and small, mountains and valleys, farms and villages, tribes and remote islands, you could pass by one of us on the street and not even notice. We go undercover, incognito.

It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit, but simply that the work gets done. Occasionally we spot each other in the street; we give a quiet nod and continue on our way. During the day many of us pretend we have normal jobs, but behind the false storefront in darkness is where the real work takes a place! Some call us the Conscious Army.

We are slowly creating a new world with the power of our thoughts and hearts. We follow, --with passion and joy -- our orders, come from the Central Spiritual Intelligence. We are dropping soft, secret love bombs when no one is looking: poems, hugs, music, photography, movies, kind words, smiles, meditation and prayer, dance, social activism, websites, blogs, and random acts of kindness. We each express ourselves in our own unique ways, with our own unique gifts and talents. “Be the change you want to see in the world!” That is the motto that fills our hearts. We know it is the only way real transformation takes place. We know that quietly and humbly we have the power of all the oceans combined. Our work is slow and meticulous, like the formation of mountains; it is not even visible at first glance, and yet with it, entire tectonic plates shall be moved in the centuries to come!

Love is the new religion of the 21st century. You don’t have to be a highly educated person, or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it; it comes from the intelligence of the heart, embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

Nobody else can do it for you. We are now recruiting. Perhaps you will join us -- or already have. All are welcome! The door is open.

~ Author Unknown

Cool, eh?

Annie Le: One of Life’s Mysteries

On Thursday, September 17, Police arrested Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale University animal research technician, in the murder of graduate student Annie Le. He appeared in court and was charged with murdering the graduate student in the research building where they both worked.

Le was found dead on Sunday, her body hidden in the basement wall of a building where she worked as a medical researcher, on the day she was to marry her college sweetheart, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The Connecticut medical examiner said Wednesday that Le died of “traumatic asphyxiation,” or choking. Her body was found on the very day she was to marry.

I never fail to be amazed at the dumb things people do. How could an intelligent guy not know that since he and Le worked in the same lab, often with friction between them, he would be high on the list of suspects, or even at the top of it? Yet he went ahead and took her life.

I know that soul always chooses the time and means of our crossing, but in cases such as Annie Le, the means and timing are a puzzle. But, of course, we know nothing of her soul’s purpose for her incarnation.

In Courageous Souls, Robert Schwartz told the story of a deepsea diver who proposed to his girlfriend and then died on his next dive the day after. The inside story was that these two had spent many lifetimes together but never actually making that commitment, so once he had made the commitment by proposing, the fiancé could leave. Actually being married was never the point.

Still curious about Annie’s inside story but that’s her business.

Handbook for the Newly Deceased

In the movie Beetlejuice, a newly crossed over couple finds themselves in the attic of their old house, where they come across a book titled, Handbook for the Newly Deceased. Now, if such a book existed, what would it contain? Here are some possible chapters:

1. The first chapter may be on working with your greeters, and how to communicate with them using telepathy. It may stress the importance of following them to the Soul Plane so you don’t get lost and become Earth-bound. Also, they can organize a reunion party so you can meet your loved ones who preceded you.
2. Orientation and life review are important tasks worthy of chapter 2. First you’ll need an overview of your local area, what’s going on and who the key players are. Then on to the rules for the life review, such as ‘no beating yourself up.’
3. Then you would need a chapter on how to turn the clock back, so you can regress to the age when you were at your finest. Good information there.
4. Next might be a chapter on how to get around on the Soul Plane. It might stress starting slowly, so you don’t zoom around too quickly and get dizzy or disoriented. As you progress, the chapter will instruct you about how to use thought to cover vast distances and jump to other planets, and how to navigate the Earth Plane using thought. Being still close to the Earth Plane, now would be a good opportunity to visit all the places you never saw but wanted to.
5. Next might be instruction on focusing on who you are, where you are, and how you got there, so your memories serve as your internal compass. At this point, the book may tell you how to find and visit with your loved ones still on Earth, and give them signs that you’re with them and are okay. Hopefully, you worked out a system of signs before you left, such as turning lights on and off, changing TV channels, or sending them butterflies. This chapter could contain a list of do’s and do not’s, such as “Do not scare them,” or, “Do announce your presence by a whiff of your favorite scent or aftershave.”
6. You’re going to need a job and a place to live, and your guides and soul will take care of the arrangements. You’ll need to figure out whether you want to live in a city or in the country, or my choice – on board a boat. And for work, do you want to stay in your Earth profession or learn something new.
7. Finally, a chapter on hobbies and R&R possibilities would end the book on a high note.

Well, you get the idea. But here’s the kicker – I’m actually going to write that book for real. There, I’m now committed.

Quirky idea, eh?