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The World Beyond Part 49 The Spirit World is our home and our point of origin, and has no end
A.E. Housman the poet and author of “A Shropshire Lad” had never visited Wenlock Edge about which he wrote so well. Conan Doyle had never been to London or visited Baker Street when he started writing his Sherlock Holmes stories .
In contrast, we talk and write about the Spirit World as if we had never been there, when in fact on closer investigation we find that we visit there regularly in our sleep, on out-of-body journeys and during near-death-experiences, and also between lives, as can be seen in the case studies of Michael Newton and Brian L. Weiss.
Newton has also found some clients, who can speak for some part of their higher self, have the ability to describe how we have always been in existence as souls in the making, and can even try to describe how the soul came to be created in the first place. It is very rare that we have the opportunity to reach that far into the Spirit World. This information tells us that it is not imagination, or mere faith and belief which attract us to the Spirit World: we have already been there, as it is our home, and the place from which all of us find our origins. Our dreams and deep memories may lead us to see further beyond the veil.
In the same way, in this world, Europeans have a wrong impression of what the New World in North and South America is like, until they visit or emigrate to live there, although they feel its influence and in the same way the descendants of settlers in the Americas have a false idea of the lifestyles in the Old Country in Europe, until they actually go back to live there - even though their roots are still there.
We live in the present, where the challenges, joys, problems of everyday living keep us from looking further. But it is a comfort to have access to the greater picture – since it dispels the fear of death…and we should acquire some knowledge of the Spirit World now, while we are still young, and not leave that enquiry until too late, when the fears and confusion of old age cloud our vision. But even then, people with this knowledge react differently, as do two friends of mine who are both now at the time of writing in their nineties. One continues to investigate, write and carry on with his interests, and keeps in touch with his extended family as well as looking after his wife. The other has lost touch with family, lives alone, and his only routine is watching television, and a fearful chore for him, going out to buy his food. Without judging either of their situations, I would say that with the spiritual knowledge we now have, it is best to go on enjoying life and contributing to daily events, right up to the time of passing, since the frame of mind we are in at that time will certainly be reflected back at us on the next stage of our journey.
The work of regressionists like Michael Newton and Brian L. Weiss provides further evidence of the Spirit World to supplement what we already obtain from our own experiences, and from communications received through mediums. We still need psychical research to maintain standards of mediumship and to test its authenticity. But we no longer need to prove the existence of the spirit world, the afterlife, the existence of past and future lives, our eternal nature as spiritual beings. In light of this greater reality, we can now look at life and figure out for what purpose each of us chose to incarnate at this time, and how we can make this planet a better place for all of us without further warfare and other activities which may destroy it. At the present time, Western powers are spending billions of dollars (to name one currency) in supplying arms to the Middle East and to the Far East to "stabilize" the situations with the threat of nuclear war with Iran and North Korea. One might think that this is not a spiritual matter, but it really is, since lack of spiritual law is send us to the brink of material extinction on this planet. True, our soul will not die, but if life disappears on this planet, so much evolutionary progress will have been lost.
So, if we are able to go past warfare as a means of defence, and keeping control of a stable economy and balance of power between nations, we will be able to make this planet a better place for all of us. Teilhard de Chardin, Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein and other great Twentieth Century thinkers have told us this again and again. We need to foster a reverence for life, and live the way of Love which all our religions teach us, but which we only pay lip service to. Somehow we must revive these teachings to awaken people of all cultures, religions and politics to the truth of life, and it is this which will be a difficult task. Old traditions die hard, and new thought is not accepted by conservative societies nor by totalitarian and authoritarian states and dictatorships. Just see how at the present time leaders in Egypt, Russia, Belarus, Zimbabwe and North Korea are unwilling to hand over their power to more democratic processes.
We can incorporate into our actions all the positive philosophy of life seen in the findings of the past life investigators and spiritualists and spiritists and the modern thinkers we have mentioned and others like them, and with this attitude of love and light, and reverence for life, harmlessness (ahimsa) and a gobal ethic, a peaceful brave new world will emerge.
Once we all share in the knowledge of the greater spiritual reality, we have no further need for religious miracles and psychic phenomena, nor scientific testing of them, to prove the eternal nature of our soul, individual and collective. Just as we have found there are several levels to the spirit world, so in our daily existence on earth, there are several layers to the daily drama of our individual lives on earth. On the surface we have our family and work life, our local and national economy and the world wide trade, political, ecological and other situations to contend with. Beyond all that, we have our inner spiritual existence, whatever our beliefs and culture, and our subconscious thoughts, emotions, memories and dreams. If we take the time to examine these and peel back the layers, we will discover forgotten memories, and beyond them, records of this greater past and future existence of ours in the spirit world and in other times and places There we find a sense of belonging to an eternal soul, which belongs to a bigger family of souls and soul groups reaching up to the very origin and source of life. Peel back these layers yet again, and we come to realities extending beyond the time-span of our solar system, galaxy and universe, beyond our material existence. There we see the cradle where our souls were born, and beyond that, the supreme, absolute intelligence we call God, Allah, the DIvine Mind or Great Spirit, the Absolute Origin of the light and love that embraces our soul, our soul group and which is the beginning without end, or the end without beginning, which just IS. This greater intelligent entity cannot be a mere tribal god exclusively protecting one one religion, nation, race or country. Words can go no further to describe the Source of Life, but hopefully, these words we have collected about the Spirit World help us understand how much greater is our existence than we can possibly imagine, at this point in time.
So our daily life, temporary and transitory, is a remote outlet emanating from this greater reality, and if we wish to make meaning out of our existence, we have to look back into our spiritual inheritance rather than study the physical science of the material world, which is only one speck of dust in the cosmos. Of course, we need to focus on the present moment to adjust to the daily routine and its challenges. But to understand why we have chosen to be here at this moment in time, we have to look into our soul, and find out why we have left the comfort and security of the Spirit World in order to incarnate here and now. Answers are given us by our guides and spiritual teachers, by the Masters living in the higher levels of the Spirit World, as they communicate with us through mediums, and through the work of past life regressionists such as Helen Wambach, Brian L. Weiss, Bruce Goldberg and Michael Newton, to name a few. Making a note of this spiritual guidance will help us along our way, as will reading about spiritual law from Marilyn Awtry [The River of Life].and the spiritual and religious experiences of others like us, which have been collected by Sir Alister Hardy {The Spiritual Nature of Man], Frances Banks [Frontiers of Revelation,] and Bonnie McEneaney [Messages.]
As for descriptions of the Spirit World, they are few and far between. We can look at Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque artists' depitctions of Heaven and Hell, or read Dante's Divine Comedy, and Swedenborg's books and Diaries. Then some movies try to picture Heaven, as in "A Matter of Life and Death" with David Niven, aka "Stairway to Heaven," "Angel on my Shoulder," with Paul Muni, and more recently "What Dreams may Come" (1998) with Robin Williams. These attempts give us some ideas of what to expect, but no wrod, piece of music or picture can depect the vastness of eternity, or the non-material state of mind, where the spirit without a physical body is more like a spark of light than a physical form.
So this series of articles has tried to present a varity of accounts, from which a more composite picture of the Spirit World with all its planes, levels and qualities and groups of souls can be assembled in the reader's mind. I hope it is helpful towards understanding the infinite nature of the Spirit World.
We have to rise above the divisions of power politics and national, racial and religious interests, because from these accounts we have of the life Beyond, all of us, no matter who and where, believer or atheist, spiritualist or materialist, ascetic or hedonist, will continue to live on over there after our sojourn here on earth.
These accounts have no disparity with any religion, since all cultures and traditions have contact in their own way with the World Beyond. I would ask each reader from whatever background to consider that the knowledge now presented reveals more truth about the continuity of the soul's eternal existence here and hereafter. The Spirit World is there, and our spiritualnature is alive within us. Each one of us is living it, now and forever !
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