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An Interview with Mike Marable author of "How to Have A Good Life After You're Dead".
Mike, we love your book and wanted to ask you a few questions about your work.
Question 1: How did you start having out-of-body experiences?
Mike: It came following the Kundalini opening. It just started. I had read a book by Robert Monroe in 1973 so I knew what was happening. They started in 1987 and continue to this day. I didn't try to cultivate or perfect it.
Question 2: What's the difference between lucid dreams, OBEs, and conscious daytime projections using Bruce Moen’s technique?
Mike: I only read Bruce's books in the last couple of years. He used a technique I am unfamiliar with. Someone described it as "active imagination". He didn't use OBEs. He once said in an interview he only had one OBE in his life. My experiences are nothing like what he describes. He was very involved in conversations he had in Focus 27, or what is referred to as "The Park". This is where many land in their NDEs from what I Understand.
Question 3: Have you ever tried to get confirmation that your experiences are "real" by getting information about the people you meet on the other side?
Mike: I don't really try to do this very often and respect their privacy. The ones I verified were done out of curiosity. I have never disclosed or discussed their information. Time is different in these dimensions so sometimes I have to determine when a name was popular to discern when it happened. You can get clues from how they are dressed and their hairstyle when they begin to realize what is going on and come out of their stupor. Before that, they are naked and disoriented. Most of my retrievals are ones that have gone into a dream-like state. I don't pick them up in the middle realms that Bruce Moen talks about. I drop them off in these areas where there are guides.
Question 4: Are people who die a non-violent death always met by family members or a greeter?
Mike: There is no "always" that I can discern. It's very common, however. It is optimal. I talk about how to better ensure this in the book.
Question 5: Have you visited the dark realms depicted in the movie Nosso Lar?
Mike: I'm not familiar with that movie. The movies "The Sixth Sense", "Jacob's Ladder", "What Dreams May Come", "Ghost", and "Defending Your Life" have a lot of reality in them.
Question 6: What is the realm labeled by Monroe Focus 23 and why do some people end up there?
Mike: These are the belief system realms, the consensus realities. It is where people inhabit after their life review. There are many of these regions. People take up life there as they acclimate and can stay for as long as they like, but boredom often sets in and they usually reincarnate. Think of them as alternate universes or realities. They reflect the frequency of consciousness of the inhabitants it seems. Strongly held beliefs can land someone in one that conforms to that belief and desired circumstances. They are highly varied. You can tell the frequency level by the sky and the appearance of the inhabitants.
Question 7: Do all children who die go straight to the Summerland?
Mike: Not in my experience. I don't visit the Summerland areas that Jurgen talks about. I don't have the frequency "access he has to enter these higher frequency levels except on rare occasions and I am usually escorted there. I mostly work from in the lower and middle areas. We can only get to the frequency that our consciousness has evolved to. My job is to help people in the lower frequencies. It is my job to be there. They are very interesting and shouldn't be thought of as lesser experiences.
Question 8: Are the areas that people access during NDEs the same as you access during OBEs?
Mike: The locations people talk about being in during their NDEs are their own frequency level. I can reach that location - it is only a landing area and has certain properties to help those who arrive feel more comfortable. Once the person has gone through their "orientation" they move into their consensus realities. This transition is like waking up from a dream.
Question 9: What do you mean by a retrieval and how did you begin to do them?
Mike: This was a term used at the Monroe Institute. I called them rescues until I heard that term and it sounded more innocuous so I adopted it. The guides I work with call it an "extraction". I am not sure how it started, it was so long ago. Mostly it came about because they attached to me when I was out traveling. They are attracted to the life force of the living. They don't have much of their own. Attachments are a real thing. People with addictions probably have them for example. I would also find them in the house, and they would follow me back. They also can come through a mirror. It's probably better not to have a dressing mirror in the bedroom. I don't solicit or go looking for them. I helped my father and a friend but I respect their right to go through what they need to experience. This process is necessary for them and some things can be learned.
Question 10: Why don't their own guides and loved ones come to help them?
Mike: They might try but sometimes the person won't go for a variety of reasons. Also, they can't see the guides in the lower regions. They can see humans because we have a frequency more akin to theirs.
Question 11: Can you describe the process of doing a retrieval?
Mike: It is very simple. I identify if they know or don't know they are dead. I ask some questions to build rapport and trust. I take them looking for a light of some sort and ask for a guide when I find a light source a light designates a higher frequency. This work is sort of like an EMT delivering a patient to the emergency room. It is all very professional and matter-of-fact and routine. These guides are very busy and I respect their "time".
Question 12: Can you explain the difference between simple and difficult retrievals?
Mike: I haven't had many difficult ones. The only time is if they don't believe they died. I have a way of helping them remember. From then they are fairly compliant and happy to get out of their situation.
Question 13: You say that while doing a retrieval you can take the person's perception back in time to soon after their transition. Why is that beneficial?
Mike: It helps them remember they died and reorients them to the circumstances. It's a way of confirming that it happened.
Can you go back to the time immediately before the transition so that you are there to greet the person?
Question 14: What happens in cases of mass passing-
earthquakes, fires, floods, warfare, 9/11?
Mike: I don't specialize in this kind of work. I have helped some groups but not at a disaster site. I probably have done it but I was not conscious or aware of doing so. I have helped many more people than I am aware of.
Question 15: Do you find that people stay close to their bodies – say in an earthquake situation where a building has collapsed?
Mike: I don't know. I wouldn't think so based on NDE reports.
Question 16: When you come upon a person who has been murdered do they want revenge?
Mike: The murder victims I have assisted had no interest in revenge.
Question 17: Do you come across people who have been "trapped" for centuries?
Mike: Not that I know of. I think the 1960s would be the oldest situation. Although, I did a group retrieval in England and they had been around that long but that was the only one I am aware of.
Question 18: Have you ever had people come back to thank you for helping them?
Mike: Yes, once. I have had maybe 10 thank me during the handoff. I had a guide tell me once that one of them sent me a thank you.
Question 19: Why do you do it?
Mike: I can't just leave these people in these uncomfortable situations. It's really not more complicated than this. It's an honor. It fulfills a sense of being useful, taking a rather unique skill and having it benefit others.
Question 20: Can people learn to do retrievals?
Mike: I have no idea. We don't pick it, so much as it picks us. Set an intention before going to bed. You will help someone probably, though you won't remember it. The Monroe Institute has the Lifeline program. The only book that offers any instructions is the last one Bruce Moen wrote.
(Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook: A Manual for the Art of Retrieval and Afterlife Exploration).
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