COMMENTARY:IN
PURSUIT OF 'SPIRITUAL EXCELLENCE'! Some
or the subscribers to the Friday Afterlife Report
are 'religious', others not religious and still
others are atheists and agnostics. But I notice
that in their writing to me many show that relative
to and compared with others they are above average
in spirituality, no matter what their "beliefs".
And that's great! Of course,
there will always be the potential for all of
us to continue to spiritually refine. I stated
before that my belief is that anyone who can love
and forgive unconditionally will not have to return
to Earth for more important critical lessons.
Of course it is not an easy journey- many say
that they are finding life very difficult, very
tough! But by keeping on
consistently working towards continuous spiritual
refinement we are pursuing spiritual excellence
and having a greater effect that we know on the
evolution of the whole.
Knowing
more about the 'rules of the game of life' will
undoubtedly help us to accelerate our spiritual
learning. A key rule is selfless service - the
more of it we do the higher the spiritual attainment
and on crossing-over the better the conditions.
Being positive in life, active in selfless service
is a sure and certain way to attain spiritual
excellence!
SCIENCE AND THE PARANORMAL: SCIENTIST RUPERT SHELDRAKE
ON ANIMAL TELEPATHY. Rise above conventional
stereotype rationale, beliefs and tradition.
Rupert
Sheldrake has been collecting evidence regarding
telepathy in animals. Rupert talks about dogs
who know when their owners have died, parrots
who say what their owners are watching and cats
who know when their person is calling on the telephone.
He shares videos of his fascinating research and
shows that telepathy is a normal means of communications
between animals and people. He makes the important
point that once an anecdote is published it becomes
a case study, and that much of medicine is based
on such case studies. Absolutely fascinating-
talk takes 60 minutes and worth watching to the
end (takes a minute to load and talk itself starts
at the 3.00 minute mark) Watch
now.....
You can read Rupert's
papers on telepathy on his website.
HANBOOK
TO THE AFTERLIFE by Prof. Jon Klimo and Dr Pamela
Heath was
written with the paranormal enthusiast in mind,
as well as anyone simply curious about what happens
after we die. It draws on the information contained
in many hundreds of books on reincarnation research,
near-death experiences, hypnotherapy regressions,
and channeled accounts of the afterlife. In
part I,
Prof. Jon Klimo (left) covers the range of
religious and scientific viewpoints on the afterlife.
He talks about his father's confusion during his
afterdeath visit (his father was a devout atheist),
talks about the types of material used as sources
for this book (each of which has its own pitfalls)
and gives some samples of the types of material
drawn from for the book. Part II focuses on the afterlife
as a kind of continuation of life span development. Part
III of the book considers how people
can interact with the dead, whether to help a
loved one on the other side, deal with a ghost,
or simply because you wish to develop your own
mediumship abilities. The section on how to move
a stuck spirit on to the Light so they can finish
their transitions (and not haunt a place) comes
out of Dr
Pamela Heath's own
first hand experience dealing with ghosts. There
are basic tips that can work whether or not you
consider yourself to be psychic. It also talks
about how you can open yourself up to contract
through dreams, meditation, and how to channel
or do automatic writing. In this audio Paranormal
researcher Prof.
Jon Klimo discusses the book on Coast to Coast-
BROADCAST 28 April 2010
Pamela Heath will be talking about the book in
a radio Interview
July 29, 2010 on
Signs
of Life at 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern). You
can listen to the broadcast live over the internet
or download it from the Forever
Family website as a podcast later.
QUESTION: DO
THEY MAKE MISTAKES IN THE AFTERLIFE DIMENSION?
Directly
from the afterlife:
“Yes! The astral planes
(darker realms below the third level) are very
much
like your world. People who live there are very
much at a similar stage of development to the
average person in your world. They are neither
angels nor demons. They are just the ordinary
sort of people, not too high,not too low. They
make mistakes due to faulty judgments, lack of
wisdom, mistakes due to rancor not having been
extirpated, to hatred and selfishness, the mistakes
that come from imperfections.” (S.B).
A LAWYER INVESTIGATES A WHOLE FAMILY OF PHYSICAL
MEDIUMS One
of the reasons that I am particularly impressed
by the testimony of lawyers and judges who investigate
mediums (see my chapter Lawyers
who were convinced by the evidence) is that
they have been trained in what is good
evidence. They understand the distinction between
subjective and objective evidence and, perhaps
even more than scientists, have been trained to
detect the value of witnesses' testimony. And
lawyers who go public about their experiences
with mediums in a sketpical climate usually have
a lot more to lose than to gain.
Henry S. Olcott, co-founder of the Theosophical
Society, was both a hard-nosed investigative lawyer
and an agricultural scientist who accepted the
assignment of two New York newspapers to investigate
the spirit materializations being produced by
the Eddy brothers of Chittenden,Vermont in 1874.
During his sixteen week investigation Olcott witnessed
the materialization of over 400 different entities
from the next realm of existence. His reports,
together with Sir William Crookes' similar experiences,
produced a sensation throughout the United States
and Europe. Olcott's careful observations and
tests, published in the book People from The
Other World, have been called one of the
most thorough and meticulous ever undertaken of
the phenomena. A shorter part two of the book
deals with Olcott's tests of the Holmes' of Philadelphia
through whom the famous Katie King and John King
personalities were manifesting. The book begins
with a fascinating description of a family where
all the children but one were physical mediums.
Read
a condensed version of chapter 1.
and download
the entire book from survival e-books.
A PSYCHIATRIST TALKS ABOUT AFTER DEATH CONTACTS
Dr Daniel Benor used to
think that people who had after death contacts
were suffering delusions until he read an article
in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1988
thatclaimed
that two out of three people experienced them
and that they are extremely helpful.
THE COMFORT OF DEATHBED
VISIONS " When I [died],
I found that the most foolish mistake in my life
was my long,
long terror of death. Year after year I was afraid
of it when I needn’t have been in the least
afraid. I had much illness and suffered a great
deal from worries, fears, anxieties and bodily
pain in my life. But at the moment of death there
was no pain. When I knew I was dying, I was just
able to say: “Take care of little Tough.”
He was my darling baby grandson. But I wasn’t
unhappy or frightened or lonely; for I saw my
fathers, my sisters, my brother whom I had thought
of as dead – and by dead, I mean asleep
till Judgment Day. But they weren’t asleep,
they were quite close to me. I could see them
through a pale mist. So if anyone talks to you
about the loneliness of death, tell them it is
all nonsense. I was never less alone than in those
few minutes – I suppose they were minutes.
I wasn’t in a state to take the time when
I was dying. I was quite helpless. I couldn’t
move hand or foot, but I wasn’t in the least
afraid. So my message to the world is that, for
me, one of the happiest moments of my earth-life
was the moment of death." Hilda to Geraldine
Cummins, They Survive. Evidence of Life Beyond
the Grave from Scripts of Geraldine Cummins.
Comp. E.B. Gibbes. London, etc.: Ride and Co.,
n.d. , 139.
JAMES VAN
PRAAGH'S SPECTACULAR CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION
ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE In
the 1995 NBC television series The Other Side,
James Van Praagh was introduced as the first American
medium ever to perform readings on the air, and
quickly became the series favorite. Howard Rosenberg,
the Los Angeles Times television critic, dubbed
Van Praagh's performances "spectacular."
In December 1997,
Van Praagh became the first medium to appear on
Larry King Live to promote his first book, Talking
to Heaven. Since that time James has authored
a number of books, audiobooks, and CDs and been
involved in a number of very successful television
shows that have brought knowledge of the afterlife
to millions of people. He also hosts regular seminars
and workshops to train mediums and assist others
in developing spiritual awareness. Many of our
readers may be interested in his upcoming
events and his online courses on Enhancing
Your Intuition and Life After Loss. Below
see James doing readings.
SPIRITUAL AUDIOBOOKS
Listening to someone reading a book can be a marvelousexperience
for all of us, not only those with sight problems.
These days there are millions of audiobooks on
spiritual subjects that you can download from
the internet and play on an ipod or other mp3
player or even on your computer. You can borrow
audio books from an online library, buy audio
books from audible.com
or you can download them free from Librivox
which has a project to have volunteer readers
make all public domain books available in audio
format. Here is a sample from James Allen's The
Heavenly Life.
'TERRORISM'
AND THE 'LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT':CHILD
SUICIDE BOMBERS: over
the years people have frequently asked this
question: "If a child suicide-bomber honestly
believes that what he is doing will send him
to heaven, will he go to 'heaven' - and for
adults there will be fifty virgins waiting for
the suicide bomber?"
Victor:
One has to differentiate man-made
religious propaganda from fact. I look at the
evidence and find no authority in any holy book
on Earth which
says that if a suicide bomber kills innocent
people, he/she will go to heaven - let alone
find the fifty virgins waiting for him/her.
Many Islamic scholars claim that there is no
more justification in Islam for suicide bombing
than there is in Christianity for the Inquisition
(See item below). If a child has been co-erced
or brainwashed into killing it is likely that
the initial emphasis on the other side would
be on treatment, healing and re-education for
that child. (see Jon Klimo and Pamela Heath's
chapter on suicide bombers in Suicide:
what really happens in the afterlife?).
But highly credible information transmitted
from the afterlife keeps on reminding us of
the Law of Cause and Effect - NO ONE ESCAPES
THIS LAW. If any person on earth intentionally
kills an innocent human being directly or through
a coerced agent, then there will be a price
to pay. The Law of Cause and Effect works with
mathematical precision and no 'holyman', no
priest, no Rabbi, no Pope, no religion has any
power to amend in any way shape or form this
very important law which has been in operation
from time immemorial.
SPIRITUALITY
v RELIGION: FR.TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA,
HIGHLY RELIGIOUS BUT ALSO A TORTURER, MURDERER
- PUSHED CRUELTY AND TORTURE TO THEIR EXTREME:
a
Domincan
Catholic priest and Head of the Spanish Inquisition
died some 600 years ago. Why was he one of the
most cruel human-monsters who lived on this
planet Earth? The record shows that he tortured,
maimed and murdered thousands of innocent people
in the name of his Christian Catholic religious
beliefs. He stole the land of the victims to
finance stupid wars. We are still waiting for
the Catholic Church to condemn his conduct.
His brutal killing of thousands of innocent
people was fundamentally inconsistent with the
Church's own dogmatic theology taken from the
Old Testament: THOU SHALT NOT KILL! ‘So
hated did he become that at one point Torquemada
traveled with a bodyguard of 50 mounted guards
and 250 armed men. After 15 years as Spain's
Grand Inquisitor, he died in 1498 in Ávila.
For his role in the Spanish Inquisition, Torquemada's
name has become a byword for fanaticism in the
service of the Catholic religion.’
Fr.Torquaemada is an excellent example where
a highly religious person may not be spiritual
at all. On crossing over, religion we are credibly
informed from the other side would be totally
irrelevant. But it is the level of spirituality
(how much love we gave others) that will get
you to the realm you deserve.
REINCARNATION- THE CASE OF THE POLLOCK TWINS
" Anyone
familiar with the existing body of literature
on past lives will recognize
Reincarnation: True Stories of Past Lives (Paperback)
as a significant contribution. Roy Stemman ,
editor of the magazine Life & Soul, previously
named Reincarnation,
has spent many years gathering together a wealth
of examples of apparent past life recall. If
anything, the high number of stories crammed
into each chapter becomes a little overwhelming,
though they do represent the vast body of evidence
available on the subject. Chapters cover rebirth
within families, soul mates, group reincarnation,
special talents, war victims and birthmarks,
to name a few, and examples from around the
world are used to illustrate each point."
One of the cases cited is that of the Pollock
twins, apparently reincarnations of their two
sisters killed in a road accident. As in many
of the cases cited, they identified toys they
had owned in their past lives and also the house
where they had lived.
IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN 'INTELLIGENCE' AND 'SPIRITUALITY'
...:
There
is no link between level of intelligence, high
status, wealth, high education and the level
of spirituality. There
is a tendency here on earth to think that only
educated people or the well-off or those with
high celebrity status are very likely to be
spiritually advanced - and that on crossing
over they are likely to be much better off than
others. Wrong, very wrong! There will be those
who are likely to get the shock of their life
to see so many highly placed in the afterlife
who, while alive, did not have wealth or status
and were not particularly academically intelligent
or "successful". 'Selfless service'
is directly related to spirituality
but totally unrelated to intelligence.
In fact we do see highly educated people in
high positions in government and private enterprise
being responsible for 'dirty work' and abuse
of their power to wilfully adversely affect
many others. One does not need to be highly
intelligent to be a long term thinker.
IMPORTANT PAST INCIDENT
REVISTED - 'dirty work' spy baggage boy in deep
trouble in the afterlife - a lesson to all:
I remind you of an item of sometime
ago where I reported an afterlife communication
from a former Ambassador in Canberra J.F., Australia,
who had been a 'baggage-boy' for the then Russian
intelligence agency, the KGB. He had tried to
do some dirty work against human rights campaigners
and then crossed over about three years ago.
He came through wanting forgiveness!!
In his communication he confirmed that he had
lied to the KGB to manipulate them and others
against human rights campaigners. The purpose
of his communication was to ask for 'forgiveness'
for the dirty work he did while alive here on
earth. When asked to describe the environment
where he now lives he said it was a very dirty
dark extremely slummish area where the 'beings'
are absolutely disgustingly horrible.The thing
that he finds most offensive all the time is
the unbearable putrid smell everywhere. He gave
the impression it will be a long time living
in those horrible conditions before he will
be able to raise his vibrations to a higher
level and move to a wonderful realm of the light
where conditions are immensely more beautiful. WARNING TO THOSE WHO DO DIRTY WORK:
it does not matter who you are, guaranteed,
you will NOT get away with it!
IS THE WORLD IMPROVING SPIRITUALLY? What
if the world embodied our highest potential?
What would it look like? As the structures of
modern society crumble, is it enough to respond
with the same tired solutions? Or are we being
called to question a set of unexamined assumptions
that form the very basis of our civilization?
This 25-minute
retrospective asks us to reflect on the state
of the world and ourselves, and to listen more
closely to what is being asked of us at this
time of unprecedented global transformation.
For more videos, visit www.globalonenessproject.org
SELECTED
FEEDBACK 1.
Dear Victor and Wendy,
I am inspired to send this
to you to share with others on your wonderful
web site. I wish to dedicate this
video to my colleague Stephen Wayne who is
a beautiful trance medium for the Spirit world
... Thank you both for the time you dedicate in
the quest for truth and fairness. Margaret Stirling
North Wales (U.K.)
2. Hello Victor, Thank you for
your weekly news letter. I always enjoy reading
it. You do a very nice job!! Dr Jan Vandersande,
physicist and author. (see last week's report).
3. Dear Victor and Wendy,
Following my last mail I finished going through
the recorded [EVP] communications with my dear
wife. 429 sentences of one to five words are undoubtedly
real communications from the afterlife. Rather
than philosophic considerations they are more
exchanges of feelings between the two of us.
But a number of them speak of the beauty of the
life there and the loving attitude one should
have on earth to be best prepared for the future.
Thanks always for your Friday reports.
Edouard
4. THE
BEST SURVIVAL EVIDENCE: A new case has
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Title: The Strangers Were Lovers
Case #: 60
Current Rank: 8th
Thanks for your continued interest.
— Miles Edward Allen
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When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them
all;
I'm on your side. when times get rough
And friends just cant be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
When you're down and out,
When you're on the street,
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you.
Ill take your part.
When darkness comes
And pains is all around,
Like a bridge over troubled water
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Sail on silver girl,
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Like a bridge over troubled water
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