Reinforcing statements made in my last blog, when I wrote about the crippling effect a rigid belief will have on a person’s intellectual and spiritual growth, a friend told me this:
When my parents died, I became quite psychic for about a year afterwards. During that time my mother communicated telepathically about her life on the ‘other side’. At one point she communicated to me that she was assisting a Christian missionary adjust to his new life after leaving his earthly body. This man had spent most of his life in China and my mother was having a very difficult time for this missionary did not believe in an afterlife! He still thought he was on earth and in his 3D body! Nothing would make this fellow change his mind because he did not believe that the soul lives on! From that telepathic communication, I realized that some religions, by not emphasizing the fact that we live on after our bodies cease to exist, cause all kinds of false beliefs and trouble later on.
As my mother was giving me this message about people dying and not believing they are dead, I thought to myself, “I have never heard of Christian missionaries in China, I must be making up this conversation I am having with my mother.”
As my own limiting beliefs cut in I began to dismiss this precious communication with my mother, then about two weeks later I flipped on the TV. As I randomly changed channels I came across a television documentary about Christian missionaries in China! Gratefully I realized that my telepathic conversation with my mother had been real!
I had other conversations with my mother after she passed, but I remember only one significant conversation where she explained what it was like for her to die and what happens afterwards. Obviously this was meant to be passed along to me as I now have less fear of dying than I would have had otherwise.
Dying is a gift to the soul to return home from whence it came. Too bad people do not know this. It would make the entire process of dying so much easier for many people. As for my mother and I being close, I believe she was quite psychic and some of this ability was passed along to me when I was born.
For me the contact with my mother faded over time. I think it is because an individual has to work on the other side, helping to elevate others as well as themselves. It would seem that the type of work changes but one is always progressing in one way or another. No one ever sits on a cloud and plays a harp all day; there are just too many things to do! There are actually many roles that individuals can take on once they pass over. My cousin, when she passed over, became a teacher/counselor following on from her earthly life doing exactly the same work. My sister, who was an artist at the time of her passing, tapped into the creativity of healing via sound, color, crystals and light.
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It seems our roles here on earth can often influence our activity once we cross to the other side of consciousness, and most certainly heavily controlled beliefs and rigid attitudes will continue in the Afterlife - often limiting our development. If we want to continue to expand our awareness both here and after we die, it seems almost imperative that we develop both an open, flexible mind and an ability to listen.
Programmed beliefs from childhood usually are so deeply imbedded that we almost cannot recognize what a hold they have over us. Intellectual and academic beliefs can also dictate our view of life. In both cases the ego maintains control by wrapping our identity around these beliefs. It’s a dangerous state of affairs, causing enormous suffering as Mankind fights to the death to maintain its beliefs here on this planet, plus turmoil and confusion once an individual passes over.
These days I am trying hard not to reject outright what others have to say, easing back to consider what is quite often a new and very different point of view. It doesn’t mean I have to agree, but being open allows me to hold my ego in check preventing what could otherwise be a dogmatic and useless interaction. The times when I do close down and attack an idea it does not take me long to recognize my mistake. Eating humble pie is not nice, but dogmatically refusing to acknowledge new thoughts and ideas has far worse consequences.
Posted by Lyn on July 23rd, 2009 :: Filed under
Creative Writing