Dear Koosh: What one of my mentors told me, and all the teachers at the school where she trained and hired us to tutor exceptional, gifted and special needs students,
was that after death she would be moving to a different part of the same house.
She would be able to hear us, even if we couldn't see or hear her.
And she would be working on some other spiritual level or plane to help souls in other ways. So her work with us was over, she was not needed here any more but will have finished her part of the plan, and moved on where her energy and guidance was needed.
so some souls may act as angels and help us on this plane, either on earth or in heaven.
And some souls may move elsewhere and help other people instead.
I would think about it as having a family member serving overseas, and helping other regions out of severe crisis. And it is a sacrifice not to have them with you instead.
if they are needed elsewhere even more, that is where they will focus and go.
if you need them more, then you will have that help or it will come from someone else.
part of the lessons we learn in life is to be at peace and trust the process. not try to dictate how it should go when we can't see the whole plan.
in a classroom, we can't always have the teacher's attention or help 100% of the time.
we have to learn how to work and get things done on our own, and know when and where to get help when we need it, but it may come from other classmates or tutors and not from the teacher or parent or person we thought or wanted to help us. maybe they are too busy helping someone else that nobody else can help but them. so we learn as we go.
I'm reviving this thread because ever since the death of my doberman, Greta, on January 4, 2014, I've been searching for answers. Now, I lost my mother in 1986 and that was horrible, but I dealt with it by getting drunk for 10 years. I lost my Dad in August of 2009, but although I loved him very much, we hadn't spent much time together over the years. So my grief was manageable.
But my dog...well, she is a very, very special being to me. I don't know what to believe, but if there are soulmates, I believe she was my soulmate, come to earth to spend the past 10 years with me, and they were probably the best 10 years of my life. But now...she's gone. So I am seeking. I've cried bitterly every day for 71 days now since she died. I've never cried for anyone like this before. I iwant her back.
So, I'm reading a book which is about the exact topic of this thread. Loved ones contacting us from beyond. The book is called "Hello from Heaven: A New Field of Research - After-Death-Communication - Confirms that Life and Love are Eternal" by Bill Guggenheim and Judy Guggenheim (ex-spouses)
I'm only a short way into the book which is a series of accounts by people of contacts they've had with the dearly departed. Some are just "feelings," some are audible, some are physical, such as feeling a hand on your shoulder, and some are acutal two-way communications. Some of the communication is telepathic (just in you mind), some is audible, through the ears, some is visual, some is audible and visual, etc.
Anyway, I don't find myself being comforted and I'm actually getting angry. I don't like bullshit. And the question that keeps coming to mind is...why just some people? Why doesn't everyone get to experience the joy of hearing from loved ones they have lost? Hmmm?
I've known people who swear they've experienced this or that paranormal event, and you look at the people and think...yeah, YOU would. They're often uneducated, naive, gullible. Or downright dishonest and like attention, even attention they garner by making up stories.
People will say...oh, no wonder you don't receive any communication, you're shutting it out with your skepticism.
Not so. All my life I've been open to the paranormal, or afterlife, etc. When my mother died in 1986 I shut myself in my bedroom for three days and nights, crying and begging her to communicate with me. Nothing. So that's why I proceeded to get drunk for 10 years.
And now, my beloved Greta. I am so open to a communication or sign from the afterlife, that she is there, that she is okay...that we will meet again. Nothing.
So someone explain to me WHY some people are contacted and others aren't? I'm a decent person, I have a good heart, I rescue animals, I act tough on the outside but am kind-hearted in reality. So why not ME?
I'm wondering if the book I'm reading will address this, because to me, it's the elephant in the room. If this is a natural phenomenon, why some and not others? I need an answer to this, because otherwise, the only answer I have is the one I've concluded on my own...that the accounts of contact with departed loved ones are bogus.
I don't want that to be true. I want there to be an afterlife and I want to see my loved ones again and for everything to be...all right.
Books like the one I am reading seem to be desperate attempts to justify our existence. There MUST be more than this, right? But I'm afraid this may be all there is. This earthly life and nothing beyond.
Depressing, huh? But if anyone is game for more discussion about this, I'd like to talk about it.
P.S. whenever you get negative thoughts about these things, try to focus on forgiveness or sorrow.
When you feel sorrow then open yourself to receive compassion.
When you feel forgiveness then you open yourself to receive healing.
This is the channel that will allow you to connect "unconditionally" with all other souls,
on earth or in heaven. Whatever you can forgive removes any barriers or blockage between us,
so that love transcends death, and overcomes or casts out all fear in the way.
This is the eternal love that not even death can separate.
Keep forgiving, and asking help to remove the negatives,
and you will open your mind, heart and soul to receive more and more fulfillment and unbroken connections spiritually.
