SPIRITUALISM proves LIFE AFTER DEATH in SEANCE

A seance is a Holy Meeting of Spiritualists to communicate
with spirits that have passed on. A seance is a natural
phenomena and helps people understand life after
death. A seance is misunderstood by most people.

PETE'S JOURNAL, September 2001

9-8-01
I have been very busy the past few days, taking care of things around our place and working on our cars.

When I was seven my family became interested in spiritualism. Basically spiritualists believe in the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and communion of spirits and the ministry of Angels.

Spiritualism is a belief that there is life after physical death and that you can communicate in a seance with the spirits of those that have passed on. It was proven to me time and again that the spirits that I talked to in seances were the departed spirits of family and friends that they claimed to be.

For example, a spirit of a departed friend might relate in a seance to me in detail a previous experience we shared while we were together in this life that no one else knew about. Or, I might have gone shopping in the morning and to a seance in the afternoon and have a spirit friend comment on all the things I had looked at or purchased that morning.

In one instance on a weekend, a spiritual guide told me that I had put a part in backwards on a machine I was building at work. I checked on Monday and sure enough, a critical part was installed backwards.

Spirits of the dead (this really is a misnomer, because I said to a spirit friend one time at a seance that they were dead, and he immediately informed me that I had it all backwards, that they were alive and we were the dead) anyway, what I was going to say was that spirits of those that have passed on are not much different than when they lived on earth.

There is no great enlightenment when a persons passes from this earth. A person still has the good qualities and faults they had in their previous life. Just like on earth, they have to work and study and put into practice what they have learned to overcome their faults and shortcomings. And just like here on earth, spirits are not forced or coerced to become better.

A very old Alchemic saying goes something like this, "As it is in Heaven, so it is on earth: and as it is on earth, so it is in Heaven." (The lower realms of Heaven anyway.) One is a reflection of the other. If there is a war on earth, there is a war in the lower plains of heaven, over the area of war on earth.

It was explained to me, the lower plains of heaven are not a paradise but a place of transition and possible strife on the way upward to the enlightenment of the higher realms. Most ordinary people, good people, ascend to a place that is beautiful, peaceful and orderly where they are met and welcomed by family and friends.

9-9-01
It is unfortunate that the term "seance" has been so abused over the years. When most people hear the word seance mentioned they laugh, snicker and carry on as if it was the funniest thing they had ever heard. I would like to take a moment and define what a seance really is from my experience.

A seance is a gathering of people to experience communication with their family and friends that have "passed on" into the spirit world. Sometimes there is just two people, the seeker and the medium, this is called a "private seance."A seance is now often called a "circle," "meeting" or "sitting" because the participants usually sit at a round table close enough to link hands at times to pray or give thanks.

There are several different types of seance. Sometimes the medium just goes into a trace and the spirits speaks through and uses the medium's body. At a seance called a "Trumpet meeting" the meduim goes into a trance and the spirits speak independently through a long slender conical trumpet made of cardboard or aluminium.The spirits voice has an unusual mechanical or "tinny" sound... like an old fashion telephone.

There is a type of seance where the medium is not in a trance and just gives messages. This probably the most common seance. There is a seance called a "Masters meeting" which is by invitation only,from the Masters involved, where on a regular basis, advanced Masters come to teach. The Masters at this type of seance "materialize" their body and you can touch them and they look and feel just like anyone else in the room... however, they are usually dressed in robes or clothing of their time.

I have been to all these different types of seance and found that they all were authentic and very helpful in understanding, "Life after death." There was never a specific fee for attending any seance that I went to and a monetary gift to the medium was not required but in any case was minimal. For a private seance in the 1960's which lasted and hour or hour and half I usually
contributed twenty dollars to the medium for her time. She never asked for money... I left it under a flower vase on the table.

9-10-01
I checked the Internet and found these seven spiritualist principles:

1) The Fatherhood of God.
2) The Brotherhood of Man.
3) Communion of Spirits and the Ministry of Angels.
4) The continuous existence of the human Soul.
5) Personal Responsibility.
6) Compensation and retribution hereafter for all good and evil deeds done on earth.
7) Eternal progress open to every Soul.

9-11-01
Today terrorist attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. A very sad affair, like all senseless killing and destruction anywhere in the world. I feel terrible about the loss of all those that died and for their families that grieve for them. God comfort them all.

"Jehovih [the Almighty] said: Nor have I made wisdom possible unto any man or angel that knoweth not My elements, and the extremes of evil and good which I created." Oahspe  Bible

9-12-01
Juanita and I are still in shock over the terrorist attack yesterday. Its hard to believe what happened is real.

I want to get back to relating my experiences about spiritualism soon, but for now, I am going to quote another passage from the Oahspe  Bible that I have always found interesting.

"Because the state is rotten, the politicians feedeth thereon; because society is rotten, the lawyers and courts have riches and sumptuous feasts; because the flesh of my people is rotten, the physicians findeth a harvest of comfort."

9-13-01
Today is Unity's 2001 World Day of Prayer. "For yourself, your loved ones, and all who need God's help, pray with us."

The light of God surrounds us;
The love of God enfolds us;
The power of God protects us;
The presence of God watches over us;
Wherever we are, God is!

9-18-18
I guess my shock over the terrorists attacks has turned into depression because I just don't feel like writing at all. I have felt depressed like this a few times before in my life, when we dropped the atom bombs on Japan, when President Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated, and when President Bush Sr. declared the Desert Storm campaign a success, with only 67 of out armed forces lost. He neglected to mention that we killed a hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi's.

9-19-01
Down! I know that what happens in the outer world should not affect my inner reality, but it does whether I will it, not to, or not. My understanding is not large enough to dispassionately witness the senseless death of thousands of human beings without feeling a terrible loss.

The following excerpt from: The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, sheds some light on the feeling of despair and depression after a terrible tragedy.

"By noon the second day, the wounded [Hundreds] had all been cared for and we made a last survey to make sure there were no more wounded among the debris. On our way to the lodge for lunch and a much-needed rest, one of the party voiced the thought which had been uppermost for hours in all our minds. Why this terrible holocaust, this destruction of life."

"We were tired to the very marrow of our bones and were completely floored by the shock. The brunt of the rescue work, especially in the early hours, had fallen to our lot. As it was, we were weary and heartsick, having undergone the most terrible experience of our whole lives."

"We arrived at the lodge, refreshed ourselves and sat down at the table completely unnerved. After the meal we retired to our rooms to rest and none of the party awoke till late the next afternoon."

"While we were dressing, it was suggested that we go directly to our sanctuary, as we called the upper room of the Temple. We left the lodge and started to walk to the Temple as had been the custom on previous occasions."

"We had proceeded to the ladder that led to the entrance of the temple, when the one who was in advance stopped, with one foot on the first rung, and said: 'What has come over us?' Just a day or two ago we were in seventh heaven of delight, going from place to place at will and accomplishing things in three months that we expected would take years to finish."

"Our food appears on the table, and all this without the least exertion on our part. Now, suddenly, we have slumped back into our old habits. I want to know why this sudden slump? I can see only one thing. Every one of us has taken upon himself the condition of the experience through which we have just passed."

"This is what is now hampering us and I for one am through with that thing, it is no part of me whatsoever. It is mine only as I worship it and hold to it and do not let it go. I step forth out of this condition into a higher and better condition and let go. I am entirely through with it. As we stood and stared at him, we realized he was gone, he had disappeared."

"We were nonplused for the moment as we saw this man attain; yet none of us would let go of that which was holding us back, though knowing full well that we were still holding on to the condition that did not concern us in the least." [Bold emphasis mine]

"Consequently, we were obliged to climb the ladder, go through the tunnel, then up through the different rooms to reach our objective. When we arrived, we found our associate already there."

From: The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

9-20-01
I believe the attitude expressed in the above excerpt is correct, (A tragedy in the outer world has nothing to do with me.), however, I am a long way from realizing this attitude. I have thought about my situation, my feeling of despair, a lot the past few days, and have come to the following conclusions.

A seeker should withdraw from the ordinary world. Have as little to do with it as possible. I have said this many times before.

When a seeker inadvertently reads a headline about a tragedy, they should say a prayer for the victims, but pursue the news no further. If a tragedy should happen where they live, they should of course, give a hand, doing whatever they can to help the victims.

There is always going to be terrible tragedies in the ordinary world. The ordinary world is based on duality: love and hate, good and evil, light and dark, war and peace. This separation from God's Oneness is the cause of all the tragedy in the world.

The seeker's reality and world is based on the oneness of God: an internal world of love, good, light and peace; which will eventually overcome the duality of the ordinary external world. I realize I must work with all my heart to bring forth this vision into the outer reality.

I will no longer allow the tragedies of the outer ordinary world to affect my inner reality of the Oneness of God. God is all there is! It seems to me, that God allows man to created the duality of the ordinary world as a teaching tool to help man learn that love is easier to live with than hate, that peace is more satisfying than war, that good is more rewarding than evil and that light is more easily to live in than darkness.

Just writing these things down makes me feel a lot better. God help me to realize the truth in what I have written. God I Am One with Your Peace and I send that peace to all those that suffer and grieve. Amen.

9-21-01
Feeling better today.

When my second-cousin was nineteen he was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. He was the son of my Great Aunt who later became a spiritualist minister. I talked to my cousin at a seance after he passed on and he told me some very interesting things. He said he came to in the spirit world walking along a path in a beautiful countryside. He said, "I had the same clothes on the day I passed over but I was very agitated because I didn't have my shoes on and I looked and looked for them."

He continued along the path and after awhile met a friend that gently told him that he had passed on from earth life and that he had no shoes on because he was walking on sacred ground. His friend continued to tell him many things about life and death and living in the spirit world and that only the people living on earth had the arrogance to walk on sacred ground with there shoes on, because all ground created by Almighty God is sacred.

My cousin later told his mother that he had learned that if he had not died from the gunshot wound that he would have died by some other means, because it was his time to pass on. He indicated that a person cannot die before their time and cannot live beyond their time.

At another seance a spirit physician told me that when a person walks barefoot their body can pickup minerals from the earth that their body needs through the soles of their feet. And that the body can also expel wastes and toxins out of the body through the soles of the feet.

I have mentioned before that the body stores toxic waste in fat and muscle tissues as far away from the vital organs as possible. This the reason that many peoples feet swell up. If they would walk barefoot those toxins could be expelled from their body.

It may seem to some, that I am obsessed with walking barefoot. It's not exactly an obsession, but I do speak of it often because few people realize how important it is to go barefoot.Who pays any attention to their feet, other than putting their shoes on or when they hurt. If you want to live a natural/spiritual life it is important to walk barefoot as much as you can.

Here is a situation about barefoot walking that I would like you to ponder with me. Years ago I saw a travelogue that showed three native people, two men and a woman, walking along a trail high in the Himalayan Mountains. They were all barefoot. They wore wool pantaloons that came down to their ankles, some kind of a blouse, heavy wool derby like hats, and several layers of what looked like wool serapes.

As night fell they prepared for bed at a flat place out in the open beside the trail. They placed a couple of the serapes on the bare ground and lay down on them very close together, a man on each side of the woman. Then they place all the other serapes over themselves as covers. But, all three of them had their bare feet exposed outside of the bottom of the covers.

It must have been freezing up there at night. Why did they leave their feet sticking out in the cold. I have speculated that maybe their feet acted as a kind of thermostat. Their bodies trying to keep their feet warn kept their bodies under the covers toasty. But then what kept their feet from freezing? They must have had super circulation! If you have any information about this situation, please let me know. Thanks.

9-22-01
My brother joined the navy during world war two when he was seventeen. After boot camp and training school he was assigned to a new class of cruiser just launched. After the shakedown cruise the cruiser went to sea and in the first battle took a hit in the powder magazine, was blown in half, and sank with all hands.

The sinking of the new cruiser was reported in the newspapers but my mother had not received any notice from the navy that my brother was killed. She was frantic with worry.

My mother had heard earlier about a woman who was powerful spiritualist medium in a city about 200 hundred miles from where we lived. She drove there and after much inquiry found out where the woman lived. As my mother stepped on the porch the woman opened the door, called my mother by name, and said, "Your son was not on that ship."

What had happened was that my brother had received a weekend pass (1600 Friday afternoon to 0800 Monday morning) from the ship, and hitch hiked 700 miles home to see our mother before he went to sea. My mother rented a private plane to fly my brother back but he was still late and AWOL. On arriving at the naval base my brother was thrown in the brig, and while awaiting trial his ship sailed without him.

Subsequently, my brother who was a medical corpsman, made 11 major landings on islands in the Pacific with the Marines. He never got a scratch. He was one of three in his medical battalion of 400 men that survived the war.

It is hard for any one to understand how terrible war is unless they have been there. My brother, while in his teens, spent three years tending the wounded and dying at one battle after another. On one ship during a landing they lost half of the crew, some 250 to 300 men.

The decks were so strewn with bodies and body parts that those still alive kicked the bodies over the side so that they could continue to man their battle stations. The decks were so slick with blood that the men had to hang on to something or each other to move around.

When my brother came back home from the war he was completely insane. At first, he would wake us up almost every night screaming. We would go in his bedroom and find him cowering under his bed or huddled in the corner of the closet. He spent most of his daytime hours drunk. We worked with him for the better part of a year, before he began to recover. God bless him, he was just a kid, and went through three years of unspeakable horror.

Two points. The women, who was the spiritualist medium, had never seen my mother before, but called her by name and told her that her son was alive, which was true. The only way she could have known these things was by spirit communication. And the second point, is that you cannot die before your time no matter how often you are placed in harms way.

9-23-01
My Great Uncle, the sheep rancher, was aware of his passing from this earth and told me after his death that he found himself walking across beautiful rolling pasture land, "Great sheep country," as he called it. He said he remember walking very slowly because he was to old, and to stiff and sore to walk very fast. Later on he came to a river, and he told me, "I don't know why, but I waded into the river, and it felt so good that I just sat down and let the water flow over my head."

He said he didn't know how long he sat in the water, but after some time he stood up and continued to wade across. He said he realized that all his aches and pains were gone and as he felt his arms, body and face and realized he was a young man again. As he waded out of the water on the far shore all his family and friends were there to meet him. My Uncle had crossed over the river Jordan.

"And yet I believe
That when you lose
A person you love
You gain another
Guardian Angel
That you know."

I talked to my Great Uncle at a seance once more in 1951 or 1952 and he told me he was doing very well. He said he heard that there was going to be an atomic bomb test in Nevada the next day and he was going to drive his train over there and watch. I was amused to hear that he had his own train.

I knew that he loved trains, and that he had worked on them as a young man. Before my Great Aunt would marry him, she made him promise to give up working on the railroad, "Because it was just to dangerous." So after they were married, he bought a 3000 acre spread in the foothills and raised sheep.

Years after my Uncle passed on I met an elderly man that had been one of my Uncle's ranch hands. He said my Great Uncle told him that he had made two mistakes in his life. "Buying two hundred dollar a head ewes in 1928 for new breeding stock, and quitting the railroad." My Great Aunt and Uncle lost there ranch when a, "friend" called in a loan in the early years of the depression, which started with the stock market crash of 1929.

9-24-01
I was told at a seance that aborted babies arrive in heaven looking like little butterflies. And that spirits working with aborted babies catch then with butterfly nets and put them in a large aviary like structure covered with screen so they can care for them. As the babies grow and become heavier, they lose their ability to fly and drift down to the floor of the nursery. Then they are placed in cribs and are cared for much like new born babies on earth.

I have heard little children come into a seance room and say over and over, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry." And an adult voice said, "They are hungry for love." Made me cry.

I was also told that suicide is a very grave offense against God's laws and the punishment severe. One person I heard about that committed suicide floated in darkness until the time that they should have passed naturally from earth. And another was trapped in their body until the flesh had completely rotted away. That's to terrible to think about.

I inquired once at a seance about reincarnation and an ancient scholar was brought in to talk to me about his findings. He said that the heavens were vast and that their were many ways of doing things, but that he had found no evidence that a spirit ever returned to earth and was born again in a new physical body.

The Oahspe Bible, has this to say about reincarnation:

Jehovih [Almighty God] said: "As I have quickened the seed of the first born, so will I quicken all seed to the end of the earth. And each and every man-child and woman-child born into life will I quicken with a new spirit, which shall proceed out of Me at the time of conception. [The spirit enters the body at conception.] Neither will I give to any spirit of the higher or lower heaven power to enter a womb, or a fetus of a womb, and be born again."

The spirit-scholar did say that there was a "type of reincarnation" in heaven in that as spirit as they advanced left behind the body they had been using and entered a more refined body as they reached the next higher plain of spirituality.

I met a Chinese woman years ago that told me how the early Eastern seers got the mistaken idea that a person could be reincarnated into lower animals. She said when spirits visited a seer they would often show them their "Clan sign" a bear or wolf or eagle; and from this the idea that people reincarnated into lower animals came about.

One possible explanation for the belief in reincarnation is as follows:
A mothers blood circulates through the placenta providing oxygen and nutrients to the baby. The mothers blood also passes on to the baby a complete history of all their ancestors. This history is passed on from mother to child ad infinitum (without end).

Some adepts can experience their ancestors life in a type of holographic vision which arises from the history recorded in their own blood. They are present in the vision as one of their ancestors and actually relive part of that ancestors life. When they return to their own present day reality, they interpret their vision as being one of their own past lives and believe they are a reincarnation of that ancestor.

I didn't witness this, but my Mother told me that she was at a seance once and she heard a noise like someone dragging chains around the room. A man spoke to her and said that he was completely covered and bound with chains of coins symbolizing all the money that he had swindled others out of.

He said he was looking for the people he had victimized so he could return some of the coins to them. He asked if he had stolen any money from my mother. My Mother said, " No," and then she heard the chains dragging away.

Years later at a seance we heard a sound like someone shaking a box with a few coins in it, and a voice said, "I've found almost all of them, I just have a few coins left."

9-25-01
I remember Mrs. Mary Taylor, the medium we visited, telling us about how she and her sister sat for seven years hoping to communicate with the other side, with no success. Then one evening the round wooden table they were sitting at floated up to the ceiling. Mary said that she and her sister ran screaming from the house. Afterward Mary become a very powerful medium. Often Mary's daughter, who had passed on, could speak right out to you in Mary's presence any place in their house.

The point here is that it took a seven year initiation period to show that Mary was serious about wanting to be a medium. Her powers developed rapidly after that seven year period. I am not sure about this, but it seems that a seven year initiation period is pretty standard in spiritual endeavors.

Mediumship in itself is not really a spiritual undertaking because the goal is not spiritual advancement, but rather, to communicate with those spirits that have passed on from this earth. However, it is a method that can be used to communicate truly spiritual information from spirits in heaven to those who seek the truth on earth.

Again, information gained from communication with spirits that have passed from earth life should be checked very closely to make sure that it is the truth. I have been told that spirits living in the lower heavens are, "notorious liars."

I have never seriously tried to develop any mediumistic powers.

I believe that man cannot invent any machine, to do anything, that he is not already capable of doing within himself, if he would just work to develop that power. For instance, the telephone is just the outer manifestation of mental telepathy. I have been told that all inventions are first developed in heaven and then the spirits inspire someone on earth to build them.

At a seance in the early forties the spirits told us about a new machine, that would soon be in every household, that could show pictures, like a movie, of events taking place clear across the other side of the country. They were talking, of course, about television.

The purpose behind the development of the television machine in heaven was in hopes to develop a way for spirits in heaven to communicate with their families on earth. So far, this has not happened. I wish it would happen, then maybe we could make right so many things that are wrong on earth.

9-26-01
I am trying to read, "sign" in the following situations.

About ten days before the terrorist attack on New York and Washington D.C., I was pulled over by a state police officer, in a town (#1) of 20,000, forty miles North of where we live. The officer said that I ran a stop sign, and asked for my papers, looked at them, called in the information, and then said he was just going to give me a verbal warning. He said for me not be such a hurry that I neglect to make a complete stop at every stop sign. I said, "OK, Thanks, I'll do that" and went on my way.

I was bit shaken by the incident because I hadn't been stopped for anything for at least fifteen years. And I thought to myself, that this type of thing usually happens in "threes", and wondered what I would be stopped for next.

On September 14th, I was stopped by a city police officer in a smaller town (#2) (pop. 10,000) twenty five miles North of where we live. The officer gave me a written warning for a burnt out tail light.

The next incident happened 3 or 4 days later in a very small town (#3) (pop. 5,000) just twelve miles North of where we live.. This town is too small to afford a police officer. I had backed in and parked in a disabled parking space in front of the City Hall Building, at the entrance to the library, where I was doing some community work. The parking lot was empty, and there was plenty of regular parking places, but I parked in the disabled parking place because it was closest to the library door.

A man pulled up in a city pickup and walked over to me and said, "What are you doing there!?" "You can't just pull in here and do anything you want!" "You have to have permission from someone in City Hall!" I told him what I was doing, and why I was parked there, and then he apologized and said he was sorry for jumping all over me.

So I ask myself, what is the message in these three encounters? Trouble coming closer from the North? And/or, "Warning, warning, be careful what you do." Maybe. Anyway, I'm going to be very careful driving and in my exchanges with other people during this period of heighten stress.

I'm sure that there is much more, sign, to read in this, but for now this is the best that I can come up with.

9-28-01
My friend who gives me computer lessons and who is helping me to design the Seeker web pages has canceled our last two Friday sessions (Sept.21&28) because he is, "snowed under" with computer repair work. Maybe people want better communication capabilities after the terrorist attacks. I don't know.

My friend lives forty miles North of us near where the state police officer stopped me. I am reluctant to travel North until I have more information about what is going on. Something important for me to learn or the sign would not have been laid on so heavy. I have learned the hard way, not to ignore things like this. I'm staying close to home until I learn more.

9-29-01
Last night Juanita read the above entries and immediately agreed that I should not go North to any of those towns and that I should stay close to home, until we have a definite answer to what those warnings were all about.

I can shop and do the laundry in a town 25 miles to the South. I don't get any bad feelings going in that direction. I think my friend, the computer wizard, will agree to come down to our house to work on the web pages. As a precaution, we are carrying our drinking water with us wherever we travel.

All this is interesting, but a bit stressful. I thank those Beings that have made the effort to prepare this sign for me. May they also help me to solve the riddle. I AM ONE with God and His perfect Peace. I am on the path.

It is very important for a seeker to learn to read sign. It is one of the ways that Angels can legally communicate with us while we live on earth. Angels are also allowed to impress their thoughts on our minds, and control lesser animals (and maybe some men) in our presence.

Every animal has a symbolic meaning. When an animal comes into your presence it may carry a message for you, if you can read it's sign. The question is, "What does the appearance of this animal at this time in this place mean to me."

Out in the mountains one evening I had an owl attack me by diving on me and thrashing it's wing about my head and shoulders, screaming in fury. It continued to attack until I dropped to the ground and lay still. The owl didn't hurt me, but it did shake me up quite a bit. (The owl was saying, "don't go any further up the mountain tonight.")

I slept where I lay until just before dawn when the owl, screaming, dived on me again, just once. ("Wake up and get going, you can continue up the mountain now.") In this case the meaning of the sign was obvious, (after the fact) but most of the time the meaning is much more subtle and illusive. Later, I learned there was good reason for me not to be on that mountain top after dark.

If a person will pay attention all of nature is talking to them all of the time. You are part of the whole. ONE.

I have often wished that I had had access to a good spiritualist medium so that I could have attended a seance so that the spirits could have helped me to understand my experiences.

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