Between Death and Life: Conversations with a Spirit

by Dolores Cannon

Does pain have a purpose? S: Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.

What is pain? It cannot touch you if you don’t let it. If you admit that you will hurt, you’re giving power to pain. Do not give it power. It’s unnecessary to feel it. It’s all connected to man. Reach into your spirit, your higher mind, it has no hold on you.

If death would occur during an out-of-body experience, what would we say the body died of? Would it be a heart attack? S: You are asking what the physical symptoms would be. Sudden infant syndrome is often ascribed to this. There are also those who because of age simply choose not to return, and so they are found in their sleep.

Death is necessary in order to progress. Stagnation would occur if there were no death in order to move one to the spirit side. This is an ongoing process which is best suited for the learning of much information. All is as it should be in this respect. If the lessons you were learning were finished then there would be a casting-off of the experiences which taught those lessons, and an assuming of new experiences to learn the more advanced lessons. It is simply climbing ladders, if you will, where each level of experience is growing in awareness from the one below it. So the surroundings which will be the catalyst for these experiences will be discarded as the new experiences are needed.

New surroundings are very important to progression. Reminders of the past inhibit looking to the future.

My subjects carry the memory, but it is buried deep within their subconscious and can only be released by the use of regressive hypnosis.

When you go through something on Earth, be it good, be it bad, the important thing is your attitude, the way you accept it. How do you handle the defeats? How do you handle your victories? How do you deal with situations and problems? How do you accept failures? Are you gracious? You know, your life situations. All these are the sum total of who and what you are. And self-deception, that’s a big one. People can’t be honest and can’t look at things. They make excuses for why they do things and justify it and twist it until they’ve lost all truth.

You have certain characteristics. You are the sum total of everything you have ever been or done. You are a person. You may be slightly imprinted through your childhood by the people you’re around but that is more of an added element. It doesn’t really change you. You are what you are, what you’ve done, what you’ve said, what you’ve thought, how you’ve lived and handled every situation. You are a sum total of all these things.

It’s so easy for people to have the tendency to think of themselves as other people see them, which is not so. You are different things. You are what you really are, then you are what you think you are, then you are what other people see you as … and then you change.

I’m going now to look at the tapestry. It’s so beautiful. It’s metallic; made of metal threads and they’re just gorgeous. They glimmer and shine. (A sudden intake of breath.) And it looks like it breathes. It’s like … it is alive. I mean it just undulates and sparkles. Some of the strands glisten, and others are kind of dull. It’s really hard to describe. It actually is like a living thing, but it’s not frightening; it’s beautiful. There are all different types of threads. And, oh! It’s just glorious. Nothing on Earth could ever be compared to it. There is just no way to describe how glorious this is because it’s so vibrant it’s almost electric. And the guardian says that each thread represents a life.

It’s like looking through the tapestry, and I can see people’s daily lives, and they’re connected as a thread into this tapestry. Now the guardian is explaining that every life that has ever been lived is represented as a thread in this tapestry. This is where all the threads of human life, the souls that incarnate are connected. It illustrates perfectly how each life is interwoven, crossing and touching all these other lives until eventually all of humanity is affected. The absolute oneness of humanity is represented by the tapestry. It is one but composed of all these many parts. Each cannot exist without the other and they all intertwine and influence each other.

And he says we could go into the scriptorium. This is where things are read. This is where people that can relate to writing and reading like to go. It’s part of the library complex.