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June 20 - June 29, 2024
Visualize the mind as having three concentric circles, each smaller than the last and within the other, separated only by layers of connected mind-consciousness. The first outer layer is represented by the conscious mind, which is our critical, analytic reasoning source. The second layer is the subconscious, where we initially go in hypnosis to tap into the storage area for all the memories that ever happened to us in this life and former lives. The third, the innermost core, is what we are now calling the superconscious mind. This level exposes the highest center of Self, where we are an
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The superconscious houses our real identity, augmented by the subconscious, which contains the memories of the many alter egos assumed by us in our former human bodies. The superconscious may not be a level at all; it may be the soul itself. The superconscious mind represents our highest center of wisdom and perspective, and all my information about life after death comes from this source of intelligent energy.
In hypnosis people have trouble relating to anything they don’t believe is the truth.
I learned the value of careful cross-examination early in my work, and I found no evidence of anyone faking their spiritual experiences to please me.
I found that thoughts about the spirit world involve universal truths among the souls of people living on Earth. It was these perceptions by so many different types of people that convinced me their statements were believable. I am not a religious person, but I have found the place where we go after death to be one of order and direction, and I have come to appreciate that there is a grand design to life and the afterlife.
Death does not break our continuity with the immortal soul of those we love simply because they have lost the physical personhood of a mortal body. Despite their many activities, these departed souls are still able to reach us if called upon.
Dying people are undergoing a metamorphosis of separation by their souls from an adopted body. People associate death as losing our life force when actually the opposite is true. We forfeit our body in death, but our eternal life energy unites with the force of a divine oversoul. Death is not darkness but light.
For thousands of years, the people of Mesopotamia believed the gates into and out of heaven lay at opposite ends of the great curve of the Milky Way, called the River of Souls. After death, souls had to wait for the rising doorway of Sagittarius and the autumn equinox, when day and night are equal. Reincarnation back to Earth could only take place during the spring equinox through the Gemini exit in their night sky.
The tunnel effect they experience when leaving Earth is the portal into the spirit world.
Most of my subjects report that as they emerge from the mouth of the tunnel, things are still unclear for a while. I think this is due to the density of the nearest astral plane surrounding Earth, called the kamaloka by Theosophists.
S: I’m hearing sounds. Dr. N: What sounds? S: An echo of music . . . musical tingling . . . wind chimes . . . vibrating with my movements . . . so relaxing. Dr. N: Other people have defined these sounds as vibrational in nature, similar to riding on the resonance from the twang of a tuning fork. Do you agree or disagree with this description? S: (nods in assent) Yes, that’s what this is . . . and I have a memory of scent and taste, too. Dr. N: Does this mean our physical senses stay with us after death? S: Yes, the memory of them . . . the waves of musical notes here are so
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With subjects who speak about spiritual layering, I mention the possibility that they could be seeing astral planes. In metaphysical writing we read a lot about planes above Earth. Beginning with ancient Indian scriptures called the Vedas and followed by later Eastern texts, astral planes have historically represented a series of rising dimensions above the physical or tangible world that blend into the spiritual.
Our planetary memories never die; they whisper forever into the soul-mind on the winds of mythical dreams, just as images of the spirit world do so within the human mind.
People tend to think all souls become omniscient at death. This is not completely true because adjustment periods vary. The time of soul adjustment depends upon the circumstances of death, attachments of each soul to the memories of the life just ended, and level of advancement.
If a soul has been traumatized by unfinished business, usually the first entity it sees right after death is its guide. These highly developed spiritual teachers are prepared to take the initial brunt of a soul’s frustration following an untimely death.
Regardless of their state of mind right after death, my subjects are full of exclamations about rediscovered marvels of the spirit world. Usually this feeling is combined with euphoria that all their worldly cares have been left behind, especially physical pain. Above all else, the spirit world represents a place of supreme quiescence to the traveling soul. Although it may at first appear we are alone immediately following death, we are neither isolated nor unaided. Unseen intelligent energy forces guide each of us through the gate.
Souls often use their capacity to project former life forms when communicating with each other. Projecting a human life form is only one of an incalculable number of appearances that can be assumed by souls from their basic energy substance.
Most of my subjects report the first person they see in the spirit world is their personal guide. However, after any life we can be met by a soulmate. Guides and soulmates are not the same. If a former relative or close friend appears to the incoming soul, their regular guide might be absent from the scene. I find that usually guides are somewhere in close proximity, monitoring the incomer’s arrival in their own way.
I am repeatedly told that the soul itself is androgynous, and yet, in the same breath, clients declare sex is not an unimportant factor. I have learned all souls can and do assume male and female mental impressions toward other entities as a form of identity preference.
When two spirits come so close to each other they are conjoined, my subjects say they can send private thoughts by touch, which passes between them as electrical sound impulses.
The essential purpose of reincarnation is self-improvement. The psychological ramifications of our development, both in and out of the spirit world, is the foundation of my work.
We have energy—within an energy field. So, it isn’t just the lines we travel on . . . we generate energy ourselves . . . we can use these forces depending on our experience.
In hypnosis, the analytical conscious mind works in conjunction with the unconscious mind to receive and answer messages directed to our deep-seated memories.
Discarnate, unhappy spirits who trap themselves are possibly part of a grand design. When they are ready, these souls will be taken by the hand away from Earth’s astral plane and guided to their proper place in the spirit world.
Those of us who have experienced unresolved personal trauma in our lives carry the seeds of our own destruction. This anguish affects our soul in such a way that it seems we are not whole.
The evolution of souls involves a transition from imperfection to perfection based upon overcoming many difficult body assignments during their task-oriented lives.
All my casework with the spirits of my subjects has convinced me there is no residence of terrible suffering for souls except on Earth.
Most errant souls are able to solve their own problems of contamination. The price we pay for our misdeeds and the rewards received for good conduct revolve around the laws of karma. Perpetrators of harm to others will do penance by setting themselves up as future victims in a karmic cycle of justice.
Karma by itself does not denote good or bad deeds; rather, it is the result of one’s positive and negative actions in life.
The key to growth is understanding we are given the ability to make mid-course corrections in our life and having the courage to make necessary changes when what we are doing is not working for us. By conquering fear and taking risks, our karmic pattern adjusts to the effects of new choices. At the end of every life, rather than having a monster waiting to devour our souls, we serve as our most severe critic in front of teacher-guides.
Some people who believe in reincarnation also think if negative souls do not learn their lessons within a reasonable span of lives, they will be eliminated and replaced by more willing souls. My subjects deny this premise.
Nothing can be hidden by students from their spiritual teachers. No subterfuge or deception exists in a telepathic world.
Having no conscious memory of our former existences is called amnesia. This human condition is perplexing to people attracted to reincarnation. Why should we have to grope around in life trying to figure out who we are and what we are supposed to do and wondering if some spiritual divinity really cares about us?
S: If people knew all about their past, many might pay too much attention to it rather than trying out new approaches to the same problem. The new life must be . . . taken seriously.
S: (pause) Without having old memories, our advisors say there is less preoccupation for . . . trying to . . . avenge the past . . . to get even for the wrongs done to you.
We get flashes from dreams . . . during times of crisis . . . people have an inner knowing of what direction to take when it is necessary.
Our eternal identity never leaves us alone in the bodies we choose, despite our current status. In reflection, meditation, or prayer, the memories of who we really are do filter down to us in selective thought each day. In small, intuitive ways—through the cloud of amnesia—we are given clues for the justification of our being.
The test of reincarnation for a soul coming to Earth is the conquering of fear in a human body. A soul grows by trying to overcome all negative emotions connected to fear through perseverance in many lifetimes, often returning to the spirit world bruised or hurt, as case 13 indicated. Some of this negativity can be retained, even in the spirit world, and may reappear in another life with a new body. On the other hand, there is a trade-off. It’s in joy and unabashed pleasure that the true nature of an individual soul is revealed on Earth in the face of a happy human being.
A number of my cases have called these wise beings directors and even judges, but most refer to them as a council of masters or elders.
Our motivations are questioned and criticized, but not condemned in such a way as to make us suffer.
I have been told that our spiritual masters constantly remind us that because the human brain does not have an innate moral sense of ethics, conscience is the soul’s responsibility. Nevertheless, there is overwhelming forgiveness in the spirit world. This world is ageless, and so too are our learning tasks. We will be given other chances in our struggle for growth.
I am told the most outstanding characteristic of the spirit world is a continuous feeling of a powerful mental force directing everything in uncanny harmony. People say this is a place of pure thought.
S: We recognize a universal bond between us that makes us all the same. There is no suspicion toward each other. Dr. N: How does this attitude manifest itself between souls who first meet? S: By complete openness and acceptance. Dr. N: Living on Earth must be difficult for souls, then? S: It is, for the newer ones especially, because they go to Earth expecting to be treated fairly. When they aren’t, it’s a shock. For some, it takes quite a few lives to get used to the Earth body. Dr. N: And if the newer souls are struggling with these Earth conditions, are they less efficient when working
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I regularly hear such watery words as currents and streams used to explain a flowing directional movement, where a sky word like cloud denotes a freedom of motion associated with drifting. Visual images that call up expressions of energy mass and group clusters to indicate souls themselves are especially popular.
S: It’s never black here . . . the light . . . just contracts to darker shades because of my speed. When I slow down things get brighter. (others confirm this observation)
Familiar beings are clustered together in undulating masses of bright light. On occasion, resonating musical sounds with specific chords guide the incoming traveler. One subject remarked, “As I come near my place, there is a monotone of many voices sounding the letter A, like Aaaaa, for my recognition, and I can see them all vibrating fast as warm, bright energy, and I know these are the disembodied ones right now.”
As I mentioned earlier, after souls arrive back into their soul groups, they are summoned to appear before a council of elders. While the council is not prosecutorial, they do engage in direct examination of a soul’s activities before returning them to their groups. It is not unusual for my subjects to have some difficulty providing me with full details of what transpires at these hearings, and I am sure these blocks are intentional.
There are always the same six elders in front of me who wear long white robes. Their faces are kindly, and they evaluate my perceptions of the life I have just lived and how I could have done better with my talents and what I did that was beneficial. I am freely allowed to express my frustrations and desires. All the elders are familiar to me, especially two of them who address me more than the others and who look younger than the rest. I think I can distinguish appearances which are male or female. Each has a special aspect in the way they question me, but they are honest and truthful, and I
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My impression of the people who believe we do have a soul is that they imagine all souls are probably mixed into one great congregation of space. Many of my subjects believe this too, before their sessions begin. After awakening, it is no wonder they express surprise with the knowledge that everyone has a designated place in the spirit world.
When people in trance speak of being part of a soul cluster group, they are talking about a small primary unit of entities who have direct and frequent contact, such as we would see in a human family. Peer members have a sensitivity to each other that is far beyond our conception on Earth.
