Dr. N: Is this ability to transmit features to each other as souls a gift the creator provided for us based upon spiritual need?
S: How should I know-I'm not God!
The concept of souls having fallibility comes as a surprise to some people. The statements of Case 8 and all my other clients indicate most of us are still far from perfect beings in the spirit world. 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 seen the importance of meeting other entities while entering the spirit world. Besides uniting with our guides and other familiar beings, I have mentioned a third form of reentry after death. This is the rather disconcerting manner in which a soul is met by no one.
Although it is an uncommon occurrence for most of my clients, I still feel a little sorry for those subjects who describe how they are pulled by unseen forces all alone to their final destinations, where contact is finally made with others. This would be akin to landing in a foreign country where you have been before, but without any baggage handlers or a tourist information desk to assist you with directions. I suppose what bothers me the most about this type of entry is the apparent lack of any soul acclimation.
My own conceptions of what it must be like to be alone at the spiritual gateway and beyond is not shared by those souls who utilize the option of going solo. Actually, people in this category are experienced travelers. As older, mature souls, they seem to require no initial support system. They know right where they are going after death. I suspect the process is accelerated for them as well, because they manage to more rapidly wind up where they belong than those who stop to meet others.
Case 9 is a client who has had a great number of lives, spanning thousands of years. About eight lives before his current one, people finally stopped meeting him at the spiritual gate.
Case 9
Dr. N: What happens to you at the moment of death?
S: I feel a great sense of release and I move out fast.
Dr. N: How would you characterize your departure from Earth into the spirit world?
S: I shoot up like a column of light and I'm on my way.
Dr. N: Has it always been this fast for you?
S: No, only after my last series of lives.
Dr. N: Why?
S: I know the way, I don't need to see anybody-I'm in a hurry.
Dr. N: And it doesn't bother you that you are not met by anyone?
S: (laughs) There was a time when it was good, but I don't require that sort of thing anymore.
Dr. N: Whose decision was it to allow you to enter the spirit world without assistance?
S: (pause and then with a shrug) It was ... a mutual decision ... between my teacher and me ... when I knew I could handle things by myself.
Dr. N: And you don't feel rather lost or lonely right now?
S: Are you kidding? I don't need my hand held anymore. I know where I'm going and I'm anxious to get there. I'm being pulled along by a magnet and I just enjoy the ride.
Dr. N: Explain to me how this pulling process works which will take you to your destination?
S: I am riding on a wave ... a beam of light.
Dr. N: Is this beam electromagnetic, or what?
S: Well ... it's similar to the bands of a radio with someone turning the dial and finding the right frequency for me.
Dr. N: Are you saying you are being guided by an invisible force without much voluntary control and that you can't speed things up as you did right after death?
S: Yes. I must go with the wave bands of light ... the waves have direction and I'm flowing with it. It's easy. They do it all for you.
Dr. N: Who does it for you?
S: The ones in control ... I don't really know.
Dr. N: Then you are not in control. You don't have the responsibility of finding your own destination.
S: (pause) My mind is in tune with the movement ... I flow with the resonance ...
Dr. N: Resonance? You hear sounds?
S: Yes, the wave beam ... vibrates ... I am locked into this, too.
Dr. N: Let's go back to your statement about the radio. Is your spiritual travel influenced by vibrational frequencies such as high, medium, and low resonance quality?
S: (laughing) That's not bad-yes, and I'm on a line, like a homing beacon of sound and light ... and it's part of my own tonal pattern-my frequency.
Dr. N: I'm not sure I understand how light and vibration combine to set up directional bands.
S: Think of a monster tuning fork inside a flashing strobe light.
Dr. N: Oh, then there is energy here?
S: 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.
Dr. N: Then your maturity level does give you some element of control in the rate and direction of travel.
S: Yes, but not right here. Later, when I am settled I can move around much more on my own. Now, I'm being pulled and I'm supposed to go with it.
Dr. N: Okay, stay with this and describe to me what happens next.
S: (short pause) I'm moving alone ... being homed into my proper space ... going where I belong.
In hypnosis, the analytical conscious mind works in conjunction with the unconscious mind to receive and answer messages directed to our deepseated memories. The subject in Case 9 is an electrical engineer and thus he utilized some technical descriptions to express his spiritual sensations. This client's predisposition to explain his thoughts on soul travel in technical terms was encouraged, but not dictated, by my suggestions. All subjects bring their own segments of knowledge to bear on answering my questions about the spirit world. This case used physical laws familiar to him to describe motion, whereas another person might have said souls move in this tract within a vacuum.
Before continuing with the passage of souls into the spirit world, I want to discuss those entities who either have not made it this far after physical death, or will be diverted from the normal travel route.
4
The Displaced Soul
THERE are souls who have been so severely damaged they are detached from the mainstream of souls going back to a spiritual home base. Compared to all returning entities, the number of these abnormal souls is not large. However, what has happened to them on Earth is significant because of the serious effect they have on other incarnated souls.
There are two types of displaced souls: those who do not accept the fact their physical body is dead and fight returning to the spirit world for reasons of personal anguish, and those souls who have been subverted by, or had complicity with, criminal abnormalities in a human body. In the first instance, displacement is of the soul's own choosing, while in the second case, spiritual guides deliberately remove these souls from further association with other entities for an indeterminate period. In both situations, the guides of these souls are intimately concerned with rehabilitation, but because the circumstances are quite different between each type of displaced soul, I will treat them separately.
The first type we call ghosts. These spirits refuse to go home after physical death and often have unpleasant influences on those of us who would like to finish out our own human lives in peace. These displaced souls are sometimes falsely called "demonic spirits" because they are accused of invading the minds of people with harmful intent. The subject of negative spirits has produced serious investigations in the field of parapsychology. Unfortunately, this area of spirituality has also attracted a fringe element of the unscrupulous associated with the occult, who prey on the emotions of susceptible people.