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 within the human mind?
S: I would have to say yes, because the brain drives a lot of fear and violence into our souls. It's hard for us, but that's why we come to earth ... to overcome ...
Dr. N: In your opinion, might the newer souls tend to be more fragile and in need of group support upon returning to their cluster?
S: That's absolutely true. We all want to return home. Will you let me stop talking now, so I can meet with my friends?
I have touched on the commonality of word usage by different clients to describe spiritual phenomena. Case 14 offered us a few more. One person's "glow worms bulging out in places" is another's "floating trail of balloons." A description about "clumps of huge, translucent bulbs" in one case becomes "giant bunches of transparent bubbles" from somebody else mentally returning to the spirit world. I regularly hear such water-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 which call up expressions of energy mass and group clusters to indicate souls themselves are especially popular. I have adopted some of this spiritual language myself.
At the final debarkation zone for the incoming soul, waiting cluster groups of familiar entities may be large or small, depending upon the soul developmental level and other factors which I will take up as we get a little further along. By way of comparison with Case 14, the next case demonstrates a more insular perception of the spirit world from a soul with less maturity.
In Case 15, the transition of this soul from the staging area to her home cluster is fairly rapid in her mind. The case is informative because it presents attributes of propriety felt by this soul to a designated space, as well as deference toward those who manage the system. Because this subject is less experienced and a bit edgy over what she sees as a need for conformity, we are given another interpretation of spiritual guidelines for group placement.
Case 15
Dr. N: I want to talk to you about your trip into the place where you normally stay in the spirit world. Your soul is now moving toward this destination. Explain what you see and feel.
S: (nervously) I'm ... going ... outward, somehow ...
Dr. N: Outward?
S: (puzzled) I am ... floating along ... in a chain of some kind. It's as though I'm weaving through a series of ... connecting links ... a foggy maze ... then ... it opens up ... oh!
Dr. N: What is it?
S: (with awe) I have come into ... a grand arena ... I see many others ... criss-crossing around me ... (subject grows uncomfortable)
Dr. N: Just relax-you are in the staging area now. Do you still see your guide?
S: (with hesitation) Yes ... nearby ... otherwise I would be lost ... it's so ... vast ...
Dr. N: (I place my hand on the subject's forehead) Continue to relax and remember you have been here before, although everything may seem new to you. What do you do now?
S: I'm ... carried forward ... rapidly ... straight past others ... then I'm in ... an empty space ... open ...
Dr. N: Does this void mean everything is black around you?
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)
Dr. N: Continue on and report back to me what you see next.
S: After a while I see ... nests of people ...
Dr. N: You mean groups of people?
S: Yes-like hives-I see them as bunches of moving lights ... fireflies ...
Dr. N: All right, keep moving and tell me what you feel?
S: Warmth ... friendship ... empathy ... it's dreamy ... hmm ...?
Dr. N: What is it?
S: I have slowed way down-things are different.
Dr. N: How?
S: More clearly defined (pause)-I know this place.
Dr. N: Have you reached your own hive (cluster group)?
S: (long pause) Not yet, I guess ...
Dr. N: Just look about you and report back to me exactly what you see and feel.
S: (subject begins to tremble) There are ... bunches of people ... together ... off in the distance ... but ... there!
Dr. N: What do you see?
S: (fearfully) People I know ... some of my family ... off in the distance ... but ... (with anguish) I don't seem to be able to reach them!
Dr. N: Why?
S: (in tearful bewilderment) I don't know! God, don't they know I'm here? (subject begins to struggle in her chair and then extends her arm and open hand at my office wall) I can't reach my father!
Note: I briefly stop my questioning. This client's father had a great influence in her most immediate past life and she needs additional calming techniques. I also decide to reinforce her protective shield before continuing.
Dr. N: What do you think is the reason your father is off in the distance so you can't reach him?
S: (during a long pause I use the time to dry subject's face, which has become wet with tears and perspiration) I don't know ...
Dr. N: (I place my hand on subject's forehead and command) Connect with your father-now!
S: (after a pause the subject relaxes) It's okay ... he is telling me to be patient and everything will become clear to me ... I want to go over there and be near him.
Dr. N: And what does he tell you about that?
S: (sadly) He says ... that he can always be in my mind if I need him and ... I will learn to do this better (think telepathically), but he has to stay where he is ...
Dr. N: What do you think is the basic reason for your father remaining in this other place?
S: (tearfully) He does not belong in my hive.
Dr. N: Anything else?
S: The ... directors ... they don't ... (crying again) I'm not sure ...
Note: Normally, I try to avoid too much intervention when subjects are describing their spiritual transitions. In this case, my client is confused and disoriented, so I offer a little guidance of my own.
Dr. N: Let's analyze why you can't reach your father's position right now. Could this separation be the result of higher entities believing this is a time for individual reflection on your part and that you should associate only with other souls at your own level of development?
S: (subject is more restored) Yes, those messages are coming through. I have to work things out for myself ... with others like me. The directors encourage us ... and my father is helping me understand, too.
Dr. N: Are you satisfied with this procedure?
S: (pause) Yes.
Dr. N: All right, please continue with your passage from the moment you see some of your family in the distance. What happens next?
S: Well, I'm still slowing down ... moving gradually ... I'm being taken along a course I have been on before. I'm passing some other bunches of people (group clusters). Then, I stop.
Note: The final transit inward is especially important for the younger souls. One client, upon awakening, described this scene as giving him the sense he was arriving back home at twilight after a long trip away. Having passed from the countryside into his town, he finally reached the proper street. The front windows of his neighbors' houses were lit, and he could see people inside as he drove slowly past before reaching the driveway of his own home. Although people in trance may use such words as "clumps" and "hives" to describe how their home spaces look from a distance, this view becomes more individualistic once they go into each cluster. Then the subjects' spiritual surroundings are associated with towns, schools, and other living areas identified with earthly landmarks of security and pleasure.