Research Issues: The Afterlife
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Issue
Key Finding 84: Changes in one's spirit family
Spirit families can change somewhat and the reason that they change is because there will be spirits within your spirit family who will have chosen not to evolve, not to move on. There will be new family members who come into your family because they were able to evolve and move much faster into your group through their actions and spiritual evolution and the life lessons they learned in this most recent reincarnation.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4
Spirit families can change somewhat and the reason that they change is because there will be spirits within your spirit family who will have chosen not to evolve to move on. There will be new family members who come into your family because they were able to evolve and move much faster into your group through their actions and spiritual evolution and the life lessons they learned in this most recent reincarnation. There will be spirits in your spirit family who have moved on because their lessons and spiritual evolution was so much more powerful and so much more acknowledged that they are able to move on. The grouping that you are with generally is the one you always will be with except for these cases that we have just discussed.
As a person on earth chooses--as a spirit before it chooses to reincarnate as an earth being--they do not always know how extreme some of the lessons they are going to have on earth will be and that their status with their spirit family will be changing. But when this does happen and they make their crossing over they do not feel a sense of loss or feel a sense of abandonment. They embrace the changes that take place both for themselves and for their other spirit family members.
Key Finding 91: Deciding not to move ahead
One can finally say I am tired and I no longer choose to move from this place that I am in. I am happy right where I am. Oftentimes that means that you will have an entirely new spiritual family because many of your spirit family members do seek to move further ahead.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4
One can finally say I am tired and I no longer choose to move from this place that I am in. I am happy right where I am. Oftentimes that means that they will have an entirely new spiritual family because many of their spirit family members do seek to move further ahead. One does not ever move into a lower spirit family though one can ask permission to go and visit other spirit families, whether they are of a stronger spiritual evolution or one that is not as strong spiritually as you. You as a spirit do have permission to go and visit. Generally this is because there has been a spirit within your group who has chosen not to move on, and you have, and you would just like to extend that love that you have for that spirit and let that spirit know that what you on earth would call judgment--there is no judgment--you have just had a heart connection with that spirit and you want to be able to continue that regardless of how they have chosen to evolve.
Agreements
Journey of Souls by Newton
I want to summarize what I have learned about the basic principles of soul group assignments: Rates of learning vary among peer group members. Certain souls will advance faster than others in a cluster group, although these students may not be equally competent and effective in all areas of their curricula. Around the intermediate level of learning, souls demonstrating special talents (healing, teaching, creating, etc.) are permitted to participate in specialty groups for more advanced work while still remaining with their cluster group.
Destiny of Souls by Newton
Although the companion souls in a cluster group started together, they do have different rates of development. This has as much to do with drive and motivation as talent. Each soul does possess certain strengths that their companions can draw upon during group incarnations. As the group gets smaller, many go off into different specializations but they do not lose contact with each other.
Destiny of Souls by Newton
With the attaining of level III there is a change in soul behavior. These souls have now begun to expand their vistas away from their primary groups...These assemblages of more specialized souls are rather loosely knit at first. I have defined them as independent study groups...Souls who are testing the waters may leave these specialty groups while other promising candidates can be added. This practice is in opposition to the formation of long-term primary soul groups...In these early stages, while souls are being weaned from their original groups, they still retain their regular guides and attend primary group functions. Independent study has a greater emphasis on self-direction by the soul in their tasks, which becomes even more pronounced as they develop in level IV and V proficiency.
Journey of Souls by Newton
I want to summarize what I have learned about the basic principles of soul group assignments: At the point where a soul's needs, motives and performance abilities are judged to be fully at Level III in all areas of self-development, they are then loosely formed into an "independent studies" work group. Usually, their old guides continue to monitor them through one master teacher. Thus, a new pod of entities graduating into full Level III could be brought together from many clusters within one or more secondary groups.
Destiny of Souls by Newton
In the spirit world we are not forced to reincarnate or participate in group projects. If souls want solitude they can have it. If they don't want to advance in their assignments, this too is honored. ...if we are not ready to leave Earth's astral plane after death, for a variety of personal reasons, our guides will allow us to stay around until such time as we are prepared to go home.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
[after death] ... there are three main areas, though exceptions and extraordinary cases can take other roads. You may decide upon another reincarnation. You may decide to focus instead upon your past life, using it as the stuff of new experience, as mentioned previously creating variations of events as you have known them, making corrections as you choose. Or you may enter another system of probabilities entirely and this is quite apart from a reincarnational existence.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
Now there are some who resist the new existence, even though they chose it, as long as possible. To some extent they must be present at birth, but they can still escape any full identification with the born infant. They hover within and about the form, but half reluctantly. There are many reasons for such behavior. Some personalities simply prefer in-between-life existence and are much more concerned with the theoretical solving of problems than the practical application necessarily involved. Others have discovered that physical existence does not meet their needs as well as they thought it would, and they will progress much better in other fields of reality and existence.
Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz
Question to Channeled [Valerie's] Higher Self: You mentioned earlier that a physical incarnation provides a way to learn that cannot be accomplished otherwise. As I understand it, there are many beings who choose never to incarnate. If incarnation is the only way to learn certain things, why do some beings choose not to have physical lifetimes?
Higher Self: The human experience does not encompass every experience that is important for a being's growth. There are no words to explain some of the concepts that can be learned when a soul never incarnates on Earth or in a human personality.
Disagreements
Journey of Souls by Newton
I want to summarize what I have learned about the basic principles of soul group assignments: Once a new soul support group is formed, no new members are added in the future.
Journey of Souls by Newton
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 which is far beyond our conception on Earth...Members of the same cluster group are closely united for all eternity. These tightly-knit clusters are often composed of like-minded souls with common objectives which they continually work out with each other. Usually they choose lives together as relatives and close friends during their incarnations on Earth.
Destiny of Souls by Newton
The integrity of a soul's original cluster group remains intact in a timeless way. Regardless of who is graduating, they never lose their bond to old companions. Primary cluster groups began their existence together and remain closely associated through hundreds of incarnations.
Spirit Guide Commentary
In-Progress: ISSUE & PROSPECTIVE QUESTIONS
The important role of a spirit family in the development of a spirit is often not addressed by credible sources of afterlife information. The most detailed and authoritative source for such information is the work of Dr. Michael Newton who used thousands of between-life regressions to build this description. The most important issues that relate to this aspect of spiritual life involve how the spirit family was initially formed, how the family members relate to each other even as they may spiritually evolve differently, how new and different family groups may be formed, how reincarnation will involve old and new group membership, and whether some spirits will eventually stop living in a group setting between reincarnations.
Prospective Spirit Guide Questions Relating to Key Findings 84 and 91
How are spirit family groups initially formed?
Do the members of this initial family grouping maintain warm ties to each other throughout their entire spiritual life?
Does individual evolutionary growth cause an eventual change in family group assignments?
If such a change has taken place, does the spirit involved reincarnate with the members of his/her new group or those of the original family group?
Is there ever a time when a spirit who is still reincarnating does not live in any family group while in heaven?
Discussion
Ultimate loss of spirit individuality
Issue
KEY FINDING 95 - There finally becomes a time in spirit's evolution that you lose a sense of individuality. This is not as you on earth would consider it to be a negative experience but one where you are moving and vibrating at such high levels of energy that you know that you are vibrating as the oneness with the creator and all universal beings.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4: Individuality
Spirit Guide: Though as spirit energies you do not experience emotions as you do on earth, for what emotions truly are are different vibrational levels of energy, you do understand as a spirit how your vibrations of energy reflect you as an individual spirit. There finally becomes a time in spirit's evolution that you lose this sense of individuality. This is not as you on earth would consider it to be a negative experience but one where you are moving and vibrating at such high levels of energy that you know that you are vibrating as the oneness with the creator and all universal beings. This is an extremely difficult concept for you earth beings to have because you feel that you are your personality, you are your ego, you are this individual form.
Medium's vision: I would just like for you to know that I got a wonderful vision of what happens and I cannot explain it other than as every time a spirit moves from their individual aspect of being into the oneness there is a tremendous volume of light and love and higher frequency of energy vibrating within the entire universe and as an individual spirit chooses to move into the oneness this effects every single living element in every single universe everywhere.
Spirit Guide: To have an individual spirit achieve that oneness and move from their individuality does not mean they have to be a Jesus Christ or a Buddha or a Mother Teresa or saint as you on earth would call them. But it means they have reached within themselves through their life lessons a knowing of the self being love, of the self being connected with everything they say and do and act upon, and they understand that the power that is right there within them is the power that has always been there. And this can happen to an infant as much as it can happen to a great-great-great-great grandmother, it does not matter the age one is. It has to do with being willing to understand who and what they truly are. There are no human words or any other being words that can express what this connectiveness is.
Question: What are the various ways in which spirits are different from each other?
Spirit Guide: Spirits differ in all ways just as humans do. There are spirits that have higher consciousness levels than other spirits. There are spirits who have jobs as guardians. There are spirits who are earth angels who come to earth to help you with your earthly problems, your everyday problems. There are angels and spirits of many different forms just as there are humans of many different forms and once one moves into their spirit form the differences have no meaning whatsoever.
Agreements
Seth Speaks by Roberts
There is no such simple end to the life that you know, [such] as the story of heaven. There is the freedom to understand your own reality, to develop your abilities further, and to feel more deeply the nature of your own existence as a part of All That Is.
Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz
Question to Channeled [Valerie's] Higher Self: You mentioned earlier that a physical incarnation provides a way to learn that cannot be accomplished otherwise. As I understand it, there are many beings who choose never to incarnate. If incarnation is the only way to learn certain things, why do some beings choose not to have physical lifetimes?
Higher Self: The human experience does not encompass every experience that is important for a being's growth. There are no words to explain some of the concepts that can be learned when a soul never incarnates on Earth or in a human personality.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
We are sources of that energy from which you come. We are creators, yet we have also been created. We seeded your universe as you seed other realities. We do not exist in your historical terms, nor have we known physical existence. Our joy created the exaltation from which your world comes. Our existence is such that communication must be made by others to you. Verbal symbols have no meaning for us. Our experience is not translatable. We hope our intent is. In the vast infinite scope of consciousness, all is possible. There is meaning in each thought. We perceive your thoughts as lights. They form patterns. Because of the difficulties of communication, it is nearly impossible for us to explain our reality. Know only that we exist. We send immeasurable vitality to you, and support all of those structures of consciousness with which you are familiar. You are never alone. We have always sent emmissaries to you who understand your needs. Thought you do not know us, we cherish you. Seth is a point in my reference, in our reference. He is an ancient portion of us. We are separate but united. Always the spirit forms the flesh.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
Those who choose to leave this system, whose reincarnational cycles are finished, have many more decisions to make.
The Book of the Soul by Ian Lawton
...because we now have a mass of evidence from interlife regression subjects that once we have reached the transcendent stage of sufficient enlightenment and balance that we no longer have to incarnate on earth, and are therefore free to continue our progress in the ethereal realms, there are still a whole range of assignments that require our attention. More advanced souls are continually involved in helping new souls to develop, in assisting other souls with their life reviews and plans, and with other more universal activities such as exploring a multitude of other planets throughout the universe, and assisting and monitoring the evolution of life on them. In fact, there will undoubtedly be a huge range of ethereal activities of which even the most advanced of our pioneers' regression subjects remain completely unaware.
The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton
There is a new possibility that arises from the idea that all souls are holographic aspects of the Source itself, which is that the experience of individual souls might be automatically and continuously recycled back into the Source withou there being any need for them to 'reunite' with it in any formal sense....the rider on this is that is seems most souls would actively want to pursue all avenues laid out in their 'soul plan'. That is, not only the various aspects of general emotional experience common to all souls who reincarnate on earth, but also the particular specialisms that can be developed in various realms that each soul seems to have a specific purpose from the moment of its creation.
The Spirits' Book by Allan Kardec
Question: What happens to a spirit after its last incarnation?
Spirit: It enters into the state of perfect happiness as purified spirit.
Disagreements
The Spirits' Book by Allan Kardec
Do spirits ever die?...What we're asking is whether the spirit's individuality has an end. Answer: ....At present, all we can do is to reiterate that the existence of spirits has no end.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
You are not fated to dissolve into All That Is. The aspects of your personality as you presently understand them will be retained. All That Is is the creator of individuality, not the means of its destruction. My own 'previous' personalities are not dissolved into me any more than your 'past' personalities. All are living and vital. All go their own way. Your 'future' personalities are as real as your past ones. After a while, this will no longer concern you. Out of the reincarnational framework, there is no death as you think of it. My own frame of reference, however, is no longer focused on my reincarnational existences. I have turned my attention in other directions.
Spirit Guide Commentary
{Prospective Questions}
Question 95
When a spirit reaches a very high state of spiritual evolution, what is the nature of the change in perception of individuality as the spirit moves much closer to God? Is it similar to a drop of water being added to an ocean?
Discussion
Reincarnation of spirit guides
Issue
Key Finding 123,256 - Once a spirit has obtained the actual level of a spirit guide and teacher they no longer make the transitions to and from the nonspirit world.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4: Specialists in heaven
Question: What are the various specialists, if they exist, among spirits in heaven?
Spirit Guide: We would like to have you clarify that question. Do you mean as you as individuals that cross over as spirits, or are you talking as spirit guides and teachers? Could you please help clarify how you would like us to answer that?
Question: Well, I am perhaps not smart enough to properly ask the question but it has to do with, for example, people who may specialize in saving souls that have have been left here on earth without crossing over, or people who are specialists in science, or in leadership, or some other form?
Spirit Guide: In response to that question, we would say yes to both. There are specialists as spirit guide teachers and there are individuals who cross over who have achieved a higher consciousness that come and help as in spirit form other than an ordinary spirit life. They are spirit guides in training, so to speak. Those who come from a three-dimensional or other universal living experience and cross over into spirit experience, what their lives have consisted of in the other non-spirit form is often what they will help do and learn to assist spirits of lesser consciousness in the spirit world. Once a spirit has obtained the actual level of a spirit guide and teacher they no longer make the transitions from nonspirit world. But those individuals who are working to achieve higher levels of consciousness do help on the other side and they can be teachers, they can be doctors, they are almost always individuals not necessarily who have attained high educational and intellectual levels but individuals who have had many past lives and who have always been either leaders with a knowledge, whether it be conscious or not conscious, of the other life and they tend to be working towards becoming that type of a spiritual teacher and guide on the other side.
Question: Are inventions created in heaven and telepathically transferred to individuals on earth?
Spirit Guide: All thought process is created through the one Creator. If you choose to say that the thought you have comes from heaven, you are accepting that there is a power greater than you, that you are becoming the coCreator with God. In answer to that question, yes, many people have many ideas and think that they are personally responsible without understanding their connection as a co-Creator in the process they are going through.
Question: Would there, however, be a case where someone in the spirit world who was studying scientific matters and made a finding or invention and have that transferred to someone on earth who would think it was their thought?
Spirit Guide: As you know from your past experience in your professional life you would often get many ideas and, as you were thinking out these thoughts, these designs, and this creative energy, you had spirit guides who were working and helping you evolve these thought processes that were coming to you. But even through the spirit guides the thought process all come from one Creator and, as with spirit guides and with yourself, you are all one as a coCreator with the one power. But you often have teachers and guides who will be assisting you in your thought process on another consciousness level.
Question: This may relate closely to the previous questions. But is the work spirits do permanent for each of them over many lives, is this the work spirits do both in the afterworld and while incarnated on earth?
Spirit Guide: Your wife has always had the ability to understand and accept other worlds other than the three-dimensional one that the majority of earthlings expect there is, when she crosses over she is able to help those who come with confusion and fears. These are the individuals that have the most difficult time adjusting for she is able to communicate the earth experiences as well as their new spirit experiences to bring them comfort so that the transformation works with more ease and understanding. As many people are involved in earth they again find themselves involved in the spirit world and have the majority of times in incarnations always had the same level of consciousness, the same avenue of consciousness as it continues to be raised.
Key Finding 256
Generally, angels or spirit guides do not reincarnate in a physical body on earth. There have been a few individuals that have come from spirit guides, such as Buddha or Jesus, but the sole purpose in their lifetime was for those teachings to follow through for centuries and centuries.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 6: Evolution of spirit guides
Question: Where do spirit guides come from? Are they all from spirits that have incarnated on earth or are they separately created?
Spirit Guide: Spirit guides are highly evolved forms of energy. Generally, as with everything, we are all created by one Creator. Highly evolved spirit guides can come from many evolutions of a spirit, humanoid spirit. This does not mean it has to be an earth spirit but spirits that come from other worlds, other than earth, who have been created as highly evolved spirits initially and have lived many lives evolving through human experiences--or through not-necessarily-human experiences but through other planet experiences. This is quite an in-depth and very complicated question to be able to answer and we would like to be able to go back to that at another time. But there are essentially two forms of highly evolved spirits, those that are energies that have been created by the Creator and are never in a humanoid form and those who have been in a humanoid form but were put on these various planets by the Creator in these advanced forms to help those who are not so advanced become more evolved. Again, this is extremely complicated and we would like at some point to return to it.
Question: Could I ask about my personal spirit guide? Have you ever had life as a humanoid on this or another planet? One or multiple times?
Spirit Guide: Yes, we have. We have not been upon your earth. We are higher evolved forms from many, many, many thousands of years ago from other living planets. We still have many levels of consciousness, as you on earth would call it, which we continue to evolve into even as spirit guides. Now, we will never return to a three-dimensional form again but we will continue to move at our own consciousness and continue to move into higher vibrational energy forms.
Question: Do spirit guides sometimes take the appearance of someone you really like to make you feel more comfortable when they get in touch with you, even if they know that you would be very disappointed if you would realise it is not the person you hoped for but a guide?
Spirit Guide: We could never understand how you would be disappointed in knowing that a guide was there and not the person you were looking for. But you must be quite careful in assuming how you perceive spirit guides and if they are truly spirit guides. We often ask you to question your image, your answers even, and to verify those. Many individuals have various ways, when they receive an answer, and are not certain of that answer, of how to validate the answer or to validate the vision or to get a very direct answer and knowing that is coming from higher spiritual beings.
Question: Do you ever, for example, in interaction with my wife, do you ever take the form, the image, of someone that she might know, other than yourself?
Spirit Guide: No, we do not with your wife. Oftentimes there will be individuals who are in her life who say or do something that are teachers that, from an earth point of view, a spirit guide has used to teach her something. But generally we do not take the form of someone you know, yet there can be experiences that happen between individuals that are of higher consciousness or a form of teaching, but as far as a spirit itself moving into the body of someone you know to teach you something, this generally is not the case.
Question: Do angels or spirit guides ever reincarnate in a physical body on earth?
Spirit Guide: We would generally say no to that question, though you have had many highly evolved teachers who we believe were spirit guides who were the chosen ones to come and continue to be teachers on this earth. And they come with such a knowing of their abilities and unlimited power that you know they are not a direct reincarnation of a most recent human being. You have many teachers on your earth, you have Buddha, you have the teachings of the Tao and the Koran, you have the teachings of Christ Jesus, you have many individuals who have been able to cross over and live beyond the earth restrictions. Those that do come to earth in that form at that high conscious evolution without any restrictions in their knowledge of what you can create, what you can be, and how you can help--we would say, yes, there have been a few that have come from spirit guides but that sole purpose in that lifetime was for those teachings to follow through for centuries and centuries. This is not a normal reincarnation experience.
Question: Was Mary, the mother of Jesus, the reincarnation of an angel?
Spirit Guide: We leave that to you as earthlings. If your religious philosophy is a strong Christian philosophy and you see Mary as the woman she was projected as, you would say yes. If your religious philosophies are of a different belief, you would most likely say no. We believe that this is an earth decision-making process for those of you who are on a spiritual journey.
Agreements
Destiny of Souls by Newton
In my work, guides are sometimes described as guardian angels, although our personal teachers are beings who have incarnated in physical form long before graduating to the level of guides. An intimate soulmate in discarnate form can also come to the gate to comfort us in times of need.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
Those who choose to leave this system, whose reincarnational cycles are finished, have many more decisions to make.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
When the [reincarnational] cycle is finished, therefore, you have complete knowledge of your past lives. The information, experience, and abilities are at your fingertips. When the time of choosing comes, therefore, the choices available are far more diverse than those offered or possible to personalities who must still reincarnate. There is always the opportunity to teach if you have the inclination and the capabilities, but multidimensional teaching is far different than teaching as you know it now, and it demands rigorous training.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
The teachers, for example, are themselves within a cycle. The more advanced ones have already encountered the systems of reincarnation and probabilities, and are themselves deciding upon the 'future' nature of their own experience. Their choices, however, are not your choices.
Seth Speaks by Roberts
Some, finished with reincarnation, may choose to reenter the cycle acting as teachers, and in such cases some recognition of higher identity is always present.
Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz
Spirit: With any lesson, it is one thing for you to learn, but it is like reading a book and keeping the information to yourself. What we souls learn, we teach others by being guardian angels and spirit guides for them. In the personality, what is learned must be left to others, be it one person or a book that reaches the whole world.
Disagreements
Journey of Souls by Newton
Once the duties of a guide are fully established for the advancing soul, it is necessary for these entities to juggle two balls. Besides completing their own unfinished business with continued (though less frequent) incarnations, they must also help others while in a discarnated state.
The Spirits' Book by Allan Kardec
Question: Could a spirit guide incarnate itself in order to accompany us more closely in our earthly life?
Spirit: That sometimes happens. But more often they will entrust this mission to a trustworthy person on earth.
Spirit Guide Commentary
{Still in Planning}
Question: 123,256
Are there any cases where a spirit guide may choose to reincarnate back on earth?
Discussion
Viewing of other spirits' past lives
Issue
KEY FINDING 125 - A spirit does not learn from the experiences of other spirits and does not become involved in the viewing of each spirit's past lives. Its lessons are for it and it alone.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4: Learning in heaven
Question: Do you have classes, say taught by spiritual leaders, that average spirits can attend and thus grow from?
Spirit Guide: Within the spirit group that every individual is in, there are spirit teachers and leaders. It is not lessons and classes as you think of going to on earth. As the individual spirit views all of its past lives and the lessons it learned and did not learn and its growth it often will question what path it took or did not take and will telepathically communicate and ask for guidance from the spirit leaders within this group. A spirit does not learn from the experiences of other spirits and does not become involved in the viewing of each spirit's past lives. Its lessons are for it and it alone. Though within a spirit group there is a communication and a sharing, it is a sharing of telepathic love and support to all of those within its group. It is not direct conversations such as you share on earth. Love is the biggest experience that spirits share together.
Agreements
The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton
Either as part of our initial healing, or not long afterwards, we will usually participate in some kind of review of the life just passed. We may do this alone; we may be aided by our spirit guide, who is a more experienced soul available to help us both in incarnation and during the interlife; or we may be aided by our elders, a group of still-wiser souls who help us to plot a path through our successions of lives.
Disagreements
Journey of Souls by Newton
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 which is far beyond our conception on Earth...Members of the same cluster group are closely united for all eternity. These tightly-knit clusters are often composed of like-minded souls with common objectives which they continually work out with each other. Usually they choose lives together as relatives and close friends during their incarnations on Earth.
The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton
Can a soul experience the complete past life of another soul? The idea being explored here is that a soul can tap into any past-life memory of any other soul in the light realms, usually if there is something it can experience from it that will contribute to its learning and growth....our sources unanimously confirmed that it is indeed possible for souls to share all past-life memories.
The Spirits' Book by Allan Kardec
Do spirits who have lived together on Earth recognize each other? How do they know each other in the spirit-world? Answer: We see our past lives, which we can read as if they were books. When we see the past of our friends and enemies, we also see their complete journey from life to death.
Spirit Guide Commentary
{Still in Planning}
Question: 125
In a spirit family group what is the degree of understanding that one spirit may have concerning the lessons learned and experiences of another member of that family?
Discussion
Issue
KEY FINDING 150 - Spirits have no names in heaven.
Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4: Name of spirits
Question: Do we have a name when we get to heaven?
Spirit Guide: There is no identification of a name on an individual. If you had a name when you went to heaven, you would have a name of every soul that you ever were upon earth. There is a form of identification which is very difficult to explain in the three-dimensional world. It is not even an identification, it is a form of just knowing who you are as that spirit.
Agreements
Ultimate Journey by Monroe
Monroe: Tell me,is there some name, some identification I can use for you? I gather you have more than one.
I-There: We have whatever is needed at a given point. We're the brain trust, the think tank, the older brothers, whatever. Why don't you use one of those acronyms you're so fond of? How about Board of Advisors-BOA? or an abbreviation of Executive Committee-that's close to what we are.
The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec
What value is there in knowing names you would not recognize? Do you suppose there are no spirits but the ones you know about personally?
The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec
Use any name you like-that of any superior spirit for whom you have an affinity or feel veneration. Your spirit guide will answer the appeal. All good spirits are friends and assist each other.
The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec
No, but they are spirits who have a close affinity with those persons and who therefore take a name that will inspire confidence in you. When you aren't able to perform a duty in person, you send someone in your place, who acts in your name.
Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon
Cannon: I then asked if we could find out the name of our guides.
Spirit: They will speak to you when it is necessary or relevant. There are really no names used here on the spirit plane; there are only sounds, vibrations and colors. Naming is a habit peculiar to the human race. It allows for easy identification.
Disagreements
Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz
It is that our names are vibrations and so it is unclear to us how to formulate sounds through the medium's lips, they replied.
Spirit Guide Commentary
{Still in Planning: Prospective Question}
Question 150:
In many cases of individuals who have described life in spirit family groupings during between-life regressions, they refer to other spirits by name. In the spirit world do names actually exist and, if so, in what form and how are they translated into English?
Discussion