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Spirit Part 1

I receive a lot of questions from people about their loved ones who are in Spirit, and how they are worried that their person is unhappy, or angry.  I have decided to write this so that I can share what I have learned about being in Spirit, and what happens to our loved ones after they pass over.

I try to stress to people that being in Spirit is our true home.  I do not feel that this can be pointed out too much.  People get so caught up in their lives, and so disconnected from their Spirituality, that they tend to think that this is all there is.  They feel as if this is what is important:  this life, this body, this reality. Nothing could be further from the truth.

A wonderful book to read is “I Send A Voice” by Evelyn Eaton.  In it, she refers to the body as an envelope.  It holds the soul, but it is only there to be opened, and to release the soul at the time of death.  I have also heard the body referred to as a coat, to be removed.  It is our soul that is who we are.  The soul has always existed and it will continue to exist.  Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed.  This is a Universal Law.  I have actually seen the soul leave the body at the time of death.  When my stepfather died, I saw him leave his body and float to the ceiling.  It is interesting to me that I was able to witness this occurring.  I had been abused, molested and truly harmed by this man, yet I was given the opportunity to see him leave.  It happened to teach me a valuable lesson.

We come to the plane of existence over and over again for two reasons:  to learn lessons and to transmute Karma.  I use the word Karma because it is a descriptive word that many understand to a degree.  It is the Universal Law that states what goes around comes around.  We have to pay for what we do wrong.  We are rewarded for what we do right.  In the Bible, it says “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”  Man has subverted this from its true meaning.  Man has turned it into an excuse for revenge, which is so the exact opposite of what it really means:  it is the Universal Karmic Law that what we do, we must pay for.  It is our eye that will be plucked out for every eye that we injure.  It is our tooth that will be lost for every tooth that we knock out of someone else. There are consequences for our every action.  Knowing this, will you change the way to react to someone harming you?  All of the great Spiritual Leaders who have come here to teach us right from wrong, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., all of them have stated that when harmed, we need to turn the other cheek.  That is because of Karma.  Strike back, and you have the Karma to deal with one way or another, one lifetime or another.

Lessons that need to be learned in order for us to advance Spiritually are the other reason we come here from Spirit.  The goal here is to advance to the point that we do not have to come here anymore.  We want to stay in Spirit because that is our true self.  There is no pain, no infirmity, no hurt or sorrow there.  All is love.  But we aren’t ready yet; we still have lessons to learn.  Be they patience, compassion, love; whatever the lesson, we must learn it.  And, we will keep having the same problems, over and over again, throughout every lifetime, until we do learn them.  I, for one, do not want to exist in that hamster wheel!  I don’t want to have to repeat the same mistakes over and over.  I do not want to have to deal with certain people lifetime after lifetime due to my inability to forgive, or forget, or to love universally.

I know that it is not easy.  I have had to struggle with this a lot in this life.  I have had to try my best to forgive people for things that seemed unforgivable:  my stepfather’s molestation and abuse, the molestation of one of my children by a good friend, being betrayed by friends.  But to the best of my ability, I have forgiven.  It is because I do not with to have to go through anything like it again in another lifetime.  I do not want a Karmic connection with these people.  I want to learn the lesson and go on.

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