During a channeling event, a woman asked about suicide. She was having health issues and  felt like she had already accomplished her mission in life for this incarnation. Would it be okay if she helped herself transition to The Other Side? In addition, she felt like she would be able to help people as well from The Other Side as she could help them from this side.

The channeler brought through a couple of responses to this question. I am also adding information from books I have read.

Spirit responded to this woman’s question, saying:

“I would not recommend that anybody leave the planet ahead of their exit time. Once you make that choice, you are stopping what's happening in this life. Even though it seems like nothing is happening, or it's boring, or you're done, or you're sick, it's not allowing all things. The bottom line is, ‘Allow all things.’ There are some exceptions to that. Some people have left and learned the lessons that you learn once you leave intentionally.”

In fact, some people have programmed suicide into their life contract. It’s possible that they signed up for this to allow other people the experience of dealing with a loved one’s suicide.

As for this woman’s life purpose being accomplished, there was no way to know if that was true if she left early. Perhaps there was a purpose she hadn't yet seen? Some people live an entire life to learn one lesson. Choosing to leave early might deprive that person of a lesson which still needed to be learned, or an epiphany that still needed to happen.

Everyone has natural “exit points.” It has been said that you have five times when you can leave. People may have car accidents, near-drownings, illnesses, etc., and choose to leave. Or, they may choose to remain on Earth and wait for another exit point.

Suicide is a man-made exit point. From our viewpoint, there’s no way to know if this kind of death might be tied to a predetermined time to leave, or if it is an intentional shortening of a life. On one hand, a soul might know that it had contracted for a specific number of years on Earth and begun looking for a way out. On the other hand, a person might be overwhelmed by emotions and make an impulsive choice to leave.

Those who decide to kill themselves will come into spirit and will be counseled on options they could have taken. They will receive guidance for adjusting to the emotional journey that they put themselves on. They will be shown how to see more light in their life; more goodness, grace, and mercy. This will help them adjust.

Once we are on The Other Side, I hope we will have answers to these questions about the timing of a death. From this side, there is a lot of ambiguity.

Here are two thoughts on suicide from books written by psychic Mediums.

In 2008, Concetta Bertoldi wrote a book entitled, Do Dead People Watch you Shower? (Harper Collins, NY). In this book, she provided her understanding of what happens to people who have committed suicide. She believes that The Other Side is filled with justice, forgiveness and healing. Spirit Guides help the individual who has committed suicide to forgive and heal himself. It is the spirit who killed himself who must be able to forgive himself. However, this isn’t easy because the spirit is aware that it has done something wrong. The person has lost the opportunity to balance that life’s Karma and has created additional Karma which will need to be re-balanced in another lifetime. She felt that people who committed suicide would be forgiven by G-d, but would struggle to forgive themselves.

In his book, born Knowing (Hay House, CA, 2003), John Holland explains that there is no running from problems. Since there’s no real death, there’s no escape from dilemmas and issues. He has a very different kind of feeling when communicating with people who have committed suicide. They are usually full of regret because they can see how those left behind were affected. On The Other Side, they begin to understand the differences they could have made in their own lives, as well as the lives of others. When these spirits communicate with John, they rarely want to talk about how they passed and they don’t communicate with him for long. He believes that these spirits are going through a process of healing and need all of their energy to work on themselves. He suggests that people pray for those who have taken their own lives so that they can be assisted in the healing process.
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Leaving this planet can be complicated (or it can be easy). Sometimes, we don’t know if someone had a natural exit point, or if they chose to leave of their own accord. Either way, we can send light to them and hope our love supports them on their journey.
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This blog post is a "think piece" based on an actual question about transitioning to The Other Side. It is a starting point for discussion, not a full explanation.

If you know anyone who is contemplating taking their life, the United States has a suicide prevention helpline. Dial 988.

The website says:

"988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

We can all help prevent suicide. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States."


Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

We live in this physical world and we suspect that we are surrounded by a non-physical world, known as the spirit world. Our deceased ancestors can be found in the spirit world, along with our Spirit Guides, master teachers, angels, our Higher Self, and Source.

We can communicate with those on The Other Side. They often try to get messages to us to do something, or not do something. Messages may arrive as strong feelings, or as phrases we hear, etc. In addition, we can reach out to them during meditation, or through a Medium, to get their advice.

A couple of months ago, I attended a channeling event where a non-physical entity, Homer, provided information. The channeler talked about Homer:

“Let's look at Homer. Homer is a incarnation that existed in Western Europe, south of the Netherlands. Homer, as a young man, had itchy feet and wanted to go places. He had no money. Homer tended to walk places and he ended up walking to a monastery and, over time, he studied at this monastery. He learned information that made him more informed than other people in his area.

“Homer reincarnated and chose places where he would learn things. He chose one life in the mountains. He herded sheep. He hunted goats. He learned a kind of weaving, where you weave wild plants and tree branches into dwellings, cover them with mud, and then cover them with tree branches and sheets of bark.

“Homer is talking to you through his own experience in doing that. The Guides are here because they want you to understand that the existence of your life, and your back story with all your ancestors, is real. It's available to you.

“Let’s say Homer was a painter. If you wanted to paint, you could ask Homer, ‘Help me, paint. Give me some information. Draw this line, I can't get the nose right on this drawing.’

“If you once had your grandmother's spaghetti sauce recipe and you lost it, then you started making it, you could say, ‘Grandmother, what goes in next? What goes in it next?’  You may not be perfectly directed to that recipe, but the longer you exercise that muscle of communicating, the finer the information you will get.”

We are often advised to ask our Guides and angels for assistance. We should remember to ask our relatives for their tips too, if they were someone we respected in life.

The caveat: Remember that those who have passed into spirit may not have reached their highest potential yet. They may give bad advice because, in their former life, they thought it was good information. Sometimes, souls need to shed the memory of their most-recent incarnation in order to raise in vibration and provide useful recommendations.

With that said, try it sometime. If you don’t know which way to go, or you wonder how to do something, close your eyes, concentrate, and ask for help. Let me know how that works for you.

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

When you aren’t certain if something is true, there’s nothing like personal experience to confirm its existence. This is true with both the physical and non-physical worlds. Not sure if the ocean is cold? Stick a toe in the water. Not sure if lions are real? See one in the wild. Not sure if ghosts exist? Have a conversation with one.

I learn so much from the e-mails which blog readers send to me. They share their personal experiences with energy (walking down the road, turning street lights on and off), their near-death experiences, and their encounters with ghosts, spirits, and angels. Wow. These encounters are more prevalent than we might think.

About a month ago, one of the blog readers sent a compilation of her experiences to me. She has had encounters with ghosts, spirits, animal ghosts, elementals, aliens, etc. In her honest writing, she says that she knows what some encounters are, but others are unclear. With some odd things, she is not sure if the event was an other-worldly phenomenon, or just a passing breeze.

This woman wrote that she isn’t usually afraid of ghosts. She has conversations with them. However, if they are unpleasant dead people, she sends them light and love. Spirits of the dark cannot handle the light, so they move away from her. I hadn’t realized that this was how things worked.

Among her experiences, she has met a spirit who was waiting to be born, spoken with ghosts who protect her property, encountered a spirit entity living in a truck (like “My Mother the Car”), heard voices when no one else was in the room, seen her animals after they had passed into spirit, and seen the spirits of her animals running around and playing, while the actual, live animal was sleeping. She reports that dogs and cats see the same ghost animals she sees. Their eyes track the same phenomenon which she is observing.

I’m going to share two stories with you today. One is from this woman. This story touched my heart. The second story comes from a different blog reader. He recounted his near-death experience.

1) The Tree

I have an ongoing relationship with the Elemental Kingdom.

Years ago when I was walking down the sidewalk from my apartment complex, a sapling tree had fallen over on the sidewalk. I heard a hundred tiny voices saying, “Please help us!”

I asked, “Are you broken?”

“No, no, no. We just fell over.”

I struggled and struggled with the twelve foot sapling and forced some of its branches back on either side of two stakes that were supposed to hold it up.

As I walked away, I heard a hundred tiny voices saying, “Thank you!”

Some twelve to fifteen years later, I am walking along the same path and come to that tree. Now, it has three trunks and is full and beautiful.

I say out loud, “You are so beautiful.”

I hear a voice, “I remember you. You are the lady who helped us.”

I said, “You sound much older.”

It replied, “I grew with the tree.”

These kinds of experiences make my day soar!

2) When Sleep becomes a Near-Death Experience (NDE)

In my dream, I was submerged in extremely deep water, either in the ocean or a lake or a very, very deep swimming pool. I didn’t see anything around me except water and a few bubbles. I held my breath as long as I could. When I couldn’t hold it any longer, I breathed in. To my surprise, I was able to breathe the water just like it was air. I thought, “This must be what it’s like to be a fish.”

I floated there, breathing water for a while, then I started drifting upward. My ascent increased in speed and, eventually, I was moving very fast. I shot out of the water and into the air, like I was a missile. I went higher and higher into the air and eventually reached the clouds. I moved well above the clouds and into the outer limits of the atmosphere. Then, I left the planet entirely and went into space.

I floated around in space for a while. I saw billions and billions of bright points of light all around me, mostly at a distance, but some fairly close. I gazed around at all of them. Maybe I was rotating? I remember being profoundly amazed by the lights. I don’t recall why I was so impressed. Maybe it was a combination of the sheer number of them, how bright they were, and how beautiful they were?  

After a while, one light drew my attention. Maybe it was a little brighter or more shimmery than the others? In any case, I rocketed towards it. I got to it fairly quickly.

As I got closer, I could see it was a planet. It was definitely not the earth, and I thought, “This is really, really cool.” I entered the planet’s atmosphere. I descended fairly quickly, but not like a rocket; more like a fast-moving parachute.

It was night as I approached the ground surface and, from an elevation that would probably be equivalent to a bird or low-flying plane, I noticed a white farmhouse standing alone in a remote rural area. From the minimal light of the night sky, I could see farms, pastures, and forests. I had the sense that the state of technology/society must have been similar to that of America in the 1800s or early 1900s, probably because the architecture of the house looked to be of that time period. I didn’t see any roads, cars, planes, etc., which would indicate it was an older house that remained in the modern era.

I descended toward the farmhouse, slowed to a speed equivalent to walking, and somehow floated through the closed front door. At this point, I realized I didn’t have a regular body and I thought I must have been a ghost or something. Right in front of me was a stairway leading up to the second floor. I floated up the stairway and into a hall. I stopped at a door on my left and floated through that. It might have been open a crack, but it might have been closed. I don’t remember.

I saw a baby sleeping in a crib and I floated into the baby. It was like a soul entering a body, like you’d see in a movie with ghosts, souls, afterlife, etc.

Once I was in the baby I remember thinking, “Wow, this is what it’s like to be a baby.” Then I thought, “I’m pretty hungry. I guess since I’m a baby I should start screaming because I can’t get up and get myself a snack.” I started screaming. Within a few seconds, the awareness and memories of me as myself - a regular person on earth - disappeared and I was just the baby with no memory of anything except being hungry.

I woke up, sweating and gasping for breath like I often do when I wake up from a deep state of sleep apnea.

I don’t know what to make of it. I guess I think of it as a dream and, if so, it was by far the coolest dream I’ve ever had. But I think it would also qualify as a NDE brought on by lack of oxygen due to my heart and respiration being extremely low because of sleep apnea.
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Personal experience. It means everything . . . even if we don’t know exactly what it means. These experiences can confirm that there is more to life than this physical world. At a minimum, they can open our minds to questions and possibilities.  

Thanks for sharing your stories with me!

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

I recently heard this message:

“You are body, mind, and spirit. You are not just one of those aspects. You are all of them. Those of you who are very focused on spirit alone, your body has gone amuck. You think spirit is going to sustain it. It needs you to self-sustain in order for spirit to work in cooperation with your vessel. Some people are so busy treading water, so busy making a living, that they are using only two legs of that three-legged stool which is why they are off-balance.

“Mind is the same. People who have not given time to expanding their mind, to keeping it growing, and to entertaining new thoughts, stay in the same safe arena. They aren’t growing. They aren’t learning. But, they are safe.”

It is important to look at the big picture of who we are. We are energetic beings coming into physical bodies for lifetimes of experience. At the end of each lifetime, we return to the non-physical world to assess all we have accomplished and to determine if we want to come back to Earth and try something new. We live multiple lifetimes.

Even if we are uncertain about this cycle of reincarnation, it is wise to wonder if it might be possible, because this view broadens our perspective.  

Why we have a body

Our body houses our soul. A body allows our soul to manipulate objects and to interact with other souls in physical form. We can learn more in one lifetime on Earth, in a body, than we can over a thousand year period on The Other Side. Here, we see the results of our actions.

In bodies, we can see, smell, touch, eat chocolate, and have other sensory experiences. We can gather experiences for our growth, test ourselves, see what we have learned, master manifestation, and convey these experiences through our Higher Self back to Source.

In the spirit world, we don’t have these physical abilities, so we are advised to cherish them while on Earth. Sitting in nature, we can feel the breeze, smell fragrances, see beauty, hear sounds, and taste fruit. We can sit back, relax, and enjoy this trip as we explore our environment and get to know ourselves.

How bodies are created

We pick our parents before we are born. We generally select them for the situation they provide: the part of the world, the economic strata, and the community (tribal? metropolitan?). When we choose them, we buy into the family’s genetic lineage which suggests attributes like the shape of our nose, our height, and our propensity for certain illnesses.

However, there is more to the creation of our bodies than genetics. We are a form of energy, we have a soul, and we are linked to the entire unseen universe. We have a storehouse of experiences from previous lifetimes which may affect our physical form. We also have the opportunity to choose the kind of body we need so that we can have the experiences we seek. For example, we may want to experience some kind of incapacity, so we create a body with that “weakness.”

Here is one more idea relating to body creation. Some people believe that “elementals” create form. Elementals are like tiny angels which create, maintain, and heal bodies. They also created Mother Earth, and they maintain the plants and animals.

Coming into a body

To use a body, we have to compress our infinite energy into a tiny form. This happens before birth and also happens when returning from near-death experiences during which our consciousness has expanded to touch the universe.

Susan Sampson channeled this message:

“When souls come into this world, they are anxious. They have to take the magnificence of who they are and condense it down to fit into this tiny little baby. Sometimes they don’t enter the tiny baby until the moment of birth, or two weeks before, or a month before. Generally, they don’t join that baby until very close to birth.”

“Coming to this third dimensional reality, the soul has to condense itself, has to quiet itself, and has to prepare to be non-communicative. They can’t speak. How do they get their diaper changed? They holler. They learn that very quickly.”

Each body has is to step down the universal energy, so that it can function. The Higher Self manages this process.

Changing bodies for new lifetimes

At the end of each lifetime, we lay the body down and return to the non-physical world. We leave the vessel as if it’s clothing, and we step “naked” to the other side. For the next lifetime, we can step into a new wardrobe, a new physical body.  

Who we are, is not contained in the vessel. Many people lay it down like a wardrobe of clothing and transfer freely.

Life force

Life force from Source flows through bodies. So long as we are creating experiences and have a desire to live, to share, and to teach, life force continues to flow.

When we lose the desire to participate in life and to create new experiences, life force stops flowing and we cross over. Our Higher Self and our consciousness dictate how long we live.

Encouraging life force to flow, improves health because it allows cells to express their divinity and to absorb energies from Source.  

Energy connection though the Aura and the Chakras

During our lifetime, our body maintains its connection with the non-physical world. We live in a multi-dimensional, universal energy field. Bodies have personal energy fields and points for connection to this larger, non-physical universal energy system. The personal and universal energy systems interact through each person’s aura and chakra systems.

The aura is a multi-layered, subtle energy field, which surrounds the body. It is thought to have seven layers. Psychics who read auras are seeing this subtle energy field around the body.

Chakras are energy portals which run through the physical body, connecting it to the universal energy system.

Conclusion

Any way we think about it, our body is an amazing system. We breathe air and circulate oxygen to each cell. We eat food, digest, take what we need, and eliminate the rest. Our muscles move us wherever we want to go. The body is a marvel. Then, when we think about the body being connected to a larger universal energy system, the whole idea is astounding.

We are walking miracles.

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com