The Survival Files: A Review
by Paul Helfrich

The Survival Files: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Compiled For the Survival of Your Soul by Miles Edward Allen, Momentpoint Books (2005).

Is there a soul? Is there an afterlife? What about reincarnation? In the spirit of William James and F.W.H. Meyers, Miles Edward Allen provides an overview of scientific evidence for the existence of the soul and its survival of bodily death. Given the ineffable nature of the subject matter, the results are hardly final, though as we will see, they provide a solid introduction and foundation for further exploration.

Allen’s writing style is clear and precise. He employs a literary technique in which two main characters – the “wise elder” and “student/researcher” – explore twenty three case studies that include phenomena like out-of-body projections, remote viewing, astral bodies, near-death experiences, reincarnation, psi, mediumship, channeling, electronic voice phenomena, and metaphysics. Over a three-day weekend in the mountains of West Virginia, they engage in a well crafted and easy to read Socratic dialogue on the many implications of these phenomena, most of which have been reported throughout human history.

Allen also includes bad guys as a foil – the Überskeptics – who employ an array of tactics, some scientific, and some political, to chronically marginalize decades of legitimate evidence based on the modern scientific paradigm. In the process we discover that the politics and economics of modern science are a juicy, sometimes scandalous affair. Allen does his best to show that the Überskeptics – who are ready to refute, deny, obfuscate all the evidence he presents – have their own political and economic agendas. For instance, is anyone whose show biz name begins with an adjective, like The Amazing Randi, to be taken seriously as a bulwark of scientific clarity and precision? Hardly.

Yet on the other hand, is it possible to prove through current scientific methods the existence of the soul? Not really. But that’s the bad and good news. As long as we employ the modern materialist, reductionist paradigm – what Ken Wilber calls Flatland – to rationally prove the existence of realities beyond the purview of the five physical senses we will fail. It is impossible, and the Überskeptics will win the day, because they have loaded the deck and limited the playing field to what constitutes valid evidence: five senses-only perception and third-person perspectives (objects, things, its). This, in itself, is not a bad thing. It’s just a very limited approach that ultimately fails every time we try to rationally prove the existence of the soul and its survival of death. I wish Allen had explored this further, and yet, there is plenty of room for a next generation book to tease out these complex and subtle issues.

What Allen is able to accomplish – the strength of this book – is to provide an overview of compelling research done by educated, well meaning, and competent scientists who have been on the fringes of the mainstream. He provides thought provoking arguments for why certain cases may be stronger or weaker in terms of potential fraud, bad methods, or misinterpreting the data. Pioneers like Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, Robert Monroe, Jane Roberts, and many others are included to hint at an emerging postmodern paradigm that can more accurately study something as ineffable as the soul, and as such, show that it exists even though we can’t measure it terms of basic quantum fields using instruments made of quantum fields alone.

, most of what is covered is the result of ORANGE and GREEN epistemologies, or ways of knowing. A wider, more integral approach to the subject – a TEAL approach – would show how shamen, sages, and adepts through the millennia have employed various meditation methods with discipline and rigor in a community of peers adequate to that paradigm to produce unequivocal evidence to support the existence of the soul and its survival of bodily death, for example, The Bardo Thodol (mistranslated as The Tibetan Book of the Dead). This is a missed opportunity in this otherwise highly recommended book, namely, to show that there is a scientific method that’s been used for thousands of years that includes what Seth, channeled by Jane Roberts and mentioned repeatedly in the book, called inner senses. These go by different names in different cultures, for example, third eye, second attention, eye of spirit, eye of contemplation, and so on.

When combined with the five physical senses and mental rational senses, the inner senses provide a more complete way of seeing the soul and its survival of death from first, second, and third-person perspectives. Taken together, this is what Seth calls the high intellect, a superb blend of the three ways of knowing into a new cognitive faculty (which I call hyperception). It is one way to expand the modern scientific paradigm into a more comprehensive and inclusive postmodern paradigm, one that includes the best practices of modern and premodern paradigms. This approach is what William James outlined over a century ago as a “science of the soul” at Harvard. Unfortunately, his vision was derailed by the modern reductionist approaches to consciousness still favored by today’s Überskeptics.

All of which hints at what Seth called Dream-Art Science, something I’ve written about extensively elsewhere – an emerging postmodern science that demands the use of physical, mental, and inner senses to provide a more complete, a more true and less partial understanding of the human body in relation to its soul. In this light, we can begin to better explore the nature of the soul and its survival of bodily death, not based solely on my or some expert’s say-so, but also through our own first-person experience. Still, we are decades, if not centuries, away from this kind of postmodern science on any collective scale, and books like The Survival Files provide an accessible introduction to the many issues involved.

We also begin to see that the Überskeptics, who really aren’t bad guys, have simply made careers and a lot of money playing the foil to bad science and metaphysical claims that can’t be justified through conventional, five senses only methods. They are actually correct in many cases and show that the science or conclusions drawn from a particular study have flaws. That is good science! So they, too, offer true but partial perspectives, though we can see that only from a wider postmodern worldview. The Überskeptic’s world is thus limited to black and white, true or false, right or wrong-only propositions. There’s no wiggle room, no shades of gray, and thus no room for a pluralism of “true but partial” perspectives and methods.

To ultimately prove the existence of the soul in unequivocal, bone rattling, completely certain terms we must learn to directly experience ourselves as soul, which is transcendent to our physical bodies. Compelling anecdotal evidence from near-death, out-of-body experiencers, etc., are only enough to create solid faith that what others have experienced is real, true, and valid. Ironically, it is the same kind of faith that more religious individuals use to maintain the validity of virgin births, bodily resurrections, parting of seas, and walking on water.

However, in integral terms these are two different kinds of faith because they occur at different stages of development; the former is modern ORANGE/GREEN, the latter is premodern AMBER. Thus, faith is not something bad, but only a precursor to direct experience, illumination, and remembrance, which always occurs in first-person terms, not through third-person anecdotes. In this sense, then, we come away with a strong faith that the people in these twenty-three case studies are not all tainted by mental illness, bad science, or outright fraud, but in fact are directly experiencing themselves as soul to some degree. This is an important first step.

Allen also offers interesting metaphysical speculations about the mechanics of death and thereafter from the soul’s perspective. One of the closing chapters provides a “Celestial Q&A” that outlines a roadmap of what one might encounter at death based on the anecdotal evidence. Topics include heaven, hell, guides, teachers, life reviews, karma, reincarnation, suicide, responsibility for life’s action, and more. This is the kind of overview I’d want to provide my children when they begin to ask questions about death and the afterlife.

All in all, The Survival Files outlines enough compelling anecdotal evidence to motivate its reader want to learn more the emerging “science of the soul,” and that Überskeptical obfuscations are not based entirely on legitimate agendas. I highly recommend this book for teenagers and adults who are beginning to explore these important existential issues. While there are no hard and fast conclusions to be made, Allen’s engaging story introduces many issues that need to be addressed before final conclusions can be reached. Ironically, we will all pass through death’s door some day and will learn unequivocally the truth for ourselves. And yet, having an accurate roadmap is highly recommended, and The Survival Files delivers just that.

(Note: this book was originally published under the title Heaven Confirmed: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Compiled For the Survival of Your Soul.)

A Cloud Walk For Julie
by Lydia Brescia

Once as children we romped in the woods. Sunbeams played upon our hair. Daydreaming was part-time work for us, time was not unfair. We lay in theknee-high flaxen grass, in deer beds tried on for size, staring at cloudpictures and dreamt of how we could fly.

Julie always had a smile and a wisp of golden hair dancing in the breeze, her blue eyes matched the sky. We, olive skinned and dark doe eyes, surrounding her, set her off just right! We danced in the woods and played childrens games, never knowing how precious those times were or that Julie would take flight and walk in the clouds for awhile.

Steve and Randy were such fun, and Leslie was the little one full of every question under the sun. Virginia liked to arrange a dance or two and Harry's eyes lit up our lives when he played the rat-a-ma-cu! Our families, they were so close knowing even then, these special friends of summer days and moonbright ways were held together in so many ways.

We all got older and went out to join with life. We barely saw each other, all had different lives. Twenty-five years had passed before we met again eye-to-eye!

Then a reunion took place and the friendship was there...like a silver cord, linking us up as if no time had passed. The LOVE was ever there!

Now we gather again, to share our pain and to hold each other close, as we bid farewell to Julie, who walks in the clouds for a while. All of us salute her life and live a bit more each day, in this way and in our hearts, Julie can always stay.

Now, my dears we wait the time, till we dance in the rain...without any pain, we'll be one big happy family again! Then we'll walk in the clouds for a while!

I know this is true...cause LOVE never dies: The Silver Cord that holds us close, REACHES ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SKY.....!

In loving memory...of Julie...by Lydia Brescia...April 1999

Window on a Past (A communication)
by Donald R. Johnson

Looking out, I think of you
On the blue-white ball
And the million things you do
While waiting for your call

My Lunar task goes on forever
Many things to be done
I start another hole whenever
They tell me to start one

Twenty seven graves and growing
Under sterile dust
Quite a community we've got going
Deep inside the crust

Moondust in my chest
It seems to say
I'll end up with the rest
It takes my breath away

It's the only window on the moon
And there's not much to see here
But in the long long afternoon
I can't stop watching that sphere

Living storms slowly swirl
To cover up the blue
White clouds slowly curl
In the skies above you

And I can see it all from here
A world at a glance
I smile because I do not fear
While in my vision-trance

What's in a life?
What's in a death?
I'm making a knife
To stop their breath

When we're done with this sword
The Eye of the Goddess
Will blaze and stab downward
Destroying those who transgress

Surely this is a good thing
That I live to die for?
Someday, surely, all will sing
About how we ended war?

The Contrary Self Part 2: Dialog with Your Most Loving, Intimate Self
A Rose Channeling by Joanne Helfrich

Realizing a more productive means to trust your contrary self would be a great way to begin to realize his or her service to you. We suggest that the way you would indeed better use your contrary self to your benefit would be simple: to trust the showy spirit of the contrary self to enforce your sense of self. We would like to offer an example to begin the next lesson.

The contrary self has your best self in mind

The way of the contrary self would indeed be the way of spirit, for the contrary self will point out your flaws in ways that you may address them. When we say flaws, we do not mean that you were flawed at birth—you were not. We would like to point the way of spirit, and suggest that you were born from a state of grace and you never leave the state of grace, and we suggest that you are eternally in a state of grace.

We suggest that your flaws are the things that make you unhappy: your fears, your reasonable expectations that you want and accept total interest in and would not be open to any additional options, the ways that you allow yourself to berate yourself, and we suggest that you would easily be able to find a great many things that you would like to change about yourself. We will call them flaws. We would like to assure you that these are things that are indeed correctable, so trust that you will be fixing each flaw if you will avail yourself of your contrary self’s assistance. We will trust that you will.

The way you would recognize that you have a flaw would be that your contrary self will tell you loud and clear in a variety of ways. We suggest that the way you trust us essences is the way that you trust your contrary self, for he or she would indeed be as spiritually informed as your essence, as the contrary self would indeed be a very proud part of your essence. So we suggest that you trust him or her as you trust us. We essences assist in most ways through realizing the contrary self in your lives, so trust that the contrary self would indeed be us at work.

Realizing your contrary self will inform you a great deal about your ways of spirit. We suggest that the contrary self would inform a great deal more if you would let him or her speak with you. The contrary self constantly, truly wishes a great deal more for you than you allow yourself, so trust that when the contrary self calls, that you want to pick up the phone. We would like to help you, so trust that conversations with the contrary self would indeed be not only helpful, but informative and entertaining as well, for your contrary self will challenge you in ways that point the way toward the contradictory nature of life.

We suggest that the way you would indeed learn a great deal about yourselves would be the way of spirit, and the way of spirit would indeed be contradictory. The way you would engage the contrary self would, in your terms, be hilarious at times. So we would like to introduce you to your best, most contrary self so as to wean you of your expectations, as well as to introduce you to your best, most-closely-aligned-with-essence friend. We would like to make your acquaintance in this way so as to assist you in your dearly beloved daily lives. We would like to offer some suggestions in realizing your personal connection with the contrary self.

The contrary self points only toward your way of spirit

The way you might consider your daily lives would indeed provide many opportunities to engage the contrary self. The contrary self would find comfort in your home very easily. We suggest you imagine your beautiful wolf contrary self turning up in your bedroom in the morning. He or she would not care what you look like, they would not care what you smell like or what you were doing. We suggest the contrary self is indeed the most unconditional loving self that you have. We would like to connect you with your contrary self, because what more would you want from your contrary self but loving devotion?

Then we suggest that you decide to get the way of spirit in bed. We suggest that you would indeed want to get up, but not really want to get up because you want to sleep some more. Your contrary self would point out why you would want to sleep some more, to realize that you would need more rest. The contrary self would be incorrect because you would need to get up and do your job. Your contrary self would also be correct, because you would indeed benefit from more sleep.

What do you do? We suggest you treantea [see Treantea Poker Players Practice] so as to realize that you have more options than what you’d previously programmed into your ways to buy into your reality. Perhaps you’d never considered being late for work so as to get more sleep. We suggest that you might benefit from this, and may not benefit from this and would get fired, but the important thing is: why did you never consider the way of spirit before? In the way of spirit, you find that you have many more options that would indeed find themselves alone without a means to make themselves known, and your contrary self will tell you exactly what things you would like to at least consider. The contrary self doesn’t discuss the things with you, their only job would be to remind you that you choose in your reality. You often don’t always allow yourself to really choose the way of life, for you often want a means to wander through with only the most obvious choices in your path. For the way you wander in your world too often chooses you rather than allows you to consider all of your choices.

The contrary self is interested in allowing you to choose from more choices, so trust that your contrary self is looking out after you, even though you may think of your contrary self as a temptress, for that’s exactly what you need: tempting. We suggest that your temptress would indeed be invited in many ways to your banquet of life, and we suggest that she would indeed find means to help the offerings find a much better suited home in the stomachs of the attendees, for the temptress would indeed be another one of your very impressionable services that you have indicated is evil. So while you may trust that your contrary self is indeed a temptress, you may not always allow yourself to even consider temptations that are indeed healthy for you.

Use discernment as your tool for making choices

The temptress selves that you have disallowed would indeed be interested in finding a means to allow their realization, so trust that your temptress selves will indeed know what to do. We suggest that they will find a means to assist whenever you’d like, but you must use your discernment in the way you make your choices, for the temptress’s job is merely to tempt you, not to make you choose. We suggest that your discernment would indeed be the perhaps most important thing that you will need in making a way in spirit, for your temptress will allow you also to make the choices that the way of spirit calls to you to make. We are only suggesting that the contrary self or temptress would indeed be willing to go along with any discernment that your intent would have you make, and will only be there to assist by providing you with options that you’d never considered.

The temptress, therefore, realizes the many potentialities in the lives of individuals, and the waning moon would indeed be an excellent example of the way she would allow you your decisions. The waning moon is a means to make you aware of your moonly spirit, for the waning moon would indeed prove to be a means for you to connect with your greater selves as well. The waning moon clarifies things, the waning moon sets in balance things that you would not normally interest yourself in. We suggest that the waning moon would indeed be a cycle that your wolf self would indeed find useful, for what better way for the wolf selves to make their way into your hearts and minds than the waning of the moon, when you are best able to see with clarity? We suggest that the waning moon would prove to be a means for your wolf selves to bask in their glory in the full moon, and then allow you to see with greater clarity. The contrary self would indeed allow you greater clarity in your lives when you are able to use your discernment to look at the many choices that the light of the full moon allows.

We are using the moon metaphor because, in practical terms, the moon does indeed hold a pull on you that would make even a blind person notice, for the propensity of your moon to change your brains and bodies indeed indicates a rush of fluid to the brain that was intended to make you a bit crazy every month. We suggest that the moon indeed has magical properties, and the way you would indicate to yourself the moon’s pull, literally, on the way your brain works, would be in the rush of certain chemicals to your brain that actually affect the way that you think. We suggest that the brain does consider more options at this time than any other, generally speaking, so we trust that you will allow yourselves to be wolfmen and wolfwomen to fully impress upon yourselves the need to consider all your options. The best part, of course is the waning, where things become clearer, and the way you would do this, as we said, is through discernment.

The way you would discern the way of spirit would be through your intent, for the way of spirit indeed involves following your intent. Your intent is the most important thing you have, because the excellent intents that you have undertaken are the very reasons that you chose to begin a physical, material reality. We suggest that your intent would allow your choices to be most easily discovered, but you overly indicate to yourself that your intent does not, so we suggest that we will assist you in getting in touch with your intent in other teachings. So trust that the way of spirit would indeed be to trust yourself with regard to your intent in life, and we will assist.

The way you would indeed discern would be to trust yourself to follow your intent and therefore make appropriate choices. We suggest that the way you would make your choices would indeed allow you to engage the wonderful contrary self, as the contrary self knows exactly what the way of spirit would be for you, and will gladly assist in wonderful conversations with you about that.

Dialog with the contrary self

The way you would indicate to yourself the thoughts of your contrary self would be simple: are the ways we are indicating making sense? Would you trust the existence of essence self for your purposes of contrary work? We suggest that the way you would know that you’re speaking with your contrary self would be if you are thinking in dialog form. We suggest that the way your dialog in your mind works would be your contrary self speaking with you, trying to indicate things to you that you hadn’t realized before. We suggest the contrary self would be called that because the way it works is as a means to bring the darkness of your unconscious mind into the light of your conscious mind.

Therefore, a dialog is required in realization of what’s going on in the back of your mind. That’s where the contrary self lives, in the backs of your minds, so trusting self would indeed be indicated here, for the back of your mind is a most dank and dusty place that we suggest you get in touch with. The way you would indicate to yourself that you’re bringing the conscious information to the fore would be through your inner dialog. We suggest that the way of spirit does include these dialogs, so trust that when you are talking to yourself that you are being deeply spiritual individuals.

The trust you have in the self would be captured in your thoughts. What kind of thoughts are your dialogs about? We suggest that they would indeed be awarized when you look at your thoughts on a daily basis. The thoughts that are healthy would be things like: Why wouldn’t you want to sleep in today? Why wouldn’t we essences want the things that you want? We suggest that the dialogs are healthy when they are finding a satisfying role in allowing a bit more openness regarding your options. Your way of spirit allows more options than you currently realize, and finding the more inaccessibly oriented options would indeed allow you greater happiness.

The exact opposite of a healthy dialog would be in making yourself miserable with your inner dialog. The way you would indicate the way you’re either unhealthy or healthy would be to indicate to yourself if you’re laughing. That’s right. We suggest that the contrary self knows what you want to hear and will make you laugh when you’re engaging him or her on a regular basis. The way you would know would be that you would laugh, and perhaps just have a happy heart with regard to your life.

For anyone who feels trapped would consider the way of the contrary self to be an intrusion, correct? The contrary self would say, “Why don’t you sleep in today?” and the intrepid self who would not feel as though they would allow themselves any additional choices would say, “Stop telling me that!” We suggest that you would say, “Stop telling me that!” to many of the contrary self’s excellent suggestions, and would find that you would indeed be a most unhappy individual, as the contrary self would find no reason to speak with you anymore. We suggest that the contrary self would indeed crawl into the back of your mind and go to sleep until he or she had the chance to speak with you, and that would be a sad state of affairs until he or she does.

The way you would find a bit more discernment would be, of course, to talk back to your contrary self. We suggest that you would find this most enjoyable, for your contrary self knows you so intimately that he or she would indeed find ways to shape your thoughts so as to allow your responses to help you interest yourself in the thoughts of the contrary self and allow your expressions in many ways. For example, we suggest that the contrary self would say, “Why don’t you sleep in today?” and would allow your mind to find the reason he has in store for you. We would trust him implicitly, for he knows what you want. We suggest that he would help you say something like, “Because we would get fired from our job.” And he would say, “What do you mean, we?”

And you would laugh because of the ridiculous manner in which you’ve now determined that you’re actually a multiple personality. But the way you would do this would, in some sense of your word, be channeling, for we suggest there’s no difference between the voices in your head and the voices that come through your channelers’ voices or fingers when they’re typing. They would indeed be coming from the same place—essence—and we suggest you would therefore trust that the way of spirit would indeed be coming to the fore. We suggest that your contrary self will assist in any way that it can, and would indeed be the voice of essence urging you towards your most impressively beautiful lives, for that would indeed be the way of spirit and the way that we essences serve you every day.

We trust that you’ll make yourselves aware of your beautiful contrary wolf selves, and trust that the way that they would interest you would indeed be your very contrary essences, for we work in very mysterious ways. Trust that your ways are our ways, and know that when you’ll be speaking with your contrary self, you’ll be speaking with essence, for when you’re not, we suggest that you’ll find yourself a bit towards the lunacy side, and not because you’ve engaged your contrary self in the first place. We suggest that your culture has the way of spirit interminably, finally stifled unless a big movement for yourselves happens. We suggest that you begin to find your contrary selves and trust them in ways you’ve never dreamed of, for your contrary selves will assist in any way that they can. Trust that your contrary selves will allow you a great many wonderful things, so trust that your way of spirit will indeed be greatly informed. We trust that you will.

The way you would allow your contrary selves to flourish would also be to allow him a bone every now and then. We would hope that you would recognize the gifts that the contrary self would allow you in his questions to you, and would recognize the many probabilities that you have opened to yourself in the process. We suggest that the way you would sleep in would be most beneficial at times. We suggest the way you would not allow yourself to do a certain task would be the never ending probability that sets you on your proper intentional course. The way you recognize the contrary self allows you also to learn to engage him more, and he would then find many more reasons to assure you of your many choices. We suggest that he would interfere with many of your daily habits as well, and would indeed be the most contrary voice in your many choices we would indeed allow you to make, for your essences include a vast amount of choices. We suggest that your choices would seem trivial were it not for the contrary self. We will give you an example.

The contrary self in world events

The way you would imagine a bit more contrariness in your daily lives would indeed find a way into your lives quite easily. We suggest the way you may do this would be simple: say what’s on your mind. The contrary self would indeed find ways to make himself heard, and the way you would know this would be interesting: your contrary self would find refuge in your honest response. We suggest that the way you’ve been raised would indeed be in overly nice ways, and your contrary selves have gotten so incredibly stifled so as to indeed make your culture quite unhealthy. The extreme examples of this would be your Nazi Germany, and we suggest that what happens when you stifle the contrary voice would indeed be the worst form of mire in the world, for your contrary self would have prevented such a thing.

We suggest that the contrary self would indeed have let the bastards know what they were doing was immoral, but because the individuals involved were so taken with allowing your contrary selves to not speak in light showers as events progressed over the years, that all the excellent contrary showers accumulated and rained in a most horrible way onto the entire world. The showers would have allowed a bit of humanity, and courage, and formality with regard to assuring the entrée into lunacy would have been abetted much earlier in the formalizing of the Nazi party. Had there been more individuals who were more willing to say that the party was immoral, the way towards their power would have been stopped in its tracks. The way that the party unfolded would indeed be part of the problem, as we suggest that at exactly the point your power takes over, the wonderful contrary self is indeed finally secreted away and therefore the way becomes too hazardous to speak.

We suggest that the allowance of the contrary self in your everyday lives is exactly what prevents these horrible events to occur: by ensuring that spirit speaks in most contrary ways, and the way your spirits speak would indeed be so sometimes. The idea that spirit would never speak up against another is possibly the most heinous incorporation of informal unhealthy hierarchy there is, for the hierarchies you create that are unhealthy are created in everyday life. You do intend to follow rules too often, and too blindly follow authority in every way. Many authoritarian hierarchies are indeed healthy, but many are not, and the way you would be able to tell the difference would be to allow yourself to learn whether or not dissenting views are allowed. We suggest that the unhealthy forms will not allow dissenting views, and we suggest that the reason you would speak up upon entering any hierarchy would be to test the waters with regard to the health of the system.

We suggest that you speak up, and speak your mind to everyone that you see as authoritarian in every way: your bank managers, your clerks, and your ever-wandering eye of your cameras in your stores. If your contrary selves were excellently given full reign, there would be no more Nazi Germanys. You were aware in many ways, also, when the horrific events were occurring, and still didn’t speak up, and the atrocities are still occurring. The very act of speaking up to your bank managers would indeed assist in small ways in the countering of oppressive regimes throughout the world. We suggest that you begin your contrary self work immediately.

The way you would indeed find the way of spirit would be in your terms a most blessed event. We trust you will. Trust that we will assist.

Love,
Rose

I’ve No Use For This
by Nardine Neilson

I cast it out my doubt and fear
no longer want such thoughts to hear
I recognise no gain to me
by such thoughts I’m not set free
they bring about guilt and pain
protecting me I seek to blame
another for my injured heart
and in so doing set apart
my spirit from the common goal
to heal myself I must make whole
my body doesn’t think a thought
its reactions are those I’ve taught
to heal my mind I know I must
recognise in whom we trust
for love reflection and eternal truth
are the gifts we all can use
to bring our spirit to the fore’
forgive ourselves and be sure
from sickness can I find release
and bring myself to joy and peace
for in Gods’ truth we all find bliss
and easily say I’ve no use for this

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What is reincarnation? To begin with, reincarnation does not take place within a matrix of linear time. It’s not as if e.g. you had a life in ancient Greece and then you died; then you had a life in ancient Rome and then you died; then you had a life in the Middle Ages and then you died; etc. Rather, all of your past and future lives are going on at once, in an eternal NOW moment.

Think of it like this: survivors of near-death experiences often report seeing all the events that ever happened to them flash by them in no time at all. Thus it would seem that we experience the thought forms of our lives twice – once in linear fashion over a lifetime, and the second time around in timeless fashion at the moment of death.

In an analogous manner, while there is indeed an evolution going on in the universe, this evolution is not taking place in linear time: it’s all happening at once. Space and time have no objective existence. They are merely cognitive tools which evolved as sentient beings evolved, to enable them to focus upon one thing at a time instead of everything at once. The linearity of time is an illusion, a falsehood, which Eastern philosophers have termed maya or samsara. It is this false appearance that there is such a thing as an objective reality out there unfolding in linear time, which animates the striving of all sentient beings and keeps the wheel of reincarnation – of life and death and rebirth – turning.

Babies (and even young children, who sometimes talk about memories from other lifetimes) are not as centered in a one-track existence as adults are. Babies and young children are consciously impinged upon by influences from other lives and probable realities which most adults have learned to ignore. The same socialization process which props up a baby’s sense of being a unitary, abiding, separated individual also imprisons that individual in a furrow of inexorable linear temporality.

For most people, 99.9% of decisions are made on the basis of socially-conditioned actions and reactions – what they were taught by their parents and society. But every now and then everyone has poignant moments – moments of consciousness or conscientiousness or conscience – when they sense that probable realities are branching off this way or that; or they feel echoes from other lifetimes and realities; or they hear voices from deep inside them. When this happens people feel connected to something more profound than their customary hustle and bustle; and that something is their true purpose in this lifetime – the reason they were born.

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“We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.” – William Butler Yeats, A Vision

Explore the works of Visionary Artist Shirley Hadley!

The photographs you see below were created by Shirley in her studio, and not through electronic manipulation. Each photo is available in 5x7 or 8x10 and includes a poem that goes with the photo.

Entrance to Awareness
The journey of the self is
to see without using your eyes
to hear but not with your ears.
Listen to your inner voice, it will lead you
to an awareness of new ways to view your
selves and the world you live in.

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"We are all connected...intertwined...by a universal energy so divine." - Sharon Hackleman

Sethworld - A board game based on the Seth Material

Explore your beliefs! Stretch your imagination! Delve into your dreams! Challenge your creativity!

Seven years in the making, I am so pleased to be able to offer you SethWorld - The Game of All That Is! SethWorld is a totally unique game, the first metaphysical board game based on the Seth material - maybe the first metaphysical board game, ever! It is designed to explore and uncover beliefs while having fun. There are no winners, no losers, and NO RULES! A 24-page pamphlet included with the game gives a probable framework for play, 6 sample "moves," and a glossary of 61 concepts.

SethWorld -- You've never played anything like it!

WHAT A COINCIDENCE Understanding Synchronicity In Everyday Life
by Susan M Watkins

Overview:

What if all those seemingly insignificant little What a coincidence! moments you've experienced were actually connected, were part of a larger, more complex coincidence story?

What if they were hinting at something very personal and important about yourself—and about the workings of human consciousness?

Would you listen?

Susan Watkins does. For more than 35 years she's been documenting and studying the coincidences that have happened in her life. What she's discovered is that seemingly simple coincidences—thinking of an old friend and their calling seconds later, for example—are often pieces of larger, more complex and meaningful "coincidence clusters."

A former newspaper reporter and the author of five books, Watkins has always been intrigued by coincidences—what they mean in our everyday lives, and in the grander scheme of things. What, she asks, do these coincidence clusters say about human consciousness and human connection? In What a Coincidence! she presents coincidence clusters that are utterly astounding. What they reveal is life- altering.

What a Coincidence! is an exciting, groundbreaking journey. Along the way Watkins offers profound insights as well as practical pointers on how to become aware of the coincidence clusters in our own lives. She also shows us how to document coincidences so that we, too, can reap their valuable rewards. We'll never brush off those What a Coincidence! moments again.

Conscious Creation Links – Conscious Creation Publishers, Book Stores, Websites, Journals, Newsletters, Mailing Lists, Message Boards, and more.

The Elias forum - website by Paul & Joanne Helfrich contains an expansion of many of the conscious creation concepts introduced by Seth/Jane Roberts, channeled by Mary Ennis.

What if the Seth material was a foundation to be expanded later by other channeled sources? Can any perennial source ever be considered complete AND infallible?

Seth readers will want to check out:
Introduction & Overview
A Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!)
Digest: Seth, Jane Roberts

In The Rose Garden - a blog by Joanne Helfrich who channels the essence of Rose as mentioned in the Elias forum.

The Kris Chronicles - an expansion of many of the conscious creation concepts introduced by Seth/Jane Roberts, channeled by Serge Grandbois.

A Kris, Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!) - a preliminary comparison of core concepts in the Seth material, information offered by Elias, and Kris Chronicles

Otherfocus.com the personal website of Donald R. Johnson

Explore the creative worlds of John McNally and Kristen Fox Cofounders of the Conscious Creation Website and Email group John and Kristen share interests in writing, art, photography and cooking which they explore on a variety of websites:

John and Kristen's new Green blog: It Should Be Easy Being Green
Intuitive Astrology site: Psychic Weather
Writing: Mind Altering Fiction
Photography: Telepathicfrog
Cooking: Food Follies
Shop: Telepathic Frog Designs
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Kristen's weblog: FoxVox
Art & Photo Gallery: Art of FoxVox
Art & Photo Prints: Deviant Art
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