A spirit entity hiding in a dark place.  Note: My faithful dog Mo is guarding the entrance to the toilet where it was hiding, until I took a photo and the flash flushed it out of its hiding space, capturing it on film.  (It is interesting to note the spiral of light within the light path of the escaping entity).  Earthbound spirits, who have  unresolved issues,  do not like the light.  This is why they avoid going into the ‘Light’ to be healed.  I later used burning sage brush to spiritually cleanse the house.

With the recent popularity of Medium, John Edward, the philosophy of spirituality, and spirit communication, is now gaining acceptance and becoming commonplace in modern society.  Many people are no longer bound so tightly by the fear of religious dogma that spirit communication is somehow evil, or in cohorts with the devil.  In fact, reincarnation was mentioned in the Bible until the Emperor Constantine attempted to remove all references to it, in order to gain control over society’s beliefs.  Fear and guilt became the methods of religious control.  It is worth reading Matthew 11:14, which still contains a reference to reincarnation. 

English psychic artist, Coral Polge, provides brilliant evidence of survival beyond physical death with her remarkable sketches of spirit who ‘come through’ in readings for clients.

The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, featured a story on Medium Rosina O’Brien, titled ‘an insight into life and beyond’, in its March 2003, Issue 20, Instinct newsletter.   For a conservative organisation to publish such an article reflects modern public acceptance of spirituality, and its factuality. http://wellwomen.rwh.org.au.

Metaphysical healer and counsellor, Eileen Goble, in her book: Spirit Guides.  A journey through myth to reality, tells the remarkable story of a father who consulted her for grief counselling over the loss of his 21 year old son, in which he ‘accidentally’ played a role, and thus also carried terrible guilt over his death.  The son ‘came through’ and told Eileen how his soul’s purpose was to depart the physical life before the age of 22, and reported that he had had several accidents in the 12 months preceding his death, which his father confirmed.  He was attempting to complete his soul’s purpose, but found it hard to leave because of his attachment to his physical family.  The son actually thanked his father for the role he played in his death.  This spiritual insight allowed the father to come to terms with his loss.

Professor Paul Pearsall of the University of Hawaii, has interviewed numerous recipients of organ transplants, only to discover that they have cellular memories which belonged to their donors.  He found likes, dislikes, and personality changes, that were attributed characteristics of their donor.  Dr Pearsall has published his findings in his book The Heart’s Code.  In the March 11, 2002 issue of Woman’s Day they reported the story of Queensland girl Megan Boler, ‘I got new lungs and a personality transplant’.  Megan had a double lung transplant and acquired a new taste for beer, and her usually normally straight, blonde hair turned curly.

The chiropractic profession recognizes such cellular memory, and retracing it in order to heal.  CranioSacral Therapy, developed by John Upledger, D.O., uses the terms “unwinding” and “somato-emotional release” to describe this phenomenon.

Kinesiology is another brilliant healing field, which also (objectively) recognises the life force intelligence and cellular memories.  The near fatal accident of Dr Charles Krebs led to a new science of healing, and is documented in his book:  A Revolutionary Way of Thinking.

In the 2000 film, Return to Me, starring Minnie Driver and David Duchovny; Minnie’s character receives a heart transplant from a zoo keeper and develops a strong affinity with animals.

For certain religious groups, blood transfusions or organ transplants are not accepted according to their beliefs.  Perhaps because of some ancient knowledge that to do so would be taking on the energy of another soul, also referred to as their ‘karma’.

Englishwoman, Jenny Cockell, had such vivid memories of her recent past life as a poor Irish woman named Mary, who died 21 years before she was born, that she actually tracked down and reunited with her past-life children, now in their 70’s.  She documents this remarkable story in her book: Yesterday’s Children.  The extraordinary search for my PAST LIFE FAMILY.

Albert Einstein also believed in reincarnation.  Scientifically, he knew that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed.  And this is essentially what we as beings are: Energy - in the form of matter, with intelligence, or: a soul.

The film Powder portrays a young man born with extraordinary spiritual gifts, advanced abilities, and incredible sensitivity.  Unable to be accepted by such a ‘backward’ society, he evolves back into pure energy.

I often wondered why it was the ancient Greeks who had acquired the fundamental knowledge of; philosophy (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle), medicine (Asklepios and Hippocrates), science (Democritus) and mathematics (Pythagoras), etc.  What advantage was it that they, had collectively acquired such important knowledge, and an over other cultures, for the development of mankind?  The answer came to me soon thereafter, in the form of a book I discovered, written by Dr Raymond Moody titled:  Reunions – Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones.  In it Moody describes the process of hydromancy, a form of divination, in which the ancient Greeks would go into a darkened temple called a psychomanteum.  After a ritual preparation, they would approach a polished speculum filled with water, and gaze into its mirror-like surface for a period.  Spirit would then appear in holographic form, and communication was possible.  I believe it is through this method of divination that they obtained such important wisdom useful for the development of mankind.  Centuries later, Nostradamus, the famous seer, used the same method of divination, a bowl of water, for his famous cryptic prophecies.

In 1985 Dr Stanislov Grof, chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, USA, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published a book in which he concluded that existing neurophysiological models of the brain are inadequate and only a holographic model can explain such things as archetypal experiences, encounters with the collective unconscious, and other unusual phenomena experienced during altered states of consciousness.

In his 1987 book entitled Synchronicity:  The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, Dr F. David Peat, a physicist at Queen’s University in Canada, asserted that synchronicities (coincidences that are so unusual and so psychologically meaningful that they don’t seem to be the result of chance alone) can be explained by the holographic model.  Peat believes that such coincidences are actually “flaws in the fabric of reality.”  They reveal that our thought processes are much more intimately connected to the physical world than has been hitherto suspected.

In 1982, a landmark experiment performed by a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Optics, in Paris, demonstrated that the web of subatomic particles that compose our physical universe – the very fabric of reality itself – possesses what appears to be an undeniable ‘holographic’ property. 

In 1987, physicist Robert G. Jahn and clinical psychologist Brenda J. Dunne, both at Princeton University, USA, announced that after a decade of rigorous experimentation by their Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, they had accumulated unequivocal evidence that the mind can psychically interact with physical reality.

In the 1970’s, pioneering Australian psychiatrist, Dr Ainslie Meares, developed transcendental meditation to heal patients with terminal cancer, using the power of the patient’s own mind – creative visualisation.  One of his success stories, Ian Gawler, now continues the legacy of Ainslee’s revolutionary healing methods to assist others facing terminal illness.

We are bound by our beliefs.

- Spirit.

References:

Cockell, J., Yesterday’s Children.  The extraordinary search for my PAST LIFE FAMILY., 1993, Piatkus.

Goble, E., Spirit Guides.  A journey through myth to reality, 1995, The Holistic Centre, pp.103-109.

Krebs, C., PhD., & Brown, J., A Revolutionary Way of Thinking, 1998, Hill of Content.

Moody, R., M.D., Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones, 1993, Villard Books.

Pearsall, P., PhD,  The Heart’s Code, 1998, Broadway.

Polge, C. & Hunter, K., Living Images.  The Story of a Psychic Artist., 1991, The Aquarian Press.

Stephenson, R.W., Chiropractic textbook. 1927, Davenport, IA: Palmer School of Chiropractic, pp. 98-99.

Talbot, M., The Holographic Universe, 1996, Harper Collins.

Upledger, J. & Vredevoogd, J.D., CranioSacral therapy, 1983, Eastland Press, p. 251.

Zwar, D., Doctor ahead of his time.  The life of psychiatrist Dr Ainslie Meares., 1985, Greenhouse Publications.