There is a resurgence of people who want to contact loved ones who have passed on. I think it may be one of those aspects of our culture that comes and goes over the generations. If so, it too will fade away again only to be rediscovered again years from now.
Contacting the dead is not as simple as holding a séance, and the person you want to contact showing up and having a chat about old times. Then after too short a visit, off they go to wherever they were before they arrived to speak with you. Nor is it as television would have you believe.
While no one can prove what really happens once we leave our bodies, there is a lot of evidence in the form of stories and documents which cross cultures and deserve the merit of consideration.
When some of us die, we hang around for a few days and something draws us away from this world. The time we hang around our family and friends is thought to be as short as a few hours to as long as a few weeks. We always leave to somewhere else.
When some of us die, our emotional state from our trials and tribulations leaves us needing attention and healing. When we pass on, someone is there to usher us into a sort of hospital stay, where we heal. During this time we are unable to communicate with anyone as we are in a spiritual coma of sorts.
When we die, we go to wherever we thought we were going from when we were alive. Some of us we rise into Heaven, others we are pulled into Hell. Others go to somewhere we created in our mind of where we would go. A few of us go into a realm of complete isolation where we reflect on our life and how we chose to live it.
Others cross a rainbow bridge which separates flesh and blood from spirit. Some of us go on to live a life we never knew, living around people and places we never lived. Living in remote canyons, jungles, forest lands, or places that are not physically possible in this world.
Some of us go to large city like places where the buildings are made of grayish white marble, and we live in great family units of generations living together. Some of us, cross a river, bridge, or other structure where previously passed family and friends are waiting for us to join them.
Some of us, either upon exhaustive reflection before or after our passing, due to the nature of our end, wander the earth without going anywhere in particular. We are spiritual nomads, either not knowing how, or not wanting to leave this world behind.
These are a few of the possibilities of what awaits us when our bodies wear out and we find ourselves clothed in our spiritual bodies. Some people believe in our spiritual bodies we do a lot of what we do here, and life on one side of this life is a lot like life on the other side. We create, study, teach, and confer with one another, and solve problems.
Some of us believe that when we wake with a unique idea that solves a tough problem or enhances our life, those on the other side were working the same problem and they found a solution first, managing to transfer it to us in our sleep. The answer came from a parent or relative on the other side.
With all these possibilities, if any or all are true, it is easy to understand the difficulty in making meaningful contact with loved ones who have shed their bodies and moved on. Most contact with the spiritual world are said to be positive. Brief meetings full of love, happiness, and feelings of contentment are common outcomes. Laughing and happiness are common traits of those on the other side when the other side for those who choose to contact us.
It may simply be be the process of communication between the physical and spiritual realms is very difficult. Perhaps few choose to spend their time trying to contact us. We are likely to become frightened and not open to this type of communication.
Perhaps learning from people who meditate deeply, almost everyone can learn to communicate with those passed on. Perhaps almost everyone can, but few willingly choose to seriously try to communicate with the departed. Perhaps the communication arrives and we do not hear it, or we are not aware of it. If you seriously wish to try to contact a departed Parent or other family member, I have a few ideas that may help you in the next post.
