EARTHBOUND by Evelyn de Morgan (British, 1850-1919)
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
~ Meister Eckhart ~
One can begin to ponder the difficulty for many discarnates of 'letting go' of all binary ego concepts and constructs when you consider the following comment from the authors of THE RISEN:
"We recognize the challenge of the tendency to attempt to grasp and utilize a higher vibrating concept (termed "Risen") using a non-Risen mode of communication (word thoughts). Our term of discernment, "Risen" is an info-sphere, rather than a polarizing description of what non-Risen experience through the lens of the binary thinking mode of the ego-mind. Know that there is no "process," nor "dynamic," nor layers of definition once the ego-mind's grasp has been released. This knowledge will be the ground of the next book, "Risen On Earth".
Davis believed that at death no sudden or violent change takes place in the character and dis-position of an individual. Those who were mischievous, unprincipled, or lascivious during their lives remained so, for a time at least, after they died.
"As the spirit enters the spirit world just as it leaves this, there must be an innumerable host of low, undeveloped, uneducated, or in other words, evil spirits."
Davis believed there was a special sphere or plane for these diakka where they were put on probation. He said they were responsible for the fraud and trickery often witnessed at séances; they not only deceived the sitters, but the medium as well.
Davis believed the way to avoid their influence is to live a pure, refined, and religious life, for these evil spirits are naturally attracted to those whose minds most resemble their own.
Hollywood has for entertainment value - personified 'demon' and 'devil'' type entities that may have possibly derived directly from the misleading and devilish antics of 'mischievous discarnated individuals' - still bound by their 'introverted fixated egos' to an earthbound focused existence.
These discarnate influences are the "Diakka"
(After all, let's not forget, Screen Producers and Script writers are also open to discarnate influence - particularly when seeking 'inspiration' for a script!)
Read the incredibly insightful book THE RISEN for further 'enlightenment' about possible post-transitional 'discarnate' states of being.
EXCERPT from THE RISEN - (used with permission)
"We've mentioned that not all ego-mentalities acquiesce to the greater Risenreality. Surrender cannot be forced in any way. Some ego-personalitiescrystallize and survive beyond thedissolution of the earthly body. Rather than relinquish the fear that immortality might not be a reality, these personalities believe that although they've survived an earthly death, true immortality is impossible, and real death is still inevitable.Their intellectual arrogance traps them within this hard-shelled belief. Many of earths greatest individual minds now exist in co-manifested ego-geographies of dazzling intellectual beauty, and because of their continued loyalty to and dependence on their earthly personalities, are located somewhere between terrestrial space-time and Risen time-space. They are still very aware of the Earth and continue to inspire other great but still-embodied intellects with their own delusions often materializing in the form of theories, articles, books, and films on Earth. Because of the advanced scope of their individualized minds they inevitably comprehend much of Risen truth, and so while rarely wicked are often tricksters. Because they believe some sort of humorless cosmic joke has been played on them, they get their revenge by passing it onto their earthly brethren. They are exceptionally resistant to any kind of rescue efforts, but may eventually discover the higher levels of Risen truth, usually through boredom."
"Those approaches that utilize machines on your level are considered antithetical and anti-ethical to Risen Scientists in the higher vibrating spheres. Some scientists from Earth bring their machine co-dependence with them, felt to be a necessary symbiotic component by their ego-self. Although the ego-self can no longer be sustained indefinitely in their new Risen reality, these recently arrived scientists continue to act as if the ego-self still lives, and also proceed as if unconscious about its dominance in their new existence, as they did in their former lives on earth.Old habits are hard to release. They continue to build and 'improve' their machines here. They still believe in and invest energy into attempting to obtain measurements with their thought-objects, or machines. Their notions of measurement have no lasting validity in their present transitioned state, although they either cannot or will not accept this."
A YOUNG BOY UNSURE ABOUT HIS LIFE STATUS:
The more I record the voices of the physically departed, the more I realise just how interconnected we are with the unseen worlds of discarnate consciousness.
I continue to receive personal greetings and positive messages - more often than not - delivered by excited and enthusiastic discarnates only too keen to share their insights and views about their new life status.
But then there are the others - the unaware, the guilt-ridden, the lost and confused, the vulnerable young and the closed minded.
Whether we want to accept it or not - the received messages from the other side continually confirm that our mindsets play a vital and integral role in determining and defining our subjective discarnate environment.
If we believe that life is open to change and new insights, our first experiences of discarnate life will reflect this.
If we believe that life is 'snuffed out' on our physical demise, our experience of discarnate life will reflect this and our conscious thoughts will create its own 'unconscious limbo reality'.
It is imperative that we learn to 'wake up' in this life so that we can be better prepared in negotiating the barriers of introspective mindsets in the worlds to come.
And as adults we quickly need to realise this - as I encounter many children who are in a 'world of their own' - immediately following their transition - particularly following a tragic or traumatic passing into spirit.
The audio example below (please click link) of a bewildered boy around 8 years of age saying,
"Who died!"
may provide a stark reference for many of those 'twilight' children who remain oblivious of their physical transition to spirit.
Good ghost photos are hard to come by, and we always have to view them with a skeptical eye since it’s so easy to create fakes nowadays. However, there were a few intriguing ghost photos snapped this year that are worthy of attention. The best of them might be the ghost of Tewin Bury Farm, taken by designer Neil Sandbach while trying to get a photo for some wedding stationery
This is a photo taken by him at a farm in Hertfordshire for inclusion in some Wedding Stationery he was preparing for a couple due to host their wedding at the venue. When Neil opened up the photo on his computer he was surprised, and not a little spooked, when he noticed a blurry white figure that he was certain wasn’t visible when the photo was taken, as there was nobody else around.
Neil explains, “a week or so later, just before the actual wedding, and without mentioning the photograph, the couple getting married asked the staff at the venue if anyone had ever seen something ’spooky’. Their faces went white as they described what they had seen on various occasions: the ghost of a young boy dressed in white night clothes, appearing close to the main barn”.