DEATH # 3

"Know not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee..."John Donne

IN THE ASTRAL...

 

When dead, you can influence on behalf of others but not for yourself. 

The last chance for determining and acting for your own mission and fulfillment, is with your last earthly breath. 

You are then stuck with how you are and where you were.

 

One's karma is usually cut in stone but can be altered and improved by being assigned as a guide to a living person. We can complete work we never fulfilled in a past life time in this way.

 

On the other side, we no longer have options upon which to decide what fashions our destiny. We have already determined it.
We do, however, still have thought, intent and opinion which we may use to help others though no longer ourselves.
Thus the ancestors (or our guides) need our help just as we need theirs.
Forgiveness, love and gratitude are how we help them.

 

Do not expect Astral actions and decisions here to transform into the Causal hereafter. You will be as you are now. 

Be whole hearted in your choice. 

Is one deciding from Narrow (Monkey) mind or from Spacious mind (Big mind)? 

We do not only ring our own bell but fashion it as well. 

The high Astral is greatly satisfying for those who do not yearn for more.

Heartfeltness is what the Creator wants most.

 

In the Astral one faces a spiritual tribunal of a higher order or a "School for the Higher Self or Soul." This is not "Judgment Day" in that sense. We are brought before this tribunal to reconcile with our karma. This is done in a loving and non-judgmental way but we are fully accountable to the spiritual laws of the cosmos. 

One's lawyer cannot help here. One is confronted with one's actions for which there will be inevitable reincarnation consequences. The principles that will challenge us have to do with Truth and Love. 

We learn to detach from our compulsions, addictions, obsessions and fears. New knowledge can be acquired and at least to some extent will reside in our "soulular" memories, and also from previous life times, into the next. This may be as a sense of knowing or as a form of de ja vu.

We usually reincarnate into the family who can best challenge us to learn, so that we can correct the karmic mistakes of the past. This situation may be challenging depending on our karma.

Buddhists pray and practice to inherit a next lifetime where they can continue their spiritual journey at a higher level or better still inherit the Pure Land of the enlightened.

 

The ancestors need our help just as we need theirs. 

Karma is only alterable if the dead have been or are forgiven for their sins by those still living. Forgiveness can improve dysfunction and advance the next incarnation.

Reconciliations can also be made between parties in the afterlife.  

Forgiveness will release the spirit from a karmic sin which otherwise could result in a suboptimal reincarnation. In order to be released from their karmic burden the dead sometimes haunt the living seeking forgiveness.

Forgiveness will release the soul from the consequences of only that particular action. This applies especially to our fathers, mothers (as well as our grand fathers and grandmothers) ...

 

"Honor your father and mother so that your days may be long upon the earth."

 

It applies to the grandmothers and grandfathers because they also  enabled our birth and without them and our parents we would not be in a sentient body. Therefore, the onus for forgiveness is on the living progeny not the other way around.

 For completion the dead should also have forgiven the living for their misdeeds, as well as having released them from any promises or obligations. This is why closure is so essential before death. It can be done after death but will require expert spiritual assistance that includes forgiveness rituals.

For others that have sinned against us there is no mandate to forgive but forgiveness is helpful to all concerned. For the one doing the forgiving it is equivalent of taking off the "albatross" (or grudge) hanging around one’s neck. Neuroscience has also show it to be healthful.

 

There is no free will across the veil. The dead depend on the living to repair, complete, forgive and release them if such is needed.

 

Although we loose free will in the Astral we can be assigned as a spirit guide to work through the free will of either a living loved person or someone else. 

Reveal always truth and you will be guided about what to do.

"Foreign" guides assigned for a task will often have had a similar mission during their prior life time and therefore are most able to be of assistance to the one living. These guides, though seemingly foreign, may have been our loved ones in past lives from different traditions and religions. They can be exotic; Native American, Asian, African implying that we had past lives in these cultures as well. It is my belief that when there is a type of music, say, Celtic that speaks to one's soul, it might indicate a prior life time as a Celt. I relate strongly to Celtic and African music and have had prior incarnations in those genres. 

Love is the catalyst that helps them cross the veil between the worlds to inform us.

For instance, the "foreign" spirit guide who helps me in my bone divination was a sangoma in her previous life and is now completing work she never completed in her last incarnation. In this way she helps me with my destiny and improves her karmic profile at the same time. 

Due to free will being the cosmic law, the one on the earth plane must ask very specifically for what one needs or wants. Our spirit guides cannot help us with our lives without specific and clear direction.

Perfected souls retain free will and can also assist the living as well as other spirits in lower realms. However, they have no requirement to improve their karma.

There is no time beyond the veil and it may take years in earth time before a spirit guide may appear. 

Ancestors and guides usually retain their persona, apparel, language, beliefs and idiosyncrasies. However, they have been “purified” and given a reality check during their reconciliation. The religious fundamentalist may no longer be a zealot and someone who never believed in an after-life will now know the truth. 

You might ask; "why would I bother to listen to my grandfather or grandmother who was illiterate - I have five Phd's? The reason is they are not localized in space and time and have a broader vision. They can bilocate and if you are taking a journey can warn of hazards you are not aware of. They also have access to your Book of Life and know your prior incarnations as well as neglected talents related to your true destiny. They can help guide you in the right direction

The possibilities in the Astral seem to be:

 Reincarnate.

  Remain in the Astral and be a guide to the living and then reincarnate possibly at an improved karmic level.

 Graduate to a higher vibration and then reincarnate,

 or not,

if one has attained the Causal.

It therefore is encouraging to know that there is the possibility for those who have not quite made the grade, that after doing service or 

reconciling, they can graduate to a higher realm or even the Causal.