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February 8th, 2008
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Phil Ochs.
You were right when you told your friends that I followed you home
tonight. I knew how much you loved the album, and your Angel guides
guided you to purchase the CD. And, as you clearly understand, you
have created a rapport with me that goes back many years.
I did in fact suffer not just from my suicide but from other things
I did wrong, as well as from a lot of misplaced anger. But that
is now in the past, and I have progressed considerably.
Your thought is true, that my burning sense of righteousness helped
me greatly over here. After I got the lay of the land, I was visited
by some very beautiful spirits, who helped me to find the way to
progression. It was in this way that I found the Divine Love.
I found that many of my feelings and attitudes were in fact in harmony
with God's Will, even though in other ways, other aspects of my
behavior were not in such accord. But the fact that I did have this
godly component enabled me to progress more quickly than if I had
been devoid of it.
You are wondering where I currently am in my spiritual journey.
Well, I now live in the Third Sphere, where everything is beautiful
and in harmony. I am still writing songs, but my subject, as you
easily can understand, has radically changed. I have lost that angry
bitterness, and my songs have a greater sweetness. This sweetness
was part of my personality on earth, but it was drowned out too
often by more negative patterns, such as this free-floating anger.
I see now what you clearly perceived when you first became aware
of my music, that my music has the quality to remain, even though
its contents are topical to the time in which it arose. And this
is because my concern was justice, and I, like you, could not stand
what was happening in my country. It turned my stomach, and I just
had to speak out, which I did.
In the workings of the laws of the spirit world, this speaking out
came back to bless me, and gave me much needed comfort, after I
was struggling with the consequences of my tragic deed. I obeyed
the Creator by speaking on behalf of justice, and I disobeyed Him
by taking my own life. I know you find it hard to grasp the immense
disparity of these contradictory tendencies, and yet they were both
found in me.
Oh, it was hard at first! I didn't know what to expect, and I encountered
other suicides just like me. They had cared for truth as I had.
But we all felt we deserved the suffering that came upon us.
My desire to come out of my unfortunate condition brought beautiful
Angels to me, who told me that God had looked with favor on my behavior
in regard to the courage I had shown speaking out about the evils
of my time. And they explained that once I became free of my suffering,
all the good things I did would come back to me and make me happy.
I, being intelligent, reasoned that this made sense. I felt it was
just that I suffer, since I rejected God's greatest gift of life.
But I also thought that the good things I stood for also should
be reflected in the way the Creator treated me.
And so it was true, for as my soul sent out earnest prayers for
forgiveness and for the Divine Love, I found that my inner condition
got lighter, and I found myself in a lighter sphere. The more I
prayed, the more I progressed, and the more I progressed, the more
I prayed. It was amazing and wonderful that I held the key to my
own development, even as I recognized God's Grace in removing from
me the darkness that had afflicted me.
I really loved the poem you wrote about me. It makes my heart glad
that when this book is published, as it surely will, I will be remembered
in that way, and you will thus perpetuate my memory to a younger
generation.
Your perception is that though my songs were topical and specific
to the time, they are still completely sincere, and have musical
quality that will remain. That is what I have heard from certain
spirits over here.
Sooner or later, the truth will out, and the Creator has a hand
in guiding humanity toward this goal. I realize that the sense of
justice is an ineradicable part of human nature, and I feel happy
that I was able to listen to my conscience the way I did.
Yes, I was a rebel who could not accept society's norms. But I also
operated in that wider dimension of justice that united me to so
many others who did as I did. I have met many of these souls, and
have had such wonderful conversations about how God had used us
to further His purposes.
Just as God has rescued many from oppression, so He will operate
in the same way in your time, for though the actors have changed,
the drama is exactly the same in principle, and the same laws of
morality are fully working now as they have been from the beginning.
I wish for you a happy life. My closing message to the world is
that it really pays to listen to one's conscience and to love the
truth. This works out in ways we can scarcely imagine, and it sets
up a force field that unites humanity to the Divine, and brings
the world into harmony with God's Will.
Thank you for receiving this long message. I am happy to be represented
in the world in this way, and to be able to further God's Kingdom
by affirming what has always been true.
Phil Ochs was an American folksinger/songwriter who committed suicide.
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