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September 9th, 2001
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador
My dear brother H___, having now concluded the description of the
earth planes, which is not exhaustive at all as you will understand,
I think it is worth while dealing with the questions G___ has asked
in this context.
The first question is about the tunnel of light, which so many
people describe in their near death experiences. In the description
of my own death, I did not mention this phenomenon.
The second question deals with the spiritualists’ recommendation
that the dark spirits of the earth planes should go to the light.
If those spirits live on the earth planes, it is due to their soul
condition. So what is the meaning of going to the light? Should
they approach the limits of their awareness, or is it that they
should go to some bright spirits?
And the third part of G___’s inquiry refers to a message received
by James Padgett, where a husband and wife seem to have been "lost"
in the earth plane, that is, on earth, after their death and separation
from their physical body. How is this possible?
Let’s start with the tunnel of light.
There is the idea that this tunnel is a very special phenomenon,
because people who experienced such a near death experience describe
that tunnel which attracts them forcibly. Some even manage to pass
through, as they describe, and at the other end they find an atmosphere
of absolute peace and happiness. And this experience does not depend
on people’s culture, religion or education.
Well, this is not exactly the truth. Many people perceive what
I have just written, but not all, maybe only half of them. Others
perceive a tunnel of darkness; others visualize no tunnel at all.
The reasons for the similar and divergent points in near death experiences
are many.
First, we have to understand that the moment of death, or even
of “almost death”, is a moment of great stress which involves
a variety of physiological changes.
When the oxygen level decreases in the blood and at the same time
the carbon dioxide charge increases, due to the lack of respiration
and the continuation of some level of metabolism, the brain reacts
with a series of subjective experiences. For example, people see
their life passing in front of them, as in a movie. This phenomenon
is described very frequently, and its explanation is absolutely
physiological, or rather pathological.
Additionally, in the state of stress and pain which frequently
accompanies this kind of experience, the brain produces and releases
certain substances which cause an effect very similar to that of
the hallucinogenic drugs, like heroin, for example. Among these
substances are the endorphins, which remove pain, and in high concentrations
they even induce sensations of absolute euphoria.
Another effect is some enzymatic defect in the context of neurotransmitters,
causing what we could call "short-circuits", if this expression
is allowed.
But besides these purely physical-chemical effects, which alter
the subjective perception of reality, there is a lot of objective
truth in near death experiences.
The light and the great attraction that they feel are true. The
light in fact comes from spirits of great soul development who are
in charge of receiving those newly arrived spirits, if death really
takes place. And it is also correct that frequently the injured
or severely diseased people most definately want to leave their
physical bodies, and those spirits tell them that they have to return,
that their hour has not yet come, and the mortals feel obliged to
obey, because they would have liked to stay in that atmosphere of
peace and happiness which they are experiencing.
In the moment of death the mortals are surrounded by spirits, who
perform the service of transforming this transition into a pleasant
rather than a traumatic experience. They are the light, they attract,
and they are truly perceived in many cases. What happens in this
kind of experience is that the spirits have not completely left
their material bodies, and they continue being subject to the impressions
which their brains transmit to them. These experiences, in short,
are a mixture of real happenings and of hallucinations, produced
by an extremely stressed or even moribund brain.
It is also interesting to observe that many Christians, who so
"die", see Jesus as he awaits them. How do they know that
he is Jesus? Have they seen him once before? How is it that the
Hindus or Muslims who die do not see him? As a matter of fact, Jesus
rarely engages in this task, he does so only in exceptional cases,
in order to express his great appreciation and gratefulness, as
it happened when James Padgett died. Jesus was very close to him,
and he wanted to accompany him at this important moment of transition
in our life. When you die, H___, you can be sure that I will be
by your side. And there are already so many mortals who are developing
their soul perceptions magnificently, and they will all have the
possibility of knowing their guide personally. And at the moment
of their death, the mortals' guides will be by their side, together
with the spirits whom I have described.
At the moment of real death, the spirits leave their physical bodies
and are received by other spirits who appear like bright lights,
due to their great soul development, and these spirits transfer
the newly arrived ones to one of the reception places in the spirit
world, where they have to stay a certain amount of time, until they
arrive at the full knowledge of their having died and of now living
in a new stage of their lives.
As for the second question, the light means bright spirits, who
can be found at all planes of the spirit world. As I have explained,
dark spirits many times, even in most of the cases, commit the error
of escaping from these higher developed spirits, of hiding, out
of a sense of shame or out of simple immaturity. They cannot approach
the light in the sense of getting closer to a higher sphere. They
may temporarily visit areas of more light, which may have the effect
of awaking their longings for progressing, for leaving their miserable
condition, but for this they need some guidance, and who better
to offer this guidance than those spirits of higher soul development.
You should also not forget the fact that spirits in the hells perceive
a spirit from the second sphere as being quite bright.
In fact, in James Padgett's communications with dark spirits you
may observe some very illustrative examples, when the spirits who
surrounded Mr. Padgett, spirits along the Celestial path or even
from the Celestial spheres, seemed like beings from another world,
radiant and dazzling. They were the light to which the less favored
spirits headed in order to find help.
As for the third question, of those spirits "lost" on
the earth plane, it is true that many people die without any preparation,
with never having spent a single thought on spiritual things, and
for them it is very difficult to find their way in their new surroundings.
They feel lost, and simply through their strong desire of returning
to their husband or wife, or to their children, they can return.
I returned to the place, where my corpse lay, and such things happen
frequently. Many return to their relatives or friends to stay with
them without realizing that their loved ones can neither see them
nor hear them. It is an altered mental state, but only temporarily.
All this happens before the spirits head for the place where they
will start their trip through the spheres of the spirit world. Spirits
who do arrive at this starting point already have a full knowledge
of their condition as spirits.
I want to add however, that there are dark spirits who do visit
earth frequently because they are attracted by something that they
left behind, for example money that they buried or hid. They want
"to protect" their treasure, and many stories about such
ghost phenomena have some foundation in truth. They are spirits
fully aware of their condition as spirits, but completely bound
to the material, with a very poor soul development, if any. They
are spirits from the lower earth planes.
I hope that I have answered the questions of our dear brother G___
thoroughly. I wish to repeat that much of what is told in connection
with near death experiences is due to extreme and pathological phenomena
of the brain, but that much also has a real base. We could say that
there is an alteration of real perceptions through the brain, modified
by expectations, by chemical and extreme pathological processes.
We have stated that in mediumship the brain may alter what mediums
perceive, introducing their own ideas. In a much more drastic way,
this is what happens at the moment of near death. Considering that
the mediums get prepared, and that they are in a state of relaxation,
even sometimes of trance, we may say that there are good probabilities
that the spirit's thoughts pass through in an acceptable way. In
near death experiences the accompanying factors are so unfavorable
that perceptions are practically always transmitted in a highly
altered way.
From what I have said we can conclude that this kind of study constitutes
a very shaky base for establishing reliable knowledge, but as most
scientists reject mediumship as an object of their studies, what
else should they do?
It is time to say goodbye now. Before leaving you, I would like
to say that all of you who work on behalf of the Kingdom and for
the spreading of the message of Love on earth are constantly surrounded
by spirits from the Celestial spheres. I wish that you could visualize
them, you would already feel like in Heaven right now.
With my deep-felt gratitude to all those who contribute to this
great work, I say goodbye and pray that the Father lets His immeasurable
blessings rain over you.
Judas,
a true follower of Jesus
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