Spiritual Questions- How does my guardian angel help me?According one theory, angel guardians connect with you and influence your thinking. This fascinating brief video (produced by spiritualwisdom.org.uk) shows how this might happen in the ordinary circumstances of our everday lives. Continue reading → […]
- Do I have a guardian angel?It would be nice to believe there is someone watching over you guarding against harm. But the sceptic will soon say this is just wishful thinking. Fairy godmothers are for children’s fairy tales like Cinderella and not for educated adults. … Continue reading → […]
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How does my guardian angel help me?
According one theory, angel guardians connect with you and influence your thinking. This fascinating brief video (produced by spiritualwisdom.org.uk) shows how this might happen in the ordinary circumstances of our everday lives. Continue reading
Do I have a guardian angel?
It would be nice to believe there is someone watching over you guarding against harm. But the sceptic will soon say this is just wishful thinking. Fairy godmothers are for children’s fairy tales like Cinderella and not for educated adults. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Cinderella, fairy godmothers, fairy tales, guardian angels, mythology, Phaedo, Plato, premonitions, protection from spirits, Psalm, Swedenborg, warnings
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Is there evidence of any life after death?
We have all heard about so-called communications purportedly from a spirit world through mediums. However, less well known are those where no other live person is involved. These have been called ‘after death communications’ (ADCs). An ADC is defined as … Continue reading
After I die will I meet and stay with my partner?
Poets sometimes voice a feeling that even death cannot break the bonds of love.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! And, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
(Sonnets from the Portugese XLIII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
But does love really transcend bodily death and do we ever meet our loved ones
again?
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What happens to children who die?
Judging by the popularity of the American fantasy television series Ghost Whisperer, many people would like to believe in death survival even if they haven’t made a jump of faith. Some are willing to talk privately about having felt a … Continue reading
Can we learn from mystics?
I recently started reading Hymn of the Universe by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whose words are said to be part of the treasury of mystical literature. I sensed here a heavenly perception of the warmth and light of the creative Spirit
“Over there, on the horizon, the sun has just touched with light, the outermost fringe of the eastern sky. Once again,
beneath this moving sheet of fire, the living surface of the earth wakes and trembles”
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Do ley lines exist?
Review of The Sun and the Serpentine by Paul Broadhurst and Hamish Miller.
Some matters talked about in new age circles are attractive for those who have a sense that there is a mystery to life. Two examples of topics that resonate are ley lines and dowsing – and they come together in this book. But do ley lines exist and does dowsing work?
Ley lines are alleged alignments of such places as ancient monuments and megaliths, ridge-tops and water-fords. It is claimed that these lines have spiritual power and that their intersection points resonate a special psychic or mystical energy.
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Tagged ancient sites, common feeling background, creative source, divination, dowsing, enlightenmnet, Hamish Miller, intuition, ley lines, mild mystic experience, mystery of life, mystical energy, mystical force, new age, Paul Broadhurst, psychic energy, rational mind, sacred sites, spiritual power, spiritual world, St Michael's line, Swedenborg, The Sun and the Serpent
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Can we tell the future?
To want to know the future is a perfectly natural desire. We pick up our ears when we hear of foretold events. Who would not want a few days foreknowledge of the stock market for example? A few incidents in the life of Emanuel Swedenborg suggest he had precognition. Continue reading
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Tagged Caroline Watt, divine providence, future, God, going with the flow, Harvey Irwin, John Wesley, knowledge of the future, Moravian Brethren, parapsychological research, precognitive dreams, psychic powers, psychic realm, spiritual world, stock market, stream of providence, Swedenborg, symbols in dreams, Van Dusen, worry
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Are my inner voices real?
Joe Simpson, whilst climbing on the West Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, fell from high up on the mountain and was left for dead. Frostbitten and slowly freezing to death he recovered consciousness to realize he had … Continue reading
What’s life after death like?
In the post Is there an afterlife? I pointed to a similarity between Swedenborg’s reports of his psychic experiences and numerous accounts of the near death experience. There are also striking similarities between what various modern mediums have said concerning … Continue reading
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Tagged Astral, being of light, character, heaven, Hindu, life after death, mediums, nde, near death experience, procreation, projection, psychics, punishment, self-evaluation, soul body, spirits, Swedenborg, Upanishads
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Is there an after-life?
A young man was skating on the local reservoir and fell through the ice. As he approached hypothermia, he could hardly move. He went down in silence his lifeless arms floating above his head. He then stopped feeling afraid and … Continue reading
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Tagged after-life, bodily sensation, consciousness, death, Dr Moody, hospice, nde, near death experience, space, spirit body, spirits, Swedenborg, time
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Contacting a spirit guide
Some one said ‘I need a hand getting in touch with my spirit guide, I have been trying for a few years now and seem to be getting no where.’
So why might this be? What are the reasons why a spirit guide might and might not be contactable?
Psychology of the Future
by Stanislav Grof, Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology, State University of New York Press. 2000. ISBN 0 7914 4622
This book is about modern consciousness research. It is written by one of the founders of transpersonal psychology and covers his ideas regarding non-ordinary states of consciousness. His term for these is ‘holotropic’ experience which signifies ‘moving towards wholeness.’ His discussion draws on for example such fascinating human states of consciousness as past-life experiences, peak experiences, communication with spirit guides and channelling, near-death experiences, crises of shamans like witch-doctors, states of possession, and awakening of Kundalini. He also reports findings from his original research into ‘psychedelic therapy’ and ‘holotropic breathwork’.
One critic has commented ‘If more psychiatrists could be persuaded that human consciousness transcends the limitations of the physical brain and instead is but an aspect of what may best be described as ‘cosmic consciousness,’ we could not only expect treatment modalities to change, but we could also anticipate the possibility of culture-wide rethinking … about the nature of personhood.’
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Tagged afterlife, brain, breathwork, consciousness, divine source, future, Grof, holotropic, organic disease, psychedelic, psychiatry, psychology, psychospiritual, religion, research, science, shaman, spirits, spiritual phisilosophy, spiritual questions, spiritual world, spirituality, Swedenborg, therapy, transpersonal, unconscious
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The Unbelievable Truth
By Gordon Smith, 2004 Published by Hay House, Inc
There have been many books written by psychics on spirit consciousness but this has got to be one of the more credible. Gordon Smith has been hailed as Britain’s most accurate medium. I saw him the other day at a theatre in Birmingham and clearly the audience were astonished at the detailed factual information he gave that was confirmed by the individuals he was talking to.
Of course our western culture tends to be sceptical about anything that is not rationally understood and claims such as those by Smith are highly contentious within the world of science. Having said that many people nevertheless embrace paranormal beliefs. Gallup has conducted several polls and find that about three-quarters of the American population believe in the one or more paranormal processes.
The author comments on how amazing it is to watch the reaction on someone’s face when a certain piece of evidence comes through from the other side. It can put a light back on in a person’s life. Continue reading
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Tagged altered states, Christian, consciousness, dead, death, evil, Gordon Smith, hauntings, heaven, hell, life after death, medium, mediums, paranormal, poltergeists, psychic, psychics, punishment, spirit, spirits, spiritualist, Swedenborg
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