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• Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Vol 4, Spalding: "[The Masters say reincarnation] is not necessary... They say that if there is a light placed in the center of the room, the best way to reach that light is to go straight to it. Why circle around it time after time? If you go directly to that light ... you are through with all reincarnation and karma completely. It is only man's failure to go direct to the central point or fact of life that keeps him in the 'wheel of incessant grind.' If he will accept the central fact, which is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, he will have arrived and all his going round and round will have ... come to an end."

Brian Weiss, MD, Many Lives, Many Masters: "When we arrive [on the Other Side], we're burned out... We decide when we want to return, where, and for what reasons. Some choose not to come back. They choose to go on to another stage of development. And they stay in spirit form ... some for longer than others before they return. It is all growth and learning ... continuous growth. [question] 'Is learning in the physical state faster? Are there reasons that people don't stay in the spiritual state?' [answer] 'No. Learning in the spiritual state is much faster, far accelerated from that in the physical state. But we choose what we need to learn. If we need to come back to work through a relationship, we come back. If we are finished with that, we go on .'"

• Upanishads: "A man acts according to the desires to which he clings. After death he goes to the next world bearing in his mind the subtle impressions of his deeds; and, after reaping there the harvest of those deeds, he returns again to this world of action. Thus he who has desire continues subject to rebirth. He who lacks discrimination, whose mind is unsteady and whose heart is impure, never reaches the goal, but is born again and again. But he who has discrimination, whose mind is steady and whose heart is pure, reaches the goal and, having reached it, is born no more ." 

• Lord Dowding, Many Mansions: "[Frederic] Myers teaches that The Third Sphere (or Summerland) is in fact a sphere of Illusion inhabited for long or short periods by souls whose mentalities are still dominated by Earth-conditions. The scenery and the flora and fauna are all similar to those of the earth, but more sublimated, and with the difference that the struggle for existence is no longer operative and souls can gratify every harmless wish... In this effortless and purposeless existence, no real progress is made, and the soul whose desires are predominately animal, soon yearns for further existence in heavy matter and is reincarnated... But the soul who is more spiritually inclined passes upward into the Fourth Sphere and thenceforward progresses continuously without any further individual reincarnation ."

• Gary Renard, The Disappearance of The Universe: " What happens is that the awe [of living in Summerland] eventually wears off because the unconscious guilt [not having been released through forgiveness] that is still within the mind starts to catch up with you. This causes you to reincarnate as a way of escaping your guilt and your fear of God. This always happens to you eventually, unless your mind has been completely healed by the Holy Spirit."

• see Editor's notes on reincarnation

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• Albert Einstein: "It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware."

• Edward Young: "Seems it strange that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all?"

• F.W.H. Myers: Speaking from the Other Side through a medium, Myers laments his difficulty in transmitting a message: "The nearest simile I can find to express the difficulty of sending a message is that I appear to be standing behind a sheet of frosted glass, which blurs and deadens sound, dictating feebly to a reluctant and somewhat obtuse secretary."

• Miles Allen, Heaven Confirmed: The Most Compelling Evidence Yet Compiled For The Survival Of Your Soul: If we all originally came from God; if we at some point in the distant past wandered from Home; then, eventually, in the next life, as we reach higher levels of spirituality, we "will overcome the forgetfulness that now makes [us] feel separate and alone." We will not only remember who we were in past lives, a kind of merging, in "successive stages, at each of which you will realize a continually grander you... you will come to remember that you and other souls are, and always have been, one soul... there will come a time when we both remember that we are each other... There will never be any diminishment of your personality, no loss of your sense of self ... just continued merging with more and more parts of you, gaining more and more memories, until, at long last, all of our journeys are complete. Until we remember being All That Is... [but, even then] you will still remember being you."

• Charlotte Dresser, Life Here And Hereafter (1927): transcribed by Dresser, words sent from the Other Side: "I am wishing to tell those on earth, who are struggling to learn what is the meaning of life, that it is the way one looks at it that determines its value. If one thinks of it as a time of sensuous enjoyment, one makes his life a thing of little worth, for such things have no value in the spirit world. If one looks at life as something to be endured and to be gotten through as soon as possible, he will form a character that has nothing to rest on here. He will have to create new foundations before he can advance. If one there believes that life consists in praying and preaching, that spirit is apt to want to pray and preach here; and in this world there are no churches or congregations to respond as they did there, and the spirit has to learn that there are other things to acquire before the true life can be enjoyed. When a soul on earth can realize that there are others there who need assistance, who will be the better for aid and sympathy, and can learn to feel that this aid and sympathy can be given by himself, he is on the way to create the life that will mean the most to him when his mortal life is over."

• Victor Zammit: http://victorzammit.com:

SKEPTIC CONVERTED: Professor Hyslop, a one time skeptic, was converted to accepting the afterlife by American gifted medium Mrs. L. Piper after she repeatedly produced high quality evidence for the afterlife. In Life After Death (1918) he wrote, “I regard the existence of discarnate spirits as scientifically proved and I no longer refer to the skeptic as having any right to speak on the subject. Any man who does not accept the existence of discarnate spirits and the proof of it is either ignorant or a moral coward. I give him short shrift, and do not propose any longer to argue with him on the supposition that he knows anything about the subject.”

XENOGLOSSY (speaking in a foreign language never learnt or heard before) - another area of objective evidence for the existence of the afterlife. Dr. Morris Netherton reports one case of a blond, blue-eyed eleven-year-old boy, who under hypnosis was taped for eleven minutes as he spoke in an ancient Chinese dialect. When the tape was taken to a professor at the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of California , it turned out to be a recitation from a forbidden religion of Ancient China (Fisher 1986:202).

AUTHOR LYALL WATSON describes a case of a ten-year-old child, an Igarot Indian living in the remote Cagayon Valley in the Philippines. The child had never had any contact with any language or culture other than his own. Yet under trance conditions the child communicated freely in Zulu, a language he could not have even heard. Watson only recognized it because he had spent his early life in Africa (Lazarus 1993:84).

AN EMINENT AMERICAN LAWYER Edward C Randall, in his brilliant book The French Revelation includes actual speeches made by direct voice from afterlife entities through his medium Mrs. French. Read this most exquisite afterlife glimpse about who they are: “We are moral, intellectual, and sensitive creatures. Instead of being, as you may imagine, more shadowy and unsubstantial entities, we are possessed of definite, tangible, and exquisitely symmetrical forms, with well-rounded and graceful limbs, and yet so light and elastic that we can glide through the atmosphere with almost electrical speed. The forked lightnings may flash, and the thunders roll in awful reverberation along the vault of heaven, and the rain descend in gushing torrents, but we can stand unharmed by your side. We are endowed with all the beauty, loveliness, and vivacity of youth, and are clothed in flowing vestments of effulgent nature suited to the peculiar degree of refinement of our bodies. Our raiment being composed of phosphorescent principles, we have the power of attracting and absorbing or reflecting the rays evolved, according as our condition is more or less developed. This accounts for our being seen by clairvoyants in different degrees of brightness, from a dusky hue to an intensity of brilliant light.”

GIORDANO BRUNO: Church leaders must accept the empirical evidence for the afterlife. Why? Giordano Bruno was a scientist martyr who was burnt at the stake for promoting the Copernican heliocentric view of the solar system: "...that it is the earth which revolves around the sun, not as the Church taught for over a thousand years that the sun revolved around the earth and that the earth is in the center of the universe.” Below is an example of why the Church should be extremely careful about releasing information about scientific discoveries it does not want to accept: CARDINAL BELLARMINO stated from Rome: “If the Copernican theory is true, it would be the absolute undoing of the Bible and the destruction of the Church. If the Earth is only one of many planets and not the center of the universe, and other planets are inhabited, the whole plan of salvation fails, since the inhabitants of the other spheres are without the Bible and Christ did not die for them.” Scientists, empiricists and educated Catholics now know how critical it is for the Vatican to be extremely careful– especially when these days afterlife science is saying that we do NOT stay unconscious in limbo until Jesus comes back to judge the living and the dead. On crossing over, the decent folk continue with their lives IMMEDIATELY. Click on 4th Edition of the BOOK on chapter 28 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE.

• Star Trek TNG, episode #28, “Where Silence Has Lease” (1988):

Data:  What is death?

Picard:  … Well, Data, you’ve asked, probably, the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to, then, maintain that form in an earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure throughout all eternity. On the other hand, there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness – that all of our experiences, hopes, and dreams are merely a delusion.

Data:  Which do you believe, sir

Picard:  Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe; its clockwork perfection; its balance of this against that; matter, energy, gravitation, time, and dimension – I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies; that what we are goes beyond Euclidean or other practical measuring systems, and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.

• Seneca: "One should count each day a separate life."

• Dr. Fred Hoyle: “When science begins the study of non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the centuries of its experience.”

• Victor Zammit: http://victorzammit.com: April 13, 2007: "My twenty years or so of afterlife research tells me that on crossing over absolutely nothing changes in our character, intellect and personality. That is also evidenced by those who come through as visitors in our Sunday night materializations experiments in Sydney, Australia. For example, Houdini is still fairly brash, dominating even supercilious; exactly as he was when he was on earth some eighty years ago. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s personality appears not have changed. So was Archbishop Cosmo Lange’s personality judging from the time he spent with us one Sunday night. The only way to increase one’s vibrations either on earth or in the afterlife dimension is by making a contribution to others – opening the heart and being unselfish.We are credibly informed from intelligences from the afterlife that in the afterlife dimension where there is no pressure for food, clothing and shelter, one could stay spiritually static and in the same realm for hundreds, perhaps even for thousands of years. Those who do selfless service while alive seem to be at a huge advantage when they cross over- the habit of caring for others carries on and they make rapid progress. That's how one gets a 'better deal' on crossing over... As already stated, just because one crosses over one does not become omniscient and infallible. Far from it. Nothing changes. There are those who crossed over and came through direct voice medium Emily French arguing that they were still alive and that there is NO AFTERLIFE."

• Joni Mitchell, Both Sides, Now: [Editor's note: I cannot believe how incredibly poetic, how beautiful these lyrics are.]

Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As ev'ry fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way...

 

• Silver Birch: "The plan of life is very simple. You come from spirit, incarnating into matter to obtain the experiences you need to enable you to come to our world equipped for the tasks and the joys that await you. The equipment is obtained in your world. That is where you learn the lessons that prepare you for the life after school. If you do not learn the lessons, then you are not educated, not ready for what comes next."

• Mons. Hugh Benson: former Catholic priest, now in the afterlife transmitting information to medium Anthony Borgia: "… death-bed repentances are of no avail, since the majority of them are but cowardice born of fear of what is about to happen – a fear of the theologically-built eternal hell that is such a useful weapon in the ecclesiastical armoury, and one that perhaps has caused more suffering in its time than many other erroneous doctrines. Creeds, therefore, do not form any part of the world of spirit, but because people take with them all their characteristics into the spirit world, the fervid adherents to any particular religious body will continue to practice their religion in the spirit world until such time as their minds become spiritually enlightened. We have here, so my friend informed me – I have since seen them for myself - whole communities still exercising their old earthly religion. The bigotry and prejudices are there, religiously speaking. They do not harm, except to themselves, since such matters are confined to themselves. There is no such thing as making converts here!”