Masters of the Spirit World

QUESTION: Masters, I was in a group of Spiritists for approximately 2 years and its over for me now. Now I like more to read and follow the teachings of the Masters, Angels and Archangels that I read in spiritual channeling, however, I can’t leave this former life behind. Still have any lesson for me to learn about that? And about the channeling process, I could do it some in the past; however I have a fear that it was only my mind talking to me. Can you validate if this experience was a communication with the elevated beings or was really my mind? ~Anderson, Brazil

ANSWER: All souls bring to themselves things they wish to experience. Your spiritual journey exposed you to the energies of Spiritualism, and while the individual practices of the group you joined did not resonate well with you, the energy you were exposed to opened your connection with the nonphysical world and helped you develop possibilities.

There are many ways to learn about your abilities and many available teachers from whom to learn, both through writings and in person. No particular direction is better than any other. The importance is to “feel” that which vibrates in the same fashion as you at any one time. It is not necessary to pick one direction and never vary from the course. Life is a series of changes and switchbacks. Don’t be afraid to sample.

When you meditate and receive communication from your guides and your higher self (soul), this is a form of channeling. The spirits are ready to assist you with advice for living. Beings of the light will never tell you what to do, but they will let you see the alternatives.

Channeling is quieting your thinking mind – shutting it down completely – so that your thoughts do not influence the messages you hear. Since spirits are not in physical form, they do not have voice boxes; they cannot talk to you in a different voice, so you hear them in your head.

Your higher self brings memories and wisdom you have previously gained and makes you aware of them once again. Of course, something originating from your own unconsciousness comes to you through what you perceive as your own thoughts. You have the ability to make these connections. Trust in yourself that what you are hearing is what the truth is for you. Test its validity by the way the answers make you feel.

All of these experiences provide a system of beliefs by which you may continue to learn and grow, but if they ever stop working for you, discard them and move on.

QUESTION: Masters, I am so incredibly lonely. Not me, and not us as a small family are able to create a good life with friends and positive relationships. All we experience is sporadic encounters, and after – it seems like the other people just forget we are here. I think right now we could just die and nobody would notice it. I have no idea of how to choose the positive alternative and gain spiritual wisdom from this. I don’t know what the lesson is here. I have looked at my feelings of not good enough, and not deserving, but this doesn’t change this issue. I would appreciate some light on this matter so I can go forward. ~Anne, Norway

ANSWER: Your difficulties do stem from the way you feel about yourself. Your feeling of being unworthy of other people’s trust and attention, your low self-image, and your lack of confidence all prevent you from being able to fit in with others around you.

Once you have established a connection with someone, you shift all the focus onto them to maintain the association. You feel once you have joined some group, it is up to them to make the next move. It is almost like when you went to school, you got yourself there but then left all decisions and directions up to the teacher and took no responsibility whatsoever for bolstering or enhancing the experience.

When you sit idly by and expect your newly acquainted friends to initiate all further contact, they get the idea you don’t really want to know them and be friends with them because you have nothing to contribute to the union. You must be proactive. You have to call them and plan to go for coffee or a stroll.

You and those you come in contact with are all the same. All souls broke off from Source energy and have the same powers and abilities. One of those is total freedom of choice. In your case, the choices involve how you wish to interact with others.

You need to start with seeing yourself as a magnificent piece of Source. You have had previous experiences that you can share with others, but it all starts with loving yourself for everything you have been able to endure. When you step back and get out of the fear that you have drawn to yourself, choose to embrace happiness in being free to join with others. Get rid of all the negative expectations of failure to which you have been clinging.

QUESTION: Masters at the kitchen table, when babysitting us children, my Grandma Clara use to tell us the story of how her father had murdered her mother when she was 9. She left home at 14 to go work, as did her sisters. Because I heard it as a child, I never thought to question it. In adulthood I realized the implications of what she said. Years later I discover that my great grandmother had died of pancreatitis, and Clara was 15 not 9. My sister Marilyn said our grandmother never told that story. My childhood memory was concrete, no fantasy. In discussions we sisters have suggested that perhaps I was living in slightly different dimensions than the current one, in growing up, and perhaps heard the stories in one of them. My sister DJ suggested I actually heard my Clara’s thoughts about her mother’s death, telepathically. What is the reality? ~Margaret, USA

ANSWER: At the time Clara was sitting for you she had many memories of her childhood, and each one was a slightly different version of the truth. She felt abandoned by her parents and wished to assign blame to them for her feelings. Her mother was sickly from when Clara was about 9, so that was when her world started to fall apart. She always identified more with you than your sisters, so she “confided” her fearful memories to you and not to them.

Clara was a dreamer and had a vivid imagination and she drew you into the alternative line of thought, which made her a tragic survivor of a chaotic childhood. You could be very brooding as a child, and this fed into Clara’s feelings since she identified with this type of energy. In the intensity that you relished, you were sucked into this negative substitute for the reality she actually experienced.

Your sisters were more carefree and didn’t want to partake in anything that wasn’t fuzzy and soft and happy. Clara’s negative vibes went right over their heads as they played with their toys; you sat raptly attentive. In your sharing a part of Clara’s imaginings of her youth, you were able to help her see the way she thought things were as a nice story and something of which she could let go.

Reality is different for every person. It depends on what you accept as factual to you and how you interpret your position within that situation. When you have a dream that replays a movie you have seen or a story you have read and places you as a character therein, does that then become reality for you? Yes, to the degree you feel it is a part of your existence.

Let what resonates and feels right to you be accepted as a part of you. Don’t get hung up on what others seek to claim as their reality. You are seeing things from your own perspective.