Below is some of my philosophy and teachings that I have received through the years from spirit. They have helped me to gain a greater understanding of life. I hope they will enlighten you and help you in your own personal soul's growth.
Circle of life'
If you can imagine a piece of cake, now cut this cake up into pieces, each piece is a different life, we shall call this cake the circle of life's.
So you shall have to keep reincarnating, each time going back to the spirit world then coming back to the earth plane.
In each life you will need to experience many things, being rich- poor, male-female, pass over young or old with different conditions or ailments, the loss of a loved one-lose a loved one, the list goes on and on.
One thing you will have to bear in mind is opposites. it's all around us yin-yan, right-wrong, yes-no, positive-negative etc.
The reason why we need to experience all these things is once we have completed our circle of life's (which will take many lives/years) then you may become a higher guide and help us poor souls here on the earth plane. Anyone of us can read a book and say "well I know that feeling now" but do you really unless at first hand you have felt that experience? How can a higher guide advise us if that guide does not know how to deal with a situation?
So you see, the next time we go back to the spirit world we shall view this current life and past lives and see what is left for us to achieve in our next life. Then we shall plan our next life, just as we did this life. I hear you saying "How come I don't remember what I planned to achieve in this life?" Simple, if you did you would swerve all the negative situations in favour of the positive situations. But then you would have a whole host of negative situations that you will have to achieve at some time during your lives.
But you see you do sometimes remember. I know that we have all had deja-vu, how many times have you been to a place and said to yourself "I've been here before" or speaking to someone and you knew exactly word for word what that person was going to say at exactly that time? That is the time you do remember. It may only be for a split second, but as I have already pointed out you don't really want to know everything as you will change situations.
You will plan to have positive and negative experiences in your life (remember yin-yan etc?) But please bear in mind that although you have planned a negative experience soon after there comes a positive experience. Again how many times have you been in a very dark place, and you feel it is the end of the world? But then soon after, maybe six months or a year later you look back and see that you are in a much better place. Full of hope and glory, with things falling at your feet. You planned to have the negative soon followed by a positive.
We have to remember that no one told us life was easy, but then the earth plane is our training ground. We have all chosen to come to Mother Earth to experience all manner of different emotions and experiences, good or bad.
This philosophy has been taught to me by the spirit world, and has helped me to find the light during difficult times in my own life. I hope it will do the same for you.
Reincarnation
All too often I am asked how reincarnation works. Please allow me to explain my belief on this subject.
When we pass over to the Spirit World it will be our choice when we wish to reincarnate back to the Earth Plane. We may wish to basque in the tranquillity and harmony before we decide to come back. More often than not we will want to be looking over our loved ones friends and family, guiding and loving just the same as when we were in our temporary body.
This to me makes perfect sense, how else would I be able to pass on messages from your loved ones in Spirit. To go one step further, if you can imagine a Nan or Granddad who have passed over will be passing messages to those they have left behind, now when the recipients pass over, that will leave the door open for Nan and Granddad to reincarnate, and for recipients to the be able to pass on messages to their Grandchildren. So the process goes on and on.
Furthermore, you all will find that close family members will want to be one of your guides. As I have already said, my Granddad is my guide. There is nothing to say that I am the only one to be honoured with this gift from above.
2012 / change
I believe we are living in a time of great change.
There is much hype about 2012 coming closer and the effects this may have upon us all.
The conversations I am having with spirit is that we are shifting our train of thought towards others and indeed the whole world, unity is coming. We all are wishing for peace to come, whether that be in our personal lives, or through the torment of war.
Moving on from this, in my line of work I'm seeing and feeling a lot of lost souls, lonely people, searching for happiness, but not sure where to find that.
Unfortunately we live in a society where we think "I'll go and buy a new TV" or "That new car I've always wanted". These may bring temporary happiness, but that's it, soon we end up right back where we started.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a preacher and I don't confess to be able to give you the answers. But by my pointing out the fundamental basics I'm laying a seed for you, because the answer has to come from within, the real you.
Unfortunately I do see us all wearing a mask, doing the same as everyone else because we think that's the 'done thing', which again leads us back to searching for something. Just because something works well for someone else, doesn't mean it will work for us. We are all different in our own special way. If everyone was the same how boring would that be?
My point is it's really you, it's the inner you that you should be searching. You hold the answers to your own happiness.
Please don't view this as a negative approach to life. I personally feel this is a great time for us all. A time to search within and find your own true happiness. Then that way we can manifest our inner happiness to others around us and indeed the world.
It is proven that we only use five per cent of our brain, that's a whopping ninety five per cent of our brain power that we don't use!! I believe that from 2012 we will start to realise how we can use that ninety five per cent for the good of Mother Earth and Mankind as a whole. A great shift is about to happen. More of us are starting to realise and accept that there is more to life than meets the eye.
Quantum Physic Scientists are starting to make the connection with our consiousness and will help us to realise just what good we can do to others and ourselves. They have already made the discovery that what we think or feel goes out to the Universal Matrix and comes right back to where we "aim" those thoughts and feelings to be. These are teachings that have been recognised for Centuries by many different Spiritual Organisations. As I have already said a unity is at last coming together, and I strongly believe it will be for the good of mankind.
Personal communication
Spirit are becoming so much stronger at present, a great shift is happening. It's down to our refreshed interest in spirit and spirituality. We are all after our own connection with our spiritual family in the spirit world. This in turn is making spirit that much stronger.
We are starting to know and realise when our spirit family are with us. They may do things like play with our hair or tickle our nose, flicker a light bulb, or change a TV channel (normally while we are watching something of interest to us, but not to them). Children in spirit are the most mischievous of them all. You may find a set of keys in the bathroom and wonder "How did they get there?" That's a typical cheeky child at work.
There are many reasons why spirit communicate to us in this way. Firstly if they were to stand in front of us most people would end up running to the other side of the world! And secondly, how else would they gain our attention? They would love to communicate through speech, but unfortunately not all of us can hear spirit. Thankfully though you have mediums who work very hard for them and you to pass on messages.
I've heard some people getting weary of spirit visiting them. I say " What do you do while walking the earth plain?" You look after your friends, family and loved ones. Therefore why should it be any different when we go back to the spirit world? We would still want to be doing exactly the same then as we do now.
Your loved ones in spirit are trying so hard to make us aware of their presence around us.
Let me add though, please, please do ask your loved ones for protection before you open the door to anyone paying a visit. You may ask any of your spirit family to protect you, and try to vision yourself surrounded by a clear orb.
And above all enjoy the connection you have with your spirit family, as much as they enjoy keeping that connection with you.
Orbs
There is much speculation about spirit orbs. Some people are saying that it is camara trickery, or where the light catches the lens, others just don't want to believe.
Two points I would like to make.
Firstly regardless of what is being shown to us on pictures, we, ourselves are seeing orbs, colours and wisps with our own eyes. Now you'll excuse me but where is the trickery in that? We are seeing them without even looking for them. I find at times when we have either asked spirit for help or guidance, or when we just need to know we are not alone. That's spirit saying they are there with us.
Secondly we are all moving with the times. Technology as a whole is moving rapidly along. Spirit is doing exactly the same. It makes sense that they are using the digital age to communicate with us. Spirit knows more than we do what we are up to and where we are going, either personally or worldly as a whole.
If you are lucky enough to catch an orb or whatever on a photo, treasure it it's your spiritual family communicating with you.
Links:
Keith Thompson
The Spirit Messenger magazine