Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.
—Abraham
Excerpted from: Asheville, NC on September 05, 1998
“The agreements are contracts entered into at soul level by all members of a family and other primary relationships in the lifetimes of everyone agreeing to be born into the shared experiencing. Both genetic and environmental influences are taken into account when the selection of parents takes place, as these are the foundations for the soul’s chosen lessons.”
“Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven,” P. 172, A Matthew Book with Suzanne Ward
“The experience of a severe physical shock is met with a correspondingly severe experience in spirit. That jolting of the etheric body, but not a total disconnection from the physical body, is the signal to the soul that it has the ability to leave the physical state and travel to the realm where it knows it has been before. Not always does the person have memory of previous visits here in dream state or in supraconscious moments, but there are those unique connections of the spirit that call forth this journey of the etheric body. The souls who make this journey have that near-death experience.
I have told you we know about the imminent arrivals by their distinctive and unmistakable energy blip identification mark. That same recognition is true of people in near-death experiencing. When their energy stream taps into the universal wavelengths, those who recognize it through love bonding respond instantly. That’s why family members or friends in this realm and angels or other spirits are waiting for them.
People in near-death experiences don’t enter by way of our welcoming and hospital stations. They are greeted at a special portal where the atmosphere is custom-created in accordance with their ideas of Heaven. We know what to manifest because the individual’s universal record is made available so that all aspects of the visit can have maximum benefit. So, however at variance with what actually is here the individuals’ belief systems decree what they will see during the short visit. That expectation may include the appearance of the founder of their religion. If so, it is achieved by holographic representation, and the Christed energy of this realm emanates the love that these visitors may attribute to that founder.
“The welcomers, who also may be called transition greeters, are the first to meet arrivals at our “regular” entry stations. They’re like hospitality people anywhere who assist newcomers, and they’re present in addition to family and friends on hand. Often emotional well-adjusted arrivals need only greeting and introduction to the realm. In this case, the welcomers describe the spectrum of the realm’s accommodations for their immediate needs, comfort and interests. Housing, food, studies, employment, social events, the realm’s governing system–all of that is explained prior to the administrators becoming involved in the actual logistics of helping the arrivals get settled. Our reception of every “arrival” is intensely personal, and all care is individualized for the specific needs of each.”
“Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven,” P. 146-7, A Matthew Book with Suzanne Ward
“Mother, the reception and care of arrivals is so crucial for people on Earth to know that I want to explain the entire process starting at the beginning, with what you call death and we call transition. When the physical body dies, there is an instantaneous adjustment in the electrical system of the etheric body so it can leave Earth intact and arrive in Nirvana already attuned to the higher frequency here. That adjustment is made in the lightning flash moment when the etheric body separates from the physical body and clothes the soul for its alignment on the way to that light passage often described as a tunnel in the ‘near death experience.’
There is absolutely NOTHING stressful or fearful about that journey! But it happens so quickly that the arrival’s memories of circumstances immediately prior to transition are as real upon entry here as they were when the person was experiencing those circumstances on Earth. The memories profoundly affect the arrival’s capacity to adjust to his etheric body, and when the memories are of traumatic experiences, a personalized and usually long healing process is required.”
“Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven,” P. 145-6, A Matthew Book with Suzanne Ward
This revolutionary book (also referred to as ACIM or the Course) was scribed and edited by Helen Schucman, with portions transcribed and edited by William Thetford. It contains a curriculum to bring about what it calls a “spiritual transformation.” The book consists of three sections entitled “Text,” “Workbook” and “Manual for Teachers.” Written from 1965 to 1972, some distribution occurred via photocopies before a hardcover edition was published in 1976 by the Foundation for Inner Peace. Schucman believed that the “inner dictation” came from Jesus.
Throughout the 1980s, annual sales of the book steadily increased each year; however the largest growth in sales occurred in 1992 after Marianne Williamson discussed the book on The Oprah Winfrey Show, with more than two million volumes sold. The book has been called everything from “New Age psychobabble”, “a Satanic seduction”, to “The New Age Bible”.
–From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia