A message from the afterlife

PSYCHICS, spirits, ghosts and the after life are always tricky issues to navigate due to the blinding lack of evidence.

Yet at the same time millions, if not billions of intelligent people the world over accept as fact such concepts as the world being created in seven days, virgin birth, resurrection, and heaven and hell.

But just because a lot of people believe the same thing, it doesn’t necessarily make it true. The vast majority once though the world was flat and those who said otherwise were persecuted.

The reason for majority acceptance of clearly ridiculous concepts is the peculiar human trait of believing what people in authority says is true. It starts with parents, who have in their turn been indoctrinated.

Then teachers, clergy, and governments take over, and by the time people reach adulthood, most of their future beliefs have already been set in stone.

Many break away from the programming but for the more rigid, to hear something different than what they have been taught to believe would literally shatter their world.

In fact ‘taught to believe’ is something that should set off alarm bells for any thinking person, whether it relates to themselves or others.

But in this world, alternative viewpoints are more often than not dismissed or ridiculed, when really what people need are lots of alternative viewpoints.

This might actually prompt them to seek out the truth, or the closest thing to it, for themselves.

Even if someone comes to the conclusion that nothing in this world makes sense and they no longer know what to believe, at least they have thought about it and reached their own conclusions.

But back to the unseen.

A new book was thrown across my path during the week. It is credited to three people, Paphos-based British expat Laurie James, his deceased mother Lilian Rose James, Wilf Truscott, a veteran psychic, and a fourth person, an editor who is a self-confessed lifelong atheist with a background in medicine and science.

The Chosen Spirit, which was published during the week on the internet and will be available in local bookshops within weeks, sets out to answer some 300 questions, with Lilian providing the answers from the spirit world.

Channeling, as it is known, is one of the more difficult psychic phenomena to accept because it is open to so much possible abuse.

First, someone must accept that the psychic is trustworthy. Secondly, the psychic must determine that his or her own source of information is trustworthy.

It could be said that the Bible, the Koran and many other religious scriptures are channeled material. Those who wrote it claimed God spoke through them, which today might seem as reason to be deemed mentally unbalanced. Yet many people just accept it as true.

The Chosen Spirit provides an alternative viewpoint for some of the world’s greatest myths, legends, ghost stories and Bible accounts.

There is no compulsion to accept any of the answers as given by Lilian James through Wilf Truscott, as true. But her son, Laurie James, has no doubts that it was his mother.

“I had to come to terms with the fact that I would never see her again, never talk to her again or have any contact whatsoever with her. Death was final or so I believed at the time. But I was so wrong,” he said.

“Religion is a silly human idea. There are no conflicts or beliefs on the other side and the name you call him [God] doesn’t matter one bit,” Lilian herself says sensibly in one of her answers.

Also, God doesn’t hear our prayers, Lilian says, Moses didn’t exist and Noah’s Ark actually sank. Oh, the irony. Jesus is given extensive coverage. There was no virgin birth, he wasn’t born in a stable or nailed to a cross, although he was crucified, and he didn’t rise from the dead, not in the flesh at least.

The book also provides alternatives as to how the pyramids were built, where Atlantis really is, the Loch Ness monster, UFOs, and a warning to steer clear of the Bermuda Triangle.

A section on famous people and criminals gives you a different perspective on what happened to King Tut, King Arthur and Lady Godiva, and in the 20th century, Anastasia, Princess Diana, Lord Lucan, Hitler and Jack the Ripper.

The Chosen Spirit also talks about the afterlife, how the spirit world works and the role of God in the wider universe. Although I found myself disagreeing with some of the answers given, I was prepared to consider that alternative possibilities might exist.

Lilian James passed on in 2005 and later started coming through when Wilf Truscott was consulting for other clients.

Why now? “Things have gotten so bad there is no time to lose,” is the message. The planet is in danger. Bridges will fall. There will be floods and fires. Reclaimed land will be taken back by the sea.

“It will be another ten years before world leaders start to realise what’s really happening. And you don’t have ten years available,” warns Lilian.

“The degree of destruction will be beyond dreadful. The spirit world too will be affected.”

By late 2008 the US will have more storms than ever before, she predicts. There will be chaos and earthquakes in places that never had them before. Many millions will die by drowning, fevers, starvation and plagues and the air will be too polluted to breathe.

The pumping of oil has lightened the earth and started to unbalance it as has the melting of the ice caps. “There is far worse, immeasurably worse to come. In 40 years, the earth will be so polluted that no one will be able to breathe,” she adds.

But it’s not all bad news. The other message is not to be afraid of death, and to do and say more kind things during life.

“The message is one of comfort,” wrote the atheist editor in the epilogue to the book. “Has the author just dreamed it up? It is possible but seems like a long option. The essential message is we humans must find a way to solve the problems swiftly or be prepared to suffer the consequences,” he adds.

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