Trance-Scriptions: The collected Soul Group Messages sessions

Number X, Part 1: A fascinating trance session explaining why communicating with souls on Earth is so difficult for evolved spirits from the higher dimensions.

Following on from the previous session about the potential pitfalls for people on Earth attempting to communicate with the spiritual realms and the importance of having the right motive before seeking that contact, this fascinating address is from the opposite perspective – explaining why it is so difficult for spirits from the higher dimensions to make and maintain a connection with people on the Earth plane.

Notes:

This soul group communication was originally filmed as a ‘live’ trance demonstration in 2022. In the transcript that follows, some minor adjustments have been made involving the transposition of the occasional word and the removal of small repetitions of phrases which are the norm in the spoken word but less appropriate in a written version. 

Soul Group Messages – X (part 1).

Spirit Communicator: Jane’s Mandarin Guide – ‘The Chinese Gentleman’

Michael:

The first communicator today is Jane’s guide who always comes through as a Mandarin Chinese gentleman, and he has been around me for a couple of days. I know broadly the theme that he is going to talk on and I find it fascinating, but I always stop myself short of bringing through the entire length of the information until such time as they can take me over. So, I know the first couple of lines of what he is going to say roughly but I know he will expand on that, and I hope it is fascinating to you – it certainly is to me. So, if you bear with me for a moment, I’d like to allow this gentleman to move closer, and he has a great sense of humour with a twinkle in his eye and it is very uplifting to be able to connect with him. He wants to explain something that perhaps many people wonder about today – and that is why often the soul group will say that it is difficult to get through to us and that they can only operate for a certain amount of time before having to withdraw from this level.

The Chinese Gentleman:

I want to talk about your thoughts. I want to talk about how, perhaps when you are watching television or working on your computer or sitting down to a meal, you will – from your point of view – think that you are relatively still and focused. That’s not the case! You have around you that is part of you, an auric field and that aura is moving. The colours within it move but also you have within it, because of the many thoughts that you think and the many attractions you make via your thoughts, you have a number of different vibrations and those different vibrations, in the normal course of things during your normal day and night, are vying for position – dependent on the thoughts that you have at any one moment.

So, from our point of view looking at your aura, we don’t just see a moving sphere of colours – we also see a moving sphere of attractive vibrations because your subconscious is constantly flitting from situation to situation, from state of being to state of being. In other words, at one moment you will feel happy …the next moment you will feel doubtful about something …the next moment you will feel worried …the next moment you will feel angry …and you are drawing from your past and your present all the time subconsciously little snippets of information that influence your mood.

Now, those snippets of information are circling in your aura. So, even at the times when you feel you are still, there is this maelstrom of thoughts swirling around in your aura as you select various thoughts from your central point (which, as a human being, is around your heart) that relate to your past and your present …and change your mood and your perception. Those thoughts swirl into position around your heart from the maelstrom of thought that is contained within your aura. It is like watching a merry-go-round with a projector at its centre. You are the ‘projector’ and you are causing the merry-go-round of thought.

This is why we advise you to become still through meditation – to become properly still spiritually because, if you sit in a chair and watch television, you are not still – the circular movement of these thoughts is still going on within your aura. If you go for a walk, you are not still because you are taking with you your subconscious and conscious thinking and those thoughts are being presented to you from this circular motion within your aura.

Only when you decide to meditate and focus your mind and your heart, do you truly become still and the movement within your aura calms down.

When you are on Earth, it never calms down to a complete stop but it becomes slow enough for us to reach into that central point – that ‘projector’ and that ‘receiver’ – and to say: ‘Look, we are here. We can get through to you. We can contact you. We can communicate with you.’ And that might sound like a simple proposition now that I have explained it, but you also have to understand that your aura is circling, as you live on Earth, within the aura of humanity …within the sentient Field of human consciousness.

Imagine for a moment the sentient Field of human consciousness that has had poured into it the moving, predominant tendencies of humankind. So, at any one moment, there is within the Field of humanity millions of different vibrations …most of them negative …most of them harmful from a spiritual perspective …most of them chaotic …most of them random. And each of you as a human being – a spirit in ‘human clothing’ – has this personal aura with thoughts and dominant tendencies circling within it and then [smiling] those auras mingle with the greater aura of the Field of humanity that has billions of thoughts swirling around in it, circling.

So, for us trying to communicate with you – trying to revisit this lower frequency of vibration in order to make our presence known, we have to first penetrate the Field of humanity. What a task! [Smiling] I can only try and explain it in a visual to you.

Imagine that you are stepping from a train platform onto a moving train …but that moving train is not going in a straight line – it is spiralling. And, once you are on that moving train, other trains are coming at you from all sides …from top …bottom …sides …behind you …in front of you; and they are colliding with you and you have to avoid them. And then, within this moving train that is being hit by other moving trains, you have to find your contact and your contact has this merry-go-round effect within their aura. So, you have to maintain your position on the moving train but also put one foot on the merry-go-round and then you have to attempt to connect – whilst you are doing this balancing act – with the spirit at the centre of this merry-go-round of thought …and present clarity of thought and concept and clear communication to them!

Now, does that explain why it is so difficult for us to communicate with you? One of the questions that is asked is: ‘Why can I not see spirits? Why can I not communicate with spirits? If you are there, why can we not communicate with you?’ …Because it is dreadfully difficult for us to do so. We are a ‘balancing act’ in trying to communicate with you.

And of late (and we mentioned this at several points during the communication of the Joseph Communications) the Earth has stepped down in vibration as a result of the negativity that is around you all at the moment -as a result of you accepting what is material and rejecting what is spiritual. And so, the ‘moving train’ is moving faster …the ‘trains’ that are colliding with it are moving faster …your personal aura is moving faster. And, from our point of view where our vibration has to be slowed before we can even step off the ‘platform’ on our side, it is an exhausting business attempting to communicate with you and to maintain balance. Our energies become exhausted and we have to step back off that moving ‘train’. We have to jump back onto the ‘platform’ and retreat from your vibrations so that we can replenish ourselves, so that we can get on with our lives in our particular spheres and so that we can communicate with you at a later ‘date’, as you would measure it.

You make our job easier when you truly become still.

We still have to get onto the ‘moving train’ but you are easier to identify, you are easier to lock into and you are far easier to communicate with because we don’t have to fight your personal aura of thoughts in order to get through to you.

Meditation is perhaps a dirty word for many people and yet it is vital that you meditate and slow your vibration and slow those thoughts if you truly want to be of use to us as a spiritual worker on Earth and if you truly want to understand more about the spiritual aspects of life. Because, in disciplining yourself in this way and in doing it daily and in doing it regularly, you open yourself up as a channel to our connection. It is still difficult for us and it is difficult for you, but it is less difficult because you have made your own personal world more accessible to us.

So, I hope my little discourse today has illustrated why it seems so difficult for us to communicate …why we tell you that it is difficult for us to communicate with you …why we can only do it for a limited period …and why, if we are communicating through Michael, it is again a limited period. He has learned to slow his aura to almost a stop so that we can connect with him, but we have to push back the ‘moving trains’ that are around him and we work as a team. We have to push back the chaos of the Field of humanity and specific souls do this so that, in this example today, I can concentrate on a communication that is maintained, is coherent and makes sense. And then we have to collapse all that (as I am about to do because the next speaker wishes to speak) in order to withdraw successfully from Michael, and then the Field closes in around him and he is returned to the chaos that is around each of you.  

I would invite you… the whole point of my discourse this morning is to invite you:

1. To understand the difficulties that we have increasingly at this time in getting through to you, in bringing through the Light to you, in bringing through higher communications to you.
2. To urge you to consider disciplining yourself and becoming an effective meditator.

When you effectively meditate, when you focus your head-mind on the heart, when you focus your heart-mind on higher values and higher concepts – then you become of great use to us and you become of great use to yourself, because we can not only channel in communication but we can channel in higher vibrations – healing vibrations, for example – vibrations that will identify you on a subconscious level to others as a ‘Light’ that they can trust and come to for advice, for enlightenment, for upliftment …and these things are in short supply at the moment on Earth.

So, thank you for listening to me. I have throughout this communication tried to impart joy and humour and upliftment through my words and through my vibration, and I hope that this will come across when eventually this discourse is made available to you in filmed format.

I now wish to hand over to your second speaker today. So, I will withdraw with great gratitude for you allowing me to speak and I will speak to you, hopefully, again in the near future.

To be continued in Soul Group Messages X (part 2)…

Trance-Scriptions: The collected Soul Group Messages sessions

Number IX, Part 2: An evolved spirit asks us to consider the ‘two doors’ we can approach when seeking spiritually, also offering refreshing observations regarding life and death.

It’s the midway point in this trance communication and, having delivered a detailed address concerning spirit guides and guidance (please refer to Soul Group Messages Nine, Part One for a full transcription), the Persian Gentleman now steps to one side in order to allow a new speaker from the soul group to take ‘centre stage’ and present us with additional higher vibrational insights.

This further sharing of soul-group wisdom begins with a stressing of the urgent need for more Light-workers currently, at the same time cautioning all who seek to connect with non-corporeal vibrations to thoroughly examine and fully understand their motives before attempting to do so. The address then concludes with a number of empowering and redefining statements regarding health, old age and how to approach physical death in the correct way.

Having waited for some years (as we measure time) for a ‘communication window’, via myself, to become available – the principal intent of connections with the soul group always having been to first make the Joseph Communications information available to humanity – this new orator from the group, to whom we allocated the name ‘The Spirited Native American’ (our terminology – not his actual title, of course) could barely conceal his absolute delight and enthusiasm at being able to finally share his wisdom with us.

Note:

As with each of these transcriptions, this soul group communication was originally filmed as a ‘live’ trance demonstration. In the transcript that follows, a handful of very minor ‘adjustments’ involving the transposition of the occasional word and the taking out of small repetitions of phrases which are the norm in the spoken word but less appropriate in a written version have been made. 

Soul Group Messages – 9 (part 2).

Spirit Communicator: ‘The Spirited Native American’

Persian Gentleman:

As always, I think I have overrun things but I am going to hand over to another member of the soul group who Michael saw a few days ago.

Michael:

And if PG will let me just sort of semi come back to my senses for a moment …I should explain that Jane and myself were talking about age and about the illusion of age a few days ago. And, as we were doing so, suddenly vividly in front of me, I could see a Native American gentleman who, I believe now (because he is talking to me) was in his eighties at the time, as he showed me a picture of himself and he looked wonderful. He had a red shirt on, he was tanned and he had the wrinkles of age but the vitality of his spirit shone out from him. And I knew that he was one of the people from the soul group who wanted to speak at some point to a greater audience. And so, I can see him at one side and I’ve got to allow him to overshadow me …to take me over again.

The Spirited Native American:

I am delighted! I am delighted to be able to speak to you. I am absolutely delighted! I have witnessed the Communications take place over many years and I’ve wished to bring through joy and to talk specifically about seeking connections. You’ve just been given an address about guidance. I want to talk about opening the door to greater consciousness and I’d like to show you two doorways: there is a right doorway and there is a wrong doorway, and both of them lead to spiritual consciousness …but not necessarily positive spiritual consciousness.

One of them leads to a greater connection with us.

One of them leads to a greater connection with chaos.

It is as though throughout your life two doorways are just ahead of you. One is a doorway that will allow you to commune, not only with your higher self but with us – with those of us that have moved on from the Earth level of consciousness. The other doorway is a doorway that many people, seeking to commune with spirits, choose to open instead of the first doorway …and that second doorway leads to chaos …and that second doorway leads to interference …and that second doorway leads to an influx of further negativity into the world.

If you want to open the doorway to spiritual communication – it is open to you! It is not locked. What I mean by that is that at the moment you are having to receive information through a medium – through someone who has become attuned to speaking and communicating with higher dimensions. You have the ability to speak to, to listen to, and to communicate with higher dimensions – to open that first doorway …but you have to decide what your motive is.

You see, many people on Earth who wish to speak to spirits, who wish to connect to higher vibrations, wish it to be something that aggrandises their personality …that makes them special …that makes them someone that people can say: ‘Look what they can do! Aren’t they important!’ …That makes them feel powerful. Also, with many souls wishing to expand spiritually (and I use that term reservedly) they also wish spiritual power. They know that objects can be moved, for example. They know that objects on Earth can be influenced …that doors can be slammed …that windows can be rattled …that chairs can be moved, and they see that as being an important factor of the spirituality they are seeking. Well, that spirituality is negative. Occasionally it is used to prove that there is someone there during a higher communication but for the most part it is negative. It does not enhance the individual trying to access spiritual information.

And what is more, it connects that individual with spirits who have not yet learned sufficiently to elevate themselves above the level of the earthly consciousness and find great delight in connecting with the negative aspects of the earthly Field. And so, seeking such activity and wishing only to go through that door to attract that type of activity, results in an aura of chaos and negativity around the person seeking those things; and also connects them, very often, with spirits who will say one thing but mean something else entirely and with spirits who can connect, via the person that is ‘inviting them in’, as it were, to audiences and individuals seeking their help.

And so, it is extremely important, if you wish to make a connection to spiritual influences – to higher vibrations – that you have to seek vibrations that are higher, not lower. You have to go through the first door. You push that door open through earnest seeking …through, again, becoming quiet …and through examining, in those times of peace and stillness, why you wish to make the spiritual connection. Why do you want to make it? Why do you want to talk to us?

Why do you want to talk to us?

If you want to know more about your own path and understand what you are – you are going through the door on the left. If you want to serve others and bring through enlightened information and the Light that can change things on Earth – you are going through the door on the left. If it is your intention to stream spiritual information without feeding your ego, without positioning a spotlight in front of yourself and saying, ‘Look at me!’ – then you are going through the door on the left. And your request, your seeking of that spirituality,your need to be of service will not be ignored. I repeat that …will not be ignored! You will become of service in some way.

If you wish your connection to the spiritual (and by ‘spiritual’ I mean outside of the earthly, material vibration) to be a source of income …if you wish your connection to be something that puts you on a platform so that others can admire you …if you wish your connection to be so that you can perform parlour tricks and amaze people because something has moved a couple of centimetres during the time when you’ve connected to the vibration, then you are heading through the other door – the door that is marked ‘chaos’.

I hope I am making this clear. What I want to boil this down to is that each of you is a spirit. Each of you, therefore, has automatic access to spiritual communication – just as you have automatic access to someone that you acknowledge walking down the street. You can communicate with them – you are of the same type of vibration and you can communicate. You can communicate easily with the realms beyond the Earth, should you wish to on behalf of others …should you wish to help this world regain its spiritual consciousness.

And there was a time when each of you automatically had access to each of us, when we could commune very easily, when that ‘door’ swung both ways very easily and conversations could be had, information could be exchanged and questions could be answered so that spiritual progress could be made on Earth. That’s not the case now. But in earnest seeking, in earnest examining of self and saying: ‘Yes, I wish to do this’ (and in the understanding that, if you do wish to do this, you are sacrificing a lot of the so-called ‘pleasures’ of earthly life) then you have access to that door. And you can simply by saying: ‘What do I do next, Father?’ …step onto that path that will lead you into spiritual service.

If you are looking at spiritual communication as an entertainment, as an add-on to your earthly life that will give you respect, as something that you would love to have access to because you can wield power – you can do ‘spooky things’ – then you are heading for the other door. And I would ask you, if you are considering the other door at the moment, to head away from it. We will firmly lock it from the other side but it can be pushed open. It shouldn’t be pushed open – there is enough chaos around the Earth at the moment and we would advise you to step away from it.

Your world needs spiritual workers. It needs those who are prepared to put aside their earthly life and become a connection for others, become a source of Light for others.But you have to be aware, before you take that step, that there are two paths you can take – two ‘doorways’ that you can stand in front of. Please, stand in front of the left one if you are prepared to work for others. If you are not, then enjoy your life and leave the higher vibrations and the discarnate vibrations alone – they are not for you!

Now, before I go, Michael mentioned the fact that I came through when he and Jane were talking about age. I came through at that point because we had a very different approach to age than you do at the moment. We looked at our lives as a journey; we knew when that journey was ending but, until it ended, it was still the same journey. Our ‘vehicle’ might appear different; it might gain lines but the wrinkles were regarded as a badge of honour – as a sign that this person has gained wisdom and we saw, in each wrinkle and each line, a challenge faced and overcome. We saw an aspect of a particular life ticked off correctly. We looked at our elders as people that commanded great respect and we went to our elders when we were uncertain as to what to do next because we knew that they would have the answer.

We did not, as we aged physically, acknowledge that age at all. We did not acknowledge illness – except as an accumulation of negative vibrations that could be dispersed by the elders of the tribe.And so, if someone was ill – if someone, for example, had a cancer, we would view that cancer as an ‘invader’, as an ‘unwelcome passenger’ as we travelled through life. The elders would sit around the person with cancer, would place their hands on the person and would elevate the vibration of the person above the vibration of the cancer so that the cancer had to loosen its hold and fall away, which it often did within days – sometimes within hours – because we knew that the person could not suffer from that cancer unless their vibration was at such a low ebb that they could let in a similar vibration from the cancerous growth. So, we would raise their vibration and, in raising their vibration, sometimes you could physically see the illnesses fall away.

With age we did not fear death because regularly we communed (as I’ve been talking about communion today) with the elders that existed in the higher vibrations. They would come close to us at times when we prepared sacred days and specific times when we would divest ourselves of the earthy vibration – of our cares and worries – and would connect to higher vibrations to seek wisdom. So, we each knew from the time when we could understand this as earthly individuals that we were not going to die …we were simply going to go through another doorway. And, because we knew and had that connection with higher vibrations, we became aware on average about five years before we were going to pass over that we were going to make the transition and we prepared.

We prepared and, because we knew of that fairly imminent departure, we could put our affairs in order. We would pass on some of the things that we had to our family and friends. We would make peace with our family and friends. If we had had altercations with anyone or if there were some grudges that were still being held on to (no matter how minor) we would ask whether we could visit those associates – those friends that we had perhaps got out of step with. We would ask their forgiveness …we would put our arms around them …and we would make sure that the harmonious vibration between us was restored before we stepped out of this earthly life.

It was as though we had a body clock that, closer to the time, gave us an exact time when we would step out of materiality. Some of us would choose to go surrounded by family and friends, but some of us (as in my case) considered that this was a very private and sacred moment and would go out into the fields or out into the forest and would simply sometimes stand one moment and then in the next moment be back in the spiritual realm with our body having fallen away like the leaves in the surrounding forest …or we would sit under a tree or in the middle of a field and sometimes, as our companion during those dying moments (‘dying’, of course, only for the earthly body) we would be joined by a buffalo or a deer or a hawk or an eagle that would see our safe passage through into the Light.

The reason I share all this is because, when I look at the Earth now, I see that old age has become something that is a ‘monster’ that is ahead of you. It is something that you worship in a perverse way: ‘I am getting old. I am becoming frail. I can’t do this. I can’t do that. I am at a certain age – therefore this is not available to me. I can’t operate on this level. I can no longer function on that level.’ And I see a vibration that should sustain you until the very moment that you pass over being weakened …being weakened by drugs …being weakened by perceptions that you are old, that you are useless, that you can no longer function.

No! You are meant to function perfectly until you move on.

So, please, consider that. I don’t come through to criticise. I come through to say: ‘Look, age is an illusion but age is also a series of medals you can wear proudly on your chest …I’ve done this …I’ve done this …I’ve done this …I am still here …I have moved on …I have grown …I am more than I was.’

And it is only because the world tells you that you have less energy that you believe it …and have less energy. It is only because the world tells you that you are ill that you believe it …and become ill. It is only because the world tells you that you need to be dependent on certain substances and certain objects as you grow older that you invest in those objects and those substances …and you weaken yourself.

Don’t weaken yourself!

Whether you are one year old or one hundred years old – you are full of Divine-energy and you can use that Divine-energy right until the end. And by ‘end’ I mean a step through that third door into a new existence – not an end, not oblivion, not the shutters coming down, not running out of energy – simply a movement from this world into a better world …into the next world.

Trance-Scriptions: The collected Soul Group Messages sessions

Number IX, Part 1: The Persian Gentleman on spirit guides and the nature of spirit guidance

On a physical level, a guiding influence can be someone you rely on to steer you safely through unchartered and potentially hazardous territory, or a person who is instrumental in helping you to acquire a new skillset or better understand some technique or process you may be looking to master.

But what of spiritual guidance and spiritual guides? We each encounter times in our lives – times of personal challenge and demand – when we need a little outside help with upcoming decisions we have to make… when we wish to actively seek out words of wisdom and direction. However, much of popular lore regarding the capabilities of spiritual guides and the nature of spiritual guidance is vague at best and, sadly, erroneous at worst, painting a picture of higher vibrational input that is often way off the mark and far from the truth.

Today’s transcription of a filmed trance session is, therefore, a highly significant one in that it features detailed insights from trusted spirit communicator and highly advanced soul group member the Persian Gentleman, who in this address seeks to set the record straight concerning guides and the true meaning of spiritual guidance, and to put us in touch with the one true inspirational source we each can gain access to should we choose to develop and strengthen this vital and ultra-reliable connection.

Notes:

As with each of these texts, this session was originally filmed as a ‘live’ trance demonstration. In the transcript that follows, I have made a handful of small ‘adjustments’ involving the transposition of the occasional word and the taking out of small repetitions of phrases which are the norm in the spoken word but less appropriate in a written version. Our thanks are due, as always, to Jules Gadiot for his dedicated work in initially transcribing this material.

Soul Group Messages – 9 (part 1).

Spirit Communicators: ‘The Persian Gentleman’.

Tony (at the end of his introduction to the YouTube video):

This is number nine of the soul group messages and again, as I have said before, I just have no idea of what is going to happen.

Michael:

It would be terrible to say, ‘Well, I have no idea what is going to happen either’ [smiling]. I’ve only got a vague idea of what is going to happen. I know who the communicator is and, over the past few days, there have been at least three communicators wanting to get through. We can’t go through three today but it is apparent that members of the soul group who have something to say, but couldn’t because we had to get through the Joseph Communications series of books, now wish to fill in some gaps and give advanced perspectives on certain areas that we haven’t covered before. The first speaker today (I am assuming there will be two out of the three) is the Persian Gentleman – ‘PG’. The Persian Gentleman wants to talk about spirit guides, and if I can allow him to come a little closer…

The Persian Gentleman:

There is a lot said about spirit guides on Earth. There is this mythos [set of beliefs or assumptions] that has built up around the concept of a guide, as though each of you has someone peering over their shoulder at any time saying: ‘Don’t go into that shop – that’s a bad idea.’ …Or, ‘Park the car, third from the left.’ …Or, ‘Are you sure you want to consider doing this?’ And that is a rather cosy idea of guidance, but it is not what actually happens.

First of all – why should you need a guide?

You need a guide because it is so difficult for each of you to connect with your true full consciousness. Because of the Fall – the happening that we have talked about in great detail in Joseph’s book the Fall – a separation occurred between the greater consciousness of the individual and the earthly consciousness of the individual. And many souls on Earth never even consider that they have a greater consciousness – let alone seek to consult it! And, should they seek to consult it, the path to spiritual enlightenment is a difficult one; it takes time; it takes discipline; it takes practice to be able to make that connection with the greater consciousness …that can guide the earthly consciousness.

And so, since the time of the Fall, spirits who have advanced to a certain extent by travelling through the cleansing spheres that exist beyond the earthly sphere, have elected to act as a vibrational bridge between the earthly consciousness of an individual and the greater consciousness of an individual so that they can, at certain points in an individual’s life, put that individual in touch – should they wish to be in touch – with their greater consciousness. The guide (the individual from one of the higher spheres of consciousness beyond this one – one of the spirit realms) extends part of their consciousness towards the individual on Earth that they have chosen to help. They then seek to filter the consciousness of the individual’s higher self down through themselves and into the individual. I hope this is making sense…

What I am saying is that there is a gap in the normal flow of information between an individual on Earth and their greater consciousness – whereas on other planets that gap wouldn’t exist. On another world, an individual would have access to greater consciousness – to a wider perspective whenever they needed that wider perspective in order to make decisions when travelling through a particular physical sphere. That can’t happen on Earth.

And so, each of you does in a way have someone looking over your shoulder but only when needed. The guide does not walk two steps ahead of you and advise you not to do this or to do that in order to have a happy life. The guide is not there to advise you as to which boyfriend or girlfriend you should be connected with …as to which business decision you should make …as to how you should behave. The guide is there to make available that greater perspective that is part of you at times when that greater perspective is needed – for example, if you need to make a spiritually moral decision or if you need to make a decision that will connect you to the points ahead of you that you would otherwise not connect with, should you not make the right decision. What I am trying to say is, there are signposts, there are milestones in everyone’s life, which if reached – and it is not always certain that the individual will reach them – if you reach those milestones, then your appreciation of creation and your ability to create and your spiritual consciousness will expand and raise your individual vibration.

And so, there are crucial moments in each life where a milestone can be reached or bypassed. And, at such crucial moments, the guide comes into sharp focus in connection with their ward and makes available intuition from that individual’s higher self, makes available the greater perspective that – if that perspective is observed and appreciated – will allow that individual to reach a certain milestone and to, as a result of reaching that certain milestone – which might be a challenge; it may not be something that is a wonderful event in a physical life; it may be a physical challenge; or a mental challenge; or a spiritual challenge – but as result of that challenge, if that challenge is tackled correctly, that individual’s vibrational frequency will increase so that they will be able to, once they have left the Earth behind, access greater levels of consciousness and creation. It will open doors for them. And so, these are the times when the guide is there.

Also, the guide is there at times when life becomes extremely difficult …at times when people feel they have had enough …when they feel that they can’t go on …when they are in danger of (through temper, for example) becoming violent …when they are in danger through depression of considering that life is not worth continuing with. At such times, the guide is very, very close to the individual and, in spiritual terms, ‘puts their arms around them’ to make that holistic connection for the individual with their higher self.

The true guide is the higher self.

The true guide is the greater consciousness of the individual because the greater consciousness of the individual has lived many lives, has gone through many challenges, has resolved many problems and knows what to do. But, because of the Fall -because of the change of vibration here that has separated individuals from their true persona, from their spiritual way of thinking – it is necessary for the connection to be made for them.

Now, how does a guide choose an individual? This is one of the roles of spirits travelling through the cleansing spheres, and the guide who has elected to act at certain times in an individual’s life as a guide (having said: ‘I will do this job; this is something I want to do to help elevate someone during their earthly life’) always has a choice with the individual that is presented to them as a possible connection …always has a choice to say: ‘No, I don’t feel that my vibration links sufficiently with this person’ …or (this will sound a terrible thing to say spiritually): ‘I don’t particularly like that person – can I see the next person, please, that I can consider connecting with as a guide?’

And that is not meant as a condemnation, a criticism of the person. What they are simply saying is: ‘At this time, the individual that you have presented to me as someone I can potentially connect to as a guide – our vibrations are too disparate at the moment. They do not harmonise well enough for me to consider this individual to be the person that I wish to connect with.’ …And then with the next ‘candidate’, as it were, they might say: ‘Yes, fine, I will take this person on.’

The guide also has to consider the challenges that the individual they connect to will come up against during their earthly life, and they are shown those milestones before making the absolute decision to connect to that person because, at the times when a guide connects strongly with the individual on Earth they are guiding, inevitably there is a leaching of that individual’s vibrations into the guide’s aura and perception of life. And so, you can see what a noble endeavour this is, because at times when the person on Earth is depressed, or in pain, or feels hopeless, or feels overwhelmed by anger and violence – in order to maintain that connection with the higher self that the individual may or may not choose to make – the guide has to be close enough to the individual (vibrationally speaking) to take on some of their problems, to take on some of their ‘emotional discharge’, as it were.

And so, the connection is made, once a guide is satisfied that they are prepared to take on again some of the seemingly negative experiences that they have already gone through and left behind when they moved on into the cleansing spheres. They can then connect to an individual for the times during their life on Earth when that individual needs help and needs connection to the higher self.

Do guides guide all the time?

Is a guide with you for your entire life?

Well, not really. They are connected to you for your entire life but they only ‘tune in’, as it were, at those ‘times’ when you need guidance the most. So, they will get on with their spiritual ‘business’ – their spiritual life beyond this one, will engage in the creative activities (individually and as part of the soul group) that they wish to engage in, having left the Earth behind, but part of their consciousness will be ‘on call’ whenever they are needed at crucial times during the lives of the individuals that they have chosen to guide on Earth. And there is, if you like, a ‘spiritual alarm clock’ that accompanies the guide in that they know, because of the vibrational changes in the individual that they are guiding, when that individual is coming up to the times where guidance will be needed.

So, I have spoken a little bit about guides, but what about guidance? How do you access guidance? Well, one of the things that the guide tries to impress you with in times of challenge is that you need to become still. Times of trouble or the lead-up to times of trouble and challenge are not times for action – they are times for stillness, and that is contrary to what most people on Earth do when faced with a worrying situation. But the strongest thing that you can do is to step back from that challenging time …is to become still and is to listen with the heart.

What I mean by ‘listen with the heart’ is to sense with the heart what the truth of the situation you are facing is and sense with the heart what action should be taken or inaction should be observed during this time of challenge. In other words, you should allow the guide who is with you to do their job to strengthen your connection between your earthly consciousness and your higher consciousness – allow them to do that for you so that you can receive guidance.

And, the trivial things that are attributed to guides are not, as I have said, what guidance is about at all. It is the important things in life where you need guidance and it is the important things in life where you should tune in from the heart – try to move your consciousness down from your head into your heart. You can do this with practice; you can do this, again, in stillness and the heart will connect you, via your guide, with your higher self so that you can make the correct decisions in all areas of your life.

True guidance bypasses the mind, bypasses the head. And true guidance, when it is received, will sometimes seem contrary to what the head is telling you – in fact will often seem contrary to what the head is telling you. But with practice and with connection to the stillness and connection to your guiding influence, you will gain confidence that what you receive as the means of tackling your future path, is correct information – no matter what your head says. And it is the head, of course, that is one of the staunch supporters of the state of chaos that is as a result of the Fall. It is the head that maintains the chaos. The heart sees past and through the chaos to true peace and harmony.

I, as you will know from our past connections, am a guiding influence in Michael’s life. But my role in Michael’s life is somewhat different than the role of many guides with the individuals that they connect to – in that my role is to once again set up vibrations that allow Michael’s heart and spiritual mind to connect with greater consciousness. But in my case, I work to set up vibrations that allow communication to take place. I am not concerned with Michael’s challenges in life. I am concerned with your challenge that can be answered or partially answered through Michael, if we present the correct information to you.

So, you could call me a universal guide speaking through one point, and there are other guides who choose to do this too. There are other spirits who work together as a single guide to attempt to steer, through connection with higher vibrations, the course of nations and the course of groups of people – if those groups of people will listen. And now I think, if you have read the Joseph books, you will begin to understand the reason why Joseph at one point says that he looks forward to a time where people will sit on behalf of nations, not as governments, but as connections that allow higher vibrations to flow through to those nations to guide them so that they make the correct harmonious, loving, spiritual choices on behalf of everyone who lives in those nations.

So, guidance is going on all the time but guidance has to be acknowledged …and acknowledged in the right way. One of the things that amuses us is the fact that – where guides are thought of by individuals mistakenly – individuals with great curiosity say: ‘I wonder who my guide is? Is my guide a Native American? Is my guide a Chinese Mandarin? Who is my guide? Who was my guide? They must be very important.’

Your guide cares not for who they were. Your guide cares for who you are and who you are becoming. And they (and I speak on behalf of all guides) would say: ‘It is not important who we are; it is not important how we appear to be. It is enough for you to know that we are there’. And, yes, through spiritual means through mediums, you can gain some insight as to how your guide may look. Consider Silver Star, who is part of our soul group: he comes through in the guise of a Native American but he has never been a Native American. He prefers that ‘suit of clothes’ to appear to those who can see him in that way, but that’s not who he is; it is a ‘suit of clothes’ – it is not important.

When thinking of guidance, when thinking of your guide, just make the connection to a sweet soul who loves you enough to care about your progress through the earthly life and beyond.

Don’t become bogged down with the trivia of who they are …what they look like …when you can see them …are they around? Not important! That connection is there throughout your life – take advantage of that connection. It has been hard earned for you by your guide – by someone who could go on into increasing bliss but cares enough to ‘fall back’, as it were, and to connect with you during your earthly life and to take on some of the harsher aspects of the earthly life in order to help you progress. What love that is!

Honour that love, not by seeking out who they are and wondering what their life was like, but wonder if your life is on the right track and allow that go-between to connect you with your higher consciousness – with the greater part of yourself that is difficult to connect with in the early stages if you are surrounded by materialism and have not considered anything higher in terms of vibrations and creation than what is in front of your five senses.

I also have to touch on: ‘Is a guide with you for life?’ Not always – because if you connect with your higher self to the degree that your vibration and the vibration of your higher self are totally compatible, then you have no need for a guide. You are your own guide.

Ultimately, you are your own guide.

And, at the point that you are sufficiently awakened spiritually, then your guide with love (whilst still observing your life whenever they wish to) steps aside and says the modern equivalent of, ‘my job here is done’ because their work is done! You know how to connect with your higher self; there is no need for a go-between and any go-between is a filter and, therefore even if it is only to the nth degree, is a screen between your state of being and the state of being of your higher self.

So, we remove the filter completely and you have a pure connection with your higher self and you guide yourself …and you’ve got it …and you’ve won! And when you get back to the spirit world, we will say: ‘Well done! You can now move onwards and you don’t have to go back to the Earth’ …which would be your choice, of course, had you not discovered this connection with the greater world that you have already earned through past experience and past lives.

To be continued in Soul Group Messages 9 (part 2)…

Trance-Scriptions: The collected Soul Group Messages sessions

Part VIII: What’s it like to die? A spirit shares his death experience

and: Silver Star’s personal recollections of suicide and its after-effects

…It’s an appointment that, with absolute certainty, each of us is destined to meet and to keep.

– And thoughts concerning what this event will entail are bound to cross the mind of every single soul on Earth at some stage during their journey through life…

What will the experience of dying be like? Is it something we need to be fearful of? Will it be painful? Traumatic?

A detailed answer to that question is provided below by a young man – Kenneth – who passed from this world in a ball of fire when his Spitfire was shot down during World War 2 …and what he has to share with us is not at all what you might expect following such an abrupt and violent end to his physical life. His observations regarding his ‘death’ are comforting rather than distressing; uplifting as opposed to terrifying. And are delivered with the intent of bringing some measure of peace to the minds of the many souls it is hoped will read this and redefine their view of what their transition from this world will be like.

In the second half of the following transcription of a filmed trance session, ‘Silver Star’, a key figure and frequent spirit visitor from Joseph’s soul group, relates his highly personal experiences regarding suicide and its after-effects …and, again, conventional views are turned upside down during this address as he examines the subject and its consequences.

As is always the case following these communications, I was exhausted from the rigours of trance at the conclusion of this one – a result of the need to ‘punch through’ the dense vibrations from both ends of the communication in order for a connection to be made and the transmission of information to take place …but, as always, I was delighted to discover that so much valuable spiritual insight, wrapped in love and warmth and a deeply moving concern for humanity, had been passed on as a result of the session. Here, then, is the eighth in our series of Soul Group Messages transcriptions…

Notes:

As with each of these texts, this session was originally filmed as a ‘live’ trance demonstration. In the transcript that follows I have made a handful of tiny ‘adjustments’. These are minimal, and only involve the transposition of the occasional word and the taking out of small repetitions of phrases which are the norm in the spoken word but less appropriate in a written version. These small amendments aside, the following is an accurate presentation of what happened and what was said during the original video session.

* Moments of altered consciousness… those points at which I am switched between a clairvoyant connection to the communicators and a trance state – and back again – are indicated in the text.

* Our thanks are due, as always, to Jules Gadiot for his dedication and hard work in initially transcribing this material.

Soul Group Messages – 8.

Spirit Communicators: ‘Kenneth’; ’Silver Star’.

Michael (describing what he is initially seeing clairvoyantly):

A little preamble …in that I have had someone with me for two or three days. They haven’t spoken but I know that they want to speak today. And, prior to Joan, my spiritual mentor, marrying Jack, she was engaged to a flyer who was killed during World War ll; and then she was engaged to another flyer who was [also] killed during World War ll. When she got together with Jack at the beginning, her father said: ‘For goodness sake, Joan, don’t marry him. You are killing more flyers than the enemy!’ Now one of these two flyers was a doctor and a Spitfire pilot called Kenneth, and it is Kenneth who wants to speak first of all to us today. So, if I can just tune in, he is moving closer to me…

Kenneth:

He says that what he wants to talk about today is …what happens when you die. Because it is a question on a lot of people’s minds: ‘What happens when you die? What’s it like?’ 

Michael (switching to a trance state at this point): Well, during the conflict I stepped in for a young man who was supposed to go up on a sortie that night – that particular night when I passed over – and I took his place. I remember being in the plane …and I remember there being a so-called ‘enemy plane’ in front of me …and I was concentrating on the plane in front of me and didn’t realise a second plane had come up behind me… to my right, behind me. I remember realising too late. I could hear the sound of the engine of the other plane and realising it was there. Then, suddenly, there was a flash of light …and I felt… nothing! There was nothing untoward. There was no pain, no distress but suddenly, following that flash of light, I found myself standing in the centre of what passed for a runway at the airfield where I was stationed. No plane …just standing there in the middle of an empty airfield. I looked around and it was daytime. It should have been night-time but it was daytime. 

I felt compelled to walk forwards along this strip and I walked forwards until suddenly, at a desk in the middle of the concrete, was sitting an officer. I walked up to the desk and I could see behind the officer a room that suddenly formed around him with a corridor leading off behind him and a man standing behind him who wasn’t in uniform. He was in some kind of robe and I remember there was a sort of blue/mauve-ish tint to this robe. The officer asked me for my name and my serial number, which I gave to him, assuming this was a debriefing from the mission …and, as soon as I had given my name, he stood to one side, the desk moved to one side and I moved down the corridor.

At the other end of the corridor stood two of my mates …two of the flyers who just days previously had died in the conflict in their planes and one of them had been burned. But I saw these two young men standing there looking perfectly alive and in perfect condition in front of me. I was shocked that the young man who had been burned so badly – he’d been pulled out of his plane and had died – was in perfect condition; in perfect health. And it was at that point, as I greeted these two friends, that I realised I had ‘gone’ …that I [had] died.

I looked behind me and the desk had disappeared; the officer had disappeared and the airfield had disappeared as well. And in quick succession, I found myself in my mother’s living room looking around …she was opening a drawer …taking something out of a drawer …and I tried to attract her attention but I couldn’t. Then I found myself in the churchyard of the church that I had visited every week as I was growing up. Then I found myself walking down the front street of the village where I lived and looking in shop windows. Then I found myself back with my two friends. And the view behind me, the places I had just been to, closed off as though a mist had come down. And the two friends stood to one side and the open end of the corridor became a very bright Light. I felt compelled to move into it. I was suddenly shocked because in that moment I realised what had happened. I realised that I had been shot down. I realised there had been an explosion and I realised, of course, that I was dead – although ‘dead’ is a misnomer. I moved on …walked on into the Light and I could see in this brilliant Light, ahead of me and to either side of me, other figures that looked silhouetted walking towards the same destination I was heading to.

Then, ahead of me, the Light coalesced into a beautiful parkland. I could see trees and benches and flowers and there was a path …I found myself moving on a path – a curving path through this parkland. So, I walked down this path, feeling absolutely fine, feeling better than I had done for years. I had been tired during the sortie and I now felt energised and in the best of health. And at the other end of the path stood my father, looking as he actually did just before he passed, and he greeted me and embraced me. He had with him a framed photograph of various people, various relatives – black and white photographs from my life – who had passed over and he handed me the photograph. As I looked at each photograph within this frame, those people came up to me and greeted me and welcomed me… either shook my hand or hugged me or stood by me; and there was this amazing sense of nobody ever dies …nobody ever goes anywhere …you are all fine …you are all here… and I understood that perfectly. It wasn’t a shock to me – it was something that I’d known and was remembering.

Then the people that had come to greet me moved to either side and I moved forward into… it felt like a different atmosphere, as though I had gone to another continent. It wasn’t hot. It wasn’t cold. It was a different atmosphere that I walked into …and became aware of two spirits that were standing in front of me. They were linked to each other very, very closely. They had been together for some time. They were part of the same soul group; they were part of the same soul and there was an interchange of energy between them. It was almost like looking at Siamese twins. You could see the energy passing through a link between them and the colours of their auras – which were predominantly blue with silver in it and predominantly purple with reds in it – the energies kept changing between the two of them. And there was a feeling of them having been around, existing for an incredibly long time. And that was given to me …that feeling came to me… because of the wisdom they were exhibiting – not because they were old but because they had accumulated experience to the extent that they gave off this aura of extreme knowledge and wisdom and peace and love.

I looked at them and recognised them.

And then what I was wearing …because I was still in my flight suit… changed, and I found myself in a gold robe that had within it shifting patterns of a lighter yellow. And at that point, my memories of who I was came back to me; [I knew] that I was back in the soul group; that I was restored to who I had been before I had come to the Earth; and that I was about to take up my previous ‘occupation’, as it were, within the soul group as a creative being. I looked back and I could see my relatives and my father standing in the entrance to the park and, beyond them, I could see the change in vibration that led to the Earth plane.

And I still had …I hadn’t taken it up with me but I was a medic, I was a doctor… and I had around my neck, on top of this robe I was now wearing, a stethoscope, which I took off and looked at and suddenly put away – in that it disappeared from my hands – knowing that I could bring it back at any time and revisit those memories, as I could revisit those …not lower vibrations… but less rapid vibrations of the park where some of my relatives were, and the less rapid vibrations of the Earth.

I wanted to tell you all this because there is such fear. Many souls today are not alive. They think they are alive but they live in a constant state of fear, which is not life.

You have not come to the Earth to live in fear. You have not come to the Earth to preserve the physical or preserve the mental. You have come to the Earth to reach out to others and to gain experience.

You cannot gain experience by locking yourself away in a room and saying: ‘I am safe. Nothing can happen to me.’ But that is absolutely correct – nothing can happen to you – and it is supposed to happen to you so that you can progress. I wish, by saying to you that death is nothing to fear, that you will stop fearing life. Take off the shackles you put around you. Throw open your doors. Go out onto the streets. Meet your friends; meet your relatives. Mingle. Experience. Grow. Share. Love. That’s what you are here to do.

I was only a young man when I left the Earth. I was only in my early thirties and I felt I had so much to give. I was satisfied by working as a doctor. I wished to cure people. I did set people on the right track to health, I feel, but my one regret for a time – for a short time – returning to my soul group, was that I hadn’t healed more people, that I hadn’t made a difference in the way that I expected to do during a long and fulfilling life. But then I quickly realised that I was now, having returned to the soul group, in a far better position to heal people than I had been when I was in a physical body. And so I spent some time looking over the shoulders of other doctors. Visiting hospitals and medical facilities and, as it were, whispering into doctors’ ears and saying: ‘Have you considered this? Have you considered that? Leave this situation alone. Yes, you can help in this situation but only so far, and this is the area that you should look in to help this person heal themselves.’ And so I became an ‘unseen advisor’, as it were, to many doctors and nurses.

But then I reacquainted myself with the greater mission for the Earth, which is to heal the misstep that everybody took (the misstep that Joseph, of course, calls ‘the Fall’), and that healing begins by reacquainting souls with their spiritual consciousness. And that is what I have worked to do since that time.

I have elevated myself through various spheres of consciousness since I returned to the spirit world …spirit worlds I should say… and I am now, as I talk to you, in the ‘Sphere of Contemplation’. Part of me is talking to you and wishes to advise you with regard to fear and death and taking away fear from death, but part of me is contemplating what I have achieved as a soul thus far so that I can decide what I want to do next, where I want to go to next. And I am examining possibilities and I can immerse myself in those possibilities, just like immersing myself as an actor in a play. I can walk into those potentials and possibilities and examine them holistically, as though I was actually living them. And, at some point in the future (although I’ve got all the time in the world (or ‘out of the world’, I should say) I will step into one of those potentials for real, and will begin a new phase of adding to my knowledge and capabilities as a facet of God, as a soul.

So… just a short talk this morning to say: ‘That’s what happened to me and my death was seemingly a violent one.’ It was a death in a fireball. It was a sudden explosion. No pain. No regrets really – apart from the longing to heal more people. And quite a quick transition from being sat in the cockpit of a fighter plane to being in the heart of my soul-group family via a connection with my relatives and friends and loved ones – those people who are special to me.

So, don’t fear death and at this special time when there is much concern for the future of humanity – live! Live would be my earnest plea to you. Live each day spiritually …fully! And, when you go to bed at night, don’t regret having not done something – do it!

Do those things that you want to do!

Move yourself into situations you feel will extend you …and always extend to others the love that you have inside of yourself.

The communication at this point is handed over to guiding spirit ‘Silver Star’ who, in ‘part two’ of this session, goes on to explain and examine the consequences of his own suicide.

Michael (introducing Silver Star, having switched to a clairvoyant link for a moment):

The second communicator today is one of the guiding influences from our soul group. We call him Silver Star and he appears to those he guides …when he takes people over from their transition to a higher vibration… he appears to them dressed in a silver outfit and as a native American. He is not a native American – he never was. But, as he has told us in various communications over the years, he appears as a native American because many people, particularly those who have investigated spirituality to a certain extent, invest in the old cliché of a guiding influence being a native American. And he finds that he is accepted more easily, more readily, by those he comes to help if he is dressed as a native American rather than simply an American farmer, which is who and what he was in his last incarnation …which was – I believe – in the 1940s. I have to hand over to Silver Star because he says there is a theme to Part Eight: Parts One and Two. He says his friend has spoken about not fearing death. He says he wants to speak about a taboo subject that is very close to his heart and that is the matter of suicide.

Silver Star:

I had quite a sprawling farm area. I was quite wealthy but I wasn’t wealthy with regard to emotion. I wasn’t ‘lucky in love’, you might say, and I had a wife during this life that I absolutely adored. She was my world. I used to spend a lot of time away from the house. I had outlying buildings I would have to stay in to take care of the land surrounding them and I could be away for quite a long time. The farm was something I invested an awful lot of my physical energies into and perhaps I didn’t spend enough time with my wife as I should have done …and she had an affair.

I suspected this for some time. It troubled my work – my yields went down. I didn’t confront her with this but one night I came home and discovered her with the new partner she’d found. I was so incensed – it was like a red mist came down. I didn’t go into the house; I stormed off, took my dog, Jackson, got into the pickup truck I drove (I was very proud of it – I used to polish this thing all the time and keep it in excellent condition) and I drove around for a while. There was a bridge across a gully that was a regular part of my journey going to other parts of my land. I drove onto the bridge and off the side …and I killed myself and, unfortunately, I killed my dog (and, thank God, this wonderful, warm spirit has forgiven me). I took my dog with me… I needed that comfort.

I remembered quite soon (as my friend who spoke in the first part of this session did) that I was part of a soul group, and that I had gone to Earth specifically to learn about jealousy – to learn about specific aspects of one-to-one relationships so that I could relate to people who had gone through what I had gone through and advise them from the standpoint of knowing exactly where they were coming from and exactly how they were suffering. But, as with many souls, I became lost in the plot; I became lost in the story. It was never intended that I should end my physical arc in that way. I was welcomed back into the soul group and there were no repercussions whatsoever. Nobody said to me: ‘You shouldn’t have committed suicide.’ Nobody – because that is not how we operate in the higher spheres of consciousness.

However, I felt within me that something was wrong. I moved back into life within the soul group and into helping people as they came across and … ‘counselling’ them is, I suppose the nearest term I can get to… with regard to emotional problems they had brought across with them and needed to be released from. But there was this nagging …almost like a ‘pebble’ in my heart. There was something wrong.

I sought the advice not of my soul group, but of souls from the soul group above that one. I asked for a connection with them and I sat with a circle of seven spirits and they conveyed to me (and this is something I should have known but, because I never contemplated or dwelled on suicide before, I hadn’t investigated it enough)that the life arc I had started when I had voluntarily gone back to the Earth had a certain ‘length’ to it, if you will …a certain dynamism to it. It was supposed to complete itself so that I could return to the spirit spheres at the end of a preconceived length of time. That arc had an energy to it. It existed and I had sidestepped the arc by cutting short my life early, but the dynamism of that arc was still attached to me. So, even though I wasn’t on Earth, there was a connection to me from the arc – the physical and mental arc that had been created in order that I could have the physical life experience. I was also still connected, via that arc, to the Earth vibration.

I asked what I could do andI was told thatI needed to live out the rest of the arc to allow it to dissipate itself so that it would fold itself up and I would be freed from it.

That sounds a very drastic thing …what did they want me to do? Did they want me to return to the Earth in an earthly body? Well, no. There would have been no point going back to the Earth and starting off another arc that would have connected me to the new arc and also the arc I was still part of that hadn’t played itself out.

Instead, every so often, I was advised that I should return to the Earth as a spirit to contemplate various aspects of the Earth …to contemplate various aspects of creation on Earth and various aspects of physical life on Earth.

And that’s what I did. Every so often I would take a ‘sabbatical’, as it were, from my work as a guiding influence and I would return to the Earth to – in as quiet a way as I could and as still a way as I could – contemplate certain areas of it. Contemplate the beauty of nature, as an example, and understand that I had cut myself off from appreciating that aspect of creation on Earth by abruptly ending my life. I would look at friendships – I would stand by groups of friends and I would understand, after contemplating what they were doing for a while, that I had missed out on what would have been future opportunities to bond with people and appreciate friendships because I had curtailed my life early. I would look at opportunities that would have presented themselves to me by seeing those opportunities played out as the lives of others on Earth. And I would quietly observe and absorb these experiences.

And, as I did so by reconnecting to the earthly life I would have had in this way, I furthered the other half of the arc. I allowed it to move on until there came a ‘point in time’, relatively speaking, where there was a departure from me. It was as though I had shed a skin. I had moved on from one experience to another. It was a sudden shock. It was a release of vibration. And I knew at that time that the arc of energy had expended itself and I was free to move on further into the spiritual vibrations of reality around me. I checked on this. I checked with the members of the soul group above me, and they confirmed that I had, as it were, ‘served my time’.

Now, I wanted to relay this to you because there is much controversy regarding suicide. Is suicide ever the right thing to do? To my mind, no, never …because it has consequences. You may release yourself via suicide from a situation, but you do not release yourself from the vibration that you are part of at the point you ended your life. And you do not release yourself from the impetus that was put around you when you decided to reincarnate …and those things have to be worked out.

Now sometimes – because the spirit that has ended its earthly life doesn’t understand what it has done – that arc of energy around it from its earthly life that has not yet been expended, not yet reached its conclusion, separates it from spiritual consciousness. So, it finds itself in location within one of the spiritual realms but not in contact with that sphere. It is as though it is in a mist, or is lost, and, although there are people around it trying to reach in and connect to it, very often they can’t do so because of the strength of the arc that is still around that spirit – particularly at the time of them ending their life, because that is a very strong emotional charge, a very strong vibrational charge. And so the arc around them is particularly ‘thick’, for want of a better word …thick around them at the point where they feel they have to get away from it at all costs.

And so much work is done with people who have left the Earth plane before they were supposed to, according to the arc of energy they have been encased in, to restore their spiritual consciousness. But, again, it is difficult because that arc is still around them. That arc is not a judgement; it is a process and that process has to work itself out. So, if we eventually reach into a spirit and make it aware that it is not lost and that it is in one of the higher vibrations, we then, at some point, have to address with that spirit the arc that they thought they have separated themselves from but is still continuing around them until they dissipate it.

And they have to dissipate it in different ways – very often through contemplation but sometimes through other connections to the Earth plane that can seem cruel. In other words, they may find themselves returned – returned by themselves – to the Earth non-corporeally to, as it were, ‘hang around’ …to experience life that they cannot touch and connect with …to watch their relatives grow older …to watch their friends grow older …to watch changes on the Earth …to see buildings torn down, new buildings put up …to see things that they loved and places they connected to disappear and be replaced with other structures. They have to hang around there until such time as enough vibrational change has passed on the Earth that the arc that is still around them is dissipated. Then they can return themselves to the spiritual realms that they connected to when they left the Earth through suicide.

So …there are always consequences but not judgement. And I want to say, once and for all, that to bury a soul that has chosen to end their life early in unconsecrated ground, or to exclude them from a certain area of land where they could have been buried in the same spot as their families, is disgraceful and judgemental and should never ever happen.

Never, ever, should there be judgement when someone has got to the point where they are fed by a heavy vibration that emphasises with them the need to get away from that particular point in their life. And you must understand that, at the point that someone takes their life, not only is the arc around them particularly thick, but that arc is connected to similar vibrations of their despair, of their pain, of their hopelessness. There should never be judgement and there never is judgement, but there are always consequences because creation is set up in a specific way and energies that are ‘ignited’, as it were, that are set in motion, have to play out their time before they can be dissipated and go back into the ‘sea of potential’ to be used as newly dedicated energies in different ways.

I don’t now have to visit the Earth plane as a means of absolving myself from my decision to end my life early. I visit the Earth in order to help, in order to speak to you, in order to advise behind the scenes, as my friend said. I advise behind the scenes in certain circumstances and sometimes I get through and sometimes I don’t.

So, I hope that I have given you a different view of suicide. It is something that Joseph said he would speak on in one of his books, but never got the opportunity to do so because of the energies involved in producing further books and because other subjects were deemed more important by the soul group and by Joseph when he was delivering his books. So, I hope in some way I have answered questions that arise from readers and people watching the video that we’ve put out about suicide.

I stand before you perfectly healthy, perfectly happy, perfectly able to communicate with you and with my soul group …and the way ahead of me is perfectly clear. No one has ever judged me and no one has ever said that what I did was wrong. I am trying to impress on you the fact that suicide is a step that brings other steps to bear around the soul that has chosen to end their life and I would not in any way recommend that anyone take that step. It can take a great deal of time and effort to get out of. And also the experience …which may sound harsh… but the experience in my case, had I addressed it, had I overcome it, would have left me stronger and would have led me to other opportunities in my life, to people that I didn’t meet, to circumstances and situations that I didn’t enter into, to fulfilment that I never felt. All these things were shown to me: ‘If you had carried straight on. If you had been strong enough – and it is easy to say – but if you had been strong enough to overcome this sore point in your life …you would have gone to point A …and to point B …and point C …and point D …and look at the opportunities that would have opened up for you.’

I missed all those and I wouldn’t want any of you to miss the opportunities to grow and to experience and to love and to connect that will open up for each of you, no matter what the world is saying to you at this moment, [that] will open up for each of you if you continue along your life’s path expectantly. Expectant of new experiences to come to you and expectant of new opportunities to open up for you. I leave you now but I am an active member of the soul group and I hope… it would be amusing to me… ‘amusing’ is the wrong word. It would be satisfying to me if you recognised my hand in certain of the communications that are to come.