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Join Michael G. Reccia for the Joseph Perspective. In this series, Michael discusses key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part One: Walking With Angels

Part Two: Inanimate Objects Are Anything But…

Part Three: From The Sublime To The Ridiculous

Part Four: Visits With A Soul Group – Part I.

Part Five: Visits With A Soul Group – Part II.

Part Six: Where Angels Fear To Tread

Part Seven: Heart-Voices, Signs and Portents

Part Eight: The Importance of Being Light-Hearted

Part Nine: Safely Negotiating The Spiritual Minefield

Part Ten: Giving Yourself & Others The Daily Turbo-Boost That Changes Everything

Part Eleven: Afterlife Interaction Leads To Irrefutable Proof

Part Twelve: Return To Earth Or Move On? You Choose.

Part Thirteen: Keep It Simple; Take It Within

Part Fourteen: Christmas Special I: The One-Way Street

Part Fifteen: Christmas Special II: All Good Children Go To Heaven

Part Sixteen: Christmas Special III: The Blockbuster Movie Of A Lifetime – And You’re The Star

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Christmas Special Part Three (of Three): The blockbuster movie of a lifetime – and you’re the star!

As promised last time, we’re concluding this three-part ‘Christmas Special’ blog by considering the concept of ‘judgement’ from a spiritual perspective; a viewpoint that offers us a completely different take on the subject than that which has – and continues to be – pressed by many religions upon their guilt-induced ‘flocks’.

Let’s begin with a question regarding the nature and intent of ‘Source’/ Divinity:

Does it seem logical that a loving God would condemn a number of his children …each of whom, don’t forget, is an expression – a literal embodiment – of His/Her/Itself… to everlasting ‘fire and damnation’ as a punishment for them getting certain things ‘wrong’ during their time spent on earth?

Does it seem likely that God, an eternal outpouring of universal love, could ever contemplate such vengeful action, let alone carry it out?

If we can find it in our hearts to forgive those who ‘trespass against us’, why would God, who is a far greater expression of pure love than we are, find it impossible to forgive us, or indeed, even be able to conceive of, from the elevated viewpoint of an all-loving heart, any situation that actual requires His forgiveness in the first place?

Why, instead of simply desiring that His children return to Him in due course having ventured into physicality to experience, would He insist they suffer and be tortured forever, as a consequence of a misstep taken millennia ago which Joseph terms ’the Fall’*, which caused them to forget they are expressions of universal love, to  interact with each other on earth in negative ways, and to temporarily distance their consciousness from the God-Light and Divine guidance that exists within them from that point onwards?

It doesn’t make sense, does it… because Divine retribution doesn’t exist. It’s a nonsense. Divinity never, ever judges us. Instead, Divinity allows us, through free will, to experience whatever we choose to experience whilst on earth and to then bring back the higher vibrational fruits of those experiences to the Godhead for consideration… the ‘best bits’, the positive bits, the loving and harmonious bits, then being incorporated into the experience of the Whole for the purpose of expanding, of further evolving, the Godhead and all creation.

True, as a result of the Fall  there are some extremely negative – extremely ill-conceived decisions and actions we can (and all too often do) choose that impede and imprison our spiritual evolution for a time, just as there are positive decisions and actions we can choose that progress it, but we are never judged by Higher Authority for actions chosen that temporarily restrict our spiritual progress, even when those actions cause harm to ourselves and to others (nor are we ever judged by the evolved spirits who will interact with us in our afterlife in order to help and guide us).

That having been said, there does exist a ‘judgement day’ that each and every one of us, without exception, will volunteer to face following physical death, but that ‘judgement day’ (actually ‘life review’ apropos the ripples we have sent out during our earthly lives is the more accurate and appropriate term) will only take place once we are completely ready for it, and with our full consent. Furthermore, we will find that it originates not as any form of retribution from our Divine parent, but as an illuminating exercise originating from an altogether more surprising source:

Ourselves.

The Life Review.

Picture this: I’ve shaken off this mortal coil and moved on into the afterlife. I may have been on ‘the other side’ for a few days or for considerably longer. Inevitably, however, one truly beautiful ‘day’ (the term ‘day’ is relative) will inevitably dawn when there will be a knock at my ‘door’ (again, relative) and I will find a team of friends and advisors standing on my ‘doorstep’ (you’ve guessed it…relative). They will greet me openly and warmly, then ask me if I’m ready to watch ‘the film’ yet.

Now I’ve enjoyed going to the cinema on many an occasion during my time on earth, but on this particular day my response to that loving team that has come to support me during and after my viewing of ‘the film’ might just be: ‘Um…Ahh! I need to pop back into the house if you don’t mind… I think I’ve left the gas on. You go ahead. I’ll be with you shortly.’  Or: ‘Silly me!! What am I thinking? This shirt doesn’t go with this jacket. I can’t possibly go out like this. – I’ll be with you as soon as I can.’

They’ll see right through my bluster, of course, having listened to similar delaying excuses from millions of hesitant souls in the past. They won’t put me under any pressure, however, leaving me free to go with them to watch ‘the film’ only when I feel I’m absolutely ready to do so.

And so, on a future morning when I’ve finally gathered enough courage, I’ll take that trip down to the ‘local cinema’ (relatively speaking) surrounded by my team of helpers and advisors.

And there I’ll sit there in the centre of a row of plush seats, perhaps with a choc ice and a soft drink… the lights will dim, the heavy curtains will swing back and, following a rousing orchestral overture, the screen will illuminate and the titles roll, as follows:

21st. Century Reccia presents:

A Michael G. Reccia film.

Starring Michael G. Reccia.

Directed by Michael G. Reccia..

Screenplay by Michael G. Reccia..

From a story by Michael G. Reccia.

I’ll then find myself sinking ever deeper into my seat as I watch every scene from the life I’ve recently lived on earth.

I’ll laugh. I’ll cry. I’ll cringe. I’ll stamp my feet. I’ll hide my head in my hands. I’ll choke on my drink.

There will be a cast of thousands. Action! Drama! Spectacle! Sadness! Joy! Laughter! Love! Embarrassment! Sharp intakes of breath!

But, as the lights come back on and the end titles scroll, I’ll know a whole lot more about how effective my life on earth has been from the point of view of my personal spiritual progress… About the times when I triumphed. The times when I ‘failed’. About where I now am, vibrationally speaking, as the evolving spirit I really am. About what I will need to do next, and the opportunities that will be made available to me should I wish to raise my vibrations further and travel onwards. There will be much reflection, much discussion, much advice, much guidance, at the end of which I will look at the life I have just lived on earth in a completely different, more enlightened way. There will lots of: ‘Aha! So that’s what that was all about! Now it all makes sense!’ moments.

‘The film’ will not have been presented to me as a judgement, but rather an opportunity to learn and to take stock.

‘The film’ is a feature we will each bring ourselves to watch at some point following our physical death and reacclimatisation to life in one of the spiritual cleansing spheres…Knowledge of the existence of which should perhaps prompt us to regularly consider, whilst we’re still in the ‘here and now’, exactly how each scene in our lives thus far has played out. Are we acting and interacting appropriately with our true selves and with others, currently? Are we living and expressing our spirituality fully and fulfilling our life’s mission… or do we feel we need to make adjustments to the script while we have time – before the final reel begins to unspool?

Joseph devotes an entire chapter to the subject of the life review in his book Your Life After Death. Here’s a short extract from that chapter, with Joseph explaining what happens initially as a soul’s life review unfolds…

‘And, with great love, we – and a hierarchy of spirits they cannot see, and the angelic influence that is with them – access the record of the life they have just lived, as contained within their soul and accessible with permission within the field of energy that their soul exudes; a record of everything that that soul has done from the minute of its individualisation (which, again, is a misnomer) or its expulsion from the Godhead to the present day (we will talk about this at a later date). Everything is contained and everything is readable: every heartbeat; every thought; every intention; every fear; every dream; every pain; every smile; every act of kindness. Everything! Not only that, everything that that soul has experienced outside of its field is also contained within its soul: every sight; every number-plate; every window; every drop of rain… everything is there to be viewed and reviewed. Not as you would view a television set or a film but (because the soul-memory contains every holistic view of what has happened to that soul) everything can be reviewed with its original intentions, emotions, feelings and sensations. In other words, the life that was an illusion (but so real as an illusion) is available for viewing in fullness once again. The only difference between the soul viewing it as an illusion and re-viewing it as an illusion is that this time they are aware, whilst being in the review, that they are also outside of the review.’

The life review is nothing to fear – more an end of term report than a harsh judgement. However, it does bring into sharp focus the need for every soul on earth to be mindful of their actions whilst here.

All our actions have consequences, something the power-seeking, the manipulative, the controlling, might like to consider at this pivotal time in our history… All these things may be presented hidden behind a smile and a surface illusion of good and noble intentions here, but there is no hiding from our true selves, no concealing our true motives. Ultimately, we will replay for ourselves, up there on the big screen, in high definition and with surround sound, every move we have made whilst on earth. Those moves, revisited, will reveal to us how we have either elevated our vibrations as a result of having made them, earning us the right to live in increasing bliss and express ever-expanding spiritual capability, or locked ourselves for a time into lower, more restrictive vibrations which will prevent us from moving on until we have worked out of our system the lesser, denser motives that have placed us in a ‘reality’ we really won’t wish to take up permanent residence in.

…In short, we write the script for our tomorrows via our actions today.

Horror story?

Love story?

Action film?

…That’s entirely up to us.

* For an essential examination and explanation of this consciousness-changing event please see the Communications book ‘the Fall’. 

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Christmas Special Part Two (of Three): All good children go to Heaven.

Or so they say –

But what is heaven? And does heaven actually exist?

Heaven is defined as follows according to popular belief: a place regarded in various religions as the abode of God (or of gods) and the angels, and of the good following death, often traditionally depicted as being above the sky.

So, according to this definition, the spirits who visit us, who communicate with us, must come from and be in heaven, mustn’t they?

Well, actually, no – they don’t, and no, they’re not.

‘Heaven’ is a moving target, and still quite a ways off following physical death on earth…

The spiritual ‘spheres’ – the non-corporeal dimensions – that surround and interpenetrate this one, are not heaven, but instead a series of refining vibrational fields through which souls journey in order to ‘cleanse’ themselves of the effects of the Fall (Joseph’s fourth book explains all) and finally move beyond them and out into Infinity as the angelic beings they really are, at which stage you could say they have found heaven.

So, if we’re not instantly going to heaven – where DO we go to upon leaving this world behind?

As discarnate spirits we are only able to sense and operate within the confines of the vibrational waveband – the energy frequency – we have built around and into ourselves as a result of our actions and reactions during our time spent on earth.

As an example, I can only dimly see spirits from the highest of those spheres.

I once encountered a spirit who was so far ‘above’ me in terms of vibration that I could only see him (or her) as an outline made up of brilliant pinpoints of light.

Another highly evolved spirit looked to my eyes like a slight disturbance of the surrounding atmosphere – like ripples on water superimposed over my normal vision. …A ‘transparent’ person…hardly there at all from my earthly point of view.

High-vibrational spirits such as these have to slow down their energy frequency – slow down their vibrations – to allow me to sense anything of their presence at all.

Why? Because their energies are so much more refined than mine are presently, locked as I am into a dense material body, that I can’t easily perceive them using my earthly or psychic senses.

We also have to consider that we create our own heavens and our own hells…

We are creative beings – what we imagine, believe and put energy into we construct and draw towards ourselves and, following our departure from this world, the strength of our beliefs and expectations determine what we perceive and consider to be reality around us.

Unfortunately, this ability to make our beliefs and expectations manifest can blind us to what is really going on around us and can trap us within temporary surroundings of our own making…

…Picture, if you will, a beautiful cathedral or church.

Consider its Inspiring architecture.

Observe its imposing, golden altar.

Marvel at its vaulted, gold-leafed ceiling.

This is a place for communing with God…

…And a place within which, it will surprise you to learn, one of my close relatives was, the last time I was allowed access to it, imprisoned.

My grandmother on my father’s side was a lovely, gentle, sweet Italian lady and the most devout and to-the-letter of Catholics. She attended mass every single day – often twice – hobbling the distance between her house and the church in pain and with difficulty in her later years, and spending much of the rest of her day with her rosary beads clutched in her hands, earnestly praying.

My father, who has absolutely no difficulty in reaching me from ‘beyond’, once appeared to tell me he was upset and saddened regarding his mum’s situation in the afterlife. She had created around herself an elaborate church following her death, and spent her whole time on her knees before the altar in that self-built illusion, head bowed and hands clasped together, praying to Jesus and to God.

He’d tried on numerous occasions to reason with her and coax her out of there but she wouldn’t listen and insisted that that was where she was supposed to be. With great sadness my dad had to give up. Only she can release herself from that illusion and move on, and she will only do that once she’s grown tired of being in it and begun to recognise the illusion for what it is. For all I know she may still be there – the single occupant and worshipper in an otherwise empty church that she has created, and that has absolutely nothing to do with heaven or with God.

I’ve come across many similar circumstances when connecting with the afterlife..,.

– Such as the scientist who had died from a heart attack while in a wood, with his physical body lying at his feet covered in autumn leaves. Denying to himself that he still existed, he had been brought to my attention so he could be helped out of the self-imposed prison he’d placed himself in via my guides telling me what to say to him.

Having become aware of my sudden appearance in his ‘private little world’ he proceeded to argue with me about existence, told me he didn’t believe in an afterlife or me and that I was a figment of his imagination, and wasn’t for moving on until the guide working with me brought his mother to see him, at which point he stopped in mid-conversation, his expression melted into a smile punctuated with tears of joy, and he left the illusion of his physical body behind and walked off into the Light with his mum

– Then there was the case of the young World War Two Spitfire pilot who had crashed his plane in the French countryside and become trapped in his cockpit, the plane’s joystick piercing his chest and pinning him to his seat. Actually, he’d died at the moment of impact but didn’t realise this and had been sitting, waiting – in our terms – from that day during WWII until the moment Joan and I were called on during the night to visit the scene of the crash in our astral bodies and help release him from his illusion. Spirits from higher spheres of consciousness had tried time and again to coax him out but he dismissed these as ‘ghosts’ and would have nothing to do with them. Someone still in a physical body – still with an earthly ‘vibrational signature’ – was therefore needed. We approached the plane and talked to the young man, urging him to come out of his Spitfire. Peering through the canopy I could see, stuck to the instrument panel, photographs of his mum and dad, which he kept glancing at. ‘Keep him talking,’ said the spirit who was advising us. He then momentarily left us, returning with a young man whose face suddenly changed, morphing into an older version of itself until it matched exactly the appearance of the boy’s father in the photograph. Recognising his father, for this is who the spirit was, the young man cried out ‘Dad!’ shot up out of his seat, abandoned his injured mage of himself, climbed out of the plane, hugged his father and together they walked off into the Light and disappeared from sight. The image of himself the young man had maintained for so long hung in the air in the cockpit of the plane for a few moments as a thin, empty shell, before crumbling into dust and nothingness..

– On another occasion we were once again called upon during the night to venture out in spirit form, arriving at a most peculiar destination. A perfectly preserved Lancaster bomber from World War II stood on a small island of earth that was floating in and surrounded by a thick mist. Its crew – three young men in flying gear – stood in front of the plane. We spoke with them and one of the three – the gunner, a young man with flaming red hair, was most indignant, saying to me, ‘It’s all right for you, you’ve had your life! I haven’t!’ We were eventually successful in persuading the plane’s crew that there was a greater reality beyond the one they had trapped themselves in and they walked off into the Light together. The young pilot with dark hair, who was far friendlier than the red-haired chap, turned back to me just before they disappeared and simply said ‘thank you’. The island and the bomber – the construct they had created and maintained, slowly faded away and we were drawn back into our physical bodies.…

Which brings us, having questioned heaven, to consider hell.

Hell is popularly defined as: a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death.

Well, you could say the spirits I’ve mentioned above were each trapped in a hell – or hells – of their own creation.

But what of spirits who have been, during their lives on earth, and still are at core, violent, manipulative, perverted, self-seeking, manipulative, controlling … souls who have rejected all forms of inner and outer illumination? Wouldn’t hell for them be finding themselves, following physical death, in a light-starved place where everyone is exactly the same, in outlook and approach, as they are? As explained earlier, personal energy signatures are attractive – magnetic – dominant vibrations and beliefs harmonising with and attracting more of the same.

As a backdrop for such spirits there exists a sphere of consciousness popularly termed ‘the lower astral’. …Souls such as these have to go somewhere. They’ve ‘died’ – they’re non-corporeal, but their vibrations are so low that they cannot as yet enter any of the more enlightened spheres. They have to go to a place whose vibration is in synch with theirs. There’s a way out of this, however… all they need do is ask for help – reach for and acknowledge the Light. Guidance is then instantly at hand to help them raise their vibrations sufficiently to escape this hellscape of their own collective making.

In examining heaven and hell we’re led quite naturally to the concept of judgement – the belief, often drummed into us by religion, that God will take us to task for all the things we’ve done ‘wrong’ during our lives, and will punish us – often, it is suggested, eternally – for our transgressions.

– We’ll examine ‘judgement’ from a spiritual perspective in the concluding part of this Christmas/New Year special blog. I do hope you’ll join me for Part Three from January 4th.

( In closing, may I also take this opportunity to sincerely wish you and your family a liberating, inspired, spiritual, protected, happy and progressive New Year.)

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Christmas Special Part One (of Three): The one-way street.

No tinsel or crackers, I’m afraid. In fact, in the words ahead I’ve chosen an unusual subject for the Christmas and New Year period, but one that is ideal for us to consider and investigate during this ‘quiet’ period when many of us are divorced for a few days from the usual distracting material demands of life. It’s also one that, although you might not think so, gives us many reasons to celebrate.

So, allow me to begin by drawing your attention to the most unlikely – and seemingly unfestive – of Christmas symbols: The one-way street road-sign.

From a spiritual perspective the one-way street sign is the most important and highly significant road-sign on Earth – you’ll find a version of it present in most countries, quietly sitting by the roadside, symbolically reminding every soul on the planet of something many of them prefer not to consider at all…

Because for each of us, whether we’re a new-born baby, whether we’re very young or very old or somewhere in-between, and regardless of our status or perceived success or lack of it in life, we are all heading in one direction.

Life is a one-way street.

From the first second of it there’s no turning back – just a constant movement forwards towards the inevitable.

In conversation with a friend some years ago, and while discussing the high-handed attitude someone had taken with him simply because the other person had a great deal of money and, therefore, regarded themselves as more important and better than him, we reflected on the fact that we were all heading in the same direction.

‘Yes,’ he said, looking at the floor. ‘We all end up in a box.’

Take heart, Dear Reader – it’s only the trappings, the overcoat, the shell that ends up in a box… the true ‘us’ ends up somewhere very different…

But where, exactly?

Well, let’s reach beyond that ‘veil’.

Let’s draw back that final curtain.

And together, in this blog and the two that follow, let’s take a few trips to that distant shore. And please don’t worry – your visa has been stamped, your papers are in perfect order and your safe return is guaranteed. …Unless, of course, Higher Authority knows something we don’t. 😀

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s begin this journey by travelling back in time some sixty-two years and visiting a very strange five-year-old boy with a most unusual take on life –

– Because this peculiar five-year-old is obsessed with death.

I remember lying in my bed on numerous occasions, surrounded by the comfort and security of my beloved books, and becoming more and more depressed as I attempted to make sense of the certainty that everybody has to die.

‘What’s the point of doing anything, achieving anything?’ I’d wonder.

‘Why bother, when at the end of it all there’s only death?’

Then the obsession would fade for a while. I’d comfort myself by telling myself that death was a long, long way away for five-year-old me, and I’d gradually push the concept out of my mind.

But it would always come back.

Little did I consciously realise then that death was destined to become a major defining theme throughout my life, and that it would take centre stage once again and quite soon, relatively speaking, when I found myself ‘sitting’ to develop as a medium.

– Because it was during that time that I began with regularity to see ‘dead people’ – although to call them dead is an insult and a misnomer – they’re actually far more alive, more vital, more energised than we are.

So, as I developed my mediumistic gifts (and as detailed in other blogs here) I began to regularly connect with guiding spirits – members of a dedicated ‘soul group’ team – wonderful, illuminated beings who would, from that time onwards, accompany and advise me on what would prove to be an extraordinary journey. That advice was carefully calculated to steer me along a set of tracks that would inevitably lead to Joseph and to what would become known as ‘the mission’.

And, in order to prove to me that I wasn’t going mad or imagining things, these spirits set up my mediumistic development so that my spiritual teacher Joan was able to see and hear the same guides I was seeing at the same time I was seeing and hearing them. What a great way to give me confidence!

After sitting for mediumistic development with Joan every Sunday afternoon for seven full years, I then began to tune in psychically on behalf of the increasing numbers of people who visited me for spiritual readings, and also on behalf of congregations at spiritualist churches, where I would take services. And whenever I stood up in a church or sat one-to-one with someone, people from ‘the other side’ would instantly be there, eager to talk and to reconnect with their loved ones.

And I persevered with and actively sought to evolve the work because – thank God – those people in the congregations and the private sitters knew exactly who I was talking to. The information I was being given by discarnate communicators was in no way vague. On the contrary, it was very specific. Let’s look at just a handful of examples:

* A man communicating with me from ‘beyond’ during a church service told me he had been in the military during the second world war, that he had been killed during that war, but that he had not been killed in combat. ‘I was blown to pieces’, he said, grinning. ‘I was all over the place.’ A man in the congregation that I had been directed to and who acknowledged the information told me after the service that he had served in the military with the communicator. He knew him. A group of these then young men had been fooling around in the barracks with live hand grenades and one had gone off and killed the spirit communicator who had been talking to me.

* On another occasion a lady who was my PA at a time when I worked for an advertising agency was sitting at her desk opposite me one day when suddenly a spirit – a young man – appeared next to me, told me he had been killed in a motorbike accident, that he’d once dated her and that he was worried about her because she had recently become quite depressed. He was so insistent I tell her he was around that I eventually did so and she immediately went pale – she knew exactly who was talking to her, and confirmed everything he’d said.

* At a funeral service I was conducting, the spirit whose body was being committed – the son of a friend – a boy who had committed suicide by jumping from a bridge – appeared next to me as I officiated and held up a bunch of keys. I could also see that one side of his face was bruised and disfigured. I relayed this information to his father, who said the bunch of keys was the only thing he had on him when he was found, and that his face had been damaged on one side because of the fall from the bridge (He’d lose the damage as soon as he realised he could think it away, BTW).

On numerous occasions I have also been given a sudden and unexpected ‘heads-up’ whenever a family member or a close friend is about to depart this world…

* One morning, for example, while standing at the top of the stairs, I psychically saw my departed cousin walk in through the front door, wheeling his trademark green Raleigh bicycle by his side. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs, propped the bike up in the hallway, looked up at me with a piercing expression, then disappeared. Less than an hour later the phone rang. His father, my uncle, had passed away.

* On another occasion I rushed into the front room of my house because I had heard one of the tall, heavy bookcases topple over and fall to the ground with a tremendous crash. Absolutely nothing was out of place in the room. Nothing had fallen over. The next day I was given the news that my uncle in Italy had died.

* I was sitting watching television with my mother one evening when we both heard the loud and crystal-clear tinkle of an invisible bell in mid-air. We looked at each other in surprise. Early the next morning a friend rang to tell me that a mutual close friend had been killed in a car accident… as it turned out, at the precise time we’d heard the bell.

I was also privileged, as my one-way street of life led me inexorably to a connection with Joseph and his soul group, and in preparation for the Communications that were to come, to be taken on occasion to visit the group soul in its own environment to witness its habitat and workings. I won’t cover those visits here as I’ve detailed those delightful journeys in other blogs on this site.

So… where are these personalities and visions coming from? Why do I on certain occasions see great shining spirits and on others connect with people who appear to be living very much as we do now? What exactly is life after death like? What’s it like ‘over there’ and what, exactly, lies ahead for each of us?

Fortunately, Joseph would be the one to answer all these questions and many more in very great detail in his acclaimed third book Your Life After Death.

It’s a vast subject, of course – and one much too huge to shoehorn into the confines of a trio of blogs – but we do have enough room to touch on some of the key themes from Joseph’s book – aspects of the afterlife you may not have considered before, but which will hopefully expand your view of the next stages of our existence.

So please join me for Part Two (posted December 28th), and Part Three (posted January 4th), in which we’ll shake up and turn around some of the popular and major misconceptions regarding the afterlife.

In the meantime, I wish you all a peaceful, protected, restorative and Happy Christmas.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Thirteen: Keep it simple; take it within.

For the neophyte spiritual seeker hoping to acquire sound higher-consciousness knowledge with the intent of understanding themselves better and the part they play in the scheme of things as a spiritual being; wishing to advance and improve their lives, the lives of others and bring some much-needed peace and Light into this world, the esoteric landscape can prove to be something of a minefield, can’t it?

There’s much in the way of puzzling terminology out there – so many differing practices for the individual to discover and consider along their journey towards spiritual understanding and enlightenment… some seemingly at odds with each other; some using confusing elitist terminology, and others claiming to provide exactly what the seeker is looking for.

As the ‘instrument’ (the discarnate soul group spokesman Joseph’s term for me when placing me a trance state as a means of bringing through his series of addresses collected as the Joseph Communications books) I’m afraid I can make no such claim.

I wouldn’t dare.

Having worked with and on behalf of ‘higher authority’ for forty+ years now, and having done so by pushing the little ego/personality ‘me’ out of the way as much as I possibly can on each occasion to allow as pure a flow of information to come through as possible, I occasionally find myself troubled at what is sometimes put forward as spiritual ‘truth’ by various sources, and have at times witnessed the innocent and unwary being pulled off course, or, worse, disillusioned into abandoning their spiritual quest completely as a result of encountering complexities the mind has initially found alluring but which, ultimately, are revealed to be hollow and empty.

But how on earth do you decide, when presented with the hundreds of choices you can make, whether a particular practice, system, teacher or group is the correct one for you? After all, as a newcomer to spiritual values, one simply has to trust others at some point in order for their knowledge and methods to be passed on to you.

Worry not. Fortunately there are two simple, golden rules to follow when approaching the information expressed through the diverse individuals, groups and literature available to the spiritual seeker.

The first is this: If it’s complex, it isn’t coming from the right place.

Consider this…why would God (substitute ‘the Divine’, ‘Creation’, ‘Source’ or whatever terminology you feel comfortable with to describe the loving force that links us together and flows through everything) hide His/Her/Its plan for humankind and creation in complexity? Why would the Divine teacher, wishing you, a facet of Him/Her/itself to evolve, to become more spiritually capable and confident and knowledgeable, offer you enlightenment in couched terms, presenting you with cryptic clues that then lead to concepts you cannot understand?

Here’s what Joseph has to say on the subject of evaluating his – or any other – communications purporting to have originated in higher realms:

‘Always go within; always test what you are being given and, if it comes up short, if it is too complex, if it does not contribute to a change in global experience for the better – throw it out!’

Which leads rather neatly to the second golden rule: Take it within to see if it feels right for you. Or, as Joseph advises:

‘Do not look outside of yourself for protection in communicating with God and with the spirit realms. Look inside – you are connected to God and God will tell you what is right and what is wrong and will protect you always if you go along that route.’

And just how do you do this? By bypassing that tunnel-visioned fight-or-flight calculator in the head we call the physical mind. Are you aware that you have, in fact, two minds… the second, more powerful one residing within your heart? This is the mind that connects you to the Divine. This is the mind which, if calmly and regularly approached in silence; if listened to and acted upon, will always steer you correctly.

Try this simple heart-mind visualisation… Sit quietly, eyes closed. Relax and imagine you are standing inside a representation of your head-mind, which looks like a circular room crammed with active TV screens and radios – a room full of cacophonous noise. In the centre of the room is a spiral staircase leading down and away from the chaos and noise. You descend this into in a second circular chamber… peaceful, welcoming, full of warm, loving Light – and containing a comfortable armchair. Here you sit in peace and total security, and, in the silence, away from the clamour and demands of the head-mind, you ask your questions of yourself and the Divine, then wait in silent anticipation for answers to come.

And, with practice, come they will. Either as a ‘YES’ or a ‘NO’ – as a voice or a feeling from your chest area that permeates your being – or as a definite sense of what to do next as you ask if the spiritual information/teacher/group under your consideration is correct for you or could mislead you. At the end of this meditation, in your imagination climb the staircase into your head-mind, with its now-silent screens and radios, and, asking the Divine to close your ‘chakras’ – your body’s spiritual energy ‘gateways’ which may have opened during this visualisation – return slowly to your normal every day consciousness.

The above is an abbreviated summary of the much more comprehensive and detailed meditation video from my free Step-by-Step Course in Higher Consciousness Living. I guide you through every step of the process at:

You’ll also find the complete Module from the course, examining and explaining the heart-mind connection in greater detail and focussing on progressive heart-mind exercises, right here:

– Don’t be afraid to ask the Divinity-within daily for protection and guidance, and to be your constant companion, instructor and compass in all your spiritual seeking. Activate and refine your heart-mind connection, take notice of your intuition, and you will know in every circumstance exactly what is right for you, and which steps to take next as your spiritual journey unfolds.

Within you lies a permanent connection to the Divine.

Trust and nurture it and, with practice, you will know without doubt who and what you can trust outside of yourself not only in matters pertaining to your personal spiritual development, but in all of life’s challenges and situations.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Twelve: Return to earth or move on? You choose.

The well-documented phenomena of certain individuals recalling in uncanny detail places, people and circumstances they have never visited, met or experienced during the life they are living at this moment lends much weight to the argument for reincarnation – the rebirth of souls time and again into the earthly arena and a physical life – being fact. I, personally, have access to fragmented yet distinct and detailed memories from two past lives, so the concept of us visiting earth to take multiple trips on the merry-go-round, as it were, is one I acknowledge completely. In contrast, the ‘spiritual logic’ behind the accepted explanations for reincarnation is something I could never quite grasp or come to terms with.

Allow me to share some of the reasons why the traditional scenario of reincarnation made me uneasy…

…With literally a whole universe of opportunity to explore – and that’s just on a physical level of ‘reality’– why on earth (forgive the pun) would we be confined or condemned to a repeating pattern of existence on this single planet? Surely that is counterproductive to growth through spiritual experience when there has to be far more waiting for us to experience in the vastness of ‘out there’, on other worlds and in other scenarios, than there is in this one, small, limited corner of space? Wouldn’t it pretty quickly become a matter of ‘been there, done that’ for us as visiting/revisiting souls, with there rapidly being very little more for us to gain or to learn by constantly coming back to this planet? Also consider this: is there no escape for us? Are we doomed to live time and again on earth until the planet is consumed by its dying sun at some point in a far distant, yet inevitable, future? Then what? Whither the souls of mankind when there is no physical earth and we have no physical bodies to reincarnate into?

Seek, it is said, and you shall find. And, fortunately for me, when Joseph elected to use my mediumship as a means of making the soul group’s urgent message for humanity available, the vexing question of reincarnation was one of many topics at last answered to my satisfaction via his insights, with the whole concept finally making sense to me.

You see, Joseph is insistent that reincarnation is actually a matter of personal choice; that we only ‘come back’ here if we choose to do so, and if we don’t choose to do so, we don’t need to.

Wow! What a revolutionary new way of looking at the subject!

Well, not really, if we logically think things through. In a great many approaches to spiritual truth there exists a universally accepted core constant almost all spiritual seekers can agree upon, and which can be summed up in just two words: free will. Isn’t it generally acknowledged that we have been granted the freedom and right, by whatever definition of Divinity we might believe in, to do whatever we want to here without fear of restriction, learning as we go along by the balancing action of both our mistakes and our triumphs, and thus advancing and evolving as spiritual beings? Using this yardstick surely free will must – must – also then apply to the process of reincarnation? If it doesn’t then the notion of all-encompassing, unconditional free will becomes invalid, and the term would need to be qualified by the caveat certain terms and conditions apply. 

Also consider that, as Joseph advises, this process of reincarnation by choice has always existed. If that is true, you might justifiably raise the question of, why, then, would so many souls elect to return to a planet we have all but decimated environmentally and into appalling conditions that range from poverty to war, debilitating illness to unspeakable physical, mental and spiritual cruelty? Are we absolutely mad? No, explains, Joseph. Not mad… Addicted. – Addicted to the earthly experience and its many and varied seductive enticements… and the collective consciousness, or sentient ‘Field’ of mankind * as he describes it, that we contribute to subconsciously minute by minute via our thoughts and actions, aims to keep it that way.

Is it seriously being suggested that we come back of our own volition, refusing to move onwards into increasing spiritual bliss because we miss, for example, the fifty-inch television, the cup of coffee, the chance to make it bigger in business than we managed to last time around, or to get even with someone, or to pursue the girl/boy next door again?

Yes. It is.

Here’s Joseph, from Your Life After Death, on the subject of trying to advise many souls when they pass over following physical death that the best way forwards is through the spiritual realms and not via another incarnation on earth:

‘…the key question at this point is: do we advise them to go back to the earth? Here we will differ with many books you will read, with many doctrines you will hear of and with many beliefs you will hold, because – no, we do not. Let this be written large in your book:

NO, WE DO NOT!

At this point we pray that they will choose to move on through the spiritual spheres without returning to earth.

Again at this point you have to understand that the soul has free will, and we advise the soul of every consequence of their choices at this point – every consequence (with a bias, of course, towards the soul moving away from physicality) – but the soul has free will. With far too many souls, because of their beliefs whilst they have been on earth that they have not yet got rid of (also, in some cases, belief in reincarnation or belief that they have to come back), they say, I want to choose the rocky path.

How amazing!

Here is a smooth path: it is a gentle slope; it takes you upwards; you can interact with other souls to express love more readily and to eliminate those areas from yourself that are holding you back; it goes through beautiful meadows; it goes up the mountain gently into the sunlight – into the God-Light.

Here you have the heavy path, the rocky path, the path of physical pain, the path of mental anguish.

Which do you choose?

…And so many souls say, I choose the rocky path – not because it is noble but because it is known.’

Joseph also advises that ‘karma’, that glibly quoted action-equals-consequences binding agent that supposedly ties us into endless lives here until we ‘do the right thing’ in each and every aspect of our existence and escape the wheel of birth/death/rebirth, is, in actual fact, not the jailer of our own actions we make it out to be but simply the baggage of past existences we inevitably pick up again from our personal locker when we choose to come back here and live another life.** In other words, karma is a by-product of immersing ourselves voluntarily in a further earthly life, and its existence and working out is not the reason reincarnation takes place. Karma, observes Joseph, can be discarded like a worn out set of suitcases the moment we consciously decide to let it go, walk away from it and distance ourselves from our self-imposed cycle of earthly lives – it really is that simple.

Why, then, has this liberating information not been made available to us before now?

It has.

It has always been available, says Joseph, but it has been masked, edited, distorted or omitted from many spiritual doctrines by society or religion for reasons of politics or control, and by the effects of the Fall, that single calamitous event we were involved in millennia ago which, metaphorically speaking, blinded us to the Light. For countless ages the need for complexity and distraction we exhibit through our physical minds has chosen to filter out the simple spiritual truth behind our reasons for reincarnating; truth which lives on in our heart-minds, waiting for us to bypass that bothersome computer in our heads in moments of meditation, to move down into our heart consciousness, and to access and rediscover it in silence and contemplation.

So – come back or move on? A few final words from Joseph’s book Revelation:

‘Souls have lost their way, and the souls who repeatedly request and, therefore, experience reincarnation on this level think that they have found heaven, but they have only found a jail of their own making. The soul is supposed to pass through this level, not to repeatedly visit it and repeatedly be encased within it. There are beauties beyond, there are opportunities beyond, a ‘breath of fresh air’ beyond that millions of souls don’t want to take. And it is our mission to bring freedom of knowledge to souls on earth so that they live each day of their lives to the full, and also to free some of the souls from the constant cycle of reincarnation they put themselves through, having bought into the illusion to such an extent that they can see nothing else. We weep for them because they believe they are free, yet they are the ones that are cut off from the people who love them on a higher vibration, and there is nothing we can do other than, drip by drip, try to alter their consciousness through information such as the texts I hope to continue to bring to you on a regular basis.’

 – It is vital we live out and cherish every moment of our current lives here, every second of our allotted time on Earth, of course, but concerning a ‘what next?’ I’ve already made my decision.

…How about you?

*For more on the Field, see Joseph’s book Revelation.

** From Joseph’s book the Fall.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Eleven: Afterlife interaction leads to irrefutable proof

Many years ago, while still working full time and concurrently seeking in my personal hours to develop my mediumship, I made a new friend as a result of a mutual love of model-making.

I subsequently met his wife and son, becoming a frequent visitor to their home and eventually deciding to share with them the fact that I was mediumistic.

Initially this seemed to have been a mistake, as in response to my reveal they were shocked, more than a little sceptical, and as much as said ‘prove it to us’. My friend’s wife was particularly interested in me ‘proving it’ by providing her with a reading. I obliged, recording the messages from some very enthusiastic and vocal spirits on cassette tape for her and describing at length and in great detail the family members I was communicating with.

To my dismay the lady stared blankly at me, her scepticism gaining strength as the reading unfolded. At its conclusion she told me she had been unable to recognise any of the personalities wishing to speak to her and that none of the information given by them meant anything to her.

Seven days later, however, her attitude regarding her reading had completely changed. In the interim she had phoned her mother, had played the recording for her and had been shocked when her mum began to sob as she listened to the tape. Tears rolling down her cheeks, she said she knew every family member and friend communicating, and also confirmed all the information that had been given by them (my friend’s wife was unaware of the many of her departed relatives – including one who had emigrated to America and had been amongst the communicators).

As you can imagine, from this point onwards my friends were considerably more open to the possibility of life after death and the reality of communication with departed friends and relatives. A further reinforcement was provided for them a few weeks later when, whilst visiting their home, I received an sudden urgent communication from a guiding influence which I passed on to my friend, emphasising that he needed to ask for protection for his car and his garage that evening, and that if he asked for that protection everything would be all right. I added that I had no idea why I’d been prompted to give him this unusual warning. He looked a little bemused but said he would do as he’d been asked.

When I next saw him he told me that every garage in the row of seven or eight that stood behind his house had been broken into during the night following the message… every garage, that is, with the exception of his. His was the only one that had escaped the criminal intrusions – all the others had suffered from forced entry, theft and damage to cars.

I recall these incidents because I often marvel at the evidence-building way in which the realties of life after death and communication with ‘departed’ spirits are introduced to those not initially open to such spiritual concepts – in this case my friends were seeking ‘proof’ and had been given exactly that in highly unusual ways that left them in no doubt that there are ‘more things in heaven and earth’, opening up their minds and hearts to a bigger picture of existence.

The way a spiritual message reveals its truth in its own time is often as important as the message itself…  Meticulous behind the scenes planning and timing is at work, with the intention of waking souls to higher vibrational realties through the progression of a series of happenings that are known about in advance by ‘those upstairs’.

It’s a great pity, however, that our materially-based perspectives on life make it so difficult for us to accept that we are being contacted by those who have gone on ahead of us. It wasn’t always so, as the following short excerpt from an address given by Joseph soul group member ‘Silver Star’, taken from his communication with Jane and myself titled ‘The thinning of the Veil’ (featured in the Communications book Many Voices; One Mission) reveals:

‘There was a time when it was far easier for men and women to talk to the spirit worlds because there was not such a build-up of a history of physicality as there is now, and our job – your job – is to thin the veil. All the books that you are putting out and all the teachings that we give you are concerned with thinning the veil because, as you convince more people that there are different worlds, you thin the veil because they contribute to the global-consciousness and there will be areas that are thinner as a result.

‘We would like to see centres eventually where people come to pray and to meditate but also to take note of what they see and pick up spiritually. What is wrong with your spiritual circles on Earth is that people do not put aside a room or a time or an attitude of mind that will thin the veil. It is vitally important that you sit at the same time every time you sit in a circle because your mind, independently of you, then builds in that that hour is special …that hour is spiritual …that hour is a thinning of the veil. So, ritual is important but we look forward to centres being established that people can visit to divide this world that they perceive as being ‘real’ from the spiritual world. We look forward to a time when we don’t need the Big Indian’s* Boat or any of the other illusions that are used to transport people from this side of reality to a heightened state of reality.**’

Society’s increasing ‘worship’ of the material and deliberate sidelining of the spiritual has made our earthly journey a poorer, more isolated experience, with the subject of life after physical death seen at best as a topic to be held at bay and reluctantly discussed in hushed tones, and at worst to be dismissed as a naive fantasy.

Despite this, work goes on in higher dimensional realities to here and there provide irrefutable evidence of our continued existence once this particular journey has reached its conclusion.

Delivered by Joseph with the specific intent of demystifying the mystery and explaining precisely what lies ahead for each of us, I cannot recommend his third Communications book Your Life After Death too highly to any and all seeking a highly description of the afterlife coupled with the comfort of knowing as an absolute certainty that physical death is not an end but a new beginning…

… And there is absolutely nothing to fear.

* A further key member and communicator from Joseph’s soul group.

**A whole other fascinating subject which is covered in depth in the books and which I hope to examine in a future blog.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Ten: Giving yourself and others the daily turbo-boost that changes everything

Many of us feel helpless when faced with illness and challenge, and immediately look to outside sources for a solution to our every problem.

Yet we can, with a little determination and a few minutes set aside each day, find solutions to even the most overwhelming of circumstances and make vital contributions to our own wellbeing and also to the state of the world.

Irrespective of religious belief or scientific assumption, at ‘core’ each of us is a creative spiritual being, and, as such, our thoughts have great power in that they become the reality we experience within and around ourselves. You construct your personal world around you second by second as a result of your conscious and subconscious viewpoints, beliefs and choices. You also contribute daily to global trends, influencing the quantum ‘field’ of humanity: the matrix of connected thought-consciousness that manifests as ‘reality’.

Don’t like what is happening to you right now? Then, for the aforementioned few minutes, choose to turn off the chaos around you – those seductive phones and computers – and to become still, quiet, contemplative, redirecting your consciousness from outside of yourself to within yourself for the duration of your ‘turbo-boost’. Once spiritually centred, and having moved your point of awareness down from your head to your heart (Need an explanation of what this means and help in doing it? See Module Three: A Change of Mind – Making the Heart Connection) you then have the power to ‘change your story’ through visualising the life you want during this imaginative, peaceful time and infusing your aims and intentions with waves – with visions – of ‘white Light’.

Similarly, if you don’t like what’s happening globally, you can quietly go ‘within’ and work on ‘changing the global story’ by visualising the peaceful, harmonious life we all crave at heart in your imagination, then infusing that ‘dream’ with the same white Lightand sending it out into the world.

Put simply, if you believe you are at the mercy of a painful, unhappy personal existence you help to consolidate and maintain exactly that state of affairs via the creative, constructive power of your thoughts.

If you believe this to be a violent, corrupt world, and that others have power over you and you have none, you reinforce and maintain that vision via the constructive nature of those beliefs, sent out subconsciously to help perpetuate the negative ‘status quo’ of society.

If you truly desire an end to personal and global pain, hardship and conflict, you – you personally – have to use the Divine gift you have been given to help build a happier, more harmonious individual and societal ‘reality’ via your daily ‘turbo-boosts’ of Light visualisation.

This doesn’t mean you ignore the problems and challenges you, humanity and the planet face. It does mean approaching those problems and challenges in a different way – understanding that they are malleable, able to be changed… and that you have the means to change them by focussing on the Light-within from the viewpoint of what you really are: a spiritual being capable of drawing on, generating, streaming out and directing immense power for good.

Why not decide to have a good – no…a great – day today? Why not decide to dismiss what is so blatantly wrong here and ignore the biased narratives we are being fed and urged to invest in, and instead work to create a happy, wonderful day for yourself and for everyone else …today, tomorrow and every tomorrow from now on?

The moment you investigate and acknowledge your spiritual abilities the road to positive personal, societal and global transformation becomes far less bumpy – and things can and will get better for you and for the world as a result of your power-packed daily turbo-boosts.

Here’s a short excerpt from the second Communications book Illumination, offering just a tiny peek into Joseph’s take on this personal and world-changing subject (which he examines and explains in far greater detail throughout the book):

‘It is no use complaining about society if you are not prepared to switch that switch. It is no use saying, ‘What can I do?’ It is no use saying, ‘I’m not bothered, I’m safe.’ You have to take the view that it is up to you.

‘Each person has to take the view that it is up to them to change things.

I’f you believe it is up to the politicians – you are wrong. If you believe it is up to the clergyman – you are wrong. If you believe it is up to local councils, or police, or solicitors, or judges – you are wrong!

‘Society changes with you.

‘There is an expression: the buck stops here. The buck stops with you! You, as part of God, are all powerful. You, as part of God, are all goodness. You, as part of God, are all Love. It is only because you have forgotten these things that you do not manifest them in your society at the moment.’

…In conclusion, you should by all means seek out the advice, help and wisdom of others on your journey through life, but it is immensely beneficial to also realise that a potent power with which you can heal yourself; a potent power with which you can heal the current trends of society, not only exists but is a constant built into you, able to be accessed and activated at any time.

Bringing that power to bear in your own life and the lives of others is simply a matter of having the discipline to turbo-boost each of your days by spending a few precious minutes each and every day connecting with the real you and bringing out – sharing – the Light you discover within your heart for the benefit of yourself, your loved ones, and every life on Earth.