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Insights and Inspirations 3: No such thing as a dumb animal

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A new series examining aspects of spiritual life you may not have considered before.

Part Three: No such thing as a dumb animal

On my daily stroll I regularly encounter a number of dog walkers – all shapes and sizes (the dogs, not the owners). Every so often a cat will also cross my path, either greeting me with mock friendship prior to unsheathing its claws and attacking my ankles or, with disdain, scooting away over the nearest wall.

For many of us dogs and cats are our only ongoing connection with the animal kingdom. Our pets notwithstanding, we tend for the most part to forget that our planet is not the exclusive domain of human beings and that we share our world with countless other expressions of life. Many humans consider themselves to be occupying the uppermost branches of the evolutionary tree, feeling that other forms of life, while perhaps passingly appreciated for their beauty, grace, agility and so on, are beneath us on all counts: intellectually, emotionally, spiritually.

We couldn’t be more wrong.

Animal forms come under the stewardship of deva spirits, those behind-the-scenes architects of our world that are the planners and bringers into being of the landscapes against which we play out our lives here. Devas are responsible for the existence of the animal kingdom, specific devas providing the energies that manifest and maintain specific non-human forms of life on this planet. As such, the animal forms under their guidance and imbued with their energies have far greater intelligence, empathy, understanding and capability than we give them credit for. I could share with you many incidents drawn from personal experience that add weight to the above sentence – far too many to shoehorn into the length of this article. I will however, attempt to recount within its limits just a handful of the most significant examples to back up my earlier pronouncements.

Take the case of my lovely cat Penny. She came into my life at a time when I was wading through a two-year period of ongoing emotional trauma and was finding it challenging to manage my life. Throughout this demanding time Penny was a constant companion whenever I was at home, sitting on my knee like a dog, snuggling her head into my chest and offering me a constant stream of affection. One evening, at a time when my problems were at last beginning to clear and I had all but recovered in health and confidence, Penny hopped onto my lap and I heard a voice in my head utter the single word: ‘Goodbye’. She then immediately jumped down and went to the door to be let out. The next morning she hadn’t returned home… and later that day, while searching, we came across her unmarked body lying by the side of the road. She had known her time with me was over, and that her mission was accomplished, and she had said farewell – letting me know she was about to leave.

Staying with the subject of cats: following the intense moment which had seen my spiritual mentor Joan lose her mother, she and her best friend Betty found themselves sitting silently in her front room as they attempted to come to terms with their grief. Joan had two cats, and as the ladies sat there both felines entered the room together. They moved as one to the centre of the room then parted, one making straight for Joan, the other for Betty. Each then showed their chosen human a huge amount of affection and concern for a few minutes, placing a paw on each side of the ladies’ necks and gazing into their eyes compassionately. Next, as if by some unseen signal, both cats simultaneously jumped down, passed each other as they again crossed the room, then went to the lady opposite the one they had just been comforting, jumping up to share their affections with this new focus of their compassion and understanding. Some minutes later they simultaneously leapt down and walked out through the door together.

…A lady called me one day in my capacity as a medium. She told me she owned stables and that one of her horses was currently very depressed. Could I possibly come out to talk to and listen to her, please? I did so, and the horse, as a clear voice in my head, told me amongst other things that she had an equine companion she had previously met up with daily but was currently no longer taken to see, and that she had a favourite tree she used to be taken to stand under – a place where she felt secure and peaceful – somewhere she could think clearly. These trips had also stopped for some reason. I related all this to her owner and she confirmed the information as fact, taking immediate steps to resolve the situation.

When Jane and I first became a couple, she owned a rascally and mischievous spaniel named Molly, who exhibited human levels of intelligence and comprehension with shocking frequency. On one occasion Molly insisted on behaving badly and making noise while I was attempting to receive information from the Big Indian, a key member of Joseph’s soul group. He turned his attention to her and sternly commanded her to leave the room. She did so immediately, hiding in the pantry and having to be coaxed out by us once this loving but no-nonsense visiting spirit had concluded his communication and left.

On another occasion I felt I should try to connect with Molly spirit-to-spirit in an attempt to understand what made her so darned awkward all the time. She let me place my hands on her head and immediately I did so she, as a spirit, began to talk to me psychically. She described the kennels she had been raised in as a puppy with their ‘big iron gates’ (later confirmed by Jane); said she had been brought up with Labradors (Jane informed me that the kennels in question also bred Labrador puppies); told me she didn’t like the breeder (Jane subsequently revealed she didn’t take to her either); that she missed her mother; that her name was ‘all right’ but she preferred Polly to Molly, and said she was simply being playful on those occasions when we considered her behaviour to be deliberately anti-social.

photograph of a brown terrier

My Cairn terrier Vicky contracted diabetes and was becoming increasingly sick despite her daily injections. It became apparent that she was suffering greatly and so I asked her psychically whether she wanted to go home. ‘Yes,’ she replied, a heart-breaking answer but it would have been cruel and selfish to cling on to her. On the night following her passing I was abruptly woken up by her distinctive barks – three of them to let me know she was perfectly all right.

Joseph, of course, is far more capable of explaining things from a spiritual perspective than I am. Let’s conclude, therefore, by considering the significance, stature and role of animals in our world – and our negative influence on them – from the soul group’s viewpoint. Here’s Joseph from the book Trance Mission, addressing the following question from a member of the audience: What is the role of the animals in our evolution?

Joseph: Poor, innocent, lovely, wonderful animal forms!

…Poor, innocent, wonderful, lovely animal forms!

The animal forms are created by angelic beings of a different nature to mankind. They are created by devas – by great, wonderful nature spirits. And just as you are a part of a group soul – in other words you are part of a family of souls that work together with certain purposes in mind to elevate themselves and others – devas become animal forms; they extend themselves into consciousness expressed through animal forms.

The animal forms are as relevant as you are. Each form of nature is as relevant and as important to God as you are. But, again, an effect of the Fall is for mankind to believe that they are the pinnacle of evolution in physical matter.

Not so!

As a result of the Fall you ignore at best – you dominate and cause cruelty to at worst – the animal kingdom. They have a right to be here too because they bring back to the devas that they are part of evolution, so that the devas evolve, move on, move upwards, create new forms. It is a cycle: the consciousness goes back; it brings with it experience; the consciousness is brought forth into new forms and new experiences. That is how things should be.

So, from the point of view of the animal kingdom, they are existing on this planet as they should. But I should qualify and tune that a little because there are animals, are there not, that are violent? There are animals that feed on other animals, and you look at the animal kingdom and say: ‘Why is there such violence? Why do they have to kill each other?’ It is not in order to survive. They are acting and have acted for years and millennia on the instructions of the Field that seeks always more discord and more violence; on the instructions of the Field that say: ‘You have not enough power. You have not enough energy. You need to take it from that form, from this form …or you will not survive.’ And so we – mankind – through our thoughts, through the Field, have harnessed, shackled animals with the need to survive by preying on other animals. We have polluted their thought-processes whilst they are on Earth.

Originally there was a harmonious blend between all physical animal forms, including yourselves, because originally you did not need to kill to eat. You did not need to eat! You simply needed to recognise and take in and give out energy. In the harmonious time before the Fall you took in energy from the Godhead, you sent it out from your heart-centre and you created. There was energy for all because the misconception that you were separate from God hadn’t yet taken place. And the animal forms that were part of Creation and were as loved as you are, were free to come and go and exist without violence, without preying on each other.

So, the animals are extremely important but I have to say to you that everything that is of nature in your world is extremely important. God does not say: ‘This blade of grass is more important than a human being. This human being is more important than this tiger. This tiger is a bit more important than this penguin.’ God sees you as the Whole of Creation that you are. God sees you as parts of Himself – integral parts of Himself. There is only one organism in this room tonight. There is only one organism in this town tonight. There is only one organism in this country here tonight. There is only one organism in this continent here tonight. There is only one organism around the globe tonight – including the globe itself…

…GOD!

So…dumb animals? Not a bit of it. Their actions speak volumes… as indeed they are capable of doing if we know how to listen. They have an equal right to be here; they are an equal expression of Creation, and their interactions with us prove them to be, in many cases, far more loving, giving, selfless, caring, spiritually knowledgeable beings than certain of the human souls currently walking this Earth.

I, for one, am immensely grateful for their presence and innocence, and often remind myself that they have much to teach me.

Insights and Inspirations 2: You Are Not A Fixed Point in Time and Space

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A new series examining aspects of spiritual life you may not have considered before.

Part Two: You Are Not A Fixed Point in Time and Space

A curious opening statement from the viewpoint of a seemingly material existence – but not so strange when one considers that the physical manifestation so many of us suppose to be the totality and encapsulation of ourselves is only a small part of what we, in greater reality, actually are.

In the course of my experiences over forty-plus years spent working as a medium I have been made aware on numerous occasions of the fact that our human form – this seemingly finite and confined assembly of flesh and blood we consider to be ‘ourselves’ – is simply a convenient, temporary housing for the spirit being we really are, and that that spirit is not as inextricably tied into our physicality as we might think it is. Allow me to present a little evidence to support this claim by way of just a few examples taken from my personal history and that of my spiritual mentor, Joan…

One: Many years ago, while in the neophyte stage of my spiritual development, I attended a ‘closed circle’ meeting every Tuesday evening which was led by a medium friend of mine – Bruce – and which comprised of a group of six people that included myself and Joan, my spiritual teacher. I have to admit that this event, for reasons too complex to explain here (but which I intend to cover at some point in the future as they, too, offer valuable insights regarding spiritual progress and awareness), could be quite a hit and miss affair, and on the occasions when, at best, nothing in particular appeared to be happening, Joan and myself would take ourselves off into a deep meditation with the intention of putting our hour spent in the circle to some constructive use. A couple of days after one such session had taken place Joan went to visit a friend who was hospitalised at that time. The lady in question seemed quite surprised to see her but said she was happy that she had come to visit her again so soon.

‘So soon?’ queried Joan.

‘Yes,’ said the lady. ‘You visited me just the other night, after all… Tuesday, I believe.’

‘I can’t have done,’ Joan replied gently. ‘I have an appointment every Tuesday evening.’

‘Oh, yes, I’m quite sure of the day,’ said the lady. ‘And you brought a friend with you. That nice young man with the black curly hair and the beard.’

I remember having ‘blanked out’ during the circle that week whilst meditating, and during that ‘gap’ in my everyday consciousness Joan and myself had gone ‘walkabout’ in our astral bodies and decided to visit Joan’s friend in hospital, a lady who had never met me physically yet subsequently described me in detail, placing our visit at the exact time we had been meditating in the circle.

Two: I was having a haircut. The young lady snipping my curls (Where on earth did they subsequently disappear to?) seemed distant and troubled, so I initially remained silent, refraining from the usual light banter one traditionally indulges in on such occasions. Suddenly I became aware of a young man – seemingly a discarnate spirit – standing next to her and wishing to speak to me. He explained that he was in a hospital bed, showed me the room where that bed was located, then went on to explain that my hairdresser regularly visited him there. He told me she held his hand and talked to him in a specific way whenever she visited him, informed me of his preference in music, and also said he was able to travel at times and had seen and spoken to his departed grandfather, who had told him it was not yet time for him to pass over.

The young man was quite insistent that I pass on everything he had said to the young lady attempting to make me look respectable… and I eventually bit the bullet and did so. She looked shocked, explaining that her boyfriend had recently been in a motorcycle accident and was currently in a coma at a local hospital, with her regularly visiting him. She confirmed his tastes in music, the special way she held his hand when visiting him… in fact, all that he had told me about himself and his situation.

opened door

Checking in a few weeks later I discovered that the young man had made a complete recovery since my last visit. It was not, as his grandfather had advised, his time to leave the earth, but his spirit had been able to leave his body, visit his girlfriend unseen, talk to me and also interact with spirits from higher vibrations of reality while his physical body lay unmoving and in a coma in a hospital bed.

Three: We are able to travel at night during our sleep time… around the world and to higher dimensions as the spirits we really are, freed temporarily from our bodies – if, that is, we haven’t locked ourselves into those bodies as a result of excesses: too much food, too much drink, too much work, too much worry… or as a consequence of ill health. We don’t always remember having done so but travel we do.

On many occasions in the past I have been called upon to assist in ‘rescue work’ – working alongside my spiritual mentor Joan to accompany, and/or talk to some departed soul or souls with a view to persuading them to move onwards into the spiritual realms and to leave their deceased physicality behind – something which, for a variety of reasons, they are often reluctant to do. Sometimes I would return to my sleep and experience a total recall of the events of the previous night upon waking (verified, when talking to Joan, by her recalling exactly the same events). Sometimes I would simply discover there was a ‘hole’ in my memory of the night before – a ‘gap’ indicating that my consciousness had been elsewhere for a portion of the night. On one particular occasion Jane physically witnessed my return from such an ‘outing’, seeing me as a solid, physical being enter the bedroom, cross the floor and get into bed beside her, despite my earthly body already lying next to her in bed asleep at the time.

Then there was the occasion when I was staying with my grandparents as a child, sleeping in a big bed next to my grandfather at night. One night I witnessed him, in his astral form, against the backdrop of a blaze of white light, float in through the door, move towards the bed and reach out for me, realising, as I cried out in shock at this super-real vision, that he was already in bed in physical form next to me.

Let’s end this handful of examples with an amusing tale concerning Joan, who, as a naturally curious and inquisitive person, would often take herself off in astral form during spiritualist services, particularly if she felt the medium holding the service was ’below par’. On one particular afternoon she moved out through the wall of the church she was visiting and found herself in the house next door, first examining ornaments on the mantlepiece in the living room, then turning to discover she was standing next to an elderly gentleman who was soaking himself in a tin bath in front of the fire. Sensing, but not seeing, her presence he shivered involuntarily as though someone had ‘walked over his grave’, and at that point the Big Indian, a key member of Joseph’s soul group, who was a guiding influence in Joan’s life as he continues to be in mine, stood in front of her, folded his arms and looked at her with the sternest of expressions. Embarrassed, she moved back through the wall and into her physical body, suitably chastened for having gone where she really shouldn’t have.

The point of the above recollections… and of this article?

To convey to you the fact that you are not the fixed and locked-in point in time and space you probably consider yourself to be.

That there is far more to you.

That your experience on earth is a fragment of a much bigger picture, and that ‘time’ and ‘space’ are not the confining, rigid concepts they appear to be.

Certainly, your physical body and mind represent ‘You Central’ on earth, but every second you are here, connected to that physical and mental manifestation of yourself, you remain a spiritual being. As such you are capable of – at times when the clamour of this world has been sidestepped or quietened by you, such as when you are asleep or in a suitable peaceful state of contemplation – tuning into your greater consciousness… that more complete expression of you capable of accessing knowledge and guidance that can and will help you to successfully and constructively navigate your journey through this life (and understand your true reasons for being here).

Should you wish to further examine the concepts offered by this article, safe connection to your greater consciousness, and to the Divine guidance within you, is humbly offered via my free Higher Consciousness Living (thejosephhub.com), all modules and videos of which can be found on The Joseph Hub – Your Online Resource For Spiritual Guidance & Development.

I’ll be delighted if you decide to join me, via the course, for the unfolding journey of self-discovery, personal freedom and limitless possibilities we can take together.

Insights and Inspirations: Spiritual Development And Mediumship Are Moving Targets

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A new series examining aspects of spiritual life you may not have considered before.

Part One: Spiritual Development And Mediumship Are Moving Targets

Many years ago a lady from the congregation approached me following a service I’d just taken at a spiritualist church (almost always people would form a queue after a service, wanting even more than the intense burst of spiritual energy you had just expended in the last hour and a half or so, and not realising that you only wanted two things at that point: a cup of tea and to go home). In almost all cases each of their questions would be preceded by the identical opener: ‘I know you must be tired, but I just wanted to quickly ask…’

This lady was different, however. She fixed me with a steely gaze and queried, a little aggressively: How long do you think it will take me to develop spiritually?’

‘I don’t know’, I replied. ‘I sat for seven years to get to the point where I could take a service.’

She literally snorted at this, saying: ‘I was thinking around a week or so. I’ve bought these tarot cards and I want to start charging for readings.’

My reasons for recalling the above incident are twofold: First, I was appalled at the time, and still am, by the realisation that this lady’s sole reason for wishing to develop any latent spiritual gifts she might have was so that she could make money from them (don’t get me wrong, those who work spiritually have to be able to live and to pay their bills, but that shouldn’t be their primary motivation in doing the work) and, second, it amuses me to consider that the delicate and intricate business of spiritual ‘awakening’ would in her case take ‘around a week’ and then would then be an accessible, integral, and fully formed part of her persona.

Spiritual development is a road – a highway that stretches ahead of us from the point of our first stirrings of spiritual awakening to infinity. It’s an open-ended and ever-expanding process whereby the individual at first becomes aware of an initially intermittent desire to discover who and what, exactly, they really are and their place in the scheme of things and then, as a result of a growing urge to satisfy that desire that eventually cannot be ignored, gradually experiences a reconnection with their spiritual consciousness that adds to their knowledge and completely changes their perspective on life.

Then, as their life journey continues, and via the regular accessing of the promptings of the ‘Divine-within’, of inspirations from their greater self, and, in certain cases, of the additional harmonious input of wise discarnate spirts who communicate with them in the name of the Light and enlightenment, this gently unfolding stream of guidance and illumination proves to not only be the key to their own spiritual progress but also a means of delivering transformative heart-Light energy to every soul on earth, to every life on earth and to the planet itself.

As with spiritual development, mediumistic development is also a moving target, as I have discovered (and continue to discover) over the four decades that it has been the dominant motivator in my life. Many people, and indeed a number of mediums themselves, are of the belief that the sole purpose of mediumship is to bring through ‘messages’ from departed family members  and friends to those who are still on earth.

Not so.

True, the delivery of such messages, with their obvious implication that there is, in fact, life after physical death, is definitely one of the functions of mediumship, and has its place, but it represents only a small part of what can truly be achieved by the medium if they are open to the possibility of their gifts continuing to evolve with a view to them bringing instruction, enlightenment and much-needed positive change to humanity.

In higher vibrations than those which, relatively speaking, exhibit conditions similar to those on earth (and from which many of the personal ‘messages’ received originate) exist more highly evolved spirits who have accessed and regained a great deal of the spiritual knowledge we lose when we choose to incarnate here – spirits such as those who comprise the Joseph soul group, who are anxious to reconnect us with that knowledge; who are fully aware of and troubled by the present evils and insanities of our world, and who wish to share information and techniques that, if heeded and practised, can return this planet and every life on it to a state of harmony, finally banishing violence, depravity, greed, corruption and injustice from our experience here forever.

black and white dartboard

My eventual conscious connection with Joseph and his vast soul group (I had been super-consciously connected to them since before birth – a truth I became aware of once my personal spiritual development process began) came about because of a burning and ongoing desire to be of service spiritually; to answer my own questions regarding the nature of myself and of this and other realities, and a wish to then share any knowledge gained with as many souls who would be receptive to it as I possibly could. As an early ‘apprenticeship’ I worked mediumistically for many years delivering personal messages of the type mentioned above, but at the same time I tried to introduce some spiritual concepts – some seeds of greater consciousness – into each reading and, when conducting church services, preferred to take Sunday meetings that would allow me to spend a portion of my time on the platform talking to the congregation about spiritual matters rather than concentrating solely on clairvoyant communication.

And my mediumship continues to evolve for two reasons: One, I have never allowed my mind to become closed to new possibilities – there has never been a point at which I have become satisfied with – and therefore confined by – the perceived limits of my mediumship, and, Two, the disciplines of communication with higher realities are always observed, practiced and maintained to keep them in ‘tip-top condition’. Crucially, I am always aware that I do not and cannot dictate what I receive and when I receive it, but that those who guide me from Joseph’s soul group are in charge of the content and nature of each communication. I answer their call and follow their instructions, as it were – always being aware that it is they and the Divine-within who hold the greater knowledge, and that it is my role and duty to act as a conduit and to distance my little self from the communications as much as possible, thereby preventing myself from sub-consciously influencing and colouring them and, as a result, enabling them to flow through my mind in as pure a way as possible.

So – the reason for me writing this blog is to emphasise the fact that spiritual development and mediumship are ongoing, unfolding, long-term processes… constantly moving targets. All too often the spiritual seeker expects ‘instant mash’ as my spiritual teacher used to call it.

Please don’t expect everything at once.

And please don’t feel discouraged if your development doesn’t appear to be progressing according to a timescale your conscious mind has decided is ‘reasonable’ and in a direction your conscious mind has decided is the one it should proceed in.

Spiritually speaking we never stop learning. Your spirit – the real you – will respond to the disciplines you adopt, and reveal and hone any gifts you have been given at a pace that is right for you. When the pupil is ready, as the saying goes, the teacher will appear. Simply as a consequence of you wishing to develop spiritually (for the right reasons, of course) you will be led into situations and introduced to those souls on earth and beyond this reality who can advance your development when the time is right for each new step in that development to manifest itself.

Similarly, my advice to up-and-coming mediums would be: never become satisfied, comfortable and complacent with what you can do. Never ‘box in’ the unfolding of your mediumship. Always seek the next revelation, the next connection – not as a means of aggrandising yourself or what you are capable of in the eyes of others, but in order to bring to humanity the spiritual insight and teaching that is so sorely needed at this time. Dedicate your life to helping your brothers and sisters remember who they are, to making them aware of the good they are capable of, to illustrating and suggesting the ways in which they could be living their lives if they choose to do so, ways that would and will completely and positively transform their experience here…

The journey never ends – and that’s an exciting prospect.

We continue to grow and to evolve. The only limits to our spiritual development and/or our mediumistic capabilities are those we mistakenly decide to impose on ourselves.

The Joseph Perspective: Full Series

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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

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

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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.

cartoon movie showing on theater screen

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’. 

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

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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.)

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

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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!

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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.

The Joseph Perspective: Keep it simple; take it within

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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.