- 23 - for this and I sensed that things must be pretty bad for me. I understood my parents less and less and I ended up hearing just a babble of voices. I suddenly saw myself lying there. My mother cried and shook me one more time. But the doctor only shook his head. I could see all of this clearly. What happened after escapes me. I have been thinking about it ever since. What I remembered next was standing at the graveside during my funeral. My parents were crying and my little sister had not yet grasped what was going on. They constantly thought of retrieving me from my coffin and they had to be forcibly stopped from doing so. The musicians at the graveside played pitifully and I didn’t like the words of the minister at all. But I couldn’t perceive anyone from the hereafter. The cemetery emptied after the funeral. They all left and I stood there all alone. I never made contact with anyone after that. I did indeed see beings once in a while and I assumed that they had also died. But we didn’t talk to one another. I didn’t dare to approach them, because they didn’t take any notice of me.” The deceased furthermore reported that he had always gone to places (he means here on our Earth, from whence he has been unable to extricate himself so far) where he could hear music. This hadn’t been possible all that often, because beautiful music is hardly ever played anymore. We now asked the deceased whether he had not taken refuge in prayers due to his difficult situation. He answered: “Beg and pray? – Does one continue to pray after one has died? I thought that one only prayed on Earth. I prayed there so much, always asking if I may devote my life and myself completely to music. One also always prays on Earth: Lord, give us eternal peace!” We then asked him whether he had already found eternal peace and whether he had already arrived in heaven. He opined: “Oh, no, probably not. I don’t really know, because I don’t know much about it.” We furthermore asked him whether he would like to find a new homeland, where he could once again hear music? The deceased answered: “Can I actually do so again? I am dead! I can no longer touch musical instruments. I have often tried this (he means terrestrial instruments when he visited our Earth). We now drew his attention to the fact that he could enter another, more beautiful world if he was prepared to join God. He would have to ask him to send him a helper, an angel who could explain the new world to him and to take him there. God has his messengers and they convey the prayers of the deceased when they come from the heart. He began to pray: “God, please help me! Send me someone to help me so that I will end up where I belong. I already noticed that I no longer belong where I am. But I don’t know anything. God, please help me! Help me so that I can also see more.” We made it clear to him that there would certainly also be other otherworldly entities around him, only that he could not see them the way we could also not see him. His eyes would virtually have to be “opened” first. And this is why he had to ask God with all his heart. After he had done so and after he had prayed the Lord’s Prayer with our help, he reported: “I do believe that I can now see a being behind each of you. They stand very close around you, like blurry figures. But I can presently not see they faces.” After praying again, the deceased said: “I can now see the outlines of their heads. Should I really see more than this? Yes, it is strange, I now see bright spots where their heads are supposed to be. But I still do not see any eyes. They are indeed the most important things. I can tell by them whether they mean me well. God, Father, listen to my pleas, help me and open my eyes so that I can see their eyes and their mouth and so that they can talk to me when I hear things.”
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