- 29 - is contained and remains contained within the soul. Even with the new circumstances and impressions the deceased is confronted with, their lifelong peculiarities, experiences and drilled in information are not that quickly forgotten. One must find the time to surmount all of this. Specifically, those that never dealt with the doctrines of the hereafter during their terrestrial existence require some time to overcome this. Because the new world will be something completely alien to them and they must initially take their time to familiarise themselves with the minutest details of the world of spirit. And this isn’t always easy. They find it a lot harder to discard the old, the mundane and to adapt to the new world. Because images of their terrestrial life are vividly conjured up and fill their senses over again. Their terrestrial life left so many impressions behind that they are not easily gotten rid of. You can make the same observation with yourselves: Something that cuts deep into your soul hurts you and painful memories remain with you for a long time. Things that hurt you deep inside are not easily forgotten. This memory remains for some time, if not one’s whole life. And now, when you arrive in this other world, you’ll find that all of these memories are still there. They are quite alive and they are, where it seems necessary, plastically presented to one or the other. Past experiences remain for a long time within the memory of these home comers in this way. But when people know this doctrine of the spirit and already dealt and familiarised themselves with the world of spirit during their lifetime, when they endeavoured to put the things of the flesh aside to some degree, when they decided to not tie themselves to material thing too much, when they look at unpleasant events and memories with other people with a forgiving heart, these memories will not adhere to the soul all that long, they will be overcome and forgotten through forgiveness, through understanding and through love. Once one is no longer tied to painful memories, one is able to move a lot freer in the new world and also adapt to its order and its laws a lot faster. Because one has familiarised oneself during one’s lifetime and to know all of this is a great advantage.” Experiences in the world of the hereafter Many of the deceased that do not bring the requirements with them to immediately lead a fulfilled and ordered life in contentment, after their terrestrial death, might helplessly roam about or find themselves otherwise in need instead. They are visited by somewhat more advanced entities in the world of the hereafter and these will helpfully take care of the destitute. They work, as far as it is possible in rare cases, with human communities on this Earth. The examples of support and pastoral care for needy deceased reported in the above article, personally witnessed by myself, developed from such a cooperation. The American psychiatrist Dr. med. Carl A. Wickland (1862 – 1937) participated in a similar interworldly community activity 80 years before. He had a psychically gifted wife and with her help noticed that some of his psychiatric patients were not actually ill in a medical sense, but possessed instead. This meant that their mental confusion and their delusional ideas were the result of a paranormal alien influence, produced by otherworldly entities that had attached themselves to psychically gifted patients. Dr. Wickland saw his assignment to not only help his terrestrial patients, but also help the otherworldly entities to extricate themselves from their ominous interrelationship. He wrote an extremely valuable book titled “Thirty Years amongst the Dead”, Los Angeles 1924, about his activities that lasted over more than 30 years. It was also translated into German in 1952 (23) and because of the abundance of its subject matter, very readable indeed. Wickland reports in this book (23, P. 43): “We found out that my wife was an excellent medium and that disembodied entities could easily take possession of her body. As an answer to her doubts about whether it was right for us to disturb the ‘peace of the dead’, otherworldly entities asserted that we still had completely false ideas about the conditions after our demise.
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