The influence of grief on the deceased

- 2 - the nature of the personality, the soul, are things that bother these people long after their beloved relatives have crossed over. The old images of Heaven and hell, the terrible threats of eternal damnation, are met with a lack of understanding and rejection. Just how enormously important after- death pastoral care is, show the psychic transmissions from the deceased. Research by the Church into this field would have been appropriate! – But where are the researchers? Bad Salzuflen, July 2000 1. The purpose of Grief Grief is the mental response to a loss, for instance an object or another human being. Grief is an emotional reaction like joy, fear, rage etc. Grief, like all other emotions, serves to help with dealing with life, in this case with the aim to live a relatively normal life in a world changed by a loss. It is therefore a healing process, but one that can leave scars behind. Grief often begins with a shock, particularly when dealing with the death of a loved individual. One cannot accept what has happened consciously or subconsciously. The bereaved only gradually adjust to the new reality. One eventually becomes grateful for what one had, even though it has been irretrievably lost. The grief will have been successfully overcome once one gets on with one’s life according to the new circumstances. This approach is purely mundane in regards to the bereaved and their concerns, ergo pure psychology. But what are the effects of grief on the deceased human being, the one that is mourned? Grief, like every emotion, is a specific form of processing information within the human brain, it consists after all of the stringing together of thoughts. And these can emanate, thereby influencing other entities or beings, either terrestrially or non-terrestrially. 2. The Essence of Death Today’s sciences, in particular the natural sciences, have furnished some very meaningful insights about our environment and our human body. But all conventional sciences ended up to now with or at man’s death. Birth and death are seen as the beginning and the end of the human existence. But people generally do not know why they traverse this route between the two alleged endpoints. Birth is usually seen as a joyful event whilst death on the other hand is seen as the merciless destroyer. People fear death when they see it approaching. Death does however also depress them when it concerns close relatives or good friends. A lot of people will completely surrender to the pain, that is to say, they commiserate the deceased and above all, themselves. Many even lose heart about their life, see it as meaningless and try to commit suicide. This makes a specific appearance when mothers lose their only child or when spouses lose their intimate partner. The grief over the loss and the yearning for the departed, loved individual can be boundless. The thoughts of such mourners, their unspeakable pain, can be directed at the deceased day and night and also their wish to them back. They do however give no thoughts to the repercussions that might develop for the deceased. They hold the opinion that, as they are dead, they will not feel anything anyway. But does the notion of “death” mean that the deceased no longer exists at all, that their mental existence is extinguished irrevocably and that they no longer sense anything that takes place on

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