The influence of grief on the deceased

- 25 - Gerda Walther had a series of further experiences with Ernst Röhm after that. She reports about these in her lectures, but she omits Röhm’s name and replaced it with a pseudonym, namely that of a mountain guide who had met with an accident. She reports the following about such a lecture (19, P. 540): “In 1937, I was invited to give lectures in Holland. On the afternoon of the 13 th of April, I was invited for tea by a member of the board of the Amsterdam branch of the 'Studienverenigung voor Psychical Research', a Dr. Hermann Wolf (an emigrant from Cologne). Professor W. H. C. Tenhaeff was also present. One had also invited the Dutch clairvoyant Mr. E. Benedikt, but without telling him who was going to give a talk on the 17 th and the 18 th . I equally didn’t know anything about Mr. Benedikt. But even if he would have heard about me, he would not have been familiar with the true story of the ‘mountain guide’. I was therefore just another unknow lady as far as he was concerned. Even though my introduction to ‘Mr. Benedikt’ didn’t tell me anything as I had not heard anything about him, I immediately felt that a powerful spiritual energy emanated from this man. He said: ‘Someone has come with you; it is a thickset man with a scar across his face. Wait a minute, I hear a word: Rom, Rom. But not the city’ he said. He then pointed at himself: ‘Rom, that’s me! He now produces a shotgun and shows it to me. – Do you happen to know what this means?’ ‘He has been shot’ I said, ‘and as far as I know in his prison cell. His executor was too gutless to get him out of there and to execute him according to the rules.’ During the lecture, I told them the story of the ‘mountain guide’. Mr. Benedikt, he had been amongst the listeners, asked me after the lecture whether the ‘mountain guide’ possessed an inner, illuminated aura. I confirmed this. He then explained: ‘All I want to mention here is that the ‘mountain guide’ stood to the right of the speaker during the lecture.” In closing, Gerda Walther debates the question of whether one could simply be dealing with a fantasy image, maybe a projection of a shadow lover according to C. G. Jung, though their subconscious. She gives the following answer to this (19, P. 542): “The whole thing is beyond reproach to me, but it is naturally more difficult for outsiders. A projection?! The whole experience has been too real to me. But besides everything, I do not believe that my subconscious would have projected one of the Nazis that I loathed so much. There were also many Non- Nazis amongst the victims of those days. If at all, my subconscious could have easily projected one of them. And how do you explain all the unknown details that were confirmed by his sisters sometime later? And what about the vision Mr. Benedikt had as I entered?” Thus far the utterances of Dr. Gerda Walther. They show that a deceased can receive the thoughts of a person on Earth and as this case shows, can even make contact with that person. 19. The Deceased consoles the Husband left behind on Earth An English nurse called Joy Snell , she lived at the turn of the last century, reported in her book “The Ministry of Angels Here and Beyond”, London 1918 (17) about the things that she had learned about the service of angels on Earth and about life in other spheres of existence beyond the physical world. She wrote the book because angels had told her that she had been endowed with rare psychic powers and that she was allowed to see things that most people do not get to see until after they are dead. This is why she should tell others some of the thing that have been revealed to her. She gained the gift of clairvoyance from a specific point onwards, that is to say, she was able to perceive entities from another sphere of existence. This made it possible for her to acquire knowledge that is beyond the grasp of people without a paranormal gift. But Joy Snell thinks that one can receive help from angels from the world of the hereafter without these extraordinary psychic abilities. She gives the following example of such an incident (17, P. 75):