The influence of grief on the deceased

- 28 - On the 30 th of June 1998, I answered this lady by writing amongst other things: “I thank you very much for your long letter from the 15 th of August 1998. I can well understand your great sorrow and your longing for your departed husband. What particularly pleases me is the fact that you had such comforting encounters with your husband. These encounters might help you to allow your husband find his way in peace in the otherworldly world according to your heart’s desires. Ask in prayers for God’s helpers to guide him along the right path. I wish you lots of comfort for the coming time. With kind regards!” 21. Advice to Mourners What conclusions can be made about the accounts presented here if one regards them as factual and not as inventions? – The human personality apparently continues to exist beyond death. A new stage of life begins for it after the end of its terrestrial life and this in a world that is differently constructed and not yet accessible to us. It begins with a new level of development, a new stage of learning. The transmigrated do however not immediately discard all perceptions from their previous life and those they left behind. They sense their thoughts to a certain degree, they feel their grief and if it is excessive, they feel depressed and drawn back to Earth. But how should the bereaved behave when close relatives die? To answer this, I would like to first cite a letter that Mrs. X sent me in December 1991. She writes: “Dear Professor Schiebeler! In my massive distress and sadness, I turn to you and I would like to ask you whether it would be possible for you to make contact with a specific entity in the hereafter? Since my husband died on the 31th of August this year from pancreatic cancer, my state of mind has been filled with heaviness, sadness and yearning for my husband. I have not been able to dream even once up to now about my husband, even though my thoughts are constantly with him from the time I get up in the morning until I go to bed at night. You have to know that I was happily married to my husband for 30 years. I have to add here that we spent 24 hours a day together during all these years, vocationally and also privately. You can therefore imagine how this separation effects my body as well as my soul. In my great stress I began my search to find out what happened to my beloved husband after his terrestrial demise. So, I bought esoteric books and cassettes from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Dr. Moody and Emil Mattiesen’s book ‘The Personal survival after Death’. I then ordered your three books via the Silberschnur-Verlag in Neuwied and your book ‘Life after one’s terrestrial Death’ in particular impelled me to find your address via your publisher, because I wanted to personally turn to you with my plea of whether you had an opportunity to make contact with my deceased husband with the help of a medium. I would like to ask you very cordially, if it is possible for you to fulfil my great request. I would be calmer and I could deal with my fate more easily if I had the certainty that my husband is well and that he continues to live beside me in an ethereal form. I cordially ask for a reply and I remain with best regards Your Mrs. X.” I answered this lady four days later and writing and I ask all the readers of this script who are possibly suffering a comparable grief, to relate this answer to themselves.