The influence of grief on the deceased

- 5 - sad and cry over me, I am therefore not able to leave this house, because every tear they shed over me draws me back to the house and ties me tighter to them. What am I to do?’ I called out to her” ‘Come with me, you should no longer enter this house.’ This soul was not prepared to obey me and showed me all the work and the distress in the house. But I said to her: ‘You can be in contact with your loved ones in a different way. Come with me!’ She followed me and I was able to guide her through the heavenly gardens whereby I tried to explain to her with great patience all the various flowers and the glory that could be experienced here. This made her forget her house on Earth for a while, but she soon felt the attraction to her loved ones again. I entreated her: ‘Do not return! Bring all the love that you still feel for those you left behind to bear on all your siblings here in the world of the spirit. Look after them with the same love that you feel for your husband and your children.’ I then led her to the souls that had not yet been incorporated in God’s plan of salvation, souls that walked around either idly or in a sad frame of mind. She obey me and she was able to give the love that was within her to a lot of these unhappy souls. After she had performed her task I accompanied her back to her house on Earth. She was now able to give them a greater blessing and more energy and her loved ones were able to find their feet again in their own world. After this motherly soul had turned her love towards other souls, God’s angels who had observed her, carried this love to her house and her loved ones with God’s blessing. Imagine the joy of this soul when she saw this! She had now managed to discard the pain of separation completely and she now lives happily in the world of spirit by performing the tasks allocated to her.” 6. Grief Influences the Dying Process The rapid onset of and immoderate grief can even influence the process of dying. The following case happened to the medium Maria Silbert from Graz in Austria who lived between 1866 and 1936. Under the guidance of an otherworldly entity, a so-called controlling spirit who gave his name as Nell, numerous paranormal and very impressive events took place through her over more than 25 years. A lot of deceased human beings manifested themselves through her mouth. Searching through the experiences in regards to controlling spirits and instigators of most apparitions, one could ascertain that one was dealing with a Franciscan monk and later the general of this religious order, by the order’s name of Vincentius Coronelli, who lived during the 17 th century. The motive he gave for his lengthy and sensational activity was: “I have asked the Almighty if I might return at a time when the world is in the grip of the severest materialism in order to provide it with evidence of a hereafter. Days will come that require all of your energy. Work as I worked. Fulfil what I taught centuries ago, but what I could not complete.” A circle of people flocked around Mrs. Silbert and they met on a regular basis. A rapporteur, engineer Rudolf Sekanek writes (16, P. 76): “Mr. W., a high railway official and an ardent follower, was an only child. His parent fulfilled his every wish. He was idolatrously loved, particularly by his elderly mother. They lived in beautiful harmony and there were no differences of opinion. But in regards to Silbert, she couldn’t understand her son. She thought that the devil had his hands with these apparitions and she couldn’t be persuaded by her son to at least attend one single meeting. Mr. W. asked Nell to persuade her just the once to attend. Nell assured Mr. W. that his mother would attend when the time was right and that she would then also believe. W. now didn’t turn up at the meetings for quite some time and one assumed it was because of his mother. But he was actually severely ill and one heard shortly after through the papers that he had died. He soon after announced his presence at the meetings and all his pleas where solely to help his mother, because she had been absolutely inconsolable since his death, so that he feared the worst.