I appologise if answers to my questions can be found in the search, I tried.

1. Is it possible to contact someone by name (that is, his or her last used name on earth)? This is a huge request, I know, but if someone is able to contact James Marcus Mack, it would really affirm my belief in the afterlife. This was my Grandfather who likely passed on into a very Christian-influenced afterlife. Maybe this means around Focus 23?

2. Have you learned to achieve beyond Focus 21 without going to TMI workshops? I do have TMI CDs, but they stop at Focus 21.

3. Buddhism and Hinduism have traditional ways to enlightenment and escaping reincarnation, is it possible to do this in other ways? Which ways might this be?

4. Lately I have a fear of death, of not being able to complete my learning here on Earth. It seems so bleak to me for consciousness to just end. It is incomprehensible to think of non-existence... one naturally is not aware of one's death, but this just seems so frightening to me!  :-[ Anyways, this was not really a question, but just something I needed to express.

This forum appears to have a lot of knowledgable and loving people.

-Sven

Hi Sven &  Jen -

(1) Names are a bit tricky. If you want contact with your Grandfather, I'd suggest that you personally undergo a regression with a competent guide.  Try IARRT.org t find a certified competent regression worker.

(2)  Others are better at this than I and will give a better answer.

(3)  All the ways to enlightenment are the same when you get to the actual level of application.  The names of the processes differ, depending on language etc, but the methods are otherwise essentially identical.  If you like Buddhism or Vedanta, they have some of the best descriptions of methods of meditation etc. However, the actual techniques will be the same no matter where you get them.

Meditation on The Cosmic Sound Current brought to the West by Sant Kirpal Singh (and others) is often available from enlightened teachers in  all parts of the world (and can be found in the Upanishads) and is quite simple.

(4)   Just as you arose from "nothingness" in the very beginning, the fact that there is always more "nothingness" to fall back on means that you'll always be able to restart yourself if you really get in trouble. You can't just "come to an end". The rest of us simply reincarnate from where we leave off in this life, as will you, under any but the most extraordinary circumstances.

If you are already good at meditation, you might try going after your Grandfather yourself. Bruce's books are pretty clear as to how to do it, including his "home study course".

Welcome to the forum; hope to hear more about your success.

dave

Moin sven_und_jen,

(1) Many say it works. I personally have tried this a few times regarding deceased persons, and in two cases I've got a bit evidence, you know too much to be random-coincidence, too less to really know. Mac Moneagle ("Mind Trek") described what they do in remote-viewing, and they do it often with surprisingly little input. The rmote viewer only knows where a sealed envelope is, with a photograph, or gets only coordinates.
In any case, you don't know really where the information comes from, if it was really a contact or just a sort of a bit of an information pool.

(2) Yes! At least I believe I did it, I went to Gateway Voyage though, like the CDs it stops at Focus 21. At home I keep listening to a Focus 21 tape, and when I got a stable surrounding I just liked to have a look at the other levels and whoosh! I jumped in and had my first retrieval. So, I think it's possible. Later I went to Lifeline and found, yes, it's the same levels you already know. If you think you've made it to F21, try to make a step forward, or a jump, or fly or whatever. I had the feeling at that time, there were helpers to my left and right and they were acting like my wings, giving me a lift, so to say.