Chumley's posts of Hell, and the hypothetical scenarios made me think of a good theme to start a thread about; Fear.  If we create our own realms for consciousness, then fear likely will play a big role in people who get stuck in various places.  

I agree that fear and love don't coexist (I can't recall who started a thread like that).  I read Bruce's account of a Banshee that terrified a man, that was banished by shining PUL at it (I believe by Bruce's partner).

I think that not only is love the answer to a happy existence, but losing fear is as well.  We must confront our fears and then turn our positive creative energy and being "on," to create the present life, and yes the afterlife we all need.  We must also have a belief in this positive approach and not let our consciousness wander down the path.

A common theme that posters here talk about is the "what ifs" about hells and inescapable eternities.  However, we hear from so many sources that these are all self-created.  That we have free will and choices ALWAYS.  Our thoughts create our realities.

Yes, fear may be innate, inbred or an ancient defense mechanism, but our conscious minds are stonger than our fears - they can be conquered.  

So talk of oblivion if you want; I will remain unshakeable in my belief in the positive, and the possibility of creating great things with love and happiness.

Matthew

That's OK Albert, God/dess doesn't mind if we call him/her dude/dudette. LOL

Love, Mairlyn 

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Hello Don,

After reading your post I started thinking about what you said in the above quote.  Especially about how the term love is “contaminated” or I’d probably use the word distorted and done so by feeling fear, which causes us to skew and block this love energy.  Most of the time I tend to think about things in terms of the movement of energy or the movement of subtle substance.  Many, if not all people tend to think of love as an emotion that we experience, but several years ago I started thinking about love as being more of what energy feels like in free movement of substance experienced within each of us as humans always in connection with our energetic higher self.  Or “the Spirit of God moving over the face of the waters” type of thing that’s not separate from us, but is us. 

When I began to see auras and the movement of the energy of substance contained within them I noticed the energetic interaction of people.  I saw that people continually use the energy or substance of their aura to send and receive information.  For example if a single person is looking for a mate, that person will send out streamers of energy from their field into someone’s field to determine if that person is compatible.  One evening several years ago I was at a bar with some friends and watched this energetic play of auras in the room.  People can send out these streamers clear across a crowded room to find someone they’re attracted to. 

One couple whom I knew were both married and not to each other had quite an energetic show going on.  Both were with their spouses, but the play of streamers between their fields clearly told me they were having an affair.  Other people knew this, too, not because they saw the interaction of their auras as I did, but because they could feel the energy between them as they projected energetic substance from their auras into the fields of these two people.

Another example is one day I walked into my office to meet with a young man I’d been counseling for a few weeks and the first thing I noticed was that his aura felt like porcupine needles sticking me.  On closer inspection, his aura did indeed look like sharp pointed needles.  The young man was in a state of terror.  As we talked he first became angry and shot out a red glob of energy that looked like a dagger toward me, then suddenly he turned it around and he stabbed himself in the heart with it and began to cry.

As far as I can tell no matter what we do, we are always communicating in an energetic way with others… even in the words we write in this forum.  There’s a projection of energy that goes out from us as movement of substance and we each feel this energetic interaction through words written here.  And of course we filter this through our own belief systems.  You’ve mentioned that sometimes it bothers you when people say they send PUL and / or sign off using the word love.  I can understand this and probably at times what you sense is not pure, but distorted love energy in the sense that the person has mixed emotions (fears) that cause the energy of love to be distorted.  This can either on their part or on your own part in your interpretation of such an event.  When the energy of love flows freely between two people, it does feel blissful to both parties involved. 

In the Spirit of Love,
Kathy

Thank you for the info on auras Kathy.

I once sent a friend energy from my heart chakra, and she felt it.

I get the sense that time and space don't mean anything when it comes to sending love to each other.

And regarding astral projection, I don't believe that we actually leave our body and travel from one physical location to another. Rather, we change our vibrational rate. Nothing is too far away to contact with love. However, sometimes people set up limitations in their minds.

Kathy,

I suspect there may be something to aura readings.  I was Best Man for my friend Russ's wedding.  Russ was renting his house to a female aura reader.  She was irresponsible in many ways; so I had little confidence in her readings.  She read two of my friends and came up with bland platitudes that impressed no one.  But she surprised me when she read mine.  She claimed I had a green aura which showed promise as a healer.  I discounted this at the time, but since then, have seen healing miracles in response to prayer.  She then told me that I would soon experience a personal catastrophe and would allow this to bother me more than it should.  A week or so later, a drunken female driver totalled my parked car that I had just purchased in Colorado and driven to New York.  The prediction impressed me, although it made me wonder whether she could really read auras or was merely clairvoyant.   And why was she so unimpressive in reading my two friends' auras?

I don't think you should identify "aura streamers" as love.  Your example of an affair between 2 married people sounds like lust or infatuation, not love.  True married love is faithful, not selfish: "Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13)."  Of course, I don't know the situation of the people involved.   But true love manifests itself even when we feel no energy or emotion.  Love transcends feelings.  Distorted perspectives on energies felt and expressed during alleged retrievals are dangerous if this means that the projector generally only manifests this when she feels it.  Again, the traditional term "ecstasy" seems preferable to me.  During spiritual ecstasy one temporarily feels an affectionate unity with everyone.

In my view it is shocking that the obvious tests have not been used to verify or refute aura claims.  Let a group of aura readers independently examine the same group of people and then compare their claims.  See if they agree on either color textures or interpretations.  Until that obvious tests are conducted, skepticism is warranted. 

Don

I'm intrigued: 'banshee' was mentioned earlier and folk seem to have vague ideas of what this is or was.
Any suggestions?

Hi Matthew-
Iteresting question you bring up here.

About 1960 a number of us hippie types got interested in LSD and discovered a remarkable thing. The mind set at the start of the intoxication would determine everythign thereafter. That's one reason I learned to do deep hypnotic work, so that I could bypass all the LSD side effects and potential insanity.

The eventual conclusion, supported by going bck to "have the experience" (Ugh! - Not fun!) seems to be that when we lose our physical memory system and can only cognize linearly forward, s in the case of LSD or death, if our mind set includes a sense of nadequacy, guilt, or the equivalent, so that we tend to be fearful, then we regenerate that fear into a selective perception that supports it. This is usually by looking for something that is not fearful, but it gives the same result since it reifies the fear, and anything that seems to make us feel better also gives a negative reinforcement to the gestalt that includes the fear. The result is that things get more and more fearful.

If we can apply will power, you're right, we can escape. But when the sense of self is tangled up with a sense of existential unworthiness, it doesn't work. Experience with past life regressions suggests that there is very little will power aailable in the next interlife phase, unless one is going to be an earthbound spirit, in which case it's the desire for self-will that keeps the spirit earthbound.

To my mind, we have to resolve fears here and now, or we're going to be forced to deal with them later, will power notwithstanding.

dave