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You can create anything you want to in the non-physical world.  The only limit is your imagination. However, if you create a person from your memories of them, they will not be the same person you love in the physical world, only a simulacrum.  Akin to having the Real Doll people in the physical world build you a copy of a person who is no longer with you.

Both can seem very realistic, but neither is the person they represent.  And neither of them is particularly healthy for you. 

If you've ever read the psychic John Edward's book, called One Last Time, he makes it sound like we lucid dream after we die. All of his closest spirit world experiences were lucid dream experiences with his crossed over family members. In a lucid dream, you can meet other astral bodies (or spirits), create objects with your mind, fly across the sky, ect. When lucidy is high, one can do all of those things just as conscious as in physical life, walking around on the ground with their astral body. The word lucid means you have full consciousness, and another word for lucid is translucent or transparent.


These websites will help:

http://brain.web-us.com/lucid/luciddreamingFAQ.htm

http://www.spiritual.com.au/articles/astral/astralp1_rbruce.htm#11

http://www.jonasridgeway.com/tech2.html

http://www.astralweb.com/phps/topics_FAQ.php


Thanks.

Yes Bruce says exactly the same things, I just hope I can still do the things that I love here still when its my turn to visit the reaper 

Actually, Jambo, I get the strong impression that when your body finally drops off, a heck of a lot of hangups drop off with it, including the presumed need to have physical interactions. In their place we can bypass the separation between us and those whom we love and meet them, providing only that we do so in the common spiritual space of our collective God-Nature.

You certainly can continue doing what you do now, as many earthbound spirits do in order to continue use of alcohol, drugs, the experience of strong negative emotions lke hatred  of someone, or the sense that you are obligated to do thus and such. Do you recall Bruce's example of the guy driving the tank? or the drowning man who drowned for better than 100 years clinging to his chip of wood?

It sems that there are options for improvement as we leave this world.

dave

George, your question is touching the hollow-heaven-problem. So, when a suicide bomber believes strongly that he/she gets a direct ride to heaven, I say this is true. Now, many will say "What? This is unbelievable." Yeah, but the second thing is, they just get what they believe, literally, if they have no imaginations of compassion, love and understanding, they will not get it. Instead, they will get their puppet virgins and a hollow God shell until they realize that this is not what they want to so that they can move on- when they've changed their minds.
Spooky

As far as I can determine, the next phase of our life offers greater opportunities for expression and creating, but is still limited.
Of course, we can only reap as we have sown, so limitations will be individually earned. as will abilities and freedoms.

Thats good I guess my PS2 won't be needed lol

Deanna what other things have the good people at the spiritualist church said about the afterlife and its descriptions? because I'm very interested in all aspects of spiritualism and like to hear other peoples experiences.