My favorite author, Deepak Chopra, has an area on the Chopra Centre website, where he answers readers questions.
Here is what he had to say about the way spirits are affected by their loved ones.
Quote:Love and Death
March 21, 2006
Q: I am reading the Book of Secrets and I do not understand this: people on the physical level grieve for their loved ones and miss them when they die. But people who "die," who move into the non-local domain, don't miss the people they have loved on earth. Is that correct? My question is, if that's not death, what is it?
A: When the body leaves the soul we call that death, but the witnessing awareness, the inner self which persists, does not die. Life goes through a radical transformation in which the non-local domain of consciousness is no longer tethered to a physical body or bound by the constraints of others and material life.
It’s not that the deceased can no longer have attention toward their loved ones, but the from the soul’s point of view, their physical life has completed because it is time for their evolution to continue along different themes, so a preoccupation with embodied loved ones is not typical.
Love,
Deepak
Well I understand the reasoning but I can't help feeling disappointed at the possibility of his idea being the reality.
I wish it had come from a different person as it would be easier to dismiss. But I have deep admiration for Deepak Chopra, he is one of the wisest people alive and his books always manage to shake me up inside so I don't know what to think....
I would like to think that my father and my two grandmothers didn't just detach themselves from me and that I'm still important to them as still they are to me after all this years.
Peace.
SC.