DocM
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I do believe that we live in a mental plane while incarnate on earth, and it is just our own perception that tells us that the physical plane is a "real" world. When we shed our body, either naturally or in a suicide, we should find ourselves with the same state of being we had while alive.
This is where the danger of suicide lies (in my opinion). In order to kill yourself, you are breaking an intimate sacred bond you made to come into the world in the first place. Suicide is never an answer, because how can you escape from your own mind? If anything, your mind will amplify the despair of self-loathing thoughts that permitted suicide in the first place. And since spiritual progress may progress more slowly in the nonphysical planes, people may, indeed lock themselves into hellish states of self-loathing and denial of the love inside themselves. This would make it very difficult for helpers (angels) to reach them, since the individual person has to be open to being helped.
The most important thing that I tell my patients is to be open to the idea of help. I recently had a 90 year old woman who told me she was traveling to Italy this summer. She began to have dreams that she was in a great tunnel, and confused, bewildered, asking for directions "home." I had the strong impression that this was a subconscious communication about her impending trip, but also, possibly about her future passing on in spirit. Although I couldn't talk freely about that (as I am a well trained western physician, and she wasn't open to that kind of a discussion). We slowly began to talk about stories in each of our families about communications with the other side, and admitted that there is much we just don't know.
I gently suggested to her that the most important state of mind I am aware of, is that of an open mind, open to the possibilities. I said to her that should she ever find herself in a similar situation to that tunnel, in a "dream," not to forget to ask for help and to be open to help being available. Without going into more details, I thought that vital; she seemed open to the idea.
So, I think suicide is never the answer, because we are not meant to escape from our own minds. We can work out our fears better while incarnate here on earth, and intuitively, we all "know" that we are meant to strive on and overcome obstacles.
That being said, I don't believe that people who commit suicide are confined anywhere by an outside force. They are their own judges, and since most of them have a problem with self-love and self-worth, they can judge themselves too harshly, and lock down their minds.
But there are many possibilities for recovery if we are open to unlocking a negative belief system and asking for help.
Matthew
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