But what is the point of going to a medium to get in contact with dead relatives?
I find it such a short range enquiry about the afterlife.
I wanted to know about the afterlife itself. And as much as possible. A service from a medium will never give you that.

I don't care so much how my grandad or great grandad is doing overthere. Not because I don't care about them but because I want to know how life is overthere in general and what more there is to know about that.

Finally did I find the books that told me what I wanted to know.

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Some not knowing how to communicate with passed friends, family, pets, loved ones, go to mediums with this intention to deal with loss. Such an event could also be a spark that ignites curiosity about a bigger picture.

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Good for you, and seems like many have found their particular ways. I guess we've all found the right way to rome.

Focus27 wrote on Sep 17^th, 2012 at 3:25pm:


No, I can't. I got my personal evidence by my spiritual guides.
I assume you don't have contact with any of those yourself. Anyway, if you did it would not be scientific evidence anyway.

My evidence is that they told me about things to happen in the near future in my own life and that did happen.

But do they talk to you, or are you "deaf"?

You are not going to hear until you stop arguing and  listen.

Guidance and intuition may seem similar, but in certain ways they are different.  Guidance for me occurs when I hear or feel instructed to do something, but don't "know" why or the outcome.

Intuition for me is the uncanny synchronicity of "knowing" that if I take a certain path x, then an outcome y will occur.  There is a very different feel to intuition, in that you feel directly plugged into Source, almost like you read the script of your life and know which way things are going (in a small way). 

Guidance for me is a more rare occurrence, and seems to come from without, not within.

I should say, in my own case that I don't seek guidance from an outside source who "knows," as much as I seek the intuitive feeling of being "plugged in" to Source and making the decisions on my own.  That is my way - perhaps there is some pride at work - but it seems somehow to suit me.  To each his/her own.

M

First reactions after reading her "book" are these:

Structural- Definitely needed better editing.  Highly repetitive and some paragraphs are so convoluted I had to re-read them several times.  And then not even sure I understood.

Ever have a phone conversation with someone who never stops talking except to take a breath, and then if you put the phone down for a minute or so, you can pick it up and you haven't missed a beat?

Same thing with this book, it's so repetitive that you can skip several pages and pick up where you left off with no loss of continuity.

But then if it were properly edited, it would not have enough pages to justify calling it a book.

Content- The book should have had a Subtitle called "Seth Speaks- A Sequel."

I am reasonably certain the author did a lot of reading in both ACIM and especially Seth before writing the book.  Many of her insights and concepts are directly lifted from the Seth material.  Even how she describes the concepts, she uses the same examples used by Seth.

One exception is how she describes the life review.  Per Seth its purpose is to show us how our actions and our words affected others so that we may learn that our behavior has consequences.  In other words, earth is a school.

But for Sudman, the life review is when we and others with whom we associated get together and, always with great entertainment and fun, we see how well our pre-birth plans were coordinated and turned out exactly as intended.

In other words, the fact that she was blown up in Iraq was all agreed to in advance with the person(s) who planted the IED. 

No one is ever at fault for anything they may do.  Yes, a serial killer or rapist or child molester did bad things, but when seen from a broader perspective after death, all parties to the killings/rapes etc sort of congratulate themselves for the lessons learned and obtain (I'm not kidding here) great amusement and fun from what they thought, while on earth, to be horrible and awful.

So I couldn't help but think of the holocaust, and how Hitler and all the incinerated Jews had such a fabulous time afterwards.  They probably laughed themselves silly from such amusing scenes as the gas chamber and children being torn from the arms of weeping mothers.

Yes, there IS pain and suffering here on earth and no, she's not discounting that fact, but we need to realize that it's not as horrific as we might think. 

Actually, we need to realize that "enjoyment of an experience is a central criterion for the value of a life."
We are "fundamentally good, holy, cooperative, creative and amazingly cool."

And here all along I thought, per Swedenborg, that our actions have consequences and we really are accountable for the bad things we do and that evil exists and evil people serve time in Hell.  Little did I know that Hitler and Mother Teresa are equally holy.  Silly me I guess.

She admits that she is craving for a white Porsche 911, and a dream house.  But not because they are ends in themselves, no no no.  Because they are tools to allow her to enjoy her exploration of the "creativity of experience played out on the physical stage."

You see, people who think that goals such as accumulating wealth and material goods does not represent the way we should live are really just stuck with old fashioned remnants of what their religion taught about pursing wealth and other cultural limitations.  Once those notions are eroded, then we can get more things for ourselves with no guilt attached. 

Conclusion- I have no doubt that this is a strong, courageous woman who suffered greatly from her injuries.  And she probably did have some sort of paranormal experience after being blown up.

But for me, she veered way off the road somewhere along the way and is appropriating things she read in other books as if they were her own concepts or at least validated by her experiences.

Now we know why she's charging so much for her urns and other things.  Porsche's are not cheap nor are dream homes.  But for her, they are essential for her own amusement as she lives out the rest of her life.

R
ps- Don, if you want I'll send you my copy.  There is much more that she said that you in particular would raise an eyebrow or two, such as "religion tells us that good things happen to good people."