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Workshop Newsletter
October 2000
By Bruce Moen
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New Workshop Date Available Near Pensacola, Florida
Those of you who
live in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and the Carolinas now
have workshop scheduled in your area.
Maybe it will be an early Christmas present to yourself?
December 9-10 in Lillian, AL, contact Cam at: livinginthenow@hotmail.com for
details and to sign up.
Cam
says” We are located minutes from the
gulf coast on beautiful Perdido Bay about 15 min. W of Pensacola, 45 min. E of
Mobile, AL and about 4 hrs. E of New Orleans and 8 hrs from Central FL and 5
hrs from Atlanta, GA... If you are interested please respond via e-mail we have
camping cabins and RV/Tent spaces available on site and motels close by prices
are in the range of $50.00 per night
Other Workshop Dates
October 21-22 in Seattle, Washington. Contact Joe Meboe at joe@meboe.com
for and to sign up.
Joe says, Bruce will be spending the week in Seattle (Bellevue, actually) prior to the long-awaited Seattle Workshop on October 21-22. I have arranged for him to speak at three public libraries and at the Issaquah Barnes & Noble store. We hope to get some publicity with the regional newspapers out of that appearance. Bruce's appearance schedule can be accessed from the Seattle Workshop page at http://meboe.com/afterlife/
November 11-12 in Denver, Colorado.
Contact Bruce Moen at BAMoen@msn.com
for details and to sign up. There are
still four spaces available for this workshop.
What’s in a Workshop?
To let you know
some of the things participants learn in my workshop I’ve added a new section to
this newsletter. Each month I’ll talk a
little about what’s in a workshop.
Folks often ask how we can perceive within nonphysical realities like
the Afterlife, so this month my topic is:
Imagination
as a means of perception
Someone once told
St. Joan of Arc that the voices she heard were only in her imagination, to
which she is said to have replied, “Of course, that is where you hear
them.” One of the most important
concepts to grasp in Afterlife communication is the use of imagination as a
means of perception.
A few deep relaxing
breaths, and a consciousness-boosting form of energy gathering prepare you for
nonphysical perception. In an
eyes-closed exercise designed to teach the use of imagination as a means of
perception I ask folks to remember people, places or things. In the debriefing after this exercise people
describe seeing mind’s-eye images of the things they remembered. The image quality usually ranges from crystal
clear, full color, holographic movies, to brief flashes of fuzzy, barely discernable
black and white still pictures.
Many are surprised
when I explain that they have just described the full range of what I mean when
I write in one of my books that I saw a deceased person doing
something. They have just experienced
using their imagination as a sense of sight and it’s exactly the same way I
visually perceive while exploring within the Afterlife. Sometimes, rarely, my nonphysical visual
perception looks indistinguishable from the physical world, and more often I
see brief flashes of fuzzy images I can barely make out. From my exploration experiences I’ve come to
understand that the quality of the images you see have no bearing on the
quality of information you can know from your images. Participants also learn to use imagination as a nonphysical sense
of hearing, taste, touch, smell and knowing.
There workshop exercises to help you directly experience each of these.
Past Workshop Participant Experiences
“Mary’s”
Experience
In the debriefing session after a retrieval exercise in
a workshop in Sydney, Australia Mary commented that she had expected to have
only vague impressions of anything.
When she asked for a Helper to come at the beginning of the exercise she
was shocked when a clown in full costume walked toward her out of the
surrounding darkness and stood next to her.
Mary describe him as having a big red nose and pink hair sticking out of
the bowler hat that sat on his head. He
wore big boots, baggy trousers, a spotted shirt, a big bow tie and full clown
makeup.
When she asked the clown to take her to someone who
needed retrieval Mary felt a sense of movement and then found herself in a
hospital room she felt might have been in Children’s Hospital in Sydney. She could plainly see a small boy on a
hospital bed that had a curtain drawn around it. She said he was a thin, frail, dark-haired boy named Jamie. In a conversation with the boy she learned
that he’d gotten so sick he was no longer allowed to go to school or play with
his friends. When he got sicker he was
put into the hospital.
Mary said the boy didn’t tell her what came next, but
that she somehow knew that his parents, especially his mother, were very
distraught over his approaching death.
The mother had repeated told Jamie not to leave her before he died.
Jamie pointed to the medical equipment surrounding his
hospital bed and told her that the doctors had turned all off switches and that
his mother had left the room. He didn’t
realize he’d died and didn’t leave because his mother told him not to. It was at that point that Mary understood
how Jamie was stuck in Focus 23 after he died.
He was doing his best obey his mother’s demand that he not leave, but he
was confused about why she hadn’t come back to his room to visit him anymore.
Mary then explained that something gave her the idea
to invite Jamie to a party, and after a little cajoling, he agreed go. When she told him it was okay for him to
slide down from the bed he did so and she decided it was time to introduce Jamie
to the Helper, the clown. She expected
Jamie would be excited to see the clown and was surprised when he seemed afraid
of the clown as he approached. The
clown stopped, bowed deeply and removed his hat, revealing a baby chick that
was standing on his head, peeping. That
was so extraordinary Jamie smiled and was no longer afraid of the clown. The clown stepped forward, took Jamie’s
hand, and the two of them started walking toward the door to leave the hospital
room.
Mary followed them down the hospital hall toward the
elevator and waited with them for it to arrive. When the elevator doors opened she followed them in and stood
behind Jamie and the clown to see where they would go and what they would do
next. She said she expected that when
the doors closed elevator would go up, toward Heaven but it didn’t, it went
down. She became concerned about the
implications of the elevator going down, I suspect because of her beliefs about
Heaven and Hell.
When the elevator stopped, the doors opened onto a
bright, sunny, green expanse of lawn filled with dogs and goats, ducks and
bunnies, and other children playing and having fun at a big party. A little dog walked up to the elevator’s
open door and Mary said Jamie seemed to know the dog and the dog seemed to know
Jamie. When the little dog turned back
toward the party Jamie followed him out of the elevator.
Mary then took the opportunity to learn more about our
Afterlife by asking the Helper/Clown if it was common for children to get stuck
after they died. The Clown explained
that since children are so familiar and comfortable with fantasy they very
seldom get stuck. In Jamie’s case it
was his desire to obey his mother’s instruction that he stay that caused him to
become stuck after he died.
I’ve not had any further contact with Mary, but if she
does a little detective work at the Sydney Children’s Hospital she may discover
that a little boy fitting Jamie’s description may have indeed been a patient
there. Other details like the room and
equipment surrounding Jamie’s hospital bed may give some level of
verification. If she managed to find
Jamie’s parents her description of Jamie might be further evidence. In my experience it’s often the little,
seemingly insignificant details that end up providing the strongest
evidence. For example, if Jamie had a
little dog that and fits the description of the one who met Jamie at the
elevator, it could be more evidence that this Afterlife contact was real.
“Peter’s”
Experience
Peter, a computer
programmer, attended a two and a half hour introductory version of the workshop
in Sydney, Australia. When he asked for
a nonphysical Helper to assist him at the beginning of the retrieval exercise
he didn’t perceive her arrival. When he
asked this Helper to guide him to someone in the Afterlife he found himself
standing in a dark alley looking at a young woman who was sitting on the ground
with her back against the wall of a building.
In their conversation she told him her name was Valerie, that she was
sixteen years old, and that she’d lived in Green Valley, a suburb of
Sydney. When Peter asked Valerie how
she died he saw a scene in which she injected herself with a fatal overdose of
heroin. Later, as Peter described this
scene in the debriefing session after the exercise, he was visibly shaken by
remembering that scene.
After gathering
information from Valerie, Peter’s next task in the exercise was to introduce
her to the nonphysical Helper. When he
told Valerie there was someone he wanted to introduce her to, the Helper came
into view for the first time. He described
the Helper as a woman who appeared to be a bright white light and gave off the
feeling of a loving mother. When
Valerie saw the Helper she stood up and followed her, leaving her backpack and
drug kit on the ground.
Peter followed
Valerie and the Helper through empty blackness until a sunlit field came into
view. Valeria seemed to recognize three
young woman who were picnicking in the open field. They jumped up and began waving their arms and calling to
her. Peter said he had the feeling
these were friends of Valerie’s who had previously died and were there to
welcome her into her new life in the Afterlife.
If Peter
investigates the information he gathered during his experience, if he finds
that a sixteen year old girl from Green Valley named Valerie died of a heroin
overdose, he will have evidence that his contact with her was real.
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Hosting
Workshops
If you’re interest in hosting a workshop in your area I’d like
to do whatever I can to help you do that.
One possibility is for me to put you in touch with others in your area
who’ve expressed interest in attending a workshop. If you can facilitate putting on a workshop for between ten and
twenty people you attend for free and share in any profit. If you’re interested please email me and
I’ll help in whatever way I can to bring my workshop to your area.
That’s the October Workshop
Newsletter. I hope to hear from those
of you interested in hosting a workshop and look forward to meeting some of you
in person in Denver, Seattle and in Lillian, Alabama.
Love,
Bruce