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I of my own knowledge…
Life, Death and My Brother
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by Frank DeMarco |
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The ability to talk to those who have passed over to the other side lets you know for sure that death is not what most people suppose it is. But death is still an end to something, and it can’t be talked away. Herein, some thoughts on life and death.
My brother John died suddenly early in the morning of July 5, a few months after he had been sent home from the hospital. He had been told that he hadn’t much time to live, but his actual passing caught the family by surprise, because as the weeks passed, John's voice on the telephone had remained strong, his spirit totally un-subdued. When I talked to him on the morning of July 4, I noticed that he was a little breathless, but I never guessed that this would be our last conversation while he was still in the physical.
Nonetheless, he died suddenly the next morning, July 5. For the survivors – his widow Fran and her relatives, my remaining brother and sisters and me – there was the slow and tiring business of arrangements and travel and all that surrounds the death of one we love. It wasn’t until the morning of his funeral on the 13th that I was able to talk to him again.
I “talked” to him not the way we talk to each other in bodies, of course, but by means of automatic writing, as usual when I talk with others on the other side. I found the contact reassuring, as I hadn’t known how much or how long my emotions might get in my way, which is usually the biggest obstacle to contact.
It wasn’t a long contact, but it was long enough to have the “flavor” of our usual interaction, with the difference that I have come to expect – for when we drop the body we take up residence in the part of reality that is outside the realm of time and space, no longer confined to one moment of time or one bit of space. Interacting with the minds of those still in bodies, we know what they know, and so we understand them in a way we never did while we were still in the body.
Part of our talk went like this:
…. John? Are you there?
I saw you meeting my friends. I'm glad you liked them. It reflects on me.
Well -- tact being wasted in talking to the other side -- you know what I'm going to say. [Meaning, that in my brief eulogy at church I referred to his powerful expectations of himself and others.]
I love you too, and all my family and friends, no matter how aggravating. What you don't quite get is that those expectations really meant "shape up! You can be better than that, and you should be."
I do see that. And since you have access to my mind and presumably know things I have forgotten for the moment, you will see that description of the habitual tie between us. [From one life to another, I meant.]
I don't need to do it indirectly, you know!
Well, yes, I guess I forgot for a moment there! Obviously it’s your life too.
We kept each other straight, in a way. Maybe everybody does that.
Well, you were somebody to know.
Bear it in mind. Not everything that you do shows, and it doesn't have to. Just do it for its own sake and you'll do all right.
We didn't actually share much time, or much of our lives. We were too different, or too alike in different circumstances.
I don't have any complaints. We had our own lives to lead, and they didn't have much in common. Plus, I understand you more now.
Well, we can get to know each other now.
Looks like it.
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You can look at our immortality in two ways, and each seems true to me. Our immortal spirit apparently moves from one life to another, alternately in and out of bodies, and in each life we form ties. Kindred spirits may be lovers in one life, enemies in another, blood relatives in a third, casual acquaintances in another yet. Those relationships are the very center of our lives, and may well be the major reason we come into physical existence – to be able to form ties to others who are very different from us. The cumulative experience enriches the spirit, which apparently is in endless delight.
But as opposed to the spirit, the soul is formed by a birth into one specific life, and completed (though not ended) with the death of that specific life. That one life’s experience forms a unit. After death, that soul remains a living pattern through which the spirit may continue to experience life. Thus when we contact those who have moved over, we communicate with their soul – and that soul is what it was, only it now has access to so much of itself that it was never consciously aware of – plus it can interact with your mind from the inside.
But if death is not necessarily the end of a relationship – if in fact it can become the beginning of another stage of relationship, with different possibilities and limitations -- still it is as real a change as birth. When your loved one drops the body, this closes off a whole range of possibilities of interaction. You cannot see them, you cannot hear them, you cannot touch them. Death isn't anything to fear, but it isn’t nothing either.
Indeed, the thought came to me during the time around John’s funeral that this is what is sad and precious about life: time together in the body is fleeting and, once gone, cannot be called back. Yes, it is true that life goes on. But – it goes on! It doesn’t stand still. If you haven’t made good use of your time together, or even if you have, that part of your relationship is still gone.
Death isn’t the catastrophe some think it is – but it’s still an end to something.
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Frank DeMarco,
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Frank DeMarco holds an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in History from George Washington University.
His work as co-founder and (for 15 years) chief editor of Hampton Roads Publishing Company brought him into close association with many brilliant and insightful minds, including psychics, remote viewers, channelers and mystics, and showed him the human side of extraordinary abilities.
In 1992, his psychic abilities opened up at a Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute in central Virginia. Since then he has been engaged in first-hand exploration of the nature and limits of all things psychic, especially including such areas as healing and guidance, direct access to knowledge, communication with past lives, and the integration of the spiritual dimension into everyday life.
His autobiographical work Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality describes the first stages of his discovery of the key to expanded awareness, and offers pointers for those just beginning their quest. In his weblog, www.frankdemarco.
wordpress.com, he shares the journey and the results of continuing explorations. His blog, “I of my own knowledge…” investigates what individuals can know first-hand about the purpose and conduct of life.
Contact info
blog: http://frankdemarco.
wordpress.com/
email:
muddytracks@
earthlink.net
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