Dontcha just love it?
Forget the content for the time being. Three things grabbed my attention with this photo. First, the eyelets for the binder rings (but they could've been shopped in, we never can tell!). Second, the italics - apparently, from the 60s on, you just dropped in a new daisy wheel or printball to change the font on typewriters. Last but not least the good old-fashioned handwriting done with a ruler for the letters to bottom out on. Classic. It could be fake still, but I'm going with "It's a piece of memorabilia" for the sheer fun of it.
Now for the content. How many times have you seen a contestant on a game show saying they had a dream they won (like tonight) and straight away they win the exact amount? It happens all the time. I'm not saying that we've all won $50,000 on Who Wants To Be A Dill but I guarantee that each and every one of us, yes I mean you, has had a similar event happen in your life where you had a premonition sometime beforehand.
Time is different on the astral planes. Some say that there is a small window, maybe as much as a week into the future, where deceased relatives or loved ones who can see it will visit us to inform us of what is about to happen. Some say that the upcoming event forms in advance on the higher plane before it is manifest on Planet Earth. Some say that our thoughts create future events and therefore of course we know what's going to happen. Yet others say that just about all the events of our lives are predestined, there is little we can do to stop our karma from happening, and that the event is being acknowledged by our psyche just prior to its occurrence.
Perhaps if you have the time and the inclination you might like to read a book I would like to recommend. I can't vouch for it being 100% non-fiction but it certainly isn't all fantasy. It is written as a novel and tells the story of the central character being visited by a mysterious 'guide' who takes him to see his recently deceased brother, in answer to his fervent praying (God, why have you taken him?).
I must admit that I don't even know if I finished reading the whole book. Apart from one of the early chapters which reads like a crash-course in Hindu Cosmology (a necessary part of setting the background theme), the story revolves about the guide accompanying him as he teaches him how to travel through the levels as he gains knowledge and technique. Not only does he re-unite with his brother but he also meets a lost love who died when he was much younger who becomes a pivotal attachment on the 4th plane which eventually enables him to travel on his own, independent of the Guide's supervision.
What struck me about A Soul's Journey (By Peter Richelieu) is the lack of preachiness. Though there is a moral code, it basically dispels the usual religious preaching that Hell awaits all of us unrepentant sinners. Instead it teaches that unless you're a little Hitler or a total jerk who treats everyone like shit, after you die, unless you hover over your dead carcass totally confused about your death (due to gross attachment and identification with the body, ie become a ghost) your etheric or ethereal or astral body or whatever you want to call it continues on to whatever plane your consciousness and karma entitle you to where you then learn, practice and rehearse until your next body becomes available... which could take hundreds of years or only a moment in time, depending on said availability.
Fascinating reading, I do recommend it.
And for what it's worth, I'm not advocating for one second that we dispense with the concept of Hell. Before the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the sole official legally-sanctioned religion (thus becoming the Holy Roman Empire, see: 313AD, Constantine the Great) there were two forms of Chistianity practised for centuries in secret in underground temples (the real meaning of the word OCCULT means HIDDEN). The Elite had privileged access to the doctrine of gradual attainment of spiritual perfection through repeated lifetimes of continued effort along The Path. This of course held belief in reincarnation and the lost Christian doctrine of Transmigration of the Soul.
For the Lower Classes ie the general public (the "carnal" as they were defined) being too engrossed in the pleasures of the flesh and thus unable to grasp the lofty ideas of transcendental thought, a different theology however, was taught. One Lifetime, One Opportunity. One Chance, One Choice. Heaven or Hell, for all Eternity. Buy now. Grand sale. Ladies and Gentlemen, place your bets.
This book provides a welcome relief for those who feel that they have failed to live up to expectations, whether they be others' or their own, and for me it reinforces the notion that there is a truly all-loving God that is surprisingly not as judgemental as the other Powers-That-Be (certain unnamed religious denominations, sects, and even cults) would have us believe.
Live your life for the better. For the betterment of yourself and others. And if you can get your head around it (I struggle!) for the pleasure of our creator. Yeah, I know, preachy blah blah, but one thing I'm certain of is that I didn't create myself - for that, I would've had to have been here to begin with, which makes no sense at all. Hence, God. That explains a lot of things!
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