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Word Gems exploring self-realization, sacred personhood, and full humanity
Dr. & Mrs. Carl Wickland
Dr. Carl & Anna Wickland
During the early 1900s, Dr. Wickland worked as a psychiatrist and paranormal researcher; a member of the Chicago Medical Society, and director of the National Psychological Institute of Los Angeles. He specialized in cases of schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, addiction, manic-depression, criminal behavior, and phobias of all kinds. His wife Anna, a trance medium, allowed him to speak to, and help, discarnate entities which troubled his patients. For over 30 years this husband-and-wife team communicated with thousands of confused, disoriented spirits and documented their findings:
I highly recommend these two books by Dr. Wickland.
Wickland came to understand that the doctrine of reincarnation was incorrect:
... I highly recommend you read both of Dr. Wicklands books and decide for yourself if his work shouldn't be brought into a more central position among the most influential studies of the psyche. Due to the fact his work has been mysteriously plunged into the annals of obscurity, we remain fifty years behind in our grasp of the eternal aspect of our psyche. Ask yourself especially why Dr. Wickland has been systematically moved out of the limelight and into obscurity. Were his experiments and findings a threat to a status quo? I would suggest certainly this becomes obvious when viewed from the perspective that his work challenges the stances of enormous billion dollar industries including the psychiatric and religious institutions that have vested interests in how we conceptualize mental and spiritual health. Further I believe it is now at this time in our human growth that this understanding is critical if we intend to honour our commitment to understanding the purpose of human embodiments, the relationship between the earth plane and spirit world, and the fact of eternal life. Knowing why we inhabit a physical universe at all may help us get straight about our priorities and advocate more vigorously for a united and moral world.
Dr. Wickland speaks to a disturbed spirit-girl, Sarah McDonald, who does not realize she's died. The following is an excerpt from Dr. Wickland's "Thirty Years Among The Dead":
MARCH 28, 1923 Spirit: Sarah McDonald. The spirit who assumed control of the psychic (Mrs. Wickland) tonight was vigorously singing a religious hymn. Doctor: Have you been here before? Spirit: Let's sing some more. Dr. We are going to talk now. Sp. I think we'd better sing another song. Sp. We are in church, and you know you have to sing. Sing! Dr. We are going to be sensible. Sp. You have to sing. You have to do that. That belongs to Dr. That would be very tiresome. Sp. Let us sing and pray to the Lord. Hallelujah! Jesus Christ! Dr. Now stop; that is enough. What is your name? Sp. Let's sing and pray! Dr. You must be sensible or leave. Tell us who you are and where Sp. What church is this anyhow, where you talk in this way? Dr. Be sensible, otherwise you will have to go. How long have you been Sp. I am sensible; I'm not crazy. Dr. You are religiously insane. Sp. We all pray to God and the Holy Ghost. (Loudly.) Hallelujah! Dr. We do not need that shouting. Sp. I am doing work in the name of Jesus Christ. Dr. We have heard such talk before. Sp. Not from me, you haven't. I am working for the Lord Jesus Dr. This is not the place for such talk as that. Sp. Are you a sinner? Dr. Listen to me. Whoever you are, you have lost your body. Sp. What church is this? Dr. It is no church. Sp. I am glad of that, because I thought the church must surely Dr. You have been brought here by kind spirits so that you can Sp. Go ahead then, and say what you have to say. Then I can talk, too. Dr. Understand your condition. You are temporarily controlling Sp. No. Dr. You would if you were honest. You know that you are in a Sp. How did I get there? I suppose I sang and prayed as a Dr. You were brought here because you are an ignorant spirit. Sp. I don't know just now; I can't think. Dr. You have lost your physical body. Ignorant spirits often lose Sp. My name is Sarah, in Jesus' name! Dr. Sarah what? Sp. McDonald, in Jesus' name! Dr. You know that all that shouting is useless. Do you not realize Sp. Hallelujah! Dr. You do not even know that you are dead. You are only using Sp. In Jesus' name, I do not care. Dr. Religious fanatics never care. Sp. I am a Christian woman, in Jesus' name. Glory to God! Hallelujah! Dr. Do you know what Jesus said? Sp. Yes; He said: "God forgive them, they do not know any Dr. We do not need your prayers. Sp. Glory to God! Dr. Do you know that you are dead? Sp. That doesn't interest me. Dr. You are controlling the body of a mortal sensitive. Sp. Jesus is my friend! Glory! Dr. We carry on experimental work to learn what becomes of the Sp. God forgive them, they don't know better! I will pray for you all. Dr. You need not trouble yourself. You do not understand your Sp. God forgive! Let us pray! Dr. We do not need your hypocritical prayers. Sp. I never was in such a place before. I never saw anything like Dr. Try to understand what I am saying to you. Stop your foolish Sp. God help me! God help me! God forgive! Dr. He does not need to. Listen to what I say. Sp. (Drawling.) What more do you want? Dr. Why speak with such affectation? Do you know that you are Intelligent spirits have brought you here and allowed you to Sp. I don't care! (Trying to bite.) The spirit would not listen to any line of reasoning and was
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The following is a partial transcript of a spirit-person's testimony who, years earlier, had been brought to his senses by dialogue with Dr. Wickland. Now, having found his true life in the Astral Realms, he returns to the Wicklands on a social call and with a report of his progress:
I believed that Christ died for my sins, that belief and creed would keep me out of the higher spirit world.
Editor's note: Why is a belief that "Jesus died for my sins" detrimental to one's spiritual health? It constitutes a non-acceptance of personal responsibility, leaving one in a co-dependent frame of mind - which retards one's growth.
When I had passed out of my body, you told me that I should look for The first thing I had to do was to conquer self, and it is very hard to The best way is to be put in a dark room - we sometimes call it a dungeon - where we see nothing but ourselves and our acts of the past.
Editor's note: It's a kind of "detention" where one is alone with one's thoughts.
One after another these acts come crowding in. The good ones are so few that they hardly count for anything. When we do see a good act, it seems as if it belongs to some one else. We have to stay there until our hearts and eyes are opened. When we seek to overcome our bad habits and to live for others then we get out of the selfish state. My heart was very hardened, but finally I cried out: "Not my will any The first thing to be done is to help serve the very lowest we come in So I have gone on and on, from one thing to another, always learning, and I want to thank you tonight for the help you have given me. I have a beautiful little home in the spirit world by this time, and I am happy, but my work is not done yet. My work is to keep on helping those who need help, and to try to
I wanted to reincarnate to be great. I got into a child's body and crippled it, and could not get out!
Dr. Wickland, Thirty Years Among The Dead: The testimony of a spirit entity speaking through Mrs. Wickland:
EXPERIENCE, NOVEMBER 19, 1916 Spirit: Is it really true that I am well now? Can I talk? Can I move my Doctor: Intelligent spirits brought you here for help. Sp. I wanted to come back and reincarnate in a child, and I got in [i.e., spirit attachment] and could not get out. I was so paralyzed that I could not express myself and I was in an awful state. I was a Theosophist and I wanted to reincarnate to be great. I got into a I know I passed out of my mortal body some years ago, far away in Do not hold on to the thought of coming back. but look for something higher, for the state I was in was the worst torture anybody could have. I lived in Calcutta and wanted to learn to be a Master and go through my I reincarnated [i.e., attached his spirit to] in a child and became crippled, and I also got into the vibration of the mother. It was very hard and I want to warn others never to come back and try to reincarnate through a little child. Leave reincarnation alone, because it is only a mistake, but the philosophy of Theosophy is very fine. Look upward; don't think of the astral shells, for they are of no use. I was very selfish and wanted to come back to earth life just to be Madam Blavatsky should have taught differently. (pointing to an Madam Blavatsky stands here trying to help me now. She is the one who One gets all mixed up trying to enter another's body for reincarnation. Dr. What is your name? Sp. I cannot recall my name just now. Madam Blavatsky was in India and taught Theosophy, had many They pushed me in here that I might be taught and freed. I am so pleased Madam Blavatsky, Anna Kingsford and the Judge were all great lights, I was in India, having been there for many years. My father was an I remember being very sick in India for some time. I have no desire to reincarnate again because reincarnation is a wrong doctrine. It creates a selfishness to come back. One can learn without being reincarnated. What, I suppose, did I learn in my last reincarnation (i.e., spirit attachment) in the child? What did I learn? I believed in Theosophy and my Karma, and I thought I had to go Colonel Olcott belonged to the Great Masters. He belonged Dr. Have you ever heard of mediums? Sp. They are only astral shells. Madam Blavatsky says we must all help I thought I had come to life when I came here, and that I could reincarnate Madam Blavatsky was a great missionary, as you know. She says she is She says that she was a medium at one time, but that she did I should not have been taught the falseness I was. Madam tells me that I should listen to this gentleman, (Dr. W.) and that Explanations were given regarding life on the earth plane, the preparation for the life that is to follow, and the fact that the knowledge and wisdom gained here will be the light of understanding each one carries to the other side of life. The spirit finally gave the name of William Stanley, and departed, grateful for the enlightenment he had received.
memories of 'past lives' are caused by attaching spirits
Dr. Wickland, Thirty Years Among The Dead: The testimony of a spirit entity speaking through Mrs. Wickland:
Memories of "past lives" are caused by spirits that bring such thoughts and represent the lives they lived. A spirit impresses you with the experiences of its life and these are implanted in your mind as your own. You then think you remember your past. When you study, especially when you study Theosophy, you develop your mind and live in an atmosphere of mind. You remove yourself as much as possible from the physical. Naturally you become sensitive, and naturally you feel the spirits around you. They speak to you by impressions and their past will be like a panorama. You feel it, and you live over the past of spirits and you make the mistake of taking this for the memory of former incarnations. I did not know this when I lived. I took it for granted that these memories were true, but when I came to the spirit side of life I learned differently. I studied a great deal. Theosophy is the best and highest philosophy of life intrinsically, but let us study the truth, let us live up to the truth of it and forget theories. Let us develop the truth within us - find ourselves. Do not let us look far away; do not let us look in the past, do not let us look into the future, but let us find ourselves in our present condition and let us be true to ourselves. Let us forget all theories and dogmas. Let us know and feel the nearness of God. Reincarnation is not true. I did not want to believe that. They told me here in the spirit world that I could not reincarnate. I have tried and tried to come back to be somebody else, but I could not. We cannot reincarnate. We progress, we do not come back. Why should you come back to live another life when you have gained experience and an understanding while you were here, and, furthermore, since this is only a preliminary school on Earth? Let us learn to find ourselves. While I am sorry to say many have not found themselves, let all of us here acquire knowledge so that when we go to the spirit side of life we shall go on to a higher life. In earth life you have your material body to hinder you. If you want to write a book you have to look up data here and there and go to the library to find some book that contains what you wish to know. You may have to go from one place to another and yet not find it. It all takes time, and time is limited; you are hindered. In the spirit world, if we want data on a certain thing we think of it and it is all before us. There is no time, no matter, to hinder. In the spirit world, if we want earthly experience, do you think we have to reincarnate to get that experience? No, we do not. For illustration, say one wants to know more about medicine. He then goes to a school as a student, hears everything, sees everything, and comes in contact with everything, learning it much quicker than he could grasp it on earth, and he has it much clearer in his mind. In earth life you have to study for years, and then you do not get it as clearly as we do. Suppose you want experience in the spirit world with machinery or anything else - you can get it easily. We have everything in the spirit world, because everything that is invented on earth has first been invented in the spirit world. Suppose an inventor passes on before completion of his invention. He will not give it up. He studies it on the spirit side of life because it is easier to study there, as he has more time. When he has everything ready he finds some sensitive and impresses the invention on his mind. Then that one commences on it, perfects it, and gives it to the world. If I impress a sensitive with an idea, in one sense I reincarnate - not in his body, but by impressing him with what I want done. In this way we come and go, if we are attracted to earth life and want to be here. When you have once reached the spirit world, where all are congenial, where all is life, where all is bliss, where there is no jealousy, no envy, where all is one grand harmony, do you think for one moment that you would want to leave that beautiful condition to come back to earth and be a little baby, restricted in mind and knowing nothing - nothing whatever? Furthermore, you might get into a sickly, crippled body and be worse than you were before. No, reincarnation is not true. I believed it, I taught it, and I was sure that I should come back and be somebody else. But I will not. I can do far more good now. If I want to do some missionary work, or some good, I go down to the earth sphere, the earthbound sphere, where the spirits are in all kinds of misery. I preach to them and teach them; I try to rescue them. So I find my work. Why should we go down from the harmony in the spirit world [into mortal life a second time] to what I might call hell? Here we have one group, singing and praying and praising God from early morning until night, and they are so self-hypnotized that we cannot talk to them. We go to another group and there we find the misers. They are so busy counting money, money, which is their God, that we cannot reach them. We go to others who have been ruined in life; they are bitter and jealous, they have nothing but revenge in their minds. They have no love or kindness. They are like sponges which have been dipped in muddy water; you would not even know they were sponges. Their love has turned to hate and they cannot be taught love and kindness. They will spit at you, they will laugh at you, for they feel that there is no God, no kindness, no love, but all is jealousy and selfishness. But we are not disappointed; our mission is to turn these souls to better things. We may have a hard time. We cannot go there and pray for them - no, no! They would shut the door and say they did not want us, and so we cannot go there and talk and lecture. You may ask how it is possible to reach them. First we try to concentrate on them. Then we have music. Sometimes we have to play very softly so they can hardly hear it, then we play a little louder. No matter how evil, how mean, how low, souls have been, they will listen to music. When they have given their attention to the music, we concentrate on them to waken and look up to higher things. Artists then paint pictures of the higher life for them, object lessons, little stories. Their life history can be seen by us and we put this in pictures, one by one, and let them see the mistakes they have made. Presently they ask questions and then we come a little closer to them. After that we take them to the higher life. In another group are those who are self-hypnotized. They have gone to sleep. They were taught that death is a sleep and that they will sleep until the Last Day when God will sit on His throne and judge them. They are difficult to reach, especially if they have put themselves into an actual death sleep. Sometimes we have to bring them to control a medium and waken them in that way. When we cannot reach the earthbound spirits at all we have to bring them to earth life to a circle like this [with Dr. and Mrs. Wickland] where they get understanding through matter.
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