Editor's prefatory comments:

The maturing spiritual person will have experienced "the joy" issuing from the depths of one's being.

In receipt of this most important and foundational mystical experience, we want to share it with others; we want them to have it, too.

On the grand scheme of things, this is the primary reason why Mother-Father God brought the universe, and eventually us, into existence.

And in the realm of authentic romantic love, it is the underlying reason why maturing lovers desire to have children. These "bundles of joy" not only represent the lovers' joy in manifest form but allow the couple to share what they've been blessed to receive, that which bursts in their hearts, and to pass it on.

All joyful parents, or Parents, think this way. (See more discussion on the "Summerland 1-Minute" page.)

an excerpt from the Summerland lectures, "Death And The Afterlife," by Andrew Jackson Davis:

"[Davis reports that, via psychic vision, he witnessed a place in Summerland] inhabited by young persons from the earth who died as orphans. [There] they are introduced to those who are their parents in spirit, but of whom they were not always physiologically born on earth. In this, behold a mystery…

"blood-and-passion cannot conceive real children"

"I found, to my astonishment, that there were on earth certain women and men with families who have never yet known maternity or paternity! I found that real mothers conceive with the whole life and love of the heart, and that real fathers produce from the vitalic energies and magnetisms of the whole brain; and that no blood-and-passion relations amount to anything to the progenitors beyond the tomb. So, as a consequence, it is seen that all the offspring of your [marriages of this world, united by mere religion and temporal law], your blood-and-passion, are likely to be strangers to you, and the real children of others.

"And the legalized marriage, unless it coronate the spiritual fact [of Twin Soul love], melts like all temporary error at the door of the tomb. Your offspring, unless they be of and from your spirit, and therefore from God, are only physiological productions, so far as you are concerned—for they find their true parents in other homes in the eternal heavens. Thus, those [bereft of true family love] in this world ... meet both their true mates and their spirit-families [that is, their true children, in Summerland]."

Editor’s note: The following comments are being written approximately three years after the above posting. Recently, as I’ve considered the implications of Davis’ revelation, I see some new things. My initial reading of his testimony helped me to perceive that we might have children waiting for us in a future world, but – because my focus was on children when I first read the above – I failed to see that we also might have our “real parents” coming, as well!

Let’s look at Davis’ report again and carefully consider:

"there were on earth certain women and men with families who have never yet known maternity or paternity"

It seems that some, maybe not all, children born to “John and Mary” are not really their children, not in a spiritual, final-meaning sense. Davis is saying that these John-and-Mary couples have never yet had children in a manner that reflects ultimate reality.

these “offspring of your [marriages of this world, united by mere religion and temporal law], your blood-and-passion, are likely to be strangers to you, and the real children of others”

Consider the Dino and Annie Nanji Case (see below). When she crossed over, she found three children waiting for her! But she and Dino had not been able to have children during their earth-time, and so, where did these children – who considered themselves the children of Dino and Annie – where did they come from? Well, according to Davis, it seems that they’d been born into a John-and-Mary family of this world, and then, having died young, went to the next life but with a directive to find their “real” spiritual parents, Dino and Annie!

“your offspring, unless they be of and from your spirit, and therefore from God, are only physiological productions, so far as you are concerned—for they find their true parents in other homes in the eternal heavens”

Again, the children waiting in Summerland for Annie would seem to be poster-children for this statement of Davis. The three children were drawn like a magnet to their “real parents”, Dino and Annie!

But wait, there’s something else here!

For those of us who wish for children with a true mate, a Twin Soul, we might read Davis’ words and readily lock onto the part about receiving children in the future. But what about us, you and me? We were once part of an earth-family. Do we, ourselves, have “real parents” waiting in the wings for us? Have they been our unseen guardians all these years? Were they the ones who might have even crafted some of the details of our lives in a pre-birth planning session? Indeed, as Davis, exclaims, “behold, a mystery”!

“thus, those [bereft of true family love] in this world ... meet both their true mates and their spirit-families [that is, their true children, in Summerland]"

When I wrote the bracketed insertions a few years ago, I interpreted “spirit-families” to mean “you will find your real, spiritually-generated children in Summerland.” But there can be no family without parents, and now I’m wondering if Davis also meant that, we, ourselves, might find our “real parents” when we cross over!

This is such a wonderful thought, and think of the “isomorphism” in play here. Isomorphism means “equal form,” and look at what might be a one-to-one correspondence. On the “Summerland 1-Minute” page I offered lengthy discussion featuring the intentions of Mother-Father God to ever remain in the “child-rearing business,” meaning, I believe it to be unthinkable that the Divine Parent(s) would ever opt out of providing the gift of eternal life to new sons and daughters in “the family.” But what about Spirit Guides, who might also be Twin Soul lovers, who want children of their own? Is it not feasible that some of these might arrange for “their” children to be born into a John-and-Mary union on the Earth, with the intention of receiving these children as their own later on?

It’s quite a proposition. And you know what? Just as Mother-Father God will very likely continue on and on offering the gift of life, a Spirit-Guide couple, as they are eternal beings, might continue to have and raise children, periodically, over the coming unending ages of time. Why would you not want to? What could be more satisfying, offering more joy, than to bring into being children, helping them mature, that they might share the life of joy that the Twin-Soul parents revel in?

an excerpt from Beyond Human Personality, by F.W. Myers, testimony from the afterlife via psychic-medium:

The Dream-Child

"A certain mother longed for a daughter. Sons were born to her, but the little girl she desired so much never appeared in the flesh. Yet she is waiting for her mother in the world beyond death, for her soul has, on two or three occasions, made the attempt to be born but failed in each instance. There is a cogent reason for this failure. The soul of the daughter may not meet the mother in full conscious knowledge until after the latter's death... I might call this daughter the 'dream child.'

"She has a lovely soul and if she had been born into this present life would have made a paradise for her mother. Now during this earth life, owing to the fact that this particular heart's desire of hers was not granted, the mother has learned much and developed spiritually. The little daughter was bound to absorb her attention, leading her to become selfish, and only occupied with the pleasure of motherhood. For the child would have made radiant all her days. Such happiness belongs, as a rule, to the first heaven-world ... and there she will, in due course, experience such joy... she will meet this daughter and be so overjoyed at seeing her and having her companionship that the separation from her sons, caused by death, will not inflict the suffering that might otherwise have been her portion.

"So there is a providence in the fact that this child has never been given into her charge during her earth life. After death the mother will obtain her longing; a quiet, lovely, country place where her family live and come and go; a nursery where she finds this little daughter who fulfills the dream, is the dream of her imagination, the one she proudly cherishes and shows to her own brothers and sisters and to her parents; the pretty little birdlike thing with whom she plays baby games and thus fulfills her own nature, the child to whom she loves to give: the playmate she dresses up and adorns: to her that treasure beyond other treasures; a small girl, dainty, exquisite, needing all her protection and love.

"Therefore, the mother's true happiness lies in the world beyond death. Deep down she already knows this little daughter because they belong to the same group-soul, and because she has been with the child when she was in deep slumber. But the inexorable supernal law forbids her to bring the memory back to her conscious life, she bears only the ache of parting from the child and this ache is expressed in a vague dissatisfaction; a kind of weariness or feeling of disappointment which she cannot understand and attributes to all but the true cause. After death her memory of these meetings with her daughter will be recaptured by her soul, and so they will meet as adoring mother and child.

"But you must not assume that the many years of earth-time affect this child. In the Hereafter there exists a subjective time that may run according to the character of the souls who make the varying patterns within the Group. Appearance and desire will harmonise. At the time of the mother's death and entry into the new life, the daughter will have reached that lovely age when the child begins to talk brokenly, to make brave expeditions; half crawling, half walking; across the vast expanse of nursery floor. All the enchantment of the great, big world for the slowly blossoming intelligence will be perceived by the mother when she comes over here: she will find all that she has most desired on earth in the Lotus Flower Paradise which lies beyond tawdry death, beyond the tomb.

"You may say that this picture I have drawn of a mother's happiness and heaven sounds too good to be true. But bear in mind that Fate presents a debit and credit account. The mother, in this case, has known a great deal of unhappiness while on Earth - troubles and disappointments that torment and take the color out of life. So, before she chooses to go farther along the road to immortality, her heart's desire is granted and she reaps the full harvest from the grain sown with care and toil and sometimes pain in that terrestrial life of hers...

"I should like to draw your attention to my repeated statements that imagination has extraordinary creative force in some instances, and you must not think it essential that to be an artist it is necessary to paint pictures, or write poems, or compose music. This mother is essentially an artist and such an artist may make a poem of life. If she be a mother she may desire to make a poem of childhood for a small daughter. Pray remember always that, however you are placed, you can make an art of living and thus enrich the lives of those who are of your immediate circle."

The following point of evidence concerning the receipt of children in Summerland is weightiest by far. First, let's consider the source, the respected direct-voice medium, Leslie Flint:

 Leslie Flint, circa. 1960

"I think I can safely say that I am the most tested medium this country has ever produced... I have been boxed up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound and held, and still the voices have come to speak their message of life eternal."   

 

 

 

READ MORE about Leslie Flint and the 500 tape-recordings, messages from persons on the other side. 

Michael Tymn conducted an interview with an afterlife researcher. Part of the discussion addressed the question, what is the most evidential information for post-mortem survival?

"If you were asked to pick three cases in annals of survival research, which ones would you choose [as most evidential]? Why?"

“Firstly, the Annie Nanji tapes from the Leslie Flint physical mediumship séances. This incidence was never widely publicized, yet it remains hard evidence of survival that anybody can listen to online.

"In essence, an Indian doctor communicated via direct voice with his deceased wife, Annie, over the course of a decade. They were able to carry on their relationship, discussing tiny details of each other’s lives which make the possibility of fraud almost non-existent.”

I have reviewed these taped discussions between the doctor and his wife on the other side, and Michael is correct, the "detail" is excruciating. She comments on minutia of his life, such as the arrangement of his bed-covering, what he did on his walk in the park, or what he has in his pockets. There are scores and scores of these smallest of details, of interest only to this couple, and yet, by these factoids themselves, almost inadvertently, we are given some of the best evidence of survival of consciousness available anywhere.

LISTEN TO the Annie Nanji tapes.

children born not of blood and biology but of love and spirit

Of particular interest to our purpose, however, is the recording of November 18, 1982, second to last on the Nanji recording list.

Throughout the various taped discussions over the years, Annie had mentioned their children, with her in Summerland. Earlier, however, she had not commented concerning how this had come to be -- did they die of illness or in some accident?

where did the Nanji kids come from

But in the November 18, 1982 recording she clarifies and says this:

It was "not possible for us to have children" while we lived together on Earth. But the children that are with me now, she said, were not born of blood and biological impetus but of "love and spirit."

READ MORE of the Nanji case, introduced as item #41 on the "afterlife" page 

Editor's last word:

The four afterlife reports featured above speak of different ways by which children might be received in the coming world. However, one principle begins to emerge: these scions will not issue as fruit of bodies but of a deeper essence.

While I've already alluded to the following, does this principle not take us closer to an understanding of "made in the image," whereby we mirror God's truest nature? There's something very profound embedded here, and I think we are meant to experience these "soul children" as cosmic teaching-aid revealing more of what it means to be a son or daughter of God.

See the picture coming into view:

Twin-Souls, the sacred male and female "made in the image," engendering children as reflection of their deepest persons - is this not microcosm of Ultimate Reality? -- of Mother-Father God engendering us?

a most unusual rescue from the dark realms

Editor’s note: In the article on Clarice and Frederick, a report of one rescued from the Dark Realms, we find the service-mission under the direction of a old man named Cushna, aided by a young girl, Zisvené. Here is an excerpt, a scene concerning the actual moment of deliverance:

“Stand back! Stand back!” Clarice cried in wild alarm. “For when the fires of this memory blaze up, I am aflame with fury. Don’t let me reach you, for every tortured nerve of my body cries out for revenge!”

“I think we had better leave her,” suggested Cushna.

“Not just yet, Daddie,” Zisvené pleaded. “I am sure she will be persuaded presently.” Editor's note: We discover that Zisvené is the daughter of Spirit-Guide Cushna.

Now, a missionary team of a Senior Spirit Guide flanked by a young protégé is not that unusual over there. Even the detail that she is the daughter of the Guide does not necessarily break our stride.

However, our attention is arrested severely as we learn more. Zisvené is a mortal girl on the Earth who comes over to Summerland during her sleep time in order to live a life of service there. This is a little out of the norm but, by itself, maybe not so very unusual. However, her reference to Cushna as her dad gets us to ponder.

Well, we reason, it seems that Cushna had a daughter on the Earth not so long ago, before he transitioned, and now they work together. But not so fast. Elsewhere, in the first book of this trilogy, "Through The Mists" - channeled by Robert James Lees, psychic who investigated Jack the Ripper - we find Cushna's friend describing him:

prior to the pyramids

“He scarcely looks old enough, does he? But that is by no means due to his lack of years, it must rather be ascribed to the eternal youth we enjoy [here in Summerland]… He lived in the early days of Egypt. I think it was prior to the building of the pyramids.”

Cushna is 10,000 years old.

What does this mean? We can’t be certain; however, putting together the pieces of the puzzle, which we’ve reviewed on this page, maybe we can know what’s going on here.

Further, Zisvené is no ordinary helper. She’s a specialist in dark-realm rescue situations. They called her in on this difficult case – because she was the best, not due to considerations of nepotism.

In the third book, "The Gate Of Heaven," we learn this of her background:

“Zisvené’s is a most exceptional case, I can assure you. She was [that is, before entering her service work] an earnest and most indefatigable searcher after truth. Not being able to satisfy herself on theological husks and superficially accepted dogmas … she pressed forward, assured that the living bread [of truth] for which her soul hungered was to be found somewhere… She prayed for guidance, and, in response, found her way across the frontier, and now she spends almost the whole of her sleep-life in mission work with us…  Zisvené is a bird of frequent passage to and fro, only present with us while the body sleeps. She is a rara avis [rare bird] in that respect; in fact, [though many or most visit Summerland during sleep] so far as I know, she is unique.”

a reputation, well known, over there

Though still a mortal on the Earth, Zisvené had already developed a reputation, was somewhat widely known, on the other side for her success in difficult rescue missions:

"While hoping that I might be able to be of assistance to [Clarice], I heard of the work that Zisvené is doing in the sleep-life…"

new Marvel super-hero

These are the "celebrities" in the "real world." She'd earned a stellar record of being able to convince hard-core cases in the Dark Realms to repent and enter Summerland:

 “Zisvené had already rendered good service to one even in a lower condition”; and, “Zisvené had already displayed something of a genius for surmounting [great problems in this service work, where others had failed]."

It was generally recognized that her ability to overcome the defenses of those incapacitated by rage and hatred was due to her exceptional spirit of compassion:

 "… he was confident that, in her eagerness to lift up the fallen, she would be glad to assist me in my endeavour [to rescue Clarice]."

Some will suggest that the connection between this father and daughter is to be explained by reincarnation. Those close to the situation explicitly deny this. Robert James Lees quotes a Guide in Summerland:

only those lacking a depth of research believe in reincarnation

"I have been unable to meet with [even] one holding the theory of rebirth to be true… The origin of the idea is to be found in savage superstition…baseless… at variance with the law, love and purpose of God…

"My conclusion is that serious and deep research is required before one will see that reincarnation is false. Superficial study does lend great credence to it, and as a result, many whose research is not sufficiently deep are convinced of its veracity."

Is not all this both wonderful and facinating? How is it that this mortal girl – still on the Earth – should already be so competent in her service work?

How can these things happen?

Are we looking at a prime example here of a “chip off the old block”?

Is she Cushna’s daughter in terms of “from” him if not “through” him?

Does she represent the finest attributes, the soul attributes, of this ancient leading Spirit Guide?

Zisvené, an 'old soul'?

Special note: Among those who believe in reincarnation, a morally advanced person is often called an “old soul,” meaning, she’s been here before and has evolved through experience of many lives. But this is an incorrect view. See my 90 short articles reviewing the error, and fraud, of “R”.

However, as I consider the case of Zisvené and her advanced service abilities, it seems that there must be a reason for her “fast start.” I’d like to put forward the concept that some, many (all?) of the morally evolved on planet Earth could very well be the spirit children of advanced Spirit Guides.

How does all this work? We have many questions and cannot know very much right now, but the totality of the evidence, to my way of thinking, indicates that this proposition might be true.

We know from many reports that each soul has the same essential potential; each one of us might yet rise to the highest heights of spiritual development, over time. See the “fairness” article.

All this acknowledged, there are those who seem to be, or are obviously, more advanced right now. And if the cause has something to do with Spirit-Guide parentage, how is this advanced-level “influence” and “quick start” transmitted? I don’t know. We’ll have to wait for the details.

Gaining a balanced perspective, a sense of proportion, concerning family and children: Will we all be together again in heaven?

In the book "Mary Anne Carew” we are given channeled information via the mediumship of Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903). The author, an accomplished American concert pianist, developed psychic abilities later in life. Mary, Carlyle's mother, offered her testimony from the other side.

Among the many discussions, one had become most pressing on Mary’s mind. She’d crossed over at approximately age 30, leaving her husband Franz to care for three young children. On Mary’s side, one comfort for her, was the company of her three other children which had already transitioned. Distraught and anxious, for many years during her initial time in Summerland, Mary yearned to make contact with her remaining family on Earth. What she really wanted was for the whole family to be together again in heaven.

these children will want their own lives, their own families, and their own loves

Finally, availing herself of a better view from wiser heads, she began to free herself from illusion and see things in a more realistic way. It was pointed out to her that, by the time all family members on Earth found their way to the afterlife, 70 or 80 years might pass. During that lengthy period, both the children on Earth and the ones in Summerland would have found their own mates, with children, and grandchildren, of their own. And as for Franz, needing the support of a wife to care for the little children, he in fact had remarried, now had a new wife, and they together had more children of their own.

For a long time, Mary's pressing maternal instincts had been unwilling to face this reality as her desire for “home and hearth,” “Christmas mornings for tots,” and the “white picket fence” loomed so vividly in her mind.

the family institution, by and large, is for the earth, not for time and eternity

However, with a wider and more complete perspective, and with the advice of Spirit Guides near her, she began to accept that the family institution, by and large, is for the Earth world, and not for time and eternity.

It’s not that anyone will be barred from visiting parents or children, it’s just that, parental love is merely formative and preparatory support, and not a ruling factor in the eternities to come; and many of these ad hoc relationships of the Earth, will drift away into a status as something less than vital and commanding.

We were made to live and love with a particular mate, a Twin Soul lover, and this romantic union, and nothing else, constitutes one’s ultimate reality.