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Do suicides go to a dark place to be punished?

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Again, no one is punished. That's a concept of the Small Ego. "Punishment" enjoys no philosophical place in coming worlds.

But, do suicides go to dark detention? - sometimes - it depends; a lot of people "do time" in detention, so nothing unusual there.

Beware of "New Age" concepts

• Editor's note: Information about the afterlife is popularly associated with the "New Age" movement. I would say, avoid this group. From my investigations, over many years now, New-Agers tend to be a superstitious lot. They're not really interested in new information; they're rabid for unsubstantiated notions, private opinions, like reincarnation - they're just dogmatists posing as knowledge-seekers. The New-Agers are the "Big Religion" element of the afterlife-investigation crusade.

New-Agers, invariably, it seems, will claim that suicides automatically send themselves to a dark place.

This is not true. There is nothing automatic about being sent anywhere on the other side.

The important issue is not how one crossed over, but the motivation, the actuating intent, the level of consciousness one takes into the next world - that's the key! It's about the quantity of light in one's spirit that matters.

For example, a soldier who selflessly sacrifices himself to save fellow warriors - knowing full well that, by his action, he will lose his mortal life - will not land in dark detention for this "suicide"; indeed, his supreme act of giving will increase the light in his spirit.

Contrariwise, if one takes his or her own life as an expression of selfishness - no matter the details - one cannot avoid adding to personal darkness.

The controlling question becomes, why did one take his or her own life? There can be good reasons to do so; and there is no condemnation, even, for engaging in such act to avoid the suffering of a terminal illness. The suffering-in-agony person is just as worthy of being spared torment -- even by his or her own self -- as were those soldiers shielded from death by a buddy!

The best discussion of this subject I've heard

There are many clamoring voices in the marketplace on this topic - but most do not reflect a sense of having discovered one's true self.

Abu the ancient Egyptian, communicating via direct-voice medium Rick Rickards, in my opinion, offered the wisest and most balanced treatment of any of the large number of debaters on this question.

You may want to secure a CD from James Webster to hear own Abu's voice and extended discussion, but I will offer synopsis.

Allow me to quickly offer the prefatory remark that Abu will not be advocating a cavalier ending of one's life. We came here to learn important lessons and it's best not cut class.

That said, however, Abu is the only speaker on this subject who has stated that it's not as bad as it might look for suicides.

Even for those who take themselves out due to libertine lifestyle - abuse of drugs and alcohol, and the like - it's not the end of the story for them. They can recover in the next world, and rise and improve just as anyone else.

In fact, I was pleased to hear Abu offer a most humanitarian assessment, something quite encouraging. He said that there are certain cases - like the drug or alcohol abuser - those who have so messed themselve up in this world, that, in the larger view of things, they might be better off by "hitting the reset button"! If they were to stay here longer, continuing in their sordid lifestyle, the only result could be that of adding more and more darkness to themselves!

In such cases, Abu said, in the long scheme of things, they are better off by sending themselves to detention - a badly needed "time out"! - allowing Spirit Guides to direct their recovery, and just moving on from there. Abu said, to the effect, in 100 or 200 years, it will all be the same. By then they will have worked their way out of "debtors' prison," will be home free, and they'll be fine.

I just thought that this was a wonderful, compassionate, and balanced view of how "merciful justice" plays itself out in the afterlife!