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Reincarnation On Trial

The child-prodigy virtuoso explained:
not a product of
"past lives" but spirit-attachments

 


 

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How do we explain the child who becomes a great music composer or mathematician? Again, the central question becomes, whose memories are they? The evidence, especially taken in aggregate, considering many aspects of the issue, leads us to spirit-attachments not “past lives.”

The following excerpts are from “Field Guide.”

 

 

Dr. Carl Wickland: “Humanity is surrounded by the thought forces of millions of discarnate beings who have not yet arrived at a full realization of life’s higher purposes. A recognition of this fact accounts for a great portion of unbidden thoughts, emotions . . . unreasonable impulses, irrational outbursts of temper, uncontrolled infatuations and countless other mental vagaries.”

 

 

Hans Naegeli-Osjord, Possession And Exorcism: “Spirits usually superpose the psyche of a human who has a similar character structure.”

 

like unto like

Often enough it is a common bond in tastes and interests that draws an excarnate to his counterpart among the living: “To the musician, angel musicians, to the philosopher, angel philosophers, to the historian, angel historians” (Oahspe).

Editor's note: The term "angel" above refers to a departed person, not a winged creature.

There are times when the mortal visionary becomes aware of these like-minded beings who, as George Russell espoused in The Candle of Vision, are “brought into psychic contact with us by some affinity of sentiment or soul.”

The great composer Johannes Brahms, for one, thought that most of his inspiration came from on high, that he was in effect a medium for deceased musicians. But only rarely are such overshadowed artists or writers inspired by angel hosts that come in great legions, phalanxes from the higher organic heavens.

Typically, it is merely a newly dead person in the lower heavens who returns to the earth plane individually to find and inspire a mortal protégé. Suchlike are essentially earth-bound entities, obsessors, “ever molding themselves to mortals of similar tastes and indulgences” (Oahspe).

One of the most famous cases of this kind involved a “weekend artist” and jeweler named Frederic Thompson who began painting “for” the recently deceased noted landscape artist R. Swain Gifford. While spiritual intervention revealed that Gifford-X “was elated over his power to return and finish his work through Thompson,” the latter actually “deteriorated under the ever-increasing compulsion. He believed he was going insane.” The voice would urge Thompson on; then he would black out. Gifford-X would order, “Do not forget me.” Thompson, in the end, became a fairly successful full-time painter, but at the cost of considerable “personality disintegration” (Guiley 2000, 381).

There is a big difference between being controlled by a single entity and being “influenced by a congress of spirits, a phalanx, in the highest stage of purification and knowledge” -- as was the amanuensis of Oahspe, John B. Newbrough. In fact, when Newbrough queried his controls about Shakespeare, the answer came, “He was attended by a vast multitude of spirits, and they virtually and really played and spoke their parts, entering within his own spirit.”

The ethnographer W. H. Rivers (1968, 321) observed among the Tikopians (Melanesia) a form of possession by “atua or ghosts of their ancestors. . . . A chief is only possessed by the ghost of a chief, a commoner only by the ghost of a commoner.” The adage “Like unto like” epitomizes all these transactions; for, the earthbound, after death, remain “in their former places: the merchant in his counting houses, the banker in his bank . . . the pope in his place . . . the farmer in his” (Oahspe)…

profiling the intruders

The great exorcist Eugene Maurey was able to profile the intruders: “With an evaluation of the invading entities, their personality characteristics can be detailed fairly accurately. The subject will exhibit a similar personality profile.” Maurey went on to observe that “those who can be aroused emotionally, who are strong willed and act on impulse . . . or complain and express negative feelings” are prime targets [for intruders] (Maurey 1988, 120, 48, 88). 

 

 

The evidence becomes noteworthy. Experienced exorcists, those who deal with intruders on a regular basis, have noticed that the parasite-spirit -- sometimes well intentioned -- often matches the host in terms of interests and abilities. The principle “like unto like” seems to rule these transactions. The attaching spirit, it would seem, feels most comfortable living in the environs of someone as him or herself. This makes a kind of sense, though of the macabre sort.

The Mozarts of the world, the child prodigies, were overshadowed by musically-inclined spirits. Whose memories are they? – that would be the memories of the invading entity.

 

a master teacher in the spirit-world might influence a subconscious mind

On the “direct-voice medium” and "Summerland: 1-minute" pages we were introduced to Edward C. Randall. In the early 1900s, he was a well-known attorney in Buffalo, New York. For 22 years, 700 sessions, he worked with direct-voice medium Emily French, producing thousands of voices from the other side offering testimony. In his book “Frontiers Of The Afterlife” Randall recounts:

"I recall listening, not many years ago, to a boy not more than fourteen years old, playing a great masterpiece on a violin, with marvelous technical skill. His intellect was not above the average, nor had he received any special artistic training, yet he could execute the most difficult music. One of our standard law books, recognized as an authority, was written by a boy while at college. Fiske wrote philosophy in his teens. We have always had prodigies who were able without much education, to accomplish great things. But there is nothing remarkable in this, after all; it means only that a master [teacher] in spirit is able either to suggest or to work through their subconscious brains."

 

 

 

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