It is a vast subject, I know, but I hope that that partially answers the question. As I say, we will return to suicide because it is something that people need to understand and definitively we need to look at this to say: ‘These are the consequences; these are the non-consequences; this is a myth; this is not a myth’ – and to sort that out so that people are clear as to what happens in suicidal cases.
Your final question, please!
Jane: It is just a question about the separate consciousness of the body but I think it is probably too big a subject so perhaps it should wait for another day…
Joseph: There is an overall control to the physical body. The physical body is fed by the individualisation pool of energy. If you regard the physical body as a machine, then that machine has to know how to operate – otherwise you would spend all your waking moments operating the machine and not enjoying the experience. So the physical body is tailored to the soul and linked to the soul but has to have a degree of sentience or intelligence, otherwise your physical experience would be intolerable; you would have to control, as a soul, every single aspect of your body’s functions and needs, micro-second to micro-second.
So the body has an intelligence, and built into the body is part of that arc of vibration so the cells know when to regenerate, how to regenerate and then react to the soul’s gradual withdrawal of energy from that physical body and start to shut themselves down. Were you to do that you would have no experience here whatsoever except for the maintenance and running of the physical body.
When I talk of the intelligence of the physical body, I do not mean that the physical body has a personality, but I do mean that the physical body has a purpose and an intent. And that intent is to keep you protected; that intent is to anchor you within its field so that you can experience from one viewpoint (rather than from many), and it has an intelligence so that it reacts to the wishes of the soul. You, the soul, are within the personality and you project the personality, so do not feel that the physical body has a personality – it does not. Yes, it has an intelligence, but it is a ‘communal’ intelligence that originates from a ‘field’ that has been set up, which you can liken to a factory (although that is a very bad analogy) …a ‘headquarters’ from which souls can order a physical body. That central pool runs the physical body, gives it its intelligence and then, when the soul is separated from the physical body, that intelligence returns back to headquarters to be made into a bright, shiny, new physical body! Do you see?
Jane: Yes, it’s amazing!
Joseph: The whole experience, Children, is amazing! Life is amazing, and this is what we wish to convey to people – the sheer wonder and joy of life – and I communicate with you in order to bring back joy to people, because in joy we can reach them; in joy they can lift the vibration of the physical Field; and in joy we can remind them who they are …and get them out of here!
I ask you now to be quiet just for a moment as I attempt to extricate myself from Michael’s mental processes.
Chapter Two
The Currents of the Soul – and the Astral Realms
Joseph: Michael is resisting me because he feels that the phrase I have given him is illogical, but the title of the second chapter is: ‘Currents of the Soul’ and it is with some amusement that I gave this title to Michael because it requires from him absolute faith that what is coming through is going to make some sense. Well, of course it is …Joseph would not come here without bringing you something of meaning!
In the first chapter we touched on what happens to the soul and what happens to the body following physical death. You have a phrase: ‘you cannot take it with you’. This is completely wrong, however, because you take so much with you! The soul exists within a slipstream of energy that contains within it the history of that soul (to a greater extent the history of the life that has just been lived but also, to a lesser extent, the history of the lives that that soul has lived in incarnations since its first individualisation from God and enclosure within physical matter). The soul cannot help but take with it to the next realm and the next phase in its existence this slipstream of energy; this ‘history-book’, if you like; this stage-presentation of the life that the soul has lived. This energy slipstream or ‘current of the soul’ represents a graphic presentation of everything – everything – that the soul has done during its recent incarnation…
…Everything!
You think on Earth that your thoughts are secret, that your actions are secret but everything is recorded by this band, this slipstream, this current of energy, from the time you incarnate to the time you pass into the spirit world. Every action, every action that the body has taken, every action that the mind has taken and, of course, the most important, every action that the spirit has taken… every decision and every thought is contained within this energy field. Consider that… every thought that you have ever taken, from the thought that says to you, ‘My foot is asleep’ to the thought that says to you, ‘I hate this person’ to the thought that says ‘I will get even with this person’ to the thought that says ‘I love you’ to the thought that says, ‘I am in pain and I have had enough’… every thought is recorded. Every vision that you have had, every face you have looked at, everything you have touched, everything you have sensed is contained within this record. We will discuss the consequences of this band of energy later, but for now I want you to be aware that it exists and that, when you arrive at your next destination, this band of energy has a vibrational quality that links you to vibrations of a similar quality.
This is a momentous thing for you to understand: the band of energy that surrounds your soul at the point of physical death draws to you – and draws you to – other, similar bands of energy. This is not a judgement, it is a magnetic attraction, so if your thoughts on the whole have been uplifting, have been spiritual, have been enlightened, have been giving, then the quality of your band of energy or current of the soul is Light, and is (in metaphysical terms) something that will take flight, that will raise you up and you will be destined, via that band of energy, to link with similar bands of energy at an elevated level.
If your thoughts have been mundane, if they have been thoughts of simply existing where you have had no particular viewpoint on life (except that it is something you are passing through that you have never thought about), if you are neither positive nor negative in your approach, then this equilibrium of thought will automatically connect you to a field of energy containing souls whose current of vibration is similar to yours.
Here is a sobering thought and something that I want you to open your eyes to – to consider completely the ramifications of what I am saying: if your thoughts and your actions whilst you were on Earth have been dark (and by dark I am not necessarily talking about depression – I mean dark with regard to others); if you have observed others from a violent viewpoint, or from a selfish viewpoint, or from a corrupt viewpoint, or from a depraved viewpoint; if you have desired the flesh in unspeakable ways; if you have desired control over people; if you have lusted after violence; if you have wanted to manipulate people in a big way in order to bend them to your will, then all these things are contained within the history program of your life, that current of your soul, and automatically that current of your soul, that energy-burst, will seek out and will connect to similar signatures… and you will find yourself with people who are just like you.
How frightening is that: to find yourself with people who are just like you!
And when you find yourself with these people, if you have been a spiritual person you will rejoice and be extremely happy. If you have been a neutral person you will find that your life, initially, on the spirit side of life continues in much the same vein. If you have been of low thought and of low intent then the people that are around you will be just like you. If you seek perversion and violence, is it not true that you want to do this to other people but would not like this done to you? But by the law of attraction you would find yourself with people who are as violent, as depraved, as angry and as manipulative as you are.
This is not God’s judgement,