By the end of the book there should be enough knowledge to ‘take the reader away’ so that we can work on their intuition whilst they are reading the book. We said in the first book that the book was aimed to shock but this book will shock at a deeper level. Some of the concepts we will talk about are frightening and they should be in the public knowledge; some of them are uplifting and take souls to places beyond physical description in terms of beauty and love and ecstasy. We have to tread a careful path but the book will give people (Please God!) a better grounding on the subject of death and the afterlife than has been given before in many books. That is the intention – to provide a manual, if you like (and it is amusing): ‘The A to Z of Death and What Comes Next’. It is a manual they can look at that will prepare them, perhaps not so much for the next life as for this life, which is what you are saying, David.
David: Yes, it’s just the stream of personal history that they can tag behind them, which they don’t even examine, in many cases, whilst they are incarnate.
Joseph: That is our purpose in communicating: to make them aware (to make those who are ready aware) and to leave behind this communication so that there will always be availability to the level of soul-consciousness that is ready for this information. We cannot place this book in front of a soul that is not ready, just as I have said today that we cannot influence souls on the lowest levels of the astral (in fact, on any level of the astral) until they are ready to be influenced and ready to be helped. The truth that this book contains will always slide off the minds and the hearts of those that are not ready for it, but will speak to the hearts and the minds of those who are ready for it and in doing so, through capillary action, will draw up the next level of souls.
That is all we can hope to do but there are many, many souls at this point who are ready for the information we are bringing through. Many, many souls – millions of souls! The Earth is not the ignorant Field it appears to be at this time. There are those who are turning their back on the violence, the hatred, the manipulation and the materialism but they have no food for their souls. They know they need something more but they don’t know what it is or where it comes from. We are providing food for those souls. We cannot reach the lowest levels but we can reach those who are ready and, in elevating them, we elevate the souls beneath them and they become ready, which is why it is so important that the information we bring through is perpetuated and we are working to perpetuate it.
I have done my best now to make sure that Michael’s day is one of half waking and half sleeping. I will now withdraw from his aura, although it becomes very comfortable to speak to you in this manner but I do not think he would thank me for suggesting that I inhabit his body for increasing amounts of time… and I would not do that.
Chapter Three
Transition through the Buffer Zone to the Arrival Point
Joseph: [addressing those present in the circle] I come, first of all, in laughter and good humour to raise the vibrations this morning, because during the week you have had times that have pulled down your vibrations, and it is necessary to raise them up. But also the message that I am bringing is one of lightness. It may seem very involved at times but the essential message is that there is a way, there is a Light and there is a means of changing things – both internally as individuals and externally within the Field that you are a part of during your lives on Earth. So let us be uplifted as we begin today’s session!
We have lifted you onto a plateau, spiritually. You are encased within a bubble of vibration, which we have extended around you and which raises your speed of being for a little while. So I will warn you in advance that this afternoon you may feel drowsy or disorientated but this will be because we have to (unfortunately) return you to the vibration you are used to at the present time. We cannot interfere and bring you to our side but we would love to do that. How wonderful if we could extricate each soul and bring each soul to our side and allow them to live in the superior atmosphere, the superior field, and have great joy… but we are not allowed to. You have to live out your span on Earth; you have to reach the end of the adventure that is unfolding for you at this time, just as we have to reach the end of our adventure before we can move on to even more rarefied fields and realities.
But we have other things to talk about; we have to concentrate on the third chapter of the third book – and I am raising an eyebrow (and Michael is also aware of the Persian Gentleman being with me) because we are saying very definitely this is the third chapter …but we hope it is and that I haven’t missed anything out and that this will follow on in the sequence it is supposed to. [The Persian Gentleman is our name for another guide from Joseph’s soul group who sometimes communicates with us.] Having spoken about death and having spoken about the Lower Astral and how people become stuck because of their own perception of death and life, we have to talk about the process of getting to one of the higher levels…
No one is left alone in death.
There is always someone who comes for them and who knows in advance because they are given information from higher authority (and by that I don’t mean the Godhead, I mean spirits who are more elevated than they are and more involved in the business of life and death and karma). They are given information from higher authority to say: ‘This person is about to pass over – would you like to meet them?’ Now that is important: would you like to meet them – because there is always the option (even with loved ones) of saying, ‘No, I would prefer someone else to go and meet them’ – always free will. We never order. We cannot order. So they receive a message in advance and they know that they will be collected at a certain time and they will be transported to an in-between area or vibration, because a newly-passed soul cannot raise its vibration instantly (there would be too much of a shock which would result in confusion, and the last thing we want to do is to impress new images on a mind that is already confused because it is not mentally ready for the transition) so there is an in-between stage. What happens to the soul depends on the soul’s perception of life after death and perception of life, so sometimes a relative will call for a soul and will appear to a soul at the moment of death.
I want to take away that fear of the moment of death, because on the physical level you see people who appear to be suffering and then draw a last breath; you may see people who are in great pain before they cross over and, from the physical perspective, it appears that a great, painful end has come to that person. Actually, the opposite is true because the release of the spirit is a peaceful affair and it is only the body that you are looking at that seems to be in such turmoil, such pain and such trauma. There is a moment of stepping away from the physical body and it is as simple as taking the next breath for the spirit that is passing… one moment they are perhaps in a bed, they are in pain, they are confused… and the next moment there is peace. The next moment they are still very much alive (in fact, more so) but there is peace. They can breathe again. They are without pain. They are without the stresses of the physical body and death has taken place. It is as simple as that! It is not the occasion or occurrence that many people think it is.
Your death, Reader, will not be the frightening experience that your cultures say it is going to be – no matter how you pass over. If you pass over in great pain, through an accident or through illness, there will be the moment of pain on a physical level and then suddenly you are free of it; suddenly you are standing tall again; suddenly you can breathe again; suddenly you are relaxed again; suddenly you feel better than you have felt for a long, long time… I digress.
If you are sufficiently aware spiritually to accept that there is life after physical death, then normally someone who you have known (a close relative, a close friend, or perhaps someone that you know as a brother or sister on a spiritual level but have never met on Earth but who you will recognise at the moment of death) will