So, it is always known in advance. You must understand that you are here for a certain amount of time – generally speaking you are here for a certain amount of time. It is written; there is a ‘book’, and in that book (or the equivalent of a book) there is a date, and there is a minute, and there is a second. And we, at a certain level, a certain degree of evolution, have access to that book, and when it is known that you are coming ‘home’ – not dying, not leaving this terrible world that you grumble about (but hang onto its coat-tails and don’t want to leave) – when it is known that you are coming home that knowledge is made ‘public’ (as you would understand it) on the various levels.
So, you will have people who are close to the Earth (relatively speaking) who know that you are about to pass over and make your transition. There are people who have regained their soul memory and have moved onto a higher sphere but were also once connected with you (and still are) and they will know that you are about to make that transition. And there are friends who will know that you are about to make that transition. And it depends on the manner of your coming over and your physical mind’s awareness of a spiritual reality as to who comes for you and how you progress to that side.
You will be taken over sometimes via a ‘collection point’, via a personality who will say, ‘Come with me – step on this plane,’ or ‘Go up the gang-plank to this boat,’ or ‘Sit in this bus and off we go!’ And you will be taken via this illusion (for that is what it is – it is something that you are familiar with and feel happy and feel comfortable with) to a higher state of vibration. And waiting in that higher state of vibration – on that shore, perhaps, because that, maybe, is how it manifests to you – will be those people that you have loved and have known.
If you are spiritually aware to a degree you will say, ‘Oh, there’s my wife,’ or ‘Oh, there’s my husband,’ and they will come directly for you if they are of sufficient vibration themselves.
So, no one is ever left alone. It is so sad that the Field says to you, ‘You are alone.’ You are never alone. How, if you are a part of everything – everything – can you be ever alone? You are never alone here and you are never alone when you pass over. Is that sufficient?
Susan: That’s fantastic – thank you.
Paul Kalus: Could I ask a question please – my name is Paul Kalus. Do animals contribute to the positivity of the Field?
Joseph: Poor, poor, poor animals! Poor animals …and yet blessed animals because they do not have the complexities of the human mind to deal with. It is far easier for animals to pass over than it is for many human souls to pass over.
Animals – any thing – contributes to the Field. ...A blade of grass can contribute to the Field if it evokes a feeling of Love in you, and will also respond to that Love, as animals respond to that Love, and give it out. So, yes, they contribute to the Field, but it is a contribution that is of such a pure vibration that it cannot be picked up by most of mankind.
And they find themselves in a world that is violent towards them, that does not recognise them as equals. Consider what I said earlier: everything in this room is God, so, in God’s eyes, are you more or less important than the chair in front of you? Are you more or less important than the carpet under your feet? If you are all the same thing, how can you divide that same thing into degrees of importance? You cannot!
God loves the whole of His Creation equally. Unfortunately, the attitude of many people towards animals is that they are lesser beings ...they can see angels, they can see elementals, they know when you are ill and need comfort, they know when you are lonely, they know when you need that companionship ….and they are lesser beings?
Again, this is personal (because we have our personal views – as we progress we retain our personal views. That is one of the joys of meeting other people and sharing different aspects of how you view Creation) – my personal view is that we should be kinder to animals, we should respond to them with Love. And you may say: ‘Well, animals attack each other – one animal attacks another for food.’ This is correct but it is to do with the Field. They also are influenced by the Field and there is an illusion in the Field that power is needed, that an intake of heavy matter is needed, so the animals to some extent are polluted by the Field as you are. But they are blameless, they cannot go back to the spirit world and say, ‘I did this and I did that and I am sorry for it.’ All they can say is, ‘What a relief I am back! I have been influenced by the Field and I no longer am.’
We need to be kinder to all aspects of Creation, and if you are – and not just to animals but the chair I mentioned and the carpet I mentioned – those things will respond back to you because they are alive, they are part of God. Pray when you get in the car, pray when you turn on the television – mundane things – pray over the food, respond to the Love within those objects and they will bring Love back to you. Is that a sufficient response?
Paul: Yes, thank you.
Joseph: Thank you
We are tiring now, I think …if I go during this question, forgive me. Who would like to ask a final question?
Sheila Clarkson: I have just got one final question if that’s alright? I would like to ask, Joseph, about children who are born ill, who die early, and you spoke about ‘coming homeward’ and I wondered about the going homeward in this very primary state and what that means.
Joseph: You must remember that none of you is who you appear to be. You look at yourselves in the mirror and say: ‘I am young ...I am middle-aged ...I am old ...I am a child ...I ...I ...I ...This is how I see myself.’ But you are wearing a ‘suit of clothes’.
You are an angel. You are an angelic being. You have been coming here for some time and you come here repeatedly with different sets of ‘clothes’ in order to experience. And the amount of time you are here is dependent on the amount of challenges you can face versus the effects of the Field in being detrimental to your body.
Sometimes souls from a high level decide that they need to visit the Earth for a short time only. Sometimes that is because they need to observe something from physicality again for perhaps only a few moments. Sometimes it is because they have something to teach those whose lives are touched by their short life on Earth. Believe me, when you attain a level where you retain enough soul memory to know that you do not need to be here any longer than you have to be, then – once you have set yourself a challenge that has been agreed by your advisors and that challenge has been met – you go. You do not want to stay here.
So, remember the child that may have gone young, the child that came with a disease, is not who they appear to be. They are far older and, when they return to the spirit world, they regain their soul memories. If they have been polluted by the Field for a number of years (because that does happen) then they are gently eased back into their soul memories and are initially brought up as a child but then more rapidly – much more rapidly than you would see on Earth – they regain their soul memories, they regain their spiritual stature and they move away from that ‘suit of clothes’ that at that point must be discarded.
There is always purpose to the life of every soul and that purpose may seem like suffering from an earthly point of view but in reality is not. It is either to gain further personal individual experience or bring that experience to the lives that that life touches. Do you understand that?
Sheila: Yes.
Joseph: Does that answer your question?
Sheila: Yes, it does, thank you.
[Pause]
Joseph: At this point there may be one more question. One more question, please!
Nicola: Joseph, it’s Nicola.