Common Questions About The Afterlife

[JOHNTY]

Greetings Friend Sparrow,

I take it that freewill on Planet Earth is not quite as free as we mere mortals think it is. In other words I see Planet Earth is being spiritually guided along a forwarding spiritual path within a specific time frame.

For example: The whole world knows that smoking is not good for our health and in some countries, such as Great Britain, smoking is actually banned in certain places. I see this as Spirit helping us to give up smoking without forcing us or enforcing a spiritual law upon our free will. This is helping us to help ourselves towards the conquering of physical matter - to become a Master of it. I gave up smoking 45 Earth years ago.

For example: (Again in Great Britain), I see another of these helpful laws in action and gaining greater momentum as the years go by without forcing us or enforcing a spiritual law upon our free will and that is giving up the eating of meat and becoming vegetarian or vegan. When I first became vegetarian I had to buy a vegetarian cookbook to gain knowledge of what life without meat was all about because the food shops hadn't got a clue what being vegetarian or vegan meant. It was so difficult but I persevered and learned more - much to the annoyance of my family but who eventually saw the ‘Light’, as they say, and are now all vegetarian. These days many, many food producing companies are now marking their products 'Suitable for Vegetarians' making out lives so much easier to be meat free and giving us a much wider choice. No one forces us to buy these meat-free products, but more and more people are doing just that. With help from Spirit our freewill helps us to make that spiritual choice. I became vegetarian 38 Earth years ago.

I have spotted more than just the two seen above but what I would like to know Sparrow is whether I am right in the conclusions I have come to, and that there is a spiritual timeframe for Planet Earth?

May the Love of Spirit be forever in your Heart.

[Celera]

Dear Spirit Guide Sparrow,

I will start by saying that upon finding your threads here I was inclined to be skeptical. To be fair, I'm still a bit skeptical -- but the consistent tone and content of your writings here has deeply impressed me, and yet you have a surprisingly practical side -- many people drawn to spiritual matters seem to need to find spiritual significance in every little thing, as if we were not still biological creatures subject to certain natural laws. So I guess I'm saying that in spite of my first impressions I have some confidence in the validity of your words.

Which now sounds rather pretentious, as if my approval should be of any particular importance. I'm sure you are quite relieved. :)

So here is my afterlife question. Descriptions of the spirit world are filled with references to love and harmony and peace and flowers and harps and so forth -- sometimes it seems rather like a Care Bears movie. Everything we want or desire will be so easy -- is there no effort? Are there no problems to solve? Some refer to certain spirit realms as the "summerlands." But what comfort is sun if there is no rain, or no night with stars (I realize there is no literal sun or stars)? I don't want to live in a land of pastel colors and Enya. I like Enya, but I also like Billie Holiday. As I go through life I'm often drawn to the misfit, the broken and the lost and the eccentric. These are my people, the friends I choose, the stories I read and the songs that move me. Who will my people be when everyone is healed and whole? A life where my heart is always happy and never aches seems sort of pointless to me.

Hmmm. That isn't really a question. But I think you will see what I mean.

[Spirit Guide Sparrow]

Originally Posted by JOHNTY

Greetings Friend Sparrow,

I take it that freewill on Planet Earth is not quite as free as we mere mortals think it is. In other words I see Planet Earth is being spiritually guided along a forwarding spiritual path within a specific time frame.

For example: The whole world knows that smoking is not good for our health and in some countries, such as Great Britain, smoking is actually banned in certain places. I see this as Spirit helping us to give up smoking without forcing us or enforcing a spiritual law upon our free will. This is helping us to help ourselves towards the conquering of physical matter - to become a Master of it. I gave up smoking 45 Earth years ago.

For example: (Again in Great Britain), I see another of these helpful laws in action and gaining greater momentum as the years go by without forcing us or enforcing a spiritual law upon our free will and that is giving up the eating of meat and becoming vegetarian or vegan. When I first became vegetarian I had to buy a vegetarian cookbook to gain knowledge of what life without meat was all about because the food shops hadn't got a clue what being vegetarian or vegan meant. It was so difficult but I persevered and learned more - much to the annoyance of my family but who eventually saw the ‘Light’, as they say, and are now all vegetarian. These days many, many food producing companies are now marking their products 'Suitable for Vegetarians' making out lives so much easier to be meat free and giving us a much wider choice. No one forces us to buy these meat-free products, but more and more people are doing just that. With help from Spirit our freewill helps us to make that spiritual choice. I became vegetarian 38 Earth years ago.

I have spotted more than just the two seen above but what I would like to know Sparrow is whether I am right in the conclusions I have come to, and that there is a spiritual timeframe for Planet Earth?

May the Love of Spirit be forever in your Heart.

Salutations of love and light.
Dear Johnty,

When it comes to the guidance of the human populace, and in fact the guidance of all other species and animals (for all species have spirit guides), the approach and particulars of that guidance can vary significantly. This is to say, there are a very many different independent bodies of spirit intention who engage humanity at different times, for different reasons. What you will tend to find is that different beings in the spirit world cluster together who hold similar ideals and intentions for specific areas of human activity and direction. So, for example, many souls who cross over who developed a particular faculty of expertise, whether it be in the scientific, medical or other field, often cluster together and engage those specific areas on Earth which relate to that expertise. This means, those on Earth that are currently in specific fields of development or creativity are under the eye of mentorship by those that preceded them in previous centuries. It is then to highlight to you that those mentoring beings would then have less to do with other matters of human enterprise and evolution concerning things outside of that specific focus. This does not entirely exclude them from other matters for many of them have multiple interests simultaneously. What this is to relay to you is that not all spirit are working towards the same direction or agenda, for many of them are not aware of what others are working on.

On the matters of tobacco inhalation and the introduction of government policies, this has come about largely due to pressure from health institutes and the influential power of the human voice. When enough of you align together in solidarity and pure defiance of a specific condition or injustice anything is achievable. This is to say, this was not specifically a spirit led agenda, but a positive change which came about due to an increase in humanities communication, education and stubborn perseverance from health institutes and individual groups. While spirit have an intimate influence on the human thought processes and intuitive choice making, they tend not to specifically lead country policies, for such things are a matter for human beings to decide for themselves. It would be pointless for spirit to induce any policy when a populace lacks the wisdom to understand its applications. It is therefore up to humanity to come to a consensus of wisdom for their own journey and destination for their own chosen future. The future of humanity is, and will always be dictated by what they choose for themselves. This is a clear message which is reiterated to humanity by many in the spirit world.

When it comes to specific timeframes you must remember that those of the spirit world relate to and experience time much different than human beings. By default they tend not to place specific emphasis on any time scale, and this is why you will not tend to hear of them proposing predictions aligned to specific dates. Because human beings perceive themselves within linear time, it is they who hold this fascination with time, specifically because it reminds them of their mortality.
With this said, certain forecasts of events can be determined in advance by the study of behaviour and cycles of energy. In this, it is possible for the spirit world to observe future potentials should humanity carry on living as they do currently. Through this observation comes a sense of urgency for certain groups to act quickly in aiding humanity change their ways in order to preserve your quality of life. Your way of life is already inevitably going to change, it is now more of a question of its quality.

Your companion of consciousness.
-Sparrow

[Spirit Guide Sparrow]

Originally Posted by Celera

Dear Spirit Guide Sparrow,

I will start by saying that upon finding your threads here I was inclined to be skeptical. To be fair, I'm still a bit skeptical -- but the consistent tone and content of your writings here has deeply impressed me, and yet you have a surprisingly practical side -- many people drawn to spiritual matters seem to need to find spiritual significance in every little thing, as if we were not still biological creatures subject to certain natural laws. So I guess I'm saying that in spite of my first impressions I have some confidence in the validity of your words.

Which now sounds rather pretentious, as if my approval should be of any particular importance. I'm sure you are quite relieved. :)

So here is my afterlife question. Descriptions of the spirit world are filled with references to love and harmony and peace and flowers and harps and so forth -- sometimes it seems rather like a Care Bears movie. Everything we want or desire will be so easy -- is there no effort? Are there no problems to solve? Some refer to certain spirit realms as the "summerlands." But what comfort is sun if there is no rain, or no night with stars (I realize there is no literal sun or stars)? I don't want to live in a land of pastel colors and Enya. I like Enya, but I also like Billie Holiday. As I go through life I'm often drawn to the misfit, the broken and the lost and the eccentric. These are my people, the friends I choose, the stories I read and the songs that move me. Who will my people be when everyone is healed and whole? A life where my heart is always happy and never aches seems sort of pointless to me.

Hmmm. That isn't really a question. But I think you will see what I mean.

Dear Celera,

Greetings.

It is both understandable and healthy to take a sceptical approach to information which can seem too good to be true, or otherwise on occasion disturbing. Each individual holds a responsibility to themselves to process incoming information in a way which best benefits their personal journey in their perception of their own Self value. In this, the importance, truthfulness and applications of any information can only be determined by what you choose to do with it. I hold no concern or agenda over what others choose to do with their information, only that I endeavour to make certain information and observations available to receptive and seeking minds.

To continue on I would be happy to address certain points and questions you have shared from within your own internal processing.

So here is my afterlife question. Descriptions of the spirit world are filled with references to love and harmony and peace and flowers and harps and so forth -- sometimes it seems rather like a Care Bears movie. Everything we want or desire will be so easy -- is there no effort? Are there no problems to solve?

This is a somewhat slanted and romanticised view of the spirit world portrayed by human religions and new age philosophical belief systems. There is tremendous effort required, not only to accept and understand the past, but to perceive the most appropriate way to move forward, regardless if you are in physical state or in an etherical one. It is naïve to presume that once gaining access to the spirit world that all challenges and obstacles are now over and done with. To testify to this are the many hundreds of thousands of souls who still persist to behave in the same manner as they did upon the Earth, with the same attitudes of mind, even though having passed over hundreds of years ago. There is no universal rule of governance to declare one must think or behave a certain way in order to exist outside of physical state. This presents many challenges to many individuals and groups alike. Even if you consider yourself to be a loving law abiding citizen of Earth, you will still have a great many challenges ahead of you after your passing. This will extensively involve the way in which you think about yourself, the universe and your relationship to all other things that exist. I further remind you that accesses in the spirit world are determined purely by your vibration. This means you will only be able to gain access to beings, to places and to information that are in distinct relevance to how you currently think at that particular time. Everything else will be completely invisible to you until you overcome the barriers you yourself have created to separate yourself from those accesses.

As a small example, should you perhaps wish to visit or learn about another species upon another planet within your own universe (not to mention others), you could not simply just go there on a whim. You certainly could not observe such beings in the spirit world walking around the halls of information if you believed extraterrestrials did not exist. You would simply observe a transparent blur like that of what you experience on a hot summers day. What you would be assisted to do would be to change the way you thought about specific things, and how you perceived your relationship to that.

Another example is that of CMRP - or cellular memory reconstructive projection. This is your ability to reconstruct your light body to look and feel how it once did in your physical youth. Most human beings would not have the mindset to understand how to do this without being told by their spirit guide. This is not then to say, immediately upon your passing you are going to look 30 years younger simply because some new age teaching told you so. It will actually take a degree of effort and concentration to accomplish this.

Further to the matter of problems to solve, it is similarly naïve to presume all your work is now over and done with now you no longer occupy physical state. The truth of it is, your work has only just begun, for you have been engaged with intense activity for millions of years prior to having any physical life experience. You will merely resume your practice and pursuit where you had left off, which will likely take you into many different dimensions.

Some refer to certain spirit realms as the "summerlands." But what comfort is sun if there is no rain, or no night with stars (I realize there is no literal sun or stars)?

Dear friend, do not fear that just because you have passed from the physical Earth that now you are excluded from its discovered beauties, of which you have gained so much admiration for. You can at any time return to the Earth and walk the peaks of its mountain tops, swim alongside dolphins and upon ocean floors, or hover within Earths atmosphere overlooking the stars. Should you wish to experience the sun, you can. Should you wish to experience the rain, you can. You can experience all that your human body allowed you and so much more without the boundaries of gravity or distance. There are also many planets and other realities that other beings may take you to visit should you be inspired by eccentric landscapes and cultures. As I have illuminated to you, it is always a matter of the way in which you think once you have passed over.

In service.
-Sparrow

[7luminaries]

Originally Posted by Spirit Guide Sparrow

☼ And then there was Daylight, and yay did they cheer, for all became clear.

Welcome.

I applaud your inadvertent instance of humour, to which I shall use to begin this response. How easy it is to cause such a stir from as little as the use of a single letter in an ocean of many. From my perspective this grammatical error has useful context in many of my explanations, and I often use the example of food, of texture, of flavour to incorporate important sensory associations within descriptions of spiritual nature. The term soup group is not completely incorrect in its use to paint truth of the nature of soul groups. For in such a way you may define them as soups of consciousness which unite in common flavour and consistency to embody the intention of its infusion of ingredients.

Let us hear your words and assign some perspective to their composition.

Is a soul group – a group of a few of ancient spirits put together?

To begin with, all spirit are ancient, regardless how many lives one or another distinguishes their persona with. Since all spirit is of the same source, age is never a consistent concept of discussion within these realms for all beings are perceived to be infinite in nature, regardless of their origin or form. I occasionally use the term ancient spirit in my dialogues to reinforce your mentality that you have held consciousness long before any human form even existed.

A soul group are not merely a band of souls placed together in common curiosity, but, as you rightly illuminate, are a soup of consciousness combining hundreds or many thousands of beings who have resonated to a very unique vibration for millions of years. Their close association that they had with one another over such expanses of time, as you understand time, has meant their very thoughts, their feelings, their nature has merged on an infinitely intimate level beyond anything you can currently possibly imagine. To categorise in concept the closest idea what your connection to your soul group is like, try to imagine a time when everything was crystal clear and you experienced a fleeting moment of perfect timeless bliss. Try to imagine a time when you experienced the greatest and deepest love you have ever felt for anyone and anything. Now remove all other beings, all boundaries and all limitations from that connection, and multiply that connection and that love by a billion. Imagine yourself, this other, and your love no longer having the constrictions of form, and imagine this connection expand infinitely in every direction to include every dream, every potential and every desire fulfilled. This is your soul group; this is your soul family. It is your place of identity conception after separating from the Source. Something about this vibration, this colourization of energy which drew you from the Source into manifestation and Self-realization.

Also, is there an overmind or oversoul of this soul group (like the spirit of the group or something)?

If by this you mean an even grander entity which has come into creation or inherited hierarchical status from the allegiance of its embodied spirit parts then my answer is no.
I can understand why you would have cause to believe this. This will however denote would it not that adding infinite parts to something which is already infinite somehow equals larger or ‘better’ infinity. Or said differently, this would denote that there is something grander or more divine than your own individual spirit, hence you would need to add it to something else in order to make it more grander or more infinite. This human mentality simply does not represent or acknowledge in its wisdom the full virtue and value of your own spirit, which is in truth a complete miniature replica of Prime Creator. Therefore there is never a thing you can add to that which you already are to make yourself more prestigious, and yet so much in human consciousness to take away to perceive this understanding.

Is each parallel version of the person part of the same ‘anciet spirit”? And subsequently part of the same soul group?

Anything that is created from the source vibration that is your ancient spirit, regardless of what dimension it is expressed through or what form it takes, always, in all ways remains part of that spirit and shall always return back to that spirit.

Is there an overmind of the parallel versions of the same person?

That would be your spirit.

Are all people a part of the same ancient spirit or does each person belong to their own? Or maybe a certain group of people belong to one (how is it broken down?)

Every human being has their own ancient spirit, just as a cow, a bird or a bear does. The spirit identity of the cow, of the bird and of the bear are just as ancient , wise and sentient as is your own. It is extremely rare for a spirit to inhabit dual human bodies at the same time. The reason this is not commonly done is because it is not necessary to partake in multiple personas of the same human vibrational state. This is to say, the spirit tends to gain satisfaction and completion from one singular human life experience. The reason this is so is because after returning to the spirit world the being may choose to experience any and all aspects of human state regardless if they had opportunity to experience it while on Earth or not. This is to say for example, despite not meeting Master Michael Jackson in person while physically alive, you will nonetheless not only get to meet him in spirit, but by his consent, actually perceive through his core consciousness his own experiences of human state and all that he himself learned. His learning experience from his lifetime thusly becomes your own, and this opportunity is open to all, dissolving any real necessity to return to human state ‘for another go’, or to have multiple human bodies at the same time. This is not then to denote that your spirit is at any time dissolved or lost, or that by briefly merging its consciousness with other beings it forfeits its individual identity.

Where is feminine and male energy come into play? Does one ancient spirit have two parts? Male and female energy? And do little people (aka: aspects) (who make up the anciet spirit) have combinations of male and female energy in them which is a part of the ancient spirit? Or are there male and female aspects of the ancient spirit? Each aspect would be a person I am guessing...

Your spirit does not have two parts. This would denote that one aspect of it was dependant or incomplete without the other and therefore fallible. Your spirit is neither male or female, yet it can express itself as both or either if it chooses. The male and female energies are more to do with physical state association and where you are presently within your consciousness.

The male and female aspects you refer to is an expressive energy marriage associated with many physical species, and is an expression of dualistic energy language and form. This means, in your particular dimension you experience duality as opposing forces which in their nature seek harmony by the many forms you understand and perceive. One of such harmonising forms is the male and female counterparts which embody the same inherent characteristics as one another, but through cellular genetics and chemistry development structure these characteristics differently. This is because of the way you have programmed yourselves to perceive one another and create division. Many human beings romanticise the idea that there will always be a twin equal of the opposite sex which exist for the purpose of completing themselves in their own perception of self-worth. This mentality originates from ancient times of human history and culture which you have residual cellular memory of from your ancestors.

Also, does the soul (or whatever it is) somehow gets placed into a person? So a body born on earth doesn’t have its own soul but only the one that was placed into it from somewhere else?

Your spirit attaches a thread of consciousness, the silver cord, to the first two dividing cells of a fertilized egg. This etheric umbilical cord, if you will, can be partly witnessed by the glow which appears during this chemical process under a microscope. It is during this time that consciousness from your spirit begins to impart its inherent vibration to the developing life form. How that genetic material responds and accepts that consciousness connection will then begin to be revealed by the manner in which it grows. However, often times it is the flaws and toxicity within the cellular material which give rise to the many complications of birth you often see and experience.
The human soul is something which grows as the body grows. It is the collection of thoughts and feelings you gravitate within yourself from the experiences you help to create which then give form and vibration to your human soul. It is this persona that you have created that you take with you to the spirit world, which remains attached to your spirit through your entire life via the etheric cord. This is attached to your solar plexus and intertwines with your nervous system and energy chakra system.

I was thinking that maybe soul is the emergence of the body, it's programs and functions. But from what I hear, it sounds more like a soul has a life of its own apart from the body and then joins the body? Is there an example in our world that could reflect the idea of this kind of joining? Will the body not function without this soul which came from else where?

The body will function for some time without the soul, for the body is host to other life forms which have spirit. It is simply that such life forms will expire quickly after the parting of your own soul. This is because once the etheric cord is detached from the physical counterpart, the inherent vibration of your spirit which sustains its sentient functions is no longer present.

May you prosper towards your grandest dream.
-Sparrow

Wow...as always I really love your answers Sparrow...and I love the questions as well!!!
A beautiful response...concise and yet very detailed all at once.
And no detail overlooked...

This question/response session alone would serve as a beautiful introduction to many on the topic of humanity and spirituality, IMO...

Thank you once again, Sparrow!
And peace and blessings, as always!
7L

[Celera]

Originally Posted by Spirit Guide Sparrow

Dear Celera,

Greetings.

........
Dear friend, do not fear that just because you have passed from the physical Earth that now you are excluded from its discovered beauties, of which you have gained so much admiration for. You can at any time return to the Earth and walk the peaks of its mountain tops, swim alongside dolphins and upon ocean floors, or hover within Earths atmosphere overlooking the stars. Should you wish to experience the sun, you can. Should you wish to experience the rain, you can. You can experience all that your human body allowed you and so much more without the boundaries of gravity or distance. There are also many planets and other realities that other beings may take you to visit should you be inspired by eccentric landscapes and cultures. As I have illuminated to you, it is always a matter of the way in which you think once you have passed over.

In service.
-Sparrow

Thanks for your response, Sparrow. I suppose some find the idea comforting, but for me the thought of bobbing around in some sort of bliss bubble forever seems quite awful. Although I might like to spend a good bit of time swimming with dolphins! :)

[Sarian]

I have no idea which thread to post this on.

Evil. Is there true evil in the spirit realm? Is there evil in the afterlife? If so how did it come to be, what is the purpose?

Are there demons? Can people actually be haunted by them? Afflicted by them?

Thanks for your thoughts. :-)

[Tabby94]

Originally Posted by Sarian

I have no idea which thread to post this on.

Evil. Is there true evil in the spirit realm? Is there evil in the afterlife? If so how did it come to be, what is the purpose?

Are there demons? Can people actually be haunted by them? Afflicted by them?

Thanks for your thoughts. :-)

I think this question is for SGP, because she/he is Brilliant.

But if you don't mind I will answer. From all the Spiritual books I've read, none of them say there is evil in the spirit realm for non-evil people, I will say that for those who have been very evil and are in the lower spheres there may be evil, but for yourself and others who have lived a good earthly life, your soul will reside amongst like minded people.

[Sorai Rai Aorai]

I don't believe anyone is inherently or truly evil. If beings do hurtful or violent things, it is because they learned this in their lives, not because they were created that way. Probably they had formative experiences of others doing similar things to them. It is not who they truly are.

Justin

[Sarian]

No, I'm not talking about evil people or the souls/spirits contained in them. I'm talking about pure evil entities or energy or something. If there is pure good and love, why wouldn't there be pure evil and hate, not in human form. spirit or energy.