Communicating With Spirit – Beyond After Life

August 28, 2013 By

Question:  Conversations with students, group participants and clients over many years throw up questions which a large number of people probably mull over.  For instance, “different mediums and spiritual writers and so-called experts in the field come up with vastly differing accounts of what happens when we die.  It can’t all be true.  Perhaps it is all untrue.  At the very least, credibility is damaged.”

 

Des:  There are various reasons.  I have numbered three of them below.  Add these three together and you will possess a small number of brush strokes out of the infinite number making up the total “oil painting”.  (1)  Every person is actually a unique “universe”, which expands with every emotion he or she experiences, and every thought, and every activity, and every flight of fancy.  This is the case in physical and also in the after-death state.  You can make sense of only what you can relate to and what meets your needs, so you will invariably put your own interpretation on every explanation and event of a lifetime.  In the process you are fleshing out that creation which is your unique universe – second by second by second.  As it grows it becomes less and less like every other.  It is therefore hardly surprising that descriptions from the after-death state give different accounts, because each comes from a different subjective universe.  Bear in mind as well that life in that dimension takes place within a mental-emotional (subjective) environment, comprising spontaneity and the free flow of individual uniqueness.

 

(2)  I have personally seen a subject under discussion being shaped and tailored by the spirit teacher providing it, so it meets the level of understanding of a particular audience.  Later, the same description, by the same spirit personality, but to a more informed audience, led to more detail and sophistication being presented but also incorporating a different perspective.  One is not true while the other is untrue.

 

(3)  Again, in my experience with these teachers, an infrastructure of analogies was explained to me.  I was told that every subject discussed might contain perhaps 10,000 individual items of information existing as part of the natural order.  Of these the average human mind might be able to process 100 (let us say), such is the limitation of our ability to understand.  The 100 items come together in our mind into a model or paradigm or template, and represent everything we know about ourselves and the world. That’s what a human being is, on both the spiritual and physical planes.  We can’t be what we are not!  Therefore, below the level of conscious awareness,  I am able to relate to and receive only a tiny percentage of the total facts.  Because my mind is uniquely different from that of every other individual, it follows that a slightly different configuration of 100 facts would be received by me, from spirit, than would be received by any other person.

 

Putting together all the foregoing, it can be seen that communication from spirit to physical, as dictated by Mother Nature or consciousness or “God” or the natural order, has the effect of maintaining a very substantial and carefully calibrated divide between the two spheres.  There are reasons for this, which are discussed in BEYOND. 

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Beyond – Can We Have it Both Ways?

April 2, 2013 By

Researcher.  I have an open mind, but am particularly interested in what is logical and provable.  You infer that you have all the answers, but you then go on about “analogies”, as though admitting there are no absolute answers.  If an answer is proven and replicated according to an acknowledged research model, it is absolute at this point in time.  You can’t have it both ways, Desmond.

 

Des.  I’m not sure how a philosophical position can be proven along the lines you suggest, but perhaps I should give more detail.  Irrespective of what words we use, our understanding of life does not and cannot include every fact and nuance that exist.  There is a lot we don’t know of natural processes.  This is acknowledged in most if not all areas of science.  We are learning more about ourselves and our environment all the time.  Therefore everything we personally know (or think we know), we extrapolate into a “knowledge bank” that could loosely be referred to as a mental-emotional analogy, or understanding of life, or total belief structure.  This structure may contain, as an example, one fact out of perhaps 10 which is relevant to any particular subject.

 

No matter how much our knowledge expands, there will always exist a gap between what there is and what we recognize and understand.  Look at the subject of so-called dark matter,  with its maps, galaxy cluster formations and distribution hypotheses.  This will keep nimble minds guessing for many generations.

 

There is an esoteric reason behind this “eternal mystery dynamic” so far as human evolvement goes.  As every individual person reaches out for her own answers in an effort to make sense of the world and her place in it, she uniquely defines and creates herself.  This is an important part of human individualization.  Not only do we evolve at many levels with each and every life experience, but also we become less and less like any other human being who has ever existed or ever will.  Individualization!  Guided by the unerring hand of Mother Nature, we are shown only part of every situation making up both the subjective and external environments.  In fact, the gaps are more important than the piles of facts separating them.  Having said that, the mass of information deluging us is also necessary in the individualizing process, because every person puts his unique interpretation on every situation he encounters and processes.

 

So … analogies are an inescapable ingeredient in being alive, because every individual immerses herself in one or another every moment of every day; indeed, a different one depending on the mood she is in and the company she happens to be keeping at that time.

 

Consider:  John and Mary may occupy the same windowless cell day and night for a week.  But inescapably each will notice different stimuli, minute by minute; remember different ones and forget others; draw on different coping strategies; and put a different interpretation on the circumstances that led to their incarceration.  In short, every person dwells within his or her unique emotional and mental universe, contributing to, and also drawing on, an analogy – a living web of interpretations.  It is no less a part of human behaviour than breathing.  This fact was acknowledged when explanations were moved through the conduit to be included in BEYOND. 

 

Interestingly, at that time, a large number of collective explanations or analogies were crafted by the authors of the book (not me) to carry its various concepts.  These enabled a greater field of facts to move into focus and introduce completely unfamiliar concepts.

 

But at the personal level perhaps we could think of our “universe” as an oil painting on the wall, in the process of being completed; second by second, with our every emotion, every thought, every action and reaction, and every flight of fancy.  There is no right painting and no wrong painting.  A painting is a painting, although some are nearer completion than others.  As we work on it, creating our masterpiece, we are defining ourself.  Collectively this process contributes to a body referred to as the Human Organism, the human species, and what it knows of itself.  At every level we have given ourself over to an analogy or paradigm.

 

Okay … Let us reduce the foregoing to a single paragraph:  We are all part of the process of evolvement, with every human being becoming increasingly different from every other.  How is this achieved?  From time to time we find ourselves thrown into a torrent of events whose deeper meaning few people can even start to comprehend.  In an effort to make sense of it all, every individual instinctively falls back on his or her life experiences.  There is nothing else to fall back on.  By definition they are unique.  They steer the manner in which she navigates through the confused currents of unanswered and unanswerable questions.  She explores herself in the light of these occurrences.  Her unfoldment is nurtured by her past, and her uniqueness is honed as part of the evolvement of her consciousness.  She lives an extrapolation, she is an analogy.  We all are!

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The Message Behind the Message of Beyond – The Book

December 24, 2012 By

DES.  Several members of the scientific community, from both the US and the UK, have asked me to  analyse the “message behind the message”, as it appears in BEYOND.  Although the message is not mine, the following is my understanding.

 

The spirit personalities who originated the “pointed advice” had a carefully crafted agenda that is both compelling and chilling.  They either created or used the opportunity to broadcast a stark warning, an ultimatum.  BEYOND sets the stage and then presents the ultimatum.  It has never been delivered before.  The time has arrived.  What do they offer us in return?  “We are pointing to a path where no longer is there a need for war;  an excuse for deprivation, starvation and its diseases;  an opportunity for discrimination;  the risk of hatred;  and the danger of self-loathing and its cycles of guilt and self-defeating behaviour.”  Free at last!  Almost abruptly we have the key.

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The Scientific Case for Beyond – The Book, based on EMDR and IADC

November 5, 2012 By

Des.  Many books have been based on information channeled by psychics from the after-death state, some of which went on to become international best sellers.

 

Conversations With God series by Neale Donald Walsch captured public imagination.  The Seth series by Jane Roberts was well-known in the 1970s and 1980s.  Ruth Montgomery’s books were salient in the mind-body-spirit genre from the 1960s through to the 1980s.  Edgar Cayce’s name was dominant during the last 50 years of the twentieth century.  The Spiritualist authors Maurice Barbanell and Arthur Ford continue to enjoy popularity in their field.

 

Science and psychology, however, rarely glanced in the direction of the after-death environment, due largely to deeply-ingrained professional prejudice:  “We know it’s just superstition, and we don’t investigate superstition”.

 

Fortunately there are exceptions. Allan L Botkin, PhD, Director of the Centre for Grief and Traumatic Loss in Libertyville, Illinois, encountered undeniable evidence while working for 20 years as a psychologist in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago.  His experiences of after-death encounters with combat veterans from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm, were so compelling that his research was supported by a phalanx of psychological and psychiatric authorities – all internationally-acknowledged leaders in their field.  These included Dr Raymond Moody, Dr Bruce Greyson, Bill Guggenheim, and the theologian Professor Ralph Leonard.  Their findings were brought together by Professor R Craig Hogan.  Many, many other members of the psychological community joined their ranks as the journey continued.  In his 2005 book on “induced after-death communications” (IADC), Botkin discussed the fact that he and several dozen colleagues helped “many thousands of clients” make contact with spirit personalities.  He went on to state that “it worked for nearly everyone” with whom he conducted sessions.  The clients involved, and the research staff, possessed no psychic or mediumistic abilities whatsoever, and came from a broad spectrum of society.

 

The following case history published by Botkin is dramatic, complex and comprehensive, more so than is typical.  I lifted it from his files [and comprehensively rewrote it] to show what can be achieved with the technique.  The various cases discussed are not restricted to patients from the vet’s hospital.

 

During Client’s childhood his father physically and sexually assaulted him and his two sisters in the most appalling manner.  So great was his continuing trauma and anxiety that he had difficulty even discussing the matter with the psychotherapist.  Father would bring drunken friends home, who abused the terrified children at will.  One of Client’s sisters, while still a teenager, killed herself.  The other sister did the same just before Client presented for therapy.  During IADC, Botkin’s client came face to face with the sister who only recently committed suicide.  With tears in his eyes, he explained to Botkin how happy she looked:  “It’s the first time I’ve seen her happy, although she is sorry for the distress her suicide caused”.  Brother and sister went on to discuss other family members who died, and she provided encouragement and advice to him.  That night Client dreamed vividly that his father was begging forgiveness, as his sisters looked on from a distance.  Interestingly, Father was in an area of darkness, while the sisters were standing smiling in bright light.  In the dream the sisters then approached and said, “Forgive Father, not for him but for you”.  During Client’s next session with Dr Botkin, he confronted his father.  He found himself pushing the other away.  Father’s presence was offensive.  But the spirit personality looked so distraught.  For the first time Client felt an awareness that his father carried the suffering he had caused:  he lived it.  A discussion followed.  Later Client explained to Botkin:  “He seemed so pitiful, so sorry.  He kept repeating it.  He’d resorted to such appalling behaviour because that’s how his father treated him.  I really feel forgiveness is possible.  I know why he did these things.”  IADC therapy continued for several more sessions, before Client was completely reconciled and comfortable.  He told Botkin with a smile, that he would always take with him the love and warmth the sisters offered as they hugged him during his final session.

 

Another client, a psychologist, was a skeptic who nevertheless included IADC in her clinical practice.  So intrigued was she with the results she decided to contact Botkin.  She wanted to talk to her father, with whom there had been issues.  Without effort she made contact:  “He was younger and fitter, and looked quite peaceful, quite unlike the father I remembered”.  Client came by an awareness that, for all his shortcomings, Father had carried a deep committment to the family and done his best.  He mentioned he was calmly awaiting the arrival of his elderly wife, Client’s mother.  At the one-year follow-up, Client reported that emotionally her life was more balanced and comfortable as the result of the IADC.  No longer was the skeptic skeptical!

 

A further case of a skeptic undergoing an IADC experience, relates to a cardiac surgeon who loudly proclaimed, “The whole after-death thing is just a flight of fancy”, even before he knew what was involved.  He had been referred to Botkin by a group working with the grief process.  Client was a member of the group and continued to struggle unsuccessfully with the painful death of his brother five years before.  Discussing his distress, Client was sad, embittered and angry.  He needed someone to blame, an indication he was suffering from a fixation that was inhibiting a healthy resolution of the conflict.  His parents were the focus of his fury.  However the session was a complete success.  Afterwards he appeared tired but relaxed.  Almost reluctantly he smiled.  The tension was gone.  But abruptly, as though remembering his prejudices, he sat upright and snapped, “Yes, I was talking to my brother.  He said not to blame anyone for his death, he was okay.  But it was all imagination.  You don’t expect me to believe that stuff, do you?”  A short time later Botkin contacted the grief resolution group, and was informed the surgeon had improved so dramatically he was no longer a member.

 

A history professor appearing in Botkin’s files failed several times with IADC.  Assisted by Botkin she persisted.  Eventually she encountered her mother, whose death she continued to grieve.  The professor revealed that she was healed by a single sentence spoken by her mother, so powerful were the emotions that accompanied the words.  This is a well-known feature of IADC.  The deceased frequently carries with her very presence a strange comfort, a serenity, a sense that everything is okay and as it should be.  Sometimes no words are necessary.  At other times they provide guidance.  Almost always forgiveness and love and peace are conveyed.  Even the glimpse of a loved one, radiant with happiness, can heal and give a feeling of release that Client has sought for years.  There are many, many other case histories in Dr Botkin’s files.

 

As a specialist in psychotherapy and neurotherapy with the trance state, I regularly use the modality with clients.  I also developed a new delivery mechanism and protocols for both EMDR and IADC, so a person is able to entrance him- or herself and use Self-EMDR and self-IADC.  This enabled me to “follow” my wife when she died in 2007.

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An Oversight on the Book Beyond

September 28, 2012 By

DES.  It is a fact that there is no such thing as a fact!  Let me explain.  With any subject we choose to look at, there might be, say, 1000 items of information in existence or even a million.  This is the case if we look at ABC simple stuff, philosophical information, mathematical information, details about the planetary organism (Gaia), or even something as abstract as the hypothetical infrastructure underpinning sub-atomic physics.  You name it.  Because people are just human beings at a primitive stage of their growth or evolvement, because we have much to learn, we do not possess the total number of facts on any subject.  Let’s say the average individual is acquainted with one fact out of every hundred; that is, 10 facts out of the total of 1000 existing on that given subject.  He puts the 10 together into an analogy or model or template or paradigm.  These 10 facts are all he knows.  A genius may possess 15 facts out of every 1000.  I may possess five.  Whatever.  So far as Mr Average is concerned, with his 10 facts he thinks he knows everything there is to know.  That is his reality.  Within its limited horizons he relates to the world around him, and he relates to himself.

Collectively, this is what the human race is at this point in its evolvement.  It is locked into the confines of a capsule, which expands as total human evolvement expands and therefore total knowledge expands.

It follows that human awareness of itself and the universe comprises every one of these analogies or models added together.  It cannot know what it cannot know, and what it does know defines what the human condition is at this moment in time.

Incredibly, what my deceased wife Val explained to me month after month as I drifted in a neurological (IADC, not hypnotic) trance, departed from this general concept.  A situation existed which can intimidate me.   From early childhood Val was a gifted psychic and trance channeller.   The same with me, although I have much more modest abilities.   While entranced I was able to integrate this clairaudience and experience a situation which to my knowledge has never been achieved before.  A door to the after-death state was swung wide open.  Psychism and the neurotherapeutic modality (for which I personally developed a new delivery mechanism) came together.  It were as though Val was sitting beside me and presenting facts that have never before been discussed.   Not only was the link between the two planes more clear and concise than spirit communication alone, but also it provided an illumination in which concepts come together to form a profoundly deep and meaningful level of understanding.

No longer was I entrapped in 10 facts out of every 1000!  Even now I am not sure exactly what happens.  I do know that the people in spirit who provide details for Val to convey to me, select a small spectrum of information to push through the conduit between the two planes of existence.   I am told that the information is intricately calculated, and designed to be delivered at this precise point in history.   Some of it is inspiring and some of it grim and bleak – a warning.  I am only the postman and entitled to no credit.

Taken together it forms a message.  BEYOND is the message.  It is directed at the community.   Ignore it at your peril.

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A Focus on Beyond

August 28, 2012 By

DES.  With a background in marine electronics, and then counselling along with trance psychotherapy and neurotherapy, I have developed the habit of being analytical and even skeptical.  I respect hard evidence.  Wishful thinking has no place in my life.  BEYOND reflects this need to deal with provable facts.

The 60,000 words in the book were given to me by my wife Val after she died, and also by other people in her environment.  This was made possible because I entered a neurological trance for an hour at a time every few days for eight or nine months, and talked to her.  As well I encountered our daughter who died before birth, and a veiled and mysterious group who provided an infrastructure of details I had never heard of before.  Their information comprises a strange and chilling agenda which I call BEYOND. 

But how does all this come together with my insistence on nothing but “proven facts”?

The neurological trance, which I have used in one form or another for many years with my clients and students, comprises a marriage between two techniques: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) on the one hand, and Induced After Death Communication (IADC) on the other.  EMDR was developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D, at the time a senior research Fellow at the Mental Health Institute in Palo Alto, California.  It was proclaimed by a large number of the world’s foremost psychological authorities as “a stunning breakthrough” in the field of mental health in most countries of the world.  Many books and scientific papers have been published on the subject since the late 1990s.

During research programs on EMDR, it was discovered that a certain percentage of subjects (many of them psychologists) in a neurological trance were able to discern or communicate with deceased individuals.  A string of similar projects followed with different personnel.  Same results.  It was then that a young research scientist, Allan L. Botkin, Psy.D, became involved.  He refined  the EMDR protocols which greatly increased the percentage of researchers who were able to contact deceased individuals, and called his technique IADC.  Nowadays Dr. Botkin conducts workshops on IADC around the world.  He also wrote the Foreword to my book.

I further modified IADC so it can be used by a person on him or herself.  This enabled me to “follow” Val after she died, and then access the group who appeared to be waiting for the opportunity to broadcast their message.  Please make of it what you will.

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