Your Practitioner will ask you to give some idea about your problem (the detail is not necesary). Reiki can be channelled through the Aura so strictly speaking there is no need for the Practitioner to touch you. However, it can usually assist in the attunement process if she/he places the hands lightly on your shoulders. Many patients prefer to be touched lightly on other parts of the body i.e. arms/back/feet/ankles and hands. Your Pratitioner will ask you for your preference. Visitors' Questions during March/April 2002
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The following are Hai's and other spirits' responses to miscellaneous questions recently posed by visitors to this web site or by personal visitors to our home. If you would like to ask a general question please complete the Question Form
Q:
I can't understand why if Paul was in a Buddhist monastery
before his fanatical days why he became a fanatic after this?
Hai:
He was not a fanatic in the Buddhist monastery. Fanaticism was
not encouraged. But he chose a certain life in a later life to experience
what fanaticism meant.
Q:
Two opposites then?
Hai:
Two opposites indeed.
Q: So you would know before you came here then?
Hai: You would know on this occasion. Not all would know such things. As I have said, some are driven by their desire, by their karma to enter quickly into a new body on the earth plane. But there is opportunity to choose an incarnation for those who have moved to this point. "Rebirth" indicates more clearly I think that we move into a new frame. We put on a new cloak, to use the analogy I used last time and the new cloak, the new frame, may have many different qualities to the one of yesteryear. If we talk of reincarnation some people are prone to think of enduring qualities of the physical passing into the new body, the personality passing into the new body. But I would say to you that your personalities are what you have while you are on the earth on this occasion. Aspects of your personality are peripheral to your essence and you nevertheless have an essence, a spiritual essence, a spiritual being which is within, behind and greater than all the other qualities which you all display on the earthly plane. So it is as if you take on a mold when you come on to the earth plane. You take on a shape, a cloak, through which other people see you, through which you have to represent yourself. But it is in many ways an intermediary, a medium by which you express yourselves if you like and from that point of view it is not so different to what I am doing now. For I am using Paul's body as a medium for which to express myself but it cannot indicate or reveal to you the essence of my being. But yet it does reveal it to a point and through our communication you can interact with the essence of my being.
One night we were visited by a spirit called James and people present asked him questions on the theme of how spirits learn from reflecting upon their previous earth life once in the Spirit World. Q:
Since your transition to the spirit world have you learnt a lot?
James:
I have indeed learnt a lot. I have learnt a lot in many measures
because of reflecting on my experiences within the earthly plane. It is
rather like you know, yes, it is rather like you know your camels and your camels
have one hump or two humps. But the important thing about their humps, which
I wish to bring to your attention, is that they store water, do they not in
the form of fat? They store water they store nourishment, they store good
sustenance and it is a bit like that, you see, when you come to the spirit
world. Because it is like you have stored your human experience in your hump
and you come to the spirit lands and you may draw upon this hump, this wealth
of experience and reflect upon it adnausium and learn from it adnausium. It
is like a reservoir of learning which you can revisit again and again and
again and draw ever new lessons and development from it.
Q:
Does this 'hump' hold just the precious lifetime or all life
times which have taken place on earth?
James:
Well, the most significant is the most recent lifetime, but
you may also access previous lifetimes. But you may also have already fully
explored the "hump" of these other life times on previous experiences within
the spirit world. It may be that you have already exhausted your learning
from these other "humps" as you put it.
Q:
Do you have to review this by youreslf?
James:
You often reflect by yourself, but it is most common to
receive assistance in this matter from kindly souls who are around you, who
may seek you out even, to assist you.
James: It can be extremely painful of course. Of course it depends on the actual situation, the actual experience which you are reviewing at the time. But it can be emotionaly tiring and disturbing. But you have so much help and sustenance around you, so much support around you, you are not left to suffer quietly. You are not left to suffer needlessly. For the suffering is a spur to learning, to growth, and this is the main purpose of the experience; that you may grow and develop, not for the purpose of merely of suffering. But sometimes we need to suffer in order to achieve a deep revolution within our centre. A deep turning, a revolution to the truth and love. But there is ready assistance as we have said.
Q: So is that the point where you decide to come back to earth? James: You may decide to come back. You may even decide to come back before you have fully exploited and exhausted the reservoir of the "hump", but you may equally stay on in the spirit world and pursue some other occupation. I personally have chosen to stay within the spirit worlds and to explore my potential within this context. Q: Do you have a particular function in the spirit world? James: It is not possible to be a "drain on the state" so to speak, in that by our very existence we serve a purpose. By our encounters with others we serve a purpose. But you speak of roles. But I do not speak of definitive roles. I have several roles which express themselves when circumstance dictates. Q: Can you tell us a bit more about your roles? James: I do help people in reflecting upon their previous life and experiences in an informal way, in a friendly way, in a supportive way. And ,of course, by doing this it is sometimes useful to share your own life experiences and previous experiences with them. To share these also and to enter into a comradship and state of empathy with each other. It is all the more supportive then if this feeling of empathy can be developed between the souls. And I do my painting here of course, in my own fashion, and I have several roles as I say which are informally pursued. Q: When people decide to reflect on their previous life do they do it at their own pace, in their own time? James: Yes assuredly, they do it at their own pace in their own time. Q: So is it possible for someone to be in the spirit world for hundreds or even thousands of years and not begin to explore that? James: It would be unusual for such a long period of "time" to elapse, relative of course because you know the difficulty we have with your time. But it would be rare for someone to expand such a number of years before reviewing the reservoir of experience within themselves. If such a period of time elapsed it would be indicative of someone in the lower realms who was stuck, who cannot review their own life experience in a productive fashion without first moving onwards into another realm of the spirit lands. But there are many souls, as you know, who are in the lower realms who are stuck, indeed who are not capable, who do not have the opportunity to review their experience within these realms. Who indeed, just to the contrary, are often stuck in the experiences and habits of their physical life and perpepuate the difficulties they associate with them. A readiness to change, an openess to learning, is all that is required. But some are not open and some are not ready to learn. Q: For the average spirit who doesn't go to the darker realms is it possible to give some idea in our time? James: No, this would be variable. If you talk about the starting time for this, if you talk about the length of time it would take to dwell, to process the experience which they have carried with them. All of this is variable depending on the individual's soul and the individual's circumstance.Jon from Kings Lynn in England asked the following question:
Q: I have been thinking a lot about going to Spain and walking the Camino. Maybe not tomorrow, but some time in the future. I know what I am looking for lies within - would this journey aid me in my search and help me discover what my purpose is in this lifetime?Cindy from North Carolina in the USA asked the following question:
Q: Do you have any advice on how to get along with someone of a differet religion? How to let them know you do not want to convert to their religion and just want to be friends without hurting their feelings?Return to Visitors' Questions/Spirit Communication Main Page and Index
Regular Question Nights are held at our home in Stockport, England. If
you live within travelling distance why not come along and meet Hai and his
spirit friends. Ask about life in the spirit world and get their perspective
on issues of interest or concern. Question Nights are currently held one evening a month
8.00pm to 10.00pm, cost �3.75, including light refreshments.