COMMENTARY: THE SOLIDITY OF THE AFTERLIFE One of the reasons I enjoy watching the movie Astral City (also called 'Nosso Lar' or 'Our Home') is that it visually presents most powerfully the message that we have been getting from afterlife researchers for the last 250 years.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) a brilliant scientist, inventor and scholar is considered to be one of the three smartest people who ever lived. He began having out-of-body experiences at the age of 55 and for the next 27 years he explored other dimensions. He claimed that in these realms he met everyone he had ever known who had died.

He wrote 18 books explaining that there are many different levels of existence where people live very pleasant and interesting lives, just as real as ours on Earth.

This work was revolutionary – at that time in the 1750s the Protestant teaching about the afterlife was that you float around on a cloud or go to a fiery hell where you burn for eternity. The Catholics added the option of purgatory which was still hell but not for eternity and your relatives could pay money to get you an early release.

But here was Swedenborg coming back and telling us that there are sections of the afterlife which are just like being alive, that people have bodies, they wear clothes, live in houses, go to concerts, walk in the woods, have plants and animals and that the environment responds to group thought. This is exactly what we are learning about the afterlife from modern electronic contacts.



THE MAKING OF NOSSO LAR One of the most successful Brazilian movies ever, Nosso Lar is based on a book sent from the afterlife by Dr Andre Luiz through the direct writing mediumship of Chico Xavier. It traces the afterlife experiences of a materialistic doctor (Andre Luiz himself) after his death. He wakes up to find himself in the lower astral (the Umbral) where he stays for several years before he sends out a prayer for help and is rescued. He is taken to one of the many receiving stations in the middle astral where he spends some time in a hospital and then begins exploring his new home. Watch preview of the movie.





THE PURPOSE OF LIFE AS REVEALED BY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AROUND THE WORLD
David Sunfellow writes: "This book is a collection of the best stories and quotes I have come across in 40-plus years of studying NDEs. It shines a bright light on the universal truths that are championed by NDEs and reveals, in life-changing technicolor, how to apply these truths to our everyday lives. This book was first published under the title 'Love The Person You’re With'. All 60 chapters of that book are included in this one. 31 additional chapters have been added. The book is being published under a new title to reach more people. New content has been added to explore some topics in greater depth." Read more...



SONIA RINALDI SHARES HER LATEST RESEARCH WITH SANDRA CHAMPLAIN Sonia Rinaldi has been participating in research on Instrumental Transcommunication for over 30 years, getting trans-images and voices. She also shares a book she has written for children which aims to give them basic information about the existence of the afterlife You can support Sonia's research by purchasing one of the items at her Amazon Gift List Registry.





SWEDENBORG'S CONTRIBUTION TO MODERN SPIRITUALISM According to research done by Michael Tymn: "William Stainton Moses, one of the best known mediums of the 19th Century, was informed by spirit communicators that Swedenborg and Benjamin Franklin, working together on the other side, figured out how to communicate with the earth realm by the taps, raps, and table tiltings that kicked off the Spiritualism epidemic in 1848.

Swedenborg is said to have appeared to Andrew Jackson Davis, known as the “Poughkeepsie Seer,” and contributed to his enlightenment, and to have communicated with French researcher Allan Kardec. He further collaborated with Francis Bacon in communicating much about the afterlife through the mediumship of Dr. George T. Dexter during the early 1850s.
Read Michael Tymn's fascinating article.



DO YOU HAVE A HOUSE IN HEAVEN?
Emanuel Swedenborg says yes. In this episode, host Curtis Childs from the Swedenborg Foundation focuses on Swedenborg's firsthand accounts of the afterlife. Learn how your house in heaven will reflect your mind, and will change as you go through changes.





DO THE DEAD CARE ABOUT HAVING A 'PROPER BURIAL'? While we have heard of cases where a spirit was concerned about this (see the case of Runki's leg) for most people who transition to the next life, the old physical body "is treated as something that is for ever done with. It has become utterly useless to them. It has been cast off, and our friends are never sorry to cast it off! What then becomes of it they are not the least bit concerned. They have no reverence for it....

Who is there upon earth who has any deep respect and reverence for some old, useless, worn-out, shabby garment? It is finished and done with. Away with it, and let us see no more of it. In the spirit world we have a new garment, fresh and lovely it fits us perfectly, and it seems to our eyes faultless in form, color and mode." — Mons. High Benson speaking through the mediumship of Anthony Borgia recorded in 'Here and Hereafter', Chapt1, 1968



REMOTE VIEWING Master Remote Viewer Joe McMoneagle gives a Remote Viewing demonstration and interview to Paul Mckenna and his studio audience. He has been tested by government organizations and the CIA under laboratory conditions.





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