Tranquil Spirit, Northwich, Cheshire, UK - Spirit Communications: Human Nature

Spirit Communications through Trance Mediumship/Channeling:

Human Nature

The Nature of Human Life

Q: Are humans a symbiosis of a physical human being and a spirit being and if this is the case, are spirits depriving the human body of their separate existence?

Hai: Funny way of looking at thing, yes? Well, we would say that human form was developed, physical human form was developed, in order to provide an opportunity to experience on the physical plane. But it is as I have said many times to you before, it is rather to be looked upon as a cloak, a coat, a glove, which we wear while we are on this earthly plane. A cloak to enable us to experience this world, to experience the environment, this situation, the circumstances, the fabric of this world. Yes, without this human cloak we would not be able to live, to experience this world. Therefore it is there for us, comes about, to enable us to experience this physical world. But it is no more than that.

It is like your robots that you make these days, yes? They have a long way to go. But it is like a shell, a shell with its own programming. But the programming is to enable us to experience the world and to react to the world through the medium of our physical form, yes? But this physical form is a house for our spirit. It is the medium through which our spirit impacts upon this world and the medium through which the world impacts upon our spirit. It is a "go between" if you wish to view it this way. Therefore, it is not appropriate, it is not correct to view it as a separate being of itself, a separate life form of itself. For it depends upon spirit to animate it, to resurrect it, to move it, to enable it to have its function within the physical sphere.

Dale from Norwich in the UK asked a question about the existence of alternative versions of ourselves

Q: In my dreams and meditations it has been hinted to me that there are "alternative me's" existing. Kind of like different "Dales" who have made different choices in his life. In some experiences I have had I have met other versions of myself who, for instance, have not had children and are more focused in other areas of their lives - such as my music ambition. Is this a true phenomena? Is this something that you know anything about? Am I experiencing one branch of a tree but there are other me's experiencingother branches? Are these other me's as conscious as me? Or are they only "possibilities" that have remained un-realised? If these other me's ARE conscious, I suspect that in the afterlife I will "merge" back with them? Is the an accurate idea? I am slightly confused by this issue and would appreciate any thoughts you have about it.

Hai: You must send Dale the story of monk in kitchen.

Hai then went on to relay a previous story he'd told us:

Hai:Monk in kitchen ask for enlightenment. He asks Abbot in kitchen:
"How may I achieve enlightenment?"
Abbot say to him: "Have you eaten your breakfast?"
Monk say: "Yes."
Abbot say: "Then wash up your bowl."

You must tell this story to Dale. In other words, he must focus upon his one unique self and not worry about the thousand permutations. We believe it is important to focus upon the here and now, this present life. It does not help to speculate on many lives, many aspects of self and so on. In a sense there is some truth to his question in that there are many aspects of each of us within this present life; many aspects for us to discover about ourselves; many strands, many different aspects to ourselves. Yet to think of different aspects of ourselves having independent existences in other dimensions, this is confusion. For how then could this other aspect of ourselves be our self if we are oblivious of it? It would be no more our-self than would our brother or sister who we see as being separate to ourselves yet in truth they are aspects of our- self. For if we see our origin, and recognise our origin, as being in the One Mind, of all of us being expressions of the One Mind, we are in a sense then all expressions of each other.

Therefore Dale's speculation about 'other selves' is only another way of saying, in a sense, what the nature of the fundamental reality is anyway: that we are all aspects of each other.We are all aspects of the One Mind. To talk of 'many Dale's', to talk of many different aspects living independently, is not helpful, is not useful. On another level we may say that we live on this earth plane at this moment in time to reveal one aspect of ourselves, to discover certain characteristics of ourselves. But we have all lived many, many lives and experimented with ourselves, discovered things about ourselves, manifested characteristics of ourselves. And so in a sense we only manifest certain characteristics in one lifetime, develop certain aspects in one lifetime. But when we return to the spirit realm we, what you might say, can be aware of the broader picture, to be aware of the multifarious aspects of ourselves. Therefore I do not see where his question will lead him other than into confusion. I do not see it as a useful voyage of discovery. (Smiling) He will run aground on rocks, I think.