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One of the Kingdoms of Hell Visionary Stephen O'Brien has left his physical body and is travelling into the World of Spirit on another enlightening excursion, there to meet with his spirit guide and teacher, a man who, thousands of years ago when he lived on Earth, was a Native American whose tribal name was White Owl. In this short book extract we join them as they arrive in one of the lower spheres of the spirit world
'In my Father's House there are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you' - attributed to Jesus of Nazareth |
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All at once we found ourselves walking down the slopes of a misty grey valley. The air seemed heavy dark-blue and thick; no warmth of happiness lived in that freezing, bitter place; even the grasses were dank and bent under the weight of the insipid atmosphere. All around us there was utter silence -- this was not a pleasant stillness, but a cold unnerving deadness. No birds were singing, no animals grazed in the fields. 'Where is everyone?' 'They are near. What you can feel is their minds, colouring the countryside and darkening it. The souls who live here shed little light.' Not fully understanding, I remained quiet and followed where he led, feeling safe in his company. We walked towards a distant township. 'Countless billions of mental states have produced an equal number of spheres in which to exist here,' he continued. 'Heaven and Hell are purely states of mind, not geographical places.' 'I see.' As we walked on I witnessed some horrific sights on this journey (some too upsetting to record): people with cracked and bleeding skin, their dark thoughts were shadowing their spirit bodies and their extreme mental torment inflicted upon them these and other 'injuries'. This, I learned, was because they couldn't love themselves: their perceptions of how they thought they looked changed their appearances. Our thoughts have a more immediate effect on us in the next world than they do here on Earth. Some places were like nightmare cities - grotesque sequences of ugly images, each self-centred and vengeful soul lived in a twilight of his own making, having extinguished from his being all compassion for others. In Eternity, the more love and compassion a soul possesses, the greater the light it sheds over its surroundings. The spirit body increases its vibrational frequency with each noble act and thought, and the higher frequencies create a brighter emission of light (just as electrical elements on Earth glow and shed light when their vibrations are stimulated by electricity). I saw social misfits, the ignorant and the abusive. I saw murderers hiding themselves away in dark caves, weeping for crimes they'd committed, unable to forgive themselves, even though the injured parties had long since understood their cruel acts and had forgiven them. I saw a great deal more, all of which taught me that within everyone there's a Divine Monitor called the Conscience. This inner voice judges all of our acts, and it records each fragment of our lives and of our thinking. These memories are responsible for the punishments inflicted upon us by ourselves - through the mirror of our souls. 'This is The Judgement Day'. |
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