assorted points Jan 2020

As always Mikey will answer in due course but from what I understand the objects you've mentioned are communal 'over there' also, much as they are here.

Similarly there are communal landscapes, buildings etc. and we may also create (by the power of thought) for ourselves locally the conditions we like to enjoy - when we've learned (or remembered) how. Even here we create for ourselves local conditions we enjoy such as in our homes and gardens. I suppose if we had made sufficient spiritual progression we might be able to create larger objects and landscapes etc. in the etheric dimensions ourselves but I doubt we'd be able to hold them in perpetual existence by ourselves.

None of that makes the so-called afterlife something that's not objective. It does exist for all even if different individuals experience different facets - little different from our own dimension of existence.

 

It's no different than for the situation here in the physical unless as discarnates we have the ability to create - and then animate - an object to give the impression of life. I don't know if that's a possibility but my view is that it's not.

When we see a butterfly here it's being animated - it's a living thing. The only way I know of animating something that's living is by a spirit doing it. If we see a butterfly 'over there' the same principle would apply in my view; a spirit would be animating that butterfly. I don't know if an individual spirit can use its own energy to animate another living thing or whether a a discrete spirit must be doing it - something to ask Mikey about???

I suppose there might be one significant difference from what happens here. Here, of course, our dreams feel real at the time but they are transient and have no material component - they ain't real and they don't exist outside of our dreams. If, however, we can still dream in the world that follows this one maybe our dreams there can manifest objects which we perceive in the way you describe.

Perhaps something else to ask Mikey about???

 

I'm glad to hear that your fortunes have changed, Kurt. I'm also glad you don't need to spend so much time here on ALF although I did kinda wonder if you were OK when you first started spending increased time away.

 

The 'desires' mentioned in the earlier postings from September last year were to do with wanting to remain around the earth dimension rather than leave it and move into the etheric dimension proper.

posting #674 "Mikey tells me it can be up to a quarter, but he says we need to understand that some can be "rescued" quite quickly while others can take longer. Some can be stuck for a long time depending on their strong desires for this dimension. It varies according to Mikey. It is really individual. Carol and Mikey "in Spirit""

That conversation was about rescuing so-called earthbound individuals. It was not about wanting to satisfy (quote) "Earthly desires".

 

I'm pleased to hear you're much more on top of things, Kurt. There were times when they were running away from you. I expect you do miss being here, the folk you kinda know albeit at a very great distance, but I'm also pleased you don't need to be here.

I've said this before and I'll repeat it - this 'spooks' stuff is more suited to older folk and getting on with life is far more important than considering what follows it. If and when the time is right you'll find yourself drawn in that direction or pushed into it without having made the choice.

As you've mentioned, ALF is heading toward its 10th anniversary. During those years a lot of active members have left us, many more visitors came and went without ever being seen on the boards.

The range of subjects we've discussed, debated and even fallen out about is considerable. I'd guess there are few completely unvisited topics that are likely to be raised in ALF's future although I'd loved to be proven wrong. Roberta's focus now is on her blog work, writing and broadcasting.

My experience of forum-based websites is that most go through a cycle of start, run, peak and then gradually fade away. ALF may be in that last stage.