Life and the Limbo Planes

In the past, I have written about life, and what it means to me and how my life may affect others. I find that it doesn't matter what I think or do, others have their own ideas that don't necessarily agree with mine. That's Ok, for we all have total freedom of choice. Freedom of choice reminded me of an article I read by Richard Rowley.

It was an article that Richard had placed on the internet site spiritualismlist@yahoo.com about the after-life place called "limbo". I learned that it doesn't matter whether a person lives a really loving unselfish, non-self-centered life, here in this physical world, and whether they think more about others than themselves, or whether they are a total …., all will go to a spirit world that is conducive to their personality. Jesus said, “In my father’s house are many mansions.”

In the article, limbo is described as a gray lifeless place in the low astral regions (spirit world) that is extremely depressing and lonely. It doesn't seem to matter whether other people are living there also, “a person feels alone with themselves” and are not able to communicate with the others – the others just don’t want to communicate with them. The low astral regions are where some people (knowing it or not) who have, "starved their soul (self centeredness) while living in the earth plane and feeding on the EMOTIONS and DESIRES of their own personality.”

We take into the “after-life” the same emotions, desires and personality that we have in our physical life. However, not all is lost. More advanced people from the higher spirit worlds go into the grey limbo lands to try and convince those who are there to take charge of their life (change their way of thinking) through understanding themselves and their relationship to other people. The person there has to correct their wrong way of thinking by recognizing it for what it is, and to become loving, thoughtful and forgiving.

The best thing that a person can do while in the earth plane, is to become a loving, out-going person who takes personal responsibility for their emotions, desires and relationship with others in order to go to the higher astral world (spirit world) of light after the change called death.

As I continued to read the article, I realized that it doesn't matter what a person is like in their earth plane life, they will reap what they sow and get their just reward. So what does it matter whether we treat others with a total lack of respect, talk about them behind their back, belittling them, and making them out to be something their not. What you sow, you reap. This says that you haven't taken responsibility for your actions here, so you will have to make amends on the other side of physical life. If you think that I'm being a little too strong in what I have just written, maybe it is true for you and you need to think about it.

We all have to take personal responsibility for our action, emotions, desires and thoughts while here in this physical world; even though it is never an easy job for us. We have to first recognize that we have a problem, and then search through our lives to learn about the source of the problem, and then take the right actions to correct the problem and thus ourselves. If the correct action means that we have to forgive someone like our father or mother, brother, sister or a person we once called a friend, then we must do it. Waiting until we get on the other side is no excuse to procrastinate. The sooner we take care of our problems the better and the possibility of keep our friends.

I realize that most problems come about due to misunderstandings of some kind, which are most often due to pride or not hearing the person correctly due to our internal dialog that distracted us at the time. Or, not really understanding where the other "person was coming from". It may have been a poor choice of words by our self or the other person. It may have been our not asking for more information or saying that we understood this or that, and we needed greater clarification. If you didn't think to give them a chance to explain, then you are totally in the wrong and must make the appropriate corrections.

This article was written to all of us, especially me, to try and get us to think a little. Maybe we can save our friends and ourselves a lot of problems later on.