Limbo Land

I have written about life and what it means to me and how my life may relate to others. I find that it doesn’t matter what I think, others have their own ideas and they 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 Robert Egby.

It was an article that Robert had placed on the internet site spiritualist@yahoo.com about the after life place called “limbo’. I learned that it doesn’t matter whether a person lives a really loving life where 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.

In the article, limbo is described as a grey lifeless place that is extremely depressing and lonely. It didn’t seem to matter that their were other living in the same limbo place, the person was alone with their “self”. It is a place where people (knowing it or not) who have, “starved their soul while living in the earth plain, and had fed only on the EMOTIONS and DESIRES of their personality”. However, not all is lost for people there. There are people from the higher spirit world who go into the limbo lands to try and convince them to take charge of their “wrong doings while in the earth” and do all that they can to correct them. Then they can move on to higher spirit plains where they can progress spiritually. To correct one’s wrongs, one has to recognize them and then change their whole outlook to become a loving and thoughtful person.

As I continued to read the article, I realized that it doesn’t matter what a person is like in their earth plain life, they will reap what they sow and get their just reward. So what does it matter whether you don’t treat me and display a total lack of respect, talk about me behind my back belittling me and making me out to be something I’m not. You haven’t taken responsibility for your actions here, so you will have to make amends on the other side of physical life. Far too many people engage in this kind of wrong action on a regular basis but truly believe that they are absolutely correct in those actions. But are they?

The law of cause and effect says that we must take personal responsibility for our action, emotions 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 or sister or a person we once called a friend, then we must do it. Waiting until we get on the other side, or conveniently forgetting about what we did, is no excuse to procrastinating. The sooner we take care of our problems here the better the possibility of keeping our friends. Some would say “it’s the Christian thing to do.”

I realize that most problem come about due to misunderstandings of some kind. This is most often due to pride, ego, or just not hearing the other person correctly while engaged in our own internal dialog that distracted us at the time so that we do not here the other person correctly. Or, not really understanding where the other “person is coming from”. It may have been a poor choice of words by the other person. It may have been our not asking for more information or saying that we understood this or that and you needed clarification, but didn’t ask for it. If you didn’t think to give them a chance to explain, then you are totally in the wrong and must make the appropriate corrective action.

What a life but a school of hard knocks for all of us to learn the ups and downs, the rights and wrongs of living on our spiritual path.

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