Where Do You Stand?

When Frances Banks (1844-1911) went to the Spirit side of life, she was able to express her experiences there through various mediums such as Helen Greaves. In Helen’s book, Testimony of Light (Published in 1969) talks about the “Shadow Lands. The Shadow Lands is where those who “thought that the world owed them a living, or people who complained and criticized and judged all the time.” People who were engaged in “dubious experiences in crime, drug taking, alcoholism, theft, deceit, and other negative activities” are all found.

Helen said that the Shadow Lands “seem to be a clearing house where unlawful and mischievous adjuncts of the old personalities are rejected, disregarded and finally resolved.” The Shadow Land seem to be the place, where some people go when they make their transition from the physical world, to make right the less than good decisions made in physical life, right the negative things that they did to people they wronged, or be reminded of things that they did in physical life that they had forgotten about, but is causing the person to beheld back from progressing to the Spirit World of light.

Because Frances Banks, Daniel Dunglas Home, Swedenborg, Andrew Jackson Davis, the writings of Sir Author Conan Doyle, and a number of others, gave us the above information through their mediumship we have a record of what the Spirit Worlds are like and those who are there.

As I look at the various articles that I have written and placed on my blog or shared with friends, I cannot help be reminded of the fact that a ministers job is to inform, uplift and encourage people through messages from spirit, the Bible, the Koran, writings of the Buddha, and other sacred books, to remind us that there is a better way to deal with things in lives without injuring to ourselves or other.

I have sat in various denominational churches listening to hundreds of sermons by ministers in the Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Roman Catholic and other churches. All of the sermons used the Bible as a basis to remind the congregation that they should be living their life as Jesus lived his. Jesus lived a pure and loving life, never judging other, uplifting with his love. We, like Jesus, are encouraged to deal with friends and other people with compassion and love “doing unto others as we would have them do to us.” These are a few things that a minister tries to express through his/her sermons and take personal responsibility for our every action.

By knowing of the shadow lands and what they stand for we are better able to appreciate the messages of our ministers and the teachings of Jesus. By living a more Christ like life, we will are able to avoid the pitfalls of life and prepare ourselves for a new life in the Spirit World of light.

God Bless