Communications
with the Dead

by Bill Ingle

1. You and I accept that death is not the end of our existence.

Some of us have experimented with mediumship, trance states, and so on, and continue to do so. We’ve relished Jane Roberts’ excellent channelling and taken the Seth material she translated, you might say, to heart. We may have our skeptical moments, when we are perhaps more ego-bound than at other moments, but these moments are all part of our experience on earth and, to an extent, make it easier for us to communicate with others who do not believe as we do, do not share our experiences, have no interest in learning to explore the use of their inner senses, and indeed don’t even believe in their existence.

2. The overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens believe in the existence of an afterlife.

They believe this in a variety of ways, some of their beliefs being somewhat akin to what Seth teaches, many quite different in fundamental ways. They may believe in a heaven and a hell, for example, or that evil spirits roam about, or that one sure way to fall into the clutches of the devil is by playing with a ouija board.

3. Official societal beliefs are mixed.

The materialist beliefs associated with science do not allow for the existence of soul, afterlife, or All That Is, even though a true believer in science must acknowledge that these areas —owing to their nature— are really out of bounds for the scientific method.

Thus we have scientific investigators like William James who studied mediums and their communications, eventually allowing —after ruling out fraud and deception— that about 5% of all that they studied was genuine but unexplainable by scientific means.

We also have those who ridicule the William James, insisting that there must be some rational explanation for everything he and his cohorts investigated, that even if science can’t explain these areas today, eventually it will be able to.

A significant but unknown percentage of scientists (scientists may believe one thing privately, but profess contrary beliefs in public, making it difficult to accurately gauge their true beliefs) appear to believe that the brain is the basis of mind, that out-of-body and near-death experiences are created by the brain and its chemistry, and so on. For them, there are no inner senses, no inner realities, no soul, no ATI, etc.

With the waning of religion, these folks appear to have the upper hand when it comes to creating official beliefs.

This doesn’t prevent us from believing as we do and exploring those directions we find intriguing, nor does it prevent the mass of humanity from believing as it believes, but it does tend to block collective explorations in certain directions, as this tends to strengthen a whole set of limiting beliefs.

Communication with the dead is one of those directions; it includes all that accompanies such endeavors —survival of the human personality after death, the existence of that which could be called “soul,” and all of those areas with which non-physical personalities are familiar but which are not apparent when viewing physical reality strictly via the physical senses, in an ego-bound condition.

These areas include telepathy, pre-cognition, and so on, not to exclude what Seth calls reality creation, the physical universe as idea construction, etc.
In short, ideas like Seth’s are opposed to many official beliefs.

While certain practices from old traditions and newer variations do have something in common with Seth’s exercises, by and large such activities are not part of official teachings. We are not taught how to meditate in school, for example, while most us are exposed to such beliefs as evolution, chemistry, physics, and so on.

If objectifying communication with the dead can be accomplished, then, it would serve to bridge the beliefs of those who admire the teachings of non-physical beings like Seth and the more mainstream, material beliefs.

Those beliefs would have to be modified.

Communicating with dead personalities in traditional ways will never accomplish this. You or I might become quite skilled at translating the energies of dead personalities, or perhaps attuning to some long dead version of our self or our own larger self or entity; we might publish the results or share them with friends, but until or unless a huge percentage of the world’s population —including those who are the most ardent materialists and generate the official beliefs— engages in such practices, things won’t change.

So objecting to even simply imagining such possibilities seem to me to be part and parcel of the overall official beliefs, in their own way, as they contribute to sustaining a barrier between what we might experience and believe and the more official beliefs.

I say “why not?” and some on-line Seth readers provide reasons for not exploring in certain directions, not imagining certain possibilities, in effect placing a limit on what is possible. Why place limits on the imagination?

If entities could easily interact with our communication technologies you’d think they’d have already done so, long ago, in some way so convincing that no one could easily dispute it.

Certainly entities —and “smaller” non-physical personalities, aspects, really— have long communicated with the living; further, they do so quite naturally with those living aspects or personalities who are open to this.

This is not the same as sending email, posting a video clip, or creating a web site, however.

We do not have two-hour exposes hosted by the dead Peter Jennings we can watch on our computer monitors, not yet, anyway.

Maybe such creations will never come about, can never come about, for a variety of reasons.

If so, this may still have much more to do with the beliefs of the living than anything else, but implicit in the teachings of Seth is the idea of belief change.

Is there any reason this need not include changed beliefs about what is possible in terms of melding our physical communications technology with our inner perceptions?