Sex and death are two of the most taboo topics for public discussion. There’s so much we leave out of our conversations when tiptoeing around these two fundamental human experiences, which at their core are creation and destruction.
I recently attended an Afterlife Symposium sponsored by the Afterlife Research Education Institute. Over 500 people gathered to give and hear presentations about the survival of consciousness beyond physical death. You would be hard-pressed to find places where so much spiritual love flows, and when 500 human generators are there making an energetic connection—whew!
This wasn’t an event to discuss sex, but I was struck by the amazing similarities from this perspective: death is often presented by materialists as being all about the physical body. When the body goes, all of life goes, they maintain. Creativity, consciousness, and the life force all end. It’s all about the body.
Sex is often presented as being all about the body, too. Body parts become the focal points. Creativity, consciousness, and relationship consequences are usually not featured in erotic stories. Most people are not trained to see a sexual encounter as an energy merger or spiritual event. We’re usually not educated to make love to whole souls or whole people. We’re educated to produce orgasms by body part manipulation.
At some point, we can uplevel sex from a somewhat routine activity with culturalized habits into an energetic merging experience. This isn’t intended to mean that “ordinary sex” is not good enough for rock and roll, but it is to say that our cultural scripts for what sex can be have been dumbed way down. The average representation of sex is pretty low on the totem pole of possibility.
Most jokes, stories, and expectations about sex rely on physical characterization of what sex is and what people should look like. All the cosmetic clichés, rapid-response assumptions, snarky, shame-based, fear-based commentary usually revolves around sexual activity. Not that I listen to Howard Stern, but I don’t think he’d orate on the divine miracle that sex can be.
ENTER THE SOULPHONE
Since social mores often mute discussions about deep sexuality, I doubt that it’s commonly considered how much a SoulPhone could influence our collective consciousness—even about sex. Input from the other side probably won’t be very focused on the physicality of sex; I doubt they care. My hope is that we would learn more about the healing and energetic gifts that sexual relationships can offer those willing to explore them.
Sex is currently a miasma of rage, shame, embarrassment, guilt, pain, rejection, frustration, lust, and so on. Input from the other side could enlighten us about reasons why our current state is such a mess. Religion and pop culture/marketing have largely shaped that mess. We can pretty much predict what spirit will say from what they have already said through channeling.
I suspect that the main message will be the ever-present, ever-popular golden rule. Shape your motives and exhibit your behavior through what you want to receive. It will come back to you in some dimension, whether instantly or in time.
SoulPhones could also provide counseling opportunities from therapists on the other side who could enlightened physical people about reasons why any abuse or heartbreaks occurred, assuming that they have permission to reveal those contracts or histories.
Personally, I’ve had life-changing episodes where behavior that included erotic content led to soul-embracing impact. Sexual attraction was present to boost energy that ultimately became much more grand and glorious than sex as it’s ordinarily portrayed.
My go-to example is the ecstasy I experienced several times that resulted from extended hugging while fully clothed. The energy kept building until it became wavelike where it finally and unexpectedly took over in a full-bodied orgasmic quaking so intense I/we could only stay engaged that way for a few seconds. I’ve heard similar descriptions about so-called kundalini awakening.
Parenthetically, these brushes with ecstasy led me to seek understanding of spiritual principles to comprehend what happened. They opened me to considering what part of nature caused it. It also expanded my conception of the benefits sex can offer and how it can include a wide range of experiences, many not openly discussed because they are so intimate and not normally portrayed in mainstream media.
This shift in sexual consciousness is just one aspect of change that SoulPhone conversations could bring to the fore. I think the ripple effect will be profound. Maybe at some other time we can consider multi-dimensional dating and learning the art of continuing a loving relationship even after one member of a couple passes into another dimension. Maybe we’ll learn much more about making love to the mind, heart, and soul.
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Since you are evidently pretty clear that sex is about energy I am wondering if you have had any sexual experiences with persons who were not physically present to you?
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Donya, I am just learning about that. To my knowledge, no, except for in the dream state where I frequently am with lovers who have no identity to me upon waking. I also have dream sex with people I know in physical life but with whom such a scene would be very unlikely in physical life. I must say that dream sex is much more living and emotionally rich, even with strangers. I am also just being introduced to the works of Cyrus Kirkpatrick and Jurgen Ziewe, astral explorers, who are giving me more perspective on astral dimensions where apparently things are a lot more polyamorous than here, at least according to Cyrus.
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I don’t feel any particular need for a SoulPhone because my disincarnated loved ones communicate with me regularly without help from technology, but I can see why other people might find the prospect exciting. However, I have some doubts about how useful such an implement can be. I’m sure I’m not the first to raise these questions so maybe if you are so inclined you can share with me what the insiders are saying. I’m guessing that one of the reasons people who aren’t able to communicate with the dead unassisted want a technological aid is that they don’t trust mediums or haven’t found one they can trust. That makes perfect sense, but are people going to be able to put more trust in a technological device? And if they can, should they? Look at the miracle of the Internet. We can chat with people all over the world. And we can be scammed and hacked and phished. It’s getting more and more risky to accept a friend request because you (most of us) don’t have any way of knowing who is behind that attractive FB profile. One of the first cartoons I saw on my first computer was one dog telling another dog as they sat in front of a computer, “On the internet no one can tell that you’re a dog.”
One of the reasons people don’t communicate with their dead loved ones is that they are afraid. Afraid of what Dead Loved One might have to say. And afraid of who else might be out there on the party line. Anytime I have mentioned After Death Communication to anyone who is actively or recently religious their first reaction has something to do with demons. Would a technological device do anything to make the prospect of communicating with the other side less frightening?
Another reason people don’t communicate with the dead is that they don’t believe it’s possible. I can’t see how technology might help people who don’t trust in their own abilities. But will it make any difference to people who don’t believe that dead people are capable of communicating?
Just some thoughts. I find your interest in these matters interesting.
xo Donya
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Correction: I CAN see how technology might help people who don’t trust in their own abilities.
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Donya, thank you for your comments and excellent questions. First off, I am speculating on all of this. My answer is no better than anyone else’s except that I have given it a lot of thought. I just returned from an afterlife symposium where different groups using different technologies reported their progress. With the SoulPhone, it’s important to note that Team A consists of scientists from the other side. They want to connect with this sides via the technology as much as we might. It would not happen if they were not behind it and doing their part on their side. And yes, the people who say the loudest to me that they don’t need a soul phone already know how to talk with those on the other side. So yeah, redundancy. I don’t have that skill. I like to say that all I get is dead air.
Second, if/when a SoulPhone comes out, I see two main groups of interested people. The first will be those still grieving the loss of a loved one. (A lot of these were at the symposium.) Yes, they could go to a medium, but in my experience the top-named and tested ones cost around $300+ an hour and have long wait lists, months or years out. I still don’t really know how to find reputable ones; I don’t necessarily trust referral services. Eventually, SoulPhones will probably be a more economic option. The second major group, I think, will be researchers and scientists who become convinced through experiments of the authenticity of spirits. Would they not want to talk to Einstein if they could? If we started getting proof of the validity of messages obtained through SoulPhones, I think science will become interested.
Third, the way that the SoulPhone is conceived, mediums will assist in making the calls initially. This is like old-time phone operators who had to physically make the connections. In that sense, this will offer some control. There are operators on this side and operators on the other side. I think later this may become more automated and may be secure like online banking. (I have no idea how this will actually work, but it is roughly how the SoulPhone Foundation describes it.)
Fourth, I think like cable TV, the Internet, email, self-driving cars, and so on, some people will leap at the chance to try it and others will hold back until it becomes more commonplace. I highly respect Gary Schwartz and his scientific work; he is the one working on the SoulPhone. They work slowly and think through everything including all the negative possibilities. I have seen or heard of some other gadgets that are clearly more like toys and gimmicks. People who might think of SoulPhones as amusements probably would not have the patience to use one since at first it may mean going to a studio where equipment is housed.
Fifth, Susanne Wilson who is a very top-rated, tested medium and a SoulPhone adviser said that she believes that mediums will become teachers. SoulPhones will open up so many areas of discussion that people at large will need to be taught the implications of what it all means. (By the way, she doesn’t do private readings anymore. She teaches.)
Sixth, there is a pathway of development of SoulPhone technology. Most basic would be a keyboard (texting.) Eventually comes voice conversation and then video/Skype. Sure this is years away. But in answer to one of your questions, I think hearing the sound of a loved one’s voice from spirit will be a profound experience even more amazing than getting a great reading. It was pretty amazing for those who got direct-voice readings from Leslie Flint last century, and if we can do it through technology, I think it would revolutionize this place.
Personally, I have little regard for the world of celebrity mediums, vacation cruises with big name mediums, and plenty of rip-off artists and frauds in various woo-woo businesses. So I am very open to some other route for communicating with spirit. Even the best mediums can help individuals on a case-by-case basis, but they are not going to create global change because there is not enough validation potential. Seth may change the world for a few, but Seth is not newsworthy or accepted by science. If Schwartz is successful in what he is doing, there will be scientific proof and communication protocols established. But again, that’s just my opinion and my hope. I think it’s the best show in town.
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Wow. I didn’t know about your A Team of scientists on the other side. That makes all the difference as far as I’m concerned. I’ve heard some stuff on late-night radio about EVP — supposedly recordings of voices of ghosts and/or dead people. I wasn’t impressed. Just seemed kind of creepy. But if you all are really working with the other side and not just invading their space I want to hear more.
Have you ever been to a Spiritualist Church? A lot of people don’t want anything to do with them because they don’t like churches. And the Spiritualists have tried hard over the years to appear to be a normal Christian church, to avoid being burned at the stake mostly. Normal Christian churches traditionally have not taken kindly to people talking to dead people. I have started attending fairly often since Ben (my dead guy) started talking to me. I like being around people who consider this stuff normal and don’t make a big deal out of it. I’ve gotten a couple of very significant messages from the Rev. and various guests, and some not so significant, but mostly I just like to have a gang of like-minded people to hang out with.
I agree with you about celebrity mediums and even not-celebrity mediums who over charge and exploit people’s vulnerabilities. Of course I feel that way about doctors, lawyers and auto mechanics too. The mediums who impress me the most are the ones who want to teach their clients to do it themselves. Julia Assante has been especially helpful to me. And she has a great website.
Most Spiritualist Church ministers will do private readings in addition to their Sunday services. The one at the church of my choice is not world class, but as I said, she has come through with some pretty impressive stuff. I think she told me once that she charges $45.00 for a private reading. But she also trades for goods and services. They are very down-home people. She and her husband live in a trailer park up toward the foothills someplace. If you ever get to Sacramento I’ll make sure you go to Spooky Church with me. (That’s what Ben calls it.)
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Is this whole long conversation showing up on your blog? Maybe if we are going to engage in lengthy correspondence in the future we should do it by private message or Email. I’m not sure that everything I say is of general interest to your reading public.
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Hello Joshua, this is Doreen Peterson from Vernon, B.C. It was a pleasure to meet you in Phoenix. This is an interesting article you wrote. I have read it through and plan to read it again. I assume you have finished your travels and headed for home. My life has been busy since I got home and hope it tones down a bit. I so enjoyed the symposium and hope to go again next year. Cheers for now, Doreen
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