Image: “Confession – The Cathedral of Bern,” by Vodnik, January 2007, from Wikimedia … This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license ..
Image: “Confession – The Cathedral of Bern,” by Vodnik, January 2007, from Wikimedia … This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license ..
Dear Ones,
I was in a Christian church some while ago and a murderer confessed to me on the astral plane during Mass. When this happens I am terrified, as I have a natural repugnance to violence; yet this world is full of violence and murder; I run across it on the astral plane all the time.
To this day I remember, as if it happened but a moment ago, the shock I felt when a person boasted on the astral plane: I have killed 700 people!
I was set down here on Earth to learn how to hold the extremes of the Duality play with a neutral mind. Yet since I started to learn this technique two decades ago, I had had nearly no success at it.
Instead, when a murderer confessed to me on the astral plane, I would feel repugnance, and the need to bring the murderer to justice, so that people in future might be protected from the murderer.
Justice in the physical realm cannot be accomplished through clair insight. For murder to be punished, physical proof must be found, and the murderer brought to court; then a judgment must be rendered that sequesters the murderer from the general population, for their protection.
Lacking this means of physical proof, over the decades I have been weighed down by confession after murderous confession, on the astral plane. First, there was the weight of my knowing about the murder, and my natural repugnance regarding such acts. The victim being beyond help, I also lacked the means to lift up into the Light the spirit of the unrepentant murderer.
Second, a great number of murderers knew, on a subconscious or conscious level, that I knew they had committed murder, and, I felt might try the same with me so as to prevent me from telling other people about their past.
With these two concerns: My upset over life on Earth, and my concern for my own safety, I early on began looking round for ways to ease the emotional affect. In recent times I started to use an inexpert variant of the rites of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation …
That day at Mass, as the man confessed on the astral plane to a murder, I began my simple variant of the rites. Then a Deacon from across the room interrupted and said he and the other men in the room would deal with the issue of confession of murder during Mass from then on. I was greatly relieved to hear him assume this responsibility, and amazed at the tools he had at hand.
The Deacon said, in a neutral voice, on the astral plane: You murdered a person?
The man said, on the astral plane: Yes.
The Deacon said, in a neutral voice: Anything else?
The penitent said that was all.
The Deacon said … if I recall correctly: Are you sorry?
The penitent whispered: Yes.
The Deacon said: Would you like to be absolved?
The penitent said: Yes.
The Deacon then offered a simple way to expiate the penitent’s sin; perhaps a prayer he might recite, or a thought of self-renewal that he might carry in his heart.
Then the Deacon said this, or words to this effect: I absolve you of your sins in the name of Christ Jesus Our Lord. May your sins be forgiven, your future life blameless, and on the day of your passing may He meet you with an open heart, and welcome you into his home in Heaven.
When this astral exchange happened, a great weight was lifted from my heart. It was as if I had been carrying the sins of many murderers in my heart for several decades, for lack of a way to absolve these people of their sins. And now the path before me was clear.
Simultaneously, the astral air in the church where the Mass was taking place became redolent with Light. It was as if Christ were embracing the congregation with compassionate love; as if His heart lit up the hearts of the celebrants.
The man who had been penitent was also transformed, and this transformation extended even to the physical level, as his shoulder muscles relaxed and his breathing became more relaxed.
Because of the transformative experience at Mass a while ago, I have come to appreciate the rites of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation very much indeed.
I ask those of my fellow Lightworkers who are Christian to forgive my inexpert attempt at relaying the rites.
Tricky as it may be to express ourselves as intuitives in a pastor-parishioner relationship, my idea is it might be helpful to seek instruction from our parish priest regarding the weight of our knowledge of the sins of the world.
In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars
I have added this blog to … Link: “On Getting to the Truth of Astral Stories,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 6 July 2016; revised on 25 September 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5Ow ..
Filmed on 4 December 2016; published on 5 December 2016
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
“Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?,” a Song Channeled by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Lyrics
Dear Ones,
Another song! This one about Christ crucified, passing on, and arisen. The accompaniment to the melody was provided telepathically by another person, but I am not sure who that person is. The astral story is that he had a friend on Death Row, who was feeling despair, and that the song was created in empathy for that friend.
There is an edited Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Gosh, do I wish I could sing this right! One day maybe someone will!
“Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?”
A Song Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Lyrics 4 December 2016
[Hums.]
My God, My God,
Why hast Thou forsaken me?
My life, my love,
Lost on this forsaken tree
My God, My God,
Wilt Thou come and rescue me?
This heart, this heart,
In all the world beats but for Thee.
My God, My God,
I die upon this tree.
My God, My God,
I place my trust and faith in Thee …
Naught but Thee.
My God, My God,
The heavens sing this agony.
[Hums.]
My God, My God,
The angels lift me up to Thee.
My God, My God,
Thou dwellest in light eternally …
Be Thou with me.
[Hums.]
. . . . .
This here; this plant …
Image: “Resurrection Plant – desiccated, Sage Ranch Park, Simi Hills, Los Angeles County, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 4 December 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Resurrection Plant, Sage Ranch Park, Simi Hills, Los Angeles County, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 4 December 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
… is called ‘resurrection plant’ … That is because it dries up, until it looks as if it has passed on … and then the rain comes, and it looks like this again … resurrection! …
Image: “Resurrection Plant – moist, Sage Ranch Park, Simi Hills, Los Angeles County, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 4 December 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Resurrection Plant – moist, Sage Ranch Park, Simi Hills, Los Angeles County, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 4 December 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “View from Sage Ranch Park, Simi Hills, Los Angeles County, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 4 December 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “View from Sage Ranch Park, Simi Hills, Los Angeles County, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 4 December 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
. . . . .
In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars
This blog has been added here … Link: “Compendium: My Childhood and Family, and Later Years,” by Alice B. Clagett, compiled and published on 21 March 2020; republished on 29 March 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-haj ..
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Alms, Penance, Forgiveness and the Christian Church
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Selfless Service: Joy or a Sense of Duty?
The All and Free Will
Alms, Penance, Forgiveness and the Christian Church
Photos by Alice
Dear Ones,
This video is about selfless service, the notion that suffering can be good, and the notion that a child might merit corporeal punishment ‘for his own good’; that ‘he deserves it’. There is also a discussion of alms-giving and the Christian church.
Here is a Précis of the video; beneath that is the video and the transcription of the video, which is a bit more ‘blousy’ than the Précis.
PRECIS OF THE VIDEO
Selfless Service: Joy or a Sense of Duty?
A spiritual institution that does not allow its members free will with regard to selfless service detracts from their electromagnetic fields and strips them of their power. Such an institution readily turns to hypnosis for the sake of one person who is in charge of the institution, and aggregation of power by him through abrogation of the free will of the members ‘for their own good’.
To the leader of such a spiritual institution, it seems like a wonderful thing, as he becomes very powerful, very macho, very top ego, top dog … it’s the most terrific thing … but for everybody else in the group, it’s pain and suffering and hellworlds and being used.
The All and Free Will
As the Awakening continues, more and more people will come to value the principles of the All and Free Will upon which our planet is based, and so the institutions of today will turn into the institutions of tomorrow that value the All and Free Will … the prayer that all beings everywhere may be happy, may have enough to eat, may exist in joy, and have free will.
My conclusion regarding selfless service is that it will not help a spiritual institution unless it comes from the joy of the heart, rather than simply from a sense of duty. Let us purify and cleanse the notion of selfless service for humankind.
Alms, Penance, Forgiveness and the Christian Church
People come to spiritual counselors with regrets about their lives, feelings of guilt about some of their actions, feelings of despondency and despair. Their Spirit sorrows.
In the old days, in Europe, when wealthy people were near death, they would give alms to the Christian church as penance for their earthly deeds. The Christian church was in a difficult position regarding this, as they wished to grow their church, to obtain more lands and spread their teachings, and these alms from the rich would help that end.
And so, despite their misgivings, the clerics of those olden days agreed to the practice of giving alms for penance. The difficulty being that wealthy persons of that era might seize on the practice of giving alms … at the very last minute … at death’s door, as it were … after having lived a life quite in contrast to the church’s teachings. This was, in effect, a minor bow to the philosophy of Consequentialism; the end was a good one, but the means were somewhat iffy. For instance, was the practice of giving alms at death’s door really helpful to the Soul? For quite some century, this question provided food for thought.
Then as the Christian church evolved, the Souls of the Christian people became more clear, and an edict was passed that dispensed with alms-giving as penance. The notions that penitence, asking Christ for forgiveness, and being determined to live a better life through Christ were more important than alms-giving, that the heart was more important than the pocketbook, became the rule that the now many Christian churches still adhere to today. Although, quite naturally, there is still a need for financial donations, as with all earthly institutions.
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Hello, Dear Ones. It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I thought I would mention a little bit more the philosophy that punishment should be meted out because it is good for a person, especially a child, ‘because they deserve it’ … which sometimes happens when parents are angry … They will say something like: You deserved it! … And then the child gets ‘corporeal punishment’, as it is called.
Or the parent may come home after a day at work, and exercise ‘corporeal punishment’ and say: It’s for your own good! … like that. This philosophy that punishment is good for us carries over from childhood learning and childhood trauma into adulthood.
Selfless Service: Joy or a Sense of Duty?
There are even institutional instances that espouse as dogma this Soul wounding notion that ‘It’s for your own good’. When this happens … when there is an institution that subscribes to this notion, the result is the pursuit of punishment as a good thing … as an end in itself … the pursuit of suffering.
This happens most prominently in spiritual institutions that feel selfless service is good for the Soul. Now in many instances a spiritual institution could not survive without the notion of selfless service. And so the people give of themselves so as to enjoy the benefits of the group … to help the group thrive and grow. But the problem is that these notions that suffering is good for us, and that we deserve suffering, and that it is for our own good, also enter into the notion of selfless service.
I remember years ago I belonged to an ashram. It was many years ago. And they had a notion about selfless service. But the problem was that it would get out of hand, and that I would find myself spending every spare minute doing selfless service. And I would not be able to get done the things that I loved to do as well … such as playing kirtan and so forth … because all the time I was doing selfless service, which was defined by the head of the ashram as certain things that might (or might not) be things that I enjoyed doing.
As I have gotten older, I have come to an understanding about selfless service, that it will not help an institution unless it comes from the joy of the heart. And so, when I step over that boundary from doing things for the joy of it, for the sake of the world, for the sake of humankind … into the territory of ‘Suffer, because it’s for your own good!’ I suddenly reversed the whole energy of selfless service. And suddenly, nothing that I do serves the world and helps the world. Instead of adding to the great, positive energy of the world, it adds to the negative energies, the obverse side of the Duality play.
I will not go into the entities in the astral realm that are involved; I am sure you know that story. So may I suggest that we purify and cleanse this notion of selfless service, which all the Lightworkers wish to do … selfless service for humankind. If you are involved in a group or a spiritual institution: Selfless service for that institution … but only if it does not hurt. Only if we love every minute of it.
We can choose. We have that power of choice. And when we do not choose, then we have an institution that takes away the power of free will of all its people, and detracts from their electromagnetic fields.
That kind of institution very readily turns to self-hypnosis for the sake of one person who is in charge of it. The power is stripped from the individual, and all the individuals in the group, and sent instead to one leader of the group, who then prescribes selfless service that becomes suffering because of our lack of free will. That is something definitely to be avoided.
To the leader himself, it seems like a wonderful thing, because he becomes very powerful, very macho, very ‘top dog’, right? It is the most terrific thing; but for everybody else in the group, it is pain and suffering and hellworlds and being ‘used’. That is a terrible thought, is it not?
The All and Free Will
As the Ascension proceeds; as the Awakening includes more and more people, more and more people will come to value these notions of the All and free will upon which our planet is based. And so the institutions of today will turn into the institutions of tomorrow that value the All and free will.
All beings everywhere … may they all be happy! May they all have enough to eat! May they all exist in joy! May that be so for all beings everywhere! And may they all have free will! May they all act according to their free will!
More and more these will be the hallmarks of the great human institutions of new life on New Earth.
Alms, Penance, Forgiveness and the Christian Church
I have just a little more to say about the type of selfless service … People come to spiritual counselors at big institutions and they say: Oh my! I am guilty of so many things! I have concerns about so many things in my life that I wish I had done in a different way! … Like that, you know? And: Oh my gosh! I treated my children in this-and-such a way from time to time, and now they don’t love me! … and … What can I do? I feel very bad. I feel worthless. I feel despondent. I am in great despair. I am in great pain. My Spirit sorrows.
In the old days … in medieval times … this used to happen near death, There was one great Christian church then in Europe. And they had a setup for the wealthy there. It was important to the churches to obtain more and more lands, and to obtain more and more money, and to grow the church … the Christian church … the great Christian church of those eras. So the rich would come; and this was interesting prospect because of the goal of growing the church, that the rich should come, at the end of their lives … having lived perhaps exactly as they wished to live, in a state of pursuit of pleasure all their lives, no matter what the cost … that kind of thing.
Then they would come, at the end of their lives, when their health was failing, they would say: What shall I do? How can I save my Soul? … Right? … It is time to worry about that. This is typical of life in the world, actually. But back then they used to have a solution; they would say that their clerics would pray for a certain person if a certain amount of alms would be donated to the church. And the wealthy would go right for it. They were used to somebody else doing their job for them. All that would be taken care of, and their Souls would be saved.
This was the practice of giving alms in exchange for heavenly removal of guilt, and so forth. Then came a time when a popular sentiment that arose, that this practice was no longer appropriate.It seems to me that, as the spirits of the people evolved, as their Souls became more pure, they came to an understanding that the giving of alms for the sake of receiving penance was a misuse of the power of the church for the sake of worldly gain … for the sake of worldly power. And there was a change in the rules of the church so that was not allowed that to happen anymore.
There was an upgrade in the understanding of everybody in the Christian church. It was a big deal at the time … a very big deal … to move from power-based feeling, up to the feeling of the heart … and to let the heart rule … and to stand in the notion that asking forgiveness of Christ would remove our sins … that that was what we had to do: Not give alms, but ask for forgiveness from Christ; and in that manner to begin to walk with Christ, and to feel the Christ consciousness. We are capable, as human beings, to begin to receive that grace from God.
I have mentioned this because the giving of alms is another misconstruction of the notion of selfless service. This is my feeling: I think when people come to any institution with a heavy heart, and a notion that their sins must be absolved, that the thing to do is to explain to them that when they need to seek forgiveness. They need to give themselves a chance to be forgiven; to know that God’s grace waits for them … the grace of Christ, if they are Christians; the grace of the Buddha, if they are Buddhists, and so on.
What this does is it changes the heart energy from negative to positive. It changes the energy so that … instead of working towards a goal, say, of eventually being forgiven by doing a certain number of hours work every day, or by giving a certain amount of money … that instead they know that God’s grace is everywhere, and that forgiveness is instantaneous, and that all they need to do is ask.
I feel this very strongly: That it is a distortion of the Light to ask for alms in terms of work hours or money in exchange for forgiveness.
In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars
Filmed on 28 August 2016; published on 30 September 2018; revised on 6 April 2023
See also … Link: “Soul Wounding: On Seeing Suffering as Good,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 27 August 2016; published on 28 September 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-6cp ..
Photos by Alice
Image: “Rainbow Sunlight: Incoming Light,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 August 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Deva of a Tree with Pink Blossoms
Image: “Rainbow Sunlight: Incoming Light,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 August 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Deva of a Tree with Pink Blossoms
Image: “White Flowers,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 August 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “White Flowers,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 August 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Written and published on 6 July 2016; revised on 25 September 2019
MALSPEAK
ON LISTENING
HOW THE LOWER MENTAL BODY EXAGGERATES ASTRAL STORIES
ON HEALING THE SOUL
ADVICE OF A BUDDHIST ON DEALING WITH CONFESSIONS OF MURDER
ASTRAL CONFESSIONS OF MURDER: THE CATHOLIC SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
Image: “Listening to the Birds,” by Winslow Homer, 1879. From Wikimedia commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Listening_to_the_birds.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: Two girls are sitting on a lawn. There is a robin on the lawn. In a shrub in front of them is a bluebird. The girls are listening to the bluebird.
Image: “Listening to the Birds,” by Winslow Homer, 1879. From Wikimedia commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Listening_to_the_birds.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: Two girls are sitting on a lawn. There is a robin on the lawn. In a shrub in front of them is a bluebird. The girls are listening to the bluebird.
Dear Ones,
When we hear someone speak about something on the astral plane … which is to say, through intuition or ‘second sight’ … that does not fit well with our ideas of how things ought to be, then certain types of malspeak (aka malware, or rote phrases) come up without our consciously thinking about them. We use these snippets of malware to repress the unwanted truths that we hear on the astral plane.
MALSPEAK
Here are two such bits of malspeak …
“I can’t believe it!” and
“Tell me it isn’t true!”
When these bits of malspeak pop up during an astral conversation, the disagreeable thought that we just chanced upon on the astral plane is pressed down into our subconscious mind, under a layer of what you might call ‘No Way!” energy. There it stays, causing quite some degree of disharmony in our EMF.
ON LISTENING
The way out of this automatic repression malspeak is to listen very carefully to everything that is said on the astral plane, and then, in the case of our friends and neighbors, to follow up by communicating on the physical plane … through a phone call, an email, or better yet, a face-to-face, heart-to-heart conversation. In this way the real truth of the situation will be revealed.
The truth of the situation can also come to us on the astral plane. It goes like this: Someone we love and cherish says to us: I’ve killed many people.
They say this over and over again. For a long time we say to him or her: Tell me it isn’t true!
And then they say, on the psychic plane: It’s not true, love of my life! … or something like that.
Their response to our request is just as automatic, just as predictable, as is our request to them. So the trick is, to listen carefully to these shocking astral revelations. For instance, they say (for the nth time): I’ve killed many people.
Then I change up my response to this: I hear you!
Then I maintain complete astral silence, and wait for their response. Continuing on with the conversation, for every sentence they say, I use this same response: I hear you!
HOW THE LOWER MENTAL BODY EXAGGERATES ASTRAL STORIES
Exaggeration is a hallmark of the activity of the Lower Mental Body.
Have I been talking astrally to the Lower Mental Body, which is all upset about a traumatic childhood incident?
Or am I talking to a person who serially kills in the physical realm?
Am I talking to someone who feels threatened by other people, and wants to present himself as a fearsome person so as to avoid conflict?
Am I talking to a person who flies into a temper tantrum from time to time, and visualizes killing folks?
Or is this a true blue Charles Manson thing?
These are the sorts of questions that need to be clarified by ‘actively listening’ to astral stories.
ON HEALING THE SOUL
By actively listening, on either the physical plane or the astral plane, we can answer these kinds of questions …
Did they kill or not? If the answer is yes, then
How many times have they killed?
Would there be medicines that might curb this violence?
Or must they be confined to prevent future violence to humankind?
What are the incidents of Soul wounding, the traumatic childhood incidents here?
What can be done to resolve these issues of EMF dissonance and how may their Souls be healed?
In this way, the truth of the situation may be revealed, and a course of healing action in the world may be embarked upon.
ADVICE OF A BUDDHIST ON DEALING WITH CONFESSIONS OF MURDER
There are several other ways to help resolve threat energy from purported murderers on the astral plane. Here is one piece of advice I heard on the astral airs one time; when a murderer confesses a sin on the astral plane, say in a soothing voice: I understand.
The person who offered this advice said he was a follower of the Dalai Lama’s teachings. I have had good success with it.
ASTRAL CONFESSIONS OF MURDER: THE CATHOLIC SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
Image: “Confession – The Cathedral of Bern,” by Vodnik, January 2007, from Wikimedia … This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license ..
I was in a Catholic church some while ago and a murderer confessed to me on the astral plane during Mass. When this happens I am terrified, as I have a natural repugnance to violence; yet this world is full of violence and murder; I run across it on the astral plane all the time.
To this day I remember, as if it happened but a moment ago, the shock I felt when a person boasted on the astral plane: I have killed 700 people!
I was set down here on Earth to learn how to hold the extremes of the Duality play with a neutral mind. Yet since I started to learn this technique two decades ago, I had had nearly no success at it.
Instead, when a murderer confessed to me on the astral plane, I would feel repugnance, and the need to bring the murderer to justice, so that people in future might be protected from the murderer.
Justice in the physical realm cannot be accomplished through clair insight. For murder to be punished, physical proof must be found, and the murderer brought to court; then a judgment must be rendered that sequesters the murderer from the general population, for their protection.
Lacking this means of physical proof, over the decades I have been weighed down by confession after murderous confession, on the astral plane. First, there was the weight of my knowing about the murder, and my natural repugnance regarding such acts. The victim being beyond help, I also lacked the means to lift up into the Light the spirit of the unrepentant murderer.
Second, a great number of murderers knew, on a subconscious or conscious level, that I knew they had committed murder, and, I felt might try the same with me so as to prevent me from telling other people about their past.
With these two concerns: My upset over life on Earth, and my concern for my own safety, I early on began looking round for ways to ease the emotional affect. In recent timesI started to use an inexpert variant of the rites of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation …Link: “Sacrament of Penance,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrament_of_Penance ..
That day at Mass, as the man confessed on the astral plane to a murder, I began my simple variant of the rites. Then a Deacon from across the room interrupted and said he and the other men in the room would deal with the issue of confession of murder during Mass from then on. I was greatly relieved to hear him assume this responsibility, and amazed at the tools he had at hand.
The Deacon said, in a neutral voice, on the astral plane: You murdered a person?
The man said, on the astral plane: Yes.
The Deacon said, in a neutral voice: Anything else?
The penitent said that was all.
The Deacon said … if I recall correctly: Are you sorry?
The penitent whispered: Yes.
The Deacon said: Would you like to be absolved?
The penitent said: Yes.
The Deacon then offered a simple way to expiate the penitent’s sin; perhaps a prayer he might recite, or a thought of self-renewal that he might carry in his heart.
Then the Deacon said this, or words to this effect: I absolve you of your sins in the name of Christ Jesus Our Lord. May your sins be forgiven, your future life blameless, and on the day of your passing may He meet you with an open heart, and welcome you into his home in Heaven.
When this astral exchange happened, a great weight was lifted from my heart. It was as if I had been carrying the sins of many murderers in my heart for several decades, for lack of a way to absolve these men of their sins. And now the path before me was clear.
Simultaneously, the astral air in the church where the Mass was taking place became redolent with Light. It was as if Christ were embracing the congregation with compassionate love; as if His heart lit up the hearts of the celebrants.
The man who had been penitent was also transformed, and this transformation extended even to the physical level, as his shoulder muscles relaxed and his breathing became more relaxed.
Because of the transformative experience at Mass a while ago, I have come to appreciate the rites of the Catholic Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation very much indeed.
I ask those of my fellow Lightworkers who are Catholic to forgive my inexpert attempt at relaying the rites.
Tricky as it may be to express ourselves as intuitives in a pastor-parishioner relationship, my idea is it might be helpful to seek instruction from our parish priest regarding the weight of our knowledge of the sins of the world.
