Psychic Margaret Flavell Tweddell's
Afterlife Revelations
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  Margaret
Flavell Tweddell was born with a clairvoyant ability
that is so unique, during World War II
she was commissioned
by Lord Hugh Dowding,
Marshal of the British Royal Air Force to use her
ability to successfully trace missing RAF pilots.
She is well known and respected for her accomplishments
in the realm of paranormal psychology. Unlike
Edgar Cayce,
Margaret is one of those rare positive mediums who
receives telepathic messages while in full control
of her senses and not as a result of out-of-body
experiences. As a Methodist, she is a deeply religious
person, a spiritual counselor and a healer. As a
friend of Margaret,
Ruth Taylor
asked Margaret to use her unique ability to contact
Ruth's deceased father, the Reverend A.D. Mattson.
Mattson was a highly respected Lutheran theologian
who, before he died, promised his daughter Ruth
that, if it was possible, he would communicate with
her from the Other Side. Ruth's father fulfilled
that promise when Margaret successfully received
messages from him. The messages were long and detailed
of what life on the other side is like. This information
had such an impact on people that the messages were
published in 1975 and became a classic. The book
is entitled,
Witness From Beyond,
and
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
remarked that this is "an important book to help
in the understanding of life and the transition
we call death - which is not the end of life but
a new beginning with continued growth and challenges."
The following excerpts from this book will show
you how unique this spiritual information from the
Other Side really is.
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Where is Heaven and Hell? |
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Concerning heaven and hell, it is not
true that when we die we wait for a
judgment day. Heaven and hell are not
places - they are spiritual
states of being. They are not static
states but are states in which there
can be growth and progress toward ultimate
wholeness of being.
As there are degrees of heaven or hell
on Earth, so there are degrees of heaven
or hell in the spiritual world. The
spiritual state of being you have on
Earth is the spiritual state you take
with you to the world beyond when you
die.
There is no sudden metamorphosis from
an idle person into an active person,
from a nonreligious person into a religious
person, from a money-centered person
into a God-centered person. This is
not an automatic thing. Your personality
- your likes and dislikes, your
hopes, your fears - are still
attached to you, although in a more
nebulous form than when you are on Earth
in a physical body.
I see people come over. They arrive
and have high hopes that everything
is going to be different for them.
However, nothing can be different for
them because they have brought with
them what they are. There is so much
harmony here, and if they have brought
a disharmonious personality with them,
they find it very difficult to link
in with the harmonious existence that
we have. This is something that
grieves me when I see it.
It is not true, as some people think,
that if we only give verbal assent to
belief in God, well, that's fine - that
is our passport to heaven and everything
will be all right. What we have to remember
is that Jesus showed us the path by
which it will be all right. He doesn't
say, "It's all right, brother,
come along in. Sit down now and
relax and do nothing." He says, "It's
all right. You are on my way. There
are a lot of stones in it, but you are
on my way. If you ask me, I'll
help you over the stones."
The old teachings that "as you
strive, so you'll be helped" are
right. The Lord helps those who
help themselves.
If you truly try to follow the laws
of the Kingdom which the Lord has revealed,
and ask for his help, he will aid you
in becoming a whole person. As I see
it from here, there is a rod of light
- a pulsating power, the vital force
of the Holy Spirit - right down
through you. It is the self-centeredness
of the personality which erects blocks
and disturbances which make it impossible
for the Holy Spirit to function through
you. If you ask for help from the great
physician, the Lord Jesus, he will help
you to unlock the inner, healing power
of the Holy Spirit which is within you
so that it can be diffused and can spread
throughout your being. The Lord will
help you to achieve the attunement,
the shalom, the peace, the wholeness
which is heaven.
Heaven is not sitting down and 'casting
down your golden crowns' and singing
'Hallelujah.' However, I did notice
that there is a tendency among certain
sects or religious people over here
to congregate in their little groups
and have their little sessions of what
they feel are 'heaven.' This is an interesting
fact. I am told by my teacher here that
eventually they become very bored with
this narrowness, and then their own
helpers and teachers here try to give
them another thought and another idea
and help them to break away from this
narrow approach.
We tend to feel that when we die, heaven
is as we thought it - and
it certainly is. As I've said, you can
be received exactly the same way you
always thought you would be received.
You may remain in that narrowness if
you want - you need never change
unless you wish. God gives us perfect
freedom in spirit.
The old notions are that you go 'up
to heaven,' and you go 'down
to hell.' We have not understood that
it is merely a matter of vibration.
The finer the vibration is, the nearer
we are to heaven. Heaven is a state
of being joyous, light, loving, harmonious,
vibrant, God-centered and others-centered.
The heavier the vibration, the nearer
we are to hell. Hell is a state
of being heavy, dull, dismal, gray,
and glum - as when you are
heavily depressed and self-centered.
People who have an orientation of hate,
for instance, find themselves unable
to appreciate a realm of love and harmony. Therefore,
they continue in their state of bitterness
and are 'closed' to the glory which
exists around them. I am told by
my spiritual inspirer that they have
to wait. These people wait and gradually
they appreciate the fact that it is
very destructive to hate like that.
When they have had real hates and have
been emotionally upset like that, or
have had a real bitterness toward someone,
then it takes them quite a period of
time to get the light and the power
around them again, to be able to appreciate
this place or that, or go to the Valley
of Praise, or go and hear beautiful
music. They just hear discords, and
eventually they come to the realization
that 'this isn't much of a life, is
it?' And the moment that happens, those
who are dedicated to work with this
sort of person come and they have their
methods of easing them away from the
state they are in. It is like taking
a skin off an onion. They will gently
peel off this layer that is formed by
hate - this shutting-in, restricting
coat that comes on them with their violent,
negative emotion.
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Is There a Devil? |
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Just knowing the bad mistakes you made
through your carelessness or your selfishness
is a hell. You don't need a devil prodding
you with a fork. Believe me, your own
anguished mind is a prod that is more
hurtful than any prodding with a devil's
fork.
I met a man over here who said that
he would gladly exchange good old Dante's
Inferno for the mental anguish he was
experiencing over guilt feelings from
wrong actions he had taken on Earth
in certain business matters.
In Dante's Inferno he would be able
to complain that the devil was doing
this to him, whereas now he had no devil
to complain of because the devil was
himself.
Whether there is a negative personal
being who can be called the devil I
cannot say. I have not seen anyone personified
as the devil. There certainly is
an evil force which builds up from the
negative aspects of life and has a tremendous
influence. Thought forms which are evil
certainly play a part, but I don't think
they are the whole answer.
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What is Jesus Like? |
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I have seen the Lord Jesus in all his
radiance, in all his glory, but not
immediately on arrival because then
you are still with the dust and vibrations
of your own thinking.
When I first saw him, the light and
the glory and the surging of power was
so tremendous. It was like an avalanche
of feeling over me. At the present time
I just don't feel that I have found
a way in which to describe what it was
like - an indescribable contentment
and uplifting, a tremendous ecstasy
of feeling on all realms, being completely
out of yourself, an unusually vivid
knowledge of the intense, sympathetic
love around you - the warmth of it,
the light of it - something that
is not external but is part of you.
It is like a sunrise on a mountain that
is covered with snow, when the colors
come down and reflect on you -
a dazzling brilliance that would make
you close your eyes and yet feel it
in every pore of your body. This is
the feeling that you have as you come
toward the LIGHT.
And then suddenly to hear the voice
that says, 'Look at me.' And
when you look - there, just as you've
always imagined - you see him.
He shows himself to us according to
our own understanding. If I want to
think of him as a man who walked by
the lake and a man who looked as the
Jews looked at that time, then I'll
see him that way. If in my thought I
think he's modern and bright, then I'll
see him that way. We do not see him
as the medieval painters made him. We
see him as we, in our own selves, have
pictured him, because otherwise we wouldn't
recognize him. How would we know
unless we have the picture already in
our own being - in our own minds,
in our own hearts.
To me he came walking across the air -
across the tops of the buildings, the
trees. I'd always known he'd come toward
me with his arms and hands outstretched. He
said, 'Come, let me show you' -
because I have an insatiable curiosity
and I must see and I must know. But
there was no 'falling asleep in the
arms of Jesus.' There was the knowing
warmth of BEING that I've always known
would be. It was so much beyond what
words can tell.
It is true that the Lord Jesus can take
a form so solid that those who are in
the body may see him - those who are
in the dream state may see him and be
called by him. But when I saw him transcendent,
I was days and days just marveling and
sensing and knowing. This was my rebirth. The
body in which I now function was strengthened
- made resilient, firm, aware.
When I first came over here, I only
knew what I had known and seen, shall
we say, in a vision. But that was to
see and not to experience. Until you
have experienced it and been caught
up without the ties and the cord that
keep you with the physical body, it
is very difficult to comprehend.
Until you are released from the bondage
of the physical body, you have no way
of knowing the feeling and the uplifting
and the thoughts that come into your
head. The body is so much heavier than
the personality which goes on. But even
in your personality, there are times
when you are completely detached - we
call it a mystical ecstasy. Every time
I turn my mind toward him now, I am
engulfed in the power and time has no
limits or meaning. It may be a flash,
it may be hours - I know not. It
is just a great knowing. I ask
and he's there. He says, 'Follow me,' and
we follow. But we don't follow with
our feet. The whole being of you
follows him because he is everywhere
- in and through and around and everywhere.
He is a manifestation of God.
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What is Eternity Like? |
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We don't talk about time here. We talk
about opportunity. We cannot think
about time here because it is not measured
off in days and nights and months and
years."
I want to put on record that I find
life here more interesting than one
could dream possible, but it does detract
from quiet thinking periods. I am slowly
realizing that there is a greater need
for self-discipline than when a physical
body made its demands known. Then I
had time divided up into sleep and waking,
and the latter part divided into eating,
talking, studying, teaching, walking,
thinking, etc. Here there is so much
to see, so much to hear, so much to
do. One has to learn to set aside some
'time' for one's own personal self-discipline,
because if the mind doesn't control
the body you can be in the same state
of utter discord as you are when you
are in the physical body. Discipline
brings order, and it is absolutely imperative
to have orderliness.
Here there is an overall awareness of
what is going to happen on Earth six
weeks, six months, or perhaps two years
ahead. At times it is rather like being
in an airplane looking down, and we
get an overview or prevision of what
is going to happen, due to our being
able to see things in broader perspective.
However, do not for one moment imagine
that, now that we are here, we automatically
have completely extended vision and
have become seers. That is not
true. However, we do have some who are
seers here. They are souls who, through
much trial, tribulation, and service,
have been permitted to see in a more
extended way.
Humanity has to think of life everlasting,
manifested now in the present. This
is very important. Life has been
held very cheaply. Millions of
people have been killed through devastation,
torture, war, and man's inhumanity to
man. This has brought spiritual pollution
on all levels.
We are just as much morally obligated
to help our brothers on Earth when we
are without a physical body as we were
within a physical body. This is
an aspect of truth that few people want
to face. They think, 'Oh, when
I'm dead everything will sort itself
out. There will be no troubles, and
that will be that.' That is not true.
God still gives us the opportunity and
responsibility in the spiritual world
to observe and to choose and to serve.
It is not going to be pleasant for a
lot of people to know that, whether
they like it or not, they are their
brother's keeper. We are each other's
keeper. We are each other's deterrent.
We are each other's goad and help, because
we are all part of the ONE pulsating,
living, glorious WHOLE.
I say glorious in spite of the terrible
things that are still happening in the
world, because humanity is progressing
up the spiral of evolution. From
here we know that there is no problem,
there is no pain, there is no ill, there
is no disharmony in the whole of the
created universe that eventually will
not be made into harmony. This
is an awareness that one gets here which
is harder to achieve on Earth. It
is something I want you to try to remember.
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Is Heaven Limited Only to Christians? |
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Jesus reveals the way, the truth, and
the life. However, unless we can give
someone the true Christian experience
of the Christ, it is not right for us
to say to them, 'You must not be a Buddhist
- you must be a Christian.'
Unless we can give the true Christian
experience of the Christ, then it is
far better for us to leave them with
the Buddha and that approach to God
and to the word. It is wrong for us
to say to a Hindu, 'Oh, no, all
that is wrong. You must be a Christian.'
Unless we can give that person a true
and deep understanding of the meaning
behind the words that Jesus said - the
sense of the knowing of the power of
the meaning behind the word - then
we have no right to take away their
faith because there is an old saying
that nature abhors a vacuum.
I am still utterly amazed at what I
find here. Utterly amazed! There
is love and there is harmony. There
is music that transcends all thought.
There is color, light, belonging, and
there is being. It isn't only in the
one path of Christianity. You find
it in many, many other faiths. All faiths
which stress love have this focus. It
is like reaching out to a sun and light
comes down along different rays.
We are all walking. We Christians walk
here, the Hindus walk there, the Buddhists
walk in another place, and so forth.
All have their own paradise, goals,
aims, and objectives for so long. Then
suddenly they are into the tremendous
experience of knowing that all is one
under God and that there is no division
in purpose. There is one God of
us all.
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What are the Afterlife Realms? |
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The world in which we find ourselves
immediately after death we call the
'astral world.' From this point we can
progress to higher realms - to higher
levels of consciousness. By 'higher' realms
I do not mean spatially higher but rather
those realms which have a finer vibration.
All of the various realms of consciousness
have different frequencies of vibration. For
instance, you assume that the matter
of Earth is composed of atoms and that
these atoms are composed of energy which
vibrates. This matter of Earth is denser
than the matter of the higher realms.
As you can see light waves which vibrate
at a 'visual observing' rate,
so you can see the matter of Earth.
However, as you cannot see radio or
television waves which vibrate at too
fast a rate to be seen, so you cannot
see the matter of the world beyond,
unless you are clairvoyant.
The spiritual bodies of those who have
died vibrate at a rate too fast for
your physical eyes to see. However,
they can be viewed by clairvoyants whose
sight has been opened to receive this
faster vibration.
You know, the world beyond is not up
there somewhere. It's here - a change
of condition. It is all in one space
like a big sponge, containing all the
different frequencies of vibration - like
soapy water, salt water, clear water,
the different densities of water - you
can relate it to the different densities
or vibrations that I have here.
The astral world is almost a replica
of your world, except that it is of
a finer substance and we are not 'bound'
by our objective reality as you are.
On the astral realm we are conscious
of our personalities and the modes of
life we carried out on Earth. Therefore,
we have denominations on this realm
and we continue to practice the rites
of our respective churches.
On numerous occasions since I arrived
here, I have been permitted to go into
the higher realms where there is a unity
of God-praise, not a segregation of
the praise of God. However, I
feel very strongly that there is work
for me to do here, helping to break
down the barriers which segregate the
churches. Therefore, I shall be a sojourner
on this astral realm but the higher
realms, where there is a unity of God-praise,
will be my spiritual home."
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What is Hell About? |
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There is
a condition which could be termed the
"depths of hell." People who have deliberately
chosen to live debased or cruel lives
and have turned their backs on the light
of God find themselves in a state similar
to groping in a dark and depressing
fog. Everyone there is wrapped up in
his own cruel thinking. These souls
wander around in this lost state until
they, of their own volition, make an
attempt to turn toward the light of
God. Some may be lost for eons of time.
There are
souls called the "shining ones" who
dedicate themselves to going into this
dark realm and bringing spiritual light.
The souls who are dedicated to this
work of rehabilitation are clothed in
protective garments so that they are
not harmed or pierced by the dagger-like
thoughts of hatred which those in the
dark realms are throwing out. The shining
ones are not allowed to go and talk
to these people, but they stand nearby
and call to them through thought - prayer,
if you like. The moment the souls in
this dark area respond in a positive
way, the ones who have come to help
are able to bring them out into a less
dense, foggy world and eventually out
into the realm of light.
Some people
find themselves earthbound after death.
This is a lower astral state. For example,
people who die suddenly by accident,
perhaps when they are young, are often
loathe to leave the Earth as they feel
a sense of incompletion of their earthly
life. They stay close to the Earth,
"haunting" the homes and places they
have left. It is only through a process
of education that they can be urged
away from this unhealthy condition and
helped to progress and grow in the new
state in which they find themselves.
Prayers made on behalf of these people
from those still on Earth can be a great
support and help. These prayers help
release them to go on and partake of
the ever-expanding life in the world
beyond.
Persons who
commit suicide before the time they
are meant to die find themselves in
a state of heavier vibration and closer
to the Earth than those of us who died
natural deaths. They remain in this
state of density until the time when
they would have normally died. They
then may pass into the planes of finer
vibration. People who have experienced
death through suicide are greatly helped
by the prayers and supportive thoughts
from those still on Earth. They are
also aided by those from the higher
planes who are dedicated to help them
grow spiritually during the period of
waiting.
Among others,
the lower astral planes also contain
people who have been alcoholics or drug
addicts, who find these cravings still
with them in the astral bodies. They
stay near the Earth to be near alcoholics
or drug addicts who are still in the
physical body, in order to participate
vicariously in the sensations which
alcohol and drugs give. They can be
helped in the world beyond to clear
their astral bodies of these cravings
so that they, too, may go on and progress.
However, this is a long and tedious
process.
We have to
try to convey to people still in the
physical body that they can't expect
a sudden change for the better. They
must help themselves while they are
on Earth.
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What Happens to Dogmatically Religious
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Many people,
when they come to the astral world,
experience a great deal of turmoil and
distress because they have been too
positive and too dogmatic in their earthly
lives and have tried to impose that
dogmatism on other people. I think you
can find, if you will think about it
and look back at your own lives, that
there are times when you wish you hadn't
been so forceful in persuading someone
to do something. When one does this
he is cutting across a divinely given
attribute of each person, which is free
will.
Dogmatic
people who always "tell you the truth"
are very uncomfortable people. They
don't understand how uncomfortable they
are. When you watch it from here, you
see the body blow that "truth" can be
to people sometimes. If something is
said too bluntly to a sensitive person
who is seeking to improve himself, it
can be such a damaging blow that he
can retreat and give up.
People who
go around "telling the truth" and bluntly
dogmatizing on what they believe have
fewer converts than they think they
should have. They mistakenly believe
that putting energy and force into what
they say will produce converts. Actually,
more converts come from demonstrating
the law than ever come by dictating
the law. This is something worth pondering
about.
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"Death is only passing
through God's other door."
- Edgar Cayce
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