2023 BOOK FROM AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 

STATES THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH – IT IS AN ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

By Rev. Karen E. Herrick, PhD

Loss of life as an Altered State of Consciousness by Imants Baruss, a Canadian researcher, discusses a brand new time period that’s most useful in making an attempt to grasp spirituality and the paranormal. A lot of his analysis was discovered within the after-effects of Close to-Loss of life Experiences (NDEs). The Boggle Threshold signifies the extent which the thoughts reacts with a detrimental response that’s brought on by weird concepts and the improbability of a phenomenon. Many time non secular phenomena is past our boggle threshold, till now we have skilled it. So, to anchor this threshold, I consider extra schooling is required. Folks must determine “I can settle for this. I can’t settle for that.” Idle speak and curiosity typically locations one in a “groundlessness” situation of confusion. 

Traits taking place whereas an individual is dying:

• Deathbed Phenomena – synchronistic occurrences across the time of somebody’s dying.
• Extraordinary sense of peace – seeing visions of the individual leaving, respiratory stops and begins. 
• Dying individual appears to sense the time of arrival of kinfolk’ spirits – who predict they may go “dwelling” quickly.
• Dying individual mentions: “They see lots of people (spirits) of their room. (Authors Observe: These spirits of deceased kinfolk often are seen as coming from the left-hand nook of the ceiling.)
• The makes an attempt of dying individuals to explain: what they’re experiencing could also be misunderstood or ignored by the dwelling. This aggravates confusion within the room. 

It’s vital to appreciate that as a human being now we have two our bodies. A bodily physique and a non secular/etheric physique. St. Paul discusses this within the Bible the place he states that we are available in on the bodily and go away on the non secular. Baruss names this the delicate physique that coexists with the bodily physique whereas awake however has the power to operate independently of the bodily physique whereas asleep or deceased. (This is also referred to as a ghost.)

Baruss discusses his analysis from the attitude of a spirit. This can be a one that had a bodily physique which is now not there. There are sixteen dimensions of alterations as an individual approaches dying. They’re:

• The bodily physique ceases to operate and enters a state of decomposition.
• There’s a physiological shift the place the non secular/etheric physique turns into atoms, chemical substances, and so forth. 
• You are actually a spirit with a stream of consciousness with extraordinary high quality. That is named phenomenal consciousness – ideas, emotions, photographs, and so forth. from an individual that’s significant. 
• Time sense – a sequence of occasions happen but seem like simultaneous. 
• Considering is typically clearer and extra rational as judged by descriptions of NDEs. 
• Reminiscence – seems to be intact and may embrace lives beforehand lived though some are dream-like. 
• Generally issues determining one is “lifeless.” Many occasions, a spirit thinks he/she is dreaming. 
• Have an effect on – Emotional experiences happen with higher emotions of affection. 
• Motivation – Differing types – assembly one’s needs, participating in self-improvement, or interacting with the dwelling.
• Consideration – appears to operate the identical besides there’s a capability to be in one-hundred locations without delay. 
• Notion – the presence of Mindsight. The psyche (acutely aware, unconscious, the thoughts, and the soul*) “sees” within the sense of some mixtures of notion and data. Generally that is described as “seeing with their entire physique.” That is an expanded state of consciousness. (*Please observe the Soul shouldn’t be talked about in Baruss’s e book – Rene Descartes (1596-1630), a French thinker, is known as a dualist – that the world consists of two primary substances – matter and spirit. Matter is of the bodily universe, of which our our bodies are an element. The human thoughts, or spirit, interacts with the physique however can, in precept, exist with out it. Descartes dualism has influenced psychology and lots of different subjects to NOT embrace spirit in any a part of their philosophy. This creator believes this to be a detriment to psychology and to our on a regular basis life.)
• Communication – seems to be telepathic.
• Resolution-making seems to be the identical. 
• Meaningfulness – is preserved to the extent of phenomenal consciousness. There aren’t any phrases to explain what you’re seeing and feeling. 

After-Loss of life phenomena teaches us that we’re rather more expanded as a human being than we consider. In line with Baruss, clinicians and people should be uncovered to phenomena corresponding to: 

• Deathbed phenomena 
• After-Loss of life Communication (ADC)
• Possession 
• Close to-Loss of life Experiences (NDEs) 
• Previous-Life Experiences
• Mediumship

Wm James acknowledged there was an invisible world round us. In the event you learn the above phenomena that Baruss desires us to be extra uncovered to, there’s your invisible world. None of these six objects seem in our sensory world alone. They can’t be defined rationally. In addition they want the clairvoyant world, for which we’d like clairvoyant researchers to clarify. When will our materials world lastly name for any such clairvoyant analysis that was began by Wm James and Carl Jung?

Mediumship began in america in upstate New York with the Fox Sisters within the 1840’s. They have been two youngsters who once they went to mattress at night time began to listen to faucets on their bed room wall. They developed a system of answering faucets that means “sure” and “no.” The spirit within the wall informed them that he was a touring salesman who was killed within the basement of their home earlier than they moved in. The basement was dug up and components of a human skeleton have been discovered and a salesman’s valise. Spiritualism can also be a faith of which roughly twenty p.c of the inhabitants in late 1800s and early 1900s adopted.

Wm. James, typically referred to as The Father of American Psychology, studied mediumship together with his colleagues in Boston, Massachusetts. He and his spouse had misplaced a toddler son; subsequently Mrs. James needed to go to with mediums. James and his colleagues referred to as mediums “psychological healers.” They needed to show telepathy and believed that if you, the sitter, got here to a studying with a medium that the medium was studying your thoughts for the data. Nevertheless, when the medium then began telling you belongings you didn’t find out about your kinfolk and ancestors, they questioned the place this data was coming from. As soon as this data was validated by others in your loved ones, a lot of the medium’s potential was not understood. James stated that they finest strategy to perceive a medium was to make an appointment with one. 

In line with Baruss, three forms of data seem like generally conveyed by mediums. First, they determine the deceased individual’s look, how they converse, what they’re carrying, their persona, favourite actions, meals occasions, locations, and so forth. Second, a deceased individual seems to convey data by a medium about issues that will have been of curiosity to the deceased however that occurred on earth after their dying. Third, mediums give messages to those that are grieving.

In my follow, I’ve discovered suggesting a medium go to to be very fruitful in working with shoppers in  persistent grief. Many occasions, the one who is grieving has a non secular expertise of their very own. As soon as they study that love by no means dies and that their cherished one can talk, particularly by desires, this is likely one of the non secular experiences they needed. Baruss introduced a medium into his courses for 9 years. She was common amongst his college students. His tutorial dean then put a cease to her attending his courses, which was disappointing.

Discovering a medium your self must be achieved as you’d search for any skilled – by somebody who has been to at least one. Many converse at psychic festivals, non secular conferences and if in case you have a Spiritualist church close by, they could have an inventory. As Baruss identified, a medium must be providing you with data – not asking you quite a lot of questions. A few inquiries to make clear is okay. My oldest daughter is deceased and anytime she has come right into a medium go to, I’ve felt her presence and in addition I do know it’s her from the data she is telling the medium. You KNOW it’s your individual. I’ve the identify of a medium whom I belief who works by Zoom if anybody would really like it. 

Mediums obtain data by their psychic facilities referred to as chakras. I’ve heard that they’ve larger chakras than the remainder of us which makes them extra delicate to the data despatched to them. A great way to clarify their items is clairvoyance, the receiving and understanding of this data, is like our instinct solely stronger. 

Till I develop into a spirit, I will likely be making an attempt to show this new APA data and Jungian Psychology as typically as I can. I’ve a three-hour on-line seminar on CEYOU.com, which is given each few months. It’s entitled LIFE AFTER DEATH on Cultural Competency and NDE’s – NEW APA BOOK (2023). I’m additionally on a quest to seek out different organizations who need this data taught. When you have any concepts or questions, please electronic mail them to me at . My new web site is www.karenherrick.com. I might love to listen to from as a lot of you as potential with questions and feedback. Thanks for studying!

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Rev. Karen E. Herrick, PhD, created the Heart for Kids of Alcoholics, Inc. in Pink Financial institution, New Jersey in 1987. She was ordained on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York Metropolis and makes use of her Interfaith ministry to be actively concerned in Non secular and Transpersonal Psychology. She hopes to assist in a consensus that non secular experiences are taking place, which is able to improve dialogue and lift the proportion of the inhabitants experiencing them from 40% – 50%, in america and Nice Britain, to effectively over the 50% mark. She suggests a medium go to to these in persistent grief, which helps the individual in grief notice that love by no means dies and that their cherished one continues to be within the etheric world. She now works in her part-time personal follow in Nevada.