SUICIDE - Is it a sin to commit suicide? What happens to people who take their own life?

About suicide and what happens to the souls of people who kill themselves, take own life or are suicidal. Suicide and sin, self harm and death from a Spiritualist standpoint. Why do people commit suicide? Famous people.

The Psychic Bookshop
New Age Store for Spiritual Books

Readiness and Suicide

“We receive, day after day, the misfits, the derelicts, the outcasts, the flotsam and jetsam, the millions who come here unprepared, unready, unequipped, and who have to learn all over again. Instead of passing to our world a stream of evolved souls ready to take up the tasks that await them, there come millions who have to be treated and nursed and tended because they are bruised, like little children.”
SILVER BIRCH (The American Indian guide of the journalist Maurice Barbanell)

Modern man has a dilemma with death and shrinks from the dark thoughts of approaching old age. Fathers wish to be brothers to their sons and mothers to be sisters to their daughters. There is no dignity in old age and society encourages us to cling to our fading youth. Just as a childish person shrinks away from the unknown in the world and in human existence, so the maturing person shrinks back from the latter part of life. No longer do we look to our senior citizens for wisdom but consider old age as being some form of malady. A materialistic age places little value on the special spirituality that can only come from experience and reflection.

A human life is like the arc of the sun as it crosses the sky. The first quarter, lying to the east, is childhood. As the sun rises to its zenith it becomes brighter, symbolizing the expansion of our consciousness and its expression in the world. However, as it descends, the light of the sun returns into itself before its journey through the underworld. Similarly, the latter part of our life can become a period of introspection as the light of our consciousness returns to within itself. Perhaps we could learn from ancient times when the aged were the custodians of secrets and the seers of visions. The life review can begin at this time...and continue after death.

Contemplation of the afterlife, at any stage in life, will prepare you for crossing the threshold without fear. An awareness of your guardian angel and proof of the reality of the next world from mediumship can reinforce this spiritual readiness. However, there are a great many people who never think about what’s to come, and are spiritually unready to make the transition. (I have already spoken of what can happen if a person clings to the earth plane or is unaware that they are dead.) The life review--described earlier--is just the initial stage of your gradual familiarization with your new world. Your emotional and spiritual state at the time of death will determine how long a period of self-assessment you need. If you are spiritually unready, then your spiritual self-improvement may take a great deal of time--indeed the afterlife is not a static place, but full of activity.

Suicide

"Trust me, trust in our love. You will learn and grow through my death. You will know it was my path and destiny to end my life in that moment. It was my life's lesson. What I've now given you is a tiny molecule of the lessons I've learned since death. My suicide is also connected to a greater good. You will see it, in part, unfold in your own life."
--Message from the spirit world from Albert Fleites to Joel Rothschild (Quoted from Signals)

Suicide is perhaps the worst instance of being spiritually unprepared for death. Some pretty horrible punishments have been imagined by religions for those who take this road. For example, in the fourteenth century, Dante Alighieri published the famous epic poem called the Divine Comedy and claims to have visited hell and purgatory. In the lower depths is found the forest of suicides. Here, the souls of those warped by the sin of self-murder are transformed into grotesque trees. Because they rejected life on earth, they now stand fixed and withered in hell.

Dante’s description of the fate of people who have committed suicide is not confirmed by the work of mediums. For example, twenty-one-year-old Rob Willis suffered from clinical depression. On May 12, 1999, he could take no more and killed himself by throwing himself off a multi-storey car park.

His mother, Jean Willis, was devastated when the police knocked at her door after midnight to tell her the terrible news. “Inside, I started to scream," said Jean, when she spoke about her loss in a newspaper article about mediumship. “My only child. I was divorced and we’d been so close. I knew he’d been depressed. But suicide? How could he? The terrible news was so upsetting that, in the days ahead, I, too, seriously contemplated suicide. I just wanted to be with Rob.

“One lunchtime, five weeks after his death, I was surfing the Net and came across Craig Hamilton-Parker’s website. I booked a consultation and the first thing Craig said to me was that he felt a young man called Rob was close. Then he said that he felt a sensation of falling from a great height and cars were nearby. Craig confirmed that Rob had taken his own life. I was amazed. All of this before I had even said a word.

“Then Craig told me lots of factual information about Rob. He spoke about our Christmas holiday in China. Our trip to Indonesia. Even the names of the family cats, Brian and Floss. He also mentioned two friends of Rob’s, Si and Nick.

“Craig said that Rob was wearing a cowboy hat. This was one of the few items of clothes I had of his--we’d bought it while on holiday. Then Craig said; ‘We must never use the M word.’ I gasped. This was a private joke between Rob and me about whether or not I should get married again.

“Through Craig, Rob explained to me that my suicide would be pointless. I could not join him that way. I had to be here on earth to help others.”

Since the above consultation and newspaper article, Jean has joined my mediumistic development circle and has had many communications from Rob. Some of this has come from my fledgling mediums and also direct from Rob while I am in trance. His communications have given us some direct insight into what happens to people who commit suicide.

The most important thing suicide cases wish to tell us is that they are definitely not punished--at least not in the sense of being turned into trees or thrown into limbo or a pit of hell! The guardian angels quickly draw close to these unprepared souls and a process of healing begins. There is a certain amount of self-punishment, as the person is gradually made to confront what they have done, but this is a matter of guilt and shame rather than retribution. Once they free of the earthly problem and now transcend their despair, they become aware of how much they have thrown away.

Rob has told us that he came to understand that taking his own life was a foolish thing to do. He also appears to understand, however, that for him there are karmic reasons for why it had to be. Nonetheless, he is now working to make up for the wrong he has done. He is helped by his mother, Jean, who is now developing into a first-class medium and is especially concerned with helping other mothers who have lost their children. It has been shown to us that Rob is working very hard, from the other side, to help Jean to maintain the high level of evidential mediumship she has attained.

In traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism, there are specific rituals that are designed to help the soul immediately after death to move through the bardos and to its next incarnation. Similarly, in her own way, Jean helped her son to progress by holding him in her heart and by talking to him. Now Jean has had proof that Rob has not only survived death but is actively helping his mother. Her son has become her spirit guide.

I have come to understand that the most important power in this universe is the power of Love. If a person’s heart is filled with sincere love, it can build a bridge of light to the next world. Love is the eternal force that can shatter even the strength of iron or steel. Nothing can stand in its way, not even death. Mediumship would be impossible without it.

Next Article:
SOUL SLEEP

Previous Article:
SPIRIT GUIDE EXPERIMENT