Getting Rid of Fear

(Granger): This is a somewhat unique way of writing, directly through your (the writer's) mind, using your own thought-patterns as raw material, from which we construct the ideas and material, then we write through your brain and hand. We realize this type of exercise requires your having a very real and native trust in us. We are entering into the very thought-processes of your mind, and we would not fool you into trying to get you to think otherwise. Many in the future, as some have done already, will caution you against doing this form of writing. Yes there are some dangers attached to it. We would be wrong not to tell you that; however, we think your personality is of such a structure that the danger is minimized from your side. There is no fear present in your thought-patterns, and that is good. We, or anyone else who gained access to your mind, could take fear as raw material, if it were available, and expand it into hallucinations. We [The Starters] are not of the "water" or the spirit who want to work on fear. Do not fear what we are doing, we want you to be assured of that. We are taking considerable precaution to give you protection from any source that would be of the spirit of fear, those who work on fear.

Speaking of fear, what really is so very bad about being dead? Let us put it right out on the table, in the full light of day, and look this thing called "death" straight in the face and say: "Okay Death, I am looking straight into your eye: now you tell me why I should be so afraid of you. What is it that is so bad about you that I should spend my precious time on earth worrying about or fearing you? ...Well, Mister Death, I don't hear any real good answers, so maybe I have been treating you with too much respect in the past. In the future, I think I shall keep you in my back pocket or in the bottom of my purse, where you belong. I don't think you are so very frightening after all, not once I take a good look at you."

I, Granger, would like to point out that this little monologue was just written by one who has passed through this process called death, and I am here to tell you that there is nothing in death to fear. There is nothing in death, period. For heaven's sake, or for your own if you prefer, get this fear of death, that is so crippling to life, out of your mind once and for all. Reader, get rid of fear. Get rid of fear of life. Get rid of fear of death. Get rid of fear of judgement. Get rid of fear!

There is judgement, yes indeed! I do not want to mislead you, not one way or the other. We must all pass through judgement following the physical life, and the death of the physical body, but let us understand what this judgement is ...and what it is not. First, the judgement is not a situation where we all stand in line before the Great Judge in a flowing beard, with a fork in one hand and a sceptre in the other, handing out pats on the head to some, and a kick in the pants to others. No such process or any similar to it exists. The church-in-history built great power around this fear. Its elders must accept responsibility for using this form of fear to influence and control people, and to control their minds. Anyone who controls others through fear will "pay the piper." Now there is, indeed, a judgement. But the judging must be done by the person, in concert with his own personality, his higher psychic-self, and with his very own soul.

Let us digress here for a moment; we think it is worth the time. In that book, Life After Life [by Dr. Raymond Moody] most people, you will recall, encountered or met a light of one form or another. Some thought the light was the Christ, others thought it was a saint, and many did not have any explanation. That light, the encounter of which is a universal experience, is the personality of that individual consciousness, out of its own High-soul. The soul is higher, looking after its many personalities. The soul is, however, very much aware of the encounter. Talk about "Encounters of a Third Kind," here is one for you! The soul monitors the encounters between the spirit (personality) and the mind of that person, now in the psychic body, but absent from the physical body.

The purpose of this encounter is not to throw the person of the individual into some pit of fire, nor to hand him a crown for good behaviour. The purpose of this encounter is, first of all, to greet the person at the self-aware level of consciousness, and to reassure the person that she or he is in good hands and is to continue along a path of development. But there are no green stamps given out here; what you have is what you get, just that and nothing more. If you have wasted your life on earth you have very little to go on with. If you did great harm in the earth, you may rest assured that the burden of responsibility must be carried into this new life. You don't dodge out, nor do you avoid any burden of responsibility here. It would have been much better to have "cleared the slate" from that side. Over here we work out our responsibilities for our life on earth to "the full extent of the law". (We will answer your question about the nature of "grace" at a later time).

It is important to understand that this judgement we hear so much about on earth is no sort of trial, not by either judge or jury. We must each conduct our own examination of our life material, both the good and the bad, the positive and the negative. And there is, of course, a very real purpose in this examination. It is part of the process of the development of the personality, as originally assigned by the soul to the personality in its origins. The soul monitors the examination and observes the progress made ...or otherwise. It observes any harm or damage done to other souls. There is a responsibility for any form of obstruction or restriction to the development of any other soul. That responsibility must be accepted as part of the task to be worked out in the next level of life, the psychic or astral plane. The reason for accepting this responsibility at this time in the life-cycle is to clear up all the burden of debt before proceeding on to the next and higher levels of consciousness. No one is ever permitted to move out of this "astral" level until all the debt to others from the previous life on earth has been cleared.

We think it would be wise indeed to clear up any obstructions one has on the earth before coming over here. The rule, if you wish to call it that, is that all material from earth-life must be reviewed and evaluated. There are those here who will help with that task. But there is considerable freedom of choice here in how one goes about working out his or her life-pattern. The point is that you become your own judge and jury, but you do not escape responsibility. Have no doubt about that. You must work with the material from your life on earth. You must learn from it; you must grow from it; you must develop from it; and you must give back to others, one way or another, what you have taken from them on earth. There should be no misunderstanding here about responsibility for the life one has lived on the earth. The way to develop is to put some effort into life while on earth. Give yourself some knowledge, gain some experience, have some concern for life, all life in all its forms, while on earth. Then the journey here will be much faster and the benefits will be well worth the effort.

There is a "leaping" or synergistic benefit to effort made in the earth-life. That is to say, there is often more than a one-for-one type of benefit on this side for certain effort expended to develop on earth. There is a bonus here for certain forms of effort made there. A good example of this is the experience that comes from working with people who have special problems. Anyone who helps, through free and happy effort, those who may be restricted because of physical, mental, or emotional conditions on earth will receive special benefits here.