“If you’re never going to die, you don’t need this book”

The work that is closest to my heart is with parents who’s children have transitioned out of physical. It doesn’t matter how old the parents are, or how old the children are, this is the event in a lifetime that breaks hearts. For parents of deceased children to even draw a breath and got up each day is a major accomplishment.

When I work with a parent and they have positive proof that their child still exists it brings some comfort to them. The first question that needs to be answered is: how are they doing now?

When I wrote the book I was doing a lot of soul rescue and the book reflects that. In fact the vast majority, (99.9 percent) of deceased children heal very quickly. They do not let themselves think unproductive thoughts and they see what is possible in the state  of being they are in. They make choices of whether to age at the rate of their earth bound family or to stay the same age. The choose how they can help others, whether it is to be a guide for family members or to help other young people adjust to the afterlife.

But they still don’t become different people when they die, they start where they left off in life.  Most take the high road to spiritual, mental and emotional improvement. It is the parents I remember in my nightly prayers.

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I went to a lecture on the Hindu religion and the talk was about the state of advancement and purification that would enable a human to be released from the necessity of reincarnation. The summary was that the Hindu are essentially seeking a way of staying dead- well staying in heaven is a Christian goal as well. In my book I talk about the goal of ascension, where we return to God/Source where we will be in a state of blissful unification. Maybe the name of my next book should be: how to we get to stay dead… possibly if we learn all we can, do our best, strive for excellence and seek our most personal of truths we can reach that goal.

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Hi Everyone,

I’ve got some great stories from readings I’ve done since Choices In The Afterlife was published. I decided to do a recurring newsletter to those of you that have shared your email address with me. If you would rather not get this mailing please let me know and I will delete your address. Most of what I will be writing about are firsts for me- in other words I am still learning from the deceased. I can never predict what is going to happen in any reading, that is for sure.

I will begin with a very recent reading.

J. is 19, and died this year of natural causes. My living client for this reading was his girlfriend of many years.

I usually ask one or two questions of the deceased, having to do with the manner of their death and who greeted them.

When I asked J. who greeted him I kept getting the word Uncle. The young woman said there was no deceased uncle, that his mother was a foster child and didn’t know her parents, J.’s biological father was unknown, so there were no grandparents on either side to greet him. J. His mother had no siblings that had predeceased J., but he was adamant to me that it was his Uncle was his greeter. I suggested to my living client that perhaps this was a man who was LIKE an uncle to J., and there was no one she could think of.

When I pressed J. on the issue he began to describe his Uncle, as kind of a seedy character who drank and smoked, but who was sweet and kind underneath all that.

My client gasped- yes, that was his Uncle all right.

His mother’s brother, his Uncle was the one that found J. after he died.

So if we define greeter as the person or people who inform you that you are dead, we have to define J.’s Uncle as his greeter. J. said that he had stayed in his body mentally until his Uncle came and then he understood that he had died and got up out of his body.

I have never before heard of a greeter being a living person (person still in physical that is), so this is a first for me, and a wonderful expansion of the concept we have of the all important role of the greeter in our own death transitions.

Thanks for the attention to this and if you want to blog with me please go to HowSpiritWorks.com and post a comment there.

My warmest wishes to you,

Gretchen Vogel

Choices Publishing

Keene, NH

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Several years ago a beloved Siamese cat of mine was ripped to shreds in my garden by some stray dogs. That day I had to drive my in-laws to a Doctors appointment, of course I couldn’t stop crying. When I told them what had happened my mother in law said, it was just a cat and to get over it.
The other day I did a reading for a young woman who’s boyfriend of 4 years died of natural causes. They had planned a life together, and now her life has disappeared. The world will never give her the respect of a grieving widow. She will not have his Social Security, she will not be able to have her address as Mrs, …all this to cope with at the age of 19. I hope she never experiences anyone saying cruel words like: after all he was just your boyfriend, you’ll bounce back.
No one can know or really has the right to judge the experience of another in grief.

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Hi Everyone,
It is cold in NH and the perfect season to begin to sort through the channeled material I have from the last 30 years into the next book. A lot of the material from Choices In The Afterlife was from meditations I did in the 1980s, and I have thousands of pages of transcripts to draw from for the new book. One of the themes is about opposition, evil, or as Abraham calls it, contrast. We are the only species that participates in the drama of good and evil, although our planet and all of it’s inhabitants are affected by our ability to both create and destroy. We are the ones that have the choice.

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