As We Leave

   The most difficult of times is when someone has just passed on, not only are those whom remain stymied with grief, the one that has passed begins a journey of change. At funerals, many times the deceased spirit is in attendance, partially trying to rationalize that they are dead and mostly attempting to console the living whom pain from the grief of their emotional loss.
   At this time a spirit is invisible to the living s realm so that there is less encouragement for them to remain. They can feel confused by the fact they are attending their funeral. Though the spirit is saddened for the living, it becomes very real to them that there is no physical body to return to. This is also when the living are most vulnerable to not letting go. So just as they, the recently deceased, have to embrace the change from flesh to spirit; we the living, are faced with embracing life as we know it changing because now it is without the loved one physically there. In time, the memories become less painful and more sentimental, though a tear is shed in time those memories bring smiles, thus the pain transmogrifying has matured the living spirit.
   From my many years of channeling spirits can only tell you so much of what happens once we leave our bodies. I do not like to attempt contact with a spirit for a loved one for at least a full year after their passing. This seems to be long enough after their initial journey for contact. Many spirits talk of seeing light in which they follow, they just know to follow. When they find their way, it encompasses them inclusively they say there are hands reaching out, helping hands because no one is alone. Taking hold of those hands is where the journey of change begins. Some even recall who came to meet and greet them in the beginning.
   Occasionally have had contact with spirits making their pilgrimage whom tell me they can not stay. During these readings I always pick up on another spirit there with them, reminding them they have to keep moving. The emotional impression is that there is many together and they are experiencing these changes together as they experience fellowship with others; through the love, the peace, the serenity created. Each as a singular light, but also as a group of lights now shining in synchronicity; and with each surge of energy which creates the light rejuvenates into more energy, into light, a collective spirit.
   Than those that have gotten farther in this journey speak of a variety of states of being. All have no physical body and some are now craving that which they can not have because they have no physical body. Some are wonderful feeling they speak of being young, a kid again, or at least this is their state of being, child like or they have no suffering because they have no physical body that is suffering.
    We all posses the knowledge that all that lives, at some point passes on. In many circles they are referred to as "life cycles". The rising of our spiritual beings at which time the physical body deceases is the end and beginning of " life cycles".  In that millisecond when the physical ends and the spiritual begins, the change means to leave behind all that is earthly or physical. To move on into the collective soul, return to the well, to leave all that you know for what is unknown is an act of faith, to believe.