Everything happens for a reason: Love, Free Will, and the Lessons of the Soul
by Suzane Northrop
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 NY: Northstar2 2004. 267 pp No refs or index $24.00Suzane Northrop shares a wealth of her experiences as a channeler, presenting arguments and anecdotes to show that:· We choose lessons in our incarnations and that every experience we have in life is another lesson.
· Issues that arise in our relationships are particularly important, because we choose our parents and attract to ourselves those people who resonate with the life lessons we have agreed to take on.
· Dead People (DP) continue to care about us often reach out with messages and respectful interventions (such as bringing us into contact with people we might benefit from, if we choose to interact with them).
· Synchronicities – those unusual coincidences that are deeply meaningful in our lives – are arranged by DP to alert us that there is more to life than we often acknowledge.
This is a helpful book to those who have a wish or feel a need to communicate with DP through a person who channels these communications. Northrop also provides helpful suggestions on how we can facilitate direct communications between DP and ourselves through methods such as meditation and holding the intent for such messages to come through. Again, Northrop provides lovely anecdotes to illustrate such communications – that occur often through dreams or physical manifestations (such as the movement of an object or activation of an electronic device).
What I see as most important is the responsibility Northrop puts upon each of us for what happens in our relationships with others. For instance, Northrup teaches that DP only hold us in love, and release all other feelings they may have experienced or held in our relationships with them. If we were hurt or angry in our experiences with a DP, we can know that once they are dead, it is up to us to clear our feelings towards them. My personal experience as a therapist is that this is some of the best advice we can take on board, in relating to the living and to DP.
Some of what Northrop shares is at variance with the experiences and observations of other channelers and students of these subjects. For instance, Northrop states that our relationships with DP never end. Other channelers indicate that DP may often move on to further levels of existence, severing the relationship and becoming unavailable to us. Other channelers and intuitives report that DP may hold resentments towards us and may sometimes even interfere in our lives maliciously because of these feelings. Synchronicities are attributed, by many other students of these magical coincidences, to our own unconscious wishes and expectations, manifested through the collective consciousness.
Having cautioned the reader that this book is about Northrop’s views and experiences, I still warmly recommend it for its practical and spiritual orientation to what others often call spirit communications. Many examples illustrate how the information communicated consoles those still living and reassures them that physical death is not the end of existence. This is an important message in our society, which in many aspects is afraid of death and skeptical about an afterlife.
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