tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27921142618532408192009-03-08T16:02:52.133-07:00IntentionSamuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-74195519919708267892009-03-08T15:59:00.000-07:002009-03-08T16:02:47.435-07:00America needs to communicate with the Taliban<strong>Loved Ones…there are many paths to heaven…<br /><br />Loved Ones…each of us…makes our own path back home…</strong><br /><br /><strong>Loved Ones…you…me…Barack Obama…Taliban…North Koreans…<br />Russians….Iranians…Catholics…the Pope…Irish….English….Polish…Chinese…Yanks….Mexicans…Peruvians…Canadians…Italians….Germans….Japaneses…all of us …everyone must find their own path back to the Divine Source from which we all have emerged…</strong><br /><br />from which we all have incarnated into…today ….now…and no one…none of us not one of us can judge ourselves or judge another…<br /><br />Loved Ones…President Barack Obama says he hopes U.S. troops can identify moderate elements of the Taliban and shift them towards a bringing together….<strong>this is a spiritual growth for all Americans…a true spiritual advance for all of us.</strong><br /><br />Asked in an interview with The New York Times if the United States is winning in Afghanistan, Obama said "no," while adding "our troops are doing an extraordinary job in a very difficult situation."<br /><br />"But you've seen conditions deteriorate over the last couple of years. The Taliban is bolder than it was. I think ... in the southern regions of the country, you're seeing them attack in ways that we have not seen previously," Obama said in the interview, which was posted Saturday on the Times' Web site.<br /><br />"The national government still has not gained the confidence of the Afghan people," he said. "And so it's going to be critical for us to not only, get through these national elections to stabilize the security situation, but we've got to recast our policy so that our military, diplomatic and development goals are all aligned to ensure that al-Qaida and extremists that would do us harm don't have the kinds of safe havens that allow them to operate."<br /><br />There may be opportunities to reach out to moderates in the Taliban, but the situation in Afghanistan is more complicated than the challenges the American military faced in Iraq, Obama said.<br />U.S. troops were able to persuade Sunni Muslim insurgents in Iraq to cooperate in some instances because they had been alienated by the tactics of al-Qaida terrorists.<br /><br />Obama cautioned that Afghanistan is a less-governed region with a history of fierce independence among tribes, creating a tough set of circumstances for the United States to deal with.<br /><br />The idea of cooperation with some in the Taliban has been talked about for many months by American military commanders including Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command.<br /><br />"If you talk to Gen. Petraeus, I think he would argue that part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists, but who were willing to work with us," said Obama.<br /><br />"There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and the Pakistani region, but the situation in Afghanistan is, if anything, more complex," Obama added.<br /><br />Last month, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that Washington could accept a political agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban if the insurgents will lay down their arms and accept the government's terms.<br /><br />At the same time, Obama left open the possibility that U.S. operatives might capture terror suspects abroad without the cooperation of a country where they were found.<br /><br />"There could be situations — and I emphasize 'could be' because we haven't made a determination yet — where, let's say that we have a well-known al-Qaida operative that doesn't surface very often, appears in a third country with whom we don't have an extradition relationship or would not be willing to prosecute, but we think is a very dangerous person," he said.<br /><br />Obama added that the U.S. doesn't torture its suspects and noted in some cases those being held would have an opportunity to challenge their detention in federal courts.<br /><br /><strong>Loved Ones…Include our President and all elements of the Taliban in your prayers that we all can reach compromise…a loving fork in the road of all of us ….all of us.</strong><br /><br />You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers.<br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-7419551991970826789?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-12586245791234954382008-10-20T18:49:00.000-07:002008-10-20T19:03:40.383-07:00Journal of Scientific Exploration<strong>Loved Ones…this earth is a school…</strong><br /><br /><strong>a very real location where we come to learn our own individualized very real lessons about compassion and not judging…</strong><br /><strong><br />lessons about unconditional love….</strong><br /><br />and our Divine Academic curriculum is so situated that we <strong>all have more than one opportunity to experience this earth school…</strong><br /><br />and as we progress…as our souls progress… <br /><br /><strong>with each incarnation we have more advanced lessons…</strong><br /><br />one lesson after another…and then another…in fact even after our last incarnation we still continue to learn lessons on the “other side”…it never stops…it never ever stops….ever…<br /><br /><strong>I promise you there is always another fork in the road.</strong><br /><strong><br />Loved Ones read the following and understand why you are here today…Dr. Stevenson was brave enough to do the research….and now you can advance along your path of knowledge via benefit of his fine efforts</strong>… <br /> <br /><strong>Half a career with the paranormal</strong><br />Stevenson, I. / Rev. Psiq. Clín. 34, supl 1; 70-75, 2007<br /><strong>Ian Stevenson, MD<br />Department of Psychiatric Medicine University of Virginia Health System </strong>Charlottesville, VA, USA<br /><br /><strong>This paper first appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration 20(1):13-21, 2006.</strong><br />________________________________________<br /><strong>To begin with a definition, the word paranormal means communication without the currently recognized sensory processes</strong>; <br /><br /><strong>it may also refer to physical movements without the recognized physical processes</strong>. <br /><strong><br />For centuries, phenomena now described as paranormal occurred and were described</strong>.<br /><br /> Most historians of the subject agree, however, that systematic inquiries about such occurrences did not begin until 1882, when the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London. Its founders openly stated their intention to investigate unusual phenomena.<br /><br />I am a latecomer in this field, because my activity in it did not begin until I had already established myself in conventional psychiatry. I had had training in that specialty and in psychosomatic medicine. My research and training enabled me to advance in academic positions; in 1957, <em><strong>I was appointed professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia</strong></em>.<br /><br />How I reached that position requires a short digression. From birth on, I suffered from repeated bouts of bronchitis and spent much time in bed. The illnesses held me back, but I read a great deal, and my succoring mother kept restoring my health. I have an unusually retentive memory, and in phases of good health, I jumped ahead of my peers scholastically. Professors like superior students, and I became a favorite of some at McGill University. After I had recovered from several bouts of pneumonia, one of the professors advised me to leave the cold of Canada for the warmth of Arizona. While in Arizona, I somehow learned to improve my health. Thereafter, I resumed a normal upward path in training and academic placement. <br /><br />On the way up, I acquired some reputation as a maverick. This epithet seemed appropriate for someone who questioned the assumption, held then dogmatically by most psychiatrists, that human personality is more plastic in infancy and childhood than it is in later years (Stevenson, 1957). The publication of my challenge to this doctrine annoyed many of my colleagues in psychiatry and <em><strong>even enraged a few</strong></em>. <br /><br /><strong>For me, the reception of my article on this subject provided useful training for responding to the rejection of my studies of paranormal phenomena.</strong><br /><br />About the time of my appointment to the University of Virginia I returned to an earlier interest. In childhood, I had been exposed to reports of paranormal phenomena through reading in my mother’s extensive library about oriental religions and theosophy, the latter of which was a derivative of Buddhism and Hinduism.<br /><br /> My training in medicine had brought me some understanding of scientific methods, and I began to ask myself about the evidence for the unusual phenomena reported in the books I had read. It did not seem conclusive, but it also did not seem negligible. So, I read more about psychical research, especially in the works of the founders of the SPR, such as Myers and Gurney, for whom I developed an abiding admiration. I also became acquainted with the leaders of the American Society for Psychical Research, which was a younger sister, so to speak, of the SPR. In this group, C. J. Ducasse and Laura Dale especially earned my gratitude by showing me that skepticism about some evidence for paranormal phenomena did not exclude acceptance of other evidence.<br /><br />I needed their guidance. My first publications in the field were book reviews, and one of the first of these almost exposed my inexperience publicly. I wrote a review of a book entitled The Third Eye: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama. Its author claimed to have been a Tibetan lama endowed with immense paranormal powers. I was taking him seriously until, just in time, I learned that the author of this book was an Englishman who had never been to Tibet, much less come from there. I modified my review (Stevenson, 1958).<br /><br />Writing about a subject provides an excellent means of learning about it. Accordingly, I learned much by writing and then publishing in Harper=s Magazine a review article about parapsychology entitled The Uncomfortable Facts about Extrasensory Perception (Stevenson, 1959). This earned the approval of Dr. J. B. Rhine, who was then director of a research laboratory at Duke University. (Rhine had renamed the field, or at least his substantial part of it, Aparapsychology.@ Of this, he and his wife, Dr. Louisa Rhine, were undisputed sovereigns.)<br /><br />In 1959, I visited the Rhines and their associates. After the conventional morning coffee with general conversation about parapsychology, Louisa Rhine led me into a side room for a private conversation. There, she explained to me her belief that nothing substantial could ever be made of reports of individual cases. In her view, they were all worthless as scientific evidence. In my article in Harper=s Magazine, I had mentioned individual case reports and wrote that at least some of them deserved the attention of investigators. <br /><br />Louisa Rhine generously hoped to save me from futile endeavors. Her warning came too late. Some of the reports I had read by the earlier psychical researchers of what were then called Aspontaneous cases@ had deeply impressed me. Despite her strictures about them, Louisa Rhine nevertheless studied spontaneous cases herself, but she did this almost exclusively only on the percipient=s side of a case. The earlier investigators, however, had investigated both the senders (or agents) and the percipients (receivers) of the experiences. They noticed similar features in many of the cases reported. Among these, were a high incidence of sudden, often violent, death (or other serious crisis) in the agent and a familial or other emotional link between the two participants in a case.<br /><br />I decided to investigate cases that came to my attention and began to publish reports of them. At this timeBthe late 1950sBan earlier interest that I had in reincarnation revived, and I quickly learned that few cases suggestive of reincarnation had been investigated. One of the few exceptions was a report of four cases published by an Indian investigator in a French journal (Sunderlal, 1924). (I later learned that the author had first offered his report to an American journal, which had rejected it.) I thought that perhaps even uninvestigated cases would reveal some feature of interest. I therefore examined the published details of 44 reports of claims to remember a previous life. I had come across these in newspapers, magazines, and books. Most of these reports gave few details, and almost none offered any verified (or even verifiable) evidence. I winnowed the 44 cases by excluding those in which the subject and presumed deceased person were related or well acquainted and those in which the subject made six or fewer statements about the claimed past life. <br /><br />Of the remaining 28 cases, the age of first speaking about the previous life was known in 25. <strong>In 22 of these, the claimed memories had first been uttered when the subject was a child less than 10 years of age.</strong> <br /><br />This seemed worth wider attention. Accordingly, I published (in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research) a two-part article on these cases and recommended that more such children should be sought and their claims investigated (Stevenson, 1960a, 1960b).<br /><br />It never occurred to me then that I would be the person to initiate the investigations that I advocated. I was too busy: administering a department, caring for patients, and engaged in other research. My paper had, however, come to the attention of two persons whose interest and support it stimulated. They influenced my life profoundly.<br /><br />The first of these persons, Eileen Garrett, was both a spiritualist medium and a remarkably successful entrepreneur. She had persuaded a wealthy donor to establish the Parapsychology Foundation, of which Eileen was the President. I met her first in about 1957 and mentioned at the time my interest in reincarnation. Early in 1961, she telephoned me and said that she had received a report of a child in India who claimed to remember a previous life. The child seemed to be like the ones I had mentioned in my article. Mrs. Garrett asked me whether I would be interested in going to India to investigate the child=s claims. The Parapsychology Foundation would pay my expenses. I accepted her suggestion, with the understanding that I could only go to India during my vacation, in August. When August came, I went to India and spent four weeks there and then about a week in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Before leaving for Asia, I had some fragmentary information about three or four other cases in India and about two in Sri Lanka. This information did not prepare me, however, for the surprise of finding an abundance of cases in both countries. By the time I left Asia, I had learned of no fewer than 25 cases in India and 7 in Sri Lanka. In less than five weeks, I could not adequately investigate all these cases and so selected a few to study carefully. I noted the locations and a few details about the other cases.<br /><br />A second surprise for me during this first trip to India came when I learned that the cases consisted of much more than a child=s claim to remember a previous life. <em><strong>The children also showed behavior that was un¬usual in their families and that, in those cases in which the claims were verified, matched the behavior of the deceased persons the children claimed to have been.</strong></em> <br /><br />My first journey to Asia therefore showed the need for more journeys.<br /><br />This brings me to the second important reader of my 1960 article in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. This was Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of xerography. He had trained as a scientist, and before his second marriage he believed, as most scientists did (and still do), that the mind is only a product of the brain and its properties entirely physical. His second wife, Dorris, had some capacity for extrasensory perception. She impressed her husband with her ability and also influenced him to support research into paranormal phenomena. Early in 1961, he offered funds for my research after I had already committed myself to going to India in August. I told him that I could not honestly accept additional funds at that time. (Before leaving for India I did nevertheless accept from him a few hundred dollars for a tape recorder.)<br /><br />When my first work in India showed the need for further journeys there, it occurred to me that I could make those journeys if I could reduce the time I was then giving to clinical practice. Chester Carlson made this possible with annual gifts to the University of Virginia. In 1964, he made a particularly large donation that became the Adeposit,@ so to speak, for an endowed chair of which I was the first incumbent. It was, incidentally, one of the first such chairs at the University of Virginia. The funds of the endowed chair gave me time for more research, but the expenses of journeys to investigate cases still needed annual donations, which Chester Carlson also provided.<br /><br />As a donor of funds for research, Chester Carlson was unusual, perhaps unique. He insisted on giving anonymously, but other donors have done this. Most donors, however, later remain detached from the details of the research they support. Chester Carlson, in contrast, followed the details of researchBat least of what I was doingBwith keen interest. He said that he would like to observe some of my interviews, and he accompanied me on one of my field trips to Alaska, where I was studying cases among the Tlingit peoples. He sometimes asked questions, but was never obtrusive. He rarely made suggestions, but what he said always deserved attention. My friendship with him belongs among the most pleasant and also, as I shall explain, the most important of my memories.<br /><br />The report of my first studies in Asia was in press when unexpectedly a man who had helped me with some cases was accused of cheating. Although the allegation applied to experiments with which I had nothing to do, suspicion spread to the work the accused man had done for me, and the editor stopped the printing of my report. I had had other interpreters beside that of the man accused of cheating, and, believing that the man had not cheated when working with me, I proposed to return to India and study the cases anew. Yet, this entailed great additional expense, and I asked Chester Carlson=s advice. He encouraged me to return to India. I did this and, with new interpreters, showed the authenticity of the cases. The printing of my report was then resumed, and it was duly published as Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (Stevenson 1966/1974a).<br /><br />During the eight years of Chester Carlson=s support of my research (1961-68), I was still not exclusively committed to the study of paranormal phenomena. My bibliography shows that my interest in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine had not diminished. <em><strong>I had and still have a keen interest in the question of why a person develops one kind of illness instead of another kind</strong></em>. Papers touching on this subject could be published in conventional journals when studies of paranormal phenomena could not. In 1960, I published a book on interviewing (Stevenson, 1960/1971). A few years later, I published another book, really a textbook, on psychiatric examinations (Stevenson, 1969).<br /><br />In this period, I widened my studies of paranormal phenomena beyond the children who claimed to remember past lives. For example, I investigated and published papers on apparitions, precognition, mediumship, and Apsychic photography.@ In 1970, I published my first book on paranormal phenomena, one on what I called Atelepathic impressions@ (Stevenson, 1970). (This gave Dr. Louisa Rhine, who reviewed the book, an opportunity to belittle more publicly the study of spontaneous cases.) My most important accomplishment of this period, how¬ever, was the mentioned publication in 1966 of my book Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (Stevenson, 1966/1974a). This presented reports of the cases with abundant details about the informants for each case and what they had said about the subjects= claims to have lived past lives.<br /><br />In 1968, Chester Carlson died. I was just one of many persons who mourned his death as a personal loss. His friendship and that of his wife, Dorris, had enriched my life beyond measure. For me, however, his death also meant the end of his annual subsidies for my research. I remember thinking that I would have to return to the other half of my career, the conventional one of research in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Then, to the astonishment of a great many people, not least myself, we learned that Chester Carlson=s will bequeathed to the University of Virginia a million dollars for my research on paranormal phenomena. <br /><br />Not surprisingly, this provoked a controversy among the University administrators. I learned afterwards that some adversaries of my research had said that I could take the million dollars with me if I would leave the University. (No one said this directly to me.) The President of the University (Edgar Shannon) had not long before publicly cited an oft-quoted statement of Thomas Jefferson, written in 1820, as he was in the process of founding the university. AThis institution,@ Jef¬ferson wrote, <em><strong>Awill be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it</strong></em>@ (Lipscomb & Bergh, 1903, p. 303). <br /><br />Even the most obdurate opponents of my research did not dare to act against Jefferson=s precept. My supporters therefore prevailed, and the University accepted Chester Carlson=s bequest. For this, I owe much to President Edgar Shannon and also to Thomas Hunter, then Chancellor of Medical Affairs.<br /><br />Even before Chester Carlson=s death, I had decided that I wanted to devote full time to research on paranormal phenomena, particularly those suggesting life after death. In 1967, I had resigned as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry after negotiating the estab¬lishment of a small Division within the Department. I did not wish the word Aparapsychology@ in the title of the new Division, because I thought that would imply and even facilitate a separation from psychiatry and medicine. That, however, was exactly what my successor as Chairman seemed to wishBan insulating distance between our research and respectability. (Later, under a friendlier administration, I readily obtained authorization to change the Division=s name to the one I had earlier wished: Division of Personality Studies.)<br /><br />During the 1960s and through most of the 1970s, I had worked alone at the University of Virginia. When I was in Asia, I had some excellent interpreters assisting me, but they all had regular occupations to which they returned as soon as I left. We needed more continuity. Chester Carlson=s bequest and some funds from other donors made it possible for me to engage a Research Assistant and to support other investigators.<br /><br />The first of the other investigators was Gaither Pratt. He had for many years been a close associate of J. B. Rhine, but when Rhine retired from Duke University and established a private foundation (to which he took the funds then held by his laboratory), Pratt had no place in the foundation. At this point (1964), Chester Carlson offered to fund Pratt if we could find a place for him at the University of Virginia. I welcomed this proposal, but had to use all my diplomatic skill to persuade the Dean of the Medical School to agree with me. With some reluctance he did so, remarking as he did, that AThis is something that we cannot keep private.@<br /><br />For five years after Chester Carlson=s death, Dorris Carlson gave the Division annual donations. This en¬abled us to continue supporting Gaither Pratt and two other able parapsychologists, Rex Stanford and John Palmer. The publications of these three researchers, then and later, provided an important chapter in the history of parapsychology. When, in 1973, Dorris Carlson withdrew her support, I was obliged to encourage my colleagues to find other positions.<br /><br />Later, our fortunes revived, and in one way or another I could afford to have colleagues again. Bruce Greyson, Satwant Pasricha, Emily Kelly, and Antonia Mills came to me and in one or another way moved from being assistants to become independent investigators. More recently, Jim Tucker joined our group and has already shown himself a prolific and highly competent investigator and author. I should here also mention Erlendur Haraldsson of the University of Iceland and Jürgen Keil of the University of Tasmania. They maintained their local academic positions, but received funding from our Division that enabled them both to work independently and to collaborate with me in some joint projects. Walker Cowen, founder and Director of the University of Virginia Press (to give its current name), became my publisher from 1970 until his death in 1987. He enabled me to put into print a substantial number of case reports that would otherwise still remain in typescript on my shelves. He acknowledged that my books Aare for the future.@ Unfortunately, he died before the future he expected had come, and his successor had a different opinion of what that future should be. I had to find a new publisher; but fortune favored me again and led me first to Praeger Scientific Publishers and then to Robbie Franklin of McFarland and Company.<br /><br />Some of my later books were reviewed in general scientific journals, but most were not. Along the way, I have learned much about the power of book review editors and that of editors also. For example, in 2000 I sent a review paper about the children who claim to remember past lives to David Horrobin, the editor of Medical Hypotheses. He had founded this journal to provide a publication for deviant ideas and research on unconventional topics. It had referees, and he sent my paper to several of them. Then he wrote to me that he could not find anyone who would take my paper serious¬ly, but he was going to publish it anyway, which he did (Stevenson, 2000).<br /><br />I believe I am best known for my studies of children who claim to remember past lives. I cannot object to that, but I hope that other investigators will continue some of the other approaches to the evidence for life after death that I explored. Here, I am thinking of cases of responsive xenoglossy (unlearned language) about which I published two books (Stevenson, 1974b, 1984) and the combination lock test (Stevenson, 1968). Fortunately, my successors are not bound by my ideas. Emily Kelly=s ongoing studies of mediumship show her independence.<br /><br />In 1980, I met yet another man who greatly influenced my life. A colleague at the University of Virginia introduced me to Peter Sturrock, who explained to me his idea for what became the Society for Scientific Exploration. He invited me to join the Founding Committee, and I did so enthusiastically. The Society=s meetings and its journal (the Journal of Scientific Exploration) provide a forum where research on paranormal phenomena can be presented to other scientists without obstruction or derision. <br /><br /><strong>The Society also welcomes presentations of research on many other phenomena neglected by most scientists</strong>. <br /><br />The founders of the Society believed, and I think they and their successors still believe, that the very existence of the Society challenges other scientific societies to liberalize their policies toward unconventional ideas and investigations. This has not yet happened. <br /><br />Yet we must persist. I think we should do so uncomplainingly. I am myself weary of reading lamentations about Galileo, Wegener, Jenner, and numerous other scientists whose contemporaries at first rejected their novel ideas. We cannot expect all skeptics of new ideas to surrender as a whole, collapsing simultaneously like the walls of Jericho. Each of us must contend for our own new ideas. We are blessed that we can at least expose them to some other scientists through the opportunities afforded by the Society for Scientific Exploration.<br /><br />The Society for Scientific Exploration offered me the first opportunities to report adequately two of my most significant investigations. <em><strong>I refer first to the birthmarks and birth defects that occur frequently in children who remember past lives and, second, to what I believe are important residues of unusual behavior derived from past lives. </strong></em>Informants drew my attention to these two features of the cases as early as my first journey to Asia in 1961, and I find it now a source of chagrin that I did not publish full details of the birthmarks and birth defects until 1997 (Stevenson, 1997a, 1997b). <br /><br />Some readers of my publications may regard my monograph Reincarnation and Biology as my Meisterwerk. With regard to mere bulk (2 volumes, 2268 pages) no one would disagree. I hope, however, that the work is more than a compilation. It includes reports of cases and additional details about cases that I had not previously published. The chapter on twins (one or both of whom claim to remember a past life) may be one of the most important of all my publications.<br /><br /><strong>As for the behavioral residues of past lives, I have repeatedly drawn attention to their importance as a third component to the development of human personality, the other two being genes and the environment after conception </strong>(Stevenson, 1977, 2000). <br /><br />In a paper recently published (with Jürgen Keil), I have recurred to this important feature, which is well exemplified in the cases of children of Myanmar who remember previous lives as Japanese soldiers killed during World War II (Stevenson & Keil, 2005).<br /><br />We often cannot identify important aspects of events as such when they happen. My second marriage provides a significant example of this. In 1985, I married Margaret Pertzoff, who was then a professor of history at Randolph-Macon Woman=s College. She was and remains an avowed skeptic of paranormal phenomena. She did not conceal her stance on the subject, but never allowed it to interfere with the happiness she brought me with our marriage. Her benevolent silences sometimes provided a valuable check on what might have otherwise become unwarranted enthusiasm on my part.<br /><br />In 1997-98, I committed myself to a project that seemed foolhardy, but also had the possibility of making my research better known to the general public. I agreed to a writer=s request to accompany me on field trips in Asia. He would Alook over my shoulder@ as I conducted my interviews for the cases. He was to pay his own expenses and afterwards would be free to write about his experiences without censorship by me. This turned out well. The writer was Tom Shroder, who is now a senior editor with The Washington Post. Tom was a companionable traveler, and he endured well the frequent roughness of journeys in Lebanon and India. The book he wrote is entitled Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives (Shroder, 1999). It seems fair to me and, more importantly, fair to the children who claim to remember past lives. The book has indeed made better known the cases of these children.<br /><br />My physical journeys are now over, at least for this life. Nonetheless, I do not regard the time I devoted to psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine as ill-spent. On the contrary, I think that it gave me a helpful preparation for whatever I have later accomplished in studying paranormal phenomena.<br /><br /><strong>We all die of some affliction. What determines the nature of that affliction? I believe the search for the answer may lead us to think that the nature of our illnesses may derive at least in part from previous lives.</strong><br /><br /> <strong>The cases of children who claim to remember previous lives and who have related birthmarks and birth defects suggest this; some such children have related internal diseases.</strong> <br /><br />My own physical condition, defects of my bronchial tubes (from early childhood on) of which I have written separately (Stevenson, 1952a, 1952b), has given me a personal interest in this important question. Let no one think that I know the answer. I am still seeking.<br /><br /><strong>Loved ones…you and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,<br /><br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.com<br />www.OurLordJesusTheChrist</strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-1258624579123495438?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-59568739097465962522008-09-11T17:06:00.000-07:002008-09-11T17:12:57.195-07:00we will learn about antigravity and wormholes<strong>Loved Ones…when we as a people advance internally…</strong><br /><strong><br />when he actually address the combination of science and spirituality…</strong><br /><strong><br />we will learn about antigravity and wormholes…</strong><br /><br />and as we access these internal techniques we will be in a better mental position to meet and communicate with peaceful souls outside of our galaxy.<br /><br />To make this possible scientist need to also investigate the internal technologies lying dormant within each of us…you know we did each incarnate…<strong>and yes we did come from somewhere before we arrived here.</strong><br /><br />And yes…as we advance on our path of learning we will also progress in our ability to exist on this planet with harmony and love…in fact without these inner qualities …these spiritual internal technologies, undesirable and under endowed qualities could contaminate other portions of this universe of universes with hate, conceit, and egotism….<br /><br />...ugly qualities which are presently somewhat abundant on this our small planet earth….our school to learn all our lessons about patience, compassion and not judging.<br /><strong><br />We all came here to learn our lessons...to experience them...a most real testing...</strong><br /><br />As you very well know…you have free will…I have free will…the Taliban have free will….North Koreans have free will…the president of the United States has free will and the entire group…all of us…were gifted with this FREE WILL just so we can learn to use it to love ourselves and to love our Divine Parents…Mother and Father God…and to love one another as Our Lord Jesus the Christ came here and taught…and demonstrated.<br /><br />Not to love God because we are scared of going to hell but to love God and one another because we desire to...we want to...from within...unconditional love for ourselves and others...<br /><br /><br /><strong>Loved Ones…your free will is in fact a DIVINE GIFT…it really is!</strong><br /><br />You were gifted it (free will) some 13 billion years ago when this universe burst forth from the “Word”…from the resonance of the voice of the “Source”…..and purpose of this Source energy is for you exercise loving intension for all of creation….and not intention for destruction. <br /><br /><strong>Loved Ones…there are other entities in other universes and believe me…they are petrified of earth mortals….</strong><br /><br /><strong>really frightened</strong>…they see what we do to one another and watch as we drop bombs from drones on innocent civilians in Iraq…spread diseases as a biological weapon…steal oil and minerals from those who cannot defend themselves…out of greed…pure greed….<strong>they are spiritually advanced with only loving intentions so wormholes and antigravity technologies are available to them.</strong><br /><br />Loved Ones…<strong>when our Divine Parents engineered this planet…they secured its existence</strong> through self protective mechanisms like tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes, and climate changes….earth organization mechanisms which allow this planet…our school… to participate in helping us learn all our lessons….while we are mortals…while we are incarnated in these bodies…physical bodies <strong>totally dependent on this earth resources and treating them and ourselves with loving intent</strong>.<br /><br />When your soul came from the “Other Side” and entered your body you enrolled in this school…a very real place …with a very real body....a body that only will function in a healthy enviroment.<br /><br /><strong>Loved Ones…what you do to the least of those you are doing to Mother and Father God…</strong><br /><br /><strong>Loved ones…Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, thine body, thy soul: and thy brother as thyself.</strong><br />You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,<br /><br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-5956873909746596252?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-17860367325981127972008-09-04T16:25:00.000-07:002008-09-04T16:27:07.575-07:00The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everythingLoved Ones…follow these guidelines and you know our Divine Creator…as discovered within:<br /><br /><strong>The greatest achievement is selflessness. <br /><br />The greatest worth is self-mastery. <br /><br />The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. <br /><br />The greatest precept is continual awareness.<br /> <br />The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. <br /><br />The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. <br /><br />The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.<br /> <br />The greatest generosity is non-attachment.<br /> <br />The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.<br /> <br />The greatest patience is humility.<br /> <br />The greatest effort is not concerned with results. <br /><br />The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.<br /> <br />The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.</strong><br /><br />You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,<br /><br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-1786036732598112797?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-32742078888877870522008-04-02T21:27:00.001-07:002008-04-02T21:30:06.736-07:00to make war is profane…. However defense is compulsoryLoved ones…. to make war is profane…. However defense is compulsory…what would you do? <br /><br />First…your home is attacked by bombs dropped from drone planes…. financed by oil gluttonous foreign nations…. having greed for your oil….<br /><br />Then more loved ones are murdered by an armor clad hypnotized militia believing they are killing for “christ”…their “god”<br /><br />Then the Black Female Secretary of State of the Country that is making the drones and the body armor involved in these same evil acts broadcasts across the planet the following….<br /> <br /><strong>"Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it,"</strong> US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a news conference. <br /><br />And now…the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo reprinted more hideous cartoons of the Prophet today and published one of its own…Their front page carried the new cartoon depicting Muhammad burying his face in his hands and saying: <strong>"It's hard to be loved by fools." </strong><br /><br />Loved ones….<em><strong>it must be the black and white cartoons creating the problem and not the streams of red blood gushing on the streets and</strong></em>….<br /><br /><em><strong>it must be the cartoons and not the US-led military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and not the Israeli presence in Palestinian lands which is fueling anti-Western attitude</strong></em>. <br /><br /><em><strong>It must be the cartoons not the republican oil agenda…it’s the cartoons everybody…it’s the cartoons …not British and American forces accented by Israeli intelligence killing innocent men, women and children….</strong></em><br /><br />Loved ones…we wealthiest nations have a duty to lead the globe towards enlightenment…. I petition for all souls present in Afghanistan to be enclosed in the White Light of the Holy Spirit…and I petition they all learn their lessons…. all their lessons with the least amount of pain…I petition and ask that in Mother and Father Gods Name. <br /><br /><br />You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,<br /><br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-3274207888887787052?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-79726444734296225762008-04-02T21:06:00.001-07:002008-04-02T21:12:46.642-07:00"The OneVoice Pledge"Loved Ones…<strong>the immense oceans of this our beautiful planet are made up of but small individual drops of water</strong>…<br /><br />Cohesion among these bits of H2o comprise our immense blue seas…those waters which nourish our selves and this planet our Mother Earth…<br /><br />Loved Ones… as we Americans, we Israelis, we Moslems, we Christians, we Buddhists, we Gnostics, we Hindis, we Atheists all communicate…<br /><br /><strong>We learn a lesson…<br />we learn we are all brothers and sisters….<br />We learn…We are all sourced from our Divine Parents…Mother and Father God…</strong><br /><br />Loved Ones…at present…the two following elements are true…<br /><br />1. Al Qaeda’s objective is “to kill 4 million Americans, 2 million of them children.” - Osama bin Laden's official spokesman, Suleiman Abu Gheith<br /><br />2. “We face a 75 percent chance of a [financial] crisis within five years.” - Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul Volker<br /><br />Loved Ones…Americans differ on many things, but not on the desire for physical safety and financial security.<br /><br />Like a gathering hurricane, these twin threats have taken on a new dimension and urgency.<br /><br />Sadly, political courage has been pushed aside by bitter partisan behavior. And an ever-biased media on both sides only sharpens differences.<br /><br />Until millions of Americans demand action, politics as usual will create ever-increasing levels of risk for you and your family.<br /><br />Loved ones an ocean of courage is being born today across this land…this ocean is called….OneVoice, a nonpartisan and non-profit foundation, makes it possible and easy. Take "The OneVoice Pledge" below<br /><br /><br /><strong>"I pledge to be active in the national debate and hold my elected representatives accountable for swift and courageous action to prevent terrorism and financial crisis. I will encourage others to do the same."</strong><br /><br />At this time I petition for the White Light of the Holy Spirit…the eternal unconditional love of Our Lord Jesus the Christ…to enclose and protect all infants, toddlers and children growing up on this planet today…I petition and ask that in the name of Mother and Father God.<br /><br />You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers<br /><br />www.angelicinfusion.com<br />Samuel Joseph Bell<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-7972644473429622576?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-2934753313019403442008-04-02T20:48:00.000-07:002008-04-02T20:51:03.371-07:00Following is a spiritual rule of thumb….Following is a spiritual rule of thumb….<br /><br />Loved Ones…yesterday a most loving person passed on speedily…his name…Steve Irwin… the Crocodile Hunter…. was killed in an instant by a stingray barb directly into his heart…<br /> <br />Steve was filming an episode for a new TV series…for a child he loves dearly… <strong>his beautiful 8-year-old daughter Bindi…<br /> </strong><br />Today I take this opportunity to share this truth…this is fact loved ones…. <strong>“The more loving your are the faster you go when it is your time”…</strong>if you doubt this please read the following list of names…and think about each one…. think about the end of their life…. take this instant in time and value this advice…<br /><br />There are two categories…. Category #1…entities like Adolph Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Slobodan Milosevic, Arial Sharon, George Wallace, Klaus Barbie, Idi Amin, …each took a long time to pass on…a long long time…<br /><br />And the category #2 … White Entities like… John Lennon, John F. Kennedy, Roy Orbison, Bobby Kennedy, Princess Dianna, Yasser Arafat, Martin Luther King, Dale Earnhardt, Frank McGee (murdered host of the TODAY SHOW), Payne Stewart, John Denver, Bella Abzug, Anwar Sadat, Sonny Bono, Christa McAuliffe, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Cousteau…all of whom passed in a blink of an eye…<br /><br />Loved ones…take this moment and review those you have known who loved with unconditional love…. when their time came…how quickly did it come?<br /><br />Now take another moment and review those you have known who were greedy…How long did it take them to pass on…was it in an instant or was it a prolonged episode…? <br /><br />You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,<br /><br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.comj<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-293475331301940344?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792114261853240819.post-70041599393320223202008-04-02T20:35:00.000-07:002008-04-02T20:37:45.538-07:00Frank McGee host of THE TODAY SHOW ...assissinatedLoved Ones…My uncle was one of the most trusted journalists in this country….he was a true american….<strong>he was assissinated with radiation by contractors with an international terrorist organization referred to as the Young Republicans…..</strong><br /><br />Frank McGee (September 12, 1915-April 17, 1974) was a television journalist.<br />Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States, McGee was a news reporter for NBC beginning in the mid-1950s.<br /><br />He had a great talent for descriptive language, giving viewers a word picture of the day's events. NBC News's Chet Huntley broke the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and McGee was on the phone from Dallas giving an account of this and was on air for 45 hours able to report without a script. In the early 1960's, he was also a news reporter on the NBC radio show Monitor.<br /><br />In 1970, he was a co-anchor with John Chancellor on NBC Nightly News and in 1971, he moved to The Today Show, replacing Hugh Downs, who'd hosted the show since 1962. McGee moved the Today Show into a more serious news presentation. <br /><br />He co-hosted the show with Barbara Walters, but insisted on opening and closing the show by himself. He remained on the air until April 1974, when he took off because he was ill. It turned out to be bone cancer, which he succumbed to less than two weeks after his last Today broadcast. He was replaced by another Oklahoma native, Jim Hartz, who co-hosted the show with Walters until 1976.<br /><br />Loved Ones….Frank was daily sharing the uncensored truth about the republican greed/war agenda so he was radiated….to silence him….to protect Richard Nixon and his cult of greed mongers…when Frank began the preparation of revealing the assissin of Bobby Kennedy was a hypnotized stooge for the republicans he was “taken out” or “neutralized”<br /><br />My uncle Frank and all his loved ones are always in my prayers,<br /><br />Samuel Joseph Bell<br />www.angelicinfusion.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2792114261853240819-7004159939332022320?l=angelicinfusion.com%2Fblog%2Fintention.html'/></div>Samuel Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09298532266546345292noreply@blogger.com0