Life-Maintenance Machines
DEAR JEANETTE: Does your guide give you any truths about life saving devices? I’m under the impression it is wrong to keep the human body alive when the soul has left.
DEAR : My first reaction to your question was: “I agree with you!”. In other words, I do not want such machines used on me. Well, I guess I must in all honesty add, except in very special circumstances. So my personal answer seems to be that old safety -- “Yes, but ....”
Now what do my guides say? They give almost as ‘fence-straddling’ an answer as I do. So I will try to give you some of their guidelines for making this important decision if it involves someone you love.
When the wishes of the patient are known, these should definitely be respected except in very exceptional cases as when there is rather strong indication that this is a reversible situation and the patient has strong reasons or responsibilities for staying on the earth. This will perhaps become clearer as we go on with this discussion.
You, as a nurse, undoubtedly know of many instances when a person’s life has been saved by these machines. I’m speaking now of those lives which would have been lost to an accident, sudden acute illness, etc. but which were not intended to end at that particular time. (Yes, there are “accidents” of this type too but that is another column.) In those cases, we all applaud the use of the machines and are very grateful that they were available.
But they have become available because of developmental work, much of which probably involved cases that you and I would say should not have been prolonged. So at least some of those would have involved souls and/or personalities who were willing to undergo this stressful condition in order to help the scientists in their development work.
This type of “service” is often used by a soul to balance out general things that had been done in the past that were harmful to mankind. (As we have mentioned before, more personal types of karma will generally be worked out in personal relationships with those involved in the original situation.)
Much of the marvelous advance that has been made by the medical sciences in the last few decades has been possible because of the willingness of souls to offer this kind of service to mankind. Did you think that Jesus and soldiers killed in battle were the only ones to die that others might live? No, no, many others do it without fanfare or earthly recognition.
If you personally must make such a decision, my advice (coming through my guides) is to be just as objective and open as possible to guidance. The age of the person, the life to which he or she would be returning, etc., would all be taken into consideration. Then trying to keep your own feelings out of the picture, allow yourself to receive guidance from God about what to do.
In being objective, you must also guard that your guilt feelings over thinking that the machines should not be used do not cause you to swing too far the other way. If then you receive strong indications that the machines should or should not be used, bow to the will of God which is probably considering factors which you do not have knowledge of. Believe, as this is done, that there is a deeper hidden reason and rest assured that you have made the decision to the very best of your ability. God will bless.
Additional Comments - 2006
At the beginning of this article I indicated that, at least under most circumstances, I would not want the “keep-them-alive” machines used on me. In recent years I have definitely changed that decision.
From the mid-1990s to nearly the present time I have been more or less a semi-invalid. I was not confined to my bed but I left our home only rarely and did only that “work” which could be done from a recliner, i.e., crochet and other types of handwork.
It turns out that this had been arranged by my guides (with the cooperation of my super-consciousness) for several reasons. But the one of importance here is that so little of my consciousness was required to keep me functioning that large portions were free to roam the astral and other levels where personalities were trapped for one reason or another. Often at this stage they are unable to recognize or respond to those who do not have an incarnate vibration. Since I was still attached to an incarnate body, I had the proper vibration and could communicate with them.
During our contact I would explain to them just what their situation was, help them make the necessary breaks with their incarnate experience and then learn to communicate with relatives, friends, and even the guides and angels.
There were only a very few instances when I was allowed to know the particulars of a situation so that I could understand and accept the importance of this work. The rest of the time my guides would simply inform me of the general assignment so that I would not become fretful at my supposed “uselessness” (as seen from the incarnate viewpoint).
Finding individuals who are willing and able to do this kind of service is vital if these personalities and their parent souls are not to be permanently damaged by the entrapment. The individual doing this type of work in the astral realm can do so only so long as the body is alive; using machines to maintain that ‘life’ can allow this astral work to continue uninterrupted.
Now you can understand why I have changed my personal instructions regarding the “life-saving” machines. I now prefer that such machines be used on my body with the very conscious (even if silent) consignment of my lifespan to God’s decision. Believe me, the machines will not keep the body alive if God says, “NO!”