COMMUNICATION WITH THE "DEAD"

  

COMMUNICATION WITH THE "DEAD"

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

June 24

 

Is it possible to communicate

with those who have passed on into the next world?

Extremists on one side say dogmatically

that it is absolutely impossible to do so.

Enthusiasts on the other side claim

that heir deceased friends direct their actions.

The truth is that communication does take place,

but that the wise dead understand the necessity

of our exercising our own power of choice

and do not intrude.

But they do often come to our aid.

If you wish to investigate psychic things,

do so thoroughly and scientifically.

The chief objection to the running after mediums

is that it may become a running away

from the responsibilities of this life.

Thus, seeking mediums becomes what

is called in psychology an escape mechanism.

Your business is to face up to your problems

and to try to solve them.

There is a truly spiritual mode of communication

from which nothing but good can come.

It is this: Sit down quietly and remind yourself

that the one God really is Omnipresent.

Then reflect that your real self

is in the Presence of God now,

and that the real self of your loved one

is also in the Presence of God.

Do this for a few minutes every day,

and sooner or later you will get

a sense of communication.

For to this end Christ both died,

 and rose ... that he might be Lord

 both of the dead and living

Romans 14:9