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HANG OUT WITH DEAD CELEBRITIES

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“Have you ever been at a party and someone asked you, by way of pretending to be conversational, “If you could spend a year on a desert island with 5 people from history, who would you chose?”

Now you can spend the rest of eternity with some of famous celebrities – if you can find any.

When you’re dead, how do you communicate with other spirits? This is a good question. This is also a question that you must answer before you will be able to find celebrities to hang out with.

There are many, many variables involved here: some celebrities you might like to hang out with may have returned to Earth long ago.

Maybe they already lived 17 more lives as other identities since having lived as the celebrity you are familiar with. During those lifetimes they may not have become famous.

What if you met Napoleon, but you don’t speak French?

What if the celebrity forgot that they were a celebrity in a previous life and changed careers? Like Elvis. What if he went back to Earth and became a used car salesman in Iowa or a truck driver in Bangladesh?

One of the most famous people in history was Sir Isaac Newton. What if Isaac spent his next 4 lives as a horse? Or, what if he’s still hanging around the tomb where his body is buried at Westminster Abbey?

Newton’s monument can be seen in Westminster Abbey. It was executed in white and grey marble. The monument features a figure of Newton reclining on top of a sarcophagus, his right elbow resting on several of his great books and his left hand pointing to a scroll with a mathematical design.

Above him is a pyramid and a celestial globe showing the signs of the Zodiac and the path of the comet of 1680. The Latin inscription on the base translates as:

“Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colors thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25 December 1642, and died on 20 March 1727.”

If someone built a monument for you and said all those nice things about you on your gravestone?

Perhaps he was tempted to hang around there and bask in the glory of his own mythology!

Or, since he was such a smart guy, maybe he figured out how to break the cycle of birth, death and rebirth and went somewhere “over the rainbow” where he could enjoy a more pleasant existence.”

— Excerpt from the book 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD, by Lawrence R. Spencer

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1910 FILM OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SPEAKING ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES AND SPIRITUALISM

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In this very rare filmed interview of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (filmed in 1910) the famous author speaks about the origins of Sherlock Holmes, and upon the afterlife of human souls.  To learn a great deal more about both of these subjects read the following books by Lawrence R. Spencer:    https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE LONELY GHOST COULD BE YOU

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BE THOUGHTFUL ON ALL HALLOWS EVE
by Lawrence R. Spencer 
An apparition in the night!
A lonely ghost floats on the stairs
she shines in luminescent light
disembodied, though she's still here.

Not living in the flesh on Earth
she may be free to wait, or roam.
Yet, she seldom feels much mirth
because she's mostly left alone.

Most people will not see her there,
though she's a Spirit, will feelings tender,
they don't perceive her in the air:
they don't know how, or can't remember.

Yet, people are afraid of ghosts!
We've been told we must avoid
the friends we've lost, yet loved the most
who linger in the spatial void.

Beware! Don't run and hide in fear!
Look all about!  They're still around!
Beloved old friends may still be near...
if you listen, they'll make a sound.

Be thoughtful on All Hallows Eve:
befriend a Spirit on the stairs.
Someday you and I may be
a lonely ghost who needs some care.
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YOU ARE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND

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“You have always been with yourself, and by yourself, for nearly all of eternity. You are your own best friend.  Enjoy yourself.

However, if you want some companionship, go out a find another spirit, a person, or a life form and befriend them. They will probably appreciate not being alone.”

— Lawrence R. Spencer, 1,001 Things To Do While You’re Dead

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# 637  FORGET EVERYTHING.

This is easily done. The human race has been doing this since the deepest, dimmest beginnings of time primordial – maybe even since before time was invented.

Forgetting is an especially useful and convenient ability. This is why is has become so popular over the eternity of our previous existence.

The reason is simple: if you have done “naughty” things in the past – or things that other people told you they thought were naughty – you can erase all the blame, shame, regret, guilt and responsibility for all that alleged naughtiness. All you have to do is forget!

Another easy way to forget is to pretend there is some other spirit, like yourself, who is a “great spirit”. Pretend that this “great spirit” made you, and made you DO all those naughty things, so you can put the blame on them for “making you do it”.

Or, pretend that the “great spirit” will forgive you for doing naughty things – if you ask nicely.

Or, tell everyone that “the great spirit made me do those naughty things, so I’m not guilty or insane or responsible for my own actions”.

Even better, tell everyone that the naughty things you did were NOT naughty because you were “commanded” by the Great Spirit to do the naughty things which means they are not really naughty because they were the “will of the Great Spirit” and therefore your actions were “blessed” and “holy”.

Warning: do not ever tell anyone that you are a spirit. And god forbid, do not ever tell anyone that you are the “Great Spirit”. They will bad mouth you, torture you, burn you, crucify you, imprison you, and kill you – in the name of the “Great Spirit” (for your own good, of course).