By Jo Mooy
My questions on the afterlife got answered on a sunny afternoon when a white ball appeared on the grass for a couple minutes.
Covid, drug overdoses, and an aging population have taken a heavy toll on so many families who lost loved ones over the past two years. Their grief and sadness are palpable because many of them could not be with, or attend their families. Inevitably questions arise as they struggle to deal with the losses. Is there an afterlife? How do you know? Where do the souls of the loved ones go? Can they be contacted? If so, how?
There’s a universal belief system that a place exists where all souls go after death. Every religion has a different word for where that is. But usually it’s defined as some sort of ethereal or cosmic state. The Aborigine culture of Australia, the oldest in the world, have a complex view of the afterlife but essentially, spirits return to their source in their ethereal state called “the dreamtime.” So, whether you’re talking about a culture that’s 60,000 years old or 21st Century scientific researchers, almost all say the same thing: There is an afterlife.
For the ones suffering the anguish of loss, it requires a strong faith to believe in the afterlife. Many don’t have that faith or refuse to acknowledge the soul’s continued existence. Hence the questions they ask. Scientific studies on Near Death Experiences at respected universities around the world help to answer the questions. The studies, conducted by neuroscientists, physicians, psychologists, and philosophers, have been peer reviewed, published in best-selling books, and also in medical and scientific journals. Still, questions persist by individuals who question the scientific data and believe the mind “makes up things.” That was my experience a few weeks ago.
I often research new publications about the afterlife to see if the trends or the data is changing. Reading one article, I saw a lengthy rebuttal by a gentleman who claimed he had no animosity towards the scientists or the results of their study, but he believed the Near Death Experiencers were being deluded by their mind or by an overactive imagination. He wanted others to know he was agnostic and that the best summary of all scientific research should be, “We don’t know what happens at death. Anything else” he said, “is nothing but speculation.”
His approach was scholarly and wasn’t argumentative, so I didn’t dismiss it outright. I pushed back in my office chair to give his commentary a lot of thought and a fair hearing. I analyzed his different points and using my own understanding of the topics, formed a rebuttal to his. But before summarizing my thoughts a wayward one came in out of left field. What if he’s right?
I was staring out the window searching for answers because another part of me didn’t feel he was right. As I looked out on the lawn I saw a snow-white ball on a short black cylinder in the middle of the green grass. It wasn’t there when I first looked out the window. My logical mind said, it must be a Kleenex that blew in on the wind. That thought was tossed aside quickly because no Kleenex sits on the lawn in a perfect round sphere. Logical mind kicked in again and said, it’s a sprinkler head that came up out of the lawn. The sprinkler heads are black, but none of them have a snow-white ball on top.
I got up from my chair and looking out the window, focusing hard on the white ball. All of a sudden, as if it “knew” I was watching it, the white ball “popped” out of existence. It hadn’t made a sound, but I could feel the sensation of something popping with magnetic energy waves moving out of the ball into the air. I blinked several times just in case I was “seeing things.” It was still gone.
But, it had been there. I’d seen it. I know what I saw. But then logic again overrode the experience. Maybe it was a Kleenex and it had blown down the yard. I ran outside to convince myself. I walked up and down the side of the house. No Kleenex. No white ball. I searched in the lawn to see if a sprinkler head might have been in that spot. No sprinkler head was anywhere near where the sphere had been.
Coming back to my office to think about what happened I recalled a story that Michael Newton recorded in his book, Destiny of Souls. He’d asked one of his clients who was in deep hypnosis how souls on the other side communicated with those still in physical form. The client answered that those on Earth should ask a question and the souls would answer them through symbols, thoughts, dreams, or through vivid experiences that seemed “coincidental.”
My questions on the afterlife got answered on a sunny afternoon when a white ball appeared on the grass for a couple minutes. It waited until I made a conscious connection between the question in my mind and the symbol of a white ball. Then it disappeared in an electrical pop.
That experience was my confirmation that souls do exist after life, that they hear us, and they respond. I had my answer and I didn’t need a rebuttal.
Jo Mooy has studied with many spiritual traditions over the past 40 years. The wide diversity of this training allows her to develop spiritual seminars and retreats that explore inspirational concepts, give purpose and guidance to students, and present esoteric teachings in an understandable manner. Along with Patricia Cockerill, she has guided the Women’s Meditation Circle since January 2006 where it has been honored for five years in a row as the “Favorite Meditation” group in Sarasota, FL, by Natural Awakenings Magazine. Teaching and using Sound as a retreat healing practice, Jo was certified as a Sound Healer through Jonathan Goldman’s Sound Healing Association. She writes and publishes a monthly internationally distributed e-newsletter called Spiritual Connections and is a staff writer for Spirit of Maat magazine in Sedona. For more information go to http://www.starsoundings.com or email jomooy@gmail.com.