it becomes more aware of its spiritual heritage and more forgetful of its earthly life for a time.
The buffer zone also has a filtering effect on any entities that may surround the soul at the point of transition. There are, as you will know, degrees of sentient entities that are linked to the earth plane and the Lower Astral planes only. These entities may have been feeding on the soul and leeching energy from the soul at the point of its transition. They may also have been influencing the soul during its time on Earth – trying to create mental situations that will allow it to draw more power so, obviously, these entities are still attached to the soul at the point of transition. Sometimes the soul will be so attached to these entities that it will be persuaded at the point of death to remain with them for a time, but the intention is always to draw the soul away from such things and towards a higher vibration. As the journey takes place and as the vibration gradually increases within the buffer zone, then those entities (like parasites, ticks or mites) cannot hold onto a vibration that is faster than the one they are exhibiting and the one that they have been created in and are maintained in, and so they fall away from the soul. Now this is not something that usually can be seen (except by experienced eyes and except in extreme cases where a person is overrun by such beings); it would not be prudent for the souls who have made the transition to see that they have certain thought-forms attached to them so this cleansing takes place invisibly as far as they are concerned.
This does not apply to those who are spiritually aware. For those who are spiritually aware, their friend or their family member or someone from their group soul turns up and says, ‘Come this way’ and the soul is sufficiently enlightened to get rid of its own entities (if there are any) and to say, ‘Of course I will come this way. Thank goodness I am going back home!’ So that transition is a more rapid affair than the one for the majority of people where they need to be gradually raised in vibration and cleansed from the effects of the earth plane as they move towards the first spiritual sphere.
Also, we have to deal with trauma on many occasions because, although the point of death that I have talked about is peaceful, people sometimes do not believe this. Their physical-mental-faculty is so enmeshed with the earth plane and so accepting of what has been happening to them at the point of death that they continue the ‘game’. They continue to feel that they are hurt – even though they are whole; even though they can breathe easily; even though they can be comfortable in the moment that it takes to change a thought – they believe in the circumstances that were surrounding them before death and so are shocked. They believe, for example, if they died in a fire, that they are still on fire; they believe if they died of cancer or a terminal illness that that illness continues. There are those who do not instantly release the pain (just as there are those who do not instantly release the entities and those who do not instantly accept that they have passed over) so we have to deal with pain. Some souls scream, some souls are in a panic state and to these souls we send specialists, who calm them down and move them onto the vehicle so that they can be transported across the zone. In some cases we have to put them in a kind of sleep – if we cannot reason with them and if we cannot accelerate their vibrational rate to the point where they suddenly realise that they are fine, then we have to put them in a kind of unconsciousness. It is a bliss – it is not like an unconsciousness that you have at night where you may have troubled dreams (or even good dreams) but you are aware of being still attached to the earth plane. It is a bliss and they need to be withdrawn until they can awaken in a higher state of consciousness.
So there are many considerations that have to be addressed in order to get a soul across to the start-point of their spiritual journey. It is a complex and diverse operation and you can see why so many souls need to be involved in order to accomplish this process, which is happening all the time (as is the reverse of this process – people are incarnating at the same time, but that is an area I will address at a different time; we are concentrating on the passage away from the Earth at this time). So you have those who move across easily, you have those that need direction and you have those that are put to sleep for a time in order to get them across.
And what lies at the other end of the buffer zone?
What lies at the other end of the buffer zone is segregation – not segregation that is imposed on the souls by anyone from the spirit worlds or by God – but segregation that is imposed on the soul by its actions whilst in an earthly body and by its beliefs whilst in an earthly body.
So there is a collection point and there is a delivery point (both of these things being an illusion but everything is an illusion, everything is a construct) and we have to go with a certain sequence of events in order to placate and comfort and direct the majority (unfortunately) of souls. There is a collection point, there is a cleansing process through the effects of the buffer zone and then there is a delivery, there is a destination – but it is only an initial destination. For many it will be a shore, for many it will be an airport, for many it will be a train station or a bus station or the far bank of a river, and there they will find that they disembark from the vehicle that has come to collect them.
What happens next will be the subject of the next chapter – assuming that in my old head I can get things in a linear sequence. There is so much to pack into this volume and it must flow in a logical sequence because I am taking the readers on a journey from a point where they do not know about death to a point where they know about death, where they are going to and what to expect in relative terms – because what to expect is tuned to the needs and expectations of each individual soul.
At this point is there anything that you would like to ask regarding either what has been said today or what has been said in chapters previous to this one?
David: Joseph, would you like to comment on rescue workers who are incarnated on Earth that help in that transition – is it because they are of a similar vibration to the soul that is about to pass over that they can help to lead them into that buffer zone?
Joseph: Are you referring to incarnate souls or the spirits who come to ease the transition from the spiritual side of life?
David: Incarnate souls – such as myself and Michael, who have been involved in rescue work at night when we are asleep.
Joseph: In answering your question we have to enter the individual zones that souls put around themselves (not the greater or group-zone that I have been speaking about today) because many souls trap themselves within some of the circumstances we have been speaking about: the expectation that life continues as it is even after physical death; or there are souls who find themselves linked to traumatic events to such an extent that those events replay around them; or there are souls who do not deserve (…deserve is the wrong word) – do not need to go to the Lower Astral but trap themselves in an individual Lower Astral or astral plane of their own making for a time. You must remember that each of you is a god, each of you is part of God and each of you is (to a lesser or a greater extent, dependent on your experience) capable of creating around you your own reality. So there are those souls who, unconsciously and on the point of transition, continue to create reality to such an extent that higher souls cannot reach them because they are using a similar energy to that inherent in the Field on Earth to extend their experience of physical life.
In such circumstances it is felt that someone who is on the Earth is better able to reach those souls than someone of a higher vibration. It is very difficult for souls of a higher vibration to penetrate these individual realities and make themselves seen and interact with the souls who have created these bubbles of continuous individual-reality. Someone who is in an earthly body can penetrate more easily (particularly in sleep-state) one of these bubbles, because the vibration of the Field that they are in and the vibration of the bubble that the trapped soul has placed itself in are very similar. So the trapped soul can see this person entering their dream, entering their reality and talking to them, and then higher beings and more illuminated souls can transmit information to the rescue soul (who is still incarnate on Earth) to persuade the soul that has trapped itself in a bubble of continued individual-reality to drop its barriers
