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Paranormal Perspectives

A Jungian Understanding of Transcendent Experiences

These autobiographical episodes outline key events in the author’s life, especially in relation to teachings from the invisible world and its influence in our third dimension. Each chapter contains an exercise building on its insights. One condition for incarnation seems to be forgetting one’s true nature and embeddedness in the One. Remembering this is a path of rediscovery. Susan is encouraged to turn her focus inwards towards the formless realm and write down the messages she receives in story form. Her many intimate relationships teach her that she must no longer wall herself off from her vulnerability, and also to listen carefully to the inner voice; we all need to feel loved, that the true source is in the depths our own hearts. A striking episode concerns a patient who suddenly became afraid of flying, and they work together to visualise safely arriving at the destination. She boards a flight to Zürich and cannot visualise her arrival; and she feels queasy on her way to the airport. Susan has the experience of floating up in the dark sky and seeing her patient and many others floating ever higher, beyond her reach. The flight crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, with no survivors.

The author shares important insights surrounding the death of her father and her sister Anne. She learns that to be dead is to be completely unfocused in physical reality, and that we are moving towards becoming homo luminous, claiming our divinity and becoming conscious of how we materialise events through attention and intention. Jung plays an important role in her development, and she has a powerful experience when visiting his tower in Bollingen (she also converses with him during an inner journey – pp. 120-22). He tells her that the greatest healer is the Self, the inner being of each human, and that our task is ‘to create a union between the ego and the eternal Self which is part of the Oneness of all. This is no easy task. The mind must bow down before the heart.’ (p. 123). At Bollingen, her inner voice tells her that she must stand like a mountain in the centre of her life.

She receives many teachings from discarnate intelligences, which have a profound spiritual resonance; that a complete Unity binds everything, that dualities are teaching tools for the third dimension, that we are all creators learning to know ourselves consciously as divine, that at our core we are love, and that a connection to Source allows us to heal. The illusion that we are alone and separate creates a great deal of pain and suffering, and we need ultimately to choose service to others rather than service to self. We all come to the third dimension to learn that we are all One – there are no others. This is inspiringly summed up as follows:

Seek love in every moment. See everything as One being. See the universe as One being. Gaze in the mirror. See God. Look at another. See God. Gaze at all creation. See God.

This message could not be more important in our time of deep divisions fuelled by violence and war according to the outdated pattern of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.