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Geraldine Cummins's fourth book, The Road to Immortality written in
1932, is a series of communications allegedly from F. W. H. Myers,
the eminent psychologist and psychical researcher, who departed
from the earth plane in1901. Communicating from the 'other side'
Myers gives us a glorious vision of the progression of the human
spirit through eternity. In the Introduction Beatrice Gibbes
described the method of communication employed by Cummins. "She
would sit at a table, cover her eyes with her left hand and
concentrate on "stillness." She would then fall into a light trance
or dream state. Her hand would then begin to write. In one sitting,
Gibbes stated, Cummins wrote 2,000 words in 75 minutes, whereas her
normal compositions were much slower-perhaps 800 words in seven or
eight hours." Gibbes added that she witnessed the writing of about
50 different personalities, all claiming to be 'dead, ' and all
differing in character and style, coming through Cummins' hand.
Communicating through Cummins, Myers stated: "We communicate an
impression through the inner mind of the medium.... Sometimes we
only send the thoughts and the medium's unconscious mind clothes
them in words." Speaking of God Myers explains; The term God means
the Supreme Mind, the Idea behind all life, the Whole in terms of
pure thought, a Whole within which is cradled the Alpha and Omega
of existence as a mental concept. Every act, every thought, every
fact in the history of the Universes, every part of them, is
contained within that Whole. Therein is the original concept of
all. Now considered a classic in afterlife literature, The Road to
Immortality takes us on a journey we may all repeat some day, and
with Myers as our guide, the journey is spectacular.
Swan on a Black Sea is Geraldine Cummins final book which was first
published in 1965. The book is an account - an afterlife
communication, from the British suffragette and philanthropist,
Winifred Margaret Coombe Tennant who passed away in 1956 and first
communicated with Cummins in 1957. Coombe Tennant communicated
through Cummins using automatic writing; the object being to let
her sons know she was still very much alive in the spirit world.
The communications are made up of 40 scripts which were
communicated between 1957-1960 Throughout her life Coombe Tennant
was a talented medium but due to her professional and social
standing, she choose to keep her gift a secret from all but a
handful of friends, and anonymously she practiced her mediumship
under the pseudonym, Mrs. Willet. Her sitters included Sir Oliver
Lodge, the renowned British scientist who devoted much of his life
to psychical research, and a select number of senior members of the
Society for Psychical Research. Relaying her experiences as a
travel writer might, reporting back from a distant land, she
describes her ability to travel back and forth in time. It's as if
her physical life is a film and she is able to "go into her film"
at any time or place and examine her physical life - a life review
or judgment some might conclude. On October 29, 1958 (script 32)
she addressed her skeptical son Henry who was still alive at the
time and was finding it difficult to accept that his dead mother
was communicating, 'There is a dream sweetness about my present
state or place. Yet my environment is familiar and totally real. I
live in an existence in form both in human etheric forms and
surroundings such as in outline nature and man provide. Yet I can
be of them and not of them. I am not wedded to them or welded into
them. One's mind can govern and alter conditions in a manner not
possible on earth. That is, if one exerts oneself, makes an effort.
'At present I am at home again in the long ago of Wales. You
remember my break in life through your father's death. You may
recall how I went to live in London in a flat. All that period is
not my present environment. 'I am back again in my married life. It
is different, though in appearance to my perceptions it is the same
outer world of reason, order and sensible arrangements. But it is
different, humanly speaking. I am much with Christopher, who is a
darling, while your father pairs off with Daff. That is a new
experience to me. 'What is novel also is that I appear to be in a
kind of kindergarten and in my working hours I relive in memory
what earth time has snatched away from me. So in the study of
memory I do not remain at Cadoxton. I enter the film of past events
and make excursions into different times in my past earth life so
as to assimilate it. The scripts are essentially an afterlife
memoir of Winifred Coombe Tennant; they provide a fascinating
insight into her world beyond the grave and are essential reading
for anyone interested in psychical research and life after death.
In this sequel to The Road to Immortality, Geraldine Cummins
continues to relay messages from a deceased entity purporting to be
the eminent psychologist and psychical researcher, F. W. H. Myers.
In her previous book Myers spoke about the states of being we find
ourselves after physical death, and now he expands on these themes
explaining how these states are an accumulation of our thoughts,
memories, and actions - a made up world if you like, made by us - a
Plane of Illusion. Here, we create our own Hell, our own Purgatory,
and our own Paradise, not some judgmental God in a white robe. As
Myers points out: "Out of the memories of earth the soul creates
his environment, builds, through his imagination, the special
dream, the primal object of his appetites or desires during this
state of Illusion." Like a parent guiding a child, Myers doesn't
judge, but he urges us to consider a life apart from gold - a life
without materialism. He talks extensively about reincarnation,
judgment, the family group, and in particular, the seven planes of
existence; seven speeds of vibration, the seven so-called-realities
that most of us will experience before we pass into timelessness,
Eternity, Heaven, Nirvana - call it what you will. On Jesus, he has
this to say: "Jesus of Nazareth was Son of God because He descended
to earth, and, rising again, passed through all the seven levels of
consciousness, attaining without let or hindrance, to union with
the Creator. It was not necessary for Him to exist on these various
planes within the various worlds created by the journeying souls.
For already He was very God, already He had that spiritual power
which enabled Him to hold all the universes within the grasp of His
consciousness, within an all-embracing love."
The Road to Immortality provides the reader with a sublime vision
of the afterlife, allegedly communicated from 'other side' by the
eminent psychologist and psychic researcher Frederic William Henry
Myers. Myers was one of the founders of the Society of Psychical
Research and he spent much of his life researching the survival of
consciousness, so it is not surprising that having passed away in
1901, if he found himself conscious of his surroundings, he would
try to communicate with his colleagues and loved ones still in the
flesh. According to a renowned automatic writing medium Geraldine
Cummins, this happened in the 1920's. Communicating through
Cummins, Myers stated: "We communicate an impression through the
inner mind of the medium. It receives the impression in a curious
way. It has to contribute to the body of the message; we furnish
the spirit of it. In other words, we send the thoughts and the
words usually in which they must be framed, but the actual letters
or spelling of the words is drawn from the medium's memory.
Sometimes we only send the thoughts and the medium's unconscious
mind clothes them in words." Discarnate messengers such as Silver
Birch have spoken about the group-soul and Myers went into great
detail about the subject. "When I was on earth, I belonged to a
group-soul, but its branches and the spirit - which might be
compared to the roots - were in the invisible," "Now, if you would
understand psychic evolution, this group-soul must be studied and
understood. For instance, it explains many of the difficulties that
people will assure you can be removed only by the doctrine of
reincarnation. You may think my statement frivolous, but the fact
that we do appear on earth to be paying for the sins of another
life is, in a certain sense, true. It is our life and yet not our
life. In other words, a soul belonging to the group of which I am a
part lived that previous life which built up for me the framework
of my earthly life, lived it before I had passed through the gates
of birth." Myers further explained that the group soul might
contain twenty souls, a hundred, or a thousand. "The number
varies," he said. "It is different for each man. But what the
Buddhist would call the karma I had brought with me from a previous
life is, very frequently, not that of my life, but of the life of a
soul that preceded me by many years on earth and left for me the
pattern which made my life. I, too, wove a pattern for another of
my group during my earthly career. Myers added that the Buddhist's
idea of rebirth, of man's continual return to earth, is but a
half-truth. "And often half a truth is more inaccurate than an
entire misstatement. I shall not live again on earth, but a new
soul, one who will join our group, will shortly enter into the
pattern or karma I have woven for him on earth." Myers likened the
soul to a spectator caught within the spell of some drama outside
of its actual life, perceiving all the consequences of acts, moods,
and thoughts of a kindred soul. He further pointed out that there
are an infinite variety of conditions in the invisible world and
that he made no claim to being infallible. He called it a "general
rule" based on what he had learned and experienced on the Other
Side.
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