The influence of prayers and good thoughts and feelings on people in spirit world
- This page is part of an ERW course: Internal Guidance - Prayer.
- By John Eagles, September 11, 2009.
Each of us has beloved ancestors, relatives and friends in the spiritual world. In a more ideal world it would be possible to live with them in a closeness similar to that between the members in a loving family on earth.
The people in spirit world are in all kind of situations. There are those who are so undeveloped that they do not even know anymore that they exist, they don't know they are human beings, they don't know their names, they cannot speak to anybody else. These kinds of spirits are at the lowest level of their development and it happens only to them who lived a completely materialistic life in total unawareness of the spiritual reality. This is one reason why atheism and materialism are such tragical ideologies.
Other spirits are at higher stages of development. But unless such spirits have very much developed their love for many people, their possibilities of travel are still limited. When someone has always lived for his work and career and never spent much love for his family, that person will find it very difficult when in spirit world to relate to family relatives on earth. People in spirit world generally continue to live the kind of life they have lived during their existence in a physical body. A person who mainly loved the house he once built may love that house more than his children and as long as his children and grandchildren live in that house, he will be with them, but when descendants move out from that house, they cannot anymore be visited by the ancestor who is bound to his house. We know about one such a kind of spiritual reality when we speak about so-called ghost houses.
These were some examples to make more clear in which situations spiritual people could be. And the question was how we can reach our ancestors, relatives and friends in the spiritual world. The answer is actually rather simple, in a sense. When someone in the physical world who is not near to you thinks strongly of you and sends you much love, you would generally sense that in some kind of way. People are different in how sensitive they are for this, but most people, even those who are not distinctly religious or spiritual, would feel this. How is this possible?
Our love and our feelings and thoughts transpass the world of the visible. Love, feelings, thoughts, especially when they are strong and also are having a clear direction towards an object, travel through the spiritual realms in the form of energy. We know that everything in the cosmos is in principle energy. Both the physical and the spiritual world are made out of love and energy. These worlds only differ in the degree and the way that this energy has been expressed into different forms and substance.
We can therefore reach each of our ancestors, relatives and friends when we send them good love and strong and clear thoughts and feelings of sympathy. We can be sure that whenever we pray for a person in spirit world, this will have influence and when our prayers and thoughts are elevated, this influence will be positive.
When you feel the love, thoughts and feelings of somebody in spirit world, does this mean that this person always is visiting you? In many cases this person could be with you, but it is also possible that this person in spirit world is not with you but only thinks of you in a loving way. What is true for our prayers and thoughts and feelings, that they can be sensed by people in spirit world even when they are not with us, is also true the other way around.
Does this always constitute a problem? Not necessarily. A spirit cannot be on two places at the same time. If a particular ancestor in spirit world has a mission to accomplish on another place and with another person, he or she might not be able to attend you directly always. But you can still keep a connection to that spirit person and give support to him or her through your prayers and other good conditions.
One reason that spirit people cannot always travel so easily from one place to another, visiting all their beloved descendants and friends living in the physical world, is that the spiritual world is still rather much a confused and messy place. Look at the many places on earth where people are committing sins all the time, for example in casinos or places of war. We cannot expect that the spiritual world of such places is clean and open and easily accessible for good spirits. When spirits have to travel to, from or through such places, it is very difficult for them.
