I go to a spiritualist church because it is the closest religion I can find to my own personal beliefs but I have to admit that I find it a bit odd in some ways.
Firstly, at every service there is a medium who talks to people in the congregation and gives messages from their relatives or friends who have passed over. This is referred to as "evidence". I find it funny for this reason - Why should we need evidence/proof of the after life since the reason we are in a spiritualist church in the first place is because we already believe in it.
Also, surely the point of these messages is not to give proof of the spirit world but to aid or instruct us in some way with a view to living our lives more fruitfully and learning more. I find that the messages given are rarely of any 'spiritually educational/instructive' use.
In my life I tend to work directly with my guides and not my relatives who have passed over. I once asked the reason why messages given in church never come from guides and was told that guides cannot communicate well with this world because their vibration is too high so they use relatives from the 'summerlands' as go-betweens!
I can see that one reason for this use of family and loved ones is to make spiritualism more user-friendly or more palatable for the general public. But I don't understand why the church should be shy about educating people about spirit guides. After all, one of the seven principles is 'Eternal progress open to every human soul'.
I keep getting told things in church about my grandparents and great-grandparents. This is very interesting but I don't understand how it fits in with the spiritualist philosophy of re-incarnation. My great-grandfather died nearly 100 years ago and I would have thought that he would be re-incarnated again by now, or at least that he would have better things to do in the afterlife [like reviewing his life and learning from it] than to hang around in the summerlands to act as an interpreter for me every week.
What do you guys think?
Love and blessings all round,
Nelys.
