From Sylvia Browns book [THE OTHER SIDE AND BACK - a Psychics Guide to our World and Beyond] 

www.sylvia.org or at 408-379-7070

...I want to stress one other point...with a few exceptions, SUICIDE is not an option as a potential exit point. Suicide, most of the time, is a broken contract with ourselves, our own blueprints, and with God. That does not mean God condemns suicide victims to an eternal hell. There is no such thing and God would never do that. But as you saw in [The Dark Side] chapter, the long-term consequences for most suicides can last for too many lifetimes to be worth the momentary relief.



From Sylvias book: Suicides resulting from hopelessness and despair, I now know, go to the Holding Place. In fact, if you have ever talked to someone who had a near-death experience during a failed despair suicide attempt, they describe finding themselves in a place of OVERWHELMING sadness, not in pitch blackness but more as if they are[away from the light]. They are either surrounded by silence, or they are being mocked and scorned by the other spirits around them, with no compassion to be found anywhere. Yet that also means they still have the option to choose to join the dark entities in the blackness or to go to Gods unconditional love through the right door on the Other Side. Again, our prayers (earthbound you and me) can make all the difference.

Those suicides from despair and other grey entities who choose the Dark Side go directly back into utero (reincarnation) again, just as the dark entities do. Unlike dark entities, though, they will not be dark in their new incarnation. They will be grey (like tittering on a fence half in half off) again, with a new life and new chances to choose the light and overcome the hoplessness that defeated them the last time.


EXCERPT FROM TALKING TO HEAVEN A Mediums Message Of Life After Death by James Van Praagh 


As living individuals, we are made up of everything we have ever experienced in past lifetimes. In other words, our present lifetime is a compilation of past thoughts, actions, and deeds, positive or negative, that we have brought with us. Because of past karma, we find ourselves being reborn into certain family situations with a particular economic and social status that is necessary for our spiritual growth.

Before coming into an earthly incarnation, a soul prepares for its new life in the spiritual realms. It is common for a soul to return to a field of work in which it had previous lifetimes of interest or experience. Let us say a soul plans to experience earth life in the year 2021 as a medical professional. It will spend time with its guides and teachers perfecting necessary skills and will look into medical breakthroughs and technologies that will be available at that time. It may also come aware of new diseases or scourges that will affect humankind, and it will learn how to spread knowledge and love to everyone through its potential work on earth. As a soul becomes aware of this knowledge, it is integrated into a new personality. It is vital the soul understands the value of its participation in the future of humankind and how it will affect the lives of many others.

As spiritual beings, we are forever learning, developing, and evolving. We look at our future incarnation as sort of a blueprint of what we are attempting to accomplish and learn as we walk in the physical body. Therefore we pick out opportunities and experiences on the earth that are optimum for our spiritual growth and awareness. Our karma is intertwined with the timing of our next incarnation and our experience in it. 


Ultimately, we all are here to learn LOVE. It may sound simple, but by and large, it is not easy. Love has many aspects. One of the first lessons we are attempting to learn is a LOVE of self. Without love and awareness of self, we will not know how to love others. Once we have mastered such unconditional LOVE of self and others, we become enlightened and have respect for the natural law of cause and effect not because we want a better position in life but rather because we know it is the only way. By understanding this law, and by living it, we come to respect each others uniqueness. Then we can live in accordance with our fellow human beings for the betterment of all.



THE INCLINATION TOWARD SUICIDE

This earth is a place to experience elements and aspects of human condition we cannot experience anywhere else. It is a place of growth, and growth is never easy. Most people alive today are constantly challenged with worries of survival. We are bormbarded by financial, employment, emotional, or health concerns. Many times these worries are associated with feelings of self destruction. We think, [I cannot get through this or i would be better off dead.]

It is quite common for most people to feel suicidal at least once in their lives. However, this feeling comes and goes as situations change. The type of personality who is obsessed with the idea of self destruction and makes several attempts to end his or her life usually belongs to one of the following categories.

1). A person with a controlling personality, and who feels out of control with his situation.

2). A person who has a very negative self image. Who see themselves as worthless because they feel they contribute nothing to society. They think that the planet would be a better place without them.

3). Those who are terminally ill and do not want to go through the pain and suffering of dying.

4). Those who are mentally ill or have a biochemical imbalance.

It is understandable that because of certain feelings, circumstances, and beliefs, one could find a perfect rationale for doing away with ones life. However, from a spiritual point of view, it is not right. We each have a destiny to which we are born. Our karmic destiny may only last for one month, or thirty five years, or eighty years. Before we return to this earth, we fill ourselves with a strong desire for birth and physical experience, and we enter this world with a timing mechanism built into our psychic web. When life is cut short, our physical body ceases to exist, but we must understand that the [magnetic ties] we have to the earth are still active. These ties are severed only when we have completed our preordained time on the physical plane. For it is written, [Every season has its time.] 



WHEN A PERSON KILLS HIMSELF, one of the first things he realizes is that he is not dead. He has an overwhelming feeling of being heavy because the earth ties are still a part of his nature. In a way, we can say the soul is not totally free. The mortal personality dies, but not the immortal soul. The soul remains stuck between the physical world and the spiritual world alive but unable to communicate with loved ones or anyone else. The soul feels guilt, pain, and anguish for a life cut short. They learn of their destiny and how beneficial and meaningful their life would have been if they had stayed alive [remember movie ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE]. In the spiritual state, they become aware of why they had to go through the particular experiences that drove them to suicide. They also sense the grief and anger of those they left behind. The most unfortunate circumstance is that they find themselves in a limbo state. They are not able to go to the heaven worlds, nor are they able to return to the physical world. They are STUCK in a [NO MANS LAND] with the constant memory of their horrific act. They see their deaths over and over again. The suicide act becomes an endless loop, and it can be pretty gruesome. Eventually the time comes when they realize that they are actually dead to the physical plane.


THE SPIRITUAL VIEW OF SUICIDE

Behind any act there is a powerful force known as motive. It is the motive that is the determining factor, not only for suicide but for every action in our lives. Through motive comes action, and we create actions based on motives. As I have stated many times, there is a natural law of cause and effect. In other words, action is a direct result of motive.

In the case of the terminally ill or elderly persons, some are sick and want to save their families, time, money, and heartache by committing suicide. These persons are unaware of the spiritual side of their actions. Perhaps before coming into the physical plane, family members set up certain conditions and situations in order to work out their group karma. Or they needed to experience being of service to the one who is ill. Furthermore, some argue that assisted suicide is best it stops suffering and gives death some dignity. But who can play God? How do we know that a soul did not choose to go through the experience of a fatal illness in order to burn away karma? If we cut short someones natural time on earth we never know whether something valuable could have been learned or whether such an experience was necessary to reach a new spiritual plateau.

In any event, when suicide occurs a soul will have to go through and learn the experience AGAIN, having to return in another lifetime with the same or similar ailment. The ailment may not be as extreme as it was in a previous life because part of it has already been lived out. Usually, a soul has to exhaust a disease so it can never be affected by it again.


THERE ARE TWO EXCEPTIONS TO WRONGDOING OF SUICIDE:

1). If suicide is brought about by individuals who are mentally ill or have a biochemical imbalance. In such situations, these persons are not completely conscious of their decisions. When they pass over, they find themselves in sort of a [ward] where they are helped to heal their mental conditions and their soul nature is restored to its proper state.

2). The second exception to suicide is a soul who comes back to the physical world before its proper time and is not mature enough to handle the lessons it thought it could. Even though a soul thinks it has certain strength, it arrives on earth and does not feel comfortable. Those with this short coming have often said prior to their death words to the effect: [I do not fit in, or I do not think it is the right time for me.]

Because it is the nature of the soul to grow and learn, we always bring into our lives specific situations to overcome or balance out. If we realize that while on earth it is normal to experience physical, mental, or emotional pain, and suicide [does not] take away any of it, I believe there would be FEWER SUICIDES. We need to educate ourselves, and especially our young people, about the [wrongs] of suicide and accentuate the responsibility of living life fully.


EXCERPT FROM [THE UNQUIET DEAD]:

What Happens To People Who Commit Suicide?

From the work I have done, I find that some remain in the physical world as discarnates, CARRYING ALL THE HEAVY FEELINGS THEY EXPERIENCED MOMENTS BEFORE THEIR DEATHS. As long as they are earthbound, they feel exactly as they did prior to suicide.

Others who kill themselves go directly into the Light and the spirit world. The moment they float up from their lifeless bodies, they feel free and relieved of their depression, anguish or anger.

Those who go into the Light immediately and those who remain in the physical world ULTIMATELY have to face the same test situation: the choice of killing themselves or not. Like an exam, they either fail it again in another life, or pass it by not destroying themselves. There is no punishment, only education and other chances for spiritual growth.

If One Has Trouble [SEEING] the White Light when using the White Light technique for protection, is this preventing it from being effective?

NO, many of my patients do not [SEE] the White Light when they are strengthening there auras. Just imagining it is there or KNOWING it is there is enough.


EXCERPT FROM [EMBRACED BY THE LIGHT]: Please NOTE according to the author reincarnation does not exist hence, her near-death experience taught her that we only experience life once (make the best of it).

We must never consider suicide. This act will only cause us to lose opportunities for further development while here on earth. And AFTERWARDS, in reflecting back on these lost opportunities we would feel much pain and sorrow. It is important to remember, though, that God is the judge of each soul and the severity of each souls trials. Seek hope, in at least one positive act, and you may begin to see a glimmer of light that you have missed before. Despair is NEVER JUSTIFIED, BECAUSE IT IS NEVER NEEDED. We are here to learn, to experiment, to make mistakes. We do not need to judge ourselves harshly (note: we are our worst enemies because we criticize ourselves to such extremes and sometimes set our expectations to high); we just need to take life one step at a time, not worrying about other peoples judgment of us, nor measuring ourselves and be grateful for the things that help us grow. Our most severe challenges will one day reveal themselves to be our greatest teachers

Because I knew that all creation begins with thoughts, I also knew that the creation of sin, and of guilt, and of DESPAIR, and of HOPE, and of love all start within us. All HEALING comes from within. We can create our own spiral of despair, or we can create a trampoline of happiness and attainment. Our thoughts have TREMENDOUS power.

We are like babies crawling around, trying to learn how to use the forces within us. They are powerful forces and are governed by laws that will protect us from ourselves. But as we grow and seek the POSITIVE all around us, even the laws themselves will be REVEALED. We will be given all that we are prepared to receive.


EXCERPTS FROM [THE SPIRIT BOOK]

What are in general the effects of SUICIDE on the state of the spirit by whom it has been committed?

[The consequences of suicide vary in different cases, because the penalties it entails are always proportioned to the circumstances which, in each case, have led to its commission. The one PUNISHMENT which NONE can ESCAPE who have committed suicide is DISAPPOINTMENT; the rest of their punishment depends on circumstances. Some of those who have killed themselves expiate their fault at once; others do so in a new earthly life HARDER TO BEAR than the one whose course they have interrupted.]

In some cases the result of suicide is a sort of connection with terrestrial matter, from which they vainly endeavor to FREE themselves, that they may rise to HAPPIER WORLDS, access to which is DENIED them; in other cases it is the REGRET for having done something USELESS , and from which they have only reaped DISAPPOINTMENT.