Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Here, I’d like to talk more about the fate of children who pass into spirit early in life. I know this is a difficult subject for a lot of people, but I think it helps to see that in the vast majority of cases, children who pass on early will thrive in the spiritual realms.

Their journey from life to ‘death’ is much more difficult for their parents than it is for them, and they experience a wonderful and joyous life in the fourth dimension that, if their parents could see, they’d be reassured that their child’s safe and enjoying their new lives.

It can be heartbreaking to fathom the idea of one’s child being gone, but hopefully, understanding that the place we go when we die is a very real and uplifting place will take some of the sting out of what’s otherwise a very unfortunate and devastating loss.

I’ll probably continue to write reports about the fate of children who pass into spirit, because I think it’s a very interesting subject that we’d all benefit from learning about.

I’ve always been interested in life after death; in what the realms beyond are like for the people who pass into them, and I’d imagine these realms are even more interesting to children, who are always filled with an unexplainable mysticism.

It’s been said that many children are linked with spirit until they’re about seven years old, at which time their consciousness is anchored more fully onto earth, and the children who tragically pass away before they reach this age might be familiar with their new homes.

I’d also imagine a lot of children try to contact their parents on earth, but one can’t receive messages from the other side if they aren’t opened up to the possibility that it exists. It certainly does, and as we’ll learn here, many children resume their growth and learning on the other side after they pass on.

Again, their passing’s only a dark and tragic event for the people they leave behind, and they’re able to thrive in the children’s sphere as they continue to grow and learn just as they did on earth. Nobody wants their child to leave them too soon, but it always helps to keep in mind that death isn’t the end of life.

Philip Gilbert tells us that some children evolve back into the original form they embodied before they came to earth.

“Some children at once evolve, soon after death, into fully developed spirits if they have lived before.” (1)

The immature astral body grows into maturity in the spirit realms, he tells us.

“If you have not gone through the complete earth cycle to maturity – 21 – you have not a fully matured astral body either – unless you are re-incarnated. The astral body continues to grow.” (2)

As Ethel Mclean tells us, whether or not one’s incarnate in a physical body, the astral body grows as usual.

“The business of staying children is much exaggerated by the spiritualists. You are a child for a while, growing an astral body, if you were a ‘new’ individuality on your first earth-trip and died young.

“If you are re-incarnated and have built an astral body, you soon pass into your real self if you die young, yet, to an extent, once into incarnation, the etheric body has to pass through the whole process of growth, even if the physical vehicle is destroyed.” (3)

Essentially, children continue to learn, grow and evolve in the spirit realms, even though they’re no longer incarnate on earth. Their growth and evolution probably proceed at a slower pace than they did on earth, because evolution’s very rapid on our planet for a lot of different reasons.

Whether or not they’re on this planet, however, children and adults will continue their learning in a higher sphere.

They’ll continue to learn important lessons related to the spiritual nature of their existence and the evolutionary progress they’re intended to make, and I’m sure a lot of children master certain spiritual capabilities they would’ve never been able to master on earth.

Learning certain concepts is probably much easier in the spirit realms than it is here on earth, and if one’s willing and open to doing or learning anything, they’ll eventually do it.

Children tend to be much more willing and enthusiastic than adults when it comes to learning, and something tells me there are masters in the fourth dimension who started their fourth-dimensional travels as children who passed away too soon.

It’s unfortunate, but it helped them master their spirituality. Their mastery probably enables them to help their parents and the rest of their family find a higher state of consciousness, and it’d be interesting to have one’s own child become their spiritual guide or mentor.

Claude Kelway-Bamber affirms that children grow into maturity in the fourth dimension. She also tells us that every child, no matter how neglected on earth, always has someone to care for them.

“You want to know something further about the children who come over? You remember at first you were quite surprised when I described your [deceased] brother John to you, and did not recognize him when I told you he was a grown-up man; you had always thought of him as still remaining a little child.

“He looks only about my age: of course in earth-life he would have been over forty. Here little ones grow up but never become old, for they have no cares and worries nor the pains of a material body to trouble them. Many women here care for these little ones.

“Some have left children on earth they loved; others, the childless, who love children, look after them. Every child, even if unwanted on earth, can find a loving mother here.” (4)

Since most children’s minds and hearts are open, Claude tells us, they can learn a lot in the fourth dimension.

“Many an earth-mother comes over at night when her body sleeps to see her baby, and though with her limited conscious mind she may think of it as an infant always, her spirit-mind knows the facts, as she will recognize when she herself comes here permanently.

“These children grow in soul and mind and body, which is just as strong and more substantial than an earth-body, for it is indestructible. They are all beautiful in varying degrees. They learn very quickly, for their minds are open: they have no consciousness that evil exists, so more readily absorb all they are taught here, and they very soon go on to the higher planes.” (5)

Their receptivity to higher teachings enables children to open up to lessons and insights most people on earth couldn’t touch, and I’m sure one of the biggest and most important things they learn is to travel as deep into the self as possible.

I’m sure children are taught meditation and various other important spiritual concepts in the fourth dimension, and again, they can use those teachings to better the lives of their loved ones on earth – even if their loved ones aren’t aware of their existence in spirit or the things they’re doing for them.

When their family passes into the fourth dimension, which we’ll all eventually do, they’ll have the love and assistance of a guide they would’ve never expected. They might expect to see their child after death, but I’m sure they don’t expect their child to be more spiritually developed than them.

I think most children are, however, and they use their newfound enlightenment to help uplift their family.

Footnotes:

1. Philip Gilbert through Alice Gilbert, medium, Philip in Two Worlds. London: Andrew Dakers, 1948, 136.
2. Ibid., 230.
3. Lesley May, med., Letters from Mother. A Family Biography in Two Worlds. Ed. Edmund Bentley. London: Psychic Press, 1964, 36.
4. L. Kelway-Bamber, ed., Claude’s Book. New York: 1919. Downloaded from http://www.spiritwritings.com/claude1.pdf, 18 Feb. 2008, 53-5.
5. Loc. cit.

Concluded in Part 2 tomorrow.