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After 25 years of construction, almost 60 years of research, Word Gems is my own treasure trove of insights discovered.
As I survey the concepts collected, I find myself astonished at the sublimity of this great ideas gallery.
Maybe you'll start your own collection. The wisdom you'll gain, said J.A. Langford, is "the only jewel you can carry beyond the grave".
more precious than all wealth
A library of wisdom is more precious than all wealth, and all desirable things cannot be compared to it. Plato
Of all human pursuits wisdom is the more perfect, the more sublime, the more useful, the more agreeable. Aquinas
Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow. Shakespeare
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There are 2100 documents on the site; if printed, 10,000 pages might ensue. Where to start, how to negotiate, this labyrinth?
To begin, a most salient feature, Word Gems acknowledges the validity of "the scientific evidence for the afterlife."
Twenty Nobel laureates - physics, chemistry, medicine - have critically examined this afterlife evidence and have accepted its reality. See a list on the "afterlife" page.
This research data supports the larger metaparadigm that consciousness, not matter, constitutes the undergirding of reality. Many of the early quantum-mechanics fathers, arguably, the greatest scientists of history, affirmed this tenet.
homepage: 100+ topic link-icons
You'll find this list of icons near the top of the homepage – from “Afterlife” to “Zen.” Virtually all 100+ are constructed with the same layout and format.
Click on any topic-icon, and it will open to:
(1) an introductory page with many quotations from a wide assortment of thinkers (not all with whom I agree). Near the top of this page, typically, one will find link-icons to an “Editor’s Report” or “Editor’s 1-Minute Essay” on the subject under review.
However, in a small minority of cases,
(2) the introductory page will immedately access a primary article with no bank of general quotations.
homepage: site search and index
These two “search boxes,” located just after the 100+ topics, are valuable resources. For example, if you’d like to know if a subject or phrase is addressed in the Word Gems library, this search function will scan all of the documents and provide a report. Further, the “index” box offers an alphabetical listing of every word on the site.
homepage: short essays and links to favorite items
Beneath the five books (featured with cover-artwork), to the bottom of the homepage, you’ll discover several featurettes. I would encourage you not to overlook these quick-read items as they represent, in my opinion, some of the best material on Word Gems; for example, the “What We Stay Alive For” writing.

the central theme of Word Gems
It’s on the masthead:
self-knowledge, authentic living, full humanity, continual awakening
Dostoevsky: “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
One of my books focuses specifically on how to access the "hidden riches" within:
However, "full humanity" is presented, in the main, via an emphasis on “the scientific evidence for the afterlife.” For example, the vast majority of the 100+ topic-icons are addressed in terms of how they relate to the afterlife information. This is so because, as with true love, the knowledge and reality of the next world changes everything.
With this in view, within the very large body of data concerning the afterlife, I've adopted a certain topic for special investigation: authentic romantic love, its nature and purpose, how it plays out on the other side. Many articles and four books speak to this vital subject:
which among the 100+ to read first
The “Afterlife” icon is probably an easy choice for first perusal. There, I’ve listed 80+ points of evidence; I could have listed many hundreds but have included only what I feel to be most significant.
After reading the “Afterlife” page, try one of my favorite writings – accessed by the “Summerland” icon. On that page, be sure to also read the “1-minute report” for this. It’s a collection of really wonderful information about daily life in our home-world.
While the scientific evidence for the afterlife takes the spotlight on Word Gems, several other topics are also very important in terms of errant information which, for many, will need to be "unlearned." For example, it's been said that systemic "guilt is a mind-virus," and rogue institutions have exploited this human weakness for psychological warfare and enslavement.
Where it's appropriate, I've posted the following inset box highlighting primary subjects for remediation:
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series; see the 8 link-icons below - each is best reviewed within a wide corpus of knowledge. My research, for nearly 60 years, attempts to get at what's real and true. Concerning priority of the topics, there's a song-lyric, "love changes everything" - so it is with the scientific evidence of the afterlife; its reality changes everything.
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The reality behind these topics, often, is not what we were told; they've been used to control and enslave people.
Editor's Essay: the primacy of Universal Consciousness and how a better understanding of it might create for us a natural religion, a natural wisdom.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Afterlife: 10 Things You Need to Know upon Arrival
500 tape-recorded messages from the other side
What's it like to live in the next world? What if we had…
no need to earn money
indestructible bodies, better than Superboy
perfect health without eating or resting
free housing of our choice
really good friends, just like us, confidantes, like new close family members, who want the same thing from life
access to any school, university or mentor to learn anything; such that, if one is very diligent, after a great many years of study and training, one might become as proficient, or more so, in one's chosen field, as anyone in history
perfect summer weather all the time (or weather of your choice)
the ability to transport ourselves anywhere, at the speed of thought
no cleaning or repairs as all pristinely maintains itself
brain-power, enhanced ten times, a hundred times
total freedom to pursue happiness as we define it
the five senses augmented, ten times, a hundred times
no schedule if you don't want one, just lollygag on a beach, for years if that's your wish, as long as you want to, no one will say a word about it, or zip from one incredible activity to another, a full daytimer, every day, all day, no slowing down, no breaks if you don't want one, no sleeping, you don't get tired there
no Dear Leader surveilling and supervising, no cataloging and collecting data, no 'cookies' allowed, the total right to privacy and living anonymously, if that's what we wish
unlimited opportunities for personal growth; and helping the disadvantaged, ranging from pleasant interaction to heroic and dangerous service ('damn few'), with special training by the ancient teachers, the real movers and shakers of the universe
Think of how all this would utterly change both society and daily life from what we knew on Earth.
why inform yourself about the afterlife and what comes next
Much could be said here, and I’ve already said it in many articles; but, essentially, the more you know about where you’re going and what will happen when you leave this world, the more confident, the less afraid, you’ll be.
Fear, confusion, and errant expectations cause people to stumble with unsettled mind, or panic, when they cross over.
Actually, the necessity for information here is a little more intense.
no such thing as an eternal burning hell, but there could be a temporary time-out
Testimonies from the other side inform us that 75% of those transitioning will spend at least a short time in a dark place.
However, let us not be troubled. If this should happen to any of us, not to worry, it's temporary, we can leave the same day, if we want to. Education, not punishment, is the operative dynamic -- see Sensibility: 1-Minute.
We are encouraged to presently avoid the hubristic self-delusion, “I’ll live one life at a time and deal with that later.” This becomes a formula for failure, and worse.
in reality, there's always only one life, one seamless eternal life, and it begins this moment
If one were planning a first trip to Paris, it would be wise to inform oneself beforehand. And we invest a minimum of 12 years of schooling before embarking upon adulthood; 12 years of prep for a mere temporary mortal life soon fleeing from us.
But then, for many, cavalierly presuming to enter our permanent home-world, an eternal world, from which there is no return, without so much as a hip-pocket travel brochure.
This kind of purposeful ignorance causes many to stumble upon the shores of what-comes-next in a confused and fearful state of mind, which, for some, could last a long time until one finds one's bearings.
For almost all of us, it’s not what you think over there, it’s not what you were told.
what a difference one missed heartbeat will make
Rogue institutions of the Earth, posturing self-ordained authority, for millennia, have merchandized, psychologically enslaved, the masses by the fear of death.

surprising to many, the Church has absolutely no say over there about anything
Eventually, or immediately, upon transition, we will find ourselves living in the "real world", Summerland - a humanistic, educationally progressive, personal-freedom focused, not a religious but spiritual, social order.
The Church, nor any ecclesiastical unit, has absolutely no say over there -- had we eyes to have seen it, it never had any authority in this world, either;
moreover, there is no in-your-face or visible governmental or political structure of any kind in Summerland, as each individual is free to pursue his or her own educational development, particular path, and privately-defined happiness.
a society for the individual, not the faceless group
Summerland civilization, unlike that of the Earth, is not built around power-structures of the group, the collective, the institution, nor society at-large, but, instead, emphasizes the sacred individual, the growth potentialities, the unique definitions of dreams-come-true, of each person. Welcome to your home-world.
God has no favorite kids
God does not preside over a two-tiered family, the favored and the tolerated, or maybe the rejected and disowned. This never happens, not even in the hardest-core cases. God never gives up on anyone.
There are no plebeians, no great unwashed, no fly-over country, no proletariat, no trailer trash, no riffraff and rabble, no despised second-class Cinderellas in the family of God.

Each of us is equal, each with the very same awesome human potential, which, in its emulation of godhood, as the ancients assert, knows no discernible upper limit.
Symbolized by this splendiferous young lady, it’s apotheosis all the way for us. No one can say a word against you, and, like the old Buddy Holly song, no one will put a stop to you tonight.
No one, anywhere in the food-chain, has the power to do that (only we ourselves can set ourselves back).

In Summerland, the interests of the individual are never sacrificed for the collective; gone is the "national security" state of the power-grabbing elites. There is no "greater good" for which we must sacrifice certain individuals. This could never happen over there.
George Orwell, Animal Farm: "We pigs ... are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples... All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
Each person, each son or daughter, is the center of God's undivided affection. Each becomes the veritable locus of the universe's life and purpose. No one is left out, marginalized or loved less, no one disenfranchised. Everything, all of creation, in a very real sense, was made just for you.
God has no favorite kids, as all inequities and injustices of the Earth-mission will be swallowed up, transformed into, an unyielding fairness, even-handedness, total impartiality.
2.0 software upgrade of reality
It's a solid world there, its inhabitants enjoying solid bodies, walking on solid ground, living in solid houses. No wispy ethereal existence.
Whatever good thing you want, you can have it over there.
Further, it's said that our lives in the home-world will be "more real", even, "more physical", because our sensibilities will be greatly enhanced; the result of which, we will see and hear much more, powers of touch, smell, and taste will be vastly augmented.
This upgrade means that our ability to enjoy and delight in the Summerland environment, and our own lives, will be super-charged.
which one is the real world and the real life
Moreover, the next world is "more real" and solid also in the sense that everything over there is permanent, never decays, always in a brand-new condition, never fades away (unless we want to replace an item with something else). It is the Earth-world that is "passing away," runs down, falls into disrepair, where there is loss and sorrow from losing what we love. This never, ever happens over there.
Summerland is a perfected counterpart of the Earth, the upgraded 2.0 software version (the graphics are awesome, as the kids say), the original blueprint and mould, containing all good things of the Earth-plane, plus many enthrallments unknown on our planet.
it's our first chance at happiness, not a 'second chance'
In Summerland, properly negotiated, we enjoy a fresh start to just about everything. It's not really a "second chance" but our "first chance," as this world was not meant to "work" but was designed for something else.
don't worry, you haven't lost out, you've not yet had your first real chance at happiness
Again, to emphasize, there is no good thing here on the Earth which is not available in "the real world" - that's why they call it the real world. What we have here is just the echo, the mere tarnished image, the pale black-and-white, the disposable practice turn that "didn't count," the kindergarten play with paper hats, the walk-through mock fire-drill.
People worry, "if I don't get to experience or have such-and-such during this life, then I'll never find my heart's desire." Absolutely and totally not true. We haven't even gotten onto the varsity playing field yet. We haven't even started.

'like a cartoon'
Editor’s note: Mortal eyes can view only a very tiny sliver of the electro-magnetic spectrum, what we call visible light. We see so little of what’s around us that Dr. Dean Radin said our perception of the world “is like a cartoon,” mere caricature, so paltry and diminished, compared to “what is.”
Part of the brain’s function right now is to filter out 99+% of what could be accessed, such that, our senses receive, Radin said, only "one trillionth" of what might be accessed; and so, yes, "like a cartoon."
The unenlightened mind has no idea what's really out there, utterly cloaked by our extremely toned-down five senses.

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In Summerland we'll find birds in trees and flowers in gardens, all of nature in exquisite harmony and proportion, a grand symphonic mutualism, a perfect balance and order of symbiotic ecosystems;

there are universities and small farms, hide-away cottages and palatial mansions; concerts and theatrical productions; white-sand beaches for lollygagging and mountain trails for hiking; music conservatories, schools and colleges of every kind;
you, yourself, can be the greatest success story ever known, but ya gotta wanna
- and, available to any willing student, a personal mentorship by the great musicians, artists, scientists, writers, poets, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers; and for those who missed out on education during the Earth mission, be well encouraged, do not judge yourself second-class, for one can begin with primary-school material and, step by step, build oneself up to PhD level and far, far beyond; it's all there for you - if you're willing, if you have the vision, fortitude, and desire - it's there for you to become anything you want, any good thing imagination allows, limited only by personal resolve; the ancient Spirit-Guide Abu put it this way: "you have the horses," meaning, you yourself control the process, you have unlimited untapped godlike powers lying dormant, and teachers stand ready to aid you, but what you make of yourself is up to you, no one can do this for you, and no one can stand in your way, but ya gotta wanna -
libraries and museums; houseboats and painted-desert retreats - and if you want a luxury tree-house atop a rain-forest's canopy, you can have that, too, even if you use it only a few times a year;

public annual jubilee-festivals and private discussions with your best friend in your living room as you share a drink by a fireplace; art galleries and symphony orchestras; opportunities for far-flung adventure-exploration in the cosmos and secluded oases for quiet meditation; visiting august dignitaries sharing knowledge of more advanced realms and programs of heroic service just for the stalwart of heart ("damn few"); scientific research and poetry readings;

reunion with lost beloved pets and therapeutic aid to once-abused animals; close friends and relatives getting together for backyard parties; proto-Twin Soul couples attending classes to learn about eternal love and marriage with a view toward having children of their own;

gourmet cooking just for fun, eating out, with death-by-chocolate desserts and fizzy drinks (we don't need to eat to survive in Summerland, our bodies are indestructible, but people eat and drink socially, for the pleasure of it, and no worries about calorie counting);

on-the-job training to work as missionary-assistants in the Dark Realms, primary-school teachers, surrogate mothers for orphans, counselors to aid in finding the 'true self,' every kind of endeavor to serve the disadvantaged; and, as one progresses in one’s chosen field, a day will come when “upper management” will ask if you’d like to enter a leadership position and organize your own program.

It's a normal life for us to do normal things and lead normal real lives. It's where you get to do all the things you missed out on during your terra-mission; it's where you recover yourself, and all of your broken dreams.
We will find Summerland to be not only the great healer but the great leveler, the grand reification of "the first will be last and the last will be first," a domain where fairness and equity finally rule; a strict meritocracy, such that, what we are, on the deep inside, what we've made of ourselves, is plainly revealed to all in one's energy-aura; no more deceptive smiles for the cameras, instead, the ultra-advanced there are the embodiment of total sincerity, no empire-building, no role playing, no posturing as benefactor while skimming the cream, "what you see is what you get", and always on your side.
Editor's note: This kind of talk of being "plainly revealed" can make people nervous, because what about those hidden skeletons in the closet we never speak of? well, that's normal, every human being has made mistakes, but here's the good news - everyone can change, everyone, with dedicated effort, no matter one's checkered past, might not merely do better but rise to the highest heights of development over there. How high is that? - you'd be surprised.
Even those who lost the most here on Earth will be made whole with a brand new level playing field. Recipients of gain will include those oppressed by Earth's power-mad upper class; also elevated are those who died young due to illness and, especially, the helpless children killed by pedophile secret societies and sex-slave traders;
the barbarities of 'the respectable'
plus, not to forget, the atrocities of “the respectable” - the aborted infants, murdered in the womb, those innocent scraps of human life, the slain tender lambs sacrificed upon altars of hedonism, venery, expediency; merchandized and marked down by a godless materialistic society; cavalierly, and horrifically, deemed as mere rubbish and refuse.

All this will be put right, no victim will lose out, with perpetrators called to strict accountability, and restitution, for perverse definitions of "choice".
To those who lived large at the expense of others, disregarded and despised the rights of others, those who haughtily lie and smirk before cameras, buckle-up buttercup, the real world is always but a moment away. There will be many who'd been hoping for total lights out to escape consequences for criminal actions.
Editor’s note: Just because it's possible for one to leave the “sewer pit” the very same day, this does not mean that accountability will go begging. First, it's extremely unlikely that hard-core politician-criminal types, or their rabid followers, will choose to leave the same day. That would require more humility than they’re accustomed to. But, even if they do, or when they do, a long process of difficult repentance and restitution lies ahead. They might not have to live in a sewer pit, but that’s the end of the good news. There is the principle of working off every “penny’s worth of debt” owed. Owed to whom? – their victims, their own higher selves, and to society at large. This could take years, and decades, of suffering. No one, none of us, gets away with the smallest infraction. It’s all recorded on our spirits, and we cannot progress until we ourselves have “settled our account.” There is much discussion of this on Word Gems, but a good place to start is HERE.
All disenfranchised entities will enjoy restoration of all lost opportunities for life and love, education and development; all to regain forfeited, or extorted, health and well-being, with babies and early-exit children growing up in Summerland to physical maturity and mental prowess. All to find themselves totally repaired.
sainthood not required
One need not be a saint to enter Summerland. Imperfections due to weakness or honest mistake are normal and, actually, no big deal. Just do your best, don't violate your conscience, make sure your intentions are above-board, keep your spirit open and willing to learn, avoid fear-and-guilt based religion, help others as you can, live as decently as possible, and this will be enough to begin.
You're good to go now, with no particular belief-system or creedal assent mandated; even well-motivated atheists go to Summerland - yes, we know, that's not what you've heard, but those who preach otherwise have a date with reality.

intentions rule
Ones who've made honest mistakes, with good intentions, will have no problem over there, but those who perpetrate atrocity with design, the cunning Dear Leaders who smile and smile for cameras, the totalitarians who maliciously deprive another human being of life or any personal freedom - or those who support the ringleaders as obedient, frothing cultish minions - will not yet be allowed into Summerland, but must first contemplate repentance in dark detention - at times referred to as "the rat cellar" or "the sewer pit." How long might this nightmare for them last? - it could be one afternoon or thousands of years of abject misery.
Editor's note: Why do I point this out again? There are hundreds of millions today who are so spiritually shallow as to be impressed with this kind of perversity.
Dr. William Barclay in his New Testament Words speaks of the Greek aselegeia, "the ugliest word in the list of NT sins." It is depth of depravity. Aselegeia describes "violence coupled with audacity," and used for "the spirit which knows no restraints." A man may commit a crime, but - in a sense, wisely, discreetly - often will attempt to hide his misdeed, but the person gripped by aselegeia sneeringly flaunts his maliciousness and "shocks public decency." This sounds like the latest interviews on today’s news.
Aselegeia doesn't have enough good sense to know when or how to be ashamed. Barclay: “Most men have enough decency left to hide their sin, but [one gripped in aselegeia] is long past that. He will be guilty of any outrageous conduct, and cares for nothing except to satisfy his desires... Aselegeia is a grim word. It is the wanton insolence lost to shame."
Those as Faust who have sold themselves to this degree of impropriety, along with their frothing followers, will find it difficult to avoid a place in the “sewer pit” with their name on it.
See more discussion on the “levels of consciousness” page.
from the Gospel of Thomas:
[Thomas said] "These sayings that you utter are laughable and ridiculous to the world, for they are misunderstood. How can we go forth and preach them, since the world does not respect us?"
[Jesus said] "I tell you the truth: whoever listens to what you have to say and turns away, or sneers, or smirks at these things, will be held in a cramped dark place... They will be imprisoned there..."

In the 1990s Mark Macy was part of a science team which received electronic communications from Summerland, including photos and recorded messages.
see Mark’s page in the afterlife report (item #40)

Mark Macy, an acquaintance of mine, a great guy
Mark's team asked scientists on the other side whether the soul of a child enters as soon as the cell has developed in the woman’s body. Swejen Salter, in the next world, replied:
Yes, at the moment the body disappears here and the conception has taken place on Earth, the soul has entered the cell.
Anne de Guigné (pronounced “geenyay”) was a remarkable French girl who died in 1922 at age 11. Today in the spirit-world she is head of “The Group to Protect Newborn Life.”
Mark says that this portrait of Anne was produced on the other side, "painted by spirit artists." It was "then delivered to a computer on Earth."

spirit-person Anne de Guigné
project leader, The Group to Protect Newborn Life
Anne also sent Mark’s associates a letter, received on two different electronic devices, unconnected to the internet.
sewer-green slime, lizards, rats, serpents, bats
The following is channeled information from the other side as reported in Heaven Revised by Eliza Bisbee Duffey. See the entire quotation on the “sensibility” page.
A missionary Spirit Guide is sent to the Dark Realms to help a woman trapped there. The account paints a forbidding scene, the hideousness of the environment, pools of foul-smelling sewer-green slime, overrun by lizards, rats, serpents, bats, “and all sorts of noisome creatures.”
The Guide finds the frantic, fear-crazed woman. It seems she had been there for a long time. In the course of the rescue, however, it was brought to light that she had killed her own babies with abortion.
However, this was not a case of a young girl, frightened and distraught, having made a mistake under panic of the moment. Instead, she had heartlessly smirked about it, thought it a joke, didn't even feel shame. But, in her own sorrowful penitent words:
"I murdered my unborn babes one after another. I had not the excuse of shame which I wished to conceal. I was a fashionable woman, and I wanted my time to devote to society and my own amusement, and children would be in the way; so I murdered them.”
Editor's note: See the "levels of consciousness" article, discussing that the shameless, those who lack even a rudimentary hesitancy to commit barbarity, writhe on the very lowest level of spiritual awareness. Many of these are found today, in our world, as the hating, dark spirited members of political parties who sanction Dear Leader's approval of ruthless and vulgar policies.
Criminal leadership, posing as benefactor, smiling and smiling, cloaking the monster heart, is accustomed to getting away with sordid deeds. In the new world, however, what we are is plainly revealed to everyone by one's energy-aura, and so the old ways of “how can we fool’em today” will no longer work.
This can cause much frustration and rage for ones in dark detention. And now they’re mad and want to fight: “This should not be happening to me!”
In this resistance to “what is,” inhabitants of the Dark Realms sink and sink into greater depravity. How far might they descend? – a very long way.
Read more about it HERE.
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None of this is pleasant, and not meant to be, but, as we've said, people can leave the same day - but the worst cases choose to writhe in suffering there for a long time; they're too angry and too hard-hearted to admit their waywardness, that they'd been wrong.
They'd believed their own propaganda that there is no survival of consciousness, wanted to believe this in order to license rapacious ways; but when, to utmost dismay, it doesn't work out that way, that there's no "big goodbye" or final curtain, no such thing as death, only transition -- now they're really mad and want to fight.
This is what Jesus referred to as the "weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth": self-pity and outrage - "this should not be happening to me".
The following is channeled information via the mediumship of William W. Aber, the Psychic Research Society, as reported in “Beyond The Veil” (1902), compiled by J.H. Nixon. Testimonies were offered by numerous spirit-persons by means of full-form visible materialization.
“[Then] came [one] in the similitude of a young woman in garments white and glistening … speaking in a whisper, gave ... some of her experience:
a sincere but formerly-deluded woman speaks
‘My name is Stella. I came to the spirit world [as] a young woman. In the earth life I was what is there called a Christian. I was sincere and tried to be devout; and did live as nearly as I could to what I was taught…
'I hunted for my savior for a very long time but could not find him'
"Of course, [at my transition] I expected my Redeemer to meet me and conduct me to His Father's glittering golden throne, but, in all these years, I have not found that [religious] heaven, nor that golden throne, nor that [judging, angry] God who sitteth thereon, nor His only begotten Son at His right hand, nor … one wearing that crown of thorns, nor Him who is judge of the quick and the dead; for all of those things I hunted [a very long time] and made diligent inquiry, but found them not.
'a stupendous mythological idolatry'
"Was my whole religious life on earth a stupendous mythological idolatry? Surely it was, I began to conclude. But at last, after long fruitless search, I found friends, or rather, they found me, in this dark and forlorn condition [of ignorance and blindness, having been defrauded of the truth by a rapacious and merchandizing Church]; and I knew some of them, and they looked so bright and so happy!
not even spirits, thousands of years old, had ever met that savior
"And they told me that the wisest spirits they had ever met in the spirit world had never found that Savior, nor that [judging] God, nor that [mythological] heaven — but they had found conditions infinitely more glorious and beautiful, in which human beings were enjoying happiness and sweet peace of soul that neither pen nor tongue of mortals or immortals could fully portray to human comprehension.
'avoid the long struggle I had to endure' to overcome the mind-virus of 'I'm no good'
"Although my progress out of the conditions in which my [false] religion had placed me was slow, I am triumphantly above it now. And, in the hope that what I have been permitted to hint to you may reach many people of your world, and do them good, [I offer these things that my listeners might] avoid the long struggle I had [to endure] in order to reach [the truth of God, life as it really is]. I bid you, my dear friends of earth, good-night."
traditional views of the afterlife utterly torn down
There is no airy and wispy ghost-like existence over there, no apparition, wraith, or phantom, no floating on clouds, no chubby pink cherubs sailing by, no pearly gates, no streets paved with gold nor strewn with palm branches, no white-marble thrones, no harps (unless you happen to like harp music, then go knock yourself out), no crowns, no Saint Peter as doorkeeper, no "ruling ten cities," no winged messengers (but for carrier pigeons), no pagan concepts as blood sacrifices to propitiate a blood-thirsty god, no halos, no saints to listen to prayer-requests, no holy trinity "and don't even try to understand this mystery", no archangels, no such entities as Michael, Gabriel, or Raphael, no delegated-surrogate salvation, no honoring of cynical death-bed repentance and no last minute absolution allowing the depraved to skate lily-white into bliss on a loophole-technicality, no immorality of another paying for one's debts, no ruling religious class, no chosen, no special deals for favorites, no such thing as mortal sin, no empty-chanting supplications with beads, no legal-fiction sacraments, no holy days, no sabbaths, no such thing as reincarnation, no past lives, no karma, no pre-birth life, but, instead, one eternal life, always pointing forward, one eternal life, which will always be enough, no such thing as unrequited true love as those who are romantically meant for each other always find each other in due time, no such thing as joining any fevered two in so-called marriage by means of magic word, magic hand-sign, with notarized signed document but only soul-connections, no reigning goddess of heaven as de facto power behind the throne, no such thing as a harsh angry judging god, no holy water, no sacred shrines, no genuflections, no patron saints with magic wand, no single-gendered deity as male, no hell-fire, no society of the damned, no eternal punishment - or punishment of any kind, only education and opportunity of renewal and healing for all - no prayers for the dead as lobbying a venal god for mercy, no impenetrable doctrines you're not meant to understand but only believe, no church-going and no priests / ministers / rabbis nor any robed holier-than-thou (at least, not in the sane neighborhoods), no exultation of mindless belief-as-willpower at the expense of rational thought, no infallible holy books and no infallible one-true doctrines, no apostles, no evangelists, no pastors, no deacons, no top-down hierarchical inspiration, no ostensible in-your-face government of any kind (not in the good neighborhoods), no millennium, no second coming, no waiting in the graves, no seventh trump, no delay to receive one’s eternal spirit-body, no devil, no demons, no materialistic philosophy of external deity and external salvation, no tithing, no fasting, no rituals of any kind, no psalm-singing, no holy mountains, no beatific vision to hold in thrall, no self-serving prayer as "inform the aloof deity then ask for a favor," no such thing as holy relics, holy medals, no holy pictures, no holy music, no lotus positions, no outstretched-upturned hands, no chanting of 'om', no such thing as a worship service (as if God were so insecure and narcissistic as to need constant stroking), no round-the-clock groveling and flattery called praise and veneration, no hallelujahs, no hosannas. We could go on.
We must put away all this darkness, the empty godtalk, the pious prevarication, the mind-virus of "I'm no good," the sterile formulaic and ritualistic path to God, this farce and charade, this draconian mythology, this patent error and propaganda - which misrepresents authentic spirituality and the real God - a gross deception, fueled by the fear of death, imposed upon us, for centuries, by Despotic Ecclesia with its agenda of power-and-control over the hapless masses. In Summerland, all this parody and fake-news is finally over.
Editor’s note: The question will be asked, if there’s none of this and none of that over there, what do they do – in the sane neighborhoods -- to seek for God?
The answer centers about aligning one’s mind with the Great Spirit. This alignment constitutes true religion, the essence of true spirituality, all without rituals, authorities, or any externals. This is a large subject, with introductions found here and here.
This concept was introduced in the New Testament by words of Jesus, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.”
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The following is channeled information via the mediumship of William W. Aber, the Psychic Research Society, as reported in “Beyond The Veil” (1902), compiled by J.H. Nixon. Testimonies were offered by numerous spirit-persons by means of full-form visible materialization. A visiting spirit-person speaks:
vast numbers manipulated by the fear-mongering religions of the world
"Good-evening, friends… I am meeting cases every day, every hour, of troubled souls about their false religion, and these cases come here in such great numbers… I met a friend — I call him a friend… I met this friend who had been taught to believe in that [judging angry] God when he was on earth… but also to believe in the whole train of the usual theological concomitants…
deceived by 'holy' books filled with error
"[I said to the new friend] ‘When you were on earth you were taught [in your so-called 'holy' books] of Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, whom God had prepared from before the foundation of the world as a savior of the world …
the 'awfully mistaught,' infected with mind-virus, a systemic guilt, whispering 'I'm no good'
"'And you come here among us looking for that God, expecting to find such an one. And for that Jesus [or a queen of heaven]. But, my friend, you see now that you have been awfully mistaught about the whole affair… And you find not your God nor your Jesus, and you may search all eternity for your God and Savior … and eternally you will not find them, nor your devil, nor your hell, nor your heaven.
your whole life lived as 'one solid falsehood' led by dark 'superstition'
"'But you will find that your whole life on earth was lived as one solid falsehood… You come to us, and we are called upon to teach you anew of the God, the heaven, the hell; and to lead you out of that darksome superstition into the light of truth and eternal liberty.'
'this great festering theological delusion'
"And we meet many thousands like this one, wandering about in search of their Jesus and never finding him… And I am determined to teach your world, so far as I am able, of this great festering theological delusion."
millions held in bondage to false teachings by the Great Rogue Church - whatever bold statements we make here do not go far enough
[Another visiting spirit-person adds] “As vividly as he has set out the truth, yet it would be hard to present [or overstate] the far-reaching consequences of the false ecclesiasticisms of your world. And how common orthodox religious teaching of your world holds the souls of millions in bondage and sends them to spirit life in undeveloped conditions…
almost everything the church taught was untrue; for the hard-core religious, false doctrines will be unlearned in dark detention
"[we] find that those victims of the false teachings are left in lower [dark] regions, for a time, to unlearn nearly all that they have been taught on earth.”
We will be introduced to life as it truly is, not as we learned from grandma, or in sunday school, or from the pulpit. Most new-arrivals will be utterly shocked and totally not ready for the real world.
My own father, via psychic-medium, communicated with me. He had believed in the illusion and idolatry of a merciful "queen of heaven" who would save him from an angry judging god. With despair, he admitted to having fallen prey to the propaganda, to the effect:
"This is nothing like I was told it would be. The Church made a fool of all of us with its false teachings."

Emily Dickinson:
I shall not feel at Home – I know –
I don’t like Paradise –
Because it’s Sunday – all the time…
Myself would run away
From Him – and Holy Ghost – and All –
But there’s the “Judgment Day”!
But, allow me to allay the misgivings of one of my favorite poets. Emily need not fear a world (as a friend once lamented) of feeling far from home, lonely, and out of place; of insipid endless Sunday meetings and practiced smiles; nor a Judgment Day for non-participation. All of that dystopia is now set to final rest.
Instead, Summerland is a world of dreams come true, where all of one's secret wishes can safely come out, a world of no favorites, no chosen ones, no black lists and shunning for those who disagree, no special plea-bargains because of who you know, no fawned-over airhead celebrities, no redefining of common words to promote totalitarian agenda, no intimidating titles, no two-tiered justice system for the haves and have-nots, no blue-blood royalty, no visible government rule, no barriers to entry, no frocked old-boys-club, no Dear Leaders, no elect, no entitled ones, no racial supremacy, no exclusive fraternities, no slavery (bodily or psychological), no grasping elites skimming the cream, no hidden back-room deals nor blanket pardons, no magic hand-sign to release from sin, no clandestine power groups with their dark conspiratorial ways...
no more psychological warfare, the end of inculcation of guilt as mind-virus, designed to control you
no more pedophiles posturing as smiling benefactors, no child-trafficking by the better-than-you celebs, no fake-news as means to subvert, no murdering of babies then sanitizing this barbarity as "choice" and "women's health," no big sloppy grins canvassing for support, no political saviors making promises in exchange for allegiance, no dismantling rule-of-law for totalitarian aim, no empty-suit authority mouthing platitudes while secretly stealing from public coffers and working against the common good.
take the red pill

Take the red pill, said Morpheus, see the prison for your mind, find out how far you've fallen down the rabbit-hole.
Almost everything we were taught about life, reality, ultimate things, the future, God, the truth - is wrong.
Those who disagree will find themselves unceremoniously colliding with 'what is', a supernal cosmic order.
There is no such thing as 'my truth' and 'your truth' as the New Agers have it, but only faulty perceptions of the truth.
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The following is channeled information via the mediumship of William W. Aber, the Psychic Research Society, as reported in “The Rending Of The Veil” (1898), compiled by J.H. Nixon. Testimonies were offered by numerous spirit-persons by means of full-form visible materialization. A visiting afterlife entity asserts:
those over there call it the 'real world'
"Man progresses more rapidly mentally after he has thrown off the mortal body, for he then gives no thought to food, raiment, or shelter for the physical body. He can pursue any study he takes up, uninterrupted by petty cares of life...
"Friend, the spirit world is the real world, and your world is the unreal. The spirit world never decays or dies, while your world is steadily passing away.”

from Arthur Findlay’s The Way Of Life:
"[A] native of Glasgow [Scotland], now in that beautiful world, told her sister [via direct-voice medium John Sloan]...
'Oh, Jean, it is beautiful, and I have such a dear little cottage to stay in with a beautiful garden. I had never seen such a lovely garden before with glorious flowers of all colours, flowers that you never see on earth, and they do not fade. They bloom all the time, and, when you pick them, others just seem to come in their place. What beautiful perfumes they have, and, Jean, there is honeysuckle growing up at each side of my door, masses of it. I just wish you could see it, it is so lovely, but you will see it some day, dear. I will show it to you.'"

from Dr. Carl Wickland, “Gateway Of Understanding”:
“Shortly after passing from the physical life, a spirit, Mrs. H. R., sister of one of the members of our psychic circle, was brought to an understanding of her new condition while [speaking through trance-medium] Mrs. Wickland, and gave an enthusiastic description [in “real time”] of her [very] first spirit vision."
'Oh, look at that picture! A beautiful walk, with beautiful flowers on each side. There are verbenas and forget-me-nots as far as you can see, then yellow daisies with black centers, and in another row white shasta daisies that come up like a wall. There are lilies, maidenhair fern, all kinds of dahlias and honeysuckle. All these make the wall on each side of the road.
verbenas and shasta daisies
'Across the road is a gate which is made of three statues, a lady on each side and in the center another lady holding out her hands over the other two. The statue on one side is Love, on the other Truth, and the one holding out her hands is Wisdom - Wisdom gained through Love and Truth - the Understanding of Life beyond the Gateway. The gate is beautiful scroll work of roses. Now they open the gate and here is my sister, bringing beautiful flowers! She says, “Come with me to the everlasting home, where there is no sorrow, no sickness, only joy and happiness.” Such a beautiful home!'"
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On first introduction, many will say Summerland sounds too good to be true. You'll want to read the evidence for yourself. Many of the great scientists of history have reviewed this evidence and have accepted it as valid.
2100 documents, 10,000 pages: an attempt to encapsulate all of WG
If pressed to distill and epitomize the sum-and-substance of the entire WG site, I would venture this:
We are immortal beings, of vast unexpressed potential “with no discernible upper limit.” We are “sparks of God” and cannot die, sent to the Earth, one trip only, to individuate, to become persons in our own right, to "wake up" to inherent potential. We are to discover “God within” and live from that sacred center. We are to actualize, bring to the surface of personality, the "inner riches," to become who we truly are. As daughters and sons of God, our presently-dormant “made in the image” potentialities secret an astonishing array of embryonic abilities, eventually to blossom and unfold “superhero” ultra-advanced powers of mind and body. We are to learn how to become an open channel to God's energies, thereby enjoying a "private tutoring" from the divine parent.
This unveiling of the "true self," this "translucence," a shining through, "of the eternal splendor of the One" and of the Truth, prepares us for what comes next - a splendiferous mode of living in Summerland, our home-world, where one's unique and personalized definitions of happiness are reified; including, eternal romantic love with a darling companion, a perfectly matched Twin Soul, deliciously mirroring, complementing one's essential self.
We cannot deny to ourselves, but only delay, with suffering, that which God has planned for us to do and become. We postpone our joy by refusing to access the god-life within. This readily occurs when we fail to take responsibility for our own growth and, instead, surrender personal sovereignty to any external authority or power-structure, any “infallible” guru or purported inerrant way. The truth is a living thing, within us, as we are unalterably, indissolubly, linked to the Source of Life. As such, we do not need "saving" as Big Religion pontificates but only an opening of the eyes to the "factory-installed" inner riches.
Poets speak of our distorted vision, an abrogation of existential mandate, as "we feed on night, make inward bedlam and will not come out," a succumbing, in its many guises, to the fear of death; how few "would crawl out from under the obscure to stand defenseless in the open sunny air." All this, this surrogate living, this delusional capitulation to "I don't have enough" because "I am not enough," this repression and self-distraction, this "embedding oneself in other-power" -- anything that hinders, anything that misdirects, or, as so eloquently stated by Susana Wesley, "whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, however innocent it may seem in itself” – whatever diverts attention from sacred destiny and mandate for growth, becomes the essence of evil for us.
'they do not wish to return'
From “The Vital Message” (1919) by the great afterlife researcher, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of "Sherlock" fame:
“Now let me epitomise what these assertions [of and from the next world] are. They say that they are exceedingly happy, and that they do not wish to return. They are among the friends whom they had loved and lost, who meet them when they die and continue their careers together. They are very busy on all forms of congenial work. The world in which they find themselves is very much like that which they have quitted, but everything keyed to a higher octave. As in a higher octave the rhythm is the same, and the relation of notes to each other the same, but the total effect different…
“In its larger issues this happy life to come consists in the development of those gifts which we possess. There is action for the man of action, intellectual work for the thinker, artistic, literary, dramatic and religious [work] for those whose God-given powers lie that way. What we have both in brain and character we carry over with us… Let no woman mourn her lost beauty, and no man his lost strength or weakening brain. It all awaits them once more upon the other side. Nor is any deformity or bodily weakness there, for all is normal and at its best.”

postscript
The following is reproduced from the "Summerland" page:
'a perfectly normal world, a normal life packed with thrills'
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Afterlife testimony, via psychic-medium Geraldine Cummins, from a soldier killed in World War I: Cummins reported that "Maclean [the once-fallen soldier] said he was having an amazing time. He's found his own crowd [fellow soldiers] and they, including himself, were all so immensely relieved to find that they were alive and, not only that, were neither in [a depressing religious] heaven [with harps and chubby cherubs], nor in [a burning punitive] hell, nor in any other hot spot, but they were in a perfectly normal world, leading a [perfectly normal] life packed with thrills."
Editor's Essay: Summerland
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Editor's note: This photo “Earthrise” was taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Christmas Eve 1968 as they circumnavigated the Moon. It’s been called the “most influential photograph” of history. I adopted some of its mystical allure for my article “Earthrise Restatement of The Wedding Song" - one of my very favorite writings in the collection.
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