The Spiritual Case Against Euthanasia

1) What all advocates of euthanasia and suicide do not know and what they should understand – indeed what all people, even non-advocates of euthanasia and suicide should know and understand as their opinions can easily change as circumstances and conditions change – is that the physical world and all aspects of existence in the physical world have been created by spirit solely for the purpose of spiritual development and evolution.

2) If it is true that spirit and the things and considerations of the spirit govern life - and should govern life - then it is also true that spirit and the things and considerations of the spirit govern death - and should govern death - because death is merely one aspect and one experience of life. Death is a part of life. It is part of the life experience and it can not and should not be separated from it. Yet it so often is – and it is the case that spirit and the things and considerations of the spirit are so often erroneously separated from death also. This, of course, is what happens when people contemplate or perform euthanasia. It seems to me that we just cannot remove spirit from any aspect of life and still have things as they spiritually should be.

If the power of the spirit could fail..........

The spirit guide Silver Birch once said:

"If the power of the spirit could fail, the earth would cease to spin on its axis and the seasons fail to follow one another in orderly sequence. If the power of the spirit could fail, the sun would cease to be a fiery orb and the moon fail to reflect its illumination. If the power of the spirit could fail, no seed would flower, no fruit would grow."
(The Philosophy of Silver Birch edited by Stella Storm)

In the above quote from Silver Birch, he indicates what the power of the spirit does and indicates the extent of the power of the spirit. The power of the spirit controls and regulates everything and all things animate and inaminate in the universe from the very smallest of things to the very largest of things. Silver Birch talks about how spirit controls and regulates everything in the universe from seeds to stars, but spirit, in addition, controls and regulates everything in the universe from atoms and sub-atomic particles to the very galaxies themselves. I would further add that: spirit creates, controls, regulates and maintains the universe and everything in the universe.

The Interconnection of Spirit, Soul, Mind and Body

We tend to spatially compartmentalize and pigeonhole the spirit, soul, mind and body but it is not really appropriate for us to do that. We conceive and see the spirit, the soul, the mind and the body as being separated and placed in their own little pigeonholes in different locations and connected by means of some kind of spiritual wires or fibre optic cables!

Yet the connection – or rather the interconnection - that exists is not in this manner because it is basically a non-spatial one. It is true that the physical body has physical/spatial connections – and must have because it is a physical construct – but the mind, soul and spirit are non-physical and therefore are not spatial. It is true that there is an interrelationship between body, mind, soul and spirit but we cannot have a spatial interrelationship when one of the components of the self is physical and the other three are non-physical and do not belong to the physical plane.

If you would like to gain an appreciation of how the non-spatial connection works, get yourself a pen and a piece of paper, and write and superimpose each of the four words: spirit, soul, mind and body one atop of the other on the same space on the page with the word, body, on top. This produces a situation whereby all four words occupy exactly the same space and they cannot be separated because they are one. Although you put the word, body, on top you cannot really tell which of the words is on top. We cannot tell which word is at the front, middle or back – and that is because there is no front, middle, or back here. We can have no front, middle or back when we have non-spatial relationships – though there may appear to be. If you can imagine that you have written the words, spirit, soul and mind in invisible ink and the word, body, in normal ink, then the word, body, will be the only word that you can see. The word, body, may appear to be at the forefront or on top but this is not so. It only appears to be so. It is actually one and indivisible with the other words on the page. The words spirit, soul and mind are there - and they are just as there as the word, body, it is just you can neither see nor perceive them - or rather it is difficult for them to be seen or perceived. It is only if you have the means to perceive them that you will know they are there. This is precisely the situation that occurs with the self. The body is the thing we perceive, while the mind, soul and spirit we do not usually perceive – yet they are real nevertheless and they can be perceived if the senses are appropriately developed.

All Energy in the Universe is Spirit Energy

Because spirit is everything and everything is spirit, all power and energy in the universe is spirit power and spirit energy, and all power and energy in the universe derive from, are created by, and exist because of spirit power and spirit energy. Thus everything in the universe is really just spirit energy. This is akin to yin-yang theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine which states that everything in the universe is different combinations and manifestations of yin and yang energy. In my opinion, this is true of all planes and worlds and of all animate and inanimate objects in these planes and worlds.

Spirit is Everything / In Spirit There is and can be no Separation

Spirit, is the universe. Spirit is all physical and non-physical animate and non-animate objects in the universe. Therefore, although we talk about the physical, mental, psychical, and spiritual worlds and planes, each – and all things pertaining to these worlds and planes - are really only different manifestations and ranges of spirit, spirit energy and spiritual vibrations.

Because spirit is the universe and all things in the universe this means that all beings and all living things, no matter whether they reside on the physical plane or on other spiritual planes, are all spirit beings. It also means that all physical, psychical and spiritual worlds and planes are all spiritual worlds and planes. They are all really just different manifestations and ranges of spiritual energy and spiritual vibrations. It is this commonality of and connection by spirit that make possible spiritual healing, spiritual communication and all spiritual phenomena.

Spirit law decrees that this commonality of, and connection by spirit cannot be sundered and this means that there is no, and can be no spiritual isolation and separation between spirit beings, inanimate objects and spirit worlds. If there were spiritual separation and spiritual disconnection between and within the animate and inanimate objects of this earth plane and other spiritual planes and other spiritual vibrations, spirit could not exert perfect control over the universe and all things in the universe. Obviously, spirit must be able to link and communicate perfectly in a spiritual way with things for it to have perfect intelligence about them and for it to exert perfect spiritual control over them.

If there were spiritual separation and spiritual disconnection, the spiritual healing that occurs through spiritual healers would not be possible because spiritual healing through spiritual healing mediums is an entirely spiritual process requiring the channelling of spiritual healing power: from spirit, through spirit, to spirit – i.e. from the higher spiritual vibrations through the spirit of the healer to the spirit of the patient. For spirit power to reach the patient in a spiritual way, a three-way spiritual connection and communication must exist.

Likewise, all other kinds of spiritual mediumship are also entirely spiritual processes involving the channelling of spirit power from the higher spiritual vibrations through the spirit of the medium. Therefore, if there were spiritual separation and spiritual disconnection, no spiritual mediumship of any kind would be possible.

A Definition of Good Healing

"Good healing is the things the self does, and good healing is the things that are done to the self perhaps by another person or persons or by some agency or agencies which help to maintain the self in, or restore the self to, a good, relatively good, or better state of balance, alignment, harmony, wholeness and health."

George Nicol

The Spiritual Internet

If you were to ask me to say in just a few words what the spiritual internet is I would say that: “The spiritual internet is that which allows spirit and makes it possible for spirit to do the things it does.”

If we had a good knowledge of spirit and spiritual truth; if we knew that spirit and the power of the spirit always operated in accordance with natural law; and if we knew what spirit does but did not know what allows, helps to explain and makes possible the things that spirit does we might be prompted to ask the following set of questions:

a) What is it that allows spirit to prevent chaos in the universe and in all things in the universe?
b) What is it that allows spirit to exert and maintain perfect control in the universe and to exert and maintain perfect control over all things in the universe?
c) We know that spirit is a perfect and infinite intelligence that has access to all knowledge, but what is it that allows spirit to have perfect information about everything in the universe and about all living things in the universe – right down to the smallest cell, atom and sub-atomic component?
d) What is it that allows spirit to be ubiquitous, all-knowing, all-feeling etc.?
e) What is it that allows spirit to communicate with everything in the universe and allows everything in the universe to communicate with spirit?
f) What is it that interconnects all animate and inanimate physical and non-physical objects and all parts of animate and inanimate physical and non-physical objects in the universe?
g) What is it that allows, explains and makes possible the natural spiritual phenomenon of spiritual healing?
h) What is it that allows, explains and makes possible all spiritual phenomena and all phenomena of the power of the spirit worked through human mediums?
i) What is it that explains and makes clairvoyance possible?
j) When spiritual healing is requested from spirit for the self, for others, for animals or other living things, what is it that allows spirit to perfectly spiritually diagnose a patient and to send a perfect spiritual healing treatment based on that diagnosis to the patient and to do so no matter where the patient is located in the physical universe?

Having posed the above set of questions we might hypothesize something like the spiritual internet which would allow us to provide answers for each and every one of these questions.

In this book, the spiritual internet is regarded as a hypothetical, infinite, perfect, spiritual and non-physical construct of spirit that interconnects all physical and non-physical animate and non-animate objects in the universe with themselves and with spirit. As the spiritual internet is a hypothetical construct it is not something that actually exists but it is something which very possibly could do. I believe the idea of the spiritual internet is a thing of reason, logic and common sense and I believe it provides a good explanation of how spirit does what it does.

The concept of the spiritual internet came to me around the turn of the 20th century and derives from the world wide computer internet that is in such common use today. The two networks, however, are analogous only in the loosest possible way. The computer internet itself is a very very pale shadow of the spiritual internet and bears only a passing resemblance to it. The spiritual internet, for instance, is perfect, limitless and universal. It has always existed and it will always exist. During the course of its existence it has only ever operated perfectly – and it will continue to only ever operate perfectly in the future. It cannot do otherwise because it is of the perfect and infallible spirit which is incapable of fault or failure. It is never and can never be offline like its physical counterpart. The internet on the other hand is an imperfect and limited earth spanning network which has only recently come into existence.

The spiritual internet is the ultimate network. It is the ultimate network for a number of reasons. Firstly, the spiritual internet connects and interconnects everything in the universe and does so perfectly because it is a creation of the infinite and perfect spirit. No other network can lay claim to connecting and interconnecting with everything in creation. Secondly, because the spiritual internet is spiritual and not physical it does not have the physical limitations that are imposed by and associated with time and space and so it operates instantaneously - and the power and communication that are sent and received through the spiritual internet are neither diminished or corrupted by distance because there is no distance involved with the spiritual internet. Also there is no limit to the quantity and quality of power that can be transmitted through the spiritual internet. Thirdly, as it is spiritual it is not subject to any kind of physical wear and tear - and because it is not subject to wear and tear its perfect structure can always remain perfect. Fourthly, the spiritual internet has always been in existence and it will always be in existence. It has always operated perfectly and it will always operate perfectly. No other network can possibly make such a claim. Let me just repeat and stress that the spiritual internet is spiritual and not physical in nature – and it is good that it is not physical because if it were it would be impossible for it to even operate, much less operate perfectly.

The perfect spiritual interconnection that the spiritual internet provides allows the infinite universal intelligence that is spirit to communicate with; exert, maintain control over; influence; receive information from; and to send spirit power to the universe and to all things in the universe. Is it not obvious that spirit can only do such things perfectly if it has the means of communicating and interconnecting perfectly? If the links supplied by the spiritual internet were imperfect in any way spirit communication and control would also be imperfect.

This perfect spiritual interconnection and spiritual network then is not just very important, it is all important.

As spirit demands perfection, and because spirit is perfect and incapable of creating imperfectly, the universe and all things in the universe have been created perfectly and created in such a way that spiritual separation within and between components of the spiritual network cannot be brought about by any means. It is well that spiritual separation cannot occur with an individual or with any other physical and non-physical animate or inanimate object because if it did so even for a fraction of a second their existence would instantly cease because spirit, which creates, gives and maintains life is not there. It is also well that the spiritual internet is not physical because if it were, separation within and between components of the spiritual network would frequently occur. The structure of the spiritual network would be so incredibly fragile that it could withstand virtually no physical wear and tear at all.

It is because of the spiritual internet and because there is no spiritual separation in the universe that makes it possible for spirit mediums – and theoretically for any person – to communicate with spirit and with people who have passed into spirit. It is this spiritual network that allows spirit beings on spiritual planes to communicate instantaneously with other spirit beings on the same and on other spiritual planes – including our earth plane. It is this spiritual organization that makes spiritual healing and the production of all other spiritual phenomena possible.

Incidentally, it is because of the spiritual internet and because there is no spiritual separation that makes clairvoyance and telepathy possible. You can see then that the spiritual internet and the perfect spiritual linkage that it provides not only allow communication between the physical, mental and spiritual planes but within the physical, mental and spiritual planes as well. The spiritual internet not only allows the above things to occur but it provides an explanation for them and in doing so helps to demystify them.

It is the contention in this book that everything in the universe, every animate and non-animate object in the physical world and in non-physical worlds are spirit – and are entirely spirit. We may have what are usually considered to be the physical, mental, psychical (and the spiritual), but these all derive from and are created by spirit. Each is really just a different manifestation and a different set of spiritual vibrations. Therefore, that which is usually considered to be the physical – including, of course, the physical body – is really one set of spiritual vibrations, while the mind and psyche are two other sets of spiritual vibrations on the infinite spiritual keyboard.

If there is no separation in spirit and if everything in the universe is spirit, it is not really correct to separate and compartmentalize the physical, mental, psychical and spiritual planes as I have done because to do so is to separate spirit, or rather to separate the different manifestations of spiritual vibrations. When we say then that spiritual linkage allows communication within and between the physical, mental, psychical and spiritual planes what we should really say is that the spiritual linkage supplied by the spiritual internet allows communications (and the transmission of power) within and between the spiritual vibrations that comprise the spiritual plane. What we must remember is that all energy in the universe is really spiritual energy and that all energy operates in the spiritual plane, which is really the only plane.

If the physical, mental and psychical all derive from and are created by spirit then the laws which are associated with each universe must also derive from and be creations of spirit. When we talk about things like the physical laws, what we have then is really just a subset of spiritual law – and because in spirit there can be no separation such laws cannot be separated or work in isolation from other laws. Physical law is like a law within a law which interacts harmoniously and in balance with other laws. No law can operate only in splendid isolation. What this means is that if people want to really understand how the universe works they will have to understand about spirit law and all the laws that are involved with it. They will certainly not be able to do that if all they know and all they concern themselves with are physical laws and physical processes.

As spirit is everything, spirit is the spiritual internet and the spiritual internet is spirit. Being spiritual, the spiritual internet is – and must be - imbued with all the qualities and attributes of the spirit that are covered in this book. As spirit is nature, which, of course, incorporates natural law, the phenomenon called the spiritual internet is also natural and operates – and can only operate – according to the dictates of nature and natural law. What the spiritual internet is then is a natural phenomenon of the spiritual kind. Such a statement may not sit too well with physical scientists but what all people should be aware of is that there are other energies and laws in the universe apart from the well documented and researched physical ones and this means that there are other phenomena in the universe apart from physical ones.

We now know that the spiritual internet allows the production of all natural spiritual phenomena which operate according to the dictates of natural law. We know that the spiritual internet itself is a natural phenomenon which also operates according to the dictates of natural law. We also know that spiritual phenomena and the spiritual internet provide great benefits from which we can profit greatly – if we want to. It makes sense to me then that if we would like to really profit from the above natural spiritual phenomena as we have profited from natural physical phenomena we will need to conduct research into their operation. We will certainly not know about natural processes if we deny them and do not use and investigate them.

Let me assure you that it is already well known that the best spiritual results and the best spiritual phenomena are produced through those people who co-operate and work well with spirit a great deal and who co-operate and work with great knowledge of spirit and the mechanics of spiritual phenomena. It is basically from and through such people that this knowledge comes to us. They are the experts and spiritual scientists and are the spiritual counterpart of physical scientists. Let me assure you though that you do not need to be a spiritual expert or a spiritual scientist to work with spirit because every human being has the ability to obtain spiritual results. This, too, is also well known in spiritual circles – and again it is the spiritual experts and experience that tell us that this is so. People – even very intelligent people - may not believe that that can be the truth but unless they have access to spiritual truth and have the means to interpret it their beliefs will and can have no foundation.

If they were not connected to spirit via the spiritual internet, that would not be possible, of course. The fact is everyone is already plugged into the spiritual network and they cannot be unplugged from it. They do not need to do anything to plug themselves into it. Yet being merely plugged into the spiritual network will not be enough to produce good spiritual results. If they want good spiritual results they will need to do what good spiritual mediums do – and that is to learn to use the spiritual internet much better and to learn how to prepare and how to co-operate with spiritual energies involved with that. I do not think I insult your reason, logic and common sense too much when I write that.