Eternal Life, Reincarnation and Past Lives

     Welcome to 2014!  This year has so many great things to behold.  As we look forward to this new year ahead of us, I've been asked to look backwards and talk a bit about past lives, reincarnation and eternal life.  Let me start off by saying, in no way do I claim to an expert on this subject.  Really, I believe I'm in the infant stages of learning about it all.  As many of you are, I'm hungry for knowledge on the subject.    I believe that when we seek knowledge about these things our best friend can be reading.  Choose as many authors as you can, read as much as you can, take hold of what resonates with you and throw the rest back.

    

     My firm belief is that Life on Earth, is "school".  We are here to learn lessons, repay karmic lessons, and experience as much as we possibly can.  This has been my take on the subject for a long while now.  First, I believe very strongly that we do have eternal life.  The eternal life that is referenced in the Bible along with other books on the subject.  Part of the way we have eternal life is that we incarnate on earth, and we live through a lifetime, we finish that lifetime and we then "die" or "passover" into the spirit/heavenly realm.  Birth here is death in that realm, and death here is birth into that one, hence we are eternal.  A quote that I read a long time ago really resonated with me on that subject, it was "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but we are spiritual beings having a human experience."  It lends a great definition for what and who we really are.  To understand things we have to use terms or words that we can understand in this dimension.  And there are so many things that there are no words to make us fully understand the other dimensions and realms that exist.  Many of you have probably heard of the Akashic Records.  The Akashic Records are the records for each soul and being and their lifetimes, their experiences, their karma.  It could also be called the The Book of Life, as it is referenced in the Bible.  

     A rather simplistic way that I've been shown how we do things in the spirit realm/heavenly dimension is that when we are planning an earthly lifetime, if you will, we sit down with what I will call guidance counselors, or an elders to go over what lessons we want to learn in the up coming lifetime.  Just like in high school, there are mandatory lessons/classes, and there are electives.  Patience is a mandatory lesson in every lifetime, and it comes up multiple times.  Some of the lessons include tolerance, service, and humility.  This is just to name a few.  I'm sure everyone is aware that the way we learn patience is to put in a position of having to wait for something.  When that lesson comes up we have a tendency to say, "hey, wait, I already learned that lesson. Can you hurry up and give me what I want now?"  Obviously, we haven't learned it as well as we may think we have.    How about tolerance, now this is one that can be learned in so many different ways.  You may come in being part of a group that hasn't been given that tolerance, it can be done through race, sexual orientation, disability, economic level.  There's no way I could possibly list all the ways that tolerance can come up in life lessons.  Service to others is another lesson.  You may learn it through having a child that has a disability, or a relative that gets a terminal illness, or by serving your country.  I believe you get the general idea here of how these things come up.  Just like school, if you don't get the lesson, pass it so to speak, you are going to repeat it.

    When you have something that keeps coming up, and you can't figure out why there is definitely a life lesson attached to it.  A good example of this is when a person keeps getting into abusive relationships.  Let's say there's a woman and she is with a guy who is an abuser, whether it's verbal abuse, emotional abuse, or physical abuse, there are a multitude of lessons that can be involved here.  I actually had a client that was in an abusive relationship for a number of years.  After a big altercation where she was choked she ended the relationship.  She was moving along very nicely and had, in fact, met a man who was wonderful to her.  For Valentine's he bought her an iPod and loaded it with love songs.  He treated like a true princess.  Shortly after Valentine's Day she ended the relationship and went back to the abuser.  In her mind and part of her being she was associating being loved with being abused.  The new guy wasn't abusing her, so therefore he couldn't really love her.  This association could have started anywhere.  It could have been from the relationship her parents had, or the one she had with her parents, it could have even come from a past lifetime.  In any event, her lesson here was to learn that abuse does not equal love.  Until she could break that definition and association in her mind then she would continue to look for love in abusive relationships.    This is a primary reason that when we have something that is going wrong in our life we need to look closely at it and determine what the lesson is, learn it, and be able to move onto the next one, and to happier times.

     These types of lessons bring us up to "soul mates".  I can't tell you the number of times I've had people ask me about when they will meet their "soul mate", or they think they have and it's just not working out the way they want it to.  We do not have just one "soul mate".  From everything I've been shown, and learned from others as well, is that we travel in soul groups.    In these soul groups we agree to learn certain lessons together.  Before we go to the romantic end of that, lets explore other parts of those soul agreements.  For instance, you have a drunk driver and he/she hits a car full of teenagers and kills them, or disables or maims them.  While the agreement is not in the forefront of the conscious mind, there was an agreement to go through this lesson or lessons for all involved.  There's also the possibility of it being attached to a karmic repayment.  If in a past life you were an abuser, you may come into your next life being on the other side of the abuse.  If you were the abuser this time you may be the abused.  

     Another area of question is the fact that souls do not have a sex.  In any given lifetime we choose what sex we will be.  Also the relationships can change around in lifetimes.  You may be the mother in one lifetime, a brother or sister in another or a friend.  A husband and wife in one lifetime maybe nothing more than friends in another.  When there has been a very strong connection when you come into contact in the current lifetime you will feel a very strong magnetic pull toward each other.  That magnetic pull may draw you close, and it can be one sided.  It's good to be mindful of that.  There are so many things that come into play, it would have been beneficial if we came with an instruction manuel.  But I guess that's the whole point, to learn the lessons.  As our souls get older, we may remember, or it's considered to be awakening.  It's not a matter of finding out who we are, but remembering who we are.  

      There are many authors on this subject.  Dr. Brian Weiss is one I would consider an expert on the subject.  He has written many books on the subject, offers guided meditation, or self hypnosis  CDs, as well as conducting workshops on the matter.  His first book is Many Masters Many Lives.  A few of the others books are Through Time Into Healing, Same Soul Different Body, Love is Eternal.  A meditation CD that I recommend frequently to my clients is Mirrors In Time.   Ian Stephenson has written Life Before Life, and Children Who Remember Previous Lives.  I also enjoyed Tom Shroder's book Old Souls.  If you are looking other books just do a search of past lives, reincarnation and the like, you will come up with an endless list.  Do your own research and enjoy the study.  Take what resonates with you and toss the rest back.  Most of all enter in with an open mind and heart.

     I've been asked that as a psychic medium am I able to see past lives for a person.  There are times when it will come up in a psychic reading, or a psychic medium reading.  When it comes up it is because the knowledge gained from it can help you currently.  If you are really interested in searching out knowledge of your past lives, you can do a past life regression.  Doing a regression can be very beneficial in helping learn and remember who you really are.

     When we remember we are here to learn life lessons, repay karma, and experience as much as we possibly can it gives a whole new perspective on eternal life, past lives, and soul mates.  Let us all remember and realize that the biggest lesson of all that we are here to learn is Unconditional Love.  Until next time, I send you Universal Love and Light.  

Questions Asked of Psychic Medium Pam Jenkins

Well, it's been while since we last blogged.  Lots has of things have been happening and many are searching for answers.  In this entry I've decided to answer a few questions that seem to be of interest to a number of people.  I want to preface this with saying these answers are based on what I've been shown, what I've been told, and my feelings that are combined with those things.  In no way do I ever want anyone to feel that I think I have all the answers.  It is my humble opinion that not one of us has all the answers.  Each of us is shown a piece of the puzzle, and that piece is taken into what our experiences are.  I read a book once that talked about when we are young our truth is like a seed that has been planted, and not yet sprouted, as we grow physically, emotionally, psychically, and spiritually that truth grows and expands much like a flower.  That flower cannot reach the peak of it's bloom until we have left this earth and then have the total picture.  So as much as I share here in the answers to these questions that have been posed to me, please understand, I want you to take what resonates with you, and just throw the rest back.  When a truth vibrates with you and then you understand it to be your truth, then you know it.  When it doesn't, then it is not your truth.  So these answers are my truth as I know it.

The first question that has been asked, and I have had this come up many times in many readings, Do our pets go to heaven?  Our pets are living breathing beings, they have souls, just as we do. When they die here on earth, they too, go into the heavenly realm.  They interact with us in heaven, and they try to bring messages through for us that they have left behind, as much as any human does.  They know we mourn their loss, and know that we grieve.  They don't speak when giving messages anymore than they speak human language here, but they bring through their personalities, they show things they have done here. Also there are psychics who specialize in animal communication, but they also come through to psychics and psychic mediums who do not specialize in it.  We have come to realize that our domesticated animals get the same illnesses that humans do.  They get cancer, heart disease, arthritis, leukemia, glaucoma, cataracts, and the like.  And these are just a few of the things that our animals can get.  They get these diseases much in the same ways that we do.  Any being that can suffer can also feel joy.  I've been shown any number of times an animal coming through for someone who is missing their companion.  No matter what the pet is, if you have loved it and cared for it, you will be able to be reunited in heaven, just as you can be with the humans family and friends that have gone there before you.  So if you have a reading and the psychic is bringing through one of your pets, listen and see if that loving personality isn't coming through to show you, yes, animals go to heaven, too.

     And now to the question of, Do people who commit suicide go to heaven?  There here we embark on a controversial subject. It has been taught that when people commit suicide they have sinned against God, and therefore will go straight to hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.  This is in complete contrast to what I've seen and been shown through the years in doing psychic medium readings for people who are survivors of suicide.  I've been shown repeatedly that they have two very specific "jobs" they do once they transition and get acclimated to the spirit realm.  When someone commits suicide they break a contract in life, but they haven't made it so they are going to a place of forever damnation.  First they are greeted by what I will call the "welcoming committee".  This doesn't mean they have a big arrival party, because as you can imagine if someone has committed suicide they are in a great deal of pain to begin with, they are already in a very dark place.  It take a bit of time to adjust, if you will.  Upon arrival rest is given. Once that rest period is over they walk through a life review of sorts, looking at what caused the pain to be so severe that they just didn't see any other way out.  And being at a different level of view, let's call it a 360 degree view versus 180, they can see all around it, they can now see there were other choices that could have been made to make what was being experienced a much different outcome.

     After this review, there are two primary jobs that they prepare for.  Each of these two jobs is experienced by people that commit suicide.  There is the job of being part of the welcoming team, or transition team for people that commit suicide.  In other words, just like they were greeted when they first arrived, they become greeters of others that have done the same thing, taking their own life, or are in some way responsible for their own death.  The job, which is somewhat more difficult, is to act as spirit guides for people that are contemplating suicide.  Sometimes these guides are able to get through to someone who is considering suicide, and of course, other times they are not.  The times they are not able to get through to try and talk the person out of it is because the person is in such pain and anguish that they cannot hear, or feel the guide that is trying to get through.  When people commit suicide they have often been battling with depression.  Depression is a very dark hole that is real to the person experiencing it, and it's very difficult to hear people that are alive and speaking to them, let alone being able to tune in and hear a spirit guide trying to stop them.  But there are times when the spirit guide is so strong they are successful, and that is sometimes accomplished by working with someone else that is involved in the person's life and can be guided to help them.  So, I will end this answer with saying, please understand that while they are not condemned to damnation, there is special work for them to do before they choose whether or not to incarnate on earth again to work through whatever broken contract they left unfinished.

     The next question I have been asked to address is, Do children grow up in heaven when they have passed as either a baby or a small child?  I can't say that I have a conclusive answer on this, but what when a child or baby comes to comfort that parent, they will show themselves so that the parent will recognize them, but at the same time it's a matter of the age of the soul, not the age of the child when they passed.  So they are able to bring things through for the person when have a psychic medium reading that will let the grieving parent know that they are okay, and that they came here for a specific purpose and that they accomplished that purpose in the short time that they lived.  While that doesn't take away the pain of the loss, it certainly can and does help heal some of it.  And again, know that you will again get to be with that soul, with that child, and you will see and know them.  It's a knowing on a soul level.  A reference that I have been given to use to put it in terms that we can understand, would be to watch the movie What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams.  Of course, there is the Hollywood aspect in the movie, but I've been told that this is a depiction that can help us understand how we will recognize those souls when we reach the spirit realm.
   
     So,  Do they miss us as much as we miss them?  Missing would be considered a negative emotion, and there are no negative emotions in the heavenly spirit realm.  The missing is on our part from the loss of that loved one that we so enjoyed their company, their time with us.  We miss being able to hear their voice, see their face, smell their scent.  There is no pain there, and missing is a sort of pain.  Our loved ones do try to comfort us by letting us know that they are still around.  If there has been a break in the relationship, or if some wrong has not been corrected or apologized in life, I have had a spirit come through to try to apologize or ask forgiveness for their part in it.  When forgiveness is given it heals not only them, but the person here.  That's not always something that the person here is ready to do, and it's in the timing of the person here, because the soul in spirit is usually ready to apologize.  They can see things from a perspective that they were unable to embrace while they were here on earth.   While they may not deserve forgiveness, that forgiveness gives the person here peace and solace, and helps to heal so that the cycle does not continue.

  And people want to know, When we communicate with our loved ones in spirit, are we keeping them from something?  We know things in linear time here on earth, and there is no such thing as linear time in the spirit realm.  Things are instantaneous and constant in the spirit realm.  In a moment they can be with us, and a moment later doing whatever work they need to do there in that realm.  Much like we have a life here, there is life there.  It's just not bogged down with the need for finances and other such trivial stuff.  It's truly about growth there, and it's solely about the soul, pun intended.  There's no way we can keep a soul from doing what they are needing to do. So worry not about your communication keeping them from being where they need to be, or doing what they need to do.  If they are communicating with you, or visiting with you, that's what they need to be doing in that moment.

     I thank you for reading the blog by a psychic medium who knows she doesn't have all the answers, but feels blessed to believe she has some of the answers that help people.  Take the answers that help you, and the ones that don't make sense to you, just throw them back.  I hope this blog helps you, and helps you heal any pain that you may be feeling from the loss of a loved one.  Know that they are not missing the events in your life, they can see all, and know all that you are experiencing.  If you have other questions you would like me to address in the blog in the future, please send an email to pam@heavencallingearth.com.  Take time to stop by the website, www.heavencallingearth.com.  For now, I send to each of you Universal Love and Light.www.heavencallingearth.com

Are the TV shows about Psychics and Mediums Accurate?

  Hello again to all my loyal friends, and fans.  A subject that has come up a number of times in the last few months is about televisions shows involving psychics or psychic mediums.  I've been asked if the ways things are shown is real or is it all made up.   The main purposes of my blog is educate those interested about psychics, psychic mediums, and all things associated with psychic readings and psychic medium readings.

   My earliest memory of psychics being on TV was Miss Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network, and then there was Dione Warwick and the Psychic Friends Network.  I don't know what your opinion may have been of those infomercials, but mine certainly weren't of a positive nature. Both were commercials and infomercials about call-in lines for psychic predictions, and psychic readings.  Of course, there were many jokes and generalizations about psychics and the work that they do.  This was not a good foundation for psychic phone readings to be based on.

  We've come a long way since that time, in both education about psychics.  As I have written before, not all are good, not all are bad.  And since the timing of Psychic Readers Network and Psychic Friends Network, there have been several psychic mediums who have done television shows that has done as much good for the reputation of the work, as those first two did to damage it.  John Edward's show, Crossing Over, and then there was Beyond with James Van Praagh.  People were able to watch members of the audiences get readings from these two mediums and see how connecting with their loved ones worked.  Not only were the members of the audiences brought to tears, but television audiences wept as well, hoping to possibly to be able to make that connection with their own loved ones.  

  And then came the television series that were put on.  They were put on as entertainment, but my belief is that they also helped to educate people.  Keeping in mind that there is, of course, the "Hollywood" aspect of the show, and there is also a foundation, if you will, of truth in some of it.  And how much reality there was in the show depended on which show you might have been watching.  Let me start with Charmed, which was a show about three sisters who got their powers back after the death of their grandmother, "Grams."  Phoebe was the psychic sister, who was able to see things that were yet to come.  She had the gift of precognition, which means to see things before they happen.  The way in which her precognitive abilities were shown is by her touching someone or something and seeing the impending trouble.  Because the premise of the show was that the girls were always fighting against demons, Phoebe rarely saw good things coming in the future.  The act of touching something or someone and getting a premonition is the element that is not necessary.  I'm not saying that it is not possible, I'm saying it's not necessary.  Touching someone or something and getting information about the object or the person is called psychometry.  As the girls grew closer, their gifts grew as well.  Phoebe then received the gift of empathy.  Being an empath means feeling what another person feels.  Having this gift can be overwhelming, especially if you are unaware of having it,  and that in turn causes an inability to control it.  An example of how an empath picks up things from others is, an empath can be in a room full of people, everyone is happy and having a good time.  The next thing that happens is that another person walks into the room and she happens to be very angry, the energy in the room changes dramatically.  The empath will pick up on this and feel the anger raging in his or herself. I'm sure you have felt something similar to this in the past.  This is one of the ways that a psychic or medium gets information, either about the person who has died, or the person having the reading.  The psychic is able to differentiate what they are feeling is associated with the dead person, or the person having the session.  I'm not going to go into the gifts that Piper, or Prue had in this blog.  While they did have some gifts that psychics and mediums have, the vast majority of theirs were for show, literally.

  The next show I would like to talk about is Ghost Whisperer, with Jennifer Love Hewitt as Melinda Gordon.  Melinda was able to see, hear, and communicate with "ghosts" in the show.  In reality there are some souls that have not moved into the light because they have unfinished business.  Psychic Mediums are able to see, hear, and feel things from a soul that is communicating with them, so this is the part of the show that was real.  Again, the "Hollywood" aspect of this show is that number of times that this happens in one small town.  James Van Praagh was the Co-executive Producer on this show.  Having him on board certainly helped to keep this show closer to psychic mediums experience.

  Then we have the show Medium, which is based on the life of Allison Dubois.  Allison is another psychic medium.  In the show when a case needs to be solved Allison had a "dream" which gives her clues to lead to what happened.  Reality is that mediums do at times get information that can be helpful to law enforcement in solving a crime, or helping to find a missing person.  For the most part, mediums do not have dreams every night that are connected to their readings.  There are psychics and mediums who at times get information about things that either have happened, or are going to happen, and the information can be helpful to law enforcement.  Just as there are in all walks of life, there are law enforcement officers who believe in the gifts that psychics have, and are willing to use those tips to help solve a crime or find a missing person.  For many reasons, most of which are obvious, law enforcement will not come out and acknowledge that this is a practice that is used in their departments.  but psychics are used in situations similar to that of a confidential informant.

  All in all, the more recent television shows that have been based on, or feature a psychic or a psychic medium as based on some foundation of truth. In other words, some of the things that are portrayed are true and accurate, others are exaggerated for entertainment purposes.  And if you are thinking about having a reading you should decide what is the purpose for having a reading, if it is for entertainment purposes, you and a few of your friends are doing it just for a "hoot" as they say, then you can just pick any one you want, and "remember" you were doing it for fun, and keep it perspective.  If you are, however, doing it because you have lost a loved one, or you are experiencing a life situation that you need guidance in, then do your research first.  Talk to a friend who has spoken to one, search on-line and read as much as you can about the person you are going to make an appointment with.  Learn what the tell tale signs are of a scammer, Is Your Psychic Real or a Scam?  You can also visit a site that Bob Olson has created to help people find a good psychic or psychic medium, http://www.bestpsychicdirectory.com.  Seeing a psychic for fun is one thing, and seeing one for healing and help is completely different.  Make sure you select the right one for you.

  Until next time, Love and Light to you all.

Good or Evil

Periodically the question comes up whether or not what psychics do is good or evil.  There are people of certain religious backgrounds that believe that getting a psychic reading is dabbling in evil, or the "devil's work".  Some people feel this is a taboo subject to even approach, but I've never been shy about approaching a difficult subject.  Personally, I think this is a subject that needs to be addressed.  The way I choose to address this topic is based on my own experience.

What I have been shown through my meditations, and through experience with others, is that we are all born with intuitive abilities.  This is what I call our own internal "GPS".  The reason for this internal "GPS" is because we are all spiritual beings.  I heard a quote once, and I cannot remember who said it, "We are all spiritual beings having a human experience, not humans having a spiritual experience."  And I read in a Brian Weiss book, "It's not a matter of finding out who we are, but a matter of remembering who we are."  So, in that we are all spiritual beings having a human experience, all things that we are given, are given by our creator for our use.

What is a GPS?  It is a guiding device, to give direction, to help when you are not sure where you are going.  Our "GPS" is that gut feeling you have, or that small voice you hear.  A lot of times people aren't sure why they are feeling something, or where that voice is coming from, so they either choose to ignore it, or follow it.  I'd like to give an example of the kinds of things that we feel or hear.  Let's say you are getting ready to go out for the day, and you hear, "take the umbrella, it's going to rain this afternoon."  Or, you are driving down a familiar road and you get a feeling, "Don't take the regular way, the road is backed up, go over to the alternate road."  So do you choose to follow that guidance, or should you ignore it?  If you ignore it, slowly you turn off that God-given intuition.  If you listen to it, you are saying to your guides, "I want to hear more."  And they stand up and cheer, and it's like a little cheering session saying, "We have his/her attention, let's tell him/her more."

Now that you have an understanding that we ALL have this inside of us, let's talk about whether or not it is good or evil.  Firsts, it's given to us by our creator/God.  God doesn't give us gifts that are evil.  There are those who use their gifts in ways that they were not intended to be used.  That does not make all psychics or psychic mediums "evil".  It is a matter of how they choose to their gifts that determines whether it is good or bad.  There are readers who use their gifts and are not operating in the light, and are using them to scam people.  One way in which this is done is by telling someone, "You have a curse on you." Or, "You have a black cloud of negative energy around you."  Then they will offer to lift the curse, or get rid of the negative energy for you for a sum of money.  Anyone doing such things is not using the gift for the purpose in which it was intended.  You can rest assured that there is Universal Law that takes care of such things.  I'm sure you have heard it, "What goes around comes around. Karma, what you put out is what you get back. You reap what you sow."

There is too much good that is done by people using their gifts in the light, and in the way that it was intended to lump all psychics and psychic mediums into the same category and say that they are all evil.        When a medium connects a person with a loved one that has left the earthly plane, and there is no doubt  that is what they have done, this is not evil.  It helps to heal grief and helps the people left behind that are in so much pain from their loss.  Another example is when a psychic sees a young woman with a child, and the doctors have told her that she will likely not be able to have children, it gives her hope to move forward in her life.  These are good things and ways that the gifts help people.

Good versus Evil.  It's not all black or white.  It's about intent.  It's about the way it is used.  Don't let other people's fear of something that they don't understand rule what you do, or you think.  Make your decision about whether or not having a reading is the right thing for you.  By all means, do your research and be sure to connect with a psychic or psychic medium who is using their God-given gift in the way it was intended to be used, and they are operating in the light.

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and I hope you have enjoyed this one.  Love and Light to you.