Invisible Helpers and World Disasters

By Gita Saraydarian

During the month of May 2008, we have witnessed a staggering level of human loss and suffering. Volcanic eruptions in Chile, cyclones in Burma, earthquake in China; continued starvations and abuses in Darfur…people living in abject poverty and dying … and the suffering continues every day, all day, in the physical world as well as the subtle worlds.

I acknowledge the immensely humane and courageous men, women, and agencies that are trying to work around the clock to respond to this tremendous pain and suffering and to bring much needed help to those living and in dire need.

Those who are unable to offer physical help can offer much needed spiritual help.

We can do much to help the suddenly departed to make a transition to the Higher Worlds. According to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings sudden death and death through disasters and calamities throw the departed souls into the lower levels of the Subtle Worlds. These planes of existence are the closest in proximity to the earth plane. People who have suddenly departed as a result of accidents and calamities may get stuck in the lower levels and remain in shock. When an individual or a group of people die in an accident, they try to find their way on earth as if they were still in the physical body. They need someone to tell them they have passed away and help them go to the right place.

We now have perhaps a combined number of 120,000 souls who suddenly departed and are stuck somewhere between the physical and subtle worlds. This number increases every day. Their suffering is immense. The suffering of millions still living, in shock and wounded, having lost everything in their lives is equally immense. If we add to this the daily suffering and dying from all across the planet, we have a grievous layer of departed and tortured souls hovering around the planet unable to be released to continue in their journey. The sad and depressed vibrations are continuously encircling the planet. This affects all of us, in every level of life. It affects our thoughts, our feelings, and our everyday existence.

What can we do?

Every religious and spiritual tradition has services, rituals, and prayers for the departed souls. The Armenian Church has a very moving Requiem Service. Many churches and religions have such traditions. Each tradition explains it differently; but this does not matter. What matters are the prayers and good thoughts that are sent to the subtle planes of existence by caring and loving people.

We are concerned with this process first in order to alleviate the suffering of the departed soul. In doing so, we also help those living to receive emotional nurture by acknowledging the grief and loss and help in the healing process. We also help the entire planet by removing to higher worlds all the souls who are able to travel to higher levels. Imagine suddenly 150,000 people crowding a room. Getting people to the right departments helps alleviate the stress and confusion caused by the sudden influx of departing souls. We also help those souls to incarnate in a much more healed and emotionally stable state.

In our prayers and good thoughts, we give the tortured spirits of those who died the opportunity to travel in peace and have the chance to release themselves from earthly attachment. Those who die suddenly in accidents or calamities are souls who are in severe pain and confusion and remain attached to the earthly life. Their suffering has to be stopped and they need to be set free. As long as they continue to suffer, their collective pain will continue to impress those living as well as those already in the subtle worlds. This is the reason why every religious tradition has memorial services for the dead; they recognize the need to heal and release the dead.

We can become “invisible helpers” to the departed by taking some of the following steps:

- If you belong to a group, church, or any organization that can perform a Requiem service for the dead, it would be a huge healing service to do so for all those departed souls.

- Individually, you can send strong currents of thought to departed ones and help them awaken. These thoughts can affect them and awaken them to proceed toward the Higher Worlds.

- We can speak well of the departed, give them advice, encourage them to understand that they will still live and incarnate into a new life. You can repeat a beautiful mantram any time you remember any of the departed: “May their soul be blessed, and may they proceed on the path of enlightenment.” Say this with love and caring and send light to all the departed souls. You can arrange to do this with your family and friends and those with whom you communicate with email and online groups. Arrange for a time of prayer and blessing and have everyone tune into each other at an appointed time and send your blessings and prayers. The departed ones must be blessed and only good things said about them. This is not the time to curse nature, the government, or the lack of help these souls have received. Focus on the release instead, and remind them that their souls are immortal and will live on forever.

- You can also choose any kind of sacred writings, such as the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavat Gita, or any prayer book or Holy Book and read from it. Departed ones do not care what religion it is, nor which book you are reading from. The soul level is not identified in terms of religion, race, color, or anything of the sort. The souls belong to life, to God, and are from one source. What is important is your sincere act of intoning prayers and songs and words that have a high vibration and deep menaing. It is the intent and the vibration that will reach the souls and set them free.

- Read to the departed about re-incarnation. Encourage the departed to release from the earthly spheres, and when the time comes, to incarnate once again in a healed and beautiful state.

- The book Other Worlds gives some very interesting information about this from page 77, here is an excerpt: “The departed ones will listen to your words with intense attention and, very often, suddenly awaken and choose the higher path of spiritual development. You must remember that they have the same consciousness as before, but because of the new out-of-body experience, they are more ready to listen to the words that reveal the future to them….In the future, various groups will be established to help the departed ones by reading, thinking, and wishing a better life for them.”

- We can be trained to become “invisible helpers” by helping people with our prayers, songs, good thoughts and words, by our readings and encouragements, and even by counceling and teaching departed ones. This is not to say that we are being channels and mediums and talking to “ghosts.” on the contrary, what you are doing is putting into space benevolent and healing enenrgies and encouragements for all departed ones to help them in this very difficult time of shocking deaths and traumas.

- It is equally important to say prayers and send healing energies to all the survivors of disasters. They need us now more than ever. Our thoughts and heart felt prayers will reach them in some form and give them the courage to rebuild their lives.

I very much hope that all people of goodwill and daring will help the departed to release themselves and to help the living to find comfort and compassion to meet their most desparate needs. As we celebrate the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, let us remember, all over the world, those who have departed and need our help. This weekend is especially opportune to pray and help the departed. Let us remember them and let us send our support to all who have lost loved ones and are in desparate need of healing and rebuilding.


Gita


Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. For a complete list of past blogs and other writings, click here.

More detailed information about memorial services and explanations about the subtle worlds of existence is available in the book Other Worlds by Torkom Saraydarian.