Well on my journey and doing much of what I have already described. I came across Ann Merivale’s “Delayed Departure“, a hundred pages of incisive retrieval accounts that added to my knowledge and understanding. Having trained under Dr. Roger Woolger to become a past life regressionist she took a course with Simon Buxton, a shamanic weekend on Death Dying & Beyond. She then found herself, after a regular weekly practice with the help of drumming tapes, to project. A voice said “Be a psychopomp in your own home” and off she went, every Friday afternoon. After eight years and over 215 journeys she had accumulated many tales of interactions and transitions.
Many were fairly regular contacts with earthbound ghosts in the historic buildings her hometown of Ludlow in Shropshire. As she writes, “An old, historic town means it is absolutely jam packed full of ghosts”. After several shamanic journeys she became aware “of the extent to which the inhabitants of this lovely town were literally surrounded by the ghosts of fighting soldiers who have never been told that their war is over” and good number of them were leftovers from the civil wars of the 17th century! And, as she adds, the rescue work is not confined to her hometown, that “when the drumming starts, one can let it transport one to anywhere in the world”.
(1) Travelling with her husband in the family car they came across a recent accident with badly smashed vehicles. Later she read that all had survived, but that a fatality had occurred the week before. Suspecting the energetics of an ‘accident black spot’ she journeyed there to find a lost and confused 25 year old, angry about colliding with an ambulance, which had built on the existing anger over a friend’s drug overdose death. Naming the friend seemed to make his appearance viable and the “two of them were delighted to be reunited” and she found that delight “enabled an easier dispatching” after a father and grandfather were called up.
(2) Another young man knew he’d died from his injuries but did not believe in an afterlife, so after “shaking him awake” she had to engage verbally to convince him and “a grandmother was called up”
(3) The Asian tsunami of 2004 gave her a number or rescues: “Six young Sri Lankan boys who had been playing together when they were swept away were terrified as they could not swim.” All she needed to do was: “show them how they could float up out of the water” and that convinced them “they were no longer physical”. One called for his grandmother, another his mother, another an aunt.
(4) The 2011 earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand called for repeated journeyings. A 4 year old, Amanda, “did not understand what had happened but some angels were enlisted” whereas “two boys, 8&10, had been fighting when it struck” and thought it was “god’s punishment”. She “assured them that was not the case and they would be able to console their grieving parents” and a grandmother was called for. “A group Of Maoris, on the other hand, had a very good understanding of what had happened, and “so they indicated to me a group of four men who had been drunk inside a pub when it had collapsed on them.” She was able to convince them of their state and “each called for a parent or grandparent”.
(5) Another angry young person was Lucille, “whose head hit a rock when she dove into the river Rhone in Geneva. Although aware she’d left her body, she felt angry and frustrated because she felt much too young to die” and that was holding her on the earthplane. Talking to her about reincarnation and that she “could easily return in another body convinced her and she called for her grandmother.”
(6) Ollie, “a tramp/hobo, had died from hypothermia” and was quite soundly asleep. When she wakened him the next task was to convince him there was an afterlife and that “God would not let anyone be homeless and die of cold”. If there was not an afterlife how could she be talking to him, was her next gambit, but it was countered with :”he must have made a mistake and not died after all”. She found some proof and told him “about karma and in his next life he would not have to be homeless”. After rejecting her suggestion of calling for his mother who he said was a hopeless alcoholic, a grandmother was suggested and “he went off happily with her.”.
(7) In Egypt, after the uprising of 2011, there was a “terrible incident on a football ground in which many were killed”. She came across “a dozen men who were still fighting, even though they did not seem to know what they were fighting about.” So she told them “that they had all been killed, pointed out the futility of their actions and persuaded them all to call for a deceased relative or friend.”
Of course there are many other illustrations of the various states in which she came across the confused and fearful dead and the tactics she employed to move them on. It’s a marvellous guide and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Her various works on reincarnation and karma are also valuable contributions to the literature.
More Learning From Merivale/Davidson/Heath/Klimo
To continue with our exploration of retrievals and retrievers, let me add the work of Wilma Davidson (‘Spirit Rescue’) and researchers Pamela Rae Heath and Jon Klimo (‘Suicide: What Really Happens In The Afterlife’). On suicides Ann Merivale confirms my own experiences to a large degree, and I should add that suicides as such are really no more remorseful that many other categories of folk who find themselves dead in the darkness of their ignorance and denial.
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