George Ritchie, Part 2
Source:
George Ritchie and Elizabeth Sherrill, Return From Tomorrow, Chosen Press, Kindle version, 2023.
Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Llewellyn, 1994
Ritchie was shown desolate suicides apologizing to their loved ones, controlling mothers harping at grown children. One son was as old as the mother. How long, thought Ritchie, has she been nagging at him? He saw a plain of people full of hate and rage tearing at each other in an endless venting. These are souls who died without Christ's salvation, without the growth that He and His word could have brought to their lives. Just before returning to his body, he saw a glimpse of a heavenly city.
The Reincarnation scenario
Michael Newton, in Journey of Souls, paints a very different picture of the afterlife. There are no angels, no welcoming relatives, no Jesus, Buddha, or Mohammad. Each soul has a spirit guide which stays with that soul through eons of reincarnations. Between each new life in an earthly body, the souls are conducted to a location of sorts, attached to a small group of like-minded companions who recognize each other in spite of a lack of human identifying characteristics. The groups are like little eddies in a vast river floating somewhere in the ether. To the hypnotically regressed client, the souls look like pinpoints of light, like hovering fireflies.
The claims from there get very strange. One soul can service two bodies at the same time; when a soul enters a fetus it gets bored, so it leaves the fetus and goes off to 'fool around' for a bit with other souls. Even up to the age of 5 or 6 the soul may periodically abandon the child; when disincarnate souls manifest as people, the eye spaces are black and spooky looking because it takes too much energy to fill them in; spirits in the Bardo practice using directed mental energy to make small prototype solar systems; each newly conceived body needs a soul to be inserted into it, so souls hatch like eggs in nurseries. There is also the occasional suspicion of the author that a soul being interviewed sounds like a stranger inhabiting another's body. The soul denies this, of course.
I have to wonder if Newton isn't being played with by bored spirits. How far will his credulity stretch? Apparently there is no limit. I have to conclude that he is talking to possessing spirits who have found an unprotected body to inhabit. It is also clear that if Jesus is the Son of God, the reincarnating souls may never see Him or His heavenly city.
Part 1 can be found at https://janetkatherinesmith.blogspot.com/2010/02/g-ritchie-in-presence-of-son-of-god.html.
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