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- Devil's Island then approached him, asking that he watch her. On the banshee's next approach, she felt her love and extended it towards the banshee. To his amazement, Marty saw the hideous beast evaporate and disappear. Rebecca showed him how to do it, and as long as he remembered to feel and project his love at the apparition embodying his fear, it disappeared. The banshee was fabricated from his fear, and in the presence of the energy of love it could not exist. Love and fear cannot coexist: remember that on a voyage when you need it most. next approach, she felt her love and extended it towards the Not so many years ago, penal colonies were established on banshee. remote islands as a way of isolating criminals from the rest of us. To his amazement, Marty saw the hideous beast evaporate and During another partnered exploration with Rebecca, we went disappear. Rebecca showed him how to do it, and as long as he looking for Max and landed on the island reserved just for folks remembered to feel and project his love at the apparition like him. Max had been a psychiatrist with a dark side in his most embodying his fear, it disappeared. The banshee was fabricated recent lifetime. After death, he was drawn into one of the hells of from his fear, and in the presence of the energy of love it could © Focus 25—the one for emotional sadists. not exist. During his physical lifetime, Max probed your deepest, darkest Love and fear cannot coexist: remember that on a voyage when fears and it didn't matter if you were a patient or a friend: he was you need it most. always hoping to find something he could later use to inflict emotional pain. For example, say you were a gay City Mayor, Focus 23 afraid your constituents might discover your secret; and say Max Sailing outward further into human consciousness, we find the also knew a newspaper reporter who feared homosexuals were tiny islands where newly deceased individuals have become leading the country to damnation. Max would see to it that the trapped in realities of their own making. This is Focus 23, and two of you met in a situation where he could watch the "newly deceased" is a relative term. excitement. He'd give both of you reason to fear the encounter Some I've retrieved from here have been there for weeks or before you met and then take great delight in watching the months; others for thousands of years. They exist in a level of fireworks. consciousness in a reality created by their beliefs, to be At death, Max's way of life drew him to his island hell in Focus completely isolated from others living in the non-physical world. 25. To him, this place was real with houses, trees, cars and streets Some maintain awareness of, and attempt to remain active in, the forming a reality indistinguishable from Earth. There were other physical world. We call them "ghosts". people there, too, but only those who shared Max's emotionally Most often these folks don't realise they're dead, and believing sadistic nature. During our failed attempt to retrieve Max, I themselves to be still physically witnessed scenes from his life there. alive they continue to focus their In one, he sat at a secluded restaurant awareness at the level of physical table and watched with glee as two world reality. Most often these folks don't men came to blows over something For example, Sylvia, believing she Max had choreographed. In the very was still alive, was puzzled by the realise they're dead, and believing next scene, someone else sat at the fact that her husband, still living in | themselves to be still physically secluded table, taking delight in the physical world, seemed alive they continue to focus their watching two men, Max being one of completely unaware of her presence. . them, suffering through an George, a man whe gave up his | awareness at the level of physical emotionally painfully experience. 4 struggle against the disease that was . uring this exploration I discovere killing him, adopted a frame of mind world reality. how people are drawn into these in which he was just waiting to die. Focus 25 hells, and how they can George died in his sleep, and, escape to a better place. unaware of death when it came, continued waiting to die for quite some time in Focus 23. - Hollow Heavens Benjie, a boy of perhaps four or five, died in the early 1950s There are other remote, isolated islands in Focus 25 called and believed he'd been out walking with his parents and got lost. Hollow Heavens, and on one of my voyages I met a man who'd He'd been stuck in Focus 23 since his death, believing they would escaped one. He called them "hollow" because they weren't the come and find him, but his parents were still physically alive and __ real thing, and they described his existence there. He'd been a didn't know where to look. Benjie refused my attempt to retrieve minister in a small, fundamentalist sect of Christianity during his him because his parents taught him to believe he should never go most recent physical lifetime, and when he died he entered the anywhere with a stranger. Heaven he'd preached about. All his needs, food, clothing, shelter Retrieval from Focus 23 requires getting the attention of the and more, were provided for without the need for him to work. individual and taking them aboard ship for a ride out of the self- There was only one catch: he had to continue to espouse and generated reality in which they are stuck. Sometimes this is easy; practise the beliefs he'd preached during his physical lifetime. If sometimes it's nearly impossible. he didn't, he was told upon arrival that he could be cast into outer darkness—in other words, sent to Hell for eternal punishment. Focus 25 That was all fine with him, and since he'd been a minister during Further from the shores of our physical world is Focus 25, also his physical lifetime he was given a congregation and a church called the Belief System Territories. Here, people are drawn into where he could continue to preach and tend his flock. an afterlife existence by a structure of beliefs they held while All was well until a cohabiting couple in his congregation physically alive. refused to be married. According to the beliefs he taught, a man Each area of Focus 25 is like a far-off, isolated island inhabited and woman had to be married in order to live together. But only by those who shared the same set of beliefs. They have pointing to an incongruity in his beliefs, the couple explained that almost no contact with others living elsewhere in the New World in the Bible Jesus said no one was taken or given in marriage in of our afterlife. Their surroundings appear to them as real as the Kingdom of Heaven, and on that basis they refused marriage physical Earth does to us, and supports whatever belief structure or separation. they mutually hold. One Sunday morning, in front of his entire congregation, the world reality. Focus 25 Further from the shores of our physical world is Focus 25, also called the Belief System Territories. Here, people are drawn into an afterlife existence by a structure of beliefs they held while physically alive. Each area of Focus 25 is like a far-off, isolated island inhabited only by those who shared the same set of beliefs. They have almost no contact with others living elsewhere in the New World of our afterlife. Their surroundings appear to them as real as physical Earth does to us, and supports whatever belief structure they mutually hold. 66 + NEXUS APRIL — MAY 1999 Most often these folks don't ;