spiritualism

112:3.7Upon death the Thought Ad­juster tem­porar­ily loses per­son­al­ity, but not iden­tity; the hu­man sub­ject tem­porar­ily loses iden­tity, but not per­son­al­ity; on the man­sion worlds both re­unite in eter­nal man­i­fes­ta­tion. Never does a de­parted Thought Ad­juster re­turn to earth as the be­ing of for­mer in­dwelling; never is per­son­al­ity man­i­fested with­out the hu­man will; and never does a dis-Ad­jus­tered hu­man be­ing af­ter death man­i­fest ac­tive iden­tity or in any man­ner es­tab­lish com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the liv­ing be­ings of earth. Such dis-Ad­jus­tered souls are wholly and ab­so­lutely un­con­scious dur­ing the long or short sleep of death. There can be no ex­hi­bi­tion of any sort of per­son­al­ity or abil­ity to en­gage in com­mu­ni­ca­tions with other per­son­al­i­ties un­til af­ter com­ple­tion of sur­vival. Those who go to the man­sion worlds are not per­mit­ted to send mes­sages back to their loved ones. It is the pol­icy through­out the uni­verses to for­bid such com­mu­ni­ca­tion dur­ing the pe­riod of a cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion.

150:3.53. The spir­its of the dead do not come back to com­mu­ni­cate with their fam­i­lies or their one­time friends among the liv­ing.

39:4.155. The Trans­port­ers. These are the trans­port ser­a­phim who func­tion in the lo­cal sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia, your sys­tem, they carry pas­sen­gers back and forth from Je­ru­sem and oth­er­wise serve as in­ter­plan­e­tary trans­port­ers. Sel­dom does a day pass in which a trans­port ser­a­phim of Sa­ta­nia does not de­posit some stu­dent vis­i­tor or some other trav­eler of spirit or semispirit na­ture on the shores of Uran­tia. These very space tra­versers will some­time carry you to and from the var­i­ous worlds of the sys­tem head­quar­ters group, and when you have fin­ished the Je­ru­sem as­sign­ment, they will carry you for­ward to Eden­tia. But un­der no cir­cum­stances will they carry you back­ward to the world of hu­man ori­gin. A mor­tal never re­turns to his na­tive planet dur­ing the dis­pen­sa­tion of his tem­po­ral ex­is­tence, and if he should re­turn dur­ing a sub­se­quent dis­pen­sa­tion, he would be es­corted by a trans­port ser­a­phim of the uni­verse head­quar­ters group.

146:7.2Je­sus fur­ther ex­plained to his apos­tles that the spir­its of de­parted hu­man be­ings do not come back to the world of their ori­gin to com­mu­ni­cate with their liv­ing fel­lows. Only af­ter the pass­ing of a dis­pen­sa­tional age would it be pos­si­ble for the ad­vanc­ing spirit of mor­tal man to re­turn to earth and then only in ex­cep­tional cases and as a part of the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet.

77:8.13Their chief work to­day is that of un­per­ceived per­sonal-li­ai­son as­so­ciates of those men and women who con­sti­tute the plan­e­tary re­serve corps of des­tiny. It was the work of this sec­ondary group, ably sec­onded by cer­tain of the pri­mary corps, that brought about the co-or­di­na­tion of per­son­al­i­ties and cir­cum­stances on Uran­tia which fi­nally in­duced the plan­e­tary ce­les­tial super­vi­sors to ini­ti­ate those pe­ti­tions that re­sulted in the grant­ing of the man­dates mak­ing pos­si­ble the se­ries of rev­e­la­tions of which this pre­sen­ta­tion is a part. But it should be made clear that the mid­way crea­tures are not in­volved in the sor­did per­for­mances tak­ing place un­der the gen­eral des­ig­na­tion of “spir­i­tu­al­ism.” The mid­way­ers at pres­ent on Uran­tia, all of whom are of hon­or­able stand­ing, are not con­nected with the phe­nom­ena of so-called “medi­umship”; and they do not, or­di­nar­ily, per­mit hu­mans to wit­ness their some­times nec­es­sary phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties or other con­tacts with the ma­te­rial world, as they are per­ceived by hu­man senses.

90:1.3While they may have prac­ticed de­cep­tion in mi­nor mat­ters, the great ma­jor­ity of the shamans be­lieved in the fact of their spirit pos­ses­sion. Women who were able to throw them­selves into a trance or a catalep­tic fit be­came pow­er­ful shamanesses; later, such women be­came proph­ets and spirit medi­ums. Their catalep­tic trances usu­ally in­volved al­leged com­mu­ni­ca­tions with the ghosts of the dead. Many fe­male shamans were also pro­fes­sional dancers.

90:2.5The med­i­cine men put great trust in signs and omens, such as, “When you hear the sound of a rustling in the tops of the mul­berry trees, then shall you be­stir your­self.” Very early in the his­tory of the race the shamans turned their at­ten­tion to the stars. Prim­i­tive as­trol­ogy was a world-wide be­lief and prac­tice; dream in­ter­pret­ing also be­came wide­spread. All this was soon fol­lowed by the ap­pear­ance of those tem­per­a­men­tal shamanesses who pro­fessed to be able to com­mu­ni­cate with the spir­its of the dead.