The event
Time: During the night
Date: 1st half of 1976
Place: My parental home on Merrie England Road, Korobosea, Port Moresby
I was 19 years old. Harmie (my grandmother and Mum’s mother who was living in Australia) told Mum that she’d had a dream that I was going to take her home. When Mum told me this, I was saddened. I understood it to mean that Harmie was going to die.
Some weeks after that I woke up in the morning and could remember having met Mum in spirit during that night. Together we had done a piece of work. That work was to make preparations for Harmie. Either we prepared Harmie for the path, or we prepared the path for Harmie — I couldn’t figure out which one, when I woke up, but it was one of them. Mum and I were competent to carry out this task together. My brother and sister weren’t involved; clearly it only needed two people.
A few days later, Harmie died.
The takeaway
We’re all active in spirit (presumably on the astral plane) when we’re physically asleep, provided we have some job to do or some place to go. Most people, including me, can rarely remember what they’ve done on the astral plane. (This isn’t quite the same thing as consciously astral travelling.)
Thoughts and theories
That we help our family members before they die is heartening to know.
But what about people who don’t have family members? Can they help themselves? The journey might not be easy for them, having no-one to help them. Harmie’s journey would have been very easy for her, I figure, because Mum and I helped her.
My question: Can we do the necessary work for ourselves? Or is this something that has to be done for us? You know the kind of thing I mean — like an Anglican vicar marrying his fiancée. He can’t perform the wedding ceremony himself. Someone else has to do that for him. Is it the same kind of thing with making preparations for our own death?
16 August 2024: It’s only just occurred to me — slow as I am — that not everyone needs help. Harmie needed help.
