By Sri Harold Klemp
A European ECKist wrote me about his elderly parents. One day his father suffered a stroke and was taken to the hospital. Initially he lost the ability to speak or write, but to his doctor’s surprise, within a week he had recovered both of these abilities.
Right after the man came home from the hospital, still very weak, his wife was diagnosed as having a terminal illness. This time she was admitted to the hospital while her husband remained home. The couple, who had been married for forty years, missed each other very much.
The ECKist’s mother was very comfortable with life. She accepted the fullness of love as being more important than any threat; thus, death held no fear for her. In fact, her calmness about her situation made quite an impression on the doctors. They weren’t used to seeing a terminally ill patient with such serenity, the serenity of Soul. It carried her through what most people would consider a terrible tribulation.
Though not an ECKist, the elderly woman was a natural Soul Traveler. On her second day in the hospital she told her son, “Last night I imagined I was home in bed with your father.” By using this technique to imagine herself in familiar surroundings with someone she loved, she was actually able to be with her husband.
The ECKist thought about what his father had said to him that very morning, “It felt like your mother was beside me in bed last night.” His sadness was lessened by the knowledge that the bond of love his parents had shared for so many years would continue even now.
As the days passed, the husband and wife were often together, and the man now began to have experiences with the Sound of ECK. “I can hear the sound of birds chirping,” he said. “I’ve never heard birds with such clarity before. I can even tell the various sounds made by the different kinds of birds.”
This is one of the many different ways in which the Holy Spirit announces Its presence to an individual. The music of the flute, the sound of running water, or a high-pitched whistle are some of the other indications that Soul is hearing the Holy Spirit. The Sound is perceived differently at each level of consciousness.
The ECKist’s mother translated, or died, ten days after being admitted to the hospital. Just before she left the body, she visited her husband on the inner planes. She told her husband, “I’m going to be busy for the next three days, so I won’t be able to come and see you. I have to register in certain areas on another plane, just the way you do when you go to a different country.”
On the fourth morning following her death, the elderly man said to his son, “I saw your mother last night. She was young and beautiful and dressed in her nurse’s uniform, just the way she was when we met during World War II.”
The ECKist had been laid off from work since his father first became ill. His lack of employment had only added to his worry.
Shortly thereafter, the ECKist was walking past his father’s room. Seeing his father’s eyes open, the ECKist went into the room to sit with him. “It’s all right, said the son. “It’s only me.” His father glanced up at him for a moment, then looked past him, as if watching someone else come into the room. Suddenly his eyes opened wide in happy amazement. A short time later he quietly left the body to go into the higher worlds of Spirit.
The ECKist was now grateful that his layoff from work had allowed him to witness a very significant spiritual moment in life. To him, this experience was proof that love transcends death.