Why can’t (or won’t) the dead contact us?

The time around Halloween is supposedly when the barrier between worlds thins. The barrier between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Different cultures have different rituals and different times to thin the veil between worlds. But, it seems, that the end of October is seen in many cultures as the time when the two worlds get a bit closer to each other. So close that communication is much easier.

In Poland, we visit the graves of our relatives. You’ll find rows and rows of grave lights and elaborate tombstones, monuments and suchlike. Like a little necropolis. It looks impressive in the evening, with birches, maple trees, chestnut trees and many more swaying in the wind. Old Jewish cemeteries can still be found in Poland, often forgotten, but definitely there.

So, why can’t the dead contact us even when the veil between worlds is supposedly less firm?

An atheist would shrug and say, ”Cause there’s no other side, it’s all nonsense. No proof that would hold up in court. When the body dies, that’s it, consciousness can’t exist outside of the brain.” A valid point. You’d think that, with billions dead and counting, many attempts would be made to communicate not just from our side but from theirs. Pacts, promises to reach out and let the living relatives and friends know what’s going on over there in the great beyond. Yet, for some reason, it doesn’t seem to be happening. Let’s say we survive our death as consciousness. What’s stopping us from reaching out beyond the veil?

What’s preventing us? It could be that the no contact rule is enforced by God for some reason.

It could be that we are, indeed, being contacted, we simply lack the necessary discernment to pick up on the signals from the afterlife dimension. For example, the dead could be using synchronicities to communicate with us and, most of us, simply don’t pay attention to these things. Then again, the dead ought to know who can be reached that way and who is hopeless. To me, synchronicities are the most probable forms of communication, if we assume (yes, I know what they say about that word) that the dead have access to a much higher level of awareness. They can engineer events for us to see, knowing we’re going to decode the message. A favorite song of your loved one, for example, that hits you when you hear it. Or your dead loved one’s name keeps popping up around you in all sorts of circumstances, sometimes right after you ask for a sign, after a prayer, and so on. I know, psychologists are going to shrug it off as wishful thinking, maybe even the onset of psychosis. It seems to me that your intuition (women’s intiution is supposedly better) knows best what’s going on, if you’re really experiencing something or it’s make-believe nonsense to allay grief.

It could be that psychics (tricky, given my own experiences, especially around Halloween), channelers, and others aren’t always lying/delusional but, in fact, some very much relay the messages from the other side.

I sometimes come across people who claim to be channeling their dead children. They ask them questions and their children supposedly reply from the afterlife. What comes to mind when you read it? False hope, right? They want to believe that, even though, deep down, they know it’s nonsense to somehow make that gaping gap of grief a bit smaller. Or it’s a scam. Or it’s real but some other force is pretending to be those kids. A demon, or a dybbuk, for example. Indeed, the Church claims that spirit guides are demons in disguise but most things seem to be demonic to the Church, especially Catholicism sees demons everywhere. There’s a bulletin board of sorts here, right in front of a local Church. ”Warning signs of possession,” and so on. No, it’s not satire. It’s right there for all to read and deadly serious.

It could be that the other world is so amazing and beyond our comprehension that we just don’t care about what was going on here on Earth. It’s just a dramatically different level of awareness where all your bonds and vows don’t matter anymore.

Contact us – from where? Are they next to use, sharing the same space, or in a very, very different place nowhere near us? Maybe so far away that, just like with radio signals sent out to find extraterrestrial civilizations, it takes a really long time to get any kind of a reply?

So many terrific and perplexing topics around us, in the world of the living.

For example, you can even learn new Yiddish words and phrases when reading a schlong satire here on the blogs.

Just don’t read it out loud in a crowded room.