Death is merely a doorway into another realm. This is what so many of you already know or perceive, yet you still undergo stress and pain when a loved one passes from one world into the next. When you are on a spiritual path... a person who has read much, listened to learned teachers and actively meditated... how, you ask yourself, can you still undergo such feelings of loss and grief when a loved one passes?

There are many reasons for this confusion, the greatest being what you know as human emotions. Your emotions are such strong components in your lives. They are the instigators of so many problems wars, estrangements, suicides, regrets each of your emotions is personal and yet essential for this planet. Emotions are one of the main reasons you find yourself returning time after time. They are one of the strongest reasons for your being you.

When a loved one passes into another dimension your emotions are what hold that spirit within the Earth?s field, your love, or your hate or anger, will trap a loved one within the emotional field of the earth. The loved one?s emotions will also trap them within this plane? their love, their hate, their anger, their confusion, their guilt? any, or all, of these emotions will keep the soul from moving into the next dimension waiting for them. Clearing your emotions, or relieving oneself of human struggle, is what the sages have spoken of for centuries, yet it is the hardest undertaking to achieve. This is the struggle you undertake every time you are born here into this dimension of perception. While love will guide you back home, the other emotions will only hold you to the earth.

This then is also why is it so difficult for you to release a loved one. Knowing that a loved one is merely moving through dimensions does not eliminate your emotions about how you feel toward not being able to touch or see or speak with that loved one. Knowledge of what we speak might lesson your experience of missing someone dear to you, someone who has shared moments of space and time with you. Yet knowledge only provides the concept of perceived wisdom.

When a loved one moves ahead on the path, sit quietly within yourself to find the voice of that loved one rather than the sound of your emotions. Listen to your loved one?s voice even while you are listening to your own emotions. Your emotions might tell you of what will be no more on this plane, but your loved one will tell you of what will be again. Honor your grief for what it is? the passage of time in your life, the loss of what cannot be again in this moment. Honor your emotions for all the memories you have of the earth time you have experienced with your loved one. But honor the passing as an opening of possibilities into another dimension of experience and memory of what is also in the past that you have forgotten. Consider that while your loved one will be missed here, you are being missed there. It is all the same except for the human struggle of emotions. Your emotions are so rich, so meaningful, so full of teachings do not miss out on them. Learn from them and let them teach you of all you are capable of being? then move on into the rest of your life.

We Love You, St. Germaine and the Healing Council of Light