Charlotte Hennessy - Here Today, Here Tomorrow: A Memoir of Spirit Communication

Here Today,
Here Tomorrow

A Memoir of Spirit Communication

CHARLOTTE HENNESSY

HERE TODAY, HERE TOMORROW

A MEMOIR OF SPIRIT COMMUNICATION

Copyright 2013 Charlotte Hennessy.

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This book is dedicated to my sister, Betty, who has always appreciated my writing but who has traditionally been resistant to listening to my verbal attempts to relate my experiences of spirit communication.

Recently, when I tried to share one, she rattled off, I dont want to hear it. I dont believe it. I dont want to hear it!

But when I said, Does that mean youre not going to read my book?

She answered, Of course Im going to read your book; youre my sister.

And in a later conversation, she said, Well, send me a copy when its published .

To which I queried, You mean youre not going to buy a copy?

She then asked, How much will it be?

(I wish I could say she was kidding.)

Contents

When I started writing this narrative, I had no thought of publishing it. It started as a collection of various spiritual experiences Ive had over the years that I thought I should start writing down. I wanted to be able to hand over a printed enumeration of examples whenever I was asked why I believe in an afterlife. I was done with more repeating the stories again and again, as Ive been doing over the years.

Then, the opportunity arose: a silent auction item to support a magazine that I love, The Intelligent Optimist (formerly called Ode ). Its a wonderfully positive magazine that emphasizes what we can do to make the world a better place. It highlights people who are actually making a difference and covers subjects from sustainability to spirit, to name just two of many. Its a practical publication, suggesting real solutions to real problems. Action for change is so often slow to manifest in this complex world, but its one of our earthly challenges, and we applaud those who try.

So, I bid on this itempublish your bookand I was the high bidder. Now I had to buckle down and do it. I felt that it was all meant to be. Of course, anything that happens is obviously meant to be, but I had clues that spirit wanted me to write about it and share it with more than just a few friends. You might say that I have several ghostwriters who are egging me on and reminding me of a few forgotten events that are helping to fill these pages.

In part 1, I talk a bit about spiritualism and the messages Ive received from those in spirit, delivered by mediums. I enumerate some of my own clairaudient experiences, give examples of soul flight while asleep, and describe some of my experiences with the movement and/or disappearance of material objects (this is also called apports).

In part 2, I flesh out some of the spirits, so youll get to know them as I did. I describe who they were when they were on earthbeing human. Here is also where I recount their endearing antics and wit.

In part 3, Im all over the map, with Other Points to Ponder that both spiritual seekers and those otherwise inclined may appreciate. I discuss

• meditation, citing two examples of how its been a practical practice for me;
• reincarnation, describing what I consider an evidential example of a personal past life;
• how the universe reveals things one would not expect to be otherwise discovered (in Fleshing Out Frizzys) and how karma may have played a helpful role, just in the nick of time;
• what I get out of giving back;
• information about letting go and moving onwithout fearwhen its your time; and
• a concluding thought and a final message, because I have to stop somewhere.

In the Appendix, youll find a sampling of nature poems and a few poems hinting at reincarnation. Im taking this opportunity to present them here, as this is most likely their best chance of being freed from the binder theyve occupied for the last fifty-five years, to see the light of day or lamp or whatever technologically advanced light source you have. Even if you dont care for poetry, mine are simple and, I hope, not too excruciating to read.

Im glad I did the bidding on this silent auction item, as this has been a healing exercise for me. I hope you also get something out of it, if only a laugh or two along the way and maybe an insight that you may not have previously considered.

Please know that Im honored to share my experiences with you, whether they ring true for you or not. And I thank you in advance for keeping an open mind, which is always a helpful tool in this mysterious life that we did not invent.

Throughout the text, I sometimes describe the concept of death using the word die, but because it sounds so final, I prefer the word pass, which seems more descriptive if you believe in the continuation of life. Its all semantics anyway. The spirits dont consider themselves dead, so I dont use that word to describe their condition. You might say theyve relocated to a reality that is as tangible as ours and that provides what they need to exist and experience in that environment. But they can also be here , whenever they desire and when theyre ready.

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Blaise Pascal wrote: Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Robert Browning observed: Life is probation and the Earth no goal

But the starting point of man.

Shakespeare had Hamlet tell Horatio: There are stranger things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Allow me just one more, although there are plenty of other quotes along these lines from plenty of other brilliant minds. This next one best describes my goal.

Mark Twain wrote (in an essay entitled How to Cure a Cold): It is a good thing, perhaps, to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instructiontheir profittheir actual and tangible benefit.

Of course, if you read Twains essay, youll see that he is, as always, entertaining you. And if you read my pages, you might find something entertaining in them too, so your time wont be completely wasted, even if you have trouble agreeing with or believing anything here. Because occurrences and phenomena continue, this is a work in progress, but at least now I think I have enough examples, or evidence, to at least intrigue even the most skeptical among us. When I consider the phenomena I have witnessed, it inspires me to wonder just how much is going on around us that we dont witnessthe coincidences that occur, the synchronicities, the mystery that surrounds us and makes things happen or not happenall of what makes life so interesting. I believe that we are not aware of a lot that is happening all the time around us and within us; paying more attention may help us see, hear, and understand more. I hope that we do become thoroughly aware eventually, and Im convinced that we will all have the opportunity to understand everything, at some point.