RETURN TO EARTH CEREMONY

Jann Burner
If I were a parent (which I'm not), here's what I might do when my child first began to speak the common language.

Get a tape recorder and ask the young human a few basic questions. Questions like..."Where did you live before you came here?" "What caused you to pass on in your last life?" "What did you do in your other life?" "What is heaven like?" "What have you come to learn?" "How is it you know me?"

Have fun with it. Think of it like a...game. Make up your own questions. You might be amazed at how your child responds. You might also be amazed by the questions that will spontaneously arise in your mind.

The fact is we have been entranced, put into a hypnotic state, and dumbed down. It's like we are travelers in some exotic port and we've lost our money, our ID and our passport. By taking the time to interview the "new human", you are assisting them in accessing their total experiential memory before the case hardens and they forget who they are and why they are here.

But above all be sure and record the conversation and here's why. What you are trying to do is establish a sense of serial continuity in the mind of the child so as to reduce the shock of birth trauma. You also want to reduce the sense of alienation so common in their city brothers and sisters once the societal shellac begins to harden. Hey, why wait sixteen years to begin to ask the hard questions?

So you tape these little intuitalk dialogues and give them to the child to become part of his or her--Earth Kit. This tape, or CD, is intended eventually to be played beside the person's death bed (many, many years in the future of course.) in the hope that listening to his or her own child voice describing the other side and another life might ease the transition for the now aged entity about to cross over.

Call me crazy but I know I'd sure like to have a tape of me telling me what to expect after the darkness descends and I drop this mortal coil. Might even semi-formalize the ritual of the taping and call it something like the...Return to Earth Ceremony.

After all, the greatest gift you can give your child is a sense of perspective. And who knows, it might also be the greatest gift your child will ever give to you.