Departures from the Norm - (Part One of Three).

Illawarra District, Australia, November 15, 2010.
Midwayer Chief Bzutu.
Received by George Barnard.

Bzutu: "Consider the Melchizedeks whose existence predates our birth by millennia, and reflect upon their incredible experiences, their inability to forget anything they have learned, as well as their capacity to project future happenings from what they observe in the present. Consider your Midwayer friends, our ages of some 37,000 years, and all that we have gathered in that period of time, still fresh in our minds. And here you are my human friends, convinced that you are collectively as wise as you need to be, well perhaps?

"We, your Midwayers, could fill an encyclopedia with what you know, and we could also fill a library of enormous proportions with what you do not know, but fortunately for us you are on a constant search for new knowledge. Unfortunately for you, there are limits to what we can offer you. There are limitations to how much of pure revelation we can inform you about, and there are words, and more importantly, concepts that are totally outside of your intellectual reach. On the other hand there was information given to you, just recently, that will allow us to come close to an explanation of departures from the norm in the case of human dissolution.

"Before I refer to that event I need to explain to you the difference between personal truth and absolute reality. Personal truth is something that you believe more or less strongly. Absolute reality is something that you cannot come near to in this life, or even in your lives on the Morontia Worlds to come. Should you be strongly convinced about a personal belief system, there can be circumstances of disordered dissolution we consider to be departures from the norm. Openness of mind is the antidote to these departures.

"The factor central to this disordered dissolution is human free will, firstly in how the human conscious mind has influenced the mid-mind (the soul), and secondly to what degree the human is unwilling to experience the utterly unknown at the moment of transition. Midwayers and or Guardian Angels are always on hand when a person is about to transition. At times the human soul needs a lot of convincing that he or she has now expired, indeed that their Celestial Attendants have their best interest at heart. On some occasions the individual is unwilling to depart, unless a certain matter is first taken care of. In worst of circumstances the individual is totally unwilling to let go."