this YouTube channel. So, I appreciate all the questions you have sent in. Before I begin

again, I would like to say once more that these are my own personal experiences. The

answers, of course, come from my own research and personal experiences and my patients,

so they're kind of my view. They may not be absolutely the truth, even if that exists.

But I want you to know that this comes from my own experience. So, many of you have sent

in questions and I'll be glancing down at them from time to time and trying to answer

them as succinctly as I can. The first question kind of comes from Jugnu, and it's about free

will and destiny. This question comes up a lot. Can these coexist? And in my work, I

find yes. That destiny really puts you into situations, and free will tends to be those

decisions or reactions that you make to those situations. For example, destiny may dictate

that you meet a particular person at a certain time, perhaps in a certain place. But your

free will then determines how you react. So you can accept that person or not accept that

person, be with that person or not be with that person. For example, some of the reasons

you may choose not to be may be their height, or weight, or cultural background, or socioeconomic

status, things like that. These are your decisions, and this is your free will. However, the destiny

is that you meet. And this gets into another question that is coming from Shirley, about

soul mates. Soul mates, to me, are those souls or people with whom you've been together in

past lives, and once again you're meeting in the current life. So you kind of recognize

them. They seem more familiar to you, perhaps at a level that you would not expect from

being together, perhaps, from such a short period of time. There seems to be a familiarity,

a depth of knowing. Sometimes you can finish their questions and relate at a certain vibration

that you wouldn't expect from such a short time. My finding is that frequently you have

lived with those people in past lives. And so you recognize them at some level, and this

is the familiarity. Of course, this gets into the previous question about destiny and free

will, because these are the people we tend to meet again. Soul mates come together again

and again to meet, to interact, because they know how to push our buttons, we are learning

lessons together, there is karma or destiny together. So when you meet them, you of course

have the free will to stay with them, to not stay with them. Now, you can meet a soul mate,

and you may be together for ten minutes or ten months or ten years or a hundred years.

Sometimes the amount of time is not the important part. It is what you do in that time. You

come together to learn your lessons, lessons here on this Earth plane, this physical state,

of love and kindness and compassion, not to be prejudiced, not to hate. That's why we

often come together with our soul mates. They're kind of our classmates, learning in this great

Earth school that we have here.

Another question comes up, and it's a little bit unrelated. And it's about ghosts. Many

people have seen movies and read in books about ghosts, so there's a very widely varying

conception of what ghosts are. To me, what happens at the time of death is that the spiritual

consciousness seems to separate from the physical body. We leave that physical body, but consciousness

certainly does not end with the death of the physical body. We go on, and this gets back

to that baseline comment that we are spiritual beings, not physical beings, because we survive

the death of the physical body. Now as we leave the body, perhaps, we can look down

and observe the body, or scene that we have just left, and then we have a life review,

we go on, we get reenergized by oftentimes a beautiful light, we meet with other spiritual

beings, we review our life. Ghosts seem to be those souls that don't complete that early

part of the journey. They may not go to the light right away. They may not even realize

that they are quote dead unquote. Since there is no death, I put it in quotes. So they hang

around this Earth plane, maybe trying to come back into physical form or to interact with

physical beings, but it doesn't work that way because they no longer have a physical

body. So ghosts are merely those souls who have not yet moved on. And they may be earthbound

for a while. They're not dangerous. We're all spiritual beings. We're all souls, and

ghosts may just be those souls that have not moved on yet. Now this is coming, once again,

from my own experience, my work, my research with patients and others, and my own meditations

over many years. And it's much more complex than what I can describe in this short period

of time. So, this is just the beginning of the answer for that.

Yogiandley asks an interesting and related question. Can a soul exist on the other side

and in physical form at the same time? And in my experience, the answer would be yes.

Because the soul is just the smallest part of us. It is as if a pinky finger were dipped

into the body and then withdrawn out at the time of physical death. But the greatest part

of us, the greater part, is not just in the physical body, but it's on both sides. There

really is no distinction. It gets, once again, more complex. But the answer is yes, souls

exist in all dimensions, at all times, and beyond time. And so a soul can exist in the

physical body and yet be existing on the other side and in other dimensions at the very same

time. This gets into a related question of: What if a soul reincarnates? Are they not

going to meet you on the other side? And the answer, then, is the same. They can meet you

on the other side and still be in a body at the same time.

This takes us to the end of those questions for today. And I want to thank you once again

for sending them in. Please continue to send in questions. Every so often, I will tape

these answers. Perhaps sometimes there'll be fewer questions and we'll go more into

depth. But for now, thank you very much.