Don’t cling on to highly emotional possessions that once belonged to the departed
Sat 10:46 am +00:00, 2 Aug 2025 7It could hold back the progress of a departed soul. Keeping things that are useful, no problem, but keeping things that attach strongly to someone who died can hold back their release from their earthly existence. Things like wedding rings, photographs and other things that hold emotional and potentially spiritual ties. Praying to remember the lost loved one is no problem. It’s the objects that are the problem. You need to let go of people who die, so they can move on. Conscious communication with departed souls should aim to relelase them to progress their soul into the higher dimensions. Holding them back with attachment to their possessions might not be helping them. Release the objects, and the connection to the departed can strengthen. Don’t be emotionally bound to the past and material objects. Love means helping your departed loved ones to move on, not cling on to the memory of the person they once were. We all need to move on to be happy, whether in physical existence or within other dimensions yet to be experienced.
I haven’t listened to the video yet, but I totally agree with the blurb above it. My mother (who died after my Dad) and I had completely different tastes anyway, but with some people it seems almost a betrayal to get rid of their loved one’s things.
For some reason, this poem sprung to mind. Remember me, by Christina Rossetti, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
My sister sent me a picture of our grandfather that we never met due to divorce. He looked so much like me my children believed it was me. It was in a miniature silver picture frame. I was fascinated by him as he had a big influence on my life for different reasons despite having never met. One day the frame and picture simply vanished. Never seen since. No break in and nothing else missing.
Did a similar thing not happen previously Tap, with some historical documents? I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember that.
Yes Ian, but those were very possibly deliberately removed as the letters of Colonel John Jones described how he believed the Devil dwelt in the Vatican. He was a regicide and his letters would have been damning for all royalty. I believe they were ‘removed’ maybe when we were on holiday. The big old house was not difficult to penetrate, wheras our modern house has more defence, I would say. I wish those letters were there now so I could quotethem on Tap, but they have gone.
Thanks Tap, scary to think of people stealing from you. Those letters would be valuable in more ways than one. Your family must have fascinating historical links.
I knew this instinctively for some reason. When my dear parents had both passed and my brother and I had to empty their house then, I was happy that he took all the “treasured” items, I had no interest. Instead I took a small number of mundane things that I’d used, or admired, at their place, my grandfathers small scissors, that he had once repaired and are still good now, and are in my kitchen drawer; some tools of my dad; a photo of my dear maternal grandmother. I have box full of other things too but I’ve never once looked inside it since. I much prefer to remember their deeds and their full lives rather than remember them via possessions