Purgatory and its Entrapment

You have emphasized the importance of, as you say, rid oneself of the soul after death.  How do we manage to achieve this? 

We bring about change in the astral, or soul body.  The soul, after many years of earth conditioning, is entirely soiled with contamination.  We clean the soul by changing our personal frequency.  When this frequency increases to a higher rate the soul body will slowly lose the gross matter it has accumulated, and this losing of gross matter is the disintegration of the soul body, freeing the spirit of its shackles.  Much of this is done subconsciously by the individual concerned.  The advanced spirit, being versed in the physics of the Spirit, does this consciously and deliberately, thereby their stay in Purgatory is much shorter.  The less advanced spirit may remain in Purgatory for many years, even hundreds.  There are some who have been in Purgatory for thousands of years.  So it pays to learn as much about these things as possible.

But aren't these souls assisted?

There are many helpers that are ready to assist.  But sometimes it is not that simple.  There are many, many souls trapped in Purgatory simply because they do not realize that they have died and moved away from the earth experience.

Do you know that the majority of incarnated spirits on this planet do not believe in death?  They believe that they will never die.  Oh, they know that death exists, but it is something that happens to everyone else, but not to them.  This subconscious perception changes slowly as they experience death within their own reality, for instance, the death of a loved one.  Many spirits take this perception with them at the moment of death.  It is caused by a subconscious fear of death which causes the mind to slip into denial.  This denial is more intense should the spirit personality die suddenly, where there is no break in consciousness.  They find themselves, at the blink of an eye, in entirely different surroundings and conditions, but the mind won't accept that instant change.  If I were to say to you now that you have died and moved on, you would not believe me, even consider me some kind of nut case.  How is it possible that you have died?  You're still sitting here and talking to me.  This is the same reasoning many spirits who depart this world suddenly find themselves in.  Firmly believing that they are still alive, they will react negatively to anyone who comes to advise them of their changes in condition.  There are many of these spirits in the spirit world living as though they are still alive on earth and surround themselves with similar astral surroundings as they were used to on earth.  It can take a long time to penetrate these individuals.

Sounds scary to me.  What would happen if I died in my sleep and in the midst of a nightmare?

You could be in for trouble.  You would need to resolve that nightmare.  It is not that difficult, really.  While living in the physical body we can wake up from the situation of the dream experience.  In death there is no waking up and returning to the body out of fright.  We must face the situation, deal with it, there and then.  Only weak minded spirits remain caught up with a nightmare experience.  In reality, fear only lasts so long.  Once the fear element departs, so will the nightmare.

This makes me recollect the repetitive nightmares once had by a family friend.  Her story was quite tragic.  The poor woman was obese, slightly simple and treated most disgustingly by her husband and only child, whom the father had turned against her.  Behavior entirely unacceptable and accountability of such treatment of another can carry dire consequences.  Anyway, she had lost her father in a car accident many years ago; I can't quite recollect the status of her mother, but I think she may have died some years after.  She had been very close to her father and took his death quite badly.  Many years had passed since her father's death when all of a sudden he began appearing in her dreams.  It was always the same dream: a grave yard with an empty grave with her father standing at the tomb stone.  He always attempted to speak with her while slowly walking toward her.  Her reaction in the dream was always the same, she would run away from him in fright.  She always classified these dreams as nightmares. 

It was while she was having these dreams my sister decided to set up a meeting between her and I, due to her shyness.  The answer to me was clear.  I questioned her about the fear she felt for her father and why she always ran away.  I learned that the fear was psychologically caused by her belief system that said when you're dead you're dead.  Being in a grave yard situation at night also didn't help the situation.  She confessed that when her father approached her she would yell at him, "Go away!.  You're dead!"  I encouraged her to reevaluate her belief in death as the message that her father wished to convey to her was that he wasn't dead.  Hence the empty grave.  I encouraged to take control of her dream and not run away from her father.  I knew that if she convinced herself, psychologically, not to fear her father then she will allow him to come and talk with her.

It turned out that her will was much stronger than what I anticipated as, about to weeks later, she informed me that she no longer ran away from her father in the dream, that she allowed him to embrace her, and speak with her, and from that acceptance, the repetitive nightmares ceased.  Her nights had again become peaceful with only regular dreams of everyday life and happenings.

A month later, she herself was found dead in her bed.  The diagnosis was that she, sometime during the night, had a massive heart attack and passed away.

Now, I'm sure you are able to piece this together.  Her father knew that his daughter's time was near.  He simply wanted to reach her, probably aware of the psychological fear of death, which would, as the dreams showed, make contact between him and her extremely difficult, unless her could break that fear.  Now, had she not resolved and mastered that fear issue of "when you're dead you're dead," she probably would have passed away during that nightmare and, finding herself within it, she would have continued running away from her father in fear.  Only this time, there would have been no end to the nightmare, no waking up from it.  Happily, and I often think back to this with a smile, during the last weeks of her life she managed accept her father's continued existence which would have allowed him to approach her, to assist her, and lead her away to a better life in spirit.

This is one of the little rewards that Spirit grants you, to act as a go-between between heaven and earth, to occasionally act as a "Rescue Medium" to assist those who may otherwise have been caught up in a state of perpetual limbo.  This also shows that preparation for the great beyond can be, in some circumstances, be crucial.