Shortly after his wife Betty died in 1939, Stewart Edward White took an airline flight east from his home in Burlingame, California to New York to discuss the final details of the publishing of the Betty Book and then to meet with friends, Darby and Joan. During their time together the subject of Betty’s former mediumship was discussed and since Joan was a “closet” psychic, with recognized skills among only a few close friends, they decided to attempt to contact Betty in the spirit world.
Apparently, Betty had been waiting for this opportunity and just poured out what experts refer to as “evidentials” in what sounded like chit-chat to Darby who was taking notes, but that Stewart recognized as authenticating private information between a wife and husband. Joan had now replaced Betty as the medium and Betty the former medium was now the discarnate reporting from the spirit world.
So began forty 2–3-hour evening sessions that resulted in the contents of “The Unrestricted Universe”, all based on Stewart’s shorthand recording of Betty’s discussions through Joan about our world and also about Betty’s parallel existence. This book is included in the attached reading list.
At this point I probably should state the obvious: that Stewart Edward White, a successful writer of Western fiction certainly would be capable of crafting a plausible make-believe story about life after death. My reading of the book more than once convinces me he was aware of this probable response to his writing, and he therefore took pains to involve others in verifying the statements of his late wife from beyond the veil. Unless one is absolutely convinced without reading a word that every sentence must be a complete fabrication, the book is a must read for anyone wondering about what lies ahead for all of us.
You probably are curious, as I was, about the title of the book itself. It refers to Betty’s report that impediments that are obstacles to us, such as our accidentally trying to walk through a closed glass door, which many of us have done at least once, are no obstacles to an inhabitant of the spirit world. This has to do with frequencies according to Betty. Many quantum scientists now believe that frequencies or vibrations are the basis of all existence and Betty says that discarnate frequencies are so much higher than ours that a solid wall is no impediment to them. Think of radio waves as an example. The waves pass through solid walls and retain their characteristics in doing so. With this explanation in mind, we can visualize how unrestricted the world is that Betty is describing.
Betty emphasizes that there is only one universe in which we all live. This means residents of the spirit world live amongst us and we live among them. Our narrow visual field (we can’t see radio waves, for example) does not include their range of vision, however, so that we are not able to see them. As I already have mentioned, it also takes extended special training for us to communicate with them. Apparently, we all are psychic but few of us develop these skills to the point necessary to be able to communicate with spirit world residents.
During her 40 sessions of communication with Stewart and Darby, through Joan, Betty indicated she was “authorized” to discuss the nature of ultimate reality with them by more highly developed spirits than she. From time to time, she referred to an entire hierarchy of loving and guiding souls, leading up to the “Source” which we call God. Included were guides, counselors and even sages, the latter reincarnating to help us despite their returns no longer being necessary.
The power of thought is something else that Betty emphasizes. In the spirit world thought is predominant. Souls move from one place to another by means of thought. Except for intimate conversations, most communication is by thought. Thought constructs, maintains and illuminates all visible objects. Is that so much different than the purpose of thought in our own existence? Except for inert matter, isn’t thought the primary function in all of human creativity?
How about eternity? Betty states unequivocally that our existence is immortal. There undoubtedly will be frequent changes in state (incarnations), but our consciousness, our awareness or sense of self, is promised to continue forever. Not only that, but each one of us follows an evolutionary path, what English philosopher Sir Julian Huxley termed progressive psychosocial evolution. As I understand it, free will, a right granted humanity, makes our paths to spiritual maturity tortuous or straight, arduous or easy, but eventually we all are destined to find wholeness in communion with Divinity. I realize this point of view calls into question the extent of free will, but when we view the chaos we humans have created in our present-day world, should we deny that we might benefit from some caring guidance in finding our own paths to individual fulfillment?
Proof Of An Afterlife 