An Open Letter to My Classmates

An Open Letter to My Classmates


We are drawing near to a time of major changes on our planet. I was born in 1940, so I will be 72 when this era ends in 2012. Some say we are entering a new era where much is unknown. This letter is to my classmates from my High School graduating class and to my classmates from the class of 1962 at USNA. I am writing to you to acknowledge that all of us are already in a time where we are seeing many of our classmates and friends transition to the other side or “going Home”. Home is whatever each of you holds it to Be. Some say you will be “with God”, however you define or don’t define “God”. I will share some of my personal experiences with transitions and going “Home”, before offering a prayer for each of us.

In 2000, I was admitted into a hospital with massive pulmonary emboli around noon. In late afternoon a nuclear scan revealed there were no clear spots in my lungs. They proposed a 24 hour drip of a new plasmo-genesis agent to turn the clots back into hemoglobin. The probability of massive heart attack and death was at least 1/3, the same as it was for a massive stroke and death and another 1/3 for becoming a vegetable. They agreed with me that at best, I might be in a wheel chair on oxygen for the rest of a short life, but I told them I would walk out under my own steam and to go ahead with the IV, because not doing it was a certain choice to die.

They started the IV about 8:20PM or precisely 60 years after my birth. A friend had just arrived to sit the night with me. I recall rising to the ceiling as she slept in the chair by my very still and non-breathing body in the bed. I wondered why the monitors were quiet, but let it go as I found myself with three Beings of Light. I knew one was my Soul. It was clear that I had completed everything I had come for and could merge with my Soul and go on Home, or I could consider taking up a whole new Divine Plan for continued embodiment based on everything I had learned. I chose that option and later discovered that, while only one Soul Extension had left my body, nine additional Extensions came back with that One.

I awoke the next morning feeling fine and breathing much easier. It took another 7 years before I had integrated enough of who I Am to retire from the defense industry and begin to walk the path I had agreed to during my Near Death Experience. It was another year after that before I understood that each of us must travel alone on the path to full ownership of our embodied Soul. It is our own inner truth we are here to embrace, not what another teaches us. Finding our way Home is a very individual thing, which each of us gets to do alone. May we grant our loved ones the freedom to choose their path with our love and our blessing, for we also will someday walk it all by ourselves.

This brings me to the next story I will share. It is about my father, who had been in and out of the hospital repeatedly in his last year, needing to have water removed from his body caused by congestive heart failure and diabetes. In late September he was admitted once again and his elderly family physician wanted to pronounce him, but the attending doctor fought for him and brought him back by the time I arrived. He was sitting up in bed complaining about his hospital breakfast when I walked in shortly after sunrise. Later I took him for a walk at the attending Dr’s request to get his fluids moving again. As I helped him back into bed, he said he did not want to eat that food, did not want to exercise and did not like not being in control of his life. He wanted to go home, sit in the sunshine, watching the squirrels play in the trees and then go to sleep and never wake up.

I told my Dad that he always had control of his life. I told him that choosing to eat and walk could mean he got to go home and do just that with the squirrels. I also said that not eating nor walking was a choice to die right there in the hospital and that either choice was fine with me and with God. He looked at me with the first smile I’d seen in months as he said, “Alright, I’ll do it my way.” He lived several more weeks in the hospital, pain free, as he made peace with all of his family and friends. He was complete and very happy to go when he died quietly, surrounded by his family. My mom did not understand me giving him permission to die until just before she died after several massive strokes 4 years later. As she wavered between her Mom & Dad coming for her and me by her bed, she told me she finally understood that dying was not the end.

Now we’ll fast forward to me living in Costa Rica, where I have found my home of the heart, as I move more deeply into the Sacred Service I signed up for during my Near Death Experience in 2000. There are many things I now know about life in transition. The one I will share with you is that there are times when people get so upset with God or Source or All That IS, feeling so abandoned or betrayed that they will throw away their Return Path to the Light, disconnecting from Spirit. Over my years serving as a spiritual healer, I’ve encountered quite a few disembodied Souls wandering the civil war battlefields and assisted them to return Home. More recently, in my own path of awakening I’ve encountered five members of my own earthly ancestry lineages, both patrilineal and matrilineal, who were holding onto my energy as they had thrown down their own return Path to the Light and had been drawn to me. I assisted them to find their Return Path and experienced great relief and great gratitude as they returned Home. We are never truly alone in either our embodiment or in the Hereafter.


Blessed IS,

Rev Jeremiah Lindsay
Minister of Spiritual Science &
CDR US Navy Retired

Prayer of Transition
My prayer for each of us is that we each afford ourselves the freedom to walk our own path in alignment with our Soul and that we then grant that same peace to all of our brothers and sisters.
I AM that any of us, our family and friends, whether currently embodied or not, who may have thrown down their Return Path to the Light Be afforded the opportunity to pick up their Return Path, assuring a graceful return Home.
I AM that we all afford our family and friends abundant love, compassion, grace and ease as they move through their personal transitions ahead of us.
I AM that we all experience abundant love, compassion, grace and ease as we move through our own personal transition from this embodiment to That which is next.

Rev Jeremiah Lindsay © 18 August 2009