Posted on 12 April 2025, 11:30

What are the best ways to find out what happens after death? The best way, of course, is to die. But what about before we die? One is by looking at what astral travelers report. These are living persons who break through the veil separating us from the world we enter at death and report back what they find. The German Jurgen Ziewe is one of these, to my mind the most trustworthy. As you might know, I’ve been asking him questions by email about what he has seen. Here is his latest.

Q: Are all humans on earth reincarnated?

A: Entering time and space moves us forward to accumulate experiences which widen as we identify with other forms of manifestation. So our history is determined by gathering information from a variety of lives. There are quite different humanoid civilizations, much more advanced as well as much less. These are open to us.

Q: If we have experienced many physical lives before it seems inefficient that we’ve had to learn the ABCs over and over all those times.

A: I’ve experienced many lives; some I’ve relived and re-experienced in here/now awareness while simultaneously observing them in detail from higher awareness. Every incarnation requires a new adjustment period and alignment. It’s only our human value system that considers it “inefficient”. That value system is neither here nor there from the greater consciousness context.

Q:  Is prayer directed toward our beloved ancestors a waste of time, or are they listening? If they are, can they be of any help? Or are they so engrossed in their new world that they lose interest in ours?

A: It’s funny how we are conditioned to believe that there is a temporal or spatial separation between the “dead” and the so-called “living”. There is no “afterlife”, there is only life. We will need to forget about this misconception of life and afterlife. In reality prayer is simply chatting with people who are in the same room as we are. It is pointless “directing” prayer to somebody as if they are far away. It’s a bit like talking to somebody sitting next to you on the sofa and pretending they are not there. It’s an offensive illusion to the person sitting next to you. With regard to people losing interest in you, it’s the same as it is here. We lose friends because we move on, are no longer on the same page, have different interests and so on. It’s no different than it is here. “Are they listening?” Can they help? Sure, what are friends for?

Q: Do the “deceased” welcome our prayers and other ways of remembering them, like bringing flowers to their gravesite? Do they miss us, are they sometimes nostalgic, even lonely?

A:  Again, do you welcome somebody who is kindly disposed towards you? Putting flowers on their grave is like handing a bunch of flowers over to somebody personally. How do you feel if somebody gives you flowers? You feel loved. Do they miss us? They only miss us if we are no longer interested in them. They may feel lonely if we have left them and are emotionally detached from them like we are here after a divorce. No difference.

Q: Earthbound and even demonic spirits are referred to in spirit literature. How much suffering do they bring to our world? In particular, are they the dark voices that schizophrenics hear in their head?

A: Schizophrenics can no longer control their state of mind and are therefore susceptible to all kinds of controls and influences, which negative entities love to take advantage of. Our material-based clinical approach is totally ignorant of what is actually taking place. Until we accept that reality, all we have is drugs.

Q: You speak of the astral and beyond as existing in another dimension. Many spirits speaking through mediums speak as if the astral world is close to ours—as if our planet is the nucleus of a system of worlds that grow less materially dense the farther out you go. Is there any truth to this?

A: Yes, the astral world is right here and now around us. As for higher dimensions, we can’t enter them because they are inaccessible to our physical toolsets. People use different metaphors to create a picture for our materialistic understanding. By “closest to earth” I mean closest to our habitual way of sensory life. It’s more related to states of minds than physical locality.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
All the best, Jürgen

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I want to make it clear that Ziewe’s form of gathering information about the afterlife is only one of five reliable ways of going about this. The others are the near-death experience (NDE), instrumental transcommunication (ITC), reincarnational memories of little children (Stevenson’s work), and mediumistic communication. The most helpful and best overall is the last. All my books, and especially my fiction, are indebted to the comprehensive and fascinating data that our spirit friends bring us.
As you can tell, I have a high regard for Jurgen Ziewe. His experiences work for me as an important codicil to the huge volume of information from more standard sources. His work is comparable to a deft remake of a classic movie. It makes the classic better. But for my own purposes as a writer, I owe more to the original classic than the redo. This applies to all my work, including the book I’m writing now, a novel that explores the impact of dark spirits upon each other and upon us.

Stafford Betty, Professor of Religious Studies, CSUB, (ret) is the author of When Did You Ever Become Less by Dying?  and Heaven and Hell Unveiled. His latest novel, Guardians of the Afterworld is published by White Crow Books.
Stafford can be found at http://www.staffordbetty.com.

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