Suicide from the Perspective of the Spirit Realm

I think that suicide is an important topic that is often misunderstood by humanity. Let me share what I have found on suicide based on near death experiences, past life regression, mediumship, and the channeling of a soul that committed suicide:

Sandi Rogers had a near death experience from a suicide attempt. She wrote a book called Lessons from the Light. Let me share an excerpt from the book, "When I was in the Light during my near-death experience, seeing my life, and the effects of my thoughts and actions on others, I felt total forgiveness and love from the Light. The Light knew the motivation behind my thoughts and actions, as well as the thoughts and actions of others who touched my life. Nothing was hidden. The result was total understanding and total forgiveness." She also explains that when she was in the spirit realm, she was given a choice to either go back to her life or she would need to start a new incarnation from the beginning with all the same challenges. She decided to go back to her life.

Raymond Moody researched near death experiences and wrote the book Life After Life, he says the following: "The near-death experiences of people who attempted suicide are no different at all in their content from the experiences of people who come close to death from some other cause. When those patients who attempted suicide are followed over a period of time, there’s an essentially zero rate of any further attempts at killing themselves. They say that they never would attempt suicide again because they learned from their experience that even when times are tough, life does have a purpose."

Anne Puryear wrote the book Stephen Lives! after her fifteen year old son, Stephen committed suicide. After his death, Anne began to connect with Stephen and had conversations with him telepathically. She channeled his experience of his death and transition to the spirit realm in the book. Below is a quote in Stephen's words, "What happens to those that commit suicide is not much different from what happens to someone who dies of old age or in an accident. Your guides and angels are with you at the moment of death, usually helping your soul release from the body, just before you die." Stephen also talks in detail about reincarnation, his soul plan, and life review. This book, Stephen Lives! was published in 1997 and Stephen's experiences are similar to those in the book, The Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife published in 2021 by Dr. Matthew McKay. In my blog post called The Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife, I explain that Dr. McKay's son, Jordan was killed at the age of twenty-three. Dr. McKay then began connecting with his son and channeled his words into the book, just as Anne Puryear did. My point here is that, even though Stephen committed suicide, his experiences of the spirit realm are very similar to Jordan's when I compared the books.

Below is a quote from certified medium, Suzanne Giesemann's website where she channeled the answer to the question, what happens in consciousness when one takes their own life?

"A very good question indeed. This one (Suzanne) has had the opportunity to converse frequently with those who have taken their own lives. We wish to tell you that all souls, regardless of how they passed to the other side, are surrounded by love. Upon passing from the human body, all souls – all souls – may we say it again – ALL souls are surrounded by love. Those who take their own lives are seen as those who have faced such challenges that they have taken free will into their own hands. The challenge is that they have missed opportunities for their soul to grow. They are helped by guides to understand their decisions. We wish you all to understand that your purpose in life in human form is the development of the soul to raise consciousness of the apparent individual and as a whole. How do you do this? By raising your individual consciousness. How do you raise the consciousness in this room? You turn up the love. You as human beings are given opportunity, after opportunity, after opportunity, after opportunity to turn up the love. Each one of you as an individual light adds to the light of the whole when you reach the other side. You can see, therefore, that one who has not fulfilled their assigned lifetime returns to the reality from which they came, not quite so bright as they could have, nevertheless, they are surrounded with love and with understanding and with no judgment. These are souls who quite often wish to help other souls once the human experience has been fully assimilated."

Dr. Michael Newton wrote the books, Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, which provide minute detail on the spirit realm based on his work with past life and in between life hypnosis of 7,000 patients. Below is an excerpt from a session where Dr. Newton is working with a patient under hypnosis that committed suicide in a past life:

Dr. N: When a person kills himself on Earth does this mean they will receive some sort of punishment as a spirit?

S: No, no, there is no such thing here as punishment, that's an Earth condition. Clodees (his advisor in the spirit realm) will be disappointed that I bailed out early and didn't have the courage to face my difficulties. By choosing to die as I did means I have to come back later and deal with the same thing all over again in a different life. I just wasted a lot of time by checking out early.

Dr. N: So, no one will condemn you for committing suicide?

S: Well, my friends won't give me any pats on the back either, I feel sadness at what I did.

Note from Dr. N: This is the usual spiritual attitude toward suicide, but I want to add that those who escape from chronic physical pain or almost total incapacity on Earth by killing themselves feel no remorse as souls. Their guides and friends also have a more accepting view toward this motivation for suicide.

Robert Schwartz is a researcher that worked with multiple mediums to write books about the different challenges souls choose in a human incarnation. His book, Your Soul's Gift discusses suicide. Here's what the books says, "As you will see in the story that follows, we as souls do not plan suicide as a certainty; rather, we plan various life challenges, well aware of the possibility, and in some instances probability, that we may respond to these experiences by ending our own lives. The souls who plan to be with us know that suicide is an option in their pre-birth blueprint, and they willingly accept this risk in order to join us in an incarnation." Robert is explaining that souls look at probabilities of events so that they know what they are committing to when undergoing a life on Earth.

Erik Medhus committed suicide at the age of 21 years old. He wrote a posthumous book called My Life After Death about the afterlife, channeled by born medium, Jamie Butler. In the book, he explains his life review, he says that he watched a detailed movie of his life. He laughed and cried as he watched. He says that he never felt judged by the table of six elder spirits that watched with him. He also says the following, "At the very end of my life review, I came to the moment when I died. Even though I knew no one was judging me for taking my life, I kind of cringed inside because I knew how much pain it was causing for the people I love, but that feeling of non-judgement comforted me. That's when I started to forgive myself. That forgiveness would become one of the biggest parts of my healing."

Below is the channeling of a soul that committed suicide in a human incarnation:

"I am well….very very very very well. There is more that I will utter so here it goes. I will give it my best shot to explain something that I am certain others can do a better job of but I have personal experience in this exact arena you are asking about, I will share it with you. First I will say that this was not my first rodeo at my own hands. I have been one who has decided multiple times when it was time to take my leave, when it was time to tender my resignation, when it was time to kick off my boots and take a nice long rest. So as far as I’m concerned, there is no judgement on this. It’s not, just as far as I’m concerned, I can tell you quite clearly, I have received no harsh judgement about this particular topic and this particular act from the One that we may all fear is being judgemental for such things. It is not an affront to the One that greets, creates and offers perfect love. This One understands. There is nothing but love, compassion and understanding. There is nothing but opportunities for mulligans, do-overs, redoes, new canvas, new slate.

And while this decision is not taken lightly by anyone ever, it is something that does in fact deserve more respect than what it is currently receiving. Most of it is stuffed into a jar with a stinky fluid similar to formaldehyde, preserving an old idea that if someone chooses this particular time, moment or act to exit stage left, and to rest, and receive, and allow, and be, and repair, and renew, and refurbish then it is something to be judged, to be pitied, to be feared, to be taught about in only the negative way, in only the fear-based way. So this is my message to you since you are asking. This is not my soapbox, let me be clear. I have other very significant pursuits to which I am lending my energy, my love, my time if there were time of measurement here.

For this question, I hope you will do your part to reimagine, to open to a different understanding. We, those who are choosing our way, our path, our beginning and our end in this outwardly expressive way, we would like for this NOT to be our story, we would like for this NOT to be the thing talked about ad nauseam, we would like for this NOT to be the thing that is carried as guilt in the hearts of others who did not interfere, intervene, intercede on our behalf. While it is understandable that it is part of an outcome that is part of such a difficult, shocking, unexpected, and sometimes unpredictable outcome or act or decision, this is not what we wish to have as the ongoing expression of love, that we were there in the body, for a bit of time to share. So, I think you get me, I know you get me."

You can see the consistency in this information. The soul sometimes chooses big challenges in the human incarnation, perhaps they choose a very sensitive human body or a human body that may be prone to mental illness or addiction. The soul will always know if suicide is a probability before going into the life and then we always have free will as humans. Why would the soul choose such hardships? Because the soul evolves so much from these Earthly lessons. Suicide is not to be feared or judged. Those that die from suicide are welcomed into the light of unconditional love and support just like those that die by any other death. The soul is never judged or punished, however, the soul may be "bummed out" that they left early and didn't complete the lessons. As I've said in my other blog posts, the human incarnation is school, so if we bail early then it's like leaving college early before you graduate. The soul will work with their guides, and figure out their next lessons that they will work on in the spirit realm and in another incarnation.

In my own experience, as we better understand the journey of the soul and the purpose of life, it empowers us to stop spinning so much on the death of the body. Death is just an illusion, and is one small piece of the puzzle. The soul is very intelligent and powerful, and as humans we are all on a journey of learning. If you have a loved one in the spirit realm that died by suicide, they are in bliss and joy just as every other soul. Think of the love they brought in their life and the love they still bring from the spirit realm. Speak with them just as you did when they were in a physical body, they will enjoy the communication and connection just as your heart will enjoy it as well.