Independence Day by Tina Erwin

     The Fourth of July is a great summer holiday and there will be lots written about how valuable freedom is to all of us.
    We will hear all about how freedom isn't free. It isn't. We pay for it by the good and bad decisions our elected representatives make.
    The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights were designed to be the guide through the generations and for generations to come of how to run this country to maintain all of these freedoms that we all hold so dear and for which so many of us have died - again and again. However, not everyone believes this. Some elected officials deny the very rights that we celebrate on the 4th of July.  Some elected officials are deliberately putting our country at risk.
     When anyone, including any elected official who wrongly believes that he or she is above the law, seeks to circumvent the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of this country, this person needs to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
    When anyone, including any elected official who wrongly believes that he or she is above the law seeks to subvert the safety and security of this country, with individuals and governments that wish to destroy these United States and its visitors all over the world, this person and his or her lieutenants, need to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
      When any elected official seeks to subvert the rights of freedom of speech, denies the truth of situations and lies to the American people and its allies, this person and his or her lieutenants, needs to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
      When any elected official seeks to destroy the very basis of good order and discipline that define the US military and the safety and security of this country, this person and his or her lieutenants, needs to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
       American tourists, American personnel working in Embassies, American military personnel and American staffers working for aid agencies all over the globe are now less safe than they have ever been. They have a target on their backs, thanks to the most recent actions taken by elected and non-elected officials. Never in history have Americans been in such a precarious situation put there squarely by those supposedly elected to see to our safety.
        All Americans have a duty to stand up and tell their elected representatives how they feel about the most recent actions happening today and demand that those responsible at the highest levels, be removed from office, for they no longer represent the best interests of the American People.
       Either we stand up for freedom or we no longer deserve to enjoy it.
     And yes, sometimes being 'spiritual' means standing up for the right thing and then doing the right thing.

The Second Ghost Story Book is Coming in August!

Dear Friends,
     I am happy to say that Ghost Stories from the Ghosts' Point of View, Trilogy Volume 2 is in the editing phase. Cover design is in progress and we are well on our way to sharing more fascinating stories of assisting ghosts to cross over to the Heaven World.

I have been delighted to hear the stories of how so many of you have used the information in Volume One of these stories that I would like to include your testimonials in Volume Two. I am especially encouraged to know how you have all used The Crossing Over Prayer©.

I am inviting you all to share your testimonials. If you have used The Crossing Over Prayer©, please share what happened. I will be using this information either on the inside of the book, the back cover and possibly in marketing the book. 

I so grateful for your help that I will share an advance sneak peak at one of the compelling stories you will read.

I will need your testimonials in the following format:
1. The testimonial needs to be no more than 75 words and it will need to be in Microsoft word as a docx or in an email.
2. Please sign your testimonial using your first initial and last name. 3. Include your state or country. 
4. Once submitted, all testimonials become the property of TinaErwin.com
5. I will need them 01 July 2014.

Please email all testimonials to Tina@TinaErwin.com 

You never know how much your testimonial can help someone deciding to read or purchase this book. Your words may be the ones that encourage someone to take a chance and see how they can also help those lost and needy souls on the other side find the light of the divine.

Thank you with all my heart.  Tina

The Importance of Fathers by Tina Erwin

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    We all know that dads are important, and since there are so many single mom’s out there trying to fulfill both roles perhaps it is a good idea to identify what good dads bring to the family.

         A really great dad is a teacher for all his children, offering them the benefit of his wisdom when it comes to people, politics, career guidance, sportsmanship, building things, tools, and life in general.

         The dad who just sits in front of the TV and never spends time reading or holding his little kids misses out on an incredible opportunity to teach his children something. When you teach them, it means you are spending time with them. One of my sons noted that some of his happiest times were when he was in the garage working on something with his Dad - the give and take, the patience of learning how tools work. There were the times when they built gigantic lego projects together and the guidance received at those times, enabled our son had to build Lego models on his on as a practice for following written directions.

         Dads teach balance in a marriage:  doing chores, washing dishes, sharing in the cleaning, yard work and errand running.

         Dads teach consideration when shopping for birthdays, mother’s day and holidays for moms and siblings.
         Dads also teach the importance of evaluating good rules to follow in life. The dad who insists that his son or daughter wear their helmet while bike riding and doesn't wear one himself, teaches the terrible parable: do as I say, not as I do. A seething resentment will eventually result in the child and the seeds of a difficult relationship will follow.
        However, the dad that shops for parent and child helmets shows by his example the importance of safety, of understanding why these helmets are important. This metaphor is critical in a child's life. Kids learn by example as well as by doing.

         Dads teach politics when they discuss their jobs with their sons and daughters so that they can understand how the real world functions from a man’s perspective.

         Children learn what marriage is like ONLY from watching their parents. Kids will do what their parents do unless they are very, very savvy and can differentiate from what was great about their parents and what required improvement.

         Boys learn how to treat women with respect, from watching their dad interact with their mom. If the dad is kind and considerate, then sons learn this. Girls learn how women are to be treated from their dad’s attitude toward their mom. The abusive father creates abusive kids and abusive adults. The disrespectful father creates disrespectful kids. The physically and verbally violent dad creates horrific trauma for kids literally for generations to come.

         It is always better to have a single mom family than have a violent family with an abusive dad. The kids never really forgive the mom for continuing to allow the abuse much less the dad for abusing all of them. Why didn’t she just leave him, they ask themselves for the rest of their lives, until they end up in the same type of marriage. It takes quite a bit of courage to leave that life.

         So dads are incredibly valuable and families need dads for love and for balance. Families don’t need dads who are never there or who abuse.

         Like everything else in human relationships, the father connection is very complicated and incredibly important. Let us hope that more men decide to be really great dads because they are vitally important in everyone’s life. 

Photo courtesy of James M. Erwin. All rights reserved.

Time is an Energy Field by Tina Erwin

Time is multifaceted, multidimensional, and integral to every soul on this planet. We could not live in mortal bodies without time. We require the patience of time and the luxury of physical space in which to experience all the lessons, trials and triumphs of mortal life. The third element required for mortal life after time and space, is gravity. Gravity grounds us, slows us down. Without gravity, we would travel with the speed of thought and everything would happen instantly, essentially, at once. Time, space and gravity offer us the very framework, the template upon which to fashion our mortal life experiences.

It is hard to fathom time but it is probably even harder to imagine time as an energy field. Time is such a part of the nature, fabric and consciousness of our lives that to try to separate it out as an energy field would seem impossible.

However, if we consider that time itself is an energy field, then we can begin to understand how that field affects us. When we are not in physical bodies, time does not exist. When we live on another realm, time, gravity and space do not exist. Gravity and space are fields of energy in and of themselves, and perhaps we can wrap our brains around that fact, but it is much harder to consider time as an energy field because we could no more separate time from the ebb and flow of our days than we could separate the wind from the air. They are each one and the same, yet at the same time they are different.

Fish only know that water is their environment and they use the energy field of time in the form of circadian rhythms. These rhythms govern the seasons of their lives. The time elements for all sea life are literally embedded in their DNA. The DNA can only become operative when living in the energy field of time and space. Water is the environment for fish and this is all they know. Air is our environment and it is what we know, but it is not all we know. We know that we can be in the fish’s environment but we are limited by time. We cannot live comfortably in a water environment because we are severely governed by the amount of time we are there. The same is true of fish. Fish out of water are profoundly limited by time.  Literally their survival and ours depends entirely by the amount of time we can spend out of our normal space.

This nuance of understanding time is important because time is also embedded in our DNA. The easiest way to understand time being part of our DNA is that we live various life ‘seasons.’ Some are for growing, or marrying and having children or focusing on a career or doing all of those at the same time. The very timing of those events is part of our DNA. We know this is true, because we hear ourselves say that we “felt it was just the right time to do this or that.”

We also live each mortal life in a particular time period, or stack of time. If we accomplish what we intended to in that stack of time, if we worked through most of our mission, then there is no attachment on our DNA of that past energetic time marker. However, if we lived a life that was unfulfilled, was turbulent, horrific, or particularly wonderful, there is going to be a mark on our DNA. This isn’t good or bad. It just is.

Consider that the loss of the Civil War was so traumatic for the South that there is a whole population of people [mostly men] who continually keep trying to ‘re-enact’ various battles. Of course those re-enactors died in those battles. There is what is called a miasma on the DNA, meaning that this marker is something that still bothers us, is unfinished business, or is a profound hurt unhealed. There can also be a time marker on the DNA of a wonderful life. This is why we try to re-create a life we may have enjoyed in, for example, Italy, France, China or England. Look around our homes. Our most significant lives will be reflected in the art and decor we choose because we remember how much the energy of that time meant to us.

Every thing has an affect on us. Certain energetic fields affect us more than others. Time, however is one of the most profound influences on all of our lives and this will always be so until we no longer are required to reincarnate. When that happens, our spiritual progress will have made mighty strides. Then we will be able to remember the time we lived a mortal life because it will be eternally part of the time stamp of our Akashic records stored in the spiritual hall of records in the Mansion worlds. But wait, there’s more to learn outside of our planet!

The Preception of Memory by Tina Erwin

         Recently my husband was sharing a story of an event that took place in Naples, Italy when we lived there some 37 years ago. He was telling this story with gusto because it was unnerving for him. However for me, the issue wasn’t the story but how he remembered it. I had a somewhat different memory of the event. The point of this story is why we each have such different memories. But let us focus on this one story and then go over why we each remembered one key fact so differently.

         In this story, we were returning from a Navy party way out in the country. It took a full 40 minutes to drive back into downtown Naples. We had a top floor apartment on Posillipo hill, right on the bay of Naples. Our apartment overlooked the entire bay of Naples, including Sorrento and the islands of Ischia and Capri. However to get to the final street that would wind us up the mountain to our apartment, we had to drive through a very long tunnel, then turn right, past a traffic circle and then past 12-story apartment buildings that lined both sides of the street.

         Normally, as we came out of that tunnel and turned right, we would get our first glimpse of the Bay of Naples, this glorious view tightly wedged between these two 12-story apartment buildings. It was a ‘T’ intersection with a stoplight. Turn left at this intersection and you head for the center of downtown Naples hugging this glorious bay. Turn right and you enter the Mergillina area and begin to head up the mountain on Via Posillipo. Because the mountains that overlook Naples Bay are so populated with gorgeous villas, there is another major road that intersects with Via Posillipo and Mergillina: Via Petrarca.

         So here is the scene that should have happened:

         We come out of the tunnel,

         We turn right toward the stoplight that is 300 yards ahead of us.

         The light was green and my husband is accelerating to the light.

         We should have flown through the green light and made a slight right turn toward Via Posillipo, past the intersection with Via Petrarca.

         But here is what actually happened at 2am in that incredibly memorable moment. It is also important to mention that in 1977, Naples was a ghost town in the middle of the night. We had driven for 35 minutes and had not seen another car anywhere. We felt like we had the city to ourselves, snug in our fast red Fiat MiraFiori. We thought we would be reaching our apartment in a matter of minutes.

         But this is what actually happened that fateful night.

         We came out of that tunnel.

         We turned right toward the stoplight that is 300 yards ahead of us. We can see the slim view of the twinkling lights of the night fishermen ahead of us, and the wine dark sea past that.

         But in that astonishing moment, I didn’t see any of that. All I could ‘see/sense’ was that there was something very wrong about racing toward that intersection. The light was green and my husband was accelerating toward that green light. That nagging sense that something was terribly wrong gripped me.

         “Troy you have to slow down, slow down now.”

         “Are you nuts?” he demanded. “I’ve got a green light.”

         “No, SLOW DOWN RIGHT NOW.” I demanded in an ever-louder voice.

         “I’m slowing down, but we have the green light? Why should I slow down?”

          “Slow down more, hurry, quickly, slow down now! Just do it!” I’m yelling now, as if something has come over me and I can ‘see’ that if we don’t slow down something terrible is going to happen.

         Troy applies the brakes more and more and we are now a few feet from driving through that still green light.

         “Stop the car!!”  I’m screaming at him now. “Stop the car immediately, DO IT.”

         And as he brings the car to a full stop, another car comes out of absolutely nowhere utterly ignoring the fact that he has a red light and should stop. But he doesn’t stop, he slows down when he sees us – finally – and then he continues on his way.

         Some part of me ‘saw’ him coming. If Troy hadn’t slowed down, we would have been hit and if we hadn’t stopped, we would have killed the man in the other car. Only bringing our car to a complete top saved us both.

         As the other car proceeded on, we noted that there was not another car in sight, anywhere, only two cars on a collision course stopped by an unseen feeling that saved us all. Troy pretty much demanded to know in a very loud voice how I could have known that that car was there and how I knew to stop. He freaked out all the way up Posillipo hill.

         Needless to say, this was the beginning of a lifetime of remote viewing, because in this case I could ‘see’ past those 12-story apartment buildings to perceive that lone messenger of potential death for us all on the other side of those buildings.

         But this isn't the point of the story.

         The point of the story is that when Troy is telling the story, he remembers the car coming from the right, down Via Petrarca towards Mergillina. However, I remember the car as coming from the downtown area, coming from the left, not the right.

         When Troy told the story I listened and did not correct him. His perception of the event is his alone. I remembered the key element of the story very differently. So who's right?

         It doesn’t matter who is right. We see this all the time, especially between couples or family members who are all party to the same event yet have decidedly different recollections of one or more key features of the event. You often hear one spouse or family member immediately correct the other, smugly believing that the other person has to be wrong, that there can only be one correct memory of an event. But what if it is possible for there to be two accurate versions of an event?

         Is this why ‘eye witness’ accounts are so routinely suspect? Does our perception of an event color our memory of it? What creates this influence?

         I remember an event with both my brothers and my father. It involved a dark colored car. All four of us remembered that the car was dark, but we each specifically remembered a different car color.  The cop threw up his hands: if four eye witnesses, standing side by side cannot agree on the color of the car, what is the truth in any situation?

         Perhaps the truth is that we each perceive reality slightly differently. This does not make anyone’s perception wrong. It makes it simply their perception and nothing more.

         So if you are telling a story and someone corrects you, you have good ground to tell him or her that your version of the story is based on your perception of the moment and is not right or wrong. It’s a perception. Perhaps correcting someone else would also be something that you would want to forgo in the future, especially if you are able to acknowledge and allow that other people are just as equally entitled to their perception as you are.