Alzheimer’s disease
QUESTION: Masters, please give me your understanding of Alzheimer’s disease from the soul perspective. How should one act toward people having the disease? ~Mischa, France
ANSWER: Spiritually, Alzheimer’s disease is the same as any other debilitating disease that is chosen for a life lesson during incarnation. The afflicted souls wished to enter into a phase of their life where they first became aware of their failing memory, which they could not influence in any fashion. Most were independent or fairly independent and found themselves becoming totally dependent on others for the simplest of daily tasks. They were then trapped inside a body that they found foreign and difficult to deal with.
The soul has usually also entered into at least one contract with another soul who wished to experience the “living death” of an associate or loved one. This person could be a family member, business associate, or close ally who is struck by the visibly vibrant loved soul whose mind has gone on vacation, leaving the house unattended. The friend, at first, watches the house, awaiting the return of the mind, but it never comes back permanently. Flashes become further and further apart and of shorter duration.
Many lessons may be part of this scenario. The “survivor” may have wanted to experience feelings of survivor’s guilt, abandonment, forgiveness, relief, disgust, or fear—or may have needed to complete an emotional closure or some other pattern of conduct or lesson now no longer possible with the patient. Each, the patient and the observer, has personal reasons for being there.
The soul is on a solitary journey with total freedom of choice directing it. It has no responsibility spiritually for anything or anyone besides itself. Let your feelings tell you what your lessons are and, therefore, what you need to do in dealing with a situation such as this.