Looking back at dementia
QUESTION: Masters, I’m hoping you can help me understand how dementia looks to a soul in heaven who experienced it before passing on. I keep feeling as though the 70-year-old version of my grandmother would be mortified by her 90-year-old self. What will her fully intact soul feel about the final years of the diminished life her dying brain struggles to live? Are there live lessons she is still learning, or is this part of her life more of a lesson for her family members? ~Alissa, USA
ANSWER: Everything physical, mental, or emotional that affects the human body is an experience of which the soul has a permanent record. All physically negative, destructive, disruptive, or other hindrances experienced by a soul during its human lifetime are accomplished for the purpose of learning.
When the soul returns Home, it can review everything that occurred and examine what wisdom may be carried into subsequent lives from the lessons it completed. It can also determine if it needs to spend further time on some aspects it didn’t completely understand.
Dementia is chosen for a number of reasons. A soul studying control issues may want to experience the process of gradually losing all control of mental faculties, necessitating dependence on others. The realization that one can no longer remember how to take care of oneself turns to deciding how to deal with those limitations while there is still awareness.
Once the consciousness of the patient has reached the point of unawareness of everyday needs, the lessons are then generally for the relatives, friends, and caregivers. The affected soul starts spending more time with its awareness outside the physical than within its own body, so the patient couldn’t care less what is going on.
When Grandma is back Home, she will not have a body and can be any age she chooses when she meets up with others. She will know that everything that happened to her while in a body was for teaching purposes. There will be no regrets, embarrassment, or sadness. There will only be a sense of accomplishment and completion.