Suicide as a contract
QUESTION: Masters I have really been enjoying the books you channel through Toni Ann Winninger. My son Scott died last year by taking his life which obviously was a huge shock to my husband and I. Through reading your books you say that we make a contract before we come, do you think his contract was to take his life at 39? I always thought it was against god’s law to take your own life, it would help me come to terms with it better, if I knew it was the case, that it was part of his contract. Please continue to channel all your wonderful knowledge it’s a real help to a grieving parent. ~Marsha, United Kingdom
ANSWER: First, let us clear up the societal and religious guilt that accompanies a suicide. Most societies have always condemned or outlawed suicide because it diminishes the work force needed to keep itself going. What you refer to as “god’s law” does not exist in the spiritual universe since each soul has total freedom of choice as to what they do and when they do it. And nothing is right or wrong; it is just undertaken for the lesson it provides.
Religious organizations have displayed for their adherents “laws” that they attribute to their godhead or supreme being. These rules and regulations are the tenets by which they exert control over their members. Punishment and reward are assigned to these requirements and judgments about behaviors in general. These actions can only exist in the duality of Earth, using the ego as the yardstick. Once outside the confines of the body, the soul is in unconditional love.
Souls engage in suicide for one of two reasons. Some have chosen too much for a single lifetime experience and are completely overwhelmed. They return Home so that they may evaluate what they have been unable to finish and see what they wish to experience next. Others have completed all they came to Earth to do, and they communicated with other souls, sharing the time and space, and agreed to help with some of their lessons. This would be the making of contracts.
Many were involved in your son’s contracts, some directly and some tangentially. His soul knew when it would be leaving that body and inquired how best to accomplish that in order to give you and the others who remained behind a series of lessons. The lessons centered on guilt, a sense of abandonment, betrayal, and an awareness of the continuity of life.
At a time like this, some relatives, for the first time, explore their feelings about the physical death cycle, life after death, and reincarnation. They search for their sense of what exists for each soul besides the short time it spends on Earth. This is for you to explore who you are and why you are here, and why your son came to be with you.