AboutLaurie Hamilton Expertise I am able to answer questions regarding Scientology practices and procedures, belief system, donations, religious rites, management, administrative and staff matters.
Experience I am a second generation Scientologist whose parents began in Dianetics in 1950 and studied directly with L. Ron Hubbard. I have been personally active in the church for 40 years, have eleven years former staff experience in both technical and administrative areas, and extensive technical and administative training and counseling. I am "clear" and "OT." I come from an extended family of many religions, but my spouse and children are Scientologists, as are my siblings and their spouses, several cousins, nieces, nephews, an aunt, and an uncle. Between us we have had every good and bad experience one might go through in the church at every level.
Yesterday I lost a very dear friend to cancer. I spent a lot of time with him prior to him passing on. However, there are still things I want to say. If I talk to him now will he 100 percent hear me and know it is me? And if so, how do you know this to be true? Is it possible for him to show me in some way he is still here, if I ask? I have read the "person" either always does or often hangs around for the funeral, etc. Thanks.
Answer The way one communicates with a spiritual being, a "thetan," is to intend that they "get" the idea that you have in mind. It is no more complicated than that. But there are no 100 percents.
A thetan has no position in space or time and so, without a body, "is" wherever (if anywhere) they consider themselves to be. So the idea of their "hanging around" may be no more than to continue to be aware to people and places with which they were formerly associated.
I would consider it highly unlikely that a newly disembodied (and perhaps slightly confused or disoriented) being would just instantly let go of all that they formerly perceived as real, important, affirming, and their stable frame of reference. For this reason, it seems as though they almost couldn't help themselves. Most people conceive of their body as their identity. They would likely NEED to cast about for some sense of familiarity or confirmation that, without a body, they are still "themselves." Hence, if you have ideas you would like to impart, I would imagine the recently deceased would get them.
Every person is an individual, however, and every case unique. There are no guarantees, and no way to say exactly this and this will happen.
I can tell you dozens of stories of people who received some kind of communication from recently passed loved ones, almost 100% of these being some form of reassurance that all is well, and not to worry. These range from merely passing thoughts to a vision at the foot of the bed of an evening, to an overwhelming feeling of the presence of the person, to whatever. These experiences are FAR from universal, and in my mind are of the nature that communication with a thetan would have to be - purely subjective-seeming. Very rarely, I've been told of a physical object being seemingly impossibly disturbed (knocked off a shelf, pushed over, shaken, whatever) at the very moment a newly deceased person is thought of or spoken of. But - no - I can offer no idea how you might get a person to "signal" you. There's no formula for making sure such a thing happens.
If you want to, simply get the idea of the person getting the idea that you want them to get. If, thereafter, you get some feeling or an idea of a response, take it for what it's worth. Scientology does not offer techniques for communicating with the departed. Our funerary service is partly in that format (making remarks to the departed), but you could easily view that as being symbolic rather than substantive.
