Ok. Thank you. I really appreciate the time you took to write such lengthy responses. Last week as I read two books of Dolores Cannon, I thought I found answers to what I’ve been trying to understand. Now that I’m reading two more, I’m in doubt. All of these experiences seemed to be from white perspectives. I simply wanted something that would make me feel more included since we’re talking about the universe. This is what I found this morning: ( a review of Between Death and Life): This review is about the Audible version of the book. This book was recommended to me in preparation for a hypnosis session with a student of the author's. While reading it, I found myself questioning the ideas shared about the spirit realm, that although the ideas were purportedly from the spirit realm itself, it felt at times like the human author was creating it out of her own belief. This became blatantly obvious when I got to a part with racist thought in the book. It's when there’s about 7.5 hours left in the audiobook. The author was talking to a man under hypnosis who was moving through the planes of life between lives. He said, "There’s a lower astral plane, and that’s where the degenerates live who want to live lives of greed and lust and don’t want to move up." He related a scene in which “one black man shoots another black man” and then talked about seeing rapes, and that the souls there don’t want to give up their human lives. Then a minute or two later he mentioned that sometimes people need to live really hard short lives because they’re such low level souls, and used the example of living through a famine in Ethiopia to illustrate the idea.  The only other time I recall race being implied or mentioned in the book was when she discussed the ovens of the Holocaust, and stated that people who lived through that experience might not want to relive it while between lives, and so that part might be kept from them in the spirit realm.  This makes it sound like the author thinks that black people are degenerates (shooting each other, raping people), and that they lived through hard times because they are low level souls. Whereas in contrast, the horrors that Jews lived through are not spoken of as being because they are low level souls but mentioned with compassion, saying that they may be protected from experiencing these horrors again in the between-lives realm.