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Spirit Messages to My Mother Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange El espiritismo de las mujeres puertorriqueñas: MONSERRATE RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ DE CONESA De las extraordinarias pioneras a sus herederas contemporáneas 2009 Spirit Messages to My Mother Monserrate Rodríquez Díaz de Conesa Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/espiritismo_monserrate Part of the Oral History Commons Recommended Citation Compiled by Gilda Mirós. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the El espiritismo de las mujeres puertorriqueñas: De las extraordinarias pioneras a sus herederas contemporáneas at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in MONSERRATE RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ DE CONESA by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPIRIT MESSAGES To MY MOTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY MONSERRATE COMPILATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILDA MIROS MONSERRATE 1946 – CONESA LOSSERES CORP. - 2010 Gilda Miros “Was without a doubt, outstanding in her field in the New York market,” according to H. M. Levin; radio veteran of Latino broadcasting in the U.S.A. "Her popularity; not a transitory phenomenon, has been solid for decades, and she maintains her singularity as a personality of radio.” Gilda Miros has starred in movies, theater and TV in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the USA. She transmitted live radio from Latin America; plus produced, directed and narrated various documentaries; including one in Vietnam. Gilda was the first Latina to host a daily four hour live national radio show; Miami, Los Angeles and NY; also producing her show "Amorosamente" in Spain. Mirós established an inimitable audience and prestige due to her knowledge of Latino cultures. Gilda narrated “The Puerto Rican Day Parade" for English/Spanish; TV. Columnist; “Imagen Magazine” N.Y. “Selecta Magazine” Miami. She produced the 65th Anniversary of the Sonora Matancera in Carnegie Hall and Central Park, NYC. Miros was granted The Medal of the Virgin of the Providence by the Archdiocese of New York City and multiple awards from LatinACE, NY. In Puerto Rico; “Paoli and “Agueybaná Awards,” plus other international awards. Mirós was Latino spokesperson for the March of Dimes; the Eye Bank of NYC, and dubbed Spanish to “Mother Angelic Live” Radio/TV. Narrated audio guides for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Her first book: “Celia Cruz; Sonora Matancera” 2003. “Portrait of Puerto Rico” 2005. "Hortense and her Happy Duckling” 2006. In 2008: “Memorias de los Espíritus y mi Madre.” 2 My mother Monserrate received messages from another dimension since childhood; but born to a strict religious family her wish to share the non - traditional spiritual messages was impossible. It was not until adulthood that she was able to reveal this marvelous gift from God. The meaningful and loving messages from progressed spirits continued until she crossed over at ninety years of age in 2006. In a mutual effort to improve our earthly world; now we can share the words of wisdom that enlightened entities transmitted in a spontaneous and simple language; uplifting our souls and hoping to bring love, joy, spiritual advancement, harmony and peace to all. These messages came from what is called the beyond; a spiritual realm. Consciousness is the only indisputable everlasting vehicle in the universe; and that consciousness survives the body at death. Monserrate now in the spirit world; which is the real world; says: “I know I was not worthy of His tender love; He gave me peace within my soul, and just one task to do; to share His love with you.” We hope to arouse your expansiveness of soul; pausing to be more sensitive; so perceptive that you can feel the petal of a rose falling on your cheek or the kiss of a snowflake. You can hear many beautiful things when you respect the silence of your own feelings. The spirits affirm that to change our world we must change our thoughts; however you must believe it. G.M. 3 My Blue Book 1963 Monserrate; Dear ones; this blue book, as I call it; is the fruit of an abundant crop from the garden of my life; of the visible and of the invisible worlds; a simple phrase that enfolds much. God was compassionate granting us the opportunity of finding each other again in this lifetime. Feeling distant from the earth, and in oneness with God; inspired by His Illimitable Love that is a divine beacon; l pray for support before beginning. Take me in your arms beloved Creator, protect me from negativity, fill me with spiritual vitality and humility, because l possess nothing; I know it well. Guide me; and we will begin at once in peace, with your divine grace, and your pure universal energy; bond of brotherhood, emblem of faith, love and charity. I invite my brothers/sisters, to drink this small glass of water in the form of a book; hoping that it will quench their spiritual thirst. Believers, non-believers, skeptics, lets all work together; expecting miraculous benevolent changes in our lives, if you have an inkling of faith; knowing that God, the Divine Consciousness, is felt in all creation, in all eternity. Beloved entities in the spiritual dimension; the genuine world of the living; I dedicate this book from my soul to you. You inspired, sustained, encouraged, and stimulated me to write these humble, definitely not eloquent lines; but with great love and devotion to God. His peace reigns within you, dear altruistic souls. His abundant tree of peace will give us all shade. 4 With infinite love, respect and gratitude to our beloved mother and Grandmother; Monserrate Rodríguez Diaz, 1915 – 2006, who understood, believed and was grateful for her gift and its responsibilities. CONTENT 1. My blue book Page 4 2. Spirit messages Page 15 3. Short spirit stories Page 56 4. A love story! Page 120 5. Past lives Page 136 6. Appendix Page 427 We are indebted to God; to our guides, and to our vast spiritual family; especially Helena, Luz, Alberto, Yamara, Magdalena and Miroslava. 5 December 25, 1955. Spirit of Yamara: (Monserrate’s guide/control.) Come dear one with me, come with me. You will be amazed at how quickly we will arrive; here time does not exist; therefore it does not limit us in any manner. Come, yes, without fear, where absolute security dominates; inviting to search for the truth. Accompany me with the certainty that you will not go astray, and I will carry you down the most extensive road that you have ever glimpsed, where happiness is not a fleeting fantasy. Here there is pure light that does not blind, and without being hot, it will enliven you in its totality. You will experience the most inexplicable happiness in your soul; you will see that in that light, without changing intensity, there is an infinitesimal of color tonalities that do not have an equal in the terrestrial atmosphere. Each color will bring you memories; an emotion and a balm that will make you realize that this is the peace that other conditions cannot offer or explain. The serenity that will invade your soul is the venerated amazement of the spirit before so much greatness. Perhaps you will not understand totally what you see or what you feel, but then that presentiment will take effect; and it will be easier for you to accept your condition. Thus you will be on another path; the serene road of the truth and love that leads to God. Come with me to learn what charity is and how to apply it. What love is and the reason that sentiment moves us. Today is Christmas, a day on earth as so many others, and an insignificant instant here in space. 6 Some incarnate souls are celebrating the Nativity of Jesus, and at that precise moment there seems to be more devotion on earth; therefore we the disincarnate souls, together with the humans, take advantage of that peace, to practice charity. The souls feel that great unique emotion, all God, called love. This brief union of thoughts of the souls in the universe facilitates the instruction for progress and the application of love and charity, as a base toward the truth, toward God. Come with me dear brother/sister, so we may pray; to pray is to labor; asking for all the blessings of the Omnipotent. Let us pray for the ones that are in conditions that need offerings, because of their pains and spiritual miseries. Not only the body suffers but also the soul feels the moral load of a negative action; therefore let us pray, and with praises to the Omnipotent let us ask for peace on earth, and for the rapid healing of the illnesses that destroy matter and depress souls. Let us pray for the unhappy ones that man’s law denies the sunlight. Let us pray for the many elderly that barely live in asylums that only offer corporeal shelter. Let us pray for the demented, that more than most need caregivers with knowledge and spirituality. We must not forget our prayers with much joy for the children, because Christmas is the kingdom of the children. Today, the many sick children as well as the healthy ones have been recipients of attentions in some form or another. Finally let us pray for our spiritual brothers/sisters that read this book today, and are also in need. 7 Those noble spiritual entities in turn, will bring a balm of happiness as an offering; contributing if only a droplet of aid in our constant struggle to make the world a happier place, and to live eternally in the love of God.
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