Get Us Out of Here

By Nicky Eltz

A little prelude first.  This book was recommended to me by an old school friend that needed facebook to reconnect.  She is a devout Catholic and very sincere in all her words and deeds.  As a news tag-line hype-line, the clairvoyant interviewed in this book says through her channels with the dead that when a charismatic wealthy person becomes a leader in the western world, it will mark the beginning of the second coming…the end.  This book and it’s review were both a challenge for me.

This book is essentially an interview of a mystic named Maria Simma.  Maria is a mystic, a product of Austrian mountain culture, and a devout Catholic.  Her life spanned through the 20th century and as such she witnessed radical changes in the Catholic Church going from Vatican I to Vatican II.  It is an event  where the consequence to  the unsuspecting eye, 98% of the world, and a very high percentage of Catholics goes unnoticed or under-appreciated; according to Maria. 
  

While the subject of the interview is Maria’s mysticism.  I’ll call it that to be clinical, however the subjects she speaks to will challenge the paradigm of most readers.  For Maria it is not about her mysticism as she see that as normal.  It’s a matter of her view on Catholicism.  In reading this book: If you are a Catholic, you will question just how good of a Catholic are you.  If you are not a Catholic and even worse one of those Catholic bashers, this book is good material to fodder your bashing cannon.  So be it.  But here is the deal, Maria communes with the dead…that’s right…those Poor Souls whose bodies have expired, yet they appear before her with a message and requests.  Who are we mere intellectuals, products or a Western education system that is hell bent and whiskey bound to keep God out of schools, prodigies of science, to question someone who has born witness…and brought results from an ‘experiment’ we have not prepared ourselves for and therefore not conducted?   I am just putting it out there.

The key word here is ‘appear’ before her.  Apparitions, perhaps you should Google it before you read more.  While you are at it, Google Marian Apparitions.  Or, if Catholicism challenges you, Google Macbeth Apparitions.  Was Shakespeare a goof?  We teach Shakespeare in public schools but not Christianity.  In any event the subject of apparitions is only the landscape that may challenge your constitution, the core of your belief system.  The message of the Poor Souls will challenge your ways and means, so much so that you will tend to discard the whole interview as fraud.  It’s easy to lean on science as your podium when you may be on the edge of the wrong side.  However careful you may be,  you may find ironically that science, the study of the unknown that requires faith to pursue its answers comes up empty handed.  So with that jab, one that is often self inflicted on us all, perhaps you would continue reading with an open and receptive mind.

A little on the message.  Maria sees these Poor Souls.  They converse.  A few tenants come out that challenged me.  There is a heaven, it’s a place.  There is a hell, it’s a place.  There is purgatory, it’s a place.  We live only one life…as a human being.  Every one of these tenants do not fit my paradigm.  That is until though I did not read anywhere in the interview were those places are or how they are defined I could still apply it to my belief system.  When I consider alter realities and multiple time continuums, subjects of science and science fiction, I allowed myself to read on.  The message through Maria is when we leave our present body, we will end up in one of these places.  The majority end up in Purgatory which most know as a weigh station en-route to heaven.  Poor Souls stuck in Purgatory come to Maria asking her to pray for them, as its these prayers that enable them to pass on to heaven.  So within this context, the interview offers ample dialogue on how we must pray for each other, both while alive and deceased.  

Maria discusses, as an intermediary of the Poor Souls, how we in our current lives may be carrying, be at the effect, of the sins of our fathers.  For me there is much more to this than just prayer obligations.  It is not expounded on in the book and so I am not prone to place blame on Maria, but rather the interviewer Nicky Eltz.  Praying for each other suggests there is a holy spirit founded in the concept that we are all ONE through all of time.  This is my paradigm and it allowed me to read on.  Though again if we are all one and come together through prayer, I have a major challenge at least to Eltz.  Missing is the chapter on love, Christ’s prime message.

Instead the interview captures all the doctrine and dogma of the Catholic Church.  Here, you as a Catholic discover the gaps in your life style.  As a non Catholic you say SEEEE!  But to all, the Catholic doctrine and dogma prescribes a ways and means that elevates one’s conscious towards God and Jesus Christ’s message..still alive and well 2000 years later.  Essentially you approach life with a sense of humbleness, and grace.  You go through life with a sense of reverence towards the grace of God who provides just the right dose of reward for your ways and means.  If you are lost on the right dose, attend a Catholic Mass.  Done right, a criticism of the Poor Souls conveyed through Maria, one comes away with a deep appreciation of the consecration of the host…the body of Christ. 

We all have heard or used the phrase about friends coming to dinner over dinner; “breaking bread”.  It’s where we kiss and make up.  So pause and mediate on the Last Supper where Christ says.  “Take ye and eat ye all of this For This Is My Body.  Do this in remembrance of me.”   His message.

I’ll leave you with this, expressed in scientific terms,  to ponder on:  If apparitions are real as witnessed by so many people over time, then could you hypotheses as Catholics do, that Christ truly exists in that consecrated host.  If so, you come to appreciate the reverence that is due in the way you live your life.