Aura Chatfield & Frederick Edwards

FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY

Aura May Chatfield
4th of 5 children of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. & Madge Rosa
Born: Aug 30, 1923, Williams, Colusa Co., California
Died: Aug 23, 2014 (age 90), Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California
Occupation: Teacher, lecturer, author, professional pipe organist, Grand Jury member
Avocation: Writer, dream analysis, reincarnation
Politics: Active member of the California Republican Assembly
Note: Honored in Who’s Who
Married: Jun 9, 1945, Frederic(k) Randolph “F.R.” Edwards, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California
One child (two others died at birth): Thomas Clark Edwards

Frederic(k) Randolph “F.R.” Edwards
1st of 2 children of Thomas Burrows Edwards & Lillian Olive (Leather) Hepworth
Born: Jul 9, 1920, Oakland, Alameda Co., California
Died: Oct 21, 2003 (age 83), Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California; pneumonia
Buried: Oakmont Cemetery in Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa Co., California
Military Service: WWII U.S. Naval Reserve, Lt. Commander
Occupation: Security specialist/Mosler Safe
Married: Jun 9, 1945, Aura May Chatfield, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California
One child (two others died at birth): Thomas Clark Edwards

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Timeline and Records

Five children of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. & Madge Rosa:
1. Lillian Chatfield
1912 – 1980
2. Lola Chatfield
1914 – 2005
3. Norma Madge Chatfield
1921 – 2004
4. Aura May Chatfield
1923 – 2014
5. Clark Samuel “Sonny” Chatfield, III
1931 – 2003

Two children of Thomas Burrows Edwards & Lillian Olive Leather Leather:
1. Frederic Randolph Edwards
1920 – 2003
2. Joyce Winifred Edwards
1928 – living in 1940 census

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Jul 9, 1920: Birth of Frederic Randolph “F.R.” Edwards, 1st of 2 children of Thomas Burrows Edwards & Lillian Olive Leather, in Oakland, Alameda Co., California

California Birth Index:
Name: Frederic Edwards
Birth Date: 9 Jul 1920
Gender: Male
Mother’s Maiden Name: Leather
Birth County: Alameda

Aug 30, 1923: Birth of Aura May Chatfield, 4th of 5 children of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. & Madge Rosa, in Williams, Colusa Co., California

1923: California Birth Index:
Name: Aura M Chatfield
Birth Date: 30 Aug 1923
Gender: Female
Mother’s Maiden Name: Rosa
Birth County: Colusa

Apr 9-11, 1930: Federal Census for Williams, Colusa Co., California:
Chatfield, Clark S.: head, age 53, married, owns, value of Real Estate $1,000, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, farmer, 56 animals
Madge: wife, age 37, married, immigrated 1900, naturalized 1903, born Italy, father born Italy, mother born Italy
Lillian: daughter, age 17, born Colorado, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Lola: daughter, age 15, born Colorado, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Norma: daughter, age 8, born California, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Aurmay: daughter, age 6, born California, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy (Aura May)

Apr 18, 1930: Federal Census for Berkeley, Alameda Co., California:
Edwards, Thomas B.: Head, male, age 34, born Wales, father born Wales, mother born England, 1922 yr of immigration, deck hand on So. Pac.-Golden Gate Ferry
Olive: Wife, female. and 30, born England, father born England, mother born England, 1920 yr of immigration
Frederick: Son, male, age 9, born California, father born Wales, mother born England
Joyce: Daughter, female, age 2, born California, father born Wales, mother born England

Apr 13, 1940: Federal Census for Williams, Colusa Co., California:
Chatfield, Clark: head, age 63, married, born Nebraska, manager of stock shipping association
Madge: wife, age 48, married, born Italy
Norma: daughter, age 18, single, born California
Aura May: daughter, age 16, single, born California
Clark: son, age 8, single, born California

Apr 23, 1940: Federal Census for Oakland, Alameda Co., California:
Edwards, Thomas B.: Head, male, age 43, born Wales, stock clerk in University of California clerical storeroom
Lillian O.: Wife, female. and 38, born England
Frederick: Son, male, age 19, born California
Joyce W.: Daughter, female, age 12, born California

Feb 9, 1942: Enlisted in the U.S. Navy; released Oct 12, 1945

World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties:
Name: Frederick Randolph Edwards
Relative Name: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burrous Edwards
Relative Relationship: Parents (Parent)
State: California
Country: United States
Type of Casualty: Wounded In Action

1944: California Voter Registrations:
Name: Miss Aura May Chatfield
Residence Date: 1944
Street address: 1556 University ave
Residence Place: Alameda, California, USA
Party Affiliation: Republican
Occupation: Secretary

Nov 22, 1944: Death of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. (age 68), father of Aura May (Chatfield) Edwards, in Colusa, Colusa Co., California; of edema, after failing in health for some years. Clark passed away in the Colusa Memorial Hospital.

Nov. 23, 1944: Obituary for Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr., Williams, Colusa Co., California:
SERVICES FOR CLARK CHATFIELD AT MASONIC HALL 2:00 P.M. SATURDAY
Hosts of friends of Clark S. Chatfield were deeply grieved yesterday at the report of his death which occurred at Memorial Hospital at 8 p.m. Wednesday evening, where he had been taken earlier that day. His passing culminated a long illness during which time his patience and fortitude were constant sources of wonder and admiration to his family and close friends.

Funeral services will be held at the Mason Temple at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tuscan Lodge 261 will hold services for their departed brother. Rev. Kenneth Holmes will also participate. Interment will be made in our local cemetery.

Clark Samuel Chatfield was born in Tecumseh Nebraska, on June 14, 1876, making him 68 years of age at the time of his passing. He later moved to Colorado where he met and wed Madge Rosa, on May 28, 1911. During their years together Mrs. Chatfield has been more than just a wife; she has been a partner, standing by his side through good and lean years, sharing his fortunes and tribulations with equal equanimity and devotion.

While in Colorado, Mr. Chatfield was employed as an engineer for the Colorado Midland Company later being successfully engaged in the raising of short horn cattle. Because of the advantage of California weather, the Chatfields moved to Williams where he entered the field of agriculture, later being engaged in truck gardening. For the past several years Mr. Chatfield has been manager of the Colusa County Farm Bureau Shipping Association, where with the aid of his good wife, he has given consistently satisfactory service.

As far as his declining health would permit, Mr. Chatfield entered into the civic life of our community and became an integral part of its activities. He had a life membership in the Glenwood Lodge 65, F. and A.M. of Colorado and shared in the privileges of the order in the Williams lodge. He was also a member of the order of the Eastern Star of Eureka, California.

Mr. Chatfield was decidedly a family man, deservedly proud of his fine children, all of whom are particularly close and devoted to their parents. Besides his loyal and steadfast wife, Madge, he leaves five daughters; Mrs. Charlotte W. Putnam, a daughter by a previous marriage, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Lillian Erickson, Mrs. Lola Fabris, Mrs. Norma Forcier and Miss Aura May Chatfield all of Berkeley; and one son, Clark S. Chatfield Jr., better known as “Sonny”.

Four beloved grandchildren, Patricia and Tommy Putnam, Karen Erickson, and James Chatfield Fabris also remain. The eldest of a family of seven, Clark leaves three sisters and two brothers to mourn his loss. They are Mrs. Jacqueline Mallon of Orland; Mrs. Marjorie Tuck of Berkeley; Mrs. Mabel Sawyer of Hemet; Art Chatfield of Vallejo and Lee Chatfield of Butte Meadows.

Clark Chatfield’s kindliness and generosity have long been felt by his host of friends in this county. His personal integrity and his loyalty to business obligations have made him a man to be trusted and respected. In addition, he possessed a saving sense of humor and even when he was most ill, he was always ready with a laugh or a bit of fun. Not only will his loss be keenly felt by the members of his family, whose memories will remain ever fresh, but by those with whom he came in contact through the years of his life in our community.

Wedding invitation for Aura May Chatfield and Frederic Randolph Edwards:

Jun 9, 1945: Marriage of Aura May Chatfield & Frederic Randolph “F.R.” Edwards, in Berkeley, Alameda Co., California. As Aura’s father had passed some months before her marriage, her uncle Lee Tomlinson Chatfield walked her down the aisle and gave away his niece at her wedding at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley.

abt 1952: Birth and death of Kathy Edwards, 2nd of 3 children of Aura May Chatfield & Frederick Randolph “F.R.” Edwards
Note: no record found of infant, died at birth. The baby is mentioned in Aura’s obituary.

Oct 2, 1954: Birth and death two days later of John Edwards, 3rd of 3 children of Aura May Chatfield & Frederick Randolph “F.R.” Edwards, in Alameda Co., California. The infant is also mentioned in Aura’s obituary.

California Death Index
Name: Edwards
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 2 Oct 1954
Birth Place: California
Death Date: 4 Oct 1954
Death Place: Alameda
Mother’s Maiden Name: Chatfield
Father’s Surname: Edwards

1960: Fred and Aura(Chatfield) Edwards:

Mar 11, 1963: Death of Madge (Rosa) Chatfield (age 70), mother of Aura May (Chatfield) Edwards, in Colusa, Colusa Co., California, of a heart attack

Mar 12, 1963: Obituary for Madge Chatfield, Williams, Colusa Co., California:
Madge Chatfield Rites Thursday
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 P.M. Thursday in the Williams Community Church for Mrs. Madge Rose Chatfield, 70, well known and respected resident of Williams for 43 years, who died at noon yesterday in Colusa Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Chatfield was born July 22, 1892, in Italy, and came to Williams in 1920. She was a member of Loyal Chapter, Eastern Star, the Williams Woman’s Club and the Colusa County Farm Bureau and took an active part in community endeavors. Mrs. Chatfield engaged in the buying and shipping of livestock for many years, as did her late husband. She was particularly active in the Williams Woman’s Club and was noted for her ability in arranging flowers. She planned and executed the club exhibit at the county fair for years.

Mrs. Chatfield was a woman of much charm and friendliness and her death has saddened many friends. Her chief interest was her family. She was a most devoted mother. Mrs. Chatfield is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Aura May Edwards of Lafayette, Mrs. Lola Fabris and Mrs. Lillian Erickson of Berkeley, Mrs. Charlotte Putnam of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Norma Forcier of Belmont; a son, Clark Chatfield of Sacramento; sister, Mrs. Ann Bertram of Colorado, 14 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

 

Jan 19, 1970: Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California (pg 3):

Nov 23, 1972: The Californian, Salinas, Monterey Co., California:

Aura (Chatfield) Edwards with her pipe organ, photos undated:

Mar 4, 1981: The Berkeley Gazette, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California (pg 18):

Photo of Fred and Aura (Chatfield) Edwards:

Oct 21, 2003: Death of Frederick Randolph “F.R.” Edwards (age 83),  Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California; of pneumonia

Death Record, Department of Veteran Affairs:
Name: Frederick Edwards
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 9 Jul 1920
Death Date: 21 Oct 2003
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1: 9 Feb 1942
Release Date 1: 12 Oct 1945

My friendship with Aura (Chatfield) Edwards:
In working on our Chatfield line, I tracked down and met Aura, along with two of her cousins, Jacqui (Mallon) Ewing and Patricia “Pat” (Putnam) Benaquista. Our connection: they descend from the Clark Samuel Chatfield line and I come off of Clark’s brother, Isaac Willard Chatfield (so I believe that makes us third cousins). As they had not seen one another in decades, we arranged to meet for lunch as we all lived within an hour or so of one another. Since 2009 we met for a yearly lunch until Aura’s death and talked about family, our lives, and our histories. It was an honor and a pleasure to be able to reconnect these wonderful women.

Note From Jacqui: Pat I had not seen since we were probably four years old and the family visited briefly from Cincinnati. I have NO idea how long since I had seen Aura — could have been 50 years! or more…

Aura was the inspiration of a poem I wrote about our Chatfield line: “Lord Love a Duck” 
My favorite was Ora, a girl of sixteen—eloped with her cousin, caught betwixt and between.
Her beloved was Clara, ten springs older than she, making headlines in Denver with a tad too much glee.
Then along came Ray Sawyer—played the organ in Reno. Wrote a book about gamblers, dice, blackjack & Keno.
His arrest hit the papers for dabbling in crime though we failed to find out if he ever did time.
“Lord love a duck!!!” Cousin Aura did write when I sent her the news of Miss Ora’s plight.
Then with a photo of Ray and clippings besmirched, “Good gracious!” she piped, “what a scandalous search!”

Mar 25, 2013: An email from Aura to me and cousins, Jacqui and Pat.
Chatfields, I am having help with this letter. I have moved again since we met last year. I am now in another residential care facility. Grandson got married this summer and Tom and Libby are on an extended vacation in South America. I am not handling my aging very well. So I will appreciate your senses of humor. I also look forward to another get-together, Aura

Aug 31, 2013, Orinda Country Club in Orinda, California: Aura’s son and daughter-in-law threw Aura a surprise 90th birthday party with cards, a spaceship cake, and a slew of family and friends.

Apr 11, 2014: and email from Aura’s son, Tom Edwards:
Dear All (to cousins Catherine Sevenau, Jacqui Ewing and Pat Benacquista):
I was over visiting Aura yesterday and saw your message on her iPad. I don’t know if you have talked to her (frustrating these days), so I thought I would respond. Aura has trouble communicating as well as moving around. She is confined to a wheelchair and while I think she understands what it is we are saying to her, it is pretty hard to get words out of her. She knows what it is she wants to say, yet can’t formulate or speak the actual words. This, needless to say, is frustrating for everyone. I know Mom would love to see you.
I hope this finds the three of you all happy and well.
Warm regards, Tom

On Apr 11, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Catherine Sevenau wrote:
Hi Tom, The three of us are having lunch with Aura on Monday. I will confirm Sunday with the staff, and we are bringing lunch so they don’t need to make a fuss for us. I spoke to Aura briefly on the phone and that is when I inquired with you if perhaps she had had a stroke. It is okay if she can’t speak. We will just hang out with her.
Thank you so much, Catherine

On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Tom Edwards wrote:
Good morning Catherine:
How very thoughtful of the three of you to come down to see Aura. While she may be unable to vocalize her gratitude, I am sure you will see it in her eyes.
Yes, I will forward to Aura a message that you are coming to see her. However, she can no longer work the iPad so we are at the mercy of the staff to pull up messages, pictures, etc. between our visits. Your call Sunday to the staff to alert them to your visit is perfect.
If possible, while you are there, take a few group pictures and email them to her so they will be on her iPad. I know she will treasure them.
Thanks again Catherine.
Tom

Apr 14, 2014: Our last cousin reunion with Aura:

Aug 23, 2014: Death of Aura May (Chatfield) Edwards (age 90), 4th of 5 children of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. & Madge Rosa, in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California

Aura, the last of her generation, returned to Arcturus (the star just south of the tip of the Big Dipper), catching the tailwind of the 6.1 Northern California August 24th earthquake seven days shy of her 91st birthday.

Aug 29, 2014: Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa Co., California:
Aura Chatfield Edwards
August 30, 1923 ~ August 23, 2014
Resident of Lafayette, CA
Aura passed away peacefully in Walnut Creek on August 23 just seven days shy of her 91st birthday. She was born August 30, 1923 in Williams, California to Clark and Madge Chatfield. She is survived by her son …, grandson …., granddaughter … , great-granddaughter…, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and many close personal friends.

Aura grew up in Williams and attended UC Berkeley where she met her husband Fred. They were married in 1945 and were married until Fred passed away in 2003. Aura and her family moved from Kensington to Lafayette in 1955. As a Lafayette resident Aura became involved with various community service activities including Vice Chairman of Lafayette’s 49 member Blue Ribbon Citizen’s Committee, Vice-Chair of Lafayette’s BART District Study Committee, President, Stanley Junior High School Parents’ Club, and President, Acalanes High School American Field Service Club.

Aura was also active in Republican politics at the local and state level where she was President of the California Federation of Republican Women North and Women’s Vice Chairman for the North of the Republican State Central Committee. Aura also served on the Contra Costa County Grand Jury. As a result of her time on the Grand Jury, Aura also served as President of the Juvenal Hall Auxiliary.

Aura was one of the few female professional theatre pipe organists in the United States and worked for 11 years at the Bella Roma Pizza Parlors in Concord and Martinez. Over the years she entertained hundreds of local school children and various organizations at her home in Lafayette where she and Fred had installed a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ which was originally created for the Loews theatre in Memphis, Tennessee.

To say Aura marched to a different drummer would be a significant understatement. Her oversized round colored glasses as well as her many unique interests clearly put Aura in a different league. In 1967 she began a long self-study process in metaphysics and became a member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, where the was asked to speak on dreams. This resulted in a fascination of dreams and dream analysis resulting in her writing a book on how to interpret and analyze dreams. She spoke frequently to many organizations on dreams. She also was interested in and lectured on reincarnation, UFOs, Karma, and many other subjects covered in parapsychology and metaphysics. Aura was truly a unique individual.

During her life she constantly played bridge and was a member of multiple bridge groups.

Throughout her most unusual life, she made many friends, helped whenever she recognized a need and will be sorely missed by her family and friends. She was preceded by her husband Fred, a son John, daughter Kathy, four sisters and one brother. It was Aura’s wish not to have a funeral. Her ashes will be interred next to her husband’s in the Edwards Family plot at Oakmont Cemetery in Pleasant Hill.

Her usual response to people whom she helped and who asked what they could do for her was “Do some kindness anonymously for someone whom you believe has hurt you in the past or has caused you the most grief. That would be a wonderful gift for everyone concerned.”

One of Aura’s many short stories:
PUNISHMENT
“No! Please! No!” I cried, “What did I ever do to deserve this cruel punishment?” I got no response, so I continued. “Did I say something inappropriate? Will somebody please tell me? Please!”

All of the Committee members started to leave the room, but Voyce my mentor, responded, “You haven’t done anything wrong, neither have you said anything bad.”

“What could possibly warrant such terrible punishment? Don’t I at least deserve the decency of an honest answer?”

“Well, yes, yes you do. You have been under our monitor now for quite some time and the Committee has informed me that an ideal situation has opened up for you on Blue. The Committee decided it is time for you to incarnate there once again for another phase of your soul development.”

“What if I refuse to go? You know you can’t do this to me!”

Voyce patted my hand and said softly but firmly “We just did!”

Voyce, whom many here on the planet Arcturus referred to as “Beloved” has always been my special friend as well as being the Committee’s Soul Advisor, and I had always believed him to be fair, just, and totally devoid of any ego at all.

He continued patiently “We have a perfect vessel for you…”

I interrupted, “But not on Blue, please! Any place but Blue. Why not Venus? Blue was what we on Arcturus all knew as Earth, the Planet of Suffering. It is also a very appropriate place to be sent to for punishment and that was one of the reasons that made me so unhappy.

Voyce continued, “You will actually have some adequate preparation time before this occurs. It is Blue’s Christmas season and your mother-to-be has just realized she is pregnant. If all goes well, you won’t be born until the end of the month of August. You will be a middle Virgo, which should make your personality fit their textbook interpretation, with no cusp advantages. Her due date is around August 30th or 31^st in the Blue year 1923.”

“Why a Virgo?” I wailed. The Committee members had already left and I was now alone with Voyce. I was very upset, but I also had to acknowledge that he always knew what was best for me, and my soul development.

“Voyce,” I pleaded, “Why must I go back there? I love it here.”

“I know, but your to-be mother vessel has never forgiven you for the male incarnations you both had together in Rome as gladiators. You actually stole ‘his’ lover away from ‘him’ and ‘he’ vowed to avenge this loss. So now, since ‘she’ has been selected as your new mother, you can work out your differences while living in the same family. She will be your parent and you will be her child. But this time both of you will be females instead of males feuding over the same female – and you may not remember, but she eventually chose you. It’s going to be painful for you, but at the same time it is a truly magnificent opportunity for you to completely erase the negative karma that was created by ‘his’/’her’ intense hatred of you. She is still harboring those feelings without even knowing it. It won’t bother you because you were the winner. It goes without saying that neither of your will have the opportunity nor the need to meet the woman you both loved centuries ago.”

“Oh, Voyce, I guess you’re right, but I don’t want to leave Arcturus.

It’s been a perfect place for me. No conflicts of any kind. No difficult learning experiences. Can’t I stay here a little longer? Please? I love being here.”

“No, this basic opportunity may not repeat again with this particular soul for eons. You can do it! And yes, it will be difficult, but it’s a perfect situation for you to become the fourth and last biological daughter of this woman. You’re strong enough to handle the opportunities that will be created specifically for your spiritual growth.

The planetary influences of Virgo will be just right for your personality, and the house location where you will be born, is right on our fly-way to Mount Shasta, in the northern part of the State of California. I promise you that I will personally check in on you every now and then, especially when your spirits are low. I’ll help you surmount the difficult obstacles that are going to be presented to you in order to test your character.

“You will not be happy very often and there will be times when you will want to prematurely end this project, but you must never take your own life! NEVER! You already know that you will never be given more than you can handle nor less than you deserve. You also know that every created soul operates under this Law of Love. And we both know that you can make greater soul strides on Blue than on any other planet. You wouldn’t prefer Mars, would you?”

“Oh, no! Not Mars. But why do I have to go through so much in one lifetime?”

I could sense that Voyce was becoming tired of my delaying tactics and complaints, but I kept hoping Voyce might have a sudden change of heart. He didn’t.

“Because,” he sighed, “the Age of Aquarius is going to become influential around the year 2000 and the Earth grids will be opening and there will be many, many changes of all kinds occurring on that planet. It will be an exciting time for you to be alive and a great time for you to finish several of your personal soul projects. If you can learn to monitor your own behavior you will move up on the progress reports and be one giant step closer to God.”

I thought about that for a while and then I asked, “I’d love to peek in on the family I am going to be joining. Is the mother the only one I have known? Have I ever known anyone else?”

“Only the mother. She will be the single controlling influence in your formative years. She personally does not want to carry another child, and the father definitely does not want another girl baby. You see, he lost a wife and 2 young sons to scarlet fever, an illness from which his only daughter (soon to be your eldest sister) survived.

“The relationship of the husband and wife is a strained one. The father is presently in good health, but he will gradually become incapacitated and will die about the time you reach the age of 21. The family will never have what they consider to be ‘enough’ money. The United States of America is just getting ready to go through a depression and times will be hard, and will soon be even harder.

“You will never starve but you will never have much discretionary income. You will eventually learn to manifest what you really need, but this will not occur until you are mature enough to actually realize how little anyone needs. Your ‘wants’ will be another story.

“No one in your family will understand you. You will be considered ‘weird’ and actually they will not like you very much – and neither will your peers. We will see to it that you will have some of the great natural talents you developed during previous lifetimes on Blue. These talents will be instrumental, no pun intended, in many of your successes and also many of your failures. You will have more than your fair share of both.

“You will not experience having many close or intimate female friends. Your uncanny insight will make many people feel uncomfortable in your presence. This talent will often convert your plusses into minuses as far as relationships are concerned. But you will be able to maintain a fairly even balance between your male and your female inclinations and you will always understand the fundamental differences between right and wrong behavior.

“Your life will be a very difficult one, and you will be forced to learn how to maintain a cheerful attitude at all times, no matter how painful the circumstances that will be presented to you. And believe me, they will be painful. But many of them will also be so unusual that no one will even be concerned about the impact they might have on you. You’ll learn to live with that.”

The thought of my new life on Blue saddened me. I began to cry.

“How long will my life on Blue last?”

“You know the answer to that, child. If you are able to complete all of your designated and agreed-to tasks, you will probably outlive the rest of your this-time family, and your life will be considered successful. But if your way is blocked and it becomes evident that you cannot possibly do that, you might as well die – that is, unless, however your need is to survive so that someone else may have the opportunity to study their professions through or because of your survival. One of these situations will undoubtedly fit into your life. But I am not going any further than that on this matter.

Your experience in this coming lifetime has already been placed into motion and you are going to manifest a life filled with unusual experiences that many souls could not even live through. You are even going to make it look easy.

“All I can say is that no one is going to feel sorry for you, nor will they care much about what happens to you. You will probably be able to count on your fingers those who really love you during this coming lifetime, though the hundreds of people you will help along the way will always be grateful for your genuine caring about them and their problems. But, that’s what life on the Blue Planet is all about.

“Just remember that few souls are given so many opportunities for growth as you will have, so don’t blow it and have to do a repeat. Actually experiences that will follow after this time will be easy – compared with the one you are about to go through.

“So this is the end of our discussion. You will soon be assigned to the Release Mount in order for you to have adequate time to prepare for your new venture. I will look forward to your return and ultimate review of your accomplished tasks. You will know how well you did if our Judgment Day Committee appears to you in person when you are on the threshold of your spirit leaving your physical body at the exact time of your death. I expect their grades to be more positive than negative. So until we meet again.”

My feelings were those of sadness, and almost desperation as I went to the Ready Room, got into a PR (Preparation Receptacle) and cried myself to sleep, only to wake up several weeks later in a strangely different receptacle similar to those I’d seen prior to reincarnating previously on the Blue Planet. It was a female womb and I was in the birthing process – still crying, kicking and screaming, and hearing someone saying, “It’s another girl! Healthy and strong.” Then I felt the hand of a giant grab me up by my legs and swat me on the behind. What a humiliating way to introduce someone as important as I was on Arcturus into the world environment on Blue. I suspect that it was that slap that totally erased my past memories.

Still wailing, I expressed my indignation, my total dislike and my utter contempt for such a barbaric civilization, at the same time praying that this lifetime coming upon me so harshly, will pass quickly and that I don’t have to go through this ridiculously cruel discipline ever again. ~Aura Edwards

2020. Catherine (Clemens) Sevenau.