Today's news.
“Some Mother’s Son: I have heard, (indirectly), that some form of information gathering has been activated since I passed on the possible name for Some Mother’s Son to the Cornwall Coroner’s Office on 24th October. I will e mail them again on Friday 28th November to ask if I may have any updates.
For those that haven’t heard, I was given a possible name for SMS via a Facebook page on the 23rd October. SMS’s skeleton was found in a field at Trethill Cliff, Tregantle, just West of Plymouth, UK on 22nd January 1982. His body had been there for several years.
According to documents that were found with him we are making the assumption that he was British and that he was almost definitely in the Merchant Navy.
The gentleman whose name I was given was apparently in the Merchant Navy and went to join a ship in Plymouth in the 1970’s. He went missing in Plymouth and it is believed that this person remains missing to date.
I will post any updates I receive both here and on appropriate Facebook pages and Forums that I have been using these past months”.
Today’s Blog.
If I was to write a book about unidentified bodies, called Dot Dot Dot, how might the introduction to the book go?
It would have to focus on the large number of bodies, let’s say in the UK to start with, that remain unidentified. It would concentrate on those bodies found since the 1960’s, but when time allows, it would go further back than that.
Why do some of our fellow human beings end up (temporarily) categorised as unidentified? Why are so many people unidentified? How does a human being become an unidentified body? Is it our job to identify them? And if it is, how do we go about identifying them?
Why do some of our fellow human beings end up (temporarily) categorised as unidentified? Can we make this a simple answer? I can try.
-People remain unidentified because since being found they haven’t been missed, and therefore no one is looking for them. They are not categorised as missing.
-Those professionals or volunteers who are trying to identify them do not have the information yet to identify them.
-There may be relatives and friends of the unidentified who do know who they are but for one reason or another do not wish to recognise them or help in any identification.
-(Any other simple answers that you know of please do send to me).
Why are so many people unidentified?
-People’s lives vary. In the times we live in, and on the Planet we live on, a society has been created where certain people go missing, and certain people end up (temporarily) unidentified.
-As a society, we live fast lives. We leave these people behind.
-We live in an ever-increasingly complicated world.
-We try and work mysteries out with our minds. We forget the power of our hearts and intuition.
-We need to concentrate more on the past and the present.
-We need to believe in the possible, not the impossible.
How does a human being become an unidentified body?
What if the answers are simple?
-What if accidents were not so-called accidents, and were actually manifestations of a difficult life lived and were the consequence of a soul’s purpose to give personal meaning to their life lived?
-What if, (and I write this as sensitively as is humanly possible) the unidentified are totally at one with the ending of their physical lives and how it panned out?
-What if, the way to identify these people is to accept there is no mystery for the unidentified, only mystery for us, those trying to identify?
-What if, these people are ok, and that they are asking us to realise this, and that to identify them we need to work with them and to treat them as our helpers?
-Everything has an explanation. Rest, relax, enquire, listen to our hearts and intuition, and wait for answers, don’t strive for answers.
Is it our job to identify them?
How to answer this simply?
-Follow your heart. Follow your intuition. If it feels right, it probably is. If it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. You’ll soon know if it’s your job to help.
And if it is, how do we go about identifying them?
As I move through these questions, the words simple and simplify keep coming up. Thank goodness for that! At first glance, and to be honest at second and third glance, the mystery surrounding unidentified bodies can feel a massive strain on the brain and on logical thinking, but this is where we have to have a change of direction.
And I can feel myself finding a very good theme for the Dot Dot Dot book. The theme is simplification. How do we identify people?
-Work out if it’s your job to do so.
-Start trying.
-Take it easy.
-Talk to the unidentified. Work as a team with them.
-Offer your help to them. Ask if they want help and see how life pans out for you.
-Helping to identify people should be peaceful, easy, and not stressful.
-It might take time. It might take a long time. But we need to settle into their lives, not drag them into ours.
Working with Some Mother’s Son has been amazing. I first looked at his headstone in June of 2024. I started seriously working around Christmas, gave a talk in February and then worked gently on the internet, on and off, for about 6 months. I keep listening to my heart, and it still feels good to carry on, even waiting this month, doing virtually nothing to move things forward, just trusting that I will hear progress from the Coroner's Office. I know the ball is still rolling. I can feel it.
So, the Dot Dot Dot book has to radically simplify the mystery surrounding the Unidentified Body field and has to pull all the positive forces surrounding the phenomena to initiate identifications, with the supreme permission and help of the temporarily unidentified.
It can be done. I know it can.