“Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned and when we are ready and willing spiritually to discern, we shall find a ready response from the invisible into the visible. Let us do our work conscientiously and thoroughly and leave the results to the Law which is perfect. A new light is coming into the world. We are on the borderland of a new experience. The veil between Spirit and matter is very thin. The invisible passes into visibility through our faith in it. A new science, a new religion, and a new philosophy are rapidly being developed. This is in line with the evolution of the great Presence and nothing can hinder its progress. … The Truth will out, the Spirit will make Itself known. Happy are we if we see these things which, from the foundation of the human race, have been longed for by all aspiring souls. Ernest Holmes

In my last blog, I shared that more would be revealed as I moved through the unfolding of my healing from the loss of our dear Miss Kitty. And yes—more knowing is coming as I open to my intuition and trust the mourning process. For those reading this for the first time, I was recently thrust into spiritual discernment through an event I did not consciously choose: the sudden and violent death of our beloved Miss Kitty, taken by a stray dog. This tragic moment forced me to rethink my beliefs about life and death. It has become a profound test of whether what I claim to believe is truly embodied within me.

What I am realizing is that believing is not hoping or wishing. It is harmonizing our inner being with a frequency that has not yet collapsed into form. When we do this, visible form becomes inevitable. Ernest Holmes, Founder of the Science of Mind, would call this becoming the thing. Spirit creates by becoming the thing It seeks to express. The only way we can become the thing is to enter the feeling tone of that vibration. Belief, then, is frequency entrainment.

As I work through my mourning and grief, I am discovering how belief can shift my experience and lead me toward peace. I will be honest—I am not fully there yet. I am in process. Yet every day since Tuesday, December 2, as I continue to reframe those final moments when Miss Kitty left this time and space, I am healing.

I am choosing to understand—through my belief in a higher order—that what appeared violent was, in truth, the near-instantaneous release of form into energy. This perspective has changed the very geometry of my grief. Not by lessening my love or sorrow or by suppressing my feelings, but by viewing the experience from a wider, eternal lens. It became mine to discern spiritually rather than remain trapped in the relative world of effects and trauma.

I now begin to see her as energy. I am beginning to feel her presence as I reinterpret her passing as a transition from form into waveform. Perhaps this is why, as Religious Scientists, we call death transition.

This is the sacred science of believing. Beliefs can be changed, and this makes it a science: it is repeatable, demonstrable, and transformative. As I open to a new understanding of her transition, I feel supported by the Universe in my mourning. I still long for my fur baby, but now my longing is bathed in its true essence—the energy of Love.

This is where science becomes sacred. This process is not stored in my brain; it is the work of the heart, attuning its beliefs to deeper universal truths.

What if we believed in Love not as a memory but as a waveform, waiting only for our coherence to feel it? Have you not felt the presence of those you have lost—however faintly? That is not imagination. It is your field tuning into their wave.

Miss Kitty is no longer in form. She is frequency. My belief does not bring her back—it brings me into coherence with where she now exists. I am not creating a truth; I am aligning with what has always been. This is the sacred science of believing.

I am reminded of the Bible: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” —1 Corinthians 13:12.

I understand this more deeply now. I understand that in order to heal from trauma and loss, we must:

1. be willing to heal,
2. open to the unseen realm of Spirit,
3. give the process time,
4. honor all our feelings without allowing morbidity to infest the soul,
5. continue to meditate, pray, and listen, and
6. remain persistent. Healing is not instantaneous.

Yes, “Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned, and when we are ready and willing spiritually to discern, we shall find a ready response from the invisible into the visible.”

Universal Law simply waits for us to be open, willing, and clear in our request.

Love and Aloha,

Rev. Dr. Rita Andriello-Feren, Author, Founding Spiritual Director CSL Kaua’i, Founder of the Red Dress Movement, Co-Host of the From Woo Woo to Wow Wow! Podcast
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