Is Anna Nicole with Daniel Now?

Anna Nicole Smith

By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway

I have been blogging about Anna Nicole from a spiritual perspective and watching her weird post-death story unfold with great compassion. It troubled me last week to think of her body languishing because I believe the soul will often hang around the body until it is respectfully put to rest.

I felt Anna was waiting to be released. I thought she'd hang around to see her own send off. Perhaps the mini-viewng in the morgue last week by her estranged mother, Stern and Birkhead was enough. Maybe when they saw her dead -- the beauty that made her famous diminished by an embalming that came to late -- it made her death all that more real. Sometimes the spirit can move one once those closest have closure on the death.

Or perhaps she saw them as a pack of vultures swooping down in her remains. In Tibet, the body is left in repose in the home for three days so the soul can depart, then it is carted outside outside for the vultures to take away, piece by piece. By then, the soul knows it is time to let go of it's temporary home -- the body.

Whatever the impetus, I sense she has moved on from the insanity that marks the end of her life. No matter what happens to her body, she is with Daniel. On a soul level, I believe that to be true.

I also believe she was the sole creator of the unusual events of her life, and in her death. Some observations:

* She was a single mother supporting a young son, and building her own life and notoriety, yet she did seem to have a certain kind of "history" with men. First off, even though it is considered a prestigious honor by many, being a Playboy Playmate sort of sets the precedent for a certain approach to life. It is no secret that Anna Nicole shared her beauty, charm and sexuality with guys from whom she also received certain support, financial or material. She may have been trying to rub up against wealth and power just as men around her may have been infatuated with her beauty and fame. No judgement there, afterall, don't we all bring different qualities to a relationship? Maybe in her world it was an even exchange.

* Perhaps Larry Berkhead was the exception. He did not bring prestige or material goods to her life, but he may have provided the blonde, blue-eyed look she was hoping for in a baby girl. He was also a photographer, mirroring her own image back to her. Since she ditched him before her baby was born, it could be said that she used him (if he is in fact the daddy). There was this sense of usery that pervaded her life. Perhaps she used people to connect to the things she craved in life, and people used her to get next to beauty or fame. This energy of usery has followed her to the grave. Is it instant karma? Or simply what she attracted into her life during her life, spilling over into her death.

* She spent 12 years fighting for the millions of her elderly, deceased second husband and built her life around that. She said herself that she was always getting sued for something and that she was always in court. She selected as her best friend, co-hort and possible consort, a lawyer, Howard K. Stern. She married herself to the legal system. I can see how that choice drove her to get lost in a haze of drugs, prescriptions or otherwise.

Her life ends in yet another court battle, one that promises to go on and on, as whoever gets the baby also goes after the bucks the baby may, at some point in her life, be entitled to.

This is part of the legacy that Anna Nicole Smith leaves for her daughter: Court battles ... and not really being able to trust anyone's love because they may be after her (perceived) fortune ... a lot of loose ends ... and a sketchy picture of who her father is. Will there be a way for Dannielynn to win?

In many ways this story shows us that we do create our own reality, and we attract to us people and events that are operating from a similar level of consciousness. Anna Nicole was driven by a hunger for wealth and fame -- it would seem -- so it makes sense the people around her in death may just be reflecting that part of her.

I still have compassion for Anna Nicole. She was an icon, a legend in her own time, a bright light (in her own way) made dim by abuse of drugs and a battle for an old man's fortune that literally robbed her of her life force.

Ann Nicole still deserves a proper burial, with her son, in the spot she selected at her final resting place, or, near her idol Marilyn Monroe. It's bad karma to cart her off to Texas. That is not where she wanted to be.

Everyone now knows that being in the same cemetery as MM was a "dream" of the late Anna Nicole. If Anna Nicole was so very capable of having "friends" buy stuff and pay for things for her in life, why can't one of them cough up the dough to bury her and Daniel in the original burial site of choice? Why hasn't anyone offered?

Let's hope Dannielynn can rise above the darkside of her legacy, even though she begins life with a loss.

The question is: Will Anna Nicole "come back" in spirit to help her little Dannielynn?

Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway is a leading interfaith and non-denominational wedding officiant. She creates unique ceremonies for couples of all backgrounds and faiths, and is also widely recognized as a relationship coach, bridal stress expert and columnist. She is author of WEDDING GODDESS: A Divine Guide To Transforming Wedding Stress into Wedding Bliss (Perigee Books, May 2005) and the new online course, Discover the Goddess. Visit Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway at www.WeddingGoddessWisdom.com.

Posted February 28, 2007 8:23 AM by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway | Permalink | Email This