1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast DAM paranormal 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: podcast network. No, I'll get ready for another episode of 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: Shades of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: The thoughts and opinions expressed by the host our thoughts 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 2: and opinions only, and do not necessarily reflect those of iHeartMedia, 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: Iheartradios to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: sponsors and associates. You are encouraged to do the proper 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: amount of research yourself, depending on the subject matter and 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: your needs. 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 3: Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've 11 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 3: been on a journey to prove the existence of life 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 3: after death. On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: now know that our loved ones have survived physical debt 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 3: and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 3: on our time together today, I want to feature your 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 3: stories now. You may not have written to me, but 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 3: other listeners have, and many have posted within our Facebook group. Sandra, 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 3: You say I didn't know we had a Facebook group, 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 3: Oh well we do. Go to we Don't Die dot 20 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: com and on the top of the page it says 21 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 3: their Facebook group. Please join there's a lot of like 22 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 3: minded people, and I'm sure they'd love to hear your 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 3: story as much as you love to hear theirs. So 24 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: today we're going to be featuring some fellow listeners stories 25 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 3: and then also in our last segment, you're going to 26 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 3: hear from one of our community members named Kathy, who 27 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: gave the address on our free Sunday gathering. If you're 28 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 3: new to Shades of the Afterlife, every Sunday for the 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: past four years, we have a free, non denominational service 30 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: of sorts. It's fun, We've got music videos, we share 31 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 3: some inspiration, and there's a medium demonstration included. Did I 32 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 3: say it's free. Just recently, Mom Kathy told her story 33 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 3: of her son's passing and the signs she's received from him. Also, 34 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 3: she shares some very special words about grief and taking 35 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: care of ourselves through the grieving process. She also mentions 36 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 3: my book We Don't Die and refers to chapter ten, 37 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 3: which is all about grief. If you do not yet 38 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 3: have a copy of the book and you want a 39 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: PDF version that you can read online, you can have 40 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 3: it again website We Don'tdie dot com. Scroll to the 41 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: bottom of the page, just enter your name and your 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: email address. It says just the few chapters you'll receive, 43 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: but it is the entire book. And then just fast 44 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 3: forward to chapter ten. All right, ready for some stories. 45 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 3: Let's meet some of your fellow Shades of the Afterlife 46 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 3: listeners and hear the signs and other incredible stories that 47 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 3: they've experienced. Leah says, when my father died in his 48 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 3: nursing home, I was cleaning out his room and I 49 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 3: was crying with my daughter. Suddenly there was an energy 50 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 3: that came across the room and up my body, taking 51 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 3: away all of my sadness, and I felt happiness and 52 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: felt him right there with us. At the same time, 53 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 3: my daughter said to me, Mom, did you just feel that? 54 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 3: We both started to laugh. We felt like this was 55 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: his presence and message to us that everything would be 56 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: fine now. The day before, when we were told my 57 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 3: father had died, I brought my mother in to see him, 58 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 3: and she was laying across him and crying, and I 59 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 3: was holding her from behind. As she held him, I 60 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 3: had my eyes closed, and I was shown in my 61 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 3: mind what felt like a movie. I could see my 62 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: father as a little boy with blonde hair, running through 63 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 3: a beautiful field and he was running to his father, 64 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 3: who had his arms outstretched reaching towards him. His father 65 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 3: was killed in an accident when he was only six 66 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 3: years old. I've had many experiences and messages from those 67 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 3: I love who have crossed over. Always makes me so 68 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: happy to get these messages and I know they are 69 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 3: always with me. Here's a story of healing from LJ. 70 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: I've had so many encounters with spirit, beginning at age eleven, 71 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 3: But what thoroughly convinced me and forever transformed my way 72 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 3: of viewing absolutely everything was a spontaneous, complete healing of 73 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: a crippling condition I had in two thousand and nine. 74 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 3: I had been having severe pain and struggling to stand 75 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: and to walk for over a year. The pain in 76 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 3: my limbs was so bad I was at the point 77 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 3: of begging for elective amputation just to make it stop. 78 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 3: If I hadn't been a single mom with two kids 79 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: who loved me dearly at the time, I may have 80 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 3: ended my life. The pain was that bad. Then one 81 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 3: morning I was awakened by a voice in my room 82 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 3: telling me to get out of bed, to stand up, 83 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 3: and to walk. Oddly enough, my first thought was not 84 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 3: why is there a voice of an unseen entity speaking 85 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: to me. Instead, I began a telepathic conversation in which 86 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 3: I argued that I wasn't able to do what I 87 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: was being asked. There was a bit of back and forth, 88 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 3: including talk about whether or not I could take a 89 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 3: pain pill or muscle relaxer. First I was told no, 90 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 3: not any of those. Finally I did what the voice said. 91 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 3: I stood up and took a couple of tentative steps, 92 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 3: and I was shocked to find that I was both 93 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 3: steady and pain free. Here's what Jeanne says. My wife 94 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 3: of twenty eight years passed away unexpectedly last year at 95 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 3: the age of fifty one. The grief was intense and overwhelming. 96 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 3: Several weeks into morning, I had to know what her 97 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 3: last moments were like and started reading about near death 98 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 3: experiences and the afterlife. That's when I started listening to 99 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 3: Sandra's podcasts. Knowing that we don't die and she's just fine, 100 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: I started talking to her. Oftentimes, when it's quiet or 101 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 3: I'm spiritually focused on her, I can hear faint conversations 102 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 3: and ethereal music that in itself is reassuring, but I'm 103 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,239 Speaker 3: also partially deaf. I shouldn't be able to hear anything 104 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 3: at all, but it comes through so softly. The words 105 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 3: are muddled or maybe in another language, probably Latin. It's 106 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 3: akin to listening to music on a speaker set at 107 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 3: its lowest volume. As time moves on, I hope the 108 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 3: volume goes up or the words start to come through sharper. 109 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 3: But for now, I find peace and comfort when I 110 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 3: hear her gently singing to me. Kenda says, I once 111 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 3: recorded a spirit audio session during which one spirit person says, 112 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 3: there's her guide, General Davis. Another male voice quickly responded, yes, 113 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 3: that's who I was even more interesting, in my opinion, 114 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 3: I could hear them talking as I stood there holding 115 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 3: the recorder. I also receive precognitive messages from spirit from 116 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 3: time to time, messages concerning future happenings. Aaron says, just 117 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, I was reading on the couch 118 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 3: on an early morning, and out of nowhere, Alexa pipes 119 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 3: up with happy birthday to you. Would you like me 120 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 3: to play a birthday song? It wasn't my birthday, but 121 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 3: it was my deceased brother's birthday, and I had been 122 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 3: thinking about him all morning, And says, I have had 123 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 3: coins feathers, heard music, have seen objects move, seen the 124 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 3: spirit of my aunt in my bedroom, and have had 125 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: phone messages from a relative. Also, I've smelled perfume and 126 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 3: pipe tobacco. Kim says I caught my mother in law 127 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 3: say I am here on a recorder. She also says, Sandra, 128 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 3: I'm so thankful to have discovered you through shades of 129 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 3: the afterlife. I am learning so much. Please don't stop sharing. Kim, 130 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 3: I will not rue, says, I have so many experiences. 131 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 3: My most precious one is from my husband when he 132 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 3: left his body in twenty twenty one, and of course 133 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 3: I was devastated. I was desperately trying everything I could 134 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 3: to get a sign from him. I decided to try 135 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 3: EVP Electronic Voice phenomena, and I asked my husband to 136 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 3: say my name, and I got a recording of him 137 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 3: clearly saying my name, and it was in his voice. 138 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: I have compared it to other videos where he has 139 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: said my name when he was in his physical body, 140 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 3: and he says it exactly the same way. He has 141 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 3: sent tons of other special signs, but that's the one 142 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 3: that amazes me the most. Jennifer says, I've received so 143 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 3: many signs. I felt my mother's touch three times within 144 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 3: five minutes. It felt as though she was tucking my 145 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 3: hair behind my ear, just as she used to do 146 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 3: when I was a child. Last month, I asked for 147 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 3: a blue feather from her. I went out into the 148 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 3: yard a few two weeks later and saw this stuck 149 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 3: down into the ground. She included some pictures of a 150 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 3: big blue feather stuck straight down into her grass. Speaking 151 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 3: of feathers, here's a story from Claudia. It's seven years 152 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 3: now after my son David passed, and although I haven't 153 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 3: had a dream visitation, I have had many signs. One 154 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 3: of my favorites. I was cranky and walking the dog 155 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 3: one day and thinking of David, and I saw a 156 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: bunch of feathers. To me, that's not evidence, I said, David, 157 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 3: there are birds outside, and there are going to be 158 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 3: so many feathers. You're going to have to do something 159 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 3: better than that. The next three days in a row, 160 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 3: I found one single feather in the center of my kitchen. 161 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 3: I wonder, how in the world did he do that. 162 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 3: Karen says, my dad died in nineteen ninety one. One day, 163 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 3: about two years ago, I decided to ask my dad 164 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 3: for a sign. I do it every now and then, 165 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 3: and I do get them, but this one was the best. 166 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 3: I asked for a for sure, I know it's you sign. 167 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 3: While I was in the garage. A couple days later, 168 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 3: my husband went to renew our license plate. They told 169 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 3: him my plates were ten years old and needed brand 170 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 3: new plates in Minnesota. You get the plate they hand you. 171 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 3: He came back with our new plates and they had 172 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 3: the last four numbers of our old phone number growing up. 173 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 3: My mom still actually has that number. It's so funny 174 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 3: because I use those four numbers for so many codes. 175 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 3: I definitely knew it was a sign for my dad. 176 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 3: Good work Dad. Oh, And the other three letters were 177 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 3: the same exact ones from my old plate, making it 178 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 3: easy to remember. Glory says, I know there is an afterlife. 179 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 3: Have experienced many things that convince me, one being the 180 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 3: death of my younger brother, who later came through by 181 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 3: me speaking to him through a great psychic. Howard gave 182 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 3: such detailed evidence that the psychic could not have known 183 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 3: it was really a thrilling experience. Also, Howard has figured 184 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 3: out how to use his energy to manipulate the electricity 185 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 3: in our house, turning lights on and off to let 186 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 3: us know he is present. How cool is that? That 187 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 3: is definitely really cool. Well, it's time for our break 188 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 3: and we'll be back with more stories from your fellow listeners. 189 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 3: You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio 190 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 191 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 4: Stay there, Sandra will be right back. Hey, the Coast 192 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 4: to Coast Dam Ritue channel JAM. Go to Coast Ghostdam 193 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 4: dot com for more information. 194 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 1: Hey, this is George Nori and you're listening to the 195 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost Dam Paranormal Podcast Network. Thanks 196 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: for being here. Now let's get back to more with Sandra. 197 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain 198 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 3: and this episode we are sharing your fellow listeners stories 199 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 3: and experiences about signs and the afterlife. This next story 200 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 3: is by Jackie. She says, my siblings and I suddenly 201 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 3: unexpectedly lost two brothers who passed two years apart. I 202 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 3: found comfort from your podcasts, Sandra and website back then later, 203 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 3: when my father died, I knew he was in a 204 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 3: better place, free from arthritis and pain. When replaying your 205 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 3: podcasts about varied signs that others have received. I told myself, well, 206 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 3: it won't be feathers, since I have so many from 207 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 3: all the wildlife that fly into my yard. The next morning, 208 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 3: I looked into my backyard. There stabbed into our artificial 209 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 3: grass was a long black feather twirling around in place. 210 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: When I looked away, the twirling stopped. When I returned 211 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 3: to my gaze, the twirling began again. I smiled and 212 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 3: said out loud, Hi, Dad, I miss you. Jackie's story 213 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 3: reminds me of a video that I had seen on 214 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 3: YouTube not that long ago. 215 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 5: Oh. 216 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 3: It was a woman who had set up her camera 217 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 3: and she was adorning the grave site around her son's 218 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 3: headstone with flowers and a little fence to make it 219 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: look nice. She also had there an ornamental fan, one 220 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 3: of those fans that when the wind hits it, it 221 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 3: twirls and all kinds of beautiful colors show. There was 222 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 3: no wind that day, and every time she spoke to 223 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 3: the sun, the fan began to spin. It was a 224 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 3: rather emotional video, as you could feel the mother's pain 225 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 3: of losing her son, But when she spoke to him, 226 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 3: that fan turned, and even when she asked it to 227 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 3: spin the opposite direction. It stopped and spun the opposite direction. 228 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 3: Gave me goosebumps to watch. Another listener sent me a 229 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: video that she was talking to her grandmother who is 230 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 3: in spirit, and she had one of those lamps with 231 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 3: a dimmable light bulb, and she would talk to her grandmother, 232 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 3: asking her to turn on the light, and very slowly 233 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 3: the light turned on, and when she asked her to 234 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 3: turn it off, the light turned off. She went back 235 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 3: and forth several times talking to her granny, and it 236 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 3: made me think, why not get a little child's fan 237 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 3: or something with no wind around, or that dimmable light 238 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 3: and talk to our loved ones and see if they 239 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 3: can practice moving things in time and space. Here's our 240 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 3: next story. Stacy writes, my grandfather came to me in 241 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 3: a dream and told me he had passed over. He said, 242 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 3: don't worry, I am fine. He told me that he 243 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 3: had a secret hiding place and I needed to go 244 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 3: find it and where it was, and that there would 245 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: be something for my uncle. I woke up from that 246 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 3: dream at five am and told my husband about the dream. 247 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 3: Later that morning, I found out that my grandfather had 248 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 3: passed exactly at five am, and yes, I eventually found 249 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 3: that hiding place and in it there was a surprise 250 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 3: for my uncle. That dream changed my life. Julie says, 251 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 3: I've had many signs. After my daughter passed at seventeen 252 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 3: years old by suicide in a single car accident, she 253 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 3: showed me in my mind's eye upon waking up a 254 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 3: couple days after her death what she experienced in being 255 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 3: bullied by several girls who had been her friends and 256 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 3: a sexual assault by a boy at school. I was 257 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 3: able to confirm all of this after her passing. The 258 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 3: girls went on to bully another boy, and my daughter 259 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 3: told me about it in my mind, so I talked 260 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 3: to him. He confirmed and went to the school and 261 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:07,239 Speaker 3: informed them. He credits this with saving his life and 262 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: calls my daughter his guardian angel. She also sends me 263 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 3: huge feathers, plus bluebirds and huge hawks fly right over 264 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 3: my head. Let's talk about quarters. On the first year 265 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 3: of her passing, I received a letter she wrote freshman 266 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 3: year to her senior self. The teacher sent it since 267 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 3: she knew I would want to read it. Inside there 268 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: were five quarters that confirmed to me that the quarters 269 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 3: really are from her last I want to share with 270 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 3: you that a big sign I get are finding heart 271 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 3: shaped rocks. Ramona says, I know there is an afterlife. 272 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 3: When my mom passed away in twenty seventeen, I wasn't 273 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 3: looking for any spiritual groups, but by coincidence, I found 274 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 3: a lady drawing live on Facebook. As I'm watching her 275 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 3: drawing a female face, I was quite shocked to see 276 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 3: more and more the resemblance of my mom. So I'm thinking, no, no, 277 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 3: that can't be. She's just passed a few months ago. 278 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 3: But the more she came to finishing her drawing, it 279 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 3: was indeed my mother. Even though the drawing wasn't finished yet, 280 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 3: she started to write things down, like details about the 281 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 3: house my mom lived in, that she had four of 282 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 3: us girls, and that in her garden she grew fruits 283 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 3: and vegetables. She talked about my mom what she'd look like, 284 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 3: as well as Grandpa and the funny Holland shoes he 285 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 3: wore while working in the yard. She even gave birthdays 286 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: and other relevant numbers. I sent her a picture of 287 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 3: my mom and she says, Yep, that is the woman 288 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 3: I saw. I should also mention that some mediums have 289 00:19:55,119 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 3: brought through my sister on Sandra's Sunday gathering. Thank you 290 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 3: world for your support and helping me through this tough time, 291 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 3: Jenny says, on March seventh, twenty twenty three, my twenty 292 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 3: one year old second born son was killed instantly on 293 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 3: his motorcycle. He and I had taken meditation seminars a 294 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 3: couple of years before his death, and we had talked 295 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 3: many times about the afterlife. When he died, I would 296 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 3: meditate and he would be there with me. My eyes 297 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 3: were closed, yet I could see him and feel him. 298 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 3: It was incredibly peaceful, these images of him moving and 299 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 3: floating in front of me, laying his hands over my 300 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 3: heart as if trying to heal me. He was there 301 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 3: with me every day for a couple of weeks, just 302 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 3: like that. We then started having conversations and would find 303 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 3: ourselves in different places, walking in a field of flowers 304 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 3: or along a beach. He would tell me how happy 305 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 3: he was in that he is not alone, and that 306 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 3: there are many people with him, and that he is 307 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 3: still here with us, and how glad he was that 308 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 3: we were his parents. I started reading books instantly about 309 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: the afterlife. I would hear stories of people seeing spirits. 310 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 3: I continued meditating and prayed for that to continue happening 311 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 3: with me. One week, I meditated every day for two 312 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 3: hours or more. One evening, as I lay in bed meditating, 313 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 3: I opened my eyes and saw my son's spirit. He 314 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 3: was floating upwards towards the ceiling. I saw a beautiful, 315 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 3: peaceful upper body image looking down at me. Behind him 316 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,199 Speaker 3: were all these tiny little heads clumped together in a 317 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: cloud formation. It looked like the image of people walking 318 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 3: into New York City from above, so many people hovering 319 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 3: behind him. I closed my eyes tight and opened them again, 320 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 3: thinking it would go away, But it didn't. He was there. 321 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 3: I laid an awe and watched him as he receded 322 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 3: back into all of the other tiny souls, and then 323 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 3: they all went away. Since then, I have had three 324 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 3: dream visits. One of them rocked me to the core 325 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 3: and I couldn't keep from crying the whole next day. 326 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 3: It was such a real visit, and I felt like 327 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 3: I had lost him all over again. I was grateful, 328 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 3: yet torn apart. In November, I went to a one 329 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 3: week advanced meditation seminar with doctor Joe Dispenza. We meditated 330 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 3: for about thirty five hours that week. One of the 331 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 3: meditations was at four a m. And it was four 332 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: and a half hours long. It was in this meditation 333 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 3: that I started to feel this tingling sensation all around 334 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 3: my upper torso and the top of my head. I 335 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 3: was excited because I had been praying that I would 336 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 3: leave my body and get to experience what it's like 337 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 3: to elevate outside of our own physical existence. That didn't happen, 338 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 3: but ever since that meditation, I get that tingling feeling 339 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 3: multiple times throughout the day. I now believe that it's 340 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 3: my son's spirit when he is close. It is absolutely incredible. 341 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 3: We are coming up on the year anniversary and I'm 342 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 3: slowly learning how to have a new different relationship with 343 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 3: my son, a spiritual one versus a human one. I 344 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 3: believe that heaven is all around us. I believe that 345 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,959 Speaker 3: trauma can open up gifts that so many other people 346 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,919 Speaker 3: wish for. I am learning to be grateful not for 347 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 3: the loss of my son, but for the experiences that 348 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 3: I have had since then. Thank you for your show 349 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 3: and all that you do, Sherry says Sandra. I feel 350 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 3: like I've witnessed the soul leaving the body. My father 351 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 3: passed with a rare form of cancer. Even though my 352 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 3: brother and I were expecting his death, you know, it's 353 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 3: still a shock. During the thirty six hours, my father 354 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 3: was unconscious and gasping for each breath. Honestly, if someone 355 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 3: had told me I would pray for my father to die, 356 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 3: I would have said they were crazy. I didn't want 357 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 3: to see him suffer every day. Our pastor was there 358 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 3: and said a special prayer. One day. As she said, amen, 359 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 3: I saw changes happening. Very quickly, my brother ran to 360 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 3: get the nurse. She came in and put a stethoscope 361 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 3: to his neck and pronounced him dead. Even though I 362 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 3: was expecting it. I collapsed into the nurse's arms, and 363 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 3: as I looked over her shoulder to my father, I yelled, 364 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 3: weight there is something going on. The only way I 365 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 3: can describe it, for example, is if you've ever seen 366 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 3: a cigarette burning in an ash tray and the sun 367 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: hits the smoke. This is what it looked like, smoke 368 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 3: that came out of my father the's mouth and nose. 369 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 3: My brother saw it as well and said, Sherry, that's 370 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 3: the spirit leaving his body. My brother and I have 371 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 3: not talked about this since, but I know I witnessed 372 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 3: something very special. When you hear these stories, doesn't it 373 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 3: help make you feel like these things are possible in 374 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 3: your life. I went on Amazon and bought myself a 375 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 3: children's windspinner toy, and I also think by learning to 376 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 3: quiet the mind and meditate, there's a whole world available 377 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 3: to us. We just need to practice and explore. 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The next one I'm going to read, 398 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 3: We're going to do a shout out to Oscar who's 399 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,719 Speaker 3: a truck driver in Florida and he listens to Shades 400 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 3: of the Afterlife as he drives. He said he's originally 401 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 3: from New York City and moved to Florida in early 402 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 3: twenty twenty. Here are his words. When I left New York, 403 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 3: my mother was diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer's and dementia. 404 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 3: I had older sisters that would care for her. I 405 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 3: am the only boy and the youngest my mother had. 406 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 3: My two sisters are about ten years older than me. 407 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 3: In July of twenty twenty one, I received a call 408 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 3: from my sisters saying Mom has taken a turn for 409 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 3: the worst. Without hesitation, I packed the car and made 410 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 3: the twenty two hour road trip along with my wife 411 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 3: and son back up to New York City. We all 412 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 3: were with her for the weekend. She was coherent and 413 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 3: saying some words like she was happy. We were all 414 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 3: there with her. We stayed about two days until it 415 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 3: was time to get back to Florida because of my job. 416 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 3: Soon as we got back to Florida, two days later, 417 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,479 Speaker 3: my mother had passed away. I was broken inside. I 418 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 3: was happy to say goodbye, but of course I was distraught. 419 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 3: The next day after she passed, I believe I had 420 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 3: what you call a lucid dream. I was in my room, 421 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 3: laying down where I was not completely awake nor asleep, 422 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 3: and I kid you not, my mother walked into my room, 423 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 3: clapping her hands and calling me Nanny, a childhood nickname 424 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 3: she had for me. She was happy and sort of celebrating. 425 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 3: She came over to me and kissed me on my cheek. 426 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 3: It felt as if she was really there. I literally 427 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 3: felt her lips on my cheek. I could then remember 428 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 3: sitting up and tears began to run down my face. 429 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 3: It was an experience I've never had in my life. 430 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 3: I felt overwhelmed with joy, as if my mother was 431 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 3: telling me she's no longer in pain. Connie says, My 432 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 3: mother in law died in November of two thousand and seven. 433 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 3: I had an experience in early two thousand and nine 434 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 3: with her. I was washing dishes at my kitchen sink, 435 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 3: just meditating on nothing in particular. Suddenly I saw her 436 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 3: in my mind's eye. She was smiling and said, I've 437 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 3: got a secret. I thought, what do you mean. You 438 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 3: can't do that to me, tell me the secret. Two 439 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 3: weeks later, my son, who lived in California at the time, 440 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 3: called to tell me they were expecting a baby. I 441 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 3: believe my mother in law knew about Madison before they 442 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,479 Speaker 3: knew our Next story is from Kaylee. She says, so, 443 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 3: I just listened to one of your past podcasts about 444 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 3: signs from loved ones who have passed. I've gotten so 445 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 3: many signs from my brother, from waking up to a 446 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 3: phone call from his old cell number that had been 447 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 3: disconnected and a voicemail of all static and faint music 448 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 3: in the background. I will meditate and ask him for signs. 449 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 3: Sometimes he will leave me a white feather in one 450 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 3: of the spots I frequent over several times a day, 451 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 3: like on top of my jewelry box or on my 452 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,719 Speaker 3: bathroom sync. He's manipulated my phone to show me things 453 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 3: he wants me to see several times. Actually, as he 454 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 3: had a degree in cybersecurity, so it comes as no 455 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 3: surprise to me that he was always doing things on 456 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,959 Speaker 3: my phone and showing me things I needed to see 457 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 3: when my grief was just too blinding. He has shocked 458 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 3: me into oblivion many times. When I would ask for 459 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 3: a sign, things would happen, like lights going on and off, 460 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 3: words coming out of my child's mouth, TV channels being 461 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 3: changed by themselves with the remote, or something would just 462 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 3: shock me, and I'd hear his voice almost like he 463 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 3: was yelling at me, saying I'm here. It is me. 464 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 3: I could write a book about all the ways my 465 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 3: brother has shown me that he is still very much 466 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 3: alive and well. I was a non believer in life 467 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 3: after death before his loss, and I was a huge 468 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 3: skeptic even when I began receiving these signs. He and 469 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 3: I used to talk about it frequently in joke, if 470 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 3: we're going to go to the Flying Spaghetti Monster when 471 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 3: we die, or if we're just poof gone. For a 472 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 3: long time, I tried to disprove that these signs were 473 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 3: from him, but every time I found no logical explanation. 474 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 3: For ninety nine percent of them. Our next story comes 475 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 3: from Julie. I'm finding that my husband is communicating with 476 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 3: me from the other side when I need it the most, 477 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 3: and it brings me great comfort. Also, my intuition is expanding. 478 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 3: I've had some remarkable experiences in this life life. Back 479 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 3: in two thousand and one, my fourteen year old niece 480 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 3: Tiffany passed away from a beasting. In early two thousand 481 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 3: and three, she came to me in the middle of 482 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 3: the night and began communicating telepathically. She looked about thirty 483 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 3: years old, and I vividly saw her in the upper 484 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 3: right corner of my mind's eye. I wrote down everything 485 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 3: she said, then sealed the paper in an envelope and 486 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: put it away for safe keeping. I didn't tell a 487 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 3: soul until her grieving mother, Kathy, called me and said 488 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 3: she was desperately seeking communication with her daughter. She just 489 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 3: needed to know that she was all right. Cathy had 490 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 3: gone to mediums and psychics, but none were able to 491 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 3: connect with Tiffany. She was heartbroken. I hesitantly told my 492 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 3: sister in law that Tiffany had come to me one night. 493 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 3: She asked me what she said, so I got the 494 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 3: envelope opened up the paper and read what I had 495 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 3: written down. None of it made sense to me, but 496 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 3: to her mom, everything made perfect sense, and she was 497 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 3: assured her daughter was alive and well. On the other side, 498 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 3: the things she said brought real comfort to her mother's 499 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 3: grieving heart. Incidentally, Tiffany had had a vision from a 500 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 3: girl named Isabella who told her that she was coming 501 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 3: soon to get her. This was about two weeks before 502 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 3: she died. Tiffany was furious because she thought her sister 503 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 3: Jenny was playing a mean prank on her. Thank you 504 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 3: for taking the time to read this. This shining Light 505 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 3: Mom says, I lost my only beautiful son, Alexander, to 506 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 3: fentanyl poisoning in July twenty twenty. He had just turned 507 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 3: twenty one. My life has been transformed in many ways, 508 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 3: particularly spiritually, since his death. The intense grief is something 509 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 3: that I continue to navigate and explore creative ways to 510 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 3: heal from. I I know for certain that he lives 511 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 3: on because I too, have had some extraordinary communications from him, 512 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 3: and I believe that he continues to send me signs 513 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 3: and messages through my iPhone in the form of photos 514 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 3: and songs. About ten days after Alexander died. I was 515 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 3: walking on trails in a beautiful nature reserve in southern California, 516 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 3: through a wild landscape of tall trees, both alive and dead. 517 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 3: The trail led me to a peaceful valley with the 518 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 3: lake fields of lush grass, marshes, water reeds, and cows grazing. 519 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 3: I was singing a song that I had made up 520 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 3: for Alexander as part of my mourning ritual, and connecting 521 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 3: with this powerful sense that Alexander was everywhere without and within. 522 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 3: Suddenly my cell phone began to play music all by itself, 523 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 3: something that had never happened before nor since. The song 524 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 3: was a band that Alexander listened to when he was younger, 525 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 3: titled it Ends Tonight by All American Rejects. I had 526 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 3: never played this music and didn't know that Alexander had 527 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 3: downloaded it into my iTunes account years ago. The song 528 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 3: was powerful and the lyrics were so incredibly relevant to 529 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 3: the circumstances of his death. A disturbed mind, a falling star, 530 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 3: falling alone, isolated, and the repeated chorus when darkness turns 531 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 3: to light, it ends tonight, it ends Tonight. I was 532 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 3: alarmed and felt that the song was dark and angry, 533 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 3: but on reflection, the lyrics gave me some insight into 534 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 3: what may have been going on within his mind and emotions. 535 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 3: I felt that he was in trauma, and through the song, 536 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 3: he was communicating to me in a way that he 537 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 3: was not able to voice when he was alive. He 538 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 3: had always been secretive, guarded, and hard to converse with 539 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,439 Speaker 3: about his feelings and what was going on in his life. 540 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 3: He lived in a skin that always gave the impression 541 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 3: that everything was fine. It was a deceptive mask. A 542 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 3: few days after the song, I sat down with my husband, stepson, 543 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 3: and his girlfriend to watch a movie on Netflix. We 544 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 3: wanted to find a comedy to lift our spirits. There 545 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 3: were two colored windows that always appear on the screen 546 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 3: for our Netflix account, one with my husband's name and 547 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 3: the other with zand for Alexander. The two windows appeared, 548 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 3: but suddenly the color and letters of the zand window disappeared. 549 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 3: A white border then appeared around the window with an 550 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 3: X across it. I was alarmed, but I felt Alexander's presence. 551 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,240 Speaker 3: This mysterious deactivation of our son's account was not initiated 552 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 3: by either of us, and we could think of no 553 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:03,959 Speaker 3: rational explanation. One more story. About two weeks after Alexander died, 554 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 3: I was sitting with my husband in our backyard at dusk. 555 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,839 Speaker 3: We heard an owl hooting far away to the right 556 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 3: side of our house, and soon afterwards we heard the 557 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 3: hoot much closer on the left side of the house. 558 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 3: Seconds later, the hoot sounded directly above us. We looked 559 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 3: up and saw a huge owl perched on the very 560 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,240 Speaker 3: tip of a dead bamboo shoot, about twenty feet high, 561 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:35,520 Speaker 3: completely exposed with the darkening sky surrounding it. It was 562 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 3: a great horned owl, which I had never seen in 563 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 3: our neighborhood, and have never seen any owl perching in 564 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,879 Speaker 3: such a clearly visible and exposed position. My husband ran 565 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 3: into the house to fetch his binoculars. I moved closer 566 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 3: to the owl and sat on a low wall. I 567 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,160 Speaker 3: spontaneously began to talk to the owl lovingly, and we 568 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 3: had a conversation of sorts. I spoke, the owl hooted. 569 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 3: I spoke, the owl hooted again, and this exchange went 570 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 3: on for a minute or so. My husband returned to 571 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 3: get a closer look, but the owl spread its beautiful 572 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 3: large wings with white feathers on the underside and flew off, 573 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 3: soaring up into the night sky. This was such a profound, magical, 574 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 3: and mysterious visitation. I listened and watched for the owl 575 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 3: for many nights, hoping for a return visit, but we 576 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,479 Speaker 3: never saw or heard it again. It turns out great 577 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 3: horned owls have long been associated with the ability to 578 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 3: connect with the heavens. When you see one, it means 579 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 3: trusting that you are connected to the source, even if 580 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 3: you don't have physical proof. 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This 601 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 3: is free show audio, so don't wait. Coast to coastam 602 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 3: dot com is where you want to be. Welcome back 603 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:00,720 Speaker 3: to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Every Sunday, 604 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,440 Speaker 3: I offer a free inspirational service online. We call it 605 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 3: the Sunday Gathering, with a medium demonstration included. Recently, one 606 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:16,319 Speaker 3: of our community members, Kathy, gave the address. Here are 607 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 3: her words, as she not only has some incredible signs 608 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,280 Speaker 3: from her son, but she has some important words about 609 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,080 Speaker 3: self healing. 610 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,879 Speaker 7: I'd love to share with all of you my own 611 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,799 Speaker 7: personal story, and then I want to focus a little 612 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,680 Speaker 7: bit on self compassion and how important it is in 613 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,600 Speaker 7: the grieving process. Our beautiful son, Sean was only twenty 614 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 7: two years old when he passed a fentanyl poisoning, and 615 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 7: as you can imagine, that took us to our knees, 616 00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 7: literally physically and literally. So every night after he passed, 617 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,319 Speaker 7: I would have nightmares of being murdered, just. 618 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 8: In one way or another. And that went on for 619 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 8: about a month. 620 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 7: And then two days after his memorial, I thought, oh 621 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 7: my god, I can't go to bed one more night 622 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,360 Speaker 7: and be murdered. So I begged my son, Sean, please 623 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,960 Speaker 7: come just come tonight, just one night of reprieve. And 624 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,960 Speaker 7: early that morning, I woke up and I saw a 625 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,239 Speaker 7: vision and it was like a tall being, like eight 626 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 7: foot tall, and it almost looks like the Oscar statue. 627 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,280 Speaker 7: And it showed up in my dear friend Joanne's house 628 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,600 Speaker 7: and it said telepathically to me, Sean's not. 629 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,160 Speaker 8: Coming to you. He's coming to Joanne. 630 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,359 Speaker 7: So I woke up and I thought, what the heck, 631 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,399 Speaker 7: and then I kind of blew it off like we do, right. 632 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,840 Speaker 7: So two days later, Joanne came down and took me 633 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,280 Speaker 7: out to dinner just to get me out of the house. 634 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,240 Speaker 7: So we went out to the restaurant and I actually 635 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,000 Speaker 7: told her about my vision, and then that was that 636 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,759 Speaker 7: until I was driving home. And when I was driving home. 637 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,520 Speaker 7: I was listening to a podcast about a woman who 638 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,760 Speaker 7: had gotten a text message from her son three days 639 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,160 Speaker 7: after he passed. And I don't know what overcame me, 640 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,560 Speaker 7: but I turned off the radio and I screamed at 641 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 7: my Shawnee like I'd never even screamed at him when 642 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,480 Speaker 7: he was here. And I screamed at the top of 643 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,640 Speaker 7: my lungs. Butterflies and dragonflies are not cutting it. I 644 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,319 Speaker 7: want an email or a text message if I'm going 645 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,880 Speaker 7: to go forward. And I know that sounds so bratty, 646 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:13,719 Speaker 7: but it just. 647 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:14,960 Speaker 8: Flew out of my mouth. 648 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,320 Speaker 7: And with the dragonflies and the butterflies, ever since he'd passed, 649 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,799 Speaker 7: I would literally be being die bombed by dragonflies and 650 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,680 Speaker 7: butterflies would swirl around, And in fact, yesterday was his 651 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,440 Speaker 7: three year anniversary. And the other day I was on 652 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,040 Speaker 7: the phone with a dear friend crying about Sean. And 653 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,239 Speaker 7: as I'm talking this, dragonflies around. 654 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,200 Speaker 8: My car on the freeway. So it still is happening. 655 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,240 Speaker 7: So anyway, that's what I said, and then I forgot 656 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,719 Speaker 7: about it, and I went into my house and I 657 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,359 Speaker 7: got a phone call from my dear friend Joanne. She says, 658 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 7: kat I never checked my emails on the weekend, but 659 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,080 Speaker 7: something just nudged me to check my emails, and she said, 660 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,640 Speaker 7: do you know who Clyde Butterfield is? And I said, no, 661 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 7: I don't know who Clyde Butterfield is. And she showed 662 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:05,440 Speaker 7: me this. This is the email she got and it 663 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 7: says from Clyde Butterfield to Joanne and all it says 664 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,719 Speaker 7: in one word, Sean in bold letters, and at the 665 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,480 Speaker 7: bottom you can't see, but it said sent from my iPhone. 666 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:17,799 Speaker 8: So now I was blown away. 667 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,840 Speaker 7: I knew my son was trying to connect me, but 668 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,400 Speaker 7: I had no idea how, and so I talked to 669 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,120 Speaker 7: his siblings and all of his friends. Because Sean's very 670 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,799 Speaker 7: funny and would have these different characters. Nobody knew who 671 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,200 Speaker 7: Clyde Butterfield was. So I went to bed that night 672 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 7: and I knew that he was trying to connect with me, 673 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 7: but I didn't know how. The next morning, I woke 674 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,360 Speaker 7: up and I was still in a daze, and so 675 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,719 Speaker 7: my husband took her youngest son out surfing for the 676 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 7: day and I allowed myself just to stay in bed 677 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,279 Speaker 7: and cry all day till finally something told me I 678 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:51,280 Speaker 7: need to get up and get. 679 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 8: Something to eat. 680 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,359 Speaker 7: I went down and I was in the kitchen when 681 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,000 Speaker 7: this voice said to me, you need to go out 682 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,759 Speaker 7: and look through Sean's things. Now, I know this might 683 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 7: sound strange to you, but I I've had these connections 684 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,320 Speaker 7: my whole life, and I am bold enough to sometimes. 685 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,279 Speaker 3: Argue with the voices too. 686 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,160 Speaker 7: I was actually arguing to see, I don't want to 687 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,000 Speaker 7: go through his things. 688 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 8: I've already been through so much pain. 689 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,759 Speaker 7: But the spirit went out, and so I went in 690 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 7: the garage and it literally was directing me to look 691 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 7: at which pile flip papers over, and I'm following the directions, 692 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,120 Speaker 7: and I found this beautiful letter from Sean. 693 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 8: It was a Mother's Day letter. 694 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,120 Speaker 7: And I hear the voice and it says, that's not it. 695 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,479 Speaker 7: Look down on the right and flip one page over. 696 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,800 Speaker 7: I look down on the right, I flip a page 697 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,200 Speaker 7: over and look what I found. 698 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:36,320 Speaker 8: I was blown away. 699 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,600 Speaker 7: I don't remember Sean making this. Maybe he made this 700 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:40,080 Speaker 7: when he. 701 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 8: Was a child. I have no idea. I don't remember this. 702 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,560 Speaker 7: And there's a mom and Sean and he actually even 703 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,440 Speaker 7: wrote butterfly and dragonfly and pointed the arrows to it. 704 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 3: Kathy shows a picture of a drawing her son maid 705 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 3: only of a butterfly and a dragonfly. 706 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,360 Speaker 7: Well, the minute I saw this picture, I heard my 707 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,560 Speaker 7: son's voice in my head and he said, see, Mom, 708 00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 7: the butterflies in the dragonflies count too. So at this moment, 709 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:12,280 Speaker 7: I saw just how much compassion my son was showing 710 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 7: me and the beautiful people in spirit were showing me, 711 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,239 Speaker 7: and I knew that I needed to show myself that 712 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,080 Speaker 7: same amount of compassion to be able to get through this. 713 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,719 Speaker 7: I had talked to my dad and his wife the 714 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,120 Speaker 7: next day. Clyde Butterfield was my dad's wife's brother in 715 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,880 Speaker 7: law who had passed five years before Sean passed. His 716 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,040 Speaker 7: wife had shut down his email right after he passed, 717 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,080 Speaker 7: and he had no iPhone. It's just such beautiful evidence 718 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,080 Speaker 7: that in the spirit world there's so many people who 719 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:43,760 Speaker 7: are helping. 720 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,000 Speaker 8: It just blows my mind. 721 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,239 Speaker 7: And I also have to give credit to my son 722 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,919 Speaker 7: for the humor of just putting Sean. 723 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,839 Speaker 8: In bold riding like I'm here. 724 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,880 Speaker 7: I'm just so grateful to all the beautiful souls in spirit, 725 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,520 Speaker 7: the people in spirit that I've met who've shown so 726 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,239 Speaker 7: much love. There's so much love for all of us. 727 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,480 Speaker 7: They're just right there rooting us on it's amazing. So 728 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,400 Speaker 7: I want to talk a little bit about how we 729 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,799 Speaker 7: can give compassion to ourselves when we're going through something 730 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 7: like this. Sandraw wrote a great book, We Don't Die, 731 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,000 Speaker 7: and there's a chapter that talks about how grief actually 732 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:25,480 Speaker 7: physically affects you. It's not just emotional. We're literally physically suffering. 733 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,040 Speaker 7: This isn't just something that's in our head, and we 734 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,200 Speaker 7: need to give self compassion during such a traumatic time. 735 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:34,239 Speaker 8: So what did this look like for me? 736 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,640 Speaker 7: Sometimes it look like getting massages, going to the beach 737 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,920 Speaker 7: and talking to God all the time, getting extra sleep, 738 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:48,439 Speaker 7: allowing myself to sleep in, eating healthy foods, researching voraciously 739 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,719 Speaker 7: about the afterlife, getting support from a grief therapist, and. 740 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,680 Speaker 5: Guess what other times it includes going to in and 741 00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:00,759 Speaker 5: out burgers a lot and eating cheese fries and burgers, milkshakes, 742 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,520 Speaker 5: allowing myself days in bed just to cry, not forcing 743 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,879 Speaker 5: myself to go out and be with other people when 744 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,600 Speaker 5: I didn't want it, and trying not to beat. 745 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,680 Speaker 8: Myself up for all of it. 746 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,200 Speaker 7: Sometimes it's just like the song says, we need to 747 00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,640 Speaker 7: just kind of let it be. We need to not 748 00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,440 Speaker 7: try to do anything, just let things go, just observe life, 749 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,920 Speaker 7: rest and receive all that spirit can give us. 750 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,120 Speaker 3: Guess what life is messy? 751 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 7: Grief is messy, and that's okay. I found for me 752 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,240 Speaker 7: that it's a process of two steps forward, one step back. 753 00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,279 Speaker 7: At times, I will just have this completely higher perspective. 754 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:43,640 Speaker 7: It's phenomenal and I understand how everything is and why 755 00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,520 Speaker 7: it's meant to be, and I'm absolutely filled with love, 756 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,640 Speaker 7: and literally two minutes later, it could be like a 757 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,480 Speaker 7: brick just hits me in the back of my head 758 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,360 Speaker 7: and I'm taken down to my knees in absolute despair. 759 00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,680 Speaker 8: That's part of it. But now I try to just practice. 760 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,000 Speaker 7: Some self compact and I just let it force through 761 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,879 Speaker 7: my body. I turn not to fight the pain as much. 762 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,920 Speaker 7: I started to understand. 763 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:11,160 Speaker 8: That life includes both joy and sorrow, and again that 764 00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,080 Speaker 8: has to be okay. 765 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,319 Speaker 7: Self compassion and grief can also include letting go of 766 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,240 Speaker 7: the shoulds. We should be stronger, we should be harder, 767 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,600 Speaker 7: we should work longer, we should do a certain thing, 768 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,520 Speaker 7: say a certain thing, look a certain way. My God, 769 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:27,879 Speaker 7: are we. 770 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:28,960 Speaker 8: Hard on ourselves? 771 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 7: Instead? 772 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:31,879 Speaker 8: I propose that. 773 00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,239 Speaker 7: We just need to meet ourselves exactly where we are 774 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,440 Speaker 7: at any given moment. And that could change moment to 775 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,080 Speaker 7: moment and not think of some idea where we think 776 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,719 Speaker 7: we're supposed to be or where we should be. There 777 00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,880 Speaker 7: are no shortcuts in all of this. I'm learning and 778 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,680 Speaker 7: I need to just rest into what is instead of 779 00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,560 Speaker 7: what I think it should be. In the book Radical Acceptance, 780 00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,440 Speaker 7: the author states, in contrast to orthodox notions of climbing 781 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,799 Speaker 7: up a ladder seeking perfection, psychologist Carl Jung describes the 782 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,040 Speaker 7: spiritual path as an unfolding into wholeness. 783 00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,800 Speaker 8: Rather than trying to vanquish. 784 00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,759 Speaker 7: Waves of emotion and rid ourselves of an inherently and 785 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,480 Speaker 7: pure self, we turn around and we embrace this life 786 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:22,840 Speaker 7: in all of its realness, broken, messy, mysterious, and vibrantly alive. 787 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:28,200 Speaker 7: By cultivating an unconditional and accepting presence, we're no longer 788 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,360 Speaker 7: battling against ourselves, keeping our wild and imperfect self in 789 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,799 Speaker 7: a cage of judgment and mistrust. Instead, we're discovering the 790 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:42,000 Speaker 7: freedom of becoming authentic and fully alive. The definition of 791 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,000 Speaker 7: compassion actually means to be with, to suffer with. So 792 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,680 Speaker 7: how many times have we abandoned our own selves instead 793 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,360 Speaker 7: of having our own backs? I say that self compassion 794 00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,080 Speaker 7: is the ability to be able to allow ourselves the 795 00:50:56,160 --> 00:51:00,520 Speaker 7: experience of life in all of its fullness, to be 796 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,799 Speaker 7: present for it all, and not just hide from the 797 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,200 Speaker 7: pain and only seek the pleasure. So when you're ready, 798 00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,879 Speaker 7: find a way to have compassion for yourself today, give 799 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 7: yourself a break. In fact, stand up and offer applause 800 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,960 Speaker 7: for yourself. Give yourself a pat on the back for 801 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,279 Speaker 7: the ability to still be standing, for the efforts you 802 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,399 Speaker 7: have made just to get out of bed on those 803 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,120 Speaker 7: dark early days of grief, when you didn't know if 804 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,080 Speaker 7: you were going to be able to literally live one 805 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,719 Speaker 7: minute more, for your wonderful body, which helps you to 806 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,239 Speaker 7: see today, to hear today, to feel today, and to 807 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,000 Speaker 7: think today. You are, every single one of you out there, 808 00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:44,399 Speaker 7: a superstar just for making it this far. I want 809 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,239 Speaker 7: to end with a quote from one of my own 810 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,600 Speaker 7: personal heroes, Helen Keller. One of the things that she 811 00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,239 Speaker 7: said was that the struggle of life is one of 812 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:57,880 Speaker 7: our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and godlike. 813 00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,040 Speaker 8: It teaches us that I'll although the world is full 814 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:02,720 Speaker 8: of suffering, it's. 815 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,160 Speaker 7: Also full of the overcoming of it. So go out 816 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,839 Speaker 7: there today, show some compassion for yourself as you walk 817 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,319 Speaker 7: through your life with all the beautiful messiness of it all. 818 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,160 Speaker 3: Thank you and thank you to Kathy that gives you 819 00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,160 Speaker 3: a little taste of the address on our Sunday gathering. 820 00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,680 Speaker 3: It's filled also with music videos we send healing. We 821 00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:31,279 Speaker 3: have a medium demonstration within every single one. Also, if 822 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,880 Speaker 3: you have a story, I would love to hear it. 823 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,200 Speaker 3: Join our Facebook group. You can learn a lot from 824 00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,200 Speaker 3: others and others can learn a lot from you. Just 825 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,000 Speaker 3: go to We Doo'tdie dot com. 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