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Speaker 3: Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've
Speaker 3: been on a journey to prove the existence of life
Speaker 3: after death. On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we
Speaker 3: now know that our loved ones have survived physical debt
Speaker 3: and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife
Speaker 3: on our time together today, I want to feature your
Speaker 3: stories now. You may not have written to me, but
Speaker 3: other listeners have, and many have posted within our Facebook group. Sandra,
Speaker 3: You say I didn't know we had a Facebook group,
Speaker 3: Oh well we do. Go to we Don't Die dot
Speaker 3: com and on the top of the page it says
Speaker 3: their Facebook group. Please join there's a lot of like
Speaker 3: minded people, and I'm sure they'd love to hear your
Speaker 3: story as much as you love to hear theirs. So
Speaker 3: today we're going to be featuring some fellow listeners stories
Speaker 3: and then also in our last segment, you're going to
Speaker 3: hear from one of our community members named Kathy, who
Speaker 3: gave the address on our free Sunday gathering. If you're
Speaker 3: new to Shades of the Afterlife, every Sunday for the
Speaker 3: past four years, we have a free, non denominational service
Speaker 3: of sorts. It's fun, We've got music videos, we share
Speaker 3: some inspiration, and there's a medium demonstration included. Did I
Speaker 3: say it's free. Just recently, Mom Kathy told her story
Speaker 3: of her son's passing and the signs she's received from him. Also,
Speaker 3: she shares some very special words about grief and taking
Speaker 3: care of ourselves through the grieving process. She also mentions
Speaker 3: my book We Don't Die and refers to chapter ten,
Speaker 3: which is all about grief. If you do not yet
Speaker 3: have a copy of the book and you want a
Speaker 3: PDF version that you can read online, you can have
Speaker 3: it again website We Don'tdie dot com. Scroll to the
Speaker 3: bottom of the page, just enter your name and your
Speaker 3: email address. It says just the few chapters you'll receive,
Speaker 3: but it is the entire book. And then just fast
Speaker 3: forward to chapter ten. All right, ready for some stories.
Speaker 3: Let's meet some of your fellow Shades of the Afterlife
Speaker 3: listeners and hear the signs and other incredible stories that
Speaker 3: they've experienced. Leah says, when my father died in his
Speaker 3: nursing home, I was cleaning out his room and I
Speaker 3: was crying with my daughter. Suddenly there was an energy
Speaker 3: that came across the room and up my body, taking
Speaker 3: away all of my sadness, and I felt happiness and
Speaker 3: felt him right there with us. At the same time,
Speaker 3: my daughter said to me, Mom, did you just feel that?
Speaker 3: We both started to laugh. We felt like this was
Speaker 3: his presence and message to us that everything would be
Speaker 3: fine now. The day before, when we were told my
Speaker 3: father had died, I brought my mother in to see him,
Speaker 3: and she was laying across him and crying, and I
Speaker 3: was holding her from behind. As she held him, I
Speaker 3: had my eyes closed, and I was shown in my
Speaker 3: mind what felt like a movie. I could see my
Speaker 3: father as a little boy with blonde hair, running through
Speaker 3: a beautiful field and he was running to his father,
Speaker 3: who had his arms outstretched reaching towards him. His father
Speaker 3: was killed in an accident when he was only six
Speaker 3: years old. I've had many experiences and messages from those
Speaker 3: I love who have crossed over. Always makes me so
Speaker 3: happy to get these messages and I know they are
Speaker 3: always with me. Here's a story of healing from LJ.
Speaker 3: I've had so many encounters with spirit, beginning at age eleven,
Speaker 3: But what thoroughly convinced me and forever transformed my way
Speaker 3: of viewing absolutely everything was a spontaneous, complete healing of
Speaker 3: a crippling condition I had in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3: I had been having severe pain and struggling to stand
Speaker 3: and to walk for over a year. The pain in
Speaker 3: my limbs was so bad I was at the point
Speaker 3: of begging for elective amputation just to make it stop.
Speaker 3: If I hadn't been a single mom with two kids
Speaker 3: who loved me dearly at the time, I may have
Speaker 3: ended my life. The pain was that bad. Then one
Speaker 3: morning I was awakened by a voice in my room
Speaker 3: telling me to get out of bed, to stand up,
Speaker 3: and to walk. Oddly enough, my first thought was not
Speaker 3: why is there a voice of an unseen entity speaking
Speaker 3: to me. Instead, I began a telepathic conversation in which
Speaker 3: I argued that I wasn't able to do what I
Speaker 3: was being asked. There was a bit of back and forth,
Speaker 3: including talk about whether or not I could take a
Speaker 3: pain pill or muscle relaxer. First I was told no,
Speaker 3: not any of those. Finally I did what the voice said.
Speaker 3: I stood up and took a couple of tentative steps,
Speaker 3: and I was shocked to find that I was both
Speaker 3: steady and pain free. Here's what Jeanne says. My wife
Speaker 3: of twenty eight years passed away unexpectedly last year at
Speaker 3: the age of fifty one. The grief was intense and overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Several weeks into morning, I had to know what her
Speaker 3: last moments were like and started reading about near death
Speaker 3: experiences and the afterlife. That's when I started listening to
Speaker 3: Sandra's podcasts. Knowing that we don't die and she's just fine,
Speaker 3: I started talking to her. Oftentimes, when it's quiet or
Speaker 3: I'm spiritually focused on her, I can hear faint conversations
Speaker 3: and ethereal music that in itself is reassuring, but I'm
Speaker 3: also partially deaf. I shouldn't be able to hear anything
Speaker 3: at all, but it comes through so softly. The words
Speaker 3: are muddled or maybe in another language, probably Latin. It's
Speaker 3: akin to listening to music on a speaker set at
Speaker 3: its lowest volume. As time moves on, I hope the
Speaker 3: volume goes up or the words start to come through sharper.
Speaker 3: But for now, I find peace and comfort when I
Speaker 3: hear her gently singing to me. Kenda says, I once
Speaker 3: recorded a spirit audio session during which one spirit person says,
Speaker 3: there's her guide, General Davis. Another male voice quickly responded, yes,
Speaker 3: that's who I was even more interesting, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: I could hear them talking as I stood there holding
Speaker 3: the recorder. I also receive precognitive messages from spirit from
Speaker 3: time to time, messages concerning future happenings. Aaron says, just
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, I was reading on the couch
Speaker 3: on an early morning, and out of nowhere, Alexa pipes
Speaker 3: up with happy birthday to you. Would you like me
Speaker 3: to play a birthday song? It wasn't my birthday, but
Speaker 3: it was my deceased brother's birthday, and I had been
Speaker 3: thinking about him all morning, And says, I have had
Speaker 3: coins feathers, heard music, have seen objects move, seen the
Speaker 3: spirit of my aunt in my bedroom, and have had
Speaker 3: phone messages from a relative. Also, I've smelled perfume and
Speaker 3: pipe tobacco. Kim says I caught my mother in law
Speaker 3: say I am here on a recorder. She also says, Sandra,
Speaker 3: I'm so thankful to have discovered you through shades of
Speaker 3: the afterlife. I am learning so much. Please don't stop sharing. Kim,
Speaker 3: I will not rue, says, I have so many experiences.
Speaker 3: My most precious one is from my husband when he
Speaker 3: left his body in twenty twenty one, and of course
Speaker 3: I was devastated. I was desperately trying everything I could
Speaker 3: to get a sign from him. I decided to try
Speaker 3: EVP Electronic Voice phenomena, and I asked my husband to
Speaker 3: say my name, and I got a recording of him
Speaker 3: clearly saying my name, and it was in his voice.
Speaker 3: I have compared it to other videos where he has
Speaker 3: said my name when he was in his physical body,
Speaker 3: and he says it exactly the same way. He has
Speaker 3: sent tons of other special signs, but that's the one
Speaker 3: that amazes me the most. Jennifer says, I've received so
Speaker 3: many signs. I felt my mother's touch three times within
Speaker 3: five minutes. It felt as though she was tucking my
Speaker 3: hair behind my ear, just as she used to do
Speaker 3: when I was a child. Last month, I asked for
Speaker 3: a blue feather from her. I went out into the
Speaker 3: yard a few two weeks later and saw this stuck
Speaker 3: down into the ground. She included some pictures of a
Speaker 3: big blue feather stuck straight down into her grass. Speaking
Speaker 3: of feathers, here's a story from Claudia. It's seven years
Speaker 3: now after my son David passed, and although I haven't
Speaker 3: had a dream visitation, I have had many signs. One
Speaker 3: of my favorites. I was cranky and walking the dog
Speaker 3: one day and thinking of David, and I saw a
Speaker 3: bunch of feathers. To me, that's not evidence, I said, David,
Speaker 3: there are birds outside, and there are going to be
Speaker 3: so many feathers. You're going to have to do something
Speaker 3: better than that. The next three days in a row,
Speaker 3: I found one single feather in the center of my kitchen.
Speaker 3: I wonder, how in the world did he do that.
Speaker 3: Karen says, my dad died in nineteen ninety one. One day,
Speaker 3: about two years ago, I decided to ask my dad
Speaker 3: for a sign. I do it every now and then,
Speaker 3: and I do get them, but this one was the best.
Speaker 3: I asked for a for sure, I know it's you sign.
Speaker 3: While I was in the garage. A couple days later,
Speaker 3: my husband went to renew our license plate. They told
Speaker 3: him my plates were ten years old and needed brand
Speaker 3: new plates in Minnesota. You get the plate they hand you.
Speaker 3: He came back with our new plates and they had
Speaker 3: the last four numbers of our old phone number growing up.
Speaker 3: My mom still actually has that number. It's so funny
Speaker 3: because I use those four numbers for so many codes.
Speaker 3: I definitely knew it was a sign for my dad.
Speaker 3: Good work Dad. Oh, And the other three letters were
Speaker 3: the same exact ones from my old plate, making it
Speaker 3: easy to remember. Glory says, I know there is an afterlife.
Speaker 3: Have experienced many things that convince me, one being the
Speaker 3: death of my younger brother, who later came through by
Speaker 3: me speaking to him through a great psychic. Howard gave
Speaker 3: such detailed evidence that the psychic could not have known
Speaker 3: it was really a thrilling experience. Also, Howard has figured
Speaker 3: out how to use his energy to manipulate the electricity
Speaker 3: in our house, turning lights on and off to let
Speaker 3: us know he is present. How cool is that? That
Speaker 3: is definitely really cool. Well, it's time for our break
Speaker 3: and we'll be back with more stories from your fellow listeners.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
Speaker 3: and this episode we are sharing your fellow listeners stories
Speaker 3: and experiences about signs and the afterlife. This next story
Speaker 3: is by Jackie. She says, my siblings and I suddenly
Speaker 3: unexpectedly lost two brothers who passed two years apart. I
Speaker 3: found comfort from your podcasts, Sandra and website back then later,
Speaker 3: when my father died, I knew he was in a
Speaker 3: better place, free from arthritis and pain. When replaying your
Speaker 3: podcasts about varied signs that others have received. I told myself, well,
Speaker 3: it won't be feathers, since I have so many from
Speaker 3: all the wildlife that fly into my yard. The next morning,
Speaker 3: I looked into my backyard. There stabbed into our artificial
Speaker 3: grass was a long black feather twirling around in place.
Speaker 3: When I looked away, the twirling stopped. When I returned
Speaker 3: to my gaze, the twirling began again. I smiled and
Speaker 3: said out loud, Hi, Dad, I miss you. Jackie's story
Speaker 3: reminds me of a video that I had seen on
Speaker 3: YouTube not that long ago.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: It was a woman who had set up her camera
Speaker 3: and she was adorning the grave site around her son's
Speaker 3: headstone with flowers and a little fence to make it
Speaker 3: look nice. She also had there an ornamental fan, one
Speaker 3: of those fans that when the wind hits it, it
Speaker 3: twirls and all kinds of beautiful colors show. There was
Speaker 3: no wind that day, and every time she spoke to
Speaker 3: the sun, the fan began to spin. It was a
Speaker 3: rather emotional video, as you could feel the mother's pain
Speaker 3: of losing her son, But when she spoke to him,
Speaker 3: that fan turned, and even when she asked it to
Speaker 3: spin the opposite direction. It stopped and spun the opposite direction.
Speaker 3: Gave me goosebumps to watch. Another listener sent me a
Speaker 3: video that she was talking to her grandmother who is
Speaker 3: in spirit, and she had one of those lamps with
Speaker 3: a dimmable light bulb, and she would talk to her grandmother,
Speaker 3: asking her to turn on the light, and very slowly
Speaker 3: the light turned on, and when she asked her to
Speaker 3: turn it off, the light turned off. She went back
Speaker 3: and forth several times talking to her granny, and it
Speaker 3: made me think, why not get a little child's fan
Speaker 3: or something with no wind around, or that dimmable light
Speaker 3: and talk to our loved ones and see if they
Speaker 3: can practice moving things in time and space. Here's our
Speaker 3: next story. Stacy writes, my grandfather came to me in
Speaker 3: a dream and told me he had passed over. He said,
Speaker 3: don't worry, I am fine. He told me that he
Speaker 3: had a secret hiding place and I needed to go
Speaker 3: find it and where it was, and that there would
Speaker 3: be something for my uncle. I woke up from that
Speaker 3: dream at five am and told my husband about the dream.
Speaker 3: Later that morning, I found out that my grandfather had
Speaker 3: passed exactly at five am, and yes, I eventually found
Speaker 3: that hiding place and in it there was a surprise
Speaker 3: for my uncle. That dream changed my life. Julie says,
Speaker 3: I've had many signs. After my daughter passed at seventeen
Speaker 3: years old by suicide in a single car accident, she
Speaker 3: showed me in my mind's eye upon waking up a
Speaker 3: couple days after her death what she experienced in being
Speaker 3: bullied by several girls who had been her friends and
Speaker 3: a sexual assault by a boy at school. I was
Speaker 3: able to confirm all of this after her passing. The
Speaker 3: girls went on to bully another boy, and my daughter
Speaker 3: told me about it in my mind, so I talked
Speaker 3: to him. He confirmed and went to the school and
Speaker 3: informed them. He credits this with saving his life and
Speaker 3: calls my daughter his guardian angel. She also sends me
Speaker 3: huge feathers, plus bluebirds and huge hawks fly right over
Speaker 3: my head. Let's talk about quarters. On the first year
Speaker 3: of her passing, I received a letter she wrote freshman
Speaker 3: year to her senior self. The teacher sent it since
Speaker 3: she knew I would want to read it. Inside there
Speaker 3: were five quarters that confirmed to me that the quarters
Speaker 3: really are from her last I want to share with
Speaker 3: you that a big sign I get are finding heart
Speaker 3: shaped rocks. Ramona says, I know there is an afterlife.
Speaker 3: When my mom passed away in twenty seventeen, I wasn't
Speaker 3: looking for any spiritual groups, but by coincidence, I found
Speaker 3: a lady drawing live on Facebook. As I'm watching her
Speaker 3: drawing a female face, I was quite shocked to see
Speaker 3: more and more the resemblance of my mom. So I'm thinking, no, no,
Speaker 3: that can't be. She's just passed a few months ago.
Speaker 3: But the more she came to finishing her drawing, it
Speaker 3: was indeed my mother. Even though the drawing wasn't finished yet,
Speaker 3: she started to write things down, like details about the
Speaker 3: house my mom lived in, that she had four of
Speaker 3: us girls, and that in her garden she grew fruits
Speaker 3: and vegetables. She talked about my mom what she'd look like,
Speaker 3: as well as Grandpa and the funny Holland shoes he
Speaker 3: wore while working in the yard. She even gave birthdays
Speaker 3: and other relevant numbers. I sent her a picture of
Speaker 3: my mom and she says, Yep, that is the woman
Speaker 3: I saw. I should also mention that some mediums have
Speaker 3: brought through my sister on Sandra's Sunday gathering. Thank you
Speaker 3: world for your support and helping me through this tough time,
Speaker 3: Jenny says, on March seventh, twenty twenty three, my twenty
Speaker 3: one year old second born son was killed instantly on
Speaker 3: his motorcycle. He and I had taken meditation seminars a
Speaker 3: couple of years before his death, and we had talked
Speaker 3: many times about the afterlife. When he died, I would
Speaker 3: meditate and he would be there with me. My eyes
Speaker 3: were closed, yet I could see him and feel him.
Speaker 3: It was incredibly peaceful, these images of him moving and
Speaker 3: floating in front of me, laying his hands over my
Speaker 3: heart as if trying to heal me. He was there
Speaker 3: with me every day for a couple of weeks, just
Speaker 3: like that. We then started having conversations and would find
Speaker 3: ourselves in different places, walking in a field of flowers
Speaker 3: or along a beach. He would tell me how happy
Speaker 3: he was in that he is not alone, and that
Speaker 3: there are many people with him, and that he is
Speaker 3: still here with us, and how glad he was that
Speaker 3: we were his parents. I started reading books instantly about
Speaker 3: the afterlife. I would hear stories of people seeing spirits.
Speaker 3: I continued meditating and prayed for that to continue happening
Speaker 3: with me. One week, I meditated every day for two
Speaker 3: hours or more. One evening, as I lay in bed meditating,
Speaker 3: I opened my eyes and saw my son's spirit. He
Speaker 3: was floating upwards towards the ceiling. I saw a beautiful,
Speaker 3: peaceful upper body image looking down at me. Behind him
Speaker 3: were all these tiny little heads clumped together in a
Speaker 3: cloud formation. It looked like the image of people walking
Speaker 3: into New York City from above, so many people hovering
Speaker 3: behind him. I closed my eyes tight and opened them again,
Speaker 3: thinking it would go away, But it didn't. He was there.
Speaker 3: I laid an awe and watched him as he receded
Speaker 3: back into all of the other tiny souls, and then
Speaker 3: they all went away. Since then, I have had three
Speaker 3: dream visits. One of them rocked me to the core
Speaker 3: and I couldn't keep from crying the whole next day.
Speaker 3: It was such a real visit, and I felt like
Speaker 3: I had lost him all over again. I was grateful,
Speaker 3: yet torn apart. In November, I went to a one
Speaker 3: week advanced meditation seminar with doctor Joe Dispenza. We meditated
Speaker 3: for about thirty five hours that week. One of the
Speaker 3: meditations was at four a m. And it was four
Speaker 3: and a half hours long. It was in this meditation
Speaker 3: that I started to feel this tingling sensation all around
Speaker 3: my upper torso and the top of my head. I
Speaker 3: was excited because I had been praying that I would
Speaker 3: leave my body and get to experience what it's like
Speaker 3: to elevate outside of our own physical existence. That didn't happen,
Speaker 3: but ever since that meditation, I get that tingling feeling
Speaker 3: multiple times throughout the day. I now believe that it's
Speaker 3: my son's spirit when he is close. It is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3: We are coming up on the year anniversary and I'm
Speaker 3: slowly learning how to have a new different relationship with
Speaker 3: my son, a spiritual one versus a human one. I
Speaker 3: believe that heaven is all around us. I believe that
Speaker 3: trauma can open up gifts that so many other people
Speaker 3: wish for. I am learning to be grateful not for
Speaker 3: the loss of my son, but for the experiences that
Speaker 3: I have had since then. Thank you for your show
Speaker 3: and all that you do, Sherry says Sandra. I feel
Speaker 3: like I've witnessed the soul leaving the body. My father
Speaker 3: passed with a rare form of cancer. Even though my
Speaker 3: brother and I were expecting his death, you know, it's
Speaker 3: still a shock. During the thirty six hours, my father
Speaker 3: was unconscious and gasping for each breath. Honestly, if someone
Speaker 3: had told me I would pray for my father to die,
Speaker 3: I would have said they were crazy. I didn't want
Speaker 3: to see him suffer every day. Our pastor was there
Speaker 3: and said a special prayer. One day. As she said, amen,
Speaker 3: I saw changes happening. Very quickly, my brother ran to
Speaker 3: get the nurse. She came in and put a stethoscope
Speaker 3: to his neck and pronounced him dead. Even though I
Speaker 3: was expecting it. I collapsed into the nurse's arms, and
Speaker 3: as I looked over her shoulder to my father, I yelled,
Speaker 3: weight there is something going on. The only way I
Speaker 3: can describe it, for example, is if you've ever seen
Speaker 3: a cigarette burning in an ash tray and the sun
Speaker 3: hits the smoke. This is what it looked like, smoke
Speaker 3: that came out of my father the's mouth and nose.
Speaker 3: My brother saw it as well and said, Sherry, that's
Speaker 3: the spirit leaving his body. My brother and I have
Speaker 3: not talked about this since, but I know I witnessed
Speaker 3: something very special. When you hear these stories, doesn't it
Speaker 3: help make you feel like these things are possible in
Speaker 3: your life. I went on Amazon and bought myself a
Speaker 3: children's windspinner toy, and I also think by learning to
Speaker 3: quiet the mind and meditate, there's a whole world available
Speaker 3: to us. We just need to practice and explore. It's
Speaker 3: time for our next break and we'll be back with
Speaker 3: more stories from fellow listeners of Shades of the Afterlife
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra's Champlain
Speaker 3: and today I'm reading your stories. You kind listeners have
Speaker 3: sent some amazing experiences. The next one I'm going to read,
Speaker 3: We're going to do a shout out to Oscar who's
Speaker 3: a truck driver in Florida and he listens to Shades
Speaker 3: of the Afterlife as he drives. He said he's originally
Speaker 3: from New York City and moved to Florida in early
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. Here are his words. When I left New York,
Speaker 3: my mother was diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer's and dementia.
Speaker 3: I had older sisters that would care for her. I
Speaker 3: am the only boy and the youngest my mother had.
Speaker 3: My two sisters are about ten years older than me.
Speaker 3: In July of twenty twenty one, I received a call
Speaker 3: from my sisters saying Mom has taken a turn for
Speaker 3: the worst. Without hesitation, I packed the car and made
Speaker 3: the twenty two hour road trip along with my wife
Speaker 3: and son back up to New York City. We all
Speaker 3: were with her for the weekend. She was coherent and
Speaker 3: saying some words like she was happy. We were all
Speaker 3: there with her. We stayed about two days until it
Speaker 3: was time to get back to Florida because of my job.
Speaker 3: Soon as we got back to Florida, two days later,
Speaker 3: my mother had passed away. I was broken inside. I
Speaker 3: was happy to say goodbye, but of course I was distraught.
Speaker 3: The next day after she passed, I believe I had
Speaker 3: what you call a lucid dream. I was in my room,
Speaker 3: laying down where I was not completely awake nor asleep,
Speaker 3: and I kid you not, my mother walked into my room,
Speaker 3: clapping her hands and calling me Nanny, a childhood nickname
Speaker 3: she had for me. She was happy and sort of celebrating.
Speaker 3: She came over to me and kissed me on my cheek.
Speaker 3: It felt as if she was really there. I literally
Speaker 3: felt her lips on my cheek. I could then remember
Speaker 3: sitting up and tears began to run down my face.
Speaker 3: It was an experience I've never had in my life.
Speaker 3: I felt overwhelmed with joy, as if my mother was
Speaker 3: telling me she's no longer in pain. Connie says, My
Speaker 3: mother in law died in November of two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3: I had an experience in early two thousand and nine
Speaker 3: with her. I was washing dishes at my kitchen sink,
Speaker 3: just meditating on nothing in particular. Suddenly I saw her
Speaker 3: in my mind's eye. She was smiling and said, I've
Speaker 3: got a secret. I thought, what do you mean. You
Speaker 3: can't do that to me, tell me the secret. Two
Speaker 3: weeks later, my son, who lived in California at the time,
Speaker 3: called to tell me they were expecting a baby. I
Speaker 3: believe my mother in law knew about Madison before they
Speaker 3: knew our Next story is from Kaylee. She says, so,
Speaker 3: I just listened to one of your past podcasts about
Speaker 3: signs from loved ones who have passed. I've gotten so
Speaker 3: many signs from my brother, from waking up to a
Speaker 3: phone call from his old cell number that had been
Speaker 3: disconnected and a voicemail of all static and faint music
Speaker 3: in the background. I will meditate and ask him for signs.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he will leave me a white feather in one
Speaker 3: of the spots I frequent over several times a day,
Speaker 3: like on top of my jewelry box or on my
Speaker 3: bathroom sync. He's manipulated my phone to show me things
Speaker 3: he wants me to see several times. Actually, as he
Speaker 3: had a degree in cybersecurity, so it comes as no
Speaker 3: surprise to me that he was always doing things on
Speaker 3: my phone and showing me things I needed to see
Speaker 3: when my grief was just too blinding. He has shocked
Speaker 3: me into oblivion many times. When I would ask for
Speaker 3: a sign, things would happen, like lights going on and off,
Speaker 3: words coming out of my child's mouth, TV channels being
Speaker 3: changed by themselves with the remote, or something would just
Speaker 3: shock me, and I'd hear his voice almost like he
Speaker 3: was yelling at me, saying I'm here. It is me.
Speaker 3: I could write a book about all the ways my
Speaker 3: brother has shown me that he is still very much
Speaker 3: alive and well. I was a non believer in life
Speaker 3: after death before his loss, and I was a huge
Speaker 3: skeptic even when I began receiving these signs. He and
Speaker 3: I used to talk about it frequently in joke, if
Speaker 3: we're going to go to the Flying Spaghetti Monster when
Speaker 3: we die, or if we're just poof gone. For a
Speaker 3: long time, I tried to disprove that these signs were
Speaker 3: from him, but every time I found no logical explanation.
Speaker 3: For ninety nine percent of them. Our next story comes
Speaker 3: from Julie. I'm finding that my husband is communicating with
Speaker 3: me from the other side when I need it the most,
Speaker 3: and it brings me great comfort. Also, my intuition is expanding.
Speaker 3: I've had some remarkable experiences in this life life. Back
Speaker 3: in two thousand and one, my fourteen year old niece
Speaker 3: Tiffany passed away from a beasting. In early two thousand
Speaker 3: and three, she came to me in the middle of
Speaker 3: the night and began communicating telepathically. She looked about thirty
Speaker 3: years old, and I vividly saw her in the upper
Speaker 3: right corner of my mind's eye. I wrote down everything
Speaker 3: she said, then sealed the paper in an envelope and
Speaker 3: put it away for safe keeping. I didn't tell a
Speaker 3: soul until her grieving mother, Kathy, called me and said
Speaker 3: she was desperately seeking communication with her daughter. She just
Speaker 3: needed to know that she was all right. Cathy had
Speaker 3: gone to mediums and psychics, but none were able to
Speaker 3: connect with Tiffany. She was heartbroken. I hesitantly told my
Speaker 3: sister in law that Tiffany had come to me one night.
Speaker 3: She asked me what she said, so I got the
Speaker 3: envelope opened up the paper and read what I had
Speaker 3: written down. None of it made sense to me, but
Speaker 3: to her mom, everything made perfect sense, and she was
Speaker 3: assured her daughter was alive and well. On the other side,
Speaker 3: the things she said brought real comfort to her mother's
Speaker 3: grieving heart. Incidentally, Tiffany had had a vision from a
Speaker 3: girl named Isabella who told her that she was coming
Speaker 3: soon to get her. This was about two weeks before
Speaker 3: she died. Tiffany was furious because she thought her sister
Speaker 3: Jenny was playing a mean prank on her. Thank you
Speaker 3: for taking the time to read this. This shining Light
Speaker 3: Mom says, I lost my only beautiful son, Alexander, to
Speaker 3: fentanyl poisoning in July twenty twenty. He had just turned
Speaker 3: twenty one. My life has been transformed in many ways,
Speaker 3: particularly spiritually, since his death. The intense grief is something
Speaker 3: that I continue to navigate and explore creative ways to
Speaker 3: heal from. I I know for certain that he lives
Speaker 3: on because I too, have had some extraordinary communications from him,
Speaker 3: and I believe that he continues to send me signs
Speaker 3: and messages through my iPhone in the form of photos
Speaker 3: and songs. About ten days after Alexander died. I was
Speaker 3: walking on trails in a beautiful nature reserve in southern California,
Speaker 3: through a wild landscape of tall trees, both alive and dead.
Speaker 3: The trail led me to a peaceful valley with the
Speaker 3: lake fields of lush grass, marshes, water reeds, and cows grazing.
Speaker 3: I was singing a song that I had made up
Speaker 3: for Alexander as part of my mourning ritual, and connecting
Speaker 3: with this powerful sense that Alexander was everywhere without and within.
Speaker 3: Suddenly my cell phone began to play music all by itself,
Speaker 3: something that had never happened before nor since. The song
Speaker 3: was a band that Alexander listened to when he was younger,
Speaker 3: titled it Ends Tonight by All American Rejects. I had
Speaker 3: never played this music and didn't know that Alexander had
Speaker 3: downloaded it into my iTunes account years ago. The song
Speaker 3: was powerful and the lyrics were so incredibly relevant to
Speaker 3: the circumstances of his death. A disturbed mind, a falling star,
Speaker 3: falling alone, isolated, and the repeated chorus when darkness turns
Speaker 3: to light, it ends tonight, it ends Tonight. I was
Speaker 3: alarmed and felt that the song was dark and angry,
Speaker 3: but on reflection, the lyrics gave me some insight into
Speaker 3: what may have been going on within his mind and emotions.
Speaker 3: I felt that he was in trauma, and through the song,
Speaker 3: he was communicating to me in a way that he
Speaker 3: was not able to voice when he was alive. He
Speaker 3: had always been secretive, guarded, and hard to converse with
Speaker 3: about his feelings and what was going on in his life.
Speaker 3: He lived in a skin that always gave the impression
Speaker 3: that everything was fine. It was a deceptive mask. A
Speaker 3: few days after the song, I sat down with my husband, stepson,
Speaker 3: and his girlfriend to watch a movie on Netflix. We
Speaker 3: wanted to find a comedy to lift our spirits. There
Speaker 3: were two colored windows that always appear on the screen
Speaker 3: for our Netflix account, one with my husband's name and
Speaker 3: the other with zand for Alexander. The two windows appeared,
Speaker 3: but suddenly the color and letters of the zand window disappeared.
Speaker 3: A white border then appeared around the window with an
Speaker 3: X across it. I was alarmed, but I felt Alexander's presence.
Speaker 3: This mysterious deactivation of our son's account was not initiated
Speaker 3: by either of us, and we could think of no
Speaker 3: rational explanation. One more story. About two weeks after Alexander died,
Speaker 3: I was sitting with my husband in our backyard at dusk.
Speaker 3: We heard an owl hooting far away to the right
Speaker 3: side of our house, and soon afterwards we heard the
Speaker 3: hoot much closer on the left side of the house.
Speaker 3: Seconds later, the hoot sounded directly above us. We looked
Speaker 3: up and saw a huge owl perched on the very
Speaker 3: tip of a dead bamboo shoot, about twenty feet high,
Speaker 3: completely exposed with the darkening sky surrounding it. It was
Speaker 3: a great horned owl, which I had never seen in
Speaker 3: our neighborhood, and have never seen any owl perching in
Speaker 3: such a clearly visible and exposed position. My husband ran
Speaker 3: into the house to fetch his binoculars. I moved closer
Speaker 3: to the owl and sat on a low wall. I
Speaker 3: spontaneously began to talk to the owl lovingly, and we
Speaker 3: had a conversation of sorts. I spoke, the owl hooted.
Speaker 3: I spoke, the owl hooted again, and this exchange went
Speaker 3: on for a minute or so. My husband returned to
Speaker 3: get a closer look, but the owl spread its beautiful
Speaker 3: large wings with white feathers on the underside and flew off,
Speaker 3: soaring up into the night sky. This was such a profound, magical,
Speaker 3: and mysterious visitation. I listened and watched for the owl
Speaker 3: for many nights, hoping for a return visit, but we
Speaker 3: never saw or heard it again. It turns out great
Speaker 3: horned owls have long been associated with the ability to
Speaker 3: connect with the heavens. When you see one, it means
Speaker 3: trusting that you are connected to the source, even if
Speaker 3: you don't have physical proof. Well, my friend, it is
Speaker 3: time for our next break, and we'll be back with
Speaker 3: another incredible story and some very profound words of wisdom.
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Speaker 3: the Sunday Gathering, with a medium demonstration included. Recently, one
Speaker 3: of our community members, Kathy, gave the address. Here are
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Speaker 3: from her son, but she has some important words about
Speaker 3: self healing.
Speaker 7: I'd love to share with all of you my own
Speaker 7: personal story, and then I want to focus a little
Speaker 7: bit on self compassion and how important it is in
Speaker 7: the grieving process. Our beautiful son, Sean was only twenty
Speaker 7: two years old when he passed a fentanyl poisoning, and
Speaker 7: as you can imagine, that took us to our knees,
Speaker 7: literally physically and literally. So every night after he passed,
Speaker 7: I would have nightmares of being murdered, just.
Speaker 8: In one way or another. And that went on for
Speaker 8: about a month.
Speaker 7: And then two days after his memorial, I thought, oh
Speaker 7: my god, I can't go to bed one more night
Speaker 7: and be murdered. So I begged my son, Sean, please
Speaker 7: come just come tonight, just one night of reprieve. And
Speaker 7: early that morning, I woke up and I saw a
Speaker 7: vision and it was like a tall being, like eight
Speaker 7: foot tall, and it almost looks like the Oscar statue.
Speaker 7: And it showed up in my dear friend Joanne's house
Speaker 7: and it said telepathically to me, Sean's not.
Speaker 8: Coming to you. He's coming to Joanne.
Speaker 7: So I woke up and I thought, what the heck,
Speaker 7: and then I kind of blew it off like we do, right.
Speaker 7: So two days later, Joanne came down and took me
Speaker 7: out to dinner just to get me out of the house.
Speaker 7: So we went out to the restaurant and I actually
Speaker 7: told her about my vision, and then that was that
Speaker 7: until I was driving home. And when I was driving home.
Speaker 7: I was listening to a podcast about a woman who
Speaker 7: had gotten a text message from her son three days
Speaker 7: after he passed. And I don't know what overcame me,
Speaker 7: but I turned off the radio and I screamed at
Speaker 7: my Shawnee like I'd never even screamed at him when
Speaker 7: he was here. And I screamed at the top of
Speaker 7: my lungs. Butterflies and dragonflies are not cutting it. I
Speaker 7: want an email or a text message if I'm going
Speaker 7: to go forward. And I know that sounds so bratty,
Speaker 7: but it just.
Speaker 8: Flew out of my mouth.
Speaker 7: And with the dragonflies and the butterflies, ever since he'd passed,
Speaker 7: I would literally be being die bombed by dragonflies and
Speaker 7: butterflies would swirl around, And in fact, yesterday was his
Speaker 7: three year anniversary. And the other day I was on
Speaker 7: the phone with a dear friend crying about Sean. And
Speaker 7: as I'm talking this, dragonflies around.
Speaker 8: My car on the freeway. So it still is happening.
Speaker 7: So anyway, that's what I said, and then I forgot
Speaker 7: about it, and I went into my house and I
Speaker 7: got a phone call from my dear friend Joanne. She says,
Speaker 7: kat I never checked my emails on the weekend, but
Speaker 7: something just nudged me to check my emails, and she said,
Speaker 7: do you know who Clyde Butterfield is? And I said, no,
Speaker 7: I don't know who Clyde Butterfield is. And she showed
Speaker 7: me this. This is the email she got and it
Speaker 7: says from Clyde Butterfield to Joanne and all it says
Speaker 7: in one word, Sean in bold letters, and at the
Speaker 7: bottom you can't see, but it said sent from my iPhone.
Speaker 8: So now I was blown away.
Speaker 7: I knew my son was trying to connect me, but
Speaker 7: I had no idea how, and so I talked to
Speaker 7: his siblings and all of his friends. Because Sean's very
Speaker 7: funny and would have these different characters. Nobody knew who
Speaker 7: Clyde Butterfield was. So I went to bed that night
Speaker 7: and I knew that he was trying to connect with me,
Speaker 7: but I didn't know how. The next morning, I woke
Speaker 7: up and I was still in a daze, and so
Speaker 7: my husband took her youngest son out surfing for the
Speaker 7: day and I allowed myself just to stay in bed
Speaker 7: and cry all day till finally something told me I
Speaker 7: need to get up and get.
Speaker 8: Something to eat.
Speaker 7: I went down and I was in the kitchen when
Speaker 7: this voice said to me, you need to go out
Speaker 7: and look through Sean's things. Now, I know this might
Speaker 7: sound strange to you, but I I've had these connections
Speaker 7: my whole life, and I am bold enough to sometimes.
Speaker 3: Argue with the voices too.
Speaker 7: I was actually arguing to see, I don't want to
Speaker 7: go through his things.
Speaker 8: I've already been through so much pain.
Speaker 7: But the spirit went out, and so I went in
Speaker 7: the garage and it literally was directing me to look
Speaker 7: at which pile flip papers over, and I'm following the directions,
Speaker 7: and I found this beautiful letter from Sean.
Speaker 8: It was a Mother's Day letter.
Speaker 7: And I hear the voice and it says, that's not it.
Speaker 7: Look down on the right and flip one page over.
Speaker 7: I look down on the right, I flip a page
Speaker 7: over and look what I found.
Speaker 8: I was blown away.
Speaker 7: I don't remember Sean making this. Maybe he made this
Speaker 7: when he.
Speaker 8: Was a child. I have no idea. I don't remember this.
Speaker 7: And there's a mom and Sean and he actually even
Speaker 7: wrote butterfly and dragonfly and pointed the arrows to it.
Speaker 3: Kathy shows a picture of a drawing her son maid
Speaker 3: only of a butterfly and a dragonfly.
Speaker 7: Well, the minute I saw this picture, I heard my
Speaker 7: son's voice in my head and he said, see, Mom,
Speaker 7: the butterflies in the dragonflies count too. So at this moment,
Speaker 7: I saw just how much compassion my son was showing
Speaker 7: me and the beautiful people in spirit were showing me,
Speaker 7: and I knew that I needed to show myself that
Speaker 7: same amount of compassion to be able to get through this.
Speaker 7: I had talked to my dad and his wife the
Speaker 7: next day. Clyde Butterfield was my dad's wife's brother in
Speaker 7: law who had passed five years before Sean passed. His
Speaker 7: wife had shut down his email right after he passed,
Speaker 7: and he had no iPhone. It's just such beautiful evidence
Speaker 7: that in the spirit world there's so many people who
Speaker 7: are helping.
Speaker 8: It just blows my mind.
Speaker 7: And I also have to give credit to my son
Speaker 7: for the humor of just putting Sean.
Speaker 8: In bold riding like I'm here.
Speaker 7: I'm just so grateful to all the beautiful souls in spirit,
Speaker 7: the people in spirit that I've met who've shown so
Speaker 7: much love. There's so much love for all of us.
Speaker 7: They're just right there rooting us on it's amazing. So
Speaker 7: I want to talk a little bit about how we
Speaker 7: can give compassion to ourselves when we're going through something
Speaker 7: like this. Sandraw wrote a great book, We Don't Die,
Speaker 7: and there's a chapter that talks about how grief actually
Speaker 7: physically affects you. It's not just emotional. We're literally physically suffering.
Speaker 7: This isn't just something that's in our head, and we
Speaker 7: need to give self compassion during such a traumatic time.
Speaker 8: So what did this look like for me?
Speaker 7: Sometimes it look like getting massages, going to the beach
Speaker 7: and talking to God all the time, getting extra sleep,
Speaker 7: allowing myself to sleep in, eating healthy foods, researching voraciously
Speaker 7: about the afterlife, getting support from a grief therapist, and.
Speaker 5: Guess what other times it includes going to in and
Speaker 5: out burgers a lot and eating cheese fries and burgers, milkshakes,
Speaker 5: allowing myself days in bed just to cry, not forcing
Speaker 5: myself to go out and be with other people when
Speaker 5: I didn't want it, and trying not to beat.
Speaker 8: Myself up for all of it.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's just like the song says, we need to
Speaker 7: just kind of let it be. We need to not
Speaker 7: try to do anything, just let things go, just observe life,
Speaker 7: rest and receive all that spirit can give us.
Speaker 3: Guess what life is messy?
Speaker 7: Grief is messy, and that's okay. I found for me
Speaker 7: that it's a process of two steps forward, one step back.
Speaker 7: At times, I will just have this completely higher perspective.
Speaker 7: It's phenomenal and I understand how everything is and why
Speaker 7: it's meant to be, and I'm absolutely filled with love,
Speaker 7: and literally two minutes later, it could be like a
Speaker 7: brick just hits me in the back of my head
Speaker 7: and I'm taken down to my knees in absolute despair.
Speaker 8: That's part of it. But now I try to just practice.
Speaker 7: Some self compact and I just let it force through
Speaker 7: my body. I turn not to fight the pain as much.
Speaker 7: I started to understand.
Speaker 8: That life includes both joy and sorrow, and again that
Speaker 8: has to be okay.
Speaker 7: Self compassion and grief can also include letting go of
Speaker 7: the shoulds. We should be stronger, we should be harder,
Speaker 7: we should work longer, we should do a certain thing,
Speaker 7: say a certain thing, look a certain way. My God,
Speaker 7: are we.
Speaker 8: Hard on ourselves?
Speaker 7: Instead?
Speaker 8: I propose that.
Speaker 7: We just need to meet ourselves exactly where we are
Speaker 7: at any given moment. And that could change moment to
Speaker 7: moment and not think of some idea where we think
Speaker 7: we're supposed to be or where we should be. There
Speaker 7: are no shortcuts in all of this. I'm learning and
Speaker 7: I need to just rest into what is instead of
Speaker 7: what I think it should be. In the book Radical Acceptance,
Speaker 7: the author states, in contrast to orthodox notions of climbing
Speaker 7: up a ladder seeking perfection, psychologist Carl Jung describes the
Speaker 7: spiritual path as an unfolding into wholeness.
Speaker 8: Rather than trying to vanquish.
Speaker 7: Waves of emotion and rid ourselves of an inherently and
Speaker 7: pure self, we turn around and we embrace this life
Speaker 7: in all of its realness, broken, messy, mysterious, and vibrantly alive.
Speaker 7: By cultivating an unconditional and accepting presence, we're no longer
Speaker 7: battling against ourselves, keeping our wild and imperfect self in
Speaker 7: a cage of judgment and mistrust. Instead, we're discovering the
Speaker 7: freedom of becoming authentic and fully alive. The definition of
Speaker 7: compassion actually means to be with, to suffer with. So
Speaker 7: how many times have we abandoned our own selves instead
Speaker 7: of having our own backs? I say that self compassion
Speaker 7: is the ability to be able to allow ourselves the
Speaker 7: experience of life in all of its fullness, to be
Speaker 7: present for it all, and not just hide from the
Speaker 7: pain and only seek the pleasure. So when you're ready,
Speaker 7: find a way to have compassion for yourself today, give
Speaker 7: yourself a break. In fact, stand up and offer applause
Speaker 7: for yourself. Give yourself a pat on the back for
Speaker 7: the ability to still be standing, for the efforts you
Speaker 7: have made just to get out of bed on those
Speaker 7: dark early days of grief, when you didn't know if
Speaker 7: you were going to be able to literally live one
Speaker 7: minute more, for your wonderful body, which helps you to
Speaker 7: see today, to hear today, to feel today, and to
Speaker 7: think today. You are, every single one of you out there,
Speaker 7: a superstar just for making it this far. I want
Speaker 7: to end with a quote from one of my own
Speaker 7: personal heroes, Helen Keller. One of the things that she
Speaker 7: said was that the struggle of life is one of
Speaker 7: our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and godlike.
Speaker 8: It teaches us that I'll although the world is full
Speaker 8: of suffering, it's.
Speaker 7: Also full of the overcoming of it. So go out
Speaker 7: there today, show some compassion for yourself as you walk
Speaker 7: through your life with all the beautiful messiness of it all.
Speaker 3: Thank you and thank you to Kathy that gives you
Speaker 3: a little taste of the address on our Sunday gathering.
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Speaker 3: have a medium demonstration within every single one. Also, if
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Speaker 3: Our time today has come to an end. Please know
Speaker 3: that love is all around you. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank
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