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Speaker 4: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
Speaker 4: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Speaker 4: On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
Speaker 4: that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and so
Speaker 4: will we. Welcome to Shades of the after Life. It
Speaker 4: was fourteen years ago this week that my dad died.
Speaker 4: It was a tough time, to be sure, and if
Speaker 4: this is okay with you, I'd like to dedicate this
Speaker 4: episode to my dad, John Champlain, a heck of a
Speaker 4: good guy. I had a conversation this past week with
Speaker 4: someone who wants to write a book about soul contracts
Speaker 4: coming to Earth and having everything happen the way it
Speaker 4: does so that we can learn, so that our soul
Speaker 4: can grow. I had a little bit of a problem
Speaker 4: with this. On one hand, I do think it may
Speaker 4: be comforting in tough times to say, well, maybe that
Speaker 4: was a contract I made before I came here. But
Speaker 4: on the other hand, there's some really awful stuff that
Speaker 4: happens here on planet Earth, and to try to say
Speaker 4: my soul planned it, well, I just don't buy into that.
Speaker 4: Let me use a scenario talking about my dad. What
Speaker 4: took him out of this life is cancer, and he
Speaker 4: suffered terribly up until the end. It was not a
Speaker 4: pretty picture, and I would never want any person to
Speaker 4: pass that way. And I know maybe you have had
Speaker 4: a loved one die from cancer. It's awful to watch.
Speaker 4: And I hold true to the feelings and the beliefs
Speaker 4: that the soul can leave the body before the body dies.
Speaker 4: I do hope that's the case when people are suffering.
Speaker 4: After his death, there were breakups and relationships within family members,
Speaker 4: and I hit an all time low as a human being.
Speaker 4: It was the worst time of my life. Did I
Speaker 4: have a soul contract with my dad? And my family members,
Speaker 4: so that things went absolutely the way they did. Now,
Speaker 4: in that moment, if you were to tell me that
Speaker 4: this was a contract, I probably would have punched you
Speaker 4: in the face because nothing I could imagine could be
Speaker 4: so painful. Plus I hit a deep depression after that.
Speaker 4: Now many years later, looking back, had things not gone
Speaker 4: exactly the way they did, I wouldn't be here today
Speaker 4: with you as host of shades of the afterlife. Had
Speaker 4: I not gone out looking for evidence of the afterlife
Speaker 4: and wanting to figure out why grief hurts so bad
Speaker 4: and makes people act in crazy ways, I would have
Speaker 4: never gone on to write my book We Don't Die,
Speaker 4: and to exploring all the different reasons to believe in
Speaker 4: the afterlife. I find it empowering now to say is
Speaker 4: it possible that before coming to this earth there was
Speaker 4: a plan in mind? And for me right now that
Speaker 4: helps me. But for anyone going through a traumatic loss,
Speaker 4: you don't need to buy into someone telling you there
Speaker 4: was a soul contract, because honestly, bad things happen here
Speaker 4: on earth. Can we learn out of every experience, yes,
Speaker 4: Can we go on and make a difference with someone
Speaker 4: else experiencing the same thing. Absolutely, we can. I don't
Speaker 4: know if it was the movie Bruce Almighty or Evan Almighty,
Speaker 4: but Morgan Freeman played God, and I remember in one
Speaker 4: example him saying that coming to earth, God doesn't give
Speaker 4: you courage, it gives you opportunities to be courageous. And
Speaker 4: that really stuck with me that maybe before we came
Speaker 4: to this life we wanted things like courage and compassion
Speaker 4: and generosity, so we aren't given those things, were given
Speaker 4: those opportunities. So if you were to ask if I
Speaker 4: believed in soul contracts, I'd probably say no. More like
Speaker 4: I believe we came here with different things we wanted
Speaker 4: to get out of life, different values, and then we
Speaker 4: had different opportunities to make them happen. But like my family,
Speaker 4: it sure does help in the tough times because relationships
Speaker 4: still are not healed, and it's much easier for me
Speaker 4: to say, perhaps we made a deal in the before
Speaker 4: life that we would help out mankind during this lifetime
Speaker 4: and this was the way to do it. A great
Speaker 4: friend once told me that relationships can be like circles.
Speaker 4: They can come apart at the bottom but then be
Speaker 4: joined back up at the top. Is it this life?
Speaker 4: Is it the afterlife. I'm not sure, but that all
Speaker 4: relationships have the opportunity to come back together. I often
Speaker 4: say that I don't think there's one truth for all
Speaker 4: mankind about life and the afterlife. So take what fits
Speaker 4: for you and empowers you and use that in your life.
Speaker 4: If you like the sound of a soul plan, there's
Speaker 4: a great book by Robert Schwartz called Your Soul's Plan,
Speaker 4: Discovering the Real Meaning of the life you planned before
Speaker 4: you were born, And in it you'll find some pretty
Speaker 4: great stories of what people do and how they help
Speaker 4: others based on some terrible things they've gone through. Now
Speaker 4: back to my father. He was very religious. He went
Speaker 4: to church every day, and meanwhile his daughter me was
Speaker 4: studying the afterlife. So you know, I was afraid to
Speaker 4: tell him because I've told some religious people before in
Speaker 4: my past about studying life after death, and they wanted
Speaker 4: to do interventions and they've prayed for me. But somewhere
Speaker 4: within me, it was important to tell my dad my truth,
Speaker 4: especially he was approaching the end of his life with cancer.
Speaker 4: One day, I had that courage and I said, Dad,
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you about something, and I
Speaker 4: shared with him my fear of dying, and so many
Speaker 4: of the things that I had studied before he passed,
Speaker 4: asked even going to a weekend workshop to learn mediumship,
Speaker 4: and my dad looked at me, startled with those big
Speaker 4: brown eyes, a little concerned, but he listened. And in
Speaker 4: that moment, in my mind, I heard a man laughing,
Speaker 4: and I said, Dad, I'd like to tell you what
Speaker 4: I'm feeling right now. I'm getting a picture in my
Speaker 4: mind of a yellow airplane, a piper cub with black lettering,
Speaker 4: and I feel like there's a man laughing, belly laughing,
Speaker 4: telling me to tell you that you were wrong, that
Speaker 4: he did get to bring his toys with him. And
Speaker 4: I repeated it for my dad and he just looked
Speaker 4: at me and his eyes started to fill with tears.
Speaker 4: My dad had a friend named Jim, and Jim had cancer.
Speaker 4: My dad was a very close friend of his, and
Speaker 4: they'd go out bike riding or for a meal and
Speaker 4: they'd talk and Dad kept saying, Jim, you can beat
Speaker 4: this cancer. You can beat it, because in heaven you
Speaker 4: don't get to take your toys with you. Jim was
Speaker 4: a pilot and guess what his airplane looked like. It
Speaker 4: was a piper cub yellow with black lettering. In that moment,
Speaker 4: my dad said, Sandra, tell me everything, and I proceeded
Speaker 4: to tell him all the wonderful things that I had
Speaker 4: learned up to that point, and he made me promise
Speaker 4: that I would write a book and that I would
Speaker 4: tell as many people as I could about the afterlife.
Speaker 4: Although Dad did pass, I feel very confident he still
Speaker 4: walks by my side, encouraging me. More mediums than not
Speaker 4: have told me some specific things about my dad being
Speaker 4: close by, and that makes me smile. When Jim said
Speaker 4: we do get to bring our toys with us to
Speaker 4: the afterlife, it got me thinking about what else do
Speaker 4: we get to bring with us into the afterlife? And
Speaker 4: so on this episode, I want to talk about food
Speaker 4: in the afterlife. Yes, you heard me right. Food. If
Speaker 4: you've been on any diet any point of your life,
Speaker 4: you know it's a terrible feeling to be restricted and
Speaker 4: to have somebody tell you you can't have that. But
Speaker 4: what about when we cross over? So today we'll hear
Speaker 4: some stories from mediums from a near death experiencer. You
Speaker 4: may even be surprised to know that many cultures believe
Speaker 4: in food in the afterlife, such as the ancient Egyptians
Speaker 4: packing snacks along with those people they mummified. Have you
Speaker 4: seen the movie Defending Your Life dated nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 4: Albert Brooks created and wrote the movie and stars in
Speaker 4: it along with Meryl Streep. It is my most favorite movie.
Speaker 4: Within the movie, we learn that you can eat as
Speaker 4: much as you want without gaining weight, and of course,
Speaker 4: many scenes involve food. For me, I got put on
Speaker 4: my first diet when I was a kid. My doctor
Speaker 4: told my parents that if Sandra could grow a few
Speaker 4: inches taller and stay the same weight, that would be
Speaker 4: good for my health. Unfortunately, that started a fifty year
Speaker 4: battle with food. Here's something you might be interested in.
Speaker 4: Six weeks ago, my buddy here that I live with
Speaker 4: my mom got very sick and we didn't realize it
Speaker 4: was because of high blood sugar, also known as diabetes.
Speaker 4: We watched a movie called Fat Fiction and learned just
Speaker 4: by changing your diet, many people had reduced or stopped
Speaker 4: medications for type two diabetes. In the past six weeks,
Speaker 4: we have gone from honestly eating whatever we want to
Speaker 4: the Mediterranean diet, high with good fats and proteins, lots
Speaker 4: of fruits and vegetables and limited the grain products, so
Speaker 4: no breads or sweets. And in six weeks, not only
Speaker 4: have we both lost weight, but all of our cravings
Speaker 4: are gone, our minds are at rest, we are never hungry.
Speaker 4: She's reduced the medication she takes by half, and if
Speaker 4: she keeps going as she is now, in another couple
Speaker 4: of weeks, she may not need it at all. So
Speaker 4: check out that movie Fat Fiction if you have had
Speaker 4: any problem with losing weight or those constant cravings for food.
Speaker 4: Food really can be magic and medicine. It is said
Speaker 4: that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. And
Speaker 4: look in the Bible there are many quotes about food
Speaker 4: being in heaven. Did you hear the joke about the
Speaker 4: couple that passed after years of eating healthy and exercising.
Speaker 4: Saint Peter meets them at the Pearly Gates and shows
Speaker 4: them the beautiful golf courses in the clubhouse with all
Speaker 4: you can eat buffets, and their mouths are salivating. The
Speaker 4: husband gives a stern look to his wife and says,
Speaker 4: if it wasn't for you and those darn brand muffins,
Speaker 4: we'd have been here ten years ago. What about you
Speaker 4: when you transition. Are you looking forward to being in
Speaker 4: your perfect body, the perfect health, the perfect age. What
Speaker 4: would be on your buffet? Some people talk about last meals,
Speaker 4: but let's talk about meals and eternity, So we'll be
Speaker 4: right back with food in the afterlife. You're listening to
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Speaker 4: Well, you're a long Shades of the Afterlife with Sander Champlain.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 4: It's always been my belief that our human body is
Speaker 4: designed to really enjoy things with our senses, with our
Speaker 4: smell and taste, and touch and hearing and vision. So
Speaker 4: although things in the afterlife are going to be grand,
Speaker 4: I think they're going to be different, still good, still special,
Speaker 4: but different. Here's a quick story. My friend Steve, his
Speaker 4: father died, but before he died, he was in a
Speaker 4: coma for a long time, hooked up to all kinds
Speaker 4: of tubes and contraptions. The week before he died, he
Speaker 4: opened his eyes. He lifted himself up in the bed,
Speaker 4: swung his legs around, and of course his adult children
Speaker 4: were really worried, saying, Dad, you can't get up. And
Speaker 4: he's looking into heaven. He's telling his children it's so
Speaker 4: beautiful over there, and they said, Dad, what can you see?
Speaker 4: And this man not only saw heaven and the beautiful colors,
Speaker 4: he was naming people that were dead that he could see.
Speaker 4: There were even people he saw over there who had
Speaker 4: died when this man was in a coma, and he
Speaker 4: was never told about. And they said, what else can
Speaker 4: you see?
Speaker 6: Dad?
Speaker 4: And he said, I can hear Jesus, who's telling me
Speaker 4: that I need to enjoy as much as I can
Speaker 4: with my human body because I don't have long to
Speaker 4: live here with you. So in the course of the
Speaker 4: next week. He wanted to watch a football game with
Speaker 4: his kids. He wanted a hot fudge Sunday cherry pie,
Speaker 4: some of his favorite meals, and he did all of
Speaker 4: that and it was the night of Christmas Eve. He
Speaker 4: said good night to his children, he closed his eyes,
Speaker 4: and he died peacefully with a smile on his face.
Speaker 4: So I do think there's something special about owning a
Speaker 4: human body and certain things that we can experience with
Speaker 4: just that. Next medium, Matt Fraser's book is called We
Speaker 4: Never Die Secrets of the Afterlife, and he says, so
Speaker 4: many people have been asking me about heaven and it
Speaker 4: seems like this question almost always comes up. Do spirits eat?
Speaker 4: He says, this is actually a tricky one. There's not
Speaker 4: a simple yes or no answer, but maybe this story
Speaker 4: will help clarify. I once did a reading for a
Speaker 4: family and their grandpa came through when he was alive.
Speaker 4: His ritual was to sit in his favorite recliner chair
Speaker 4: and eat cream, and that's exactly what he showed me.
Speaker 4: The family was surprised. Wait, people eat in heaven. People
Speaker 4: can eat, yes, but they don't have to. They often
Speaker 4: come through doing the things they loved in life. So
Speaker 4: it's not uncommon for me to see a chef cooking
Speaker 4: in the kitchen or a father drinking a cup of coffee.
Speaker 4: It's important to know that just because food comes up
Speaker 4: in a reading, it doesn't mean that souls are eating
Speaker 4: three meals a day. They don't need food to survive.
Speaker 4: They're dead, after all, but they still take place in
Speaker 4: activities that represent their personalities and who they were in life.
Speaker 4: Do I think that spirits might occasionally pour themselves a
Speaker 4: glass of wine and enjoy it with other souls. I
Speaker 4: think they do, but it's more of a symbolic thing
Speaker 4: than an actual meal or drink. Food and drinks have
Speaker 4: a whole different significance in heaven. Here's another story. The
Speaker 4: family came to me whose father had passed. Before he died,
Speaker 4: he was having a terrible time with food. He was
Speaker 4: on a feeding tube and couldn't stand the fact that
Speaker 4: he couldn't enjoy his favorite meals. He begged his family
Speaker 4: for a steak or a hamburger or some ice cream.
Speaker 4: They just couldn't give it to him, and he suffered
Speaker 4: with those cravings for years until he passed away. When
Speaker 4: he came through in a reading, he was surrounded by
Speaker 4: food steak, mashed potatoes, hamburgers, and cheesecake, and he told
Speaker 4: me he gained back all the weight he had lost
Speaker 4: when he was ill. His family was so happy to
Speaker 4: see him back to his old self and enjoying the
Speaker 4: foods that he'd been denied when he was ill. When
Speaker 4: a loved one passes away, they want you to remember
Speaker 4: them happy. This reading was very healing for the family
Speaker 4: and for the soul himself, because it replaced the image
Speaker 4: which they had of him being thin, hungry, and frustrated,
Speaker 4: with the image of him now being happy, healthy in heaven,
Speaker 4: surrounded by his favorite foods. Overall, spirits don't need the
Speaker 4: same things we need to survive because survival isn't an
Speaker 4: issue anymore. There are no hospitals or cemeteries in heaven.
Speaker 4: If you see a family member jogging, showering, or eating
Speaker 4: a burger in heaven, that's just a way for them
Speaker 4: to come through to you. What you're seeing isn't really
Speaker 4: your loved one eating. The earthly activity they're showing you
Speaker 4: is a link to their old self and the personality
Speaker 4: they still have in heaven. This makes me think of
Speaker 4: Casper the Friendly Ghost. I love that cartoon. When I
Speaker 4: was a kid, and I remember when Casper's uncles were
Speaker 4: sitting at the table eating and the food was going
Speaker 4: right through them. They didn't need the food, but they
Speaker 4: were still connected to the act of eating. That is
Speaker 4: from Matt Fraser's book We Never Die, Secrets of the Afterlife.
Speaker 4: In near death experiences and spiritually transformative experiences, people often
Speaker 4: see their loved ones. They get visions of heaven and
Speaker 4: come back with stories to tell and many insights about
Speaker 4: the afterlife. Kat Kerr is the author of Revealing Heaven
Speaker 4: and her word on food is that there is food
Speaker 4: in heaven. Let's listen to her story.
Speaker 7: I can tell you this though, there is food in heaven,
Speaker 7: and a lot of people get excited when I start
Speaker 7: talking about this. No matter what you experienced with food
Speaker 7: on this earth, there's no weight gain, no food allergies.
Speaker 8: You never find any.
Speaker 7: Gluten free stuff up there, no lactose intolerant people up there.
Speaker 8: Everything you eat is totally absorbed into.
Speaker 7: Your being because the food is made out of light.
Speaker 7: And that might surprise you, but you know what, spirit
Speaker 7: itself is made out of light. That's why God says,
Speaker 7: don't hide your light, let your light shine. We are
Speaker 7: the light of this world. And I can tell you
Speaker 7: even here on Earth, scientists are finding out that light
Speaker 7: is almost a part of every substance that exists. It's
Speaker 7: in sound, it's in colors, it's in many of the
Speaker 7: things that are on this earth. So in Heaven it's
Speaker 7: one of the main substances that things are built out of.
Speaker 8: The clothing you wear is made out of light.
Speaker 7: The food you eat, like I said before, it looks
Speaker 7: like pizza, smells like pizza, and tastes like pizza. But
Speaker 7: let me tell you've never had any pizza like they
Speaker 7: have in Heaven. And I was taken to a pizza Rhea,
Speaker 7: and let me tell you, the pizzas are the size
Speaker 7: of the tables, and you and all your friends sit
Speaker 7: around them, and they actually turn the table to get
Speaker 7: their slice of pizza. And the funny thing was every
Speaker 7: slice could be different from the other one, and they
Speaker 7: all know exactly what you like. It's prepared the way
Speaker 7: you like it. And how awesome is that. I've been
Speaker 7: to a bakery in Heaven where the cinnamon roll are
Speaker 7: the size of a dinner plate. I laugh about this
Speaker 7: sometimes because you see aromas in Heaven. I tell people
Speaker 7: in heaven, there's more than one dimension. Flowers look beautiful,
Speaker 7: they smell beautiful, you can touch them, but they also
Speaker 7: make music. But the food in heaven the aromas. You
Speaker 7: literally can see the aromas. And if you ever try
Speaker 7: to walk by one of those bakeries in heaven and
Speaker 7: think you're going to escape not going inside, you are wrong.
Speaker 7: That aroma will actually come and capture you and carry
Speaker 7: you inside the bakeries. I've seen many different types of food,
Speaker 7: and this is the best news of all, especially for women.
Speaker 7: If you don't want to cook when you go home
Speaker 7: to Heaven, you don't have to. You actually sit down
Speaker 7: at your table with all your friends, you say what
Speaker 7: you want, it appears on the place in front of you.
Speaker 7: Cook to perfection, you eat all you want. When you're done,
Speaker 7: it totally disappears. There is nothing to clean up. I
Speaker 7: really like that part of heaven. So don't think you're
Speaker 7: going to go up there and have nothing to do
Speaker 7: but sit on clouds and have angels drop grapes in
Speaker 7: your mouth. There's a lot more to eat in heaven
Speaker 7: than grapes. And one of the reasons that is is
Speaker 7: because there are people who have gifts as chefs as
Speaker 7: people who like to grow vegetables, people who like to
Speaker 7: make things in the restaurant business, people who like to serve,
Speaker 7: and so you.
Speaker 8: Get to use your gifts when you go home to heaven.
Speaker 7: I'm not talking about that thing you do for your
Speaker 7: job on earth, because you know, down here on earth
Speaker 7: you have to make a living in order to exist,
Speaker 7: but in Heaven you exist to live. So yes, there's restaurants.
Speaker 7: Yes there's bakeries because God allows them to use their
Speaker 7: gifts when they get home to heaven. If you're an artist,
Speaker 7: you get your mansion, you get a studio fully furnished,
Speaker 7: and then he gives you a gallery. You show your
Speaker 7: beautiful artwork and you give it away to people.
Speaker 8: Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 7: If you always wanted a horse, you probably have one hundred,
Speaker 7: and everybody comes to your place to rise your amazing horses.
Speaker 7: They're never going to get sick. You're never going to
Speaker 7: have to clean them. Actually, you never have to clean yourself.
Speaker 7: That's why they call it heaven. There are shops and
Speaker 7: stores to get things because people have gifts that design fashions,
Speaker 7: they make jewelry, So that's one of the ways Heaven operates.
Speaker 7: If there's transportation, it runs on light or wind. And yes,
Speaker 7: there's many forms of transportation in heaven. They have things
Speaker 7: I call space buses where a lot of people can
Speaker 7: ride on them. There's these things they called transport kiosk
Speaker 7: where you literally step into beams of light and seconds later,
Speaker 7: on the other side of heaven you step.
Speaker 8: Out of one.
Speaker 7: Roads of light are created because your desired to go somewhere.
Speaker 8: They come pick you up and take you there.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you, you are never going to be
Speaker 7: bored living there.
Speaker 4: That sounds good to me. Let's talk about the Egyptians.
Speaker 4: They mummified food. Of course, the Egyptians believed in the
Speaker 4: afterlife and that the soul continued to exist in the
Speaker 4: afterlife and therefore required sustenance. They preserved various meats, including goat, beef, duck,
Speaker 4: and poultry, to ensure souls did not go hungry in
Speaker 4: the hereafter. The process of mummifying food was remarkably similar
Speaker 4: to that used for human mummies. First, the food was
Speaker 4: carefully cured with salt to remove moisture and prevent decay.
Speaker 4: This was a crucial step, as the Egyptians considered libations sacred. Next,
Speaker 4: the item was coated with a layer of fat, resin
Speaker 4: or beeswax, which safeguarded the food against environmental factors. Remember,
Speaker 4: the modern refrigeration as we know it wouldn't be invented
Speaker 4: for another several millennia. After preservation, these snacks were carefully
Speaker 4: wrapped in bandages which held great divine significance connecting to
Speaker 4: the idea of resurrection. The offerings were placed in royal
Speaker 4: tombs and temples. This practice was part of burial rituals,
Speaker 4: ensuring the deceased had access to plenty of sustenance in
Speaker 4: the afterlife. In addition, the mummified foods served as a
Speaker 4: gesture of gratitude for the food that had nourished them
Speaker 4: throughout their earthly existence. Are you getting hungry? It's time
Speaker 4: for a quick break. We'll be right back. You're listening
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandras Champlain.
Speaker 4: Next we're going to hear some words from one of
Speaker 4: my favorite people who lives in the afterlife. You've asked
Speaker 4: for more of Eric, who comes through ants medium Scott Milligan,
Speaker 4: and has for over twenty years almost every Friday, going
Speaker 4: on five years now. We've had extraordinary conversations where you
Speaker 4: can ask your questions to mister Eric before we hear
Speaker 4: his words. Here's a joke for you. A skeleton walks
Speaker 4: into a bar and says, give me a beer and
Speaker 4: a mop. Okay, let's continue our episode about food in
Speaker 4: the Afterlife with mister Eric, followed by a bit of
Speaker 4: reading from the book They Serve Bagels in Heaven.
Speaker 5: Hello, Eric, it's been a tough year. I lost my
Speaker 5: son last year. I'm doing as well as I can.
Speaker 6: Oh, my then, may I say this to you. I
Speaker 6: understand how you wish to relay this, but no one
Speaker 6: has ever lost You know your son lives strong within
Speaker 6: all reality. Nothing is lost. If you are to have
Speaker 6: a child within our world, be proud to know that
Speaker 6: your child will never know war and never no pain.
Speaker 6: Not how it was understand that for me, my friend,
Speaker 6: Now I've be deeply rude. What is your inquiry?
Speaker 5: Thank you very much for the words of comfort. My
Speaker 5: daughter recently had a medium reading and the medium said
Speaker 5: that they can't taste food on the other side, but
Speaker 5: they can have a memory of food. And my son
Speaker 5: was a serious foodie.
Speaker 6: And I leave little.
Speaker 5: Offerings of food and drink for my son and my father.
Speaker 5: So my question is can you taste food in the afterlife?
Speaker 6: Well, my friend, what a wonderful question, and how wonderful
Speaker 6: it is for you to still involve such a ritual. Now,
Speaker 6: my friend, I have to say to you the medium
Speaker 6: has to be right in this capacity, because one consumes
Speaker 6: food to keep the physical body strong, but certain food
Speaker 6: may not be as good taste and therefore may be rejected.
Speaker 6: So within our reality we have no need for substance
Speaker 6: of the physical body, but we can carry the memory.
Speaker 6: If it was pleasing for one to have a banquet,
Speaker 6: to have so many people brought together over a good supper,
Speaker 6: then so be it. It is a memory and for
Speaker 6: pleasing foot all. When you place your tokens out for
Speaker 6: your dear boy, you are bringing into your awareness and
Speaker 6: know that he still exists. For my friend, it is
Speaker 6: healing for yourself, but enjoyment for us. What will be
Speaker 6: more beneficial, my dear, even though you may not like
Speaker 6: the taste, is to say this is for you and
Speaker 6: to eat it yourself, because, my friend, it is the memory.
Speaker 6: It is the experience that involves your son. I know,
Speaker 6: my friend, many people place the devil's brew, and you
Speaker 6: know what I mean by the devil's brew. Alcohol always
Speaker 6: brings out the little devil in everyone. So when one passes,
Speaker 6: they drink the devil's brew in memory and say this
Speaker 6: fund is for you, and they share in the memory
Speaker 6: of what it was like I myself was very fond
Speaker 6: of chestnuts, especially at Christmas time when they are roasted.
Speaker 6: It was mouth water into me then, and the memory
Speaker 6: is still mouth water into me now. Now. If we
Speaker 6: are able to come back in visitation in a certain
Speaker 6: environment known as a seance, and become partially if not materialized,
Speaker 6: we are able to take an object and keep it
Speaker 6: within our consciousness. Or if we are to take the
Speaker 6: bite of the apple, we are able to experience a texture,
Speaker 6: We're able to experience the memory of the taste of it.
Speaker 6: It is not then ingested by ourselves, it is then
Speaker 6: ingested within the bloodstream of the media arm. So there
Speaker 6: are times when we can eat under a physical seance,
Speaker 6: and there are other times that we can only share
Speaker 6: in memory. But what you are doing when you say
Speaker 6: to your son and your husband this is for you.
Speaker 6: You are telling them they are not forgotten. They are
Speaker 6: still very much loved. So was your son an expert
Speaker 6: in cooking or did it rest upon your shoulders?
Speaker 5: He was a very big cook, and he was an
Speaker 5: organic gardener, so he made unusual dishes, like I had
Speaker 5: the best cauliflower mashed potatoes. They were so delicious. He
Speaker 5: was a very good cook.
Speaker 6: Oh, then, my friend, when it is your time to
Speaker 6: join them, let him make from his memory a wonderful
Speaker 6: feast to say, mother, put your feet up and let
Speaker 6: me care for you. And so, my dear I know
Speaker 6: the words lost has been used. Change that, and your
Speaker 6: son has migrated to our world, and he will have
Speaker 6: the table set for your arrival. I was lost you
Speaker 6: now when I started to fail in health. My dear
Speaker 6: wife was able to share her knowledge. But we had
Speaker 6: other people who were able to look after us. We
Speaker 6: were in the point of wealth where we employed others
Speaker 6: to cook and to clean and to dress. And in
Speaker 6: our world now I am the one that cleans the
Speaker 6: shoes of others. I am the one that will take
Speaker 6: the scraps from the table. Because my friend, I wanted
Speaker 6: to have a new experience. My family have joined me
Speaker 6: and is still distance. Family is still living in your world,
Speaker 6: and I will see them again physically when they come
Speaker 6: to our side of life. I have not lost anyone.
Speaker 6: I thank God that they have been part of my journey,
Speaker 6: and no one will ever separate me from their love again. So,
Speaker 6: my friend, if that is pleasing for you, and if
Speaker 6: it is your tradition, may I ask this of you.
Speaker 6: If it costs you coin, then do not do it.
Speaker 6: But if my words are pleasing for you, will you
Speaker 6: have a chestnut for myself.
Speaker 5: I will have chestnuts and get fresh ones and I
Speaker 5: will roast them for you. Thank you very much for
Speaker 5: the words of comfort.
Speaker 6: Then I have done my duty. I've been very rule
Speaker 6: to ask for something. But my find if it brings
Speaker 6: you enjoyment, let me enjoy your love as well. Thank you, so,
Speaker 6: my dear. If that is pleasing for you, as time
Speaker 6: is against me, let us move along.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, Linda.
Speaker 6: This will be my last inquiry, my fin.
Speaker 4: Okay, I would like to ask it just on behalf
Speaker 4: of several people who are just wondering. Is the unseen
Speaker 4: world that you live physical like our world is physical?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, my fin. Your world seems to be the
Speaker 6: dream and mine is the reality. Of course, when I
Speaker 6: was alive, the shoe was on the other foot. My
Speaker 6: world of love light that awaited me was a Christian world,
Speaker 6: the natuality. When I did move from your existence to
Speaker 6: the world that awaits me, I wasn't disappointed, but I
Speaker 6: believed I did wrong. It was not how it was painted,
Speaker 6: it was not what it has shared. It was like
Speaker 6: your world, but everyone seemed to like one another. Everyone
Speaker 6: knew one another. We did not have separation of language,
Speaker 6: we did not have the cruel imprisonment of time. Animals
Speaker 6: spoke to me, Trees seemed to answer back, and I
Speaker 6: realized that this is the reality. When I look at you,
Speaker 6: I see what I perceived to be a specter, a phantom,
Speaker 6: a ghost. You're not physically there. I can see you,
Speaker 6: but I can see through you, and I can see
Speaker 6: the truth you. But you look at me, and you
Speaker 6: may not see me. You may hear or fill my presence,
Speaker 6: and it makes us film like were world's apart. But
Speaker 6: your world is a distant memory. My world is the reality.
Speaker 6: Your world is the reality, and my world seems to
Speaker 6: be your fantasy. If that is true, let us meet
Speaker 6: in the realms of fantasy. Let us speak together in
Speaker 6: this moment. As I reflect upon the past, you speak
Speaker 6: with the future. Not the future of your world, but
Speaker 6: the future of where you're going. I survive death, and
Speaker 6: so will you. You will move from your residence to
Speaker 6: our residence, and you will fill the best you have
Speaker 6: ever felt. And you will look back on your life,
Speaker 6: and you will look at the title of death, and
Speaker 6: you will say, what was all the fuss about. It
Speaker 6: was living that was difficult, and you will survive, and
Speaker 6: you will thrive and you will be strong.
Speaker 4: I'd like to thank mister Eric for those kind and
Speaker 4: informative words. And to the mom whose son has migrated
Speaker 4: to the other side. She's a beautiful soul and her
Speaker 4: son has now come through many times during readings and
Speaker 4: to herself. So let's take our break and then we'll
Speaker 4: come back and find out about bagels in Heaven. You're
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Next,
Speaker 4: I'd like to introduce you to a woman named Irene Wineberg.
Speaker 4: She's a public speaker and host of a popular podcast
Speaker 4: called Grief and Rebirth Finding the Joy in Life. Her
Speaker 4: book is titled They Serve Bagels in Heaven. I recommend
Speaker 4: her book, her podcast. You can find her at Irenewineberg
Speaker 4: dot com. But in this segment, I just want to
Speaker 4: play a few minutes of her telling the beginning of
Speaker 4: her story, and then I'd like to read to you
Speaker 4: part of her book. So here's Irene.
Speaker 3: I love sharing my story because I was such a
Speaker 3: So if there are people who are like, is this real?
Speaker 3: Does this really happen? Yeah, it's real, it happens. And
Speaker 3: I was the biggest non believer.
Speaker 6: I had a.
Speaker 3: Sister in law who was very spiritual. At the time
Speaker 3: of this accident, my husband and I weren't talking to her.
Speaker 3: We thought she was crazy. That was before I became
Speaker 3: more enlightened and spiritual and gave up judgment and gave
Speaker 3: up all that kind of thing. But we thought she
Speaker 3: was cuckoo. And then I had this unbelievable experience and
Speaker 3: who could I talk to? It was her, And today
Speaker 3: we are besties. We've shared this journey together. So I'll
Speaker 3: start from the beginnings. I was not a believer in
Speaker 3: any of this. My husband and I we were traditional
Speaker 3: Jewish people. So there's a tradition that you visit a gravesite,
Speaker 3: you put a stone on the grave, you say some peers.
Speaker 3: I didn't know if anyone heard me or what was
Speaker 3: going on. I followed my tradition, and one day I
Speaker 3: was standing at my kitchen sink washing a.
Speaker 10: Dish, which I guess you could think of as being
Speaker 10: sort of meditative, and all of a sudden a thought
Speaker 10: came into my head that wasn't my thought, and it said,
Speaker 10: Saul has to go.
Speaker 3: Many lessons will be learned from his death. And I
Speaker 3: looked around him and I said, what am I thinking?
Speaker 3: What is this? And I brought my husband a glass
Speaker 3: of water. He was watching a football game on TV.
Speaker 3: I kissed the top of his head and put it
Speaker 3: out of my mind. But you never forget something like that.
Speaker 3: Two months later, we were coming home from a ski
Speaker 3: weekend and the car suddenly went into a huge swerve
Speaker 3: and I looked over and my husband, Saul, was sound
Speaker 3: asleep at the wheel, and I called out to him.
Speaker 3: He woke up and he saw what was happening, and
Speaker 3: he went to pull the car out of the swerve.
Speaker 3: We were going seventy two miles an hour, and when
Speaker 3: he went to pull the car out of the swerve,
Speaker 3: instead of writing itself, the car started to rise up
Speaker 3: into the air for the first of fourth lips. And
Speaker 3: as we rose the first time, everything was landing very
Speaker 3: hard on the right side. So as a consequence, I
Speaker 3: was conscious through everything, but all my injuries I had
Speaker 3: forced operations were all on my right side because every
Speaker 3: time the car hit something got hurt. But as we
Speaker 3: lift it off the first time and landed and bound
Speaker 3: so hard that we looked it off a second time,
Speaker 3: a third time, and a fourth time. The second time,
Speaker 3: another message came into my head and it said, he's
Speaker 3: not going to make it. You are now I'm flipping
Speaker 3: up in the air and I get this message, and
Speaker 3: for that period of time and that flip I left
Speaker 3: my body.
Speaker 4: It became very, very black around me, but.
Speaker 3: I was conscious in everything. I'm told that. I accompanied
Speaker 3: my husband to the portal, and they gave me this
Speaker 3: assignment that we had planned that if certain things didn't
Speaker 3: work out in this lifetime we're soul mates many times over,
Speaker 3: that we would work together. From each side of the veil.
Speaker 3: I looked over at Saul, I said, Solly, are you okay?
Speaker 3: And I saw what I had been told had happened.
Speaker 3: I was next to the shelf of my husband. His
Speaker 3: entire beautiful spirit was gone. And before grieving set in
Speaker 3: or anything like that, I got in that.
Speaker 4: Moment, Oh my god, we go on.
Speaker 3: I had gotten the messages. There is so much more,
Speaker 3: and I felt like he must be with me right now.
Speaker 3: I see helicopter land and these EMTs jump out of
Speaker 3: the helicopter and they're rolling my car because we were
Speaker 3: off the side of the road and we held up
Speaker 3: traffic on that throughway for two and a half hours.
Speaker 3: And they righted the car and one of them put
Speaker 3: his hands through my shattered window. I'll never forget it,
Speaker 3: and did my seatbelt, turned me around, start pulling me
Speaker 3: by my shoulders through the window of my car. And
Speaker 3: at that moment, I get a message in a male
Speaker 3: voice that boom into my head and it says, be
Speaker 3: loving and kind to everyone, like a directive. As they
Speaker 3: laid me on the side of the road. When they
Speaker 3: took me from the helicopter into the trauma center, the
Speaker 3: surgeon comes over to me and he says to me,
Speaker 3: I have to tell you that your husband's gone. And
Speaker 3: I felt like Saul was right there, and I said, doc,
Speaker 3: I am the luckiest woman in the world that I
Speaker 3: had this man in my life.
Speaker 4: I'm going to stop Irene right there because I want
Speaker 4: to do some reading from her book. Poor Irene had
Speaker 4: a torn artery, had to have blood transfusions and more
Speaker 4: after this accident, but she went on to continue having
Speaker 4: these spiritually transformative experiences. Yes, she did turn to her
Speaker 4: sister in law, who they at one time thought was
Speaker 4: crazy for believing in all these things, and she visited
Speaker 4: several mediums and received so much precise evidence that no
Speaker 4: one else could possibly know. So she knew in her
Speaker 4: heart that her husband saw lived on. Irene Weinberg's book
Speaker 4: is titled They Serve Bagels in Heaven. One couple's story
Speaker 4: of love, eternity and the cosmic importance of everyday life. Now,
Speaker 4: one of the mediums she visited was able to channel
Speaker 4: Saul and bring through his words from him in the afterlife,
Speaker 4: again giving evidence that no one else could possibly know.
Speaker 4: So I'd like to read this part of him arriving
Speaker 4: in heaven and the part about the bagels. I think
Speaker 4: my soul left even before my body died. The pain
Speaker 4: of living had become such a burden. In the sudden
Speaker 4: moment filled me with profound relief. The last earthly recollection
Speaker 4: is driving and then this immense loosening and lightning for
Speaker 4: an instant anyway, then Irene called out my name, pulling
Speaker 4: me far enough back into my body so I could
Speaker 4: handle this accident in a way that made sure she
Speaker 4: lived through it. That was my final gut instinct to
Speaker 4: steer the car so the accident would be the least
Speaker 4: destructive to her, and to make sure no one else
Speaker 4: would be harmed. I also knew in every fiber of
Speaker 4: my being this absolutely would be the last time I
Speaker 4: would hear her call my name. After the accident, I
Speaker 4: left my body and I was outside the car. From
Speaker 4: where I stood, I could see my body slumped over
Speaker 4: the steering wheel. Even though I knew something awful had happened.
Speaker 4: All I could focus on was Irene. Was she all right?
Speaker 4: Was she going to live? As I looked around for help,
Speaker 4: I began to realize that while I was seeing, hearing,
Speaker 4: and thinking, I had no body. But there wasn't time
Speaker 4: to process this wacky thought, because Irene was in mortal danger.
Speaker 4: If I had any faculties left at all, I was
Speaker 4: going to use them to help her. Despite my concern,
Speaker 4: it dawned on me that my wife, the car, and
Speaker 4: the bare winter trees weren't all I could see. Surrounding
Speaker 4: Irene was a brilliant emerald and blue light that extended
Speaker 4: to the growing number of people who had stopped to help.
Speaker 4: It permeated each and every one of them with a
Speaker 4: magnificent purple light. More than the beauty and wonder of
Speaker 4: this light was that it held within it angels, honest
Speaker 4: to God, angels. In that instant, I understood they were
Speaker 4: there to protect us, all of us, Before they helped
Speaker 4: me cross over. My knowing, somehow came through the intensity
Speaker 4: of the radiance in which which they held me. The
Speaker 4: warmth and strength of that radiance reassured me, helping me
Speaker 4: accept the fact that my life force. My bodyless soul
Speaker 4: was now safely cocooned in love and light. My angels
Speaker 4: steadied me as they showed me in a devastating flash,
Speaker 4: all of the hours and days, months and even years
Speaker 4: that lay ahead for Irene without me. I saw how
Speaker 4: she would eventually blossom into a new life, and in
Speaker 4: the end I would be there to greet her in heaven.
Speaker 4: With this image before me, I could see why our
Speaker 4: love would never die, that the cord would keep us
Speaker 4: connected even all the way from Earth to heaven. My
Speaker 4: mother was waiting for me with open arms. I hadn't
Speaker 4: seen her since she had died when I was sixteen,
Speaker 4: and I had missed her every day of my life.
Speaker 4: Now Here she stood for me to hug and hold again.
Speaker 4: I imagine it took all of the concentration and she
Speaker 4: could muster to shape her soul fibers back into her
Speaker 4: old physical being. My wonderful, loving mom even managed to
Speaker 4: manifest her favorite house stress and hairdo just for me.
Speaker 4: She helped me in a soul embrace, a communion really
Speaker 4: of our conscious senses of each other's being. I have
Speaker 4: never had such a warm, accepting welcome, not anywhere her
Speaker 4: warmth and kindness steadied me, preparing me to meet my
Speaker 4: angels and stand before my loving source. After we hugged
Speaker 4: for what felt like forever, my angels led us to
Speaker 4: a deli where we had coffee and bagels. Imagine what
Speaker 4: a shock that was to realize I had traveled god
Speaker 4: knows how far from the only life I could remember,
Speaker 4: to discover that, even up in heaven, I could still
Speaker 4: get a cup of coffee and a bagel. Yes, the
Speaker 4: memory of all the times I'd shared food with my
Speaker 4: mother steadied me further. I began to feel enough like
Speaker 4: my old self to start laughing with her and teasing
Speaker 4: her all the ways I used to. She had always
Speaker 4: been so serious, so worried about my father, and that
Speaker 4: teasing had always been a way for us to comfort
Speaker 4: each other. I felt deeply grateful for her as I
Speaker 4: began to face this new passage in my life. I'll
Speaker 4: stop right there. But that's from the book. They serve
Speaker 4: bagels in Heaven. It is very heartfelt, touching, even funny,
Speaker 4: these stories between Irene and Saul. I think we might
Speaker 4: be in agreement that there is food in the afterlife
Speaker 4: and a lot of other pleasures. But while we're here
Speaker 4: on Earth. Let's all do our best to be present
Speaker 4: in the moment, enjoy each one of our five senses
Speaker 4: the best we can with our physical body. Don't forget
Speaker 4: to come visit me atweedotdie dot com. Join me for
Speaker 4: one of our free Sunday gatherings with medium demonstration included.
Speaker 4: I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for listening to
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