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Speaker 3: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi,
Speaker 3: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
Speaker 3: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Speaker 3: On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
Speaker 3: that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and so
Speaker 3: will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. When I
Speaker 3: was a teenager, I remember getting into the car with
Speaker 3: my dad when we were driving somewhere. Dad would always
Speaker 3: turn on the radio to an easy listening station. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about. Some people call it elevator music.
Speaker 3: To me, it was our favorite rock bands put to
Speaker 3: this nice instrumental music. Oh we kids couldn't stand it
Speaker 3: and never could understand how dad could enjoy it. Well, here,
Speaker 3: I am fifty eight years old, and there are times
Speaker 3: that my mind is so busy. I want something soft
Speaker 3: and peaceful. No heavy listening, no heavy lifting. Why I
Speaker 3: bring this up is because today I want to do
Speaker 3: rather an easy listening kind of episode. Stories of near
Speaker 3: death experiences, stories of people just before they pass, and
Speaker 3: some stories of some silly things that happen at funerals.
Speaker 3: I also want to talk to you about a school
Speaker 3: which is referred to as the modern day Hogwarts. I'm
Speaker 3: talking about the Arthur Finley College, which is a place
Speaker 3: you can go to learn how to communicate with the dead.
Speaker 3: Let's start with our first near death experience. This woman
Speaker 3: is given a visit to the Afterlife after falling asleep.
Speaker 3: She says, I was asleep comfortably and diagonally across my
Speaker 3: king size bed. I was seventy years old, single. I
Speaker 3: sleep alone and enjoy stretching lazily across the bed while
Speaker 3: watching television until I fall asleep. On this night, I'm
Speaker 3: sure I had been asleep long enough to pass through
Speaker 3: the rem phase. Settling into a good night's rat, I
Speaker 3: suddenly felt my body convulse, first curling up and then
Speaker 3: straightening out twice very rapidly. That caused me to become awake.
Speaker 3: When I opened my eyes, I was up in the air,
Speaker 3: above and slightly behind my head. I knew I was dead.
Speaker 3: I looked down and saw the lifeless husk of my
Speaker 3: former body splayed out on the bed. I was neither
Speaker 3: shocked nor startled at this grotesque site. In fact, I
Speaker 3: felt indifferent. I didn't care about it one way or another,
Speaker 3: no joy or fear. I called myself it. I'd used it,
Speaker 3: and it was over. Suddenly around me was a beautiful
Speaker 3: pastoral scene. I was overcome with intense feelings of love, peace, forgiveness,
Speaker 3: and acceptance. The very essence of the place was immediately
Speaker 3: upon me with abundant welcoming and joy. Then I remembered this,
Speaker 3: this is the place I was before I was born.
Speaker 3: I was back home. I was dead, but I was
Speaker 3: still very much alive. It was me, Charlene, the same
Speaker 3: as I was a minute ago, not only alive but happy.
Speaker 3: I felt great, and my vision was twenty twenty or better.
Speaker 3: This is the best I could see for the first
Speaker 3: time in years. I thought that I was still in
Speaker 3: my room, but a scenario surrounded me. I saw everything there,
Speaker 3: but my attention was immediately drawn to my right and
Speaker 3: up in the air about ten feet I could see
Speaker 3: a room with green walls. Inside the room, I heard
Speaker 3: the familiar sound of men playing the game spades. They
Speaker 3: were laughing and joking and having a great time. Something
Speaker 3: seriously funny apparently happened, And although I can't recall hearing
Speaker 3: their exact words, they were teasing and joking with each other.
Speaker 3: I recognized the voices of my two long disci seized
Speaker 3: uncles Nat short for Nathaniel and Dub short for w
Speaker 3: the first letter of his name Wilman. When I was
Speaker 3: a child, there existed no human beings funnier than that
Speaker 3: of Uncle Nat and Uncle Dub. To be in their
Speaker 3: presence was a guarantee that you'd be in stitches laughing
Speaker 3: long after they'd left. They brought so much joy to
Speaker 3: my childhood, and they brought joy to me. Now standing
Speaker 3: next to the card table, and clearly part of the
Speaker 3: group was another man. He looked similar to the photos
Speaker 3: we've seen of Albert Einstein, but it wasn't Einstein. I
Speaker 3: immediately remembered something though. This is the same man who
Speaker 3: was present right before I was born. I remember him
Speaker 3: being there. As my attention was turning to my left,
Speaker 3: I saw in front of me a great and beautiful
Speaker 3: meadow with trees and beautiful flowers. A little boy was
Speaker 3: there going into the meadow. I couldn't see his face.
Speaker 3: There were mountains in the far distance. Further to my
Speaker 3: left was a tan colored wall with a thick black
Speaker 3: zigzag line all the way across it. I understood without
Speaker 3: being told, that if I crossed that line or passed
Speaker 3: through it, there would be no coming back. But my
Speaker 3: attention was still moving left, and I saw over my
Speaker 3: left shoulder an amazing sight. Hundreds and hundreds of people
Speaker 3: and more were coming far in the distance before what
Speaker 3: I could see. They were just people shouting and cheering
Speaker 3: with smiles. They were cheering at me. They were so
Speaker 3: happy to see me. They were jumping and cheering, and
Speaker 3: they all loved me. Oh my, they loved me so much.
Speaker 3: Simultaneously because this all happened at the same time. I
Speaker 3: remembered the most amazing part. I was home. I remembered
Speaker 3: clearly that I was back back to where I belong.
Speaker 3: There's a certain way you feel at home. It's not
Speaker 3: the same feeling or awareness as here on earth. It's
Speaker 3: a super awareness of a sort nearly impossible to describe.
Speaker 3: It's the best and most secure and loved feeling you'll
Speaker 3: ever know, magnified and multiplied many many times over. The
Speaker 3: love and joy are almost unbearable, but in a good way.
Speaker 3: It's far far more intense than the deepest and most
Speaker 3: profound feeling that I've ever known. It's a reality that
Speaker 3: is jarring to its very existence, and you feel you
Speaker 3: really belong there. Not only do you belong there, you're
Speaker 3: part of it. And not only are you part of it,
Speaker 3: you are it and it is you. At home, everyone
Speaker 3: has lighthearted fun. There is no feeling of anyone having
Speaker 3: any problems and no drama. There are no issues. Joy,
Speaker 3: good humor, and love are all in the air. There
Speaker 3: are parts of my experience that I've forgotten, similar to
Speaker 3: the way we forget our dreams. So my recollection of
Speaker 3: this part is not as clear. I was somehow transported
Speaker 3: to a place where I think I spoke to a
Speaker 3: council of sorts. We talked about whether I would return
Speaker 3: to Earth or not. I believe I requested to come back,
Speaker 3: and I believe my request was lovingly granted. Suddenly I
Speaker 3: was back in my body, simultaneously sitting up, coughing and belching.
Speaker 3: Dying like that was a gentle thing and natural, like blinking.
Speaker 3: I fully accepted that death is going to happen, and
Speaker 3: now I have no fear of it. I am very
Speaker 3: much looking forward to it now that I know for
Speaker 3: a fact what awaits me. Here's a quick story from
Speaker 3: an emergency room doctor. An old lady had had a
Speaker 3: big heart attack and refused treatment, so he kept her
Speaker 3: comfortable by giving her morphine and Benzo's for the shortness
Speaker 3: of breath. While she was in the process of dying.
Speaker 3: I was with her and her family, providing comfort. Her
Speaker 3: daughter said to her, just let go, mom. The old
Speaker 3: lady opened her eyes one last time, looked at her
Speaker 3: daughter with a smirk on her face, and said, what
Speaker 3: do you think I've been trying to do? She put
Speaker 3: her head on the pillow and passed a short time later.
Speaker 3: Here are a few last words from this grandmother, as
Speaker 3: told by her granddaughter. I had to tell my grandmother
Speaker 3: that dialysis would only give her another week or so
Speaker 3: to live, and it was her choice to try or not.
Speaker 3: She was in and out of consciousness at that point,
Speaker 3: but she was in a clear state just for that moment.
Speaker 3: She asked, will I die? And I said yes, Grandma.
Speaker 3: She looked at me in the eye, smiled just a little,
Speaker 3: and said, Dearie, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 3: Grandma was always filled with encouragement. She then closed her eyes,
Speaker 3: squeezed my hand, fell asleep, and passed a little while later.
Speaker 3: Here's a funeral story. My great great grandmother was quite
Speaker 3: a character all of her life. When she passed away,
Speaker 3: the family gathered for the funeral and milled around sharing
Speaker 3: stories in subdued voices about memories of her. Shortly before
Speaker 3: everyone began to file into the room, the funeral director
Speaker 3: came in. He was looking very frazzled and wringing his hands.
Speaker 3: He apologized profusely and said the funeral couldn't start yet.
Speaker 3: Her body wasn't there. Apparently the morgue sent her to
Speaker 3: the wrong funeral parlor. In an entirely different city. The
Speaker 3: hearse was on its way to pick her up, but well,
Speaker 3: the funeral was going to be delayed. There was a
Speaker 3: beat of silence, and then the entire family managed to
Speaker 3: start laughing hysterically. My great grandma had always told the
Speaker 3: family that she always runs late and would most likely
Speaker 3: be late to her own funeral. She was about two
Speaker 3: hours late, to be exact. This story is now family
Speaker 3: legend of how my great great grandma was late to
Speaker 3: her own funeral and a special family funeral with us
Speaker 3: all laughing most of the time. Speaking of grandmothers, my
Speaker 3: grandmother Betsy Champlain had a great sense of humor. She
Speaker 3: always had to look her best. She was quite a
Speaker 3: little flirt and died just short of her ninety first birthday.
Speaker 3: Her favorite hat and she always had to have a
Speaker 3: ball cap on said bad hair day. Yes, you guessed it.
Speaker 3: Grammy wanted to be buried with her bad hair day hat.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine the surprise as the mourners came to
Speaker 3: look at her open casket only to find her lying
Speaker 3: there with bad hair day. Grammy certainly had the last
Speaker 3: laugh our last episode together. I remember telling you the
Speaker 3: story of a friend of mine who had died, and
Speaker 3: his father had died the following week, so they celebrated
Speaker 3: the lives of both men at the same time. What
Speaker 3: I didn't tell you is that Andy was a very
Speaker 3: big man. During the funeral, a young person happened to
Speaker 3: notice the two urns. They didn't realize that there were
Speaker 3: two funerals happening at the same time. And in the
Speaker 3: corner of the room you heard, was he so big,
Speaker 3: Mama that they needed two containers? Only a few of
Speaker 3: us had heard it, and out of the saddest moment,
Speaker 3: we burst into hysterical laughing, really trying to hide our
Speaker 3: laughter as tears. Oh my, I know Andy would have
Speaker 3: gotten a kick out of it. It's time for our
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
Speaker 3: and today we're looking at the lighter side of death
Speaker 3: and the afterlife. Let me take you back to my
Speaker 3: dad's funeral fourteen years ago. It was tough. Now. This
Speaker 3: was before I knew how grief interrupts people's perception and
Speaker 3: brain pattern, and so there was a level ten of
Speaker 3: stress in the relationships with me and my siblings. Dad
Speaker 3: had been in the Air Force. Dad lived on an airport,
Speaker 3: so as funeral took place in a church, followed by
Speaker 3: going into one of these big airplane hangars to have
Speaker 3: a celebration of life, followed by the burial. He was cremated.
Speaker 3: When we got to the celebration of life, we knew
Speaker 3: there was going to be an Air Force type flyover
Speaker 3: with the missing man formation. So picture five airplanes flying
Speaker 3: over and one takes off in another direction, signifying the
Speaker 3: loss of one of the troops. Each of my siblings
Speaker 3: got an opportunity to speak and share words about my father.
Speaker 3: I was the last to go. I had my speech prepared,
Speaker 3: and shortly after I began, we got the word that
Speaker 3: the flyover was going to take place, so I never
Speaker 3: got to share my words about my father. That flyover
Speaker 3: and the missing man formation still gets me choked up.
Speaker 3: But what happened next is how I remember my dad's
Speaker 3: funeral day you see, his cremation earns were to be buried.
Speaker 3: There was a grave digger holding the shovel. The priest
Speaker 3: spoke words about my dad. The cremation earned got lowered
Speaker 3: into the hole, and each one of us adult kids
Speaker 3: took a shovel full of dirt and threw it into
Speaker 3: the hole. My nieces and nephews got their opportunity to
Speaker 3: do it, and the last to go was my four
Speaker 3: year old nephew Jack. This little boy lifts up the
Speaker 3: big shovel, does his very best to put some dirt
Speaker 3: in the hole before the grave digger takes the shovel.
Speaker 3: As the grave digger fills in the hole, little Jack
Speaker 3: looks up with a frown on his face and was
Speaker 3: so upset and says, why does he get to take
Speaker 3: so many turns? I have to tell you, every single
Speaker 3: one of us burst out into laughter. It turned a
Speaker 3: really tough situation into one of joy. So when I
Speaker 3: think of my dad's funeral, first thing that comes to
Speaker 3: mind was the laughter. Here's another lighthearted story from a funeral.
Speaker 3: This man Tom tells the story. He says, I'm the
Speaker 3: author of this story about my grandfather, my nickname Peanut.
Speaker 3: Grandpa passed peacefully in twenty twenty two. I was a
Speaker 3: wreck for a long time, barely eating or sleeping. I
Speaker 3: was really missing him. Before his service, I stood at
Speaker 3: his urn and talked to him, telling him how much
Speaker 3: I loved him and I missed him, but that I
Speaker 3: understood it was time for him to go. I heard
Speaker 3: someone come up behind me. I looked up and I
Speaker 3: thought I saw Graham at the other end of the church.
Speaker 3: Surely my eyes were playing tricks on me. Grief and
Speaker 3: lack of sleep do crazy things. I wiped my eyes
Speaker 3: and looked again, and he got closer. The man smiled
Speaker 3: and held out his hand. I took it, and he
Speaker 3: was real I was looking at my grandpa. The man said, hey, peanut,
Speaker 3: it's okay. He hugged me, and I saw my dad
Speaker 3: coming in. I must have looked panicked because Dad was
Speaker 3: moving really fast. Dad said, hey, Tom, are you okay.
Speaker 3: I looked at Dad in shock. Dad said, this is
Speaker 3: my uncle, Grandpa's older brother. You haven't seen him since
Speaker 3: you were a kid. Well. I came so close to
Speaker 3: passing out that they had to guide me to a seat.
Speaker 3: Grandpa and my great uncle could have been twins. My
Speaker 3: dad laughed, hugged me, and assured me I was not hallucino.
Speaker 3: My grandpa was a prankster, so I'm sure he would
Speaker 3: have appreciated how funny this was. Here's more stories that
Speaker 3: put the fun in funeral. This man says, my grandfather,
Speaker 3: on his deathbed, arranged for his ashes to be presented
Speaker 3: to my grandmother, contained in a box of cornflakes. This
Speaker 3: man says, before Pop died, he made sure that we
Speaker 3: knew to play Tina Turner's Simply the Best at the
Speaker 3: end of his funeral. Everyone laughed. It was great. Another
Speaker 3: person says, my father had as his last wish the
Speaker 3: entire funeral where fake red noses, including myself, my brother,
Speaker 3: and all of my cousins who were the pallbearers, while
Speaker 3: this song Always look on the Bright Side of Life
Speaker 3: was played. I carried my dad in his cardboard coffin
Speaker 3: to the her wearing this bright red clown's nose, and
Speaker 3: afterward the six of us pallbearers smoked and remembered the
Speaker 3: man as he was thumbing his nose at death. This
Speaker 3: lady says, this actually happened to my family two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: At my grandmother's funeral, we family members were in the
Speaker 3: first few rows of the church at the funeral. During
Speaker 3: the only hymn sung at the end, a woman who
Speaker 3: was extremely tone deaf and very loud was singing directly
Speaker 3: behind us. Now, my family is very close and we
Speaker 3: often laugh a lot with each other. I was desperately
Speaker 3: trying not to laugh, scared I would set everyone off.
Speaker 3: I loved my grandmother dearly, and honestly was worried I
Speaker 3: would break down during the song. But this lady was
Speaker 3: so incredibly loud, off key, and off tempo. I couldn't
Speaker 3: help but laugh. So I'm sitting towards the front laughing
Speaker 3: silently with my shoulders shaking. My husband notices and puts
Speaker 3: his arm around me and whispers, just pretend you're crying,
Speaker 3: So I buried my face into his shoulder. I found
Speaker 3: out later that we were all struggling not to crack up.
Speaker 3: My mother, whose mother was the one who passed, was
Speaker 3: trying to drown this lady out, which only caused the
Speaker 3: woman to get even louder. To say the least, it
Speaker 3: was a mess, but it was pretty darn funny. I
Speaker 3: think my grandma would have found it very funny too.
Speaker 3: Next I'd like to share with you some special stories
Speaker 3: just before someone passes. These aren't funny, they're more heartwarming
Speaker 3: knowing that loved ones are there to greet us. About
Speaker 3: two minutes before my grandma passed, she had clarity. She
Speaker 3: had suffered from severe dementia for years. She opened her eyes,
Speaker 3: smiled and said, I found Jack. Jack was my grandpa,
Speaker 3: who died eight years prior. She said. They were at
Speaker 3: a ball with their friends and she said, I've got
Speaker 3: to go. He asked me to dance. She closed her
Speaker 3: eyes and passed away. Here's another story. My brother couldn't
Speaker 3: really talk while he was dying, but the look in
Speaker 3: his eyes before he passed will haunt me forever. Whatever
Speaker 3: he saw, it awed him like a kid seeing Disneyland
Speaker 3: for the very first time. I've never seen a person's
Speaker 3: eyes go so wide with such a big smile on
Speaker 3: their face. My guess, as he saw the whole universe
Speaker 3: all at once. And another story, My grandparents passed three
Speaker 3: days apart from each other. My grandmother was diagnosed with
Speaker 3: lung cancer. Halfway through her treatment, she told us that
Speaker 3: she felt like her whole life was fulfilled and she
Speaker 3: was stopping treatment so she could pass peacefully. She was
Speaker 3: on her deathbed for a long time, in and out
Speaker 3: of consciousness, not communicating, often only eating some ice chips.
Speaker 3: It tore my grandfather up. He was healthy and in
Speaker 3: impeccable shape. He went to the gym every day until
Speaker 3: he was ninety. One day, he was at the grocery
Speaker 3: store and had a heart attack. He died within minutes.
Speaker 3: A few days later, my dad and I were sitting
Speaker 3: with my grandmother. My dad told her that my grandfather
Speaker 3: was waiting for her whenever she was ready to go,
Speaker 3: so she wouldn't have to go alone. My grandmother spoke
Speaker 3: her first words in a week. He's right here with me.
Speaker 3: I see him. My dad asked, what's he wearing. She giggled,
Speaker 3: He's in my favorite gray suit. I think we're going out.
Speaker 3: She passed that very same evening. This nurse says, I
Speaker 3: heard my patient talking to herself, so I went in
Speaker 3: to check on her. She said she was talking to
Speaker 3: her deceased husband and asked, you don't see him, He's
Speaker 3: sitting right there in the chair. That sent a chill
Speaker 3: right down my spine. She passed a few minutes later.
Speaker 3: And this story. When my sister was on her deathbed.
Speaker 3: She would point and ask who the people were in
Speaker 3: her room, but of course no one else was there.
Speaker 3: I then see her having conversations with these invisible people.
Speaker 3: I finally asked her what she was talking about and
Speaker 3: with whom. She said she was talking to our grandfather,
Speaker 3: who died twenty years prior, and that he told her
Speaker 3: he was there to help her cross over. She told
Speaker 3: him she wasn't ready to go, and he told her
Speaker 3: that it has to be her decision. When she's ready
Speaker 3: to take his hand, he will guide her across. She
Speaker 3: passed not long after, no doubt, hand in hand with
Speaker 3: our grandfather. Another woman says, my great grandmother got sick
Speaker 3: when she was about ninety four. She had a flu
Speaker 3: and a really bad fever. I remember her crying and
Speaker 3: yelling the name Fritz. I can see Fritz, she repeated.
Speaker 3: Fritz was her older brother who had passed away when
Speaker 3: he was five, almost a century beforehand. One more story.
Speaker 3: I'm a hospice chaplain and worked in a hospital for
Speaker 3: a time. There was a spiritual, non religious man I
Speaker 3: had a good connection with. He requested that I come
Speaker 3: into his room. When I did, he motioned for me
Speaker 3: to crouch by his bed and spoke in a whisper.
Speaker 3: Do you see my brother in the corner? I told
Speaker 3: him I didn't, but I believed he was seeing him.
Speaker 3: He was completely lucid and calmly explained that his brother
Speaker 3: had been in the corner talking with him, hashing things
Speaker 3: out and coming to forgiveness like they weren't able to
Speaker 3: do before his brother died. He was worried the nurses
Speaker 3: would think he was crazy and try to medicate him.
Speaker 3: When I assured him I believed him and just wanted
Speaker 3: to listen to what he had to say. He went on,
Speaker 3: I see death too. She has my brother with her now.
Speaker 3: She's in the room. She's dressed in all black, but
Speaker 3: she ain't ugly. She's beautiful. He was totally at peace.
Speaker 3: He died a few hours later. It's time for our break,
Speaker 3: and we'll be back with a near death experience. You're
Speaker 3: listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 3: Today's episode is rather light hearted, no heavy thinking, so
Speaker 3: let's continue with a couple of near death experiences that
Speaker 3: seem to imply that there is some joy and shall
Speaker 3: I say, even laughter on the other side. This story
Speaker 3: is from a man who had crashed on an airplane
Speaker 3: where unfortunately a lot of people passed, yet he survived.
Speaker 3: When he entered his experience, he said, I found myself
Speaker 3: in kind of a gray place, not dark and not light.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of commotion. People are everywhere, and
Speaker 3: the acoustics are loud. On my left side, I view
Speaker 3: people walking two by two and very calm way. One
Speaker 3: is the person who crossed. The other seems to be
Speaker 3: their guide. I sensed peace and love and that they
Speaker 3: were okay. Guides kept coming up to meet people. Then
Speaker 3: I started moving really fast past the people on the
Speaker 3: left with their guides. I questioned, why am I moving
Speaker 3: so fast and they are moving so slow. I found
Speaker 3: myself going warp speed through this tunnel place. It was
Speaker 3: bright and light, but I could see past this was
Speaker 3: a dark blackness. I knew it was infinity out there.
Speaker 3: As fast as I was moving, Suddenly I stopped. I
Speaker 3: stood on what felt like the edge of a lake shore.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a bright place. It was dim, and I
Speaker 3: could hear the sound of water like a lake shore.
Speaker 3: It was as if little laps of water were hitting
Speaker 3: the shoreline, peaceful and rhythmic. I was alone, and it
Speaker 3: was very quiet except for the sound of what seemed
Speaker 3: like water. All of a sudden, I heard giggling and laughing.
Speaker 3: I looked up and across this lake, I saw these
Speaker 3: three spheres on my far left. They looked like big
Speaker 3: cotton balls, but ethereal. They were so excited to see me.
Speaker 3: I just knew it. I sensed it. Everything said was
Speaker 3: all telepathic, as if they were energy thoughts coming across
Speaker 3: to me. Communication was very fast. I didn't have to
Speaker 3: wait or think about it. I just knew. Their laughter
Speaker 3: and excitement felt so contagious. I started laughing too. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to go over there with them. It was
Speaker 3: so drawing. For example, when you're sitting at a restaurant
Speaker 3: and the table near you is having such a good
Speaker 3: time laughing hysterically, you want to find out what's so funny,
Speaker 3: but you start laughing too. I started my way over
Speaker 3: to the spheres. They meet at leastopped me and said, nope,
Speaker 3: we'll come to you, And the next immediate second they
Speaker 3: were there on my side. They just came to me,
Speaker 3: all three. It felt like they melded into me, and
Speaker 3: I realized how great communication is without words. That's the
Speaker 3: last thing I remembered that happened. The next moment, I
Speaker 3: am in the plane and I hear a voice say,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, there is someone else in there. I
Speaker 3: yelled my name to them. The plane crashed around eight
Speaker 3: forty PM. From what I'm told, my rescue occurred around
Speaker 3: one am. It was negative five degrees that night, with
Speaker 3: snow blowing and a wind chill factor. I thank God
Speaker 3: I'm alive, but there's nothing to fear and death. Here's
Speaker 3: another short story. When I had my experience, I felt
Speaker 3: my body dropped to the floor, yet I rose and
Speaker 3: hovered from the ceiling. Looking down. I saw my sister
Speaker 3: and mother place me on the bed, and I felt
Speaker 3: a tug. I went upward and felt a slight wind
Speaker 3: on my cheek. I was in a dimness and could
Speaker 3: feel other spirits rising at different rates. Above there was
Speaker 3: a light and I drew closer. I stopped right at
Speaker 3: the edge of the light and slowly extended my hand
Speaker 3: and stepped through. There was a green field and a
Speaker 3: river flowing in the distance. Trees lined the banks, and
Speaker 3: there was also a little dirt path. I noticed a
Speaker 3: cobblestone wall that was maybe four feet high, and it
Speaker 3: followed the dirt path off to the horizon. I suddenly
Speaker 3: heard the laughter of children at play. They were out
Speaker 3: of sight until they crested a small hill. Then I
Speaker 3: saw them playing with a checkered ball. They each got
Speaker 3: a turn to kick and run. They were laughing, and
Speaker 3: all I wanted to do was to laugh and join them.
Speaker 3: As I thought this, steps appeared at the wall. I
Speaker 3: could easily climb up and over the wall. When I
Speaker 3: got to the topmost step, I saw a person surrounded
Speaker 3: by clouds, and its voice asked in my head, do
Speaker 3: you know who these children are? At first I didn't
Speaker 3: have a clue, but just by thinking of the question,
Speaker 3: I knew the answer. In my head. I thought, yes,
Speaker 3: these are all children who died young, that didn't make
Speaker 3: it into life or died in childbirth. The voice was
Speaker 3: kind but warned me if you step over to join
Speaker 3: the children, you will not be able to go back.
Speaker 3: I shrugged, thinking that the game and the laughter would
Speaker 3: be enough for me. I really didn't care if I
Speaker 3: couldn't go back. At that instant, the image of my
Speaker 3: sister played on my mind's screen. My sister was kneeling
Speaker 3: on the bed beside me, with tears streaming down her face.
Speaker 3: She was praying, and I could hear her words begging
Speaker 3: God to let me come back, to let me be
Speaker 3: alive again. I didn't want her to cry. I didn't
Speaker 3: want her to hurt so bad. The voice in my
Speaker 3: head said, you have chosen well. In less than an instant,
Speaker 3: I was pulled back into my body and sitting up
Speaker 3: hugging my sister. I told her of her words and
Speaker 3: that I could hear her prayer to God. She told
Speaker 3: me that she had held a mirror to my nose
Speaker 3: and there had been no vapor, no breath at all
Speaker 3: in the past five minutes. I feel lucky to be alive,
Speaker 3: but also lucky to have had that experience. Next, a
Speaker 3: different type of story from hospice chaplain Terry. I worked
Speaker 3: with a wonderful administrative assistant named Martha who's in her sixties.
Speaker 3: One day, she told me that her daughter, Dorothy, had
Speaker 3: a troubled life. She'd been a difficult child and experienced
Speaker 3: a tumultuous adolescence. Now, as an adult, Dorothy was divorced
Speaker 3: and losing her battle with ovarian cancer. Because she was
Speaker 3: no longer able to work, she had to give up
Speaker 3: her apartment and move back in with her mother. Martha
Speaker 3: welcomed her and even painted the bedroom a light blue,
Speaker 3: which was her daughter's favorite color. I'd visit them from
Speaker 3: time to time, and although Dorothy wasn't a regular church goer,
Speaker 3: she said she did believe in God. Dorothy's condition worsened
Speaker 3: and her health rapidly deteriorated, to the point that she
Speaker 3: was confined to her bed. Not long after, her mother
Speaker 3: noticed that she began looking up toward the corner of
Speaker 3: her room and would stare at a particular area of
Speaker 3: the wall. One day, when Dorothy was once again staring
Speaker 3: at that spot, she blurted out, Oh, it's a door.
Speaker 3: It's a lovely golden door. Her mother thought that her
Speaker 3: comment was especially unusual because Dorothy seemed so nonchalant about it,
Speaker 3: as if golden doors appearing out of nowhere were commonplace. Curious,
Speaker 3: Martha asked, do you know why it's there? I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: and it isn't open yet. Do you know what's on
Speaker 3: the other side? No, but I guess I'm going to
Speaker 3: find out sooner or later, Dorothy replied. Toward the end
Speaker 3: of her life, she'd mentioned seeing the golden door more often,
Speaker 3: saying they're trying to push the door open. Who her
Speaker 3: mother asked, I don't know, you said they Do you
Speaker 3: think there's more than one person at the door? Yes,
Speaker 3: she said, I'm sure of it. The following day, which
Speaker 3: was Dorothy's last, I was visiting and we were talking
Speaker 3: about God. In the middle of the conversation, she looked
Speaker 3: up toward the corner of the room and said, they've
Speaker 3: pushed the door open. Martha had already told me about
Speaker 3: the Golden Door, so I asked, can I see them?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: They are? Dorothy explained, can't you see them? Oh, my goodness,
Speaker 3: it's getting so crowded in here. Martha and I didn't
Speaker 3: know what to make of her comment. The only people
Speaker 3: in her room were the two of us and her
Speaker 3: nurse from hospice. That was hardly a crowd. Why do
Speaker 3: they say it's so crowded, I asked, Dorothy. All of
Speaker 3: these people keep coming through the door, and it's getting
Speaker 3: very packed in here, she said. Dorothy was slipping in
Speaker 3: and out of consciousness, but every time she awoke, she
Speaker 3: pointed to the door and to everyone who was filling
Speaker 3: her room. She said, Mom, look how many there are
Speaker 3: here for me. They're going to help me cross over.
Speaker 3: Hours before her death, she spoke only of the door
Speaker 3: and the crowd surrounding her. She was so happy. Moments
Speaker 3: before her death, her mother gently said, Dorothy, you can
Speaker 3: go with these folks if it's time. I placed my
Speaker 3: hand on the dying woman's hand and said, it's all
Speaker 3: right to go. I'll take care of your mom. Dorothy
Speaker 3: died very peacefully with a smile, and her mother was
Speaker 3: comforted by the fact that people were there for her.
Speaker 3: Although at first Martha didn't believe that vision was real,
Speaker 3: as time went on, she realized that the door and
Speaker 3: the crowd were exactly what her daughter needed and that
Speaker 3: we all needed. I told Martha several stories about other
Speaker 3: patients who had died seeing a crowd of people, and
Speaker 3: I assured her that the golden door was something heavenly.
Speaker 3: Hospice doctors, nurses and volunteers witnessed so many of these
Speaker 3: passings with the crowded rooms with golden doors, with loved
Speaker 3: ones coming to visit, and as a result, they have
Speaker 3: no fear of death. I try as much as I
Speaker 3: can to give you many of these stories over the
Speaker 3: past four years of shades of the afterlife, so that
Speaker 3: you know when your time comes and my time comes,
Speaker 3: that we are greeted in such a loving way. Imagine
Speaker 3: now that you're at the end of your life, you've
Speaker 3: accomplished so much, you're a real old person, and you
Speaker 3: feel like, hey, I've lived a good life. You're older,
Speaker 3: you're wiser, And just imagine that golden door in the corner.
Speaker 3: It gets brighter and brighter, and the door opens, and
Speaker 3: there you see your loved ones, overjoyed that they are
Speaker 3: seeing you. They rush to your bedside with big smiles.
Speaker 3: The cats, the dogs, maybe the horses are all there
Speaker 3: to greet us, to take us home. That feeling of
Speaker 3: love surrounds us, and that big smile on our face
Speaker 3: makes us realize there's nothing to do fear and death,
Speaker 3: and there's nothing to fear in life. Let's go to
Speaker 3: our next break and when we come back, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you about the modern day Hogwarts and we'll do a
Speaker 3: virtual trip to the Arthur Finley College. You're listening to
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 3: Imagine your boss comes to you and wants to give
Speaker 3: you a gift, a ten day, all expenses paid trip
Speaker 3: to wherever you want to go, and they'll even pay
Speaker 3: you for it so you don't lose any money from work.
Speaker 3: With these ten days, you start to think about a
Speaker 3: nice vacation or holiday. What comes first to my mind
Speaker 3: would be a tropical vacation with the sound of reggae
Speaker 3: filling the air, feeling the sand beneath my toes, palm
Speaker 3: trees swaying in the breeze, lying on a lounge chair
Speaker 3: with a Pina colada delivered to me as I overlook
Speaker 3: the pool or the ocean, but wait, these travels are nice,
Speaker 3: but I want something a little more active. Shall I
Speaker 3: hike a mountain? Now that's too active? Shall I book
Speaker 3: a dude ranch in Arizona and horseback ride?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I fell off a horse once, and honestly, I'm not
Speaker 3: ready to get back on. I think to myself. I
Speaker 3: enjoy learning about the afterlife and talking to me I
Speaker 3: deceased loved ones. I wonder if there's a trip to
Speaker 3: learn about the afterlife. Your travel agent, me, Sandra Champlain,
Speaker 3: has the perfect place in mind for you. I myself
Speaker 3: have been there and give it five stars on trip Advisor.
Speaker 3: Where am I talking about? Well, the Arthur Finley College
Speaker 3: near Stansted, north of London in England. Ask any psychic
Speaker 3: or medium about the Arthur Finley College and immediately they
Speaker 3: giggle with excitement. You see, the Arthur Finley College is
Speaker 3: the world's foremost college for the advancement of psychic science
Speaker 3: and communicating with the dead. It's no surprise that it
Speaker 3: is popularly referred to as the original Hogwarts. To mediums
Speaker 3: and spiritualists, the Arthur Finley College is a place you
Speaker 3: must attend, but to the rest of the world it
Speaker 3: remains an institution clouded in mystery. However, the Arthur Finley
Speaker 3: College is a really great place to go and it's
Speaker 3: open to all of us. I first heard of it
Speaker 3: back in twenty sixteen when my good friend Darla invited
Speaker 3: me to take a course there with her. It was
Speaker 3: a beginner's class in mediumship, and she knew I was
Speaker 3: actively interested in communicating with the Beyond all the research
Speaker 3: I did, I had myself scared that I truly was
Speaker 3: going to some mysteriously magical place like Hogwarts from the
Speaker 3: Harry Potter movies. But once I got there, I fell
Speaker 3: in love with the place. I highly recommend anyone interested
Speaker 3: in the afterlife and how to communicate with your loved
Speaker 3: ones visit the Arthur Finley College and on either side
Speaker 3: of it, plan a trip to London. That's what we did,
Speaker 3: taking in Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, hopping
Speaker 3: on and off a double decker bus, and of course
Speaker 3: enjoying some fish and chips and drink in a local pub.
Speaker 3: The Arthur Finley College offers facilities unequaled anywhere in the world.
Speaker 3: Your course, food and lodging are all included, and students
Speaker 3: can study anything from communicating with the dead to spiritualist
Speaker 3: philosophy and religious practice. You can learn healing and of
Speaker 3: course unfold your natural, spiritual, psychic and mediumistic abilities. Many
Speaker 3: people don't know that it was Winston Churchill who established
Speaker 3: the Spiritualist church. He was a great believer in the
Speaker 3: afterlife and in psychic abilities. Many believe communicating with the
Speaker 3: dead maybe dark or sinister, but it's not. Winston Churchill
Speaker 3: normalized contact with spirit. Therefore, Spiritualism first thrived in England
Speaker 3: and in the UK, and was established as a religion
Speaker 3: there and from there quickly spread throughout the world. Anyone
Speaker 3: can attend the Arthur Finley College. There are classes for
Speaker 3: all levels of students, from beginners to highly advanced. Many
Speaker 3: of the most famous mediums in the world got their
Speaker 3: start there. The college is built on the grounds of
Speaker 3: an old castle that dates over one thousand years old.
Speaker 3: The estate itself built in eighteen seventy one. It's mysterious,
Speaker 3: it's old, it's magical, and to me it has the
Speaker 3: most amazing feeling. It's decorated in the old Victorian style
Speaker 3: as well. If you're a longtime listener, you remember back
Speaker 3: to episode three when I talk about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Speaker 3: who created Sherlock Holmes, and how he found out about spiritualism.
Speaker 3: His friend Arthur Finley, had his own awakening to the
Speaker 3: reality of the afterlife, and I tell you his magical
Speaker 3: story back on episode one hundred and thirty six. In
Speaker 3: Arthur Finley's will, he said, after the deaths of himself
Speaker 3: and his wife that this magnificent estate would be donated
Speaker 3: to the spiritualists and made into a college for the
Speaker 3: advancement of psychic sciences. This college is more like a
Speaker 3: retreat center. There are fifty different tutors that come and
Speaker 3: go depending on the week you are there, with a
Speaker 3: whole range of different courses. You can walk the grounds
Speaker 3: and picnic under the beautiful tulip tree. There are horses
Speaker 3: that you can pet just over the stone wall. There's
Speaker 3: an old church adjacent to the college with a fascinating
Speaker 3: old cemetery. No matter what course you take, you can
Speaker 3: enjoy a morning meditation in the sanctuary. They have a
Speaker 3: spiritualist service, including healing and a medium demonstration. The first
Speaker 3: day you arrive, you take your seat in the dining room,
Speaker 3: and throughout your time you share stories with your tablemates
Speaker 3: and meet some best friends for life. You see, there's
Speaker 3: very few people in the real world that you can
Speaker 3: be open about your interest in the afterlife. Here at
Speaker 3: the Arthur Finley College, everyone is interested. There's a library
Speaker 3: where you can research the history of spiritualism and see
Speaker 3: some incredible old photos and artifacts. You can walk the
Speaker 3: halls where incredible spiritualists from time gone by have walked,
Speaker 3: like Gordon Higginson and Navis Attila, Albert Best, Coral Polge,
Speaker 3: Glenn Edwards and so many more. And if you're interested
Speaker 3: in another kind of spirit yes, they have a full
Speaker 3: bar and it's wonderful to enjoy a little cocktail at
Speaker 3: night and tell stories to fellow students. My experience to
Speaker 3: the Arthur Finley College started with a little bit of
Speaker 3: excitement and a lot of nerves, not knowing what I
Speaker 3: was getting myself into. But in a very short time,
Speaker 3: I was opened up to how my psychic sense works,
Speaker 3: doing psychic readings and medium readings, trance healing, capturing spirit photographs,
Speaker 3: electronic voice phenomena. I've been there five times already and
Speaker 3: I look forward to the next time when I can return.
Speaker 3: I know you're interested in the afterlife. As you're listening
Speaker 3: to this podcast, but if you have some time in
Speaker 3: your life, give yourself the gift and take a trip
Speaker 3: and a course at the Arthur Finley College. You can
Speaker 3: find out more about this favorite place of mind at
Speaker 3: Arthurfindleycollege dot org. I'm proud to say that we offer
Speaker 3: medium classes online in case you can't get to the
Speaker 3: Arthur Finley College. And my tutor friends teaching these courses
Speaker 3: all have received some training there. I'm talking about the
Speaker 3: incredible Kerrie McLeod, Philip Dikes and Scott Milligan. And of
Speaker 3: course we also have our spiritualist service online. We call
Speaker 3: it our Free Sunday Gathering so you can be empowered
Speaker 3: and maybe even get a message from a loved one.
Speaker 3: My website is we Don't Die dot com. During our
Speaker 3: easy Listening episode today, we heard a variety of different
Speaker 3: kinds of stories, and I know that you may have
Speaker 3: your own story. Have you had a sign from a
Speaker 3: loved one? Have you been with a loved one who's
Speaker 3: passed and they saw a golden door or saw loved
Speaker 3: ones just before they passed. Has someone in your life
Speaker 3: had a near death experience? Have you been to a
Speaker 3: funeral that something really funny has happened, enlightened the mood.
Speaker 3: I want to hear your stories. One of the tabs
Speaker 3: that we don't Die dot com is my Facebook group.
Speaker 3: Please join us and share your experiences. It helps others
Speaker 3: believe and sharing is really good for the soul. I'd
Speaker 3: like to share a little bit more humor with you.
Speaker 3: Putting the fun in funerals. This man says, my uncle
Speaker 3: was a real jokester. When he suddenly passed, we were
Speaker 3: all so heartbroken, but he was such a happy guy
Speaker 3: that we wanted to celebrate him and not have a
Speaker 3: dreary funeral. So everyone wore Hawaiian shirts instead of black,
Speaker 3: because that is what he wore every single day of
Speaker 3: his life life. At the funeral, we went to the
Speaker 3: ocean to scatter his ashes at one of his favorite
Speaker 3: fishing spots. Right when we went to release them, the
Speaker 3: wind changed direction and suddenly the whole crowd of us
Speaker 3: were hit in the face with his ashes. We went
Speaker 3: from sobbing to hysterically laughing. And this is just the
Speaker 3: kind of thing that would make my uncle laugh. Here's
Speaker 3: another story. My grandma passed away in her late nineties.
Speaker 3: She was active until the end and very fashionable. My aunt,
Speaker 3: who was in her seventies and not very fashionable, decided
Speaker 3: to buy Grandma all new clothes and undergarments because Grandma
Speaker 3: would be upset if she didn't have a new outfit
Speaker 3: for the occasion. So we all got to the wake
Speaker 3: and people were peering into Grandma's casket with a look
Speaker 3: of surprise on their faces. Apparently my aunt had purchased
Speaker 3: my tiny little grandma a very well padded wonderbra. And
Speaker 3: the last story. At my grandfather's funeral, in the middle
Speaker 3: of my uncle's eulogy, my four year old cousin ripped
Speaker 3: the loudest fart I have ever heard, which was greatly
Speaker 3: amplified by the wooden pews, and said, Oh, the whole
Speaker 3: church broke out in laughter. Your mission, my friend, should
Speaker 3: you choose to accept it, is look at the lighter
Speaker 3: side of life and the afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for listening to Shades of the Afterlife
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
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