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Speaker 1: matter for yourself. Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For almost twenty
Speaker 1: five years, I've been on a journey to prove the
Speaker 1: existence of life after death. On each episode, will discuss
Speaker 1: the reasons we now know that our loved ones have
Speaker 1: survived physical death, and so will we. Welcome to Shades
Speaker 1: of the Afterlife. A few months ago I was asked
Speaker 1: to write a forward for an upcoming book and the
Speaker 1: author said, I'll send you all the chapters that I
Speaker 1: have so far and leave it with you, And I said, yes,
Speaker 1: I did. And the book is called Gathering at The Doorway,
Speaker 1: an anthology of signs, visits, and messages from the afterlife,
Speaker 1: all compiled by Camille Dan. I really didn't know her
Speaker 1: story why she asked me, but you know, I said yes. Well,
Speaker 1: the book just came out this past week and it
Speaker 1: is filled with over forty stories from people, from scientists,
Speaker 1: et cetera about reasons to believe in the after life.
Speaker 1: And as you may know, I still have another show
Speaker 1: called We Don't Die Radio, which is more one hour
Speaker 1: straight interviews with people, and I got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: interview Camille and my heart was really touched. Little did
Speaker 1: I know that three years ago her son had passed,
Speaker 1: and of course, as a bereaved mom, looking for reasons
Speaker 1: to believe that he's still around, she just combed through books, etcetera.
Speaker 1: And someone said you should check out podcasts. Well, she
Speaker 1: found my podcast and she went through almost all of them,
Speaker 1: I think, actually all of them, and how it changed
Speaker 1: her life. Not only that, but how she ended up
Speaker 1: developing a relationship with her son across the veil. If
Speaker 1: you're interested, you can actually watch the video interview I
Speaker 1: did with Meal. You can go to YouTube and type
Speaker 1: in We Don't Die Radio three and you can hear
Speaker 1: her story. I'm not going to repeat her story on
Speaker 1: this episode, but I do want to share a few
Speaker 1: things from the book. Like I said, it's a compilation
Speaker 1: of many, many authors and many stories, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to read to you one of the stories because it
Speaker 1: just touches my heart and lets us all know that
Speaker 1: signs are real. But we have to pay attention, Yes
Speaker 1: we do so. This first story is called Death of
Speaker 1: a Skeptic by Carol Allen. Who would have known that
Speaker 1: I would be such a hard nut to crack. My
Speaker 1: doubts began to creep their weight right back in like
Speaker 1: a broken record. I constantly reassured myself. Tyler touched me.
Speaker 1: I heard him? And what about the song the video
Speaker 1: with the precise words I needed to hear? Okay, Tyler,
Speaker 1: if you are here, I need more proof. Even though
Speaker 1: my Tyler had gone above and beyond with so many
Speaker 1: signs and messages already, why did I still require more validation?
Speaker 1: Why did I doubt it? It's not like I had
Speaker 1: forgotten the previous experiences, but I yearned for more. Undeniably
Speaker 1: magical things continued to happen. For example, while driving to
Speaker 1: the grocery store one afternoon, music abruptly began playing loudly.
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, it wasn't coming from the radio. Rather, the
Speaker 1: music was blasting from inside of my purse. I pulled
Speaker 1: over to see what was going on, and inside was
Speaker 1: my tablet tucked away and its folded stand keyboard combination case.
Speaker 1: It was deep inside my purse, still clearly closed. Regardless
Speaker 1: the music was loudly playing. It played an unfamiliar song
Speaker 1: that I've since been unable to locate. The song described
Speaker 1: laughter and joy. It was uplifting and my son's way
Speaker 1: of saying good afternoon mom. I arrived at the grocery store.
Speaker 1: This was my first trip back since Tyler's passing. Hoping
Speaker 1: it would make the experience less painful, I chose a
Speaker 1: branch location less familiar to me. While walking down the aisle,
Speaker 1: I happened to glance at what was one of Tyler's
Speaker 1: favorite chips, only to become flooded with emotion. I recalled
Speaker 1: how Tyler would put these chips inside of a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Standing in the aisle, completely still, my eyes welled up
Speaker 1: with tears. Suddenly, the bag of chips fell from the shelf,
Speaker 1: landing directly in front of my feet. Confused, I looked
Speaker 1: up and down the aisle, trying to piece together how
Speaker 1: the bag mysteriously landed at my feet, only to find
Speaker 1: that there was no one else there. I was completely
Speaker 1: alone in this aisle. I knew immediately what had happened,
Speaker 1: but could hardly believe it. Did Tyler just knock down
Speaker 1: those chips? Deep inside my soul? I knew that it
Speaker 1: was him. This made me smile as I whispered, I
Speaker 1: love you, Tye. Next, I headed over to the deli.
Speaker 1: While looking through the selection of encased Deli meats, etched
Speaker 1: into the glass read the name Tyler. All I could
Speaker 1: do was stare and disbelief. Shocked at what I was
Speaker 1: looking at. You've got to be kidding, I whispered to
Speaker 1: myself as I smiled and laughed. How can I help you,
Speaker 1: asked the clerk. Rather than placing an order, I asked
Speaker 1: the clerk if she had any knowledge about why the
Speaker 1: glass read Tyler. I couldn't help myself. All I could
Speaker 1: think was why, of all the infinite things that it
Speaker 1: could have been etched onto the glass encasing, did it
Speaker 1: have the name Tyler. Perplexed by what I had just asked.
Speaker 1: She gave me a bizarre look and responded, I believe
Speaker 1: it's the name of the glass company. Speechless and in disbelief,
Speaker 1: I paused to gather myself before ordering. This was more
Speaker 1: than a coincidence, as this wasn't just unlikely, but borderline impossible.
Speaker 1: The odds of Tyler's name being boldly displayed on my
Speaker 1: very first trip back to an unfamiliar store were too
Speaker 1: significant to write off as a coincidence. This was Tyler.
Speaker 1: On the drive home, I called my sister Maryland to
Speaker 1: come meet me at my house. I wanted to share
Speaker 1: with her in person what had just transpired. We sat
Speaker 1: together on the couch as I attempted to effectively communicate
Speaker 1: what I just experienced without completely fumbling over the words
Speaker 1: with laughter. For the first time in a long time,
Speaker 1: the tears that were rolling down my cheeks were of joy.
Speaker 1: I was laughing so hard that I could barely speak.
Speaker 1: You should have seen the way the woman to me
Speaker 1: after I asked why the name Tyler was acted on
Speaker 1: the glass, I exclaimed, while hysterically cracking up. It was
Speaker 1: then at that very moment that the lamp right next
Speaker 1: to me turned on randomly. That's strange. How did you
Speaker 1: just turn that lamp on, I asked, Marilyn, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: It's Tyler again, Marilyn yelled with a smile from ear
Speaker 1: to ear. Marylyn has always believed in the afterlife, frequently
Speaker 1: referencing her experiences with spirits loved ones on the other side.
Speaker 1: Long before Tyler's accident years ago, when my boys were little,
Speaker 1: for example, Marilyn religiously watched a television program that featured
Speaker 1: a psychic medium from the East Coast. At the time,
Speaker 1: I would say things to her like, you are too funny,
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine that you believe in this stuff.
Speaker 1: I never actually watched an episode myself. I deemed it
Speaker 1: fiction and was far too skeptical to even entertain the idea.
Speaker 1: I became addicted to the signs and could never have
Speaker 1: enough of them. It's time for another sign, Tye. Please
Speaker 1: play me one of your songs. I turned on the radio.
Speaker 1: There was no song playing, rather an announcer's voice. I
Speaker 1: raised the volume. We have a Tyler on the line.
Speaker 1: How are you Tyler. Rather than noticing the deliberate sign
Speaker 1: that was placed in front of me, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I felt abandoned. I expected to hear something we played
Speaker 1: at the service for him, perhaps Simple Man by Leonard
Speaker 1: skinnerd or one of the other songs we had included
Speaker 1: in his video. With my head in a downward spiral
Speaker 1: over the absence of music at the time, it had
Speaker 1: never even crossed my mind that this was his sign.
Speaker 1: Feeling cheated, I again pleaded with him the following day, Tyler,
Speaker 1: let's try this again. Please play me your song. I
Speaker 1: turned to the station and heard we need to congratulate
Speaker 1: Tyler on his engagement. This time, unlike the day before,
Speaker 1: the fog lifted and it became crystal clear. Perhaps it
Speaker 1: was not what I had expected, but nonetheless a wonderful sign.
Speaker 1: I smiled as I recounted the announcer's statement on the
Speaker 1: radio from the previous day, realizing what I hadn't yet
Speaker 1: put together. Days later, I found the courage to clean
Speaker 1: Tyler's room. I hadn't been able to bring myself to
Speaker 1: stay in there long enough, as it was far too painful.
Speaker 1: I certainly had no intention of parting with any of
Speaker 1: his things, but needed to dust, vacuum, and organize a bit.
Speaker 1: As I was tidying up things like candy wrappers, empty
Speaker 1: water bottles, and junk food began to dominate the inside
Speaker 1: of the trash bin. On the floor stood Tyler's sneakers,
Speaker 1: remaining in the precise position he had last left them.
Speaker 1: I looked at his closet full of clothes and walked
Speaker 1: to the closet, Reaching for his shirt, I closed my
Speaker 1: eyes and I placed his crisp, clean shirt to my
Speaker 1: face to smell it. I could feel my tears as
Speaker 1: they rolled down my cheeks onto the shirt. This was
Speaker 1: beyond difficult opening my eyes. I then walked over to
Speaker 1: the desk. There were still papers scattered on top, partnered
Speaker 1: by a remote control from his Xbox console. Inside his
Speaker 1: desk was a drawer and a journal. It was clear,
Speaker 1: after shuffling through all of his pages that the entire
Speaker 1: journal contained only one sentence. It said I know two things.
Speaker 1: God exists and I exist, Tyler wrote boldly across the
Speaker 1: center of the first page. The remaining pages that followed
Speaker 1: were left blank. Later that evening, as we were watching television,
Speaker 1: I told Tony about Tyler's journal that I had sound.
Speaker 1: Wow was all he could say. His voice was shaky.
Speaker 1: Coupled with his speechless a demeanor. Don't you think it's crazy,
Speaker 1: I asked. We haven't spent much time over the years
Speaker 1: practicing religion or even referencing God with Tyler. I'm just devastated, Carol,
Speaker 1: Tony said, I want him here. I stood up and
Speaker 1: made my way into the kitchen. A few minutes later,
Speaker 1: Tony yelled out, Babe, I just saw Tyler. What what
Speaker 1: do you mean, I asked, While watching TV, I saw
Speaker 1: him walking from the corner of my eye. I wanted
Speaker 1: to run and grab him, so I turned my head
Speaker 1: in his direction, but then I couldn't see him anymore,
Speaker 1: Tony said, and his eyes welled up with tears undeniably.
Speaker 1: So Tyler is here. We're heading off to a break now,
Speaker 1: but when we come back, I want to read to
Speaker 1: you the forward that I have in the book and
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about signs. I also want to
Speaker 1: share with you some nurses and some experiences of deathbed visitations.
Speaker 1: So these are all coming up in this episode of
Speaker 1: Shades of the Afterlife on the I Heart Radio and
Speaker 1: Coast Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades
Speaker 1: of the Afterlife. I'm Sanders Champlain. I was just sharing
Speaker 1: a chapter from the new book Gathering at the Doorway,
Speaker 1: an Anthology of Signs of Visits and Messages from the
Speaker 1: Afterlife by Camille Dan And like I said, it's packed
Speaker 1: with over forty stories and different stories. And the last
Speaker 1: story we just heard of a mom getting the signs
Speaker 1: from her son Tyler, just reminded me to share that
Speaker 1: signs can be very very subtle. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I expect once we get over to the afterlife, we'll
Speaker 1: see what it takes to do signs. I know there's
Speaker 1: got to be manipulation of energy. There's probably a school
Speaker 1: that we go to to figure it all out. Some
Speaker 1: of our loved ones who were engaged in electronics while
Speaker 1: on planet Earth. Maybe the young people are more apt
Speaker 1: to work through songs on the radio and turning the
Speaker 1: lights on and off. And do they actually manipulate electronics.
Speaker 1: I believe they can. But also I believe they get
Speaker 1: us to look at certain things at certain times, like
Speaker 1: the story of the word Tyler etched in the glass
Speaker 1: from the deli counter. Throughout this book there are tons
Speaker 1: of pictures and that Tyler was in pretty bold print
Speaker 1: on the glass. So as we walk through our day,
Speaker 1: I recommend that we slow down and we pay attention.
Speaker 1: Thoughts can be imprinted into our mind. Memories can come
Speaker 1: out of the blue. You may get a whiff of
Speaker 1: a cologne or a pipe that grandfather smoked, or your
Speaker 1: eyes might just be directed to a license plate on
Speaker 1: a car or a billboard that have your loved one's name.
Speaker 1: It is possible that they're like Mom or Sandra or
Speaker 1: your name. I'm right here with you, so please don't
Speaker 1: discredit signs. It's easy to think they're part of our imagination.
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and read the forward that
Speaker 1: I wrote for this book because I think I just
Speaker 1: think it's good. Is that? But it makes sense. You'll
Speaker 1: understand in just a second. We humans are interesting creatures.
Speaker 1: The process of being created is miraculous when you think
Speaker 1: about it. Our little human embryo is full of everything
Speaker 1: we need to grow to be living, breathe, walking, and
Speaker 1: thinking creatures. We live in self generating, self repairing bodies
Speaker 1: that come with our own battery packs. Just add a
Speaker 1: little food and water, and we may exist for over
Speaker 1: eighty years or more. We live on a planet that
Speaker 1: just happens to have everything we need for our survival.
Speaker 1: Our son that keeps life possible. It's just one star
Speaker 1: out of the estimated twenty billion sons that also have
Speaker 1: planets in their solar systems, and that's just in our
Speaker 1: Milky Way galaxy. How many galaxies are there in the universe?
Speaker 1: Astronomers can safely say that there are at least one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy billion, but most feel that number is
Speaker 1: more like two trillion galaxies in an ever expanding universe.
Speaker 1: Everything we use on a daily basis somehow originated from
Speaker 1: the basic elements of this planet, air, water, rock, and earth.
Speaker 1: The mobile phones we use, computers, televisions, radios are all
Speaker 1: able to connect through an invisible source and supply us
Speaker 1: with never ending information and entertainment. Our lives are miraculous.
Speaker 1: Yet as human beings, we seem to be controlled by
Speaker 1: our minds, which are incorrect most of the time. Although
Speaker 1: our devices can connect wirelessly, our minds often doubt that
Speaker 1: we can do the same thing. Have you ever noticed
Speaker 1: your mind spends way too much time thinking about the
Speaker 1: past and worried about the future. Have you noticed that
Speaker 1: it never stops talking to you, judging everything you do
Speaker 1: and who you are. Have you ever caught it saying
Speaker 1: that you aren't good enough, smart enough. Something is wrong
Speaker 1: with you, and something is definitely wrong with other people.
Speaker 1: This is also the mind that wants you to doubt
Speaker 1: the existence of the afterlife, to overlook the subtle signs
Speaker 1: that have you think of a loved one who has transitioned.
Speaker 1: Our minds try to convince us that we must see
Speaker 1: it to believe it, when we are really miraculous beings
Speaker 1: living in a miraculous universe. This book, Gathering at the Doorway,
Speaker 1: an Anthology of Signs, Visits, and Messages from the Afterlife,
Speaker 1: is full of incredible stories and experiences that show us
Speaker 1: that death is an illusion and that we live on.
Speaker 1: Over forty authors courageously share their experiences so that you
Speaker 1: may believe that there is much more to life and
Speaker 1: the afterlife than you know, and that your life is precious.
Speaker 1: There is nothing wrong with skepticism, and it is healthy
Speaker 1: for us to question much in our lives. However, as
Speaker 1: you read, beware of the messages that come from your
Speaker 1: negative mind. With twenty five years of investigating the afterlife
Speaker 1: and witness in thousands of afterlife communications in so many ways,
Speaker 1: I believe that the mind is necessary to have us
Speaker 1: play this game. Called life. The game is difficult, not
Speaker 1: for the weary, but full of opportunities for our souls
Speaker 1: to experience, to learn, and to grow. It has often
Speaker 1: said that life is about the journey, not the destination,
Speaker 1: and the same holds true for this book, whether you
Speaker 1: read it cover to cover or let your soul guide
Speaker 1: you to a random chapter. Set aside the voice of negativity,
Speaker 1: and remember the miracle of you. You are one of
Speaker 1: a kind, and I believe we all came here to
Speaker 1: learn and to experience many things. So I ask you
Speaker 1: to be gentle on yourself. Know that you are surrounded
Speaker 1: by love and support from the unseen world, and let
Speaker 1: this book be a constant reminder of who you really are,
Speaker 1: a magnificent and divine soul having a human experience. Sander Champlain,
Speaker 1: do I want you by the book? Kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. It's a good book, But more so
Speaker 1: is I think we human beings need stories left to
Speaker 1: our own devices we get trapped in that negative head.
Speaker 1: Don't wait, even me, with all these many years, I
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: don't remember who I am, I don't remember how powerful
Speaker 1: I am. And each one of us are I get
Speaker 1: trapped by all the things that I need to do
Speaker 1: or what I've should have done, and that mind constantly
Speaker 1: tells me that I am not doing enough and that
Speaker 1: I'm not enough. I should eat more fruits and vegetables,
Speaker 1: I should exercise more. It's always negative. So it takes
Speaker 1: creating one of these podcasts, or it takes reading a
Speaker 1: good book, a YouTube video that might be about the afterlife,
Speaker 1: being on a medium demonstration, or our Sunday gathering that
Speaker 1: we have every week, getting connected with the greater reality,
Speaker 1: seeing people get medium readings, or experiencing the divine words
Speaker 1: that come through a trance medium. There are so many
Speaker 1: different things that can bring me back to understanding them
Speaker 1: part of a much bigger reality. And so what are
Speaker 1: you doing? What is your practice? Now? Can I tell
Speaker 1: you I'm grateful that you're listening to Shades of the Afterlife?
Speaker 1: I really am, because I try to give you what
Speaker 1: I know and what I've experienced and what others are doing.
Speaker 1: But what can we put into our lives on a
Speaker 1: daily basis so that we can remember and see more often?
Speaker 1: Right now, as I am talking to you, I'm at
Speaker 1: my kitchen table with beautiful newly washed windows, by myself
Speaker 1: looking out into the backyard where I have beautiful bird feeders,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at squirrels, and there's a cardinal and
Speaker 1: pretty soon, I'm sure the turkeys will come around to
Speaker 1: peck on what's left on the ground. But nature is
Speaker 1: something that, if you can experience it one way or
Speaker 1: the other, gives you an opportunity to slow down and
Speaker 1: be present everything around you, Like I had mentioned in
Speaker 1: the foreword of that book, is a miracle when you
Speaker 1: think about it, When you can catch your breath, take
Speaker 1: a few deep breaths, be present to whatever is going
Speaker 1: on in your life right now, whether it be working,
Speaker 1: listening to the show, looking outside, and you start paying
Speaker 1: attention to just the teeny tiniest things. And like I
Speaker 1: said in that forward, isn't it mind blowing to think
Speaker 1: absolutely everything that we're experiencing right now that we have
Speaker 1: all came from star stuff, all came from this earth,
Speaker 1: and the rock and the trees and the plants and water,
Speaker 1: I mean everything. If our electronics can communicate in this
Speaker 1: unseen world, why can't we. It is natural to be skeptical,
Speaker 1: and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's healthy as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, and I have to be honest.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people out there that we should
Speaker 1: steer clear of. There's a lot of misinformation out there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who prey on the grieving.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say. I know there's mediums out there
Speaker 1: that charge Oh I just saw one guy charges five
Speaker 1: for a fifteen minute reading. I mean that's ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: we need to be weary of what's out there. We
Speaker 1: need to let things pass through our inner. I'll call
Speaker 1: it b S detector. Pass things through your gut. Your
Speaker 1: soul doesn't resonate with you. I've used this example before.
Speaker 1: But if you go into a clothing store and there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of things you want to try on, and
Speaker 1: you bring them into the dressing room, some things fit
Speaker 1: and you want to buy them, and some things don't.
Speaker 1: In this world of exploring the afterlife, they're going to
Speaker 1: be things that are said that you try on, that
Speaker 1: you want to keep, you want to take home with you,
Speaker 1: you want to wear. There's going to be other things
Speaker 1: that you try on and you go and not really
Speaker 1: for me, And that goes with what I'm saying as well.
Speaker 1: We are on different points of our journeys, some at
Speaker 1: the very beginning and some have been exploring for quite
Speaker 1: a long time. Wherever you are on the journey, take
Speaker 1: what's appropriate for you and use it to empower you
Speaker 1: in your life. Just recently, I got a beautiful email
Speaker 1: from a lady and she has been experimenting with electronic
Speaker 1: voice phenomena and lo and behold, she sent me a
Speaker 1: list of things that her partner had said through these
Speaker 1: voices that appeared on her iPad. Pretty extraordinary. So, wherever
Speaker 1: you are on your journey, don't fret. You're just at
Speaker 1: the perfect part, the perfect point, and you're not alone.
Speaker 1: Just stay open, stay aware, stay present, and you never
Speaker 1: know what's possible. You may have heard this before, but
Speaker 1: the word impossible, you know how often we'll use that. Well,
Speaker 1: let's look at it. I'm possible I can connect with
Speaker 1: my loved ones. We'll be right back. You're listening to
Speaker 1: Shades of the Afterlife on the I Heart Radio and
Speaker 1: Coast Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades
Speaker 1: the Afterlife. I'm Sander Champlain and we're gonna shift gears
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I usually find myself on YouTube
Speaker 1: finding one thing or the other. And I know YouTube
Speaker 1: records what I watch and so recommended things come up.
Speaker 1: I saw a video from a nurse talking about working
Speaker 1: in hospice and her story about bedside visitations. And if
Speaker 1: you're new to the show or unfamiliar, if you talk
Speaker 1: to any hospice worker, mostly nurses and some doctors, they
Speaker 1: can share with you that they believe in the afterlife.
Speaker 1: They have witnessed over and over and over again. Just
Speaker 1: before someone passes, they look up and they can see
Speaker 1: their deceased spouse or their mom, their dad, perhaps an angel,
Speaker 1: someone is there to greet them. They are clear, lucid,
Speaker 1: not fantasies, and they're very very real to the people,
Speaker 1: which make me feel and know that no one dies alone,
Speaker 1: whether people are alert or not, we are all greeted
Speaker 1: by loved ones who help us across the vale. I'd
Speaker 1: like to play for you now the clip from nurse Hadley,
Speaker 1: and she titles it from Skeptics to Believer, a hospice
Speaker 1: nurses story and she's got lots of stories if you
Speaker 1: go to her YouTube channel, which is Hadley Christine. I've
Speaker 1: been a nurse for about six years, and four of
Speaker 1: his years i've worked in hospice, which is care for
Speaker 1: people who are dying. So I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: death and I'm not scared of it anymore, and I
Speaker 1: love to share my patient stories with you. When I
Speaker 1: first started out as a registered nurse, I took a
Speaker 1: job in offs but ill like many people do, and
Speaker 1: it's it's really hard. There's a lot of abuse in
Speaker 1: a glade that you see for patients. As nurses, you're
Speaker 1: abused a lot of the line, and no one wants
Speaker 1: to be there. It's a hospital. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be there, so it's very mentally draining and very depressing.
Speaker 1: After I did a year in the hospital, I took
Speaker 1: a job as a manager in a nursing home, which
Speaker 1: is where I met my husband, he's a physical therapist.
Speaker 1: But that's also where I was exposed to hospice for
Speaker 1: the first time. I loved how the nurses got to
Speaker 1: be one on moment the families, and I found myself
Speaker 1: extremely drawn to them. The whole process of it was
Speaker 1: so interesting to me, so when a job opened up
Speaker 1: with the local hospice company, I took it. I was
Speaker 1: raised as a Christian. I went to a private Christian
Speaker 1: school for much of my life, and I considered myself
Speaker 1: to be a Christian. But in the back of my
Speaker 1: mind when I took that job, I questioned it. I wondered,
Speaker 1: is there not for life? Do things just go black
Speaker 1: whenever you die? But now that I've been in hospice
Speaker 1: for four years, my view is completely changed. And here's
Speaker 1: some of those stories. So my very first hospice patient
Speaker 1: was a lady in her seventies. She had bone cancer,
Speaker 1: and she was not confused at all. She was totally
Speaker 1: with it. And one day I'm sitting by her bed,
Speaker 1: just starting on my little computer and she turns to
Speaker 1: me and she said, my sister is sitting in the
Speaker 1: chair next to you. And I look over and no
Speaker 1: one's there, and I said okay. She said she died
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, and I said okay. And she said,
Speaker 1: do you believe me? And I said yes. But in
Speaker 1: the back of my mind I wondered if maybe her
Speaker 1: kidneys were failing, which would cause some hallucinations or some
Speaker 1: confusion possibly. And she said, please don't tell my family,
Speaker 1: because they're going to think that I'm crazy. And I
Speaker 1: said okay. And she said, I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: be dying soon and I said, you know, you're really
Speaker 1: not showing any signs. Your blood pressure's okay, everything's okay,
Speaker 1: you know everything's going as normal, um below and behold
Speaker 1: she did. She passed a couple of days later, very peacefully.
Speaker 1: I had another patient who is very near to my heart.
Speaker 1: I saw her every Tuesday and every Thursday for six months.
Speaker 1: She was ninety eight years old, very spunky, and very
Speaker 1: vocal about being ready to die. Her husband had passed
Speaker 1: away pretty early on in the war, and all of
Speaker 1: her friends had died, and she would talk to anyone
Speaker 1: and everyone about how she was ready to meet her maker,
Speaker 1: which was her words. She was Catholic, she was very religious.
Speaker 1: So one night she had cop D and she had
Speaker 1: a cop D exacerbation, which means that it was very
Speaker 1: very hard for her to breathe. So I was there.
Speaker 1: I was able to get it under control, and afterwards
Speaker 1: she told me, I thought that that's how I was
Speaker 1: going to die. And I was very scared. And I said,
Speaker 1: you know, what were you scared of? And she said,
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, but I just I was scared. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it does just all go dark. And I said,
Speaker 1: I understand that. I get that. So couple of weeks later,
Speaker 1: she started to decline and she was sleeping a lot,
Speaker 1: and she was only awake a couple of hours a day,
Speaker 1: and I was drawing up some medications for her, and
Speaker 1: I saw that she was looking at me, and so
Speaker 1: I said hey, and she said, I I'm going to
Speaker 1: pass tonight. And I said I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think you've got a couple more weeks. And she said no,
Speaker 1: I'm going to And I said, are you scared and
Speaker 1: she said no, my husband's here to get me. I
Speaker 1: said he is, and she said he's watching us right
Speaker 1: now and it's going to be tonight. And I told
Speaker 1: her okay, And I've told her I loved her, because
Speaker 1: I did very much, and I doubted it. I thought
Speaker 1: it would be another week. But at three am that morning,
Speaker 1: I woke up randomly and I knew she was gone.
Speaker 1: I just had a feeling. And the next morning, when
Speaker 1: I got report from the night Schiffner, she said that
Speaker 1: she had passed around two thirty am and it was
Speaker 1: very peaceful in her sleep. These stories are just two
Speaker 1: of literally hundreds of people who have the exact same experience,
Speaker 1: exact same story. I no longer doubt at all that
Speaker 1: there's an afterlife. People have that exact same experience of
Speaker 1: family members coming to get them. Doesn't matter what religious
Speaker 1: background they are, their race, their economics, anything, they all
Speaker 1: have that same experience. I share this on my TikTok
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to keep sharing this on my YouTube. Now.
Speaker 1: If you subscribe, I cannot wait to keep doing this,
Speaker 1: and leave me a comment and let me know what
Speaker 1: you think. Nurse Hadley Christine is a beautiful gal and
Speaker 1: her channel is very very sweet. And what she's doing
Speaker 1: recently is she's finding out the favorite meals of her
Speaker 1: hospice patients, and so one gentleman loved rice and beans.
Speaker 1: So as she's telling you the story of when he
Speaker 1: passed and what happened, she's also cooking rice and beans
Speaker 1: in his honor. So I find it very sweet. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to play one of those for you because
Speaker 1: you can hear the pots and pants in the background.
Speaker 1: But one of the things she said is leave a comment.
Speaker 1: Here's a little trick for you. Whether you're interested in
Speaker 1: deathbed visitations, hospice nurses, stories of the afterlife, near death experiences,
Speaker 1: type those things into YouTube. Not only can you find
Speaker 1: some really great stories. But I recommend you look in
Speaker 1: the comments because people who may never tell their story
Speaker 1: anywhere else, they comment about what has happened in their life.
Speaker 1: So I want to share with you just some of
Speaker 1: the comments under this video. This gentleman says, the moment
Speaker 1: my wife left me, her eyes lit up from the inside,
Speaker 1: glowing a blue surpass, saying all I had seen before
Speaker 1: and that is the moment when I stopped being a
Speaker 1: total atheist, because she caught my gaze for the final
Speaker 1: time and she smiled. This gentleman said a woman had
Speaker 1: terminal cancer, couldn't walk and needed help feeding herself. In
Speaker 1: the wee hours of the morning, she partially sat up,
Speaker 1: waving her arms around and saying wow, Wow, Wow. Her
Speaker 1: husband woke up and asked what was wrong. She said, look,
Speaker 1: look at all these angels. They are so beautiful. Don't
Speaker 1: you see them. They're everywhere and they're so beautiful. Just
Speaker 1: look at that moment. She laid back and lifted her
Speaker 1: hand like trying to take something, and she passed away.
Speaker 1: My friend said he knew for certain that she was
Speaker 1: with her Lord and savior in heaven. Here's another Before
Speaker 1: mom died, I asked her to flash the living room
Speaker 1: lights when she passed on to let me know she
Speaker 1: was okay. She promised she would. Mom was very religious,
Speaker 1: so I knew she be heading to heaven warp speed.
Speaker 1: Not only did the lights flash the living room, but
Speaker 1: so much in the bedroom. I had to take the
Speaker 1: bulb out. I said, okay, Mom, I get you're okay,
Speaker 1: and they never flashed again. Here's another. When my grandmother
Speaker 1: passed away. The day before she died, she told my aunt,
Speaker 1: I have to go. Norah is here. Norah was my mom,
Speaker 1: who had passed ten years prior. She passed at nine
Speaker 1: two PM. My mom passed on nine two Here's another.
Speaker 1: Before my mom passed from cancer, she was in a
Speaker 1: rehab facility since she'd had her surgery. I went to
Speaker 1: go see her and her eyes were closed, but she
Speaker 1: was upset. She would be heard saying her sister's name
Speaker 1: and seemed very confused. The night my mom had surgery,
Speaker 1: her sister was in a fatal car accident, and we
Speaker 1: never told Mom since they were very close. She was
Speaker 1: talking to her sister, not realizing that she had passed.
Speaker 1: Life doesn't end. Here's another. I lost my son to cancer.
Speaker 1: Sixteen years ago, when he was thirty. I sat with
Speaker 1: him all day and listened to him arguing with someone.
Speaker 1: It took me a while, but I finally realized he
Speaker 1: was talking to his grandfather, who passed away when my
Speaker 1: son was five. And another, my stepfather was dying of
Speaker 1: cancer the last week of his life. He kept asking
Speaker 1: is it Wednesday? Yet he passed away the following Wednesday
Speaker 1: at one am. I find comfort in hearing these stories.
Speaker 1: Here's another. I worked as a hospice nurse too, and
Speaker 1: saw a lot of things. Another nurse and I were
Speaker 1: helping the sweetest lady get washed and dressed for the day.
Speaker 1: She was sitting at the sink in her wheelchair brushing
Speaker 1: her teeth, when suddenly she looked up and said, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so nice to see you again. She slumped forward
Speaker 1: in her chair and died. I am not a skeptic.
Speaker 1: Here's another. My grandmother passed in our home her last days.
Speaker 1: She was in a coma, no response to anything. I
Speaker 1: heard her breathing funny one evening and told my mom.
Speaker 1: They realized she was passing and asked if I could
Speaker 1: be in the room at the last moment of her life.
Speaker 1: She seemed to wake up, opened her eyes, looked at
Speaker 1: us and said bye bye, and then reached her hand
Speaker 1: up in the air like someone was reaching for her hand,
Speaker 1: who had come to get her? And then she died.
Speaker 1: And one more My mom passed away fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: She was in a nursing home and was declining. A
Speaker 1: day before she passed, I walked into her room and
Speaker 1: she told me, look, Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary are
Speaker 1: standing right there in the corner. I said, oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's really nice. I totally believed her that they were
Speaker 1: there to help her go to her heavenly home. She
Speaker 1: passed away that evening. It's time for our last break,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, you're gonna hear some words
Speaker 1: from Vincent Jenna, who used to work in hospice, some
Speaker 1: incredible words. We'll be back. You're listening to Shades of
Speaker 1: the Afterlife on the I Heart Radio and Coast Coast
Speaker 1: AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
Speaker 1: I'm Sandra Champlain and now I would like to just
Speaker 1: share with you some words from medium Vincent Jenna. He's
Speaker 1: been in the business for over thirty five years as
Speaker 1: a medium. But why I want to share this with
Speaker 1: you is He has worked as a hospice clinical social
Speaker 1: worker and has been by the bedside of over five
Speaker 1: hundred patients who had transitioned into the afterlife, and on
Speaker 1: episode three nineteen of my We Don't Die radio show,
Speaker 1: I spent over an hour with him talking about his history.
Speaker 1: But I asked him to share a few words for
Speaker 1: one of the listeners who was close to being at
Speaker 1: the end of her life. And I know, whether we
Speaker 1: know it or not, we are all going to pass
Speaker 1: from this world to the next. So this clip, I
Speaker 1: asked him if he had some words for her. First
Speaker 1: of all, and I'm so sorry that you are going
Speaker 1: through this. Or keep it anonymous, but I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: that you are going through this. No matter what your
Speaker 1: beliefs are, understand that they still don't cushion the pain
Speaker 1: of loss. Okay, when I was working with my own
Speaker 1: family members, my own parents when they were dying, I mean,
Speaker 1: with all that I know and I talked with deceased people, right,
Speaker 1: it was still hurting that my parents were dying. So
Speaker 1: do not be afraid to acknowledge any of your feelings.
Speaker 1: They are normal. You're going to go through that, You're
Speaker 1: going to grieve for yourself. You're going to grieve for
Speaker 1: letting go and leaving others that you love. That is
Speaker 1: going to be absolutely normal. On top of that, you
Speaker 1: want to add you want to make sure you really
Speaker 1: affirm and let go of your fears of dying, your
Speaker 1: fears about what happens. I will tell you this, Your
Speaker 1: soul will leave your body before your heart stops. Souls
Speaker 1: do not need to experience the actual dying process. It's
Speaker 1: why others will look at you and they'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, she doesn't even look like she's there anymore.
Speaker 1: Her body just looks like a shell. Well, that's because
Speaker 1: you're so is already stepping away. And believe me, believe
Speaker 1: me if you will in those moments, know that your
Speaker 1: life is continuing. Do not be afraid of seeing loved
Speaker 1: ones now, guides, angels. You're not imagining anything. If you
Speaker 1: happen to see anybody. When you start reminiscing about your home,
Speaker 1: your childhood, that is basically their way of reconnecting with you,
Speaker 1: so that you can trust when the time comes, acknowledge everything.
Speaker 1: The most important thing is, don't be afraid to talk.
Speaker 1: Do not be afraid to talk and if there's somebody
Speaker 1: around you that cannot talk with you about what you're feeling,
Speaker 1: find somebody who is. There is always somebody. If you
Speaker 1: are on hospice, are you assuring you the chaplin, the
Speaker 1: social worker, they are definitely willing to talk with you
Speaker 1: and allow you to speak. Don't hide your feelings. Embrace everything.
Speaker 1: Embrace the process. We put these labels on in our
Speaker 1: life to be able to understand it and cope with
Speaker 1: it a little bit better. But embrace the fact that
Speaker 1: leaving the body is actually still part of life. How
Speaker 1: many times have you gotten a new car in your life?
Speaker 1: I hope you don't say no. I over only had
Speaker 1: one car in my entire life. I can assure you
Speaker 1: that you've had more than one car, right, So you've
Speaker 1: had more than one vehicle to get through life. This
Speaker 1: body is only one vehicle that you are using, and
Speaker 1: you are more than that vehicle. And as you embrace
Speaker 1: that idea and concept, you will get validation your dreams,
Speaker 1: your visions, your feelings. Over a sudden, you may feel
Speaker 1: a peace about you. It's like, Wow, I'm just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden feeling so peaceful about things, and I
Speaker 1: have no idea why. It's what happens. When you embrace,
Speaker 1: you will get validation that life continues. Look, we yeah,
Speaker 1: can we have our doubts and fears, especially at the end.
Speaker 1: And it's so easy for me to speak because I'm
Speaker 1: not facing that right now. I am not facing my mortality.
Speaker 1: I did at one point, I had a heart attack, um,
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Though it wasn't as disaster.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they didn't even feel like anything. Um.
Speaker 1: I know. They told me I had a blockage. They
Speaker 1: put in a stemp, and I was like, oh, so
Speaker 1: you're telling me I could have died, and they're saying, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: weird supplies. She didn't. I didn't even have any damage
Speaker 1: to my heart. I wasn't afraid really truly. Okay. And
Speaker 1: the more you recognize the beauty of life and that
Speaker 1: there's more than you begin to lose of fear. And
Speaker 1: let your prayers be about giving you the strength and
Speaker 1: the in your beliefs and your convictions. Let me remind
Speaker 1: me how faithful I am. God. I believe in you,
Speaker 1: I believe that there is life afterwards. Remind me of that,
Speaker 1: give me the strength to believe in that even more so.
Speaker 1: Give me the validation. Hey, come about and start talking
Speaker 1: with me. To talk with you. Don't be afraid as
Speaker 1: best as you can of dying. Enjoy the life that
Speaker 1: you had. Stop reproaching yourself of anything you didn't do. Yes,
Speaker 1: acknowledge your normal feelings throughout this entire process, the good
Speaker 1: ones as well as the negative ones. Just allow yourself
Speaker 1: to feel okay and go with the flow as much
Speaker 1: as possible. I'm actually foreseeing it being a peaceful passing
Speaker 1: when the time comes. There's still some people for you
Speaker 1: to talk with. Um, you don't mind, I'm just jumping
Speaker 1: in all of this, Okay. I definitely feel that there's
Speaker 1: people that you need to talk with still and release
Speaker 1: everything out of your heart. What you want to do
Speaker 1: now is clear out your heart. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Clear it out of negative feelings, cleared out of fears,
Speaker 1: clear it out of angers, clear it out of anything
Speaker 1: other than love, and fill it with love. Fill it
Speaker 1: with joy. I don't care who you are and how
Speaker 1: old you are. There have had to be some joyous
Speaker 1: moments in your life. Think about those joyous moments, recreate them,
Speaker 1: and that is the best type of stuff that you
Speaker 1: can do. At this point in your life right now,
Speaker 1: those words hit me very powerfully. We will all face
Speaker 1: that mo ment. And on our Sunday gathering, I gave
Speaker 1: the address and I posed to our community, what would
Speaker 1: it be like to create in your own mind your
Speaker 1: own death experience? And if we were to take some
Speaker 1: time now while we're alive to actually practice what our
Speaker 1: final moments will be, complete with the people helping us
Speaker 1: across the vale and who we're going to see, and
Speaker 1: the joy we're going to experience. To be able to
Speaker 1: create that in our mind now and practice it, then
Speaker 1: I think we may not have that fear when our
Speaker 1: time comes, and when we're with loved ones that are passing,
Speaker 1: we will be strong and be there for them because
Speaker 1: we know what's about to happen. So if you're up
Speaker 1: for this is to imagine that perhaps you're lying in
Speaker 1: your bed, perhaps you're with hospice, because whether you have
Speaker 1: home hospice or you're actually in a facility, that's the
Speaker 1: way I want to go around the most loving, caring,
Speaker 1: compassionate people in the world. But if you can imagine
Speaker 1: they're got a hospice worker or a loved one holding
Speaker 1: your hand, imagine you take those last few breaths, and
Speaker 1: as you look back upon your life, you're thinking about
Speaker 1: loving memories and the love you feel. And then just
Speaker 1: imagine who would be coming for you for me, be
Speaker 1: my dad and my grandmother and maybe my kittie Millie
Speaker 1: jumping right up there on the bed with me. And
Speaker 1: imagine you take that last breath seeing a very very
Speaker 1: bright light, being flooded with the feeling of love like
Speaker 1: you've never felt before. And as this bright light seems
Speaker 1: to dim just a little bit, you are seeing into
Speaker 1: the year after. You're seeing loads of people who have
Speaker 1: gone before you with big smiles and their arms are
Speaker 1: reaching straight out to you. The pets that you've had
Speaker 1: before are all right there. It's beautiful summer's day. It's
Speaker 1: a world that looks familiar but slightly different. There are
Speaker 1: colors that you have never seen before. There's beautiful sounds,
Speaker 1: and this feeling of love is so very strong. You
Speaker 1: take some time and you hug all the people that
Speaker 1: have gone before you, and you realize that death is
Speaker 1: an illusion, and you get an opportunity to look back
Speaker 1: upon your life, not a judgment, but looking to see
Speaker 1: how well you experienced obstacles and difficulties, how many times
Speaker 1: you've made a difference in the lives of others. You
Speaker 1: get to see times that you wish you had done something,
Speaker 1: maybe a little differently, but you get to see the
Speaker 1: learning that you experienced. And like looking at a television screen,
Speaker 1: you get to see the people on Earth. You get
Speaker 1: to see the people that are left behind, but of
Speaker 1: course they're not really behind, because they still exist. And
Speaker 1: you know you'll do everything you can to let them
Speaker 1: know that you're still alive and well. And you can
Speaker 1: take as much time as you want in this process
Speaker 1: and explore whatever you want to, and when you're ready,
Speaker 1: you can remember that you're still on earth and you
Speaker 1: have created this. But the more we can practice having
Speaker 1: these experiences for ourselves before we go, it will help
Speaker 1: us live a powerful life. It will help us realize
Speaker 1: the conversations we still need to have with people, or
Speaker 1: the things we may need to do. Our life continues
Speaker 1: in the afterlife, and we can do so much more.
Speaker 1: So with that, I want to remind you that to
Speaker 1: day we heard some words from Hadley Christine. You can
Speaker 1: look her up on YouTube. You can check out the
Speaker 1: book by Camille Dan called Gathering at the doorway. You
Speaker 1: can visit Vincent Jenna dot com and of course you
Speaker 1: can go to We Don't Die dot com, which is
Speaker 1: our home base. Join our Facebook group, come to a
Speaker 1: Sunday gathering, take a course with us, be in touch.
Speaker 1: I'm Sander Champlain and I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio and Coast Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network. Thanks for
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