1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast DAM paranormal 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: podcast network. Now get ready for another episode of Shades 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:17,080 Speaker 1: of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain. Welcome to our podcast. 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: Please be aware the thoughts and opinions expressed by the 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: host are their thoughts and opinions only and do not 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast to Coast AM, employees 7 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: of premier networks, or their sponsors and associates. We would 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: like to encourage you to do your own research and 9 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. 10 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: For over twenty five years, I've been on a journey 11 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: to prove the existence of life after death. On each episode, 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: we'll discuss the reasons we now know that our loved 13 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: ones have survived physical death and so will we Welcome 14 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: to Shades of the Afterlife. What I want to start 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: out with is asking you a question, why are you 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: listening to Shades of the Afterlife today? Is it my 17 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: radiant personality or is it because you're like me who 18 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: has had a fear of dying and not knowing what 19 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: comes next that brought you in here? Or could you 20 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: have a little bit of that, but also somebody very 21 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: dear to you has passed away, and you want to 22 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: know that they live on and that you'll see them 23 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: again wherever you are in your journey. Is perfectly normal. 24 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: As a human being, we all fight an inner demon. 25 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: I call it the voice. Some people call it their ego. 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: But there's a voice that has us want to believe 27 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: that this life is all there is. It has us 28 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: look in the mirror and say some pretty negative things 29 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: to ourselves. It has us questioning our behaviors in the 30 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: past or what we should do in the future. It 31 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: has us often feeling guilty or replaying events that have 32 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: already happened, or it has us concentrating on the future 33 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: and what may happen. My dad always said ninety nine 34 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: percent of the things we worry about in the future 35 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: never happen, and that one percent that does it's not 36 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: nearly as bad as we anticipated it. So that is 37 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: that voice that's in each one of our heads today. 38 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: What are you dealing with? What stress? What problems? What cares? 39 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: What concerns? What worries? Is it other people? Is it finances? 40 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: Is it grief? Could be so many things. A few 41 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: minutes ago, I just stopped watching an episode of Finding 42 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: Your Roots. It's one of my most favorite shows where 43 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: celebrities have an opportunity to have somebody trace their genealogy 44 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: and they are introduced to people that are their relatives 45 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: and the story is told of who they are and 46 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: what their lives were about. Each one of us has ancestors. 47 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 1: We may not know our grandparents, or maybe even our 48 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: parents or our great great grandparents, etc. But they're out there, 49 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: they have lived. Someone once said, you're only truly dead 50 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: when people stop talking about you. Of course, we know 51 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: we remain in the afterlife. But when I started tracing 52 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: my genealogy, it goes way back. I'm a big part 53 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: Native American, I am a big part African. There is 54 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of European, and I can't even remember 55 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: what else, but men and women that worked hard. Probably 56 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: most of them had shorter lives. Certainly what we know 57 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: now as medicine wasn't available to our ancestors, and they 58 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: lived very, very tough times. I like watching Finding Your 59 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: Roots because people start appreciating who must have come before 60 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: them and how tough life must have been, and also 61 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: that gratitude that our ancestors went through what they did 62 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: for us to be here today. It is my belief 63 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: that behind each one of us, and even around us, 64 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: we have loved ones and certainly guides, but people that 65 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: are in our family that probably we have never met, 66 00:04:55,839 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: that lived life, and you are what remains of their 67 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: life being lived with all the cares and concerns and 68 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: worries that you have. Now, I want to ask that 69 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: you take a second and just imagine one of your ancestors, 70 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: who may be right there in the room with you. 71 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: You can put a costume or whatever they might have 72 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: been wearing at the time. Could have been somebody from 73 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: twenty years ago, could have been somebody from a hundred 74 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: years ago, maybe somebody from two hundred years ago. They 75 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: know what it's like to live a human life. Again, 76 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: they didn't have the luxuries we have. Many of them 77 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: did not have indoor plumbing, for example. But what would 78 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,679 Speaker 1: your ancestors make of you right now, knowing the life 79 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: that they lived and here they see you. So you 80 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: may be sitting there, or maybe you're out for a 81 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: walk right now listening to this, and yes you have 82 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: troubles on your mind, perhaps, but from the perspective of 83 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: an ancestor who came before looking at you and looking 84 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: at your life, maybe looking at the car that you drive, 85 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: the home that you live, Maybe looking at the technology 86 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: a television, a telephone, a cell phone. Maybe looking at 87 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: your refrigerator not neating an ice box. Maybe looking at 88 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,679 Speaker 1: where you go shopping for your food, looking at where 89 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: you go to the doctor, looking at your kids if 90 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: you have them, and all that's available to them. What 91 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: would your ancestors make of you right now? One of 92 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: the reasons I ask this question is I think for 93 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: me anyways, it helps me put my life in perspective. 94 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: And although yes I have the show and lots of followers, 95 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: life isn't always that easy. I have loved ones here 96 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: deeply about I've had to recreate myself financially after losing 97 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: my catering business due to COVID, So there's always that 98 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: question about paying all the bills. But looking through the 99 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: lens of someone who has lived before me, things aren't 100 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: that bad. Wow. I think all of our relatives would 101 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: be celebrating who we are, who we've become, the education 102 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: that has been made available to us, all the tools 103 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: that we have to live with, all the technology being 104 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: able to listen to a podcast or look up just 105 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: about anything on Google on the Internet, and then if 106 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: they could tell us who is in this invisible space 107 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: surrounding us, it'd be fantastic people who have been there before, 108 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: people who are cheering us on. If this is your 109 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: first time listening, I'm sure you say, oh yeah, really 110 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: easy for you to say, Sandra, Well, it's been over 111 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: twenty five years now that I've been looking for evidence 112 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: of the afterlife and freely sharing it with anybody who 113 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: wants to listen. And I know it's real. But I 114 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: know that ego, that voice wants to do everything it 115 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: can to convince us that our life is short, that 116 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: there's things to fear, to be worried about the future 117 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: or guilty about the past, And what it doesn't want 118 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: us to do is to live in the present moment. 119 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: And in the present moment is the gateway truly to 120 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 1: being in connection with it all, with our loved ones, 121 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: with our mediumistic sense and psychic sense, thoughts that seem 122 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: to come out of nowhere, and great ideas, those bits 123 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: of intuition, and so much more happen in that present moment. 124 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: On our episode today, I want to talk about some 125 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: news in the afterlife world. I also want to share 126 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: with you some stories from listeners. I'm not too sure 127 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: exactly where it's going to go, and that's okay. It's 128 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: hard for us human beings to be okay with the unknown, 129 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: but we're going to go through this together. I have 130 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: a deck of cards called postcards from Spirit, and every 131 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: so often I pick a card, and I want to 132 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: share with you the one for today. Dearest you, there 133 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: is only one you, and you have a unique path 134 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: and a special purpose. You're supposed to have specific experiences 135 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: in this world and meet certain people. But then it 136 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: is up to you how you live, how awake you 137 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: choose to be, and how willing you are to grow 138 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: and to strip away what's false. Don't compare yourself to others. 139 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: It's easy to think a person is happier just because 140 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: they're outside looks good according to society standards, but you 141 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: can't know anyone's internal experience. Compare yourself only to your 142 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: past self. See how far you've come. Don't be distracted 143 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: by what others are doing or accomplishing. Stay focused on 144 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: what inspires you. That's how you get successful and find happiness. 145 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: Want what you have now, not what someone else has. 146 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: We love you immensely and know your journey ahead is 147 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: sparkling with miracles and wondrous things. Trust, loving you forever 148 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: and ever. You can also imagine those words coming from 149 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: your ancestors, We're there and love you. Before we continue, 150 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: I want you to just hear a few words from 151 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: doctor Mary Helen Hensley, author of the book Promised by Heaven, 152 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: that goes along with what I've been saying. The moment 153 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: my life changed was December fourteenth, nineteen ninety one, in 154 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: a car accident in Charleston self Alina. I was hit 155 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: at seventy five miles per hour. I was literally knocked 156 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: out of my body, and it was life changing in 157 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: many ways because it was at that moment that I 158 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: realized that I had the choice whether to stay in 159 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: my body or to exit. I knew that I was eternal, 160 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: I knew I'd been here before, and I knew I 161 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,079 Speaker 1: would continue on. My grandfather, Judge, is a very interesting 162 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: part of my story because my interest in health healing 163 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: medicine came from the fact that he was a well 164 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: renowned surgeon in Kentucky for his career, and we were 165 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: talking about out of this world experiences about bigger things, 166 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: about our role in helping humanity. And the kicker was 167 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: that I was probably about three or four when finally 168 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: my mother told me he wasn't alive. So I'd been 169 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: talking to him for the first couple of years of 170 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: my life, the same as I'm sitting here speaking to you. 171 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: That's kind of my backstory and how things developed. And 172 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: so of course after the accident, I just turned my 173 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: life over and I'd be in the hospital helping somebody 174 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: I'd never met before because a voice has told me, 175 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: you need to go to hospital room to thirteen and 176 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 1: help this person transition because their hook to the machinery 177 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: and the mother can't bear to unplug them to you know, 178 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: this is my life, this is what I do. I 179 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: am here to serve. I think as the years have 180 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: gone by and Promised by Heaven has developed into the 181 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: book that it has. The biggest thing I can say 182 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: to people is let yourselves off the hook. That's the 183 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: message behind the book. We didn't come here for perfection. 184 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: We came here from perfection to take a break and 185 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: to find out what it means to experience life in 186 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: the human form, and if we can extend our hand 187 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: and say, you know what I had this experience and 188 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: if I can share that with you, if I can 189 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: share something that would be potentially embarrassing or painful and 190 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: I can help you with that, isn't that what it's 191 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: all about? It sure is. Well, let's head to the break. 192 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: We'll hear some words from listeners, some news, and then 193 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: some very special words from our dear friend Diane Corcoran 194 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: from Ian's who passed into the spirit world just about 195 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: a month ago. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife 196 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast Date and Paranormal 197 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: Podcast Network. 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The first Sunday of every month, 211 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: I get to share some thoughts on the news segment 212 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: of Coast to Coast AM with the world famous George 213 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: Norrie and a shout out to Tom Danheiser, the executive 214 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,479 Speaker 1: producer of the show who created Shades of the Afterlife 215 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: and asked me to be the host this past week. 216 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: The question George Norrie asked me is why are humans 217 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: obsessed with looking for answers about what may come after death? 218 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: And this is a bit of new that I think 219 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: he'll enjoy hearing. In a new BBC video, reporter Max Tobin, 220 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: when looking for answers of why we humans have such 221 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: a hard time with our own mortality. Ancient Egyptians believed 222 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: we go on, and most people on planet Earth currently do. 223 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: In fact, even one third of atheists believe there is 224 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: some kind of continuation of consciousness after physical death. We 225 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: humans are hardwired to not want to die, and we 226 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: are programmed for survival. We also have self awareness that 227 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: has us asking big questions like who am I? And 228 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: what is my life for? And of course the big one, 229 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: what happens when I die? Now? Listen to this. Professor 230 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: Jesse Bearing claims our predisposition to believing in the afterlife 231 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: is something we are born with. In two thousand and five, 232 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: team had a group of children watch a puppet show 233 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: in which an alligator gobbled up a mouse. Remember these 234 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: are puppets, But after viewing this with the children, they 235 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: were asked about what just happened. They found that the 236 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: children were likely to claim that, although physically dead, the 237 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: mouse retained mental states such as knowledge and emotions. In fact, 238 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: the younger the children were, the more likely they were 239 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: to describe the mouse still having life after its death. 240 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: So again, this suggests that the belief in the afterlife 241 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: is not learned, but it is something we are born with. 242 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: Just about a month ago, on a few episodes, I 243 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: think I was talking about these deathbed visitations that are 244 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: actually so much more than just a deathbed visitation. That 245 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 1: how often loved ones can come visit us in our dreams, weeks, 246 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: or even months before our passing, and not just any dreams, 247 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: but dreams that seem real that we really are with 248 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: our loved ones. So coming into life, we are born 249 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: with the belief that we go on and exiting this life, 250 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: we are taken care of by the spirit world and 251 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: those in the hereafter to let us know that our 252 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: life continues and that we are not alone. However, what 253 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: happens in this middle ground, well that's up to you 254 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: and me. When I wrote my book We Don't Die, 255 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: a skeptics discovery of life after death, I think I 256 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: wrote it for myself. I had never written a book before, 257 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: and the publisher asked me to write a book that 258 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: I would have liked to read before I got on 259 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: this journey. It's not only my investigations about why I 260 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: believe in the afterlife, but it's also a handbook for 261 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: living life, something to turn back to, read a random 262 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: page or a random chapter and get back in touch 263 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: with who we are and what is our life for 264 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: I very playfully talk about being souls choosing to come 265 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: to this life, that we have a place to go 266 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: where we can experience so many great things. If you're 267 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: anything like me, too much of a good thing can 268 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: get very boring. I know when I worked my catering 269 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 1: business for over thirty years, I worked eighty ninety hour 270 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: weeks and was in the state of stress more often 271 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: than not. There are TV shows that I would have 272 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: loved to watch and books that I would have loved 273 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: to read, but I was way too busy. I dreamed 274 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: of sometime having some downtime where I could catch up 275 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: on the latest shows. And guess what happened March twenty twenty. 276 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: We lost our business, we lost our finances, and I 277 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: had loads of time on my hands due to the 278 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: lockdown from COVID nineteen. Time to read books, time to 279 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: watch movies, time to watch TV shows, time for myself. However, again, 280 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: too much of a good thing is not a good thing. 281 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: It wasn't special, and of course, with the fear that 282 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: was going on in the world and the concern about 283 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: our future, it wasn't easy. But if in the afterlife 284 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: things are great all the time, and we're with our 285 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: loved ones and we can create anything we want to 286 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: with our mind, we can learn anything, it's spectacular. However, 287 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: how can we no joy if we haven't known sorrow? 288 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: So I think we sign up for coming to this life. 289 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: I don't believe everything is planned. I do believe there 290 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: are things we want to learn and different opportunities to 291 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: do that. So right now you and I are in 292 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: that in between time, in between being that little kid 293 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: knowing that there is an afterlife, and before we pass 294 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: again knowing that there is an afterlife. But how do 295 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: we live life? I want to read to you an 296 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: email that I recently got from a listener. I know 297 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: her words really struck a chord with me, and I 298 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: think they will with you too. This is from Colette. Hi, Sandra. 299 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: My dad passed last October twenty twenty two. He had 300 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: cancer and was eighty nine years old. My family and 301 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: I nursed him for six months. I always asked the 302 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: angels to make sure I was there when he passed over. 303 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: I placed my trust in them for this. I kept 304 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: hearing the number ten, so I assumed the tenth of 305 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: September was his date. However, that was not to be so, 306 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: so I thought, okay, I got it wrong. Once he 307 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: became unconscious, I started doing raiki sessions on him each night. 308 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: I am a raki master, to help him move his 309 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: spirit on. A friend of mine even got a little 310 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: prayer to say to him each night from Spirit to 311 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: help him pass over. Of course, as you can imagine, 312 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: while doing the raky sessions each night and saying this 313 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: beautiful prayer, I cried the whole way through. The rest 314 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: of my family used to leave Dad and me alone 315 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: to carry out the healing, which was beautiful for me 316 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: to have that special time with him. Can I just 317 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: add that, yes, sometimes I can connect to Spirit in 318 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: my head, but it does not happen all the time. Time. However, 319 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: for some reason, my grandparents would step in now and 320 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: then and I could actually see them in front of me. Anyway, 321 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: I knew that night that Dad would pass over at 322 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: three am. I could feel the room filling up with 323 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: angels and spirit family. Of course, when I mentioned this, 324 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: it scared the rest of the family, as they don't 325 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: believe in any of this. I remember sitting beside Dad 326 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: and every so often I would place my hand on 327 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: his arm and reassure him that it was okay for 328 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: him to go now to the spirit world and he 329 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: has nothing to fear. As the family and I made 330 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: small chat amongst ourselves every now and then, I remember 331 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 1: turning towards Dad again at that moment, I saw his 332 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: mother and father step in from the wall. Those were 333 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: my grandparents. I just looked at them, turned to Dad 334 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: and said, Grannie and Granddad are here. Now you must 335 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: go with them. For some reason, without hesitation, I rose 336 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: from the chair and told my brother talked to Dad, 337 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: Grannie and Granddad are here. I left the room and 338 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: walked into the kitchen. I looked out the window and said, Dad, 339 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: you need to go now with them. I had no 340 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,239 Speaker 1: sooner said that, and my sister called to me he 341 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: was gone. I don't know why I moved out of 342 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: the room, but I feel he would not have left 343 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: if I didn't go. I think the first few weeks 344 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: of his passing, I was in a high at seeing 345 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: such a vision that I will never forget, and I 346 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: feel totally honored that I was allowed to see it. 347 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: My gratitude for this experience I can't explain. Although I 348 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: miss my Dad, I know he is all always with me, 349 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: and I am so delighted that now he must be 350 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: having a blast. Yes, I have a weak cry for me. However, 351 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: I would never wish him back, as he had a 352 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: full life and I am honored to have had him 353 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: so long. In life, as others never get that opportunity 354 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: with their parents. As for the number ten, he passed 355 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: on the tenth month and was laid to rest on 356 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: the tenth I want to share with you the prayer 357 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 1: I was given to say to him, Gentle spirit, Please 358 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: come to me. My life on earth is almost done. 359 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: Appear before my closing eye. Tell me again I cannot die. 360 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: Here is my hand, Please hold it fast. Then with courage, 361 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: I will pass across that bridge that's built with love 362 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: into the summerland above. And she writes, Sandra, thank you 363 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: for reading my story. I do hope it will help others. 364 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: Lots of love, Colette, I really do appreciate your emails. 365 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: By the way, if you have a story to tell, 366 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: something that you think will help others, or you just 367 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: want to share to me, that's fine. Hearing other people's 368 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: stories helps us believe in the afterlife. There are tons 369 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: of people out there who have written books and have podcasts. 370 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: Yeah great, but let's just hear from some regular people, 371 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: just people who may never go on to tell a 372 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: single person their story outside of us who believe. So 373 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: if you want to reach out to me, easy to remember. 374 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: Sandra Champlain at gmail dot com is my email address. 375 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: I appreciate colette story, and I sure do wish I 376 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: had the information about the afterlife before my dad passed. 377 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: For many of us, our loved ones don't go in 378 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: a pleasant way, and there's a lot of fear and 379 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: panic around. No matter how we depart this earth, we 380 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: are greeted by loving arms. How do they know when 381 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: it's our time to pass? Because they're around us anyways, 382 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: cheering us on helping us live our lives. 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Thank you for the 401 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: inspiration and hope you and your guests continue to share. 402 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: I have had several experiences with loved ones who have 403 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: passed over. At first, I wondered if it was all 404 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: in my imagination, but now I truly believe our loved 405 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: ones are with us always and that love continues and 406 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: continues to evolve well beyond the moment of our physical 407 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: body's death. After listening to your speakers share about how 408 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: loved ones can communicate with us via electronics, radios, lights, Alexa, 409 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: I love your personal story about Michael. By the way, 410 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: I decided to try an experiment of my own while 411 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: waiting for my son to finish his crew practice, I, 412 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: as usual, spent some of that time walking up and 413 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: down the long driveway at the marina, despite the traffic 414 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: noise of the highway. I walked, breathed in the cool air, 415 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: gazed at the river and the clouds, and had an 416 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: out loud conversation with my now deceased friend Beth. Out loud. 417 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: I recalled several shared memories from our time in college, 418 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: said her full name out loud several times, and I 419 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: asked her where she is? Now? Do we go on? 420 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: I started looking for signs, and then I believed I 421 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: wasn't seeing any, so I returned to my car. Suddenly 422 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: inspiration hit me. I opened my phone and did a 423 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: general search of her name. Beth, I kid you not. 424 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: Right there at the top of the search was a 425 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: woman by her name who happened to be a singer 426 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: songwriter with an album entitled Afterlife. Pretty cool. Huh. Yeah, 427 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: that goes to show we have to listen to our intuition. 428 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: And she answered the question where she is afterlife? All right? 429 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: She has a second story. My dear friend Mark, who 430 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: I regretfully did not see or speak with in a 431 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: few years before his death, was on my mind some 432 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: time back. I spent some time quietly thinking about him 433 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: and talking to him in my mind. Wishing him well, 434 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: saying I was sorry to have lost touch, but that 435 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: he was very often in my thoughts. I thanked him 436 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: for bringing me happiness, comfort, and friendship during the years 437 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: we knew each other. I asked him to send me 438 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: a sign from an old friend so I could know 439 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: he was doing okay. Later that day, I took the 440 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: train into Manhattan, where I was to meet my husband 441 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: for dinner. My terrible sense of direction led me to 442 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: ask a young woman who was walking beside me on 443 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: the busy New York City street if I was correctly 444 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,719 Speaker 1: heading toward Grammercy Park. She said yes, and also added 445 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: she was headed that same direction and offered to walk 446 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: with me. We turned to each other, and remarkably we 447 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: recognized one another. We had been good friends in high school, 448 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: and it had been twenty years since we've seen were 449 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: spoken to each other. I shared with her my story 450 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: about Mark half, suggesting our chance meeting was a coincidence, 451 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: knowing in my heart, it was not not at all 452 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: surprised that she shared with me that she is a 453 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: hospice worker and often witnesses communication between her hospice patients 454 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: and their loved ones on the other side. Keep up 455 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: the beautiful work Sandra love Ari. There is definitely something 456 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: in common with these two stories. She asked for the signs, 457 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: and I like that speaking out loud because sometimes when 458 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: we just think things in our own thoughts, it's so 459 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: easy to get distracted and think about something else. So 460 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: write it or speak it out loud. So this is 461 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: some news about near death experiences. A new study of 462 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: people whose hearts stopped but received CPR and remained among 463 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: us found that they remembered what are often called near 464 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: death experiences. From the New York University Grossman's School of 465 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: Medicine's press release, one in five people who survive cardiopulmonary 466 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: resuscitation CPR after a cardiac arrest may describe lucid experiences 467 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: of death that occurred while they were seemingly unconscious and 468 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: on the brink of death. A new study shows survivors 469 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: reported having unique lucid experiences in looting, a perception of 470 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: separation from the body, observing events without pain or distress, 471 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: and a meaningful evaluation of life, including of their actions, intentions, 472 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: and thoughts towards others. The researchers found these experiences of 473 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 1: death to be different from hallucinations, delusions, illusions, dreams, or 474 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: CPR induced consciousness. The study also detected some brain activity 475 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: associated with the phenomena. A key finding was the discovery 476 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: of spikes of brain activity, including so called gamma, delta, theta, alpha, 477 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: and beta waves up to an hour into CPR. Some 478 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: of these brain waves normally occur when people are conscious 479 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: and performing higher mental functions, including thinking, memory retrieval, and 480 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: conscious perception. These recalled experiences and brainwave changes may be 481 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: the first signs of the so called near death experience, 482 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: and we have captured them for the first time in 483 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: a large study, says Sam Parnia, MD, pH d, the 484 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: lead study investigator and an intensive care physician who is 485 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: also an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at 486 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: New York University Langone Health, as well as the organization's 487 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: director of Critical Care and Resuscitation Research. Our results offer 488 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: evidence that while on the brink of death and in 489 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:45,920 Speaker 1: a coma, people undergo a unique conscious experience, including awareness 490 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: without distress. Does this study ultimately prove that there is 491 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: life after death? No, but I think it is evidence 492 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: that could support that hypothesis. Indeed, that seems to be 493 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: what the study authors conclude at least between the lines, 494 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: identifying measurable electrical signs of lucid and heightened brain activity, 495 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: together with similar stories of recalled death experiences, suggests that 496 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: the human sense of self and consciousness, much like other 497 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: biological body functions, may not stop completely around the time 498 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,360 Speaker 1: of death. Adds doctor Parnia, these lucid experiences cannot be 499 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: considered a trick of a disorder or dying brain, but 500 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: rather a unique human experience that emerges on the brink 501 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 1: of death. As the brain is shutting down, many of 502 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 1: its natural breaking systems are released, known as disinhibition. This 503 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 1: provides access to the depths of a person's consciousness, including 504 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: stored memories, thoughts from early childhood to death, and other 505 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: aspects of reality. While no one knows the evolutionary process 506 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: of this phenomena, it clearly reveals intriguing questions about human 507 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: consciousness even at death, says Parnia. The author goes on 508 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,800 Speaker 1: to say, perhaps these findings should be deemed circumstantial evidence 509 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: of something beyond this existence, which moves us out of 510 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: the scientific realm and into the theological and since those 511 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: reporting on the experience claim to have engaged in an 512 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: extensive life review. Perhaps we should also consider the study 513 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: as demonstrating that what we do and how we act 514 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,200 Speaker 1: in the here and now will impact our experience of 515 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 1: whatever comes next. It's really nice when science discovers things 516 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 1: about near death experiences and reasons to believe in the afterlife. 517 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 1: Someday we'll get over there and will just be like, hey, 518 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this was real all along? Why did 519 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 1: we question? I'd like to read a near death experience. 520 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 1: This is the latest one posted on the website ians 521 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: dot org, which is the International Association for Near Death Studies. 522 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,040 Speaker 1: I experienced a miscarriage and took a pill to induce 523 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: an abortion of the fetus, but because of complications, I 524 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: bled too much. After passing out at home, I was 525 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: taken to the emergency room in an ambulance, where I 526 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,399 Speaker 1: continued to bleed excessively and pass out four or five 527 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: more times. Each time got progressively more intense, with my 528 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,760 Speaker 1: body heating up and a comforting warmth taking over. Each 529 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: time was like being on a roller coaster, and events 530 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,880 Speaker 1: sped up in a matter of minutes. The last time 531 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 1: that I lost consciousness, I fell into the deepest, warmest 532 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: most comfortable state. I was far from the hospital bed 533 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: and the stresses of my body and the grief of 534 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: my miscarriage. I was in this dark tunnel that sloped 535 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: uphill toward a bright light, and my deceased father was there, 536 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: holding out his hand in the most welcoming way. He 537 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,440 Speaker 1: didn't speak with words, just his thoughts. I had missed 538 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: him so much since he had died seven months before, 539 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,879 Speaker 1: and I was so happy to see him. He held 540 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: out his hand and told me he was there for me. 541 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 1: I was so comforted to see him and lulled in 542 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: a way by his presence. I wanted to follow him 543 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 1: up through the tunnel. He didn't try to convince me 544 00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 1: to come with him. He was just there, supportive in 545 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:45,239 Speaker 1: the best ways. Quickly I realized what this meant and 546 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,720 Speaker 1: that I wasn't ready to let go of my life. 547 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: My family still needed me, my young son especially. My 548 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: life wasn't over. I shook my head and said, no, 549 00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 1: I'm not ready, and he understood. Then I came to 550 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: This experience was extremely comforting to me. It gave me 551 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,839 Speaker 1: a sense that my father was still there for me. 552 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,000 Speaker 1: Though I am not a religious person or a really 553 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 1: very spiritual. This experience made me curious about life after death. 554 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: The near death experience made me more connected to my 555 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: purpose in life and more grounded to my life here 556 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: for my family and my community. I wasn't questioning any 557 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,759 Speaker 1: of it before, but through this experience, I was reassured 558 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,279 Speaker 1: that I have love here on earth and beyond. Two. 559 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,839 Speaker 1: We're going to head off to the break and when 560 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,439 Speaker 1: we come back, I want you to hear some very 561 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,720 Speaker 1: special words from a very special person. The world lost 562 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 1: and the spirit world gained retired Army Colonel Diane Corchrane, 563 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 1: who spent many years as the president of IAMS and 564 00:39:54,680 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: also did so much with education of near death experiences 565 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,320 Speaker 1: the military. So we'll be back. You're listening to Shades 566 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,640 Speaker 1: of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast 567 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:14,360 Speaker 1: AM paranormal podcast network. We're happy to let you know 568 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,799 Speaker 1: that our Coast to Coast AM official YouTube channel has 569 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: now reached three hundred thousand subscribers. 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Follow just Kevin Randall 579 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: and you're listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast 580 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:18,359 Speaker 1: AM Paranormal Guest Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. 581 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,040 Speaker 1: I'm Sandra Champlain. As normal as death is, it's always 582 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,120 Speaker 1: very difficult to lose a friend. They're lost to our world, 583 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:32,560 Speaker 1: but they are accepted and probably as standing ovation for 584 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:37,800 Speaker 1: this one. Last month, retired Army Colonel Diane Corchrane, r 585 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,840 Speaker 1: N PhD passed into the spirit world. She has served 586 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,120 Speaker 1: as president of the International Association for Near Death Studies. 587 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,600 Speaker 1: She is internationally known as a lecturer and educator, with 588 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,959 Speaker 1: over thirty years in near death experience education and over 589 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: twenty five years of military experience. I'd like to play 590 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,960 Speaker 1: for you some words from Diane that were recorded about 591 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:17,439 Speaker 1: her passion in twenty sixteen. I met a young man 592 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,799 Speaker 1: in the middle of the night many years ago in 593 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,279 Speaker 1: Vietnam as a new casualty, and he asked me if 594 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,000 Speaker 1: I would come and listen to him because he had 595 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,839 Speaker 1: something he wanted to tell me, and I certainly did. 596 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 1: I was a young nurse, I was brand new to Vietnam, 597 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,680 Speaker 1: and he started to tell me about this experience he 598 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: had and tears are flowing down his eyes and he's saying, 599 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,799 Speaker 1: please believe me, and he described what we now know 600 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,359 Speaker 1: to be a classic near death experience. But I had 601 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:59,360 Speaker 1: no idea what he was talking about. And he started 602 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: my path on working with medical people and near death 603 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,200 Speaker 1: experiences for the rest of my life until today. He 604 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,360 Speaker 1: started me and working with a medical community to really 605 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,759 Speaker 1: come to understand about near death experiences and why it's 606 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 1: so important for doctors and nurses to be able to 607 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 1: support patients who have near death experiences. Right from the beginning, 608 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,239 Speaker 1: I knew near death experiences were important, and they were 609 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: important for the medical community to be able to support 610 00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:38,680 Speaker 1: patients and help them validate these experiences. So as I 611 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,960 Speaker 1: got more rank and more information over the years, I 612 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:47,319 Speaker 1: taught about near death experiences to everybody I could get 613 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,160 Speaker 1: to listen to me, and the more rank I got, 614 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:55,800 Speaker 1: the more I was insistent upon people understanding this, and 615 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,600 Speaker 1: as a colonel in Europe, I would have general officers 616 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,120 Speaker 1: call me and want to tell me about their near 617 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:09,440 Speaker 1: death experiences but afraid to tell anybody else. As a 618 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,319 Speaker 1: colonel and being in Germany during desert storm, I was 619 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:18,920 Speaker 1: really insistent that we would train all medical people about 620 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,240 Speaker 1: near death experiences, knowing that many of the people would 621 00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:27,799 Speaker 1: have them because of the combat situation, and so it 622 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,640 Speaker 1: became imperative that we do training. And the more rank 623 00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,399 Speaker 1: I got, the more training we did, and the more 624 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,879 Speaker 1: people that would come and seek me out and try 625 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,279 Speaker 1: to understand about near death experiences because they had no 626 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: one else to go to. Forty years ago, when I 627 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,480 Speaker 1: started looking at near death experiences, nobody knew anything about it. 628 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,680 Speaker 1: There wasn't even a name for it. In the mid seventies, 629 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: of course, Raymond Moody wrote his book Life After Life, 630 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 1: and so we had a beginning of an understanding. But 631 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: I was already teaching about near death experiences to doctors, nurses, 632 00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,880 Speaker 1: social workers so that they would be able to support 633 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,600 Speaker 1: patients who had these experiences because otherwise they're so isolated. 634 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:20,000 Speaker 1: And now it's even more imperative with all the veterans 635 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 1: coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Previously, we've had great 636 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,680 Speaker 1: difficulty with people ending up in a psych ward or 637 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,279 Speaker 1: being over medicated because they tried to tell a provider 638 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,560 Speaker 1: about their near death experience. And that is just so 639 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 1: dangerous for them and so wrong, especially in the military, 640 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:46,040 Speaker 1: because they're being misdiagnosed and then medicated, and really all 641 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:50,120 Speaker 1: they needed was somebody to acknowledge and let them own 642 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,200 Speaker 1: their own near death experience. The state of understanding the 643 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,040 Speaker 1: near death experience is still quite unknown in the VA. 644 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,560 Speaker 1: In the military, there certainly are people that have some 645 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:07,520 Speaker 1: semblance of understanding, but it's not widespread, and that's where 646 00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 1: IANS has wanted to step in and do a program 647 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,480 Speaker 1: for veterans hospitals and military hospitals. I have spoken for 648 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,600 Speaker 1: years while I was on active duty, and it does 649 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,480 Speaker 1: make a difference if you have someone there teaching all 650 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,440 Speaker 1: about the near death experience in the after effects and 651 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 1: how we can support them. Because of my interest in 652 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,880 Speaker 1: near death experience when I first came to Durham, I 653 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,279 Speaker 1: went to the local VA to ask about how they 654 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,200 Speaker 1: would differentiate between people who were talking about their near 655 00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,760 Speaker 1: death experience or someone who was having maybe a psychotic break, 656 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,080 Speaker 1: and the chief of the department said to me, what's 657 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,160 Speaker 1: a near death experience? Because of my interest in the 658 00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,880 Speaker 1: military and my previous twenty five years in the military, 659 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,560 Speaker 1: I have developed a program for the military in being 660 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,719 Speaker 1: able to teach and support patients and we I ins 661 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,520 Speaker 1: will be able to take this and has taken at 662 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:15,879 Speaker 1: two military institutions and given them something to work with 663 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,600 Speaker 1: to provide support and education to near death experiencers and 664 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,719 Speaker 1: their families. My goal for the military is to provide 665 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:32,320 Speaker 1: a wonderful training program and support to gis and veterans 666 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,560 Speaker 1: who are near death experiencers. We last year at our 667 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 1: conference invited many veterans and wanted them to come so 668 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:45,760 Speaker 1: they didn't feel isolated. We had one veteran who came 669 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,920 Speaker 1: with me as my guest who was in Vietnam the 670 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,200 Speaker 1: same time I was in Vietnam. He was injured. He 671 00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,200 Speaker 1: had a profound near death experience. He tried to tell 672 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,719 Speaker 1: his doctors. They didn't want to hear about it. And 673 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,080 Speaker 1: at our Ion's conference some forty years later, he for 674 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,560 Speaker 1: the first time was able to talk about his near 675 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,279 Speaker 1: death experience and all he could say to me was 676 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:18,040 Speaker 1: this has changed my life. It's important for near death 677 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,919 Speaker 1: experiencers to be understood because otherwise they feel so isolated 678 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,680 Speaker 1: and on top of the physical and already psychological trauma 679 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,880 Speaker 1: that they have. They could use a positive support of 680 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,920 Speaker 1: the near death experience for further healing instead of being 681 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:40,760 Speaker 1: further isolated. The Ions conference is open to the public 682 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,960 Speaker 1: and really wonderful for them to come to. Also, it 683 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,560 Speaker 1: gives them a total new preciation when they hear experiencers 684 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:54,000 Speaker 1: talk about the love, the understanding, the forgiveness that they 685 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:59,600 Speaker 1: experienced during their experience. It's very hard to deny when 686 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,799 Speaker 1: your experience experience after experience for the public not to 687 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,440 Speaker 1: get something out of that and have a new understanding 688 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,720 Speaker 1: of what that consciousness is like. Everybody that comes gets 689 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,479 Speaker 1: something out of it. Near death experiencers feel like they're 690 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,880 Speaker 1: coming home. They have people there that will listen to 691 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,680 Speaker 1: them and talk to them about their experience. People who 692 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,279 Speaker 1: have not had near death experiences are learning what it 693 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,960 Speaker 1: might be like to understand and have a purpose in 694 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:37,160 Speaker 1: life that near death experiencers sometimes get. And it's also 695 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,640 Speaker 1: important because so many people have relatives and other people 696 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,440 Speaker 1: in their life who have had near death experiences, and 697 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,640 Speaker 1: therefore it's important for them to be able to support them, 698 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:55,280 Speaker 1: not to mention that it's just fun. They're excited because 699 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:59,000 Speaker 1: it's brand new information that they're not likely to get otherwise, 700 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:03,919 Speaker 1: and the energy and people they will meet will be tremendous. 701 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,239 Speaker 1: You'll never get so much love in one place at 702 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,640 Speaker 1: one time. Frequently when I give a talk, I ask 703 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,560 Speaker 1: people how many people have had near death experiences, and 704 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:21,600 Speaker 1: there's always numerous in the audience. But my reason for 705 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,799 Speaker 1: doing these talks many times is asking people, we are 706 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,359 Speaker 1: all going to die at some point, wouldn't it be 707 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,799 Speaker 1: wonderful to have an idea of what that might be like? 708 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,520 Speaker 1: Because it isn't awful. It's about love, it's about light, 709 00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:44,000 Speaker 1: it's about coming into your own and I have since 710 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:49,720 Speaker 1: helped many people go through their transition and much different 711 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,600 Speaker 1: than it used to be, and now it can be 712 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,280 Speaker 1: a very loving thing, and they will gather that from 713 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,239 Speaker 1: the conference also by listening to other experiences. One of 714 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,319 Speaker 1: the great aspects of coming to an Ian's conference for 715 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,319 Speaker 1: the public is they get to know that there is 716 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,840 Speaker 1: no death. That from near death experiencers, we hear about 717 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,480 Speaker 1: the love, the light, the purpose, and so it makes 718 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:23,920 Speaker 1: understanding that those transitions wonderful and new and enriched. To 719 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,800 Speaker 1: live our life to the fullest now and not worry 720 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,319 Speaker 1: about the next life because it will be there and 721 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,000 Speaker 1: it will be a wonderful transition. But right now we've 722 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,759 Speaker 1: got a great life to live. Thank you, Diane. You 723 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,319 Speaker 1: will be missed here on earth, but I know you 724 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:47,279 Speaker 1: are still very active where you are now, and for 725 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:52,680 Speaker 1: you listening, go to IANS dot org, the International Association 726 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,760 Speaker 1: for Near Death Studies. Diane mentioned the conference they hold 727 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,520 Speaker 1: usually a couple of conferences, one live, one online, and 728 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,640 Speaker 1: they're fantastic. There's also thousands of near death experiences that 729 00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,520 Speaker 1: you can read about. You can join a local chapter 730 00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:14,000 Speaker 1: even if you haven't had a near death experience and 731 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:19,680 Speaker 1: meet some really great people. We love you, Diane. Last 732 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,440 Speaker 1: remember our home base is we Don't Die dot com, 733 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:28,560 Speaker 1: where yes, we offer medium classes, demonstrations and so much more. 734 00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:33,919 Speaker 1: Don't miss our free Sunday gathering, now going into its 735 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,319 Speaker 1: fourth year. It is a Sunday service like no other, 736 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,719 Speaker 1: filled with inspiration and a medium demonstration included. Did I 737 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:48,280 Speaker 1: say free? Free? Absolutely? You can also watch the replace 738 00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:53,479 Speaker 1: all at we Don't Die dot com in closing, I'm 739 00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:58,400 Speaker 1: Sandra Champlain. Please remember your life is for a reason. 740 00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,319 Speaker 1: Coming into this earth, you believed in the afterlife. When 741 00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,520 Speaker 1: you depart this life, you will have loved ones by 742 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:10,040 Speaker 1: your side. But the time in between, go after your dreams, 743 00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:15,000 Speaker 1: help other people make a difference, and have some fun. 744 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,880 Speaker 1: Will you. You've been listening to Shades of the Afterlife 745 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,920 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast, a paranormal podcast network, 746 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,800 Speaker 1: and if you like this episode of Shades of the Afterlife, 747 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,279 Speaker 1: wait until you hear the next one. Thank you for 748 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,640 Speaker 1: listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am paranormal 749 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:38,800 Speaker 1: podcast network.