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Speaker 2: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
Speaker 2: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Speaker 2: On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
Speaker 2: that our loved ones have survived physical death, and so
Speaker 2: will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I'd like
Speaker 2: to start out today by reading Wayne's near death experience.
Speaker 2: He says, I was very sick with bleeding ulcers. My
Speaker 2: medical insurance had expired, and I was at home for
Speaker 2: several days trying to rest and hope that everything would
Speaker 2: heal on its own. I have had bleeding ulcers since
Speaker 2: I was a child, have had several attacks through the
Speaker 2: years and know pretty much what to expect when they happen.
Speaker 2: I knew this attack was pretty bad. On January fifth,
Speaker 2: I woke up with a severe headache and knew my
Speaker 2: blood pressure was very, very high. Mid morning, I realized
Speaker 2: I was very sick and telephoned a friend to ask
Speaker 2: them to come to my home. I remember thinking this
Speaker 2: is the last phone call I'll ever make. I was
Speaker 2: very calm and decided to get into the empty bathtub
Speaker 2: so I wouldn't bleed all over the carpets and make
Speaker 2: a mess. By this time, I was bleeding through my
Speaker 2: ears and was bleeding heavily everywhere. I woke up in
Speaker 2: a warm, bright place and was confused as to where
Speaker 2: I was. It took a minute, and I remember thinking, wow,
Speaker 2: I must be dead. There was no pain. I could
Speaker 2: see myself. It wasn't like a spirit kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I looked up and my grandmother was there. She had
Speaker 2: died long ago, but it was her. She was wearing
Speaker 2: a purple dress, and I suddenly remembered seeing her in
Speaker 2: her coffin as a kid. Wearing that dress. There was
Speaker 2: a Boston Terrier dog standing beside her. We had always
Speaker 2: had Boston Terriers as pets when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: but I didn't recognize this particular dog. I asked her
Speaker 2: where my mom and dad were. They had both passed away.
Speaker 2: But she looked at me and said, you can't stay here.
Speaker 2: You have to go back now. I said no, I
Speaker 2: don't want to leave, and she said, I promise next
Speaker 2: time you can stay. Then I woke up in the hospital.
Speaker 2: It was very confusing for a couple of minutes, and
Speaker 2: the doctor told me that my friend had called nine
Speaker 2: one one after I had phoned him, and they found
Speaker 2: me in the bathtub with no pulse. Luckily, I was
Speaker 2: found in time. I spent two weeks in the hospital
Speaker 2: and have been in decent health ever since, although I
Speaker 2: still do have bleeding ulcers. But on a side note,
Speaker 2: I went through a big box of old family photos
Speaker 2: and I found the dog with my grandmother. Her name
Speaker 2: was Tricksie and she was our household pet when I
Speaker 2: was born, back in nineteen fifty six. I don't remember
Speaker 2: her though, as she was put to sleep around nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty eight. It was definitely absolutely Trixie, who is with
Speaker 2: my grandma. I haven't spoken about pets in the afterlife
Speaker 2: too much on this show, only a couple of times,
Speaker 2: I think. And this past week I found a photo
Speaker 2: album with pictures of my cat Millie and her son Ozzie,
Speaker 2: and it got me thinking about pets the afterlife, the
Speaker 2: difference pets make in our lives, and how as much
Speaker 2: as we grieve human beings passings, we have a lot
Speaker 2: of pets in our life, and anyone who is a
Speaker 2: pet owner or a friend of a furried creature, we
Speaker 2: know just how devastating their loss is. I think animals
Speaker 2: can find a place in our hearts that we never
Speaker 2: let human beings, and the more that we love, the
Speaker 2: more grief hurts. So I found a little treasure trove
Speaker 2: of stories about people who experience pets when they get
Speaker 2: to the afterlife. There's a great website that I'd love
Speaker 2: to share with you called n d e RF dot org,
Speaker 2: which stands for Near Death Experience Research Foundation. There you
Speaker 2: can read and search many near death experiences. You can
Speaker 2: also share your own near death experiences. It is translated
Speaker 2: into many different languages. There are lots of resources. There's
Speaker 2: research studies. They do loads of information and it's just
Speaker 2: a great site. So that is nd RF dot org,
Speaker 2: the Near Death Experience Research Foundation. So let me continue
Speaker 2: with some more stories about people seeing pets in the afterlife.
Speaker 2: Yvette says, while I was having surgery, I experienced the following.
Speaker 2: I was in a park, green grass everywhere. It was
Speaker 2: very pretty and very clean. I saw a black cat
Speaker 2: running up to me. It's my Amigo, my black cat
Speaker 2: who passed away six months earlier. He ran toward me
Speaker 2: and leaped into my arms. He feels exactly the same.
Speaker 2: He was always a solid cat from his years on
Speaker 2: the streets. I held him tight and so happy to
Speaker 2: see him. Joy fills me. I even cry a little bit.
Speaker 2: I hold him, hugging him, kissing him. He's rubbing his
Speaker 2: cheek on my face. I'm so happy to see him.
Speaker 2: I think he's so happy to see me too. This
Speaker 2: happiness is as I've never felt before. I could feel
Speaker 2: his love and adoration. I have never felt happiness like
Speaker 2: this before in my life. It was peaceful, comforting, and
Speaker 2: so fulfilling. Amigo then jumps out of my arms. I
Speaker 2: see him walk over to a park bench and sit
Speaker 2: next to an old man. I was about to follow
Speaker 2: him when I see the old man. Wait, is that Grandpa? Grandpa? Grandpa?
Speaker 2: I shout. Amigo jumps up on the park bench and
Speaker 2: curls up asleep next to Grandpa Grandpa. I keep calling him.
Speaker 2: He doesn't look directly at me. He motions with his
Speaker 2: hands for me to go away. Grandpa, No, Grandpa, it's me.
Speaker 2: I say, Why doesn't Grandpa want to see me? Why
Speaker 2: is he telling me to go away? This hurts all
Speaker 2: the happiness of seeing Amigo goes away. Why won't my
Speaker 2: grandpa come to me? Why is he telling me to
Speaker 2: go away? I can't move towards him. I can't run
Speaker 2: up to him and give him a hug. I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm stuck there, watching him still motioning me to
Speaker 2: go away. He had a serious look on his face.
Speaker 2: I was so sad, so confused. I look at a
Speaker 2: Migo lying peacefully asleep next to him. Again, I'm filled
Speaker 2: with love and zap. I am back awake in my body.
Speaker 2: Don says. During my surgery, I became aware of myself
Speaker 2: walking in a grassy clearing that was surrounded by trees.
Speaker 2: At the time, I thought I was seeing a light,
Speaker 2: gray sky, in the distance, but now I believe it
Speaker 2: was a dim light. As I continued looking at it,
Speaker 2: the light became a pure white light. I wanted to
Speaker 2: go there, to where the light was, and so I
Speaker 2: kept walking toward it. As I walked, I noticed how
Speaker 2: lush and green the grass and the forest were. I
Speaker 2: felt completely at peace and content. Then I heard barking
Speaker 2: dogs and I could understand what they were saying. They
Speaker 2: were playing and planning to go somewhere to continue their game.
Speaker 2: I turned a corner and there was a group of dogs.
Speaker 2: I became very joyful when I saw that two of
Speaker 2: the dogs were my deceased dogs, and they were part
Speaker 2: of the group. I called out the name to one
Speaker 2: of the dogs, wanting to hold him and pet him.
Speaker 2: The other dogs took off, racing towards the light. My
Speaker 2: dog turned, looked at me and barked, and again I
Speaker 2: could understand him, and in a very scolding tone, he said,
Speaker 2: you're not supposed to be here. He took off and
Speaker 2: joined the other dogs, and soon they were all engulfed
Speaker 2: by the light. I could see figures there, but I
Speaker 2: could not move. It was then that I woke up.
Speaker 2: Here's Jonathan's story. He says this occurred during the middle
Speaker 2: of the month of May. I had gone to the
Speaker 2: emergency room at the Veterans Hospital on a Thursday afternoon
Speaker 2: with a chest pain that would go away. The next day.
Speaker 2: They conducted a stress test which I was unable to complete,
Speaker 2: so it was chemically induced to speed up my heart
Speaker 2: for the test. The next morning, which was on a Saturday,
Speaker 2: the cardiologist stopped by my room and did the usual
Speaker 2: stethoscope thing. He listened to my heart and told me
Speaker 2: I was scheduled for angioplasty stint on Monday. I had
Speaker 2: a very blaw breakfast eating a waffle. When the chest
Speaker 2: pain became intense, I pushed the nurse's call button. That's when,
Speaker 2: for what I believe was a very brief moment, I
Speaker 2: had a strange, unusual experience. All of those people attending
Speaker 2: me vanished, and my mother was sitting on the left
Speaker 2: side of the bed beside me, with my father standing
Speaker 2: by her. I didn't realize who they were at first,
Speaker 2: because they were both very young, late teens or early twenties.
Speaker 2: There were other people behind them. I couldn't focus on
Speaker 2: them because of the bright light coming from something like
Speaker 2: a wormhole behind them. There were figures of people rushing
Speaker 2: out of it toward me, but I couldn't tell who
Speaker 2: they were due to the extreme brightness. I then became
Speaker 2: distracted by figures to my right, which were all of
Speaker 2: my former pets, dogs and cats that had died, climbing
Speaker 2: over each other to get to me. They gave me
Speaker 2: the impression of me just getting home from a long trip,
Speaker 2: as they were so excited to see me. I had
Speaker 2: time to glance back at my mom and dad, and
Speaker 2: then everything disappeared and all the hospital personnel were there
Speaker 2: treating me. I was rushed to the emergency room at
Speaker 2: a nearby cardiac facility, when they told me the artery
Speaker 2: between my heart and lungs was almost completely blocked and
Speaker 2: a stint was put in, and a stint was put in.
Speaker 2: That was just to few stories of near death experiences
Speaker 2: containing pets, So we're going to go diving into this
Speaker 2: deeper in this episode. Hear more stories and also hear
Speaker 2: some other ways that we know that pets survive physical death.
Speaker 2: But before we go, I found a few cute quotes,
Speaker 2: this one from Donald Hicks. He says, we may have pets,
Speaker 2: but when it comes to unconditional love. They are the masters.
Speaker 2: Here are a couple of unknown quotes.
Speaker 3: Pets.
Speaker 2: Love is a magical force that has the power to heal, comfort,
Speaker 2: and bring endless happiness to our lives. And until one
Speaker 2: has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Speaker 2: Beautiful words. Time for our break and then we'll be
Speaker 2: back with more stories. You're listening to Shades of the
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
Speaker 2: and I'd love to continue with some more stories compliments
Speaker 2: of our friends at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation,
Speaker 2: all containing stories of people who have near death experiences,
Speaker 2: but they get to see pets. Okay, here's the next one.
Speaker 2: This is from Jacqueline. There was a point of knowing.
Speaker 2: With that knowing came no fear. I wasn't frightened at
Speaker 2: all at that point. There is no concept of time,
Speaker 2: as on my return back to my body and back
Speaker 2: to this earth, I was told I was clinically dead
Speaker 2: for twelve minutes. As there is no concept of time,
Speaker 2: everything seems to move very fast and very slow. At
Speaker 2: the one point, upon experiencing the tremendous light, which to
Speaker 2: our normal eyes would seem almost blinding, I first saw
Speaker 2: our dog, mister Miyagi, who had passed six months earlier.
Speaker 2: He had died of old age. But upon that meeting
Speaker 2: he was like a lion in his prime, sitting in
Speaker 2: a meadow. He radiated love for me and for our
Speaker 2: time that had been spent together on this earth. We
Speaker 2: didn't communicate through words, it was just a knowing. I
Speaker 2: then met Malcolm g who was a long lifetime family
Speaker 2: friend and a very strong influence in the way my
Speaker 2: early life panned out. I then saw my mother, Margaret,
Speaker 2: who had committed suicide eight years earlier. She was beautiful,
Speaker 2: a petite lady with long blonde hair, and surrounded by
Speaker 2: children as if she was teaching them or talking to them.
Speaker 2: She radiated peace and none of the trauma she had
Speaker 2: experienced in her lifetime. Her message to me was very
Speaker 2: strong that I was very much loved and to stay
Speaker 2: connected to my sister. Although Caroline and I have always
Speaker 2: been fond of each other and had a lot of love,
Speaker 2: we have never really felt connected. Mom's last words to
Speaker 2: me were the only thing that's real is love. My
Speaker 2: last encounter was with my father, John, who had been
Speaker 2: brutally murdered twenty years before the date of this encounter
Speaker 2: by my godfather at our family house with also the
Speaker 2: intent of murdering my mom Margaret. My father looked incredibly tall.
Speaker 2: He was very statuesque with his jet black, brill creamed
Speaker 2: hair back. He was looking very dapper. He radiated peace
Speaker 2: and was incredibly refined and charming. My father in this
Speaker 2: lifetime was the type of person who had a presence.
Speaker 2: When he walked into the room again, I was told
Speaker 2: I was very much loved, and from that point I
Speaker 2: felt a tremendous force, as if being pushed at great speed.
Speaker 2: Then I awoke. I regained my sight with no time.
Speaker 2: I was then told by the doctors that they were
Speaker 2: still very concerned about me, but I had no fear.
Speaker 2: Tracy said, I had finished telling my anesthesiologist to tell
Speaker 2: everyone that I loved them, and al my partner that
Speaker 2: he would be a good dead. I was then put under.
Speaker 2: I could see the room, the doctors and nurses, and
Speaker 2: I could feel their fear of losing me. I could
Speaker 2: tell the intern's anxiety and a few of the nurses sadness.
Speaker 2: They barely believed I would live. I could sense others
Speaker 2: as well. But I was quickly swept into an opening.
Speaker 2: The best I know to describe it is not so
Speaker 2: much as a tunnel, but a fuzzy opening, as though
Speaker 2: the pixels were less clear and darker. I felt pulled
Speaker 2: through it. The place I was is a hill in
Speaker 2: Marysville where my grandmother used to pick sunflowers. The grass
Speaker 2: was so lush and so green. The air was so perfect,
Speaker 2: colors had intensity I had never known. I could see
Speaker 2: and know all of these things with my entire being.
Speaker 2: A dog's tail waved through the tall grass. A beautiful,
Speaker 2: fuzzy puppy wagged her tail at me. First I did
Speaker 2: not recognize her. I had never seen our dog as
Speaker 2: a puppy. I was so happy to see her. We
Speaker 2: had to put her down two weeks prior to my
Speaker 2: daughter's birth. She had injured her hip. We had given
Speaker 2: all the surgery we could to keep her, but it
Speaker 2: did not make her quality of life any better. It
Speaker 2: had become much worse. We had to put her down
Speaker 2: on my due date. Our hearts were so heavy with
Speaker 2: the loss of a dog that generously shared her life
Speaker 2: with us for twelve years. I followed the spirited dog
Speaker 2: as she meandered amongst the tall grass. There sat my grandmother,
Speaker 2: looking over the hill, as though she had been waiting
Speaker 2: for me. There. When I saw her, I had never
Speaker 2: seen her so beautiful. The essence of her was so magnificent,
Speaker 2: and everything around us whispered love, love, Love. I sat
Speaker 2: with her and asked her questions. We spoke without words,
Speaker 2: but with understanding. It was made clear that I was
Speaker 2: only there for a recess, a term that had been
Speaker 2: used in my junior school years as a break before lunch.
Speaker 2: We looked from our beautiful, lush hill. There was, however,
Speaker 2: a split from where the hill ended and the road began.
Speaker 2: I could see the town, the cars moving, but everything
Speaker 2: was dull and black and white. Up the hill came
Speaker 2: my other grandmother, smile with love in her heart, and
Speaker 2: then the sun began to go down. It's not your time,
Speaker 2: It's time to go, my first grandmother said. I did
Speaker 2: not want to leave. I pleaded, I do not want to.
Speaker 2: I can't. You must, she said, you have a child,
Speaker 2: you are not finished loving. Go. The words were from
Speaker 2: everything that existed there and beyond that. Maybe what perhaps
Speaker 2: people call God coming to was more painful than I
Speaker 2: can describe. As I remember, and as it has been
Speaker 2: told to me, I was in the ICU for two days.
Speaker 2: I struggled with consciousness. I could see these people, people
Speaker 2: that when they discovered I was coming to this world,
Speaker 2: and could see theirs tried to give me messages. One
Speaker 2: woman wanted her daughter to forgive her. A sickly teenage
Speaker 2: boy needed to apologize to his parents as he had
Speaker 2: taken his own life. I was trying to figure out
Speaker 2: where I was. Al kept saying where I was and
Speaker 2: what had happened five hundred times. Repeatedly, he would say, Tracy,
Speaker 2: it's all right, You're okay. You can wake up now.
Speaker 2: I wanted to help these spirits. I think they were people.
Speaker 2: Even a baby floated past. They finally gave me a
Speaker 2: pen and I wrote pages and pages of gibberish. The
Speaker 2: ICU nurse finally went to get the nurse who had
Speaker 2: been known to see spirits herself. She soothed me with
Speaker 2: her words, they are just spirits. Just focus on getting better.
Speaker 2: It's okay. You have angels and they want you to
Speaker 2: come back. With her help, I was able to awake.
Speaker 2: My recovery took a while as I mourned being on
Speaker 2: that hill, seeing my grandmother's and my wonderful dog. This
Speaker 2: next story is from Kustav. I went to the bank
Speaker 2: near my house. I walked past a group of stoners.
Speaker 2: They saw that I had exited the bank and told
Speaker 2: me to give them my money. I told them to
Speaker 2: forget it, and I kept walking. They began to follow me,
Speaker 2: and after a while, one of them pulled out a
Speaker 2: hunting gun. He told me to give him my money.
Speaker 2: I told him to wait one second while I was
Speaker 2: reaching in my pocket for my wallet. He understood that
Speaker 2: me saying one second was a form of resistance. He
Speaker 2: shot me. Suddenly. I hovered over my body. I could
Speaker 2: see one of the youths kick me in the head.
Speaker 2: As the group walked away, I tried following them while
Speaker 2: shouting at them, but they could not hear me. Another
Speaker 2: person who had witnessed the whole thing from Afar had
Speaker 2: already called the police. Help was on its way, but
Speaker 2: it needed to be fast. I watched as the paramedic came.
Speaker 2: Three men came out with a stretcher. What does this matter,
Speaker 2: I thought, I'm already dead, so this is absolutely useless.
Speaker 2: I was able to float away very quickly. I was
Speaker 2: surprised that there didn't seem to be any spirits here.
Speaker 2: I decided to go to the farmhouse that I grew
Speaker 2: up in as a child. I went into one of
Speaker 2: the fields and found the grave of my childhood companion,
Speaker 2: my cat Elmer. I remembered he died when I was
Speaker 2: ten years old, and I missed him ever since. I
Speaker 2: could see my messy childhood riding it, said Elmer. The
Speaker 2: sky went completely black. I could not see anything. It
Speaker 2: was almost as if nighttime had suddenly come without any
Speaker 2: warning and without any lights. Then I saw a bright
Speaker 2: white light. It was going upwards. I decided to float
Speaker 2: up towards the light. I managed to float into the
Speaker 2: stream of light. Suddenly I felt cold. As I was rising,
Speaker 2: I saw snowflakes. I saw peace of floating land in
Speaker 2: the distance. It had one pine tree and it was
Speaker 2: covered in snow. I decided to go to that tree.
Speaker 2: Below the tree, I heard a I looked down and
Speaker 2: saw Elmer. Elmer was a white Persian cat. I could
Speaker 2: not believe it. He was watching me his beautiful green
Speaker 2: eyes and long, luscious white fur. Suddenly I realized I
Speaker 2: had hands. I was surprised by this. I picked up Elmer.
Speaker 2: When I held him, he purred. No longer did I
Speaker 2: feel cold. His fur completely warmed me up, and I
Speaker 2: felt the energy of his love. It was just like
Speaker 2: old times. I began to cry in the feeling of happiness.
Speaker 2: I could even smell him, exactly the way he used
Speaker 2: to smell. I put him down and could tell from
Speaker 2: his purring and rubbing up against me that I would
Speaker 2: be okay, whether this meant returning to life or staying
Speaker 2: on this floating island. Then I realized Elmer's eyes had
Speaker 2: the same look as I remembered when something got his attention.
Speaker 2: In one giant leap, he leapt off the island and
Speaker 2: into the horizon. Then I heard a very powerful voice.
Speaker 2: It told me, Kustav, it is not your time to die.
Speaker 2: Elmer will be waiting for you when you get back.
Speaker 2: Suddenly I started floating backwards against my will. It felt
Speaker 2: as though I was getting pulled back. I was floating
Speaker 2: back down. I saw Elmer's grave once again. From there,
Speaker 2: I was floating back until eventually I could see the
Speaker 2: hospital where I was. I saw my body lying unconsciously
Speaker 2: on a hospital bed. I went inside my body. I
Speaker 2: woke up and could not talk. I felt pain, but
Speaker 2: I felt the warmth of recalling what just happened. It's
Speaker 2: been over twenty six years that I've been reading about
Speaker 2: near death experiences, and these really warm my heart thinking
Speaker 2: about our pets. When it's your time to go, we
Speaker 2: will be greeted by loved ones. Maybe even pets to
Speaker 2: help us across the vale. Can you imagine your loved
Speaker 2: ones there for you, welcoming you home, seeing that bright
Speaker 2: light going over, just closing your eyes here and opening
Speaker 2: them there and seeing all the pets you've ever had,
Speaker 2: your cats, your dogs, your birds, your horses, maybe your
Speaker 2: pet iguana. They'll be there for sure. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the break and then we'll hear more stories. You're listening
Speaker 2: to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeart Radio and
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Speaker 4: Stay there, Sandra will be right back.
Speaker 2: Hi. This is Wuija board expert Karen A. Dolman, and
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Speaker 1: And now back to Sandra Champlain and Shades of the Afterlife.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 2: There's a million stories of near death experiences and I'm
Speaker 2: fascinated by them. They give us hope and comfort that
Speaker 2: we go on after death. A lot of people see
Speaker 2: the bright light, feel the tunnel, see loved ones, but
Speaker 2: it's not so easy to find the stories about people
Speaker 2: seeing their pets. So I'm going to continue reading. Okay.
Speaker 2: This one is from Raymond and he was ten years
Speaker 2: old at the time of this near death experience. I
Speaker 2: went to Catholic school at the time and was horsing
Speaker 2: around with a friend after school on the playground. He
Speaker 2: was showing me a new judo that he had learned
Speaker 2: in his martial arts class. He was going to flip
Speaker 2: me over his shoulder and onto the ground. Something went
Speaker 2: wrong and I landed directly on my head. I picked
Speaker 2: myself up from the ground with the most intense pain
Speaker 2: in my head and spine than I have ever remembered.
Speaker 2: I was literally knocked senseless. As I got up, I
Speaker 2: remember seeing a woman who was there to pick up
Speaker 2: her kids getting out of her car with a horrified
Speaker 2: look on her face. She had seen the accident. I
Speaker 2: turned to run into the bathroom I am still not
Speaker 2: sure why, but only made it a few feet before
Speaker 2: I fell flat on my face on the concrete and
Speaker 2: I blacked out completely. I thought that I had a
Speaker 2: dream when I was unconscious. What else would a ten
Speaker 2: year old compare the experience to. I did not realize
Speaker 2: what had happened until many years later. It felt as
Speaker 2: if my body had just come apart, and my vision
Speaker 2: went spiraling out of control, swirling colors that seemed to
Speaker 2: disappear to a point somewhere, like a funnel or something.
Speaker 2: I was really scared because I felt like I was
Speaker 2: losing control of everything. Somehow I knew that I had
Speaker 2: to let go of my fear and just roll into
Speaker 2: the funnel of swirling light. My body was gone. It
Speaker 2: felt like a blender had just ripped it apart, and
Speaker 2: I was drawn into the funnel toward the disappearing point.
Speaker 2: I just let go of everything. As soon as I
Speaker 2: let go of the fear, the pleasant sensations began. I
Speaker 2: still had a body, but it was entirely different. I
Speaker 2: could see in three dimensions, as if I had no
Speaker 2: body at all, but was just a floating eyeball. For
Speaker 2: lack of a better explanation, I could see all directions
Speaker 2: at once, yet there were no directions or dimensions as
Speaker 2: we think of them. Note this is the one thing
Speaker 2: that really bothers me when I hear or read of
Speaker 2: others near death experiences that describe a place sometimes with
Speaker 2: rivers and valleys and flowers. This to me was not
Speaker 2: a place like anything here, and I wonder how my
Speaker 2: experience could be so different from others. Anyway, I was
Speaker 2: greeted by a being of light and love, but nobody
Speaker 2: else I could recognize. It seemed to just be a
Speaker 2: brilliant glow that absorbed me into itself. Love is far
Speaker 2: too weak of a word to describe this experience. I
Speaker 2: became love. My entire being, every strand of my spirit
Speaker 2: spreading throughout the universe had become love a million times
Speaker 2: a million billion. This is the point where I have
Speaker 2: to contradict myself. I said earlier that over there was
Speaker 2: not a place similar to what we experience here. However,
Speaker 2: I found myself in front of some giant golden gates
Speaker 2: of some kind. It reminded me of an altar in
Speaker 2: the Catholic Church. There was some kind of fog or
Speaker 2: something that obscured any sense of distance, but my pet
Speaker 2: dog Skippy was there. Skippy had died some years earlier
Speaker 2: and was the only one that I had any real
Speaker 2: family connection with when I was dead. I was overwhelmed
Speaker 2: with joy and love and embraced my dog with my spirit.
Speaker 2: Although I don't remember Skippy saying anything to me, we
Speaker 2: were so happy to be together again at this point,
Speaker 2: I was told I must go back, that it was
Speaker 2: not my time. This is somewhat fuzzy here, but I
Speaker 2: don't remember any intense feeling of regret and being filled
Speaker 2: with a no, no, please let me stay feeling. But
Speaker 2: wherever the voice was coming from was adamant it was
Speaker 2: my time and I must return. I had no choice
Speaker 2: in the matter. If it is possible to describe the
Speaker 2: funnel experience in reverse, this is what it felt like
Speaker 2: coming back. It felt like my spirit was being stuffed
Speaker 2: into a jar that was far too small and painful
Speaker 2: to hold it. I was fighting to return. No, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go back. The process would not stop.
Speaker 2: I was returning. I heard voices, real voices. I opened
Speaker 2: my eyes briefly and saw a circle of people gathered
Speaker 2: over and around my body, my face in particular. It
Speaker 2: was the paramedics from the ambulance, and they were rubbing
Speaker 2: ice all over my face. One of them said he
Speaker 2: opened his eyes. I closed my eyes fiercely and tried
Speaker 2: to go back, Go back, go back with Skippy, but
Speaker 2: they kept yelling and telling me to open my eyes
Speaker 2: while lightly slapping my face. I was in deep physical
Speaker 2: pain and felt completely saturated with exhaustion. Next, I'd like
Speaker 2: to read to you Morgan's near death experience. I had
Speaker 2: been going through some hard times financially, and at the
Speaker 2: time I was just about to lose my home. My
Speaker 2: electricity was cut off for non payment. Here in Alaska,
Speaker 2: that is not good in the winter months. I had
Speaker 2: borrowed a generator to provide electricity for the house. It
Speaker 2: would power my oil stove in order to heat the house.
Speaker 2: I really was broke more than just financially, as my
Speaker 2: faith was crumbling with all the unfortunate events that kept reoccurring.
Speaker 2: My friend and I placed the generator in the garage,
Speaker 2: which was attached to the house. We started the generator
Speaker 2: and then went into the house. We didn't know it,
Speaker 2: but fumes were coming into the house and our minds
Speaker 2: went into a partial blackout. We were not thinking clearly well.
Speaker 2: Sometime near morning, I got up, not feeling well and
Speaker 2: stumbled to the bathroom, where I blacked out and fell
Speaker 2: to the floor. For some reason, my friend Neil had
Speaker 2: woken up and had come to check on me. Everyone
Speaker 2: was concerned about me because of all the unfortunate events
Speaker 2: that were happening in my life. He had realized about
Speaker 2: the fumes in the house and went looking for me.
Speaker 2: When he found I wasn't in the bedroom, he found
Speaker 2: me in a puddle of blood where I had fallen
Speaker 2: onto the bathroom floor. He tried to move me but couldn't,
Speaker 2: so he grabbed his cell phone and called for help.
Speaker 2: Morgan says, this story has a lot more to it,
Speaker 2: but I can't type it here with much accuracy. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I left my body during this experience, and I found
Speaker 2: myself with my dog, Tramp, who had just passed away
Speaker 2: a month before. I wouldn't be here now if it
Speaker 2: hadn't been for Tramp. That dog is the closest thing
Speaker 2: to me in the whole world. Believe me when I
Speaker 2: say that it was my dog Tramp who saved my life,
Speaker 2: not the paramedics that came to the house. Now. On
Speaker 2: this nderf dot org website, people can type in their
Speaker 2: near death experiences, and Morgan in particular didn't tell us
Speaker 2: all the details. But something I find really interesting that
Speaker 2: I think you will too is the website asks questions
Speaker 2: about the near death experiences, like in this case, what's
Speaker 2: the gender of the person? Mail the date the near
Speaker 2: death experience occurred. He says November twenty eleven at the
Speaker 2: time of your experience. Was there an associated life threatening event?
Speaker 2: He says yes, accident, direct head injury. Nearly died of
Speaker 2: carbon monoxide poisoning. Did you feel separated from your body? Yes,
Speaker 2: I lost total awareness of my body. How did your
Speaker 2: highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare
Speaker 2: to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness, more consciousness and
Speaker 2: alertness than ever before? What time did you have the
Speaker 2: highest state of alertness right before those shock paddles were
Speaker 2: applied to me? There's questions about the speed of thought.
Speaker 2: Were your senses more vivid than usual? He says, incredibly
Speaker 2: more vivid. There's questions about the sounds, the sights. Did
Speaker 2: you pass through a tunnel? Did you experience deceased loved ones?
Speaker 2: He said yes, I actually saw them. Did you encounter
Speaker 2: or become aware of any deceased or alive beings He
Speaker 2: says yes, my dog, Tramp and some voices all trying
Speaker 2: to talk to me. Did you see or feel a
Speaker 2: brilliant light, yes, a light clearly mystical or other worldly.
Speaker 2: Did you seem to enter any other unearthly world? He
Speaker 2: says A mystical realm that I can't convey in words.
Speaker 2: I would love to go back. Did you have a
Speaker 2: feeling of joy, he says, yes, incredible joy. Did scenes
Speaker 2: from your past come back to you? He writes, My
Speaker 2: past flashed before me. It was out of my control.
Speaker 2: It was so real, and I'm certain that I will
Speaker 2: be with my dog's tramp and Lady Girl again in
Speaker 2: the presence of the light that surrounded us. Did you
Speaker 2: come to a border or a point of no return? Yes,
Speaker 2: I came to a barrier and I was not permitted
Speaker 2: to cross. And then there's questions about the person's religion,
Speaker 2: and then there's questions. Here's one. During your experience, did
Speaker 2: you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? Yes,
Speaker 2: he says, as it is. I have problems with my health.
Speaker 2: I've been on so many medications, and they are not
Speaker 2: good medications, but they keep me alive. As I learn
Speaker 2: more about why I'm here, I pray that I can
Speaker 2: play a big part in my kid's lives. It's my
Speaker 2: job now to teach about faith and God and how
Speaker 2: we are part of something so much bigger. Doesn't matter
Speaker 2: if you're rich or poor. I will never again be
Speaker 2: afraid when I was there, I had a very calming feeling,
Speaker 2: even though you'd think i'd be in pain from my
Speaker 2: fall and the loss of blood. Are there one or
Speaker 2: several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or
Speaker 2: significant to you? Yes, Tramp, How can I tell you?
Speaker 2: I felt him against my skin, could smell him with
Speaker 2: my nose, could feel him with my hands. He was
Speaker 2: there protecting me the whole time. There's lots of other
Speaker 2: questions that I don't have time to share with you
Speaker 2: right now, but I think I've covered the important ones
Speaker 2: about the dog. When you hear these near death experiences,
Speaker 2: they sound really great. You get to see your loved
Speaker 2: ones again, you get to see pets, you get to
Speaker 2: feel this unconditional love. Sounds fantastic. Here's the problem. Once
Speaker 2: these people get back in their bodies, very often they
Speaker 2: go through grief. They have experienced something so wonderful and
Speaker 2: suddenly they're back in their heavy bodies. Thankfully, we have
Speaker 2: organizations like n D E, r F dot org and
Speaker 2: ians dot org that can help people through. So when
Speaker 2: we get back from the break, we'll talk about other
Speaker 2: ways our pets let us know they're still alive and
Speaker 2: have some words from a friend about pets in the afterlife.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 2: You may have heard this before, but God smelt backwards.
Speaker 2: Is dog with our pets? Be it a dog, a cat,
Speaker 2: a ferret, a bunny, a bird, a horse, we get
Speaker 2: that unconditional love. How else do I know and why
Speaker 2: do I believe that our pets go on one? We
Speaker 2: know from hospice, doctors, nurses, and family members that have
Speaker 2: witnessed people just before they pass. We have what's called
Speaker 2: deathbed visions. People can feel and see loved ones weeks
Speaker 2: before they die, and they are as clear as they
Speaker 2: could see you or me. Oftentimes the family pet shows up.
Speaker 2: This happens especially with children passing. Also, I have witnessed
Speaker 2: zillions of medium demonstrations and heard stories from many people
Speaker 2: who've had medium readings, and the medium knows accurate information
Speaker 2: about the pet. If your loved one shows up and
Speaker 2: they had a favorite white poodle, very often a medium
Speaker 2: will say they see the loved one, they're with the poodle.
Speaker 2: So good mediums are another reason that I believe that
Speaker 2: our pets go on. Sonia Rinaldi and other people that
Speaker 2: experiment with instrumental transcommunication. These are through pictures through video.
Speaker 2: As in Sonia's example, she gets pictures from the afterlife,
Speaker 2: not only having the person who has passed, but very
Speaker 2: often the picture of their pet, dog or cat will
Speaker 2: come in on the same image. I personally have done
Speaker 2: a lot of work with electronic voice phenomena only to
Speaker 2: hear messages from a loved one and then believe it
Speaker 2: or not. I've heard barks, I've heard people say the
Speaker 2: name of a dog, and this has happened on several
Speaker 2: different occasions, so that gives me comfort that the dog
Speaker 2: has survived physical death. I know people who can sense
Speaker 2: the presence or even see out of the corner of
Speaker 2: their eye their pet. I remember meeting a man and
Speaker 2: once he found out that I'm interested in the afterlife,
Speaker 2: he decided to share with me a very strange story.
Speaker 2: He's a mechanic and sometimes he gets so in the
Speaker 2: zone working on a car, and he says, out of
Speaker 2: the corner of his eye, he can see his father
Speaker 2: clear as clear can be, looking younger, and also the
Speaker 2: family dog. And as soon as his consciousness kicks in
Speaker 2: and he looks over, they disappear. But he says, they
Speaker 2: are so crystal clear, and they're very real. There's also
Speaker 2: people who have had signs from their animals. I know personally,
Speaker 2: after my cat passed, I still felt her jump up
Speaker 2: on the bed. Here's a story from the book Signs
Speaker 2: from Pets in the Afterlife by Lynn Reagan. And this
Speaker 2: book is just packed with stories about signs from Pets
Speaker 2: in the Afterlife. By the way, this comes from Judy
Speaker 2: about one of her deceased cats. Eddie was thirteen years
Speaker 2: old when he passed. His favorite spot in the house
Speaker 2: was in our bed, just between our heads. He would
Speaker 2: lie there peacefully and purr up a storm. We always
Speaker 2: told him pear us to sleep Eddie. After he passed,
Speaker 2: I would wake in the middle of the night because
Speaker 2: I would hear his loud purr or his noisy meow.
Speaker 2: We had no other cats in the house. I knew
Speaker 2: Eddie was letting me know he was still with me.
Speaker 2: A few months after Eddie's death, we welcomed a new cat, Ginger.
Speaker 2: Four years later, Ginger became very ill and we lost
Speaker 2: her too. The last few months of her life, I
Speaker 2: had to keep a crate at night beside my bed
Speaker 2: for her safety. She got very tired of the crate
Speaker 2: and would pull on the lock all night long. It
Speaker 2: made a very loud, clanking noise. After Ginger passed, we
Speaker 2: put everything away, Yet every night thereafter I would still
Speaker 2: hear Ginger beside my bed, pulling on the door of
Speaker 2: her crate. I'd like to play now a few words
Speaker 2: from Scott Milligan. When he is in the tramps state.
Speaker 2: He has sat on behalf of the spare world since
Speaker 2: he was fourteen years old. He's now at forty year
Speaker 2: old man, and on most Fridays he goes into trance
Speaker 2: and we have an extraordinary conversation with a gentleman named
Speaker 2: Eric who works through Scott. I've spent over two hundred
Speaker 2: hours with Scott in the trance state, and there's no
Speaker 2: question for me. This is the real deal. You'll hear
Speaker 2: my question in Eric's response, Eric, I'd like to ask
Speaker 2: a question on behalf of Hayden.
Speaker 3: I trust that they all will yes.
Speaker 2: Thank you, he says. I put my cat down this morning.
Speaker 2: It was a seventeen year relationship. I know it was
Speaker 2: the right thing to do, but now I'm having feelings
Speaker 2: of guilt. How can I best reconcile this within myself?
Speaker 2: I've heard animals transition like humans. Is there a way
Speaker 2: to be certain? Will signs come to me if I'm
Speaker 2: open to receiving them or is it just a matter
Speaker 2: of faith that he is a on the other side
Speaker 2: of life and in good hands.
Speaker 3: Well, my dear boy, I have to say to you
Speaker 3: you need no reassurance to what I am going to
Speaker 3: remind you already know. First of all, I asked the question,
Speaker 3: was the decision that you made this day? Was it
Speaker 3: done through love? Then there should be no guilt. Your
Speaker 3: animals are still souls that are transformed into the spirit.
Speaker 3: Animals my friends may only live for only a short
Speaker 3: period of time because they know of love. When they
Speaker 3: come to our side of life, your family will care
Speaker 3: for them until you are reunited. If true love is there,
Speaker 3: the animal will remain with you throughout your journey into
Speaker 3: the greater world of spirit. If there was no love,
Speaker 3: they will continue their journey in their own understanding, as
Speaker 3: you will continue yours. And what I mean by that
Speaker 3: there are animals that are bred for human consumption. When
Speaker 3: they come to our side of life, they will exist
Speaker 3: within their paradise with no interference by those who are
Speaker 3: their master. But animals that are called by name and
Speaker 3: named by you were named in love. Why would it
Speaker 3: be any different For the grief of an animal versus
Speaker 3: grief of a person, love is the same. And therefore,
Speaker 3: my friend, if you have known love, you will know grief,
Speaker 3: as that is the shadow of it. Many people who
Speaker 3: are hearing my words have now empathy for you, and
Speaker 3: little lights within their minds are thinking of you, because
Speaker 3: they too know the pain that you are experiencing today.
Speaker 3: But you will dream, you will hear, you will feel,
Speaker 3: and you will look around your house, and you will
Speaker 3: have glimpses, and then your mind will question that I
Speaker 3: truly see it, or was it my imagination that amos.
Speaker 3: My friends can make themselves known easier in people like myself.
Speaker 3: Their vibration is much more finer than us. Even though
Speaker 3: they come to the same place, they are treated with
Speaker 3: the utmost respect because they share compassion. I know you
Speaker 3: speak of cat, but cat and dog are very similar.
Speaker 3: When you say to your loved one, walk with me,
Speaker 3: they may say they do not wish to, but the
Speaker 3: animal will walk with you rain or shine, snow or wind.
Speaker 3: You may sit down and they sit with you, not
Speaker 3: distracted by modern technology. If you are sick, they will
Speaker 3: sit with you. If you are hungry, they wish to
Speaker 3: eat with you. There are many thoughts that are different
Speaker 3: to your modern world. Now, your children, once they become
Speaker 3: more cognitive to their environment, they may wish to hide
Speaker 3: in their room, be embarrassed to be seen with you,
Speaker 3: will talk frough devices. But animals are different. They like
Speaker 3: your company. They don't mind if you dress in regalia
Speaker 3: that may cause embarrassment. They will still sit with you.
Speaker 3: Animals show compassion and wish to share their time. Please
Speaker 3: for God's sake, however you seek God to be, Never
Speaker 3: feel guilty because what you have done was done through love.
Speaker 3: An animal that loses it facult days may turn to
Speaker 3: you and say, help me, this is not who I
Speaker 3: wish to be, But they may speak in a way
Speaker 3: not for your ears or for your eyes, but to
Speaker 3: your soul. It is time, and therefore, my friend, you
Speaker 3: will see all that you have loved, be it through
Speaker 3: the rise and full of your son, of the rise
Speaker 3: of your awareness within our reality. As you come to
Speaker 3: our side of life, when it is your destiny, you
Speaker 3: will be met by all those who have preceded you,
Speaker 3: and all animals that have become part of your family.
Speaker 2: Those words bring me so much comfort. And I know
Speaker 2: we're going to see our pets again and our loved ones,
Speaker 2: but I think there'll be it tails the wagon and
Speaker 2: we crossover and they'll be happy to see us. If
Speaker 2: you want to join Scott and I on a Friday,
Speaker 2: please do. You can find everything we've got coming up,
Speaker 2: including our free Sunday gathering, medium classes, and so much more.
Speaker 2: Just go to We Don'tdie dot com and click on
Speaker 2: the store page, the Sunday Gathering page. You can join
Speaker 2: our Facebook community and so much more. In closing, my
Speaker 2: name is Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for listening
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