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Speaker 3: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
Speaker 3: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Speaker 3: On each episode, discuss the reasons we now know that
Speaker 3: our loved ones have survived physical death and so will
Speaker 3: we Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. We are never
Speaker 3: too old to learn, are we? This past week I
Speaker 3: learned something new. I spoke a few days ago to
Speaker 3: Swiss scientist Evelyn al Sasser on the subject of ADC's,
Speaker 3: which stands for after death communications. And I assumed that
Speaker 3: signs from our loved ones fit into this category. And
Speaker 3: when I think of signs, it may be our favorite
Speaker 3: song came on the radio after they passed, seeing a
Speaker 3: feather or a dime, looking up at a road sign
Speaker 3: or a license plate, and seeing your loved one's name.
Speaker 3: I thought that all fell under the category of after
Speaker 3: death communications. But Evelyn says differently. She says that ADC's
Speaker 3: after death communications are so bold and spontaneous. They come
Speaker 3: out of nowhere when we least expect them, and they
Speaker 3: leave us feeling comforted that our loved one was with us,
Speaker 3: saying hello and letting us know that they have lived
Speaker 3: on This lady writes about a month after the sudden
Speaker 3: death of my mother, I was alone in the house
Speaker 3: in my bedroom. I was sitting on the side of
Speaker 3: the bed, extremely distressed, howling with pain of my loss
Speaker 3: and raging at the God I had put my faith
Speaker 3: in because he hadn't come to my help in my
Speaker 3: hours of need and darkness. I just couldn't stop crying,
Speaker 3: and I had never felt more alone. I then felt
Speaker 3: my mother sit next to me and wrap her arms
Speaker 3: around me. I know it was my mom in the
Speaker 3: same way that you can feel someone you know well
Speaker 3: near you. I could even smell her as she hugged me.
Speaker 3: I was aware of being totally enveloped by her love,
Speaker 3: and as she soothed me, I felt an intense warmness
Speaker 3: and calmness I hadn't felt since she died. I felt
Speaker 3: her stroking my hair, and I recognized the feeling of
Speaker 3: being comforted by my mother. I am one hundred percent
Speaker 3: sure that my mom came to comfort me. I recognized
Speaker 3: her essence and energy. Although I shed many more tears
Speaker 3: in the months following her passing, I never again experienced
Speaker 3: the despair that I felt that morning. The experience, along
Speaker 3: with many others that followed, caused me to completely reconsider
Speaker 3: my traditional religious beliefs, and now I explore my own spirituality.
Speaker 3: I believe that I am more at ease with myself
Speaker 3: and my grief as a result of her contact that day.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a little bit more about our researcher
Speaker 3: Evelyn in just a moment, but her and her team
Speaker 3: collect stories at their website ADCRP dot org, which stands
Speaker 3: for After Death Communication research project. They say a spontaneous
Speaker 3: and direct after death communication, also known as ADC, occurs
Speaker 3: when a person unexpectedly perceives a deceased individual through the
Speaker 3: senses of sight, hearing, smell, or touch. Very commonly, persons
Speaker 3: who experience an ADC solely feel the presence of the
Speaker 3: deceased person and perceive a contact with them, which may
Speaker 3: occur during sleep or the hypnogogic state that's right before
Speaker 3: we fall asleep at night and when we're waking up
Speaker 3: in the morning. They say ADC's occur frequently, with research
Speaker 3: having found that fifty to sixty percent of people have
Speaker 3: experienced one or more of these spontaneous and direct ADC's
Speaker 3: during their lifetime. Their research has shown these are universal.
Speaker 3: The objective of their long term international research project is
Speaker 3: to gain a better understanding of this phenomena and the
Speaker 3: impact that spontaneous after death communications have on us. Researcher
Speaker 3: Evelyn L. Sasser, who is part of this project, has
Speaker 3: written numerous books and articles on near death experiences and ADC's,
Speaker 3: including Lessons from the Light What Near Death Experiences teach
Speaker 3: Us About Living in the Here and Now, which she
Speaker 3: co wrote with Kenneth Ring, who you may remember, did
Speaker 3: all that research of near death experiences with the blind,
Speaker 3: and her latest book is called Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased,
Speaker 3: a large scale international survey reveals the circumstances, lived experience,
Speaker 3: and beneficial impact of after death communications. If you are
Speaker 3: interested in seeing the video I recorded speaking with Evelyn
Speaker 3: about her research, you can find that at my website
Speaker 3: we Don't Die dot com. Her passion and the distinction
Speaker 3: between signs and ADC's left me so curious that I
Speaker 3: bought her book Unkindle, and I thought that you and
Speaker 3: I could go through some of these stories today. What
Speaker 3: is a sign from our loved one and what truly
Speaker 3: is an after death communication? One important thing about ADC's
Speaker 3: is that they leave you knowing that your loved one
Speaker 3: has lived on. They don't get registered in the mind
Speaker 3: as Oh maybe that was my imagination. My conversation with
Speaker 3: Evelyn had me take a little bit of a look
Speaker 3: back on my life and ask myself, with the signs
Speaker 3: that I have received, are any of them after death communications?
Speaker 3: I have a couple of examples. About a year after
Speaker 3: my grandmother passed, it was a long day. I decided
Speaker 3: to take a nap. Just before I fell asleep, I
Speaker 3: heard the most beautiful piano music, and although my eyes
Speaker 3: were closed, I could see my grandmother's face like she
Speaker 3: was right there in the room with me. Although she
Speaker 3: didn't speak, I felt her love and there was no
Speaker 3: question in my mind she was right there with me.
Speaker 3: My dad passed two years after my grandmother did. At
Speaker 3: my dad's funeral, I felt this calm come over me.
Speaker 3: In the church. I looked to the end of the
Speaker 3: pew and saw my dad standing there, smiling, clear as
Speaker 3: clear can be, and I went from sadness to comfort
Speaker 3: in a split second, with the feeling that he was
Speaker 3: right there and that everything would be okay. My friend
Speaker 3: Andy died years ago, and the following week his father died.
Speaker 3: Instead of doing two funeral services, they did only one
Speaker 3: for father and son. As the priest was saying a
Speaker 3: few words in the service, I saw Andy and another
Speaker 3: man just behind the priest. To me, it looked clearer
Speaker 3: than my imagination. Andy, who passed when he was in
Speaker 3: his sixties, was a young man in my vision, and
Speaker 3: I didn't recognize the other fellow. After the funeral service,
Speaker 3: there was a reception, a celebration of life. The family
Speaker 3: had put together pictures of Andy and his dad. That
Speaker 3: fellow that I saw in my mind's eye was the
Speaker 3: same as those photos of Andy's father, leaving me with
Speaker 3: no doubt that those men are still alive and they
Speaker 3: are together. After my book, We Don't Die, a skeptics
Speaker 3: discovery of life after death came out. A friend that
Speaker 3: was an auto mechanic felt confident to tell me this
Speaker 3: story because he knew I wouldn't judge him. He says,
Speaker 3: when he's on his back underneath a car working on it,
Speaker 3: and he's so in the zone, paying attention to what
Speaker 3: he's doing, out of the corner of his eye, he
Speaker 3: not only sees his deceased father, but he sees the
Speaker 3: dog they had while he was growing up. He told
Speaker 3: me it happens all the time and leaves him so
Speaker 3: comforted that, of course, not only did his dad survive
Speaker 3: death and that he's part of his life still, but
Speaker 3: the dog survived too. On our episode today, we'll be
Speaker 3: talking more about ADC's from Evelyn's point of view and
Speaker 3: reading some of these stories from the book. Here's another story.
Speaker 3: I was in my family room in the basement listening
Speaker 3: to a radio show. My phone alarm usually goes off
Speaker 3: at five am, and I'm usually a week thirty to
Speaker 3: forty minutes prior to the alarm. The room was dark
Speaker 3: and I was halfway sitting on the couch, kind of
Speaker 3: leaning on my right side. I felt what I thought
Speaker 3: was one of my dogs climb onto the couch and
Speaker 3: come up towards my waist as if they were trying
Speaker 3: to hug me. My dogs are about forty to forty
Speaker 3: five pounds each and they will usually come up and
Speaker 3: cuddle me, but this was different. This was more of
Speaker 3: a hug, which startled me. When I turned to look,
Speaker 3: it was my youngest son, Sam. He seemed to be
Speaker 3: younger and he was crying. Thinking back on it, the
Speaker 3: room was dark, but I saw as if the lights
Speaker 3: were on. The speaker to my bluetooth crackled, which distracted
Speaker 3: me briefly. I turned and he was going on. I
Speaker 3: stopped for a second to gather my thoughts on what
Speaker 3: just happened. You see, Sam had passed a week before
Speaker 3: from a drug overdose. My mind was trying to come
Speaker 3: to grips with the situation when I felt what felt
Speaker 3: like somebody's raizor stubble brush against my left arm. When
Speaker 3: I turned it was him again. I got composed and
Speaker 3: said to him, you can't be here. We just went
Speaker 3: to your funeral. With that, he made an odd facial expression.
Speaker 3: The alarm on my phone went off and distracted me,
Speaker 3: which was enough time for him to vanish. For lack
Speaker 3: of a better word, both times he seemed somehow illuminated,
Speaker 3: and I only saw his upper torso looking back, I
Speaker 3: didn't realize he appeared one week to the day of
Speaker 3: his passing and around the same time he had died.
Speaker 3: Several weeks later, a friend of his posted some pictures
Speaker 3: of him to her Facebook account, and one of them
Speaker 3: while he was making that same exact face. Of the
Speaker 3: stories that I have heard in the past twenty something years.
Speaker 3: It seems like these visitations happen when we're on that
Speaker 3: verge of sleep, or that we're so in the zone
Speaker 3: paying attention to what we're doing, and our loved ones
Speaker 3: can kind of slip right in, catching us off guard,
Speaker 3: being spontaneous. They don't seem to happen when we're too
Speaker 3: busy working, checking email and distracted, but get into that
Speaker 3: quiet zone in the mind, I think miracles can occur.
Speaker 3: Do you have any stories of things happening like this,
Speaker 3: I sure would love to know. It's nice to be
Speaker 3: able to share your story with fellow listeners because it
Speaker 3: helps us all believe. If you're willing to share a story,
Speaker 3: please email me at Sandra Champlain at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3: It is time for our first break, and then we'll
Speaker 3: be right back with more stories of after death communication.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
Speaker 3: and we are talking about ADC's, which are after death
Speaker 3: communications and the work of Evelyn Elsasser, who is the
Speaker 3: author of the book Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased. This
Speaker 3: research project has been going on since twenty eighteen. So
Speaker 3: far over one thousand questionnaires have come in, each containing
Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety four questions with follow up questions
Speaker 3: for participants. These were answered globally in English, French and Spanish.
Speaker 3: Let's continue now with two more short ADC's after death
Speaker 3: communication stories, and then we'll find out the ABC's of
Speaker 3: ADC's I'm being funny. Sounds pretty good, though, and that
Speaker 3: was spontaneous. About three months after my wife departed, I
Speaker 3: was lying in bed one morning, barely awake enough to
Speaker 3: be aware of the birds outside, but not of thoughts
Speaker 3: or feelings. I then felt her kiss me on the lips,
Speaker 3: and I heard telepathically, sorry, it's been so long. They've
Speaker 3: been keeping us really busy. Unfortunately, I was startled by
Speaker 3: these events, joelt to fully awake and lost that receptive state.
Speaker 3: Here's another. In nineteen ninety nine, my wife died of
Speaker 3: ovarian cancer at the age of fifty six. A few
Speaker 3: days after the funeral, the children having left, I am
Speaker 3: in the bedroom. It's early afternoon, and I stand and
Speaker 3: fold one of her cardigan sweaters. It's navy blue, still
Speaker 3: impregnated with her scent, which I know will be gone
Speaker 3: in a few days. And I'm so sad. My mind
Speaker 3: is totally empty. But suddenly, instantly my wife is there,
Speaker 3: standing in front of me, dressed normally. In a spontaneous
Speaker 3: gesture that I can't explain, I hug her with real
Speaker 3: physical contact. I feel her hugging me too. Realizing what
Speaker 3: I am doing, I take her by the shoulders, pull
Speaker 3: her away from me and say, looking right into her eyes,
Speaker 3: but you are dead, and she answers, yes, I am dead.
Speaker 3: This exchange is mental, from thought to thought, and immediately
Speaker 3: everything disappears. I find myself with the cardigan in my hands.
Speaker 3: That was the only manifestation I have had. I was sad,
Speaker 3: but not desperate. It took me fifteen years to talk
Speaker 3: about this, first to our two children. She had come
Speaker 3: to say goodbye to me, thus showing me that she
Speaker 3: continues to exist in another form. I am convinced of this,
Speaker 3: having now an unfailing serenity and no fear at all
Speaker 3: of what we commonly call death. I would also like
Speaker 3: to point out that I am a practicing health professional.
Speaker 3: Evelyn Alsasser, author of the book Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased,
Speaker 3: says ADC's manifest themselves in a multitude of forms and situations.
Speaker 3: Contacts manifesting by four of the five senses example, visual, auditory, full, factory,
Speaker 3: and tactile ADCs were the subject of a series of questions,
Speaker 3: as well as the ADC's of sensing a presence. ADCs
Speaker 3: during sleep, when falling asleep or waking up, represent the
Speaker 3: type of contact most often experienced by our respondents. However,
Speaker 3: more than half of them were awakened by the contact,
Speaker 3: and the rest of the experience fell into one of
Speaker 3: the other categories. ADCs occurring at the time of death
Speaker 3: were also the subject of a series of questions. They
Speaker 3: are particularly interesting, even evidential, because experiencers claimed to have
Speaker 3: been informed of the death of a family member or
Speaker 3: friend by the deceased themselves. This next ADC is one
Speaker 3: such an example. I came home from work and my
Speaker 3: wife and kids were not home yet. My wife was
Speaker 3: going to take them to the zoo that day, then
Speaker 3: pick up my son's friend so they could play video
Speaker 3: games all night. It was a Friday. There was no
Speaker 3: reason for alarm, as my wife is one of those
Speaker 3: people that will be late for her own funeral. As
Speaker 3: I walked into the house, our two dogs were barking
Speaker 3: in their cage, and I very distinctly heard my daughter
Speaker 3: call from upstairs, Hello. I let the dogs out to
Speaker 3: quiet them down, and called to Laurie, asking why the
Speaker 3: dogs were in the cage if you are home. The
Speaker 3: only answer I got was hearing her footsteps upstairs. She
Speaker 3: had a distinctive walk. I went upstairs to see what
Speaker 3: she was doing, but she was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3: I searched all the rooms, closets, and even under beds.
Speaker 3: I was so sure I heard her voice. About twenty
Speaker 3: five minutes later, the phone rang. It was the hospital
Speaker 3: to tell me my family had been in an accident
Speaker 3: and they were pretty banged up. I am on my
Speaker 3: way and they asked if I needed a ride. How silly,
Speaker 3: I thought, if they're just banged up, it can't be
Speaker 3: too bad. As I drove to the hospital, I felt
Speaker 3: my daughter had been in the front seat and was killed.
Speaker 3: But no, that couldn't have happened, because the evening before,
Speaker 3: Laurie settled the long running battle with her brother of
Speaker 3: who was going to ride in the front seat. However,
Speaker 3: upon arriving to the hospital, it turned out that Laurie
Speaker 3: had been killed and I had been one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 3: Another experience. I was a mother of two young children
Speaker 3: aged four and five, divorced, my partner being an alcoholic.
Speaker 3: I had an ear drum transplant before my children were born,
Speaker 3: and since then I can't move around in the dark.
Speaker 3: Without anxiety. However, on a Sunday night, I put my
Speaker 3: two children to bed, and to get back to my kitchen,
Speaker 3: I had to walk through a long, dark corridor. Usually
Speaker 3: I always turned on the light, but that night I
Speaker 3: walked down the hallway in the dark and felt a
Speaker 3: presence in front of me, who asked if I had changed,
Speaker 3: would we have stayed together? And I said yes. It
Speaker 3: wasn't words as we humans express ourselves, but like a
Speaker 3: communication felt deep inside me. I was immediately certain that
Speaker 3: I was talking to my ex husband. The next morning,
Speaker 3: at work, the phone rang, and before I could pick
Speaker 3: it up, I knew it was the police calling to
Speaker 3: tell me that my ex husband had died. Indeed, this
Speaker 3: was the case. They informed me that my ex husband
Speaker 3: had died on Sunday, late afternoon, that is to say,
Speaker 3: two to three hours before I experienced what you call
Speaker 3: an aid. I experienced this event even before I knew
Speaker 3: of my ex husband's death. ADC's have a strong impact
Speaker 3: on the morning process, as one could imagine if we
Speaker 3: got to see or feel or touch our loved one again.
Speaker 3: In the eyes of these experiencers, the deceased loved one
Speaker 3: has succeeded in crossing and very exceptionally and very briefly
Speaker 3: the line between the two worlds to express his or
Speaker 3: her support and love is there Beyond the perception of
Speaker 3: the deceased, which in itself is already a remarkable experience,
Speaker 3: It is the emotions perceived and felt during the contacts
Speaker 3: that give them their full meaning. After death, communications open
Speaker 3: up the prospect of a continued and dynamic relational bond
Speaker 3: between the living and the dead that can be materialize
Speaker 3: in spontaneous, exceptional moments. Author Evelyn Elsasser asks have you
Speaker 3: ever felt the presence of a deceased loved one? Have
Speaker 3: you heard him or her? Have you seen them enter
Speaker 3: your living room and come towards you with a smile
Speaker 3: on their face. Have you felt a hand grasping yours
Speaker 3: in a familiar gesture repeated a thousand times during your lifetime.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed a particular smell that characterizes your loved one?
Speaker 3: Have you communicated with them while sleeping, but not in
Speaker 3: an ordinary dream, but in a clear, coherent, and memorable one.
Speaker 3: If this is the case, it is likely that you
Speaker 3: have experienced a spontaneous and direct contact with a deceased
Speaker 3: person an ADC. She says, spontaneous is allegedly initiated by
Speaker 3: the deceased without our intention or solicitation on the part
Speaker 3: of the experiencer, and direct meaning without intervention of other persons,
Speaker 3: for instance, going to a medium or trying instrumental transcommunication
Speaker 3: like EVPs. Many people don't see the loved one, but
Speaker 3: they feel a presence. With my father in law, I
Speaker 3: felt the presence on my right with my boss, I
Speaker 3: felt it right in front of me, one experiencer said.
Speaker 3: Another experiencer said, I knew he was there. I could
Speaker 3: just feel that he was in the room, right in
Speaker 3: front of me. And another lying in my bed, I
Speaker 3: felt my son's presence at that moment. I felt the
Speaker 3: mattress sag as if someone was sitting next to me,
Speaker 3: the sensation of an invisible body mass beside me. I
Speaker 3: just knew it was him. And another On the evening
Speaker 3: of my father's death, I was sitting in my chair.
Speaker 3: I was very distressed, when all of a sudden I
Speaker 3: felt a presence which started to soothe me. Then when
Speaker 3: I went to bed, I felt the same presence standing
Speaker 3: to the right of my bed. And another says the
Speaker 3: day my grandmother died, I was standing in front of
Speaker 3: the fireplace thinking about her. I felt a presence right
Speaker 3: in front of me. Then it moved behind me and
Speaker 3: put her hand on my right shoulder. All I felt
Speaker 3: was love. There are also some ADC's that first sense
Speaker 3: a presence followed by a brief visual perception. Here's one.
Speaker 3: Several days after my best friend passed away. Suddenly I
Speaker 3: was alone in the house and in the kitchen cooking
Speaker 3: when I felt a strong presence behind me. I hadn't
Speaker 3: heard anyone come into the room, so I instinctively turned
Speaker 3: to see who it was. For the briefest of moments,
Speaker 3: I saw my friend standing in the doorway. As soon
Speaker 3: as I registered what I was seeing, she was gone,
Speaker 3: and so was the feeling of a presence. Again, we're
Speaker 3: hearing the same kind of thing in that peaceful zone,
Speaker 3: whether it's during the day, or whether it's before going
Speaker 3: to bed or when waking up in the morning. There's
Speaker 3: something about the mind being quiet for our loved ones
Speaker 3: being able to burst in on the scene and let
Speaker 3: us know they're still around and they still love us
Speaker 3: very very much. Let's go to the next break and
Speaker 3: we'll be back with more stories of after death communication.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
Speaker 3: and we're highlighting the work today from author Evelyn Elsasser,
Speaker 3: who wrote the new book called Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased.
Speaker 3: It's a large book and it's filled with stories. So
Speaker 3: in our short time together, I'm just including a few
Speaker 3: of them. I'd like to continue with more of these
Speaker 3: great stories. Evelyn says, the presence of the deceased is
Speaker 3: typically perceived as clearly as when we realize that a
Speaker 3: living person has just entered the room before we turn
Speaker 3: to look at them. Here's a short story. My father,
Speaker 3: who died in nineteen ninety four, came to me in
Speaker 3: my mind. As I was washing the dishes. I stopped.
Speaker 3: I turned around as if someone had entered the kitchen,
Speaker 3: and I stood completely still. I felt warmth and love.
Speaker 3: My tears began to flow with joy. I felt cradled,
Speaker 3: as if he held me in his arms. I had
Speaker 3: words of comfort in my head from him. It felt
Speaker 3: as if it was going on for a very long time.
Speaker 3: I felt incredibly calm and appeased. Then, still feeling good,
Speaker 3: I went back to my activities, remembering all at once
Speaker 3: that it was my birthday and that was a gift
Speaker 3: from my father. Sometimes the visits leave the person with
Speaker 3: a feeling of tranquility and peace, as in this example.
Speaker 3: In the evenings, I will be in my room or
Speaker 3: my children's room, putting them to bed, and I can
Speaker 3: sense my older brother in the room watching us. He
Speaker 3: seems to be a quiet presence, just checking in to
Speaker 3: see how everything is not interfering at all, just watching
Speaker 3: us and being part of the family. And another when
Speaker 3: I was sixteen years old, a friend died of accidental overdose.
Speaker 3: We did not know each other well, but had fond
Speaker 3: feelings for each other and a few close friends in common.
Speaker 3: A few months after his death, I felt him near
Speaker 3: around me, as if we were in the same room
Speaker 3: hanging out together. I did not see him or hear him,
Speaker 3: and we did not touch, but I felt him very clearly.
Speaker 3: I could also smell his cologne. He would come and
Speaker 3: hang out like this regularly, off and on throughout the day,
Speaker 3: sometimes staying up to an hour or two while I studied.
Speaker 3: Other times it was brief and he'd return later in
Speaker 3: the day. This continued daily or closed to daily for
Speaker 3: about three weeks. The visits ended suddenly, and I've never
Speaker 3: felt him since. At the time time he was visiting.
Speaker 3: I felt his purpose in coming was to let his
Speaker 3: friends know that he was okay. There had not been
Speaker 3: a public memorial, and it was difficult for me and
Speaker 3: other friends to comprehend his passing. He also seemed to
Speaker 3: have some sort of question he was trying to pose
Speaker 3: to me in his shy indirect way, which was typical
Speaker 3: of him in life, or maybe some answer he was
Speaker 3: seeking from me which I couldn't work out. The first
Speaker 3: visits startled me a little bit. They were unexpected, and
Speaker 3: I didn't try to interact with him. As I got
Speaker 3: more comfortable with his presence, I would mentally greet him
Speaker 3: and invite him to come sit, and that seemed to
Speaker 3: help him feel more comfortable. He never did sit. He
Speaker 3: stayed off to the side or just behind me. I
Speaker 3: quickly got into the habit of thinking about him during
Speaker 3: his visits. What I liked about him going over in
Speaker 3: detail with the times we'd spent together in life, all
Speaker 3: all very fond memories. Towards the end of the three weeks,
Speaker 3: I felt him more strongly, and I felt this was
Speaker 3: his way of saying thank you and goodbye. My understanding
Speaker 3: was he had been staying close to earth and his
Speaker 3: friends for these months to help us with our grief,
Speaker 3: and now he was getting ready to cross over to
Speaker 3: his permanent place. I didn't say anything about these visits
Speaker 3: to anyone until a year or so later I was
Speaker 3: talking with one of our mutual friends and discovered she
Speaker 3: had experienced a very similar series of visits from him too,
Speaker 3: and that she had interpreted them the same way that
Speaker 3: I did. Before I continue with the next story, I'm
Speaker 3: reminded of a video I saw on YouTube way back
Speaker 3: when I first started investigating the afterlife. This man was
Speaker 3: talking about having coffee time with our friends or family member,
Speaker 3: literally grabbing a cup of coffee for you and an
Speaker 3: empty cup for them, and either sitting on the couch
Speaker 3: or sitting at your kitchen table, having conversations, making appointments
Speaker 3: with your loved ones, and depending on the relationship, asking
Speaker 3: them to come close, maybe put a hand on your
Speaker 3: shoulder or a kiss on the cheek, and for us
Speaker 3: to stay in that still receptive state and pay attention.
Speaker 3: Do we feel a change of energy? Do we feel goosebumps?
Speaker 3: The more we replay happy memories in our mind and
Speaker 3: the more we think the nice thoughts about them, Does
Speaker 3: that raise the energy for more of this feeling to occur.
Speaker 3: This is just food for thought, because I'm sure you,
Speaker 3: like me, would love to receive some of these spontaneous
Speaker 3: contacts with the deceased. Here's the next story. While working
Speaker 3: as a nurse in the emergency department, a patient from
Speaker 3: an auto accident. She was a twenty something African American female.
Speaker 3: It was a bad accident and she didn't survive. I
Speaker 3: returned to the nurses station to put in orders for
Speaker 3: another patient. While I was sitting at the computer, I
Speaker 3: felt my coworker, a twenty somethingter African American female, standing
Speaker 3: behind me, waiting to ask me a question. I knew
Speaker 3: who it was, or thought I did without seeing her.
Speaker 3: I turned around to see how I could help her.
Speaker 3: When I turned around, I saw that there was no
Speaker 3: one in the nurses station besides me. I turned back
Speaker 3: to the computer again, I felt her standing behind me,
Speaker 3: waiting to ask a question. I turned around again, but
Speaker 3: no one was there. I turned back to the computer
Speaker 3: and realized she was still there. This time, I realized
Speaker 3: that the person standing behind me was not my coworker,
Speaker 3: but the young woman who had just passed. In eighteen
Speaker 3: years of nursing and being present at a number of deaths,
Speaker 3: both anticipated and unanticipated. I had never before had the
Speaker 3: experience and have never since. Some experiencers perceive the energy
Speaker 3: of the deceased person and speak of physical sensations, but
Speaker 3: there are also drops in temperature or a feeling of
Speaker 3: a draft that sometimes accompanies these after death communications. Here's
Speaker 3: the next story. One day after my son passed, I
Speaker 3: stood at the kitchen counter where we often visited. I
Speaker 3: felt like I was stepping into a vortex or energy field.
Speaker 3: I could step into it or out of it. It
Speaker 3: was magnetic. I asked my daughter and my husband to
Speaker 3: step inside this perceived circle of energy. They were afraid to,
Speaker 3: but I loved the feeling of this vortex or energy field,
Speaker 3: and I felt one hundred percent sure it was my
Speaker 3: son's energy. Another person says I could feel my loved
Speaker 3: one's presence in my body like a vibration. I experienced
Speaker 3: it throughout my whole body as strong energy. It was
Speaker 3: like drinking ten cups of coffee. And another says the
Speaker 3: energy of the deceased fills the space and causes shivers,
Speaker 3: that feeling of goosebumps. My friend coming out of nowhere
Speaker 3: that can be our loved one's energy getting very very
Speaker 3: close to us. Another person describes it as a feeling
Speaker 3: of love comes over us. You feel nothing but love,
Speaker 3: and the next account the experiencer makes a clear distinction
Speaker 3: between an inner feeling and the emotions allegedly transmitted by
Speaker 3: the deceased. When I think of my deceased loved one
Speaker 3: almost all day long, as was the case when he
Speaker 3: was alive, it is about my inner feelings with my thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yet my inner feeling is marked by the painful experience
Speaker 3: of his absence. When my deceased loved one is present,
Speaker 3: I feel him outside of me, and it is his
Speaker 3: state of mind that I feel, and his state of
Speaker 3: mind is nothing but love and joy. Here's some short
Speaker 3: descriptions how other people felt. It was like when they
Speaker 3: were alive and would come into the room and I
Speaker 3: would see them. Compared to when I just thought about them,
Speaker 3: It felt like they were alive again and they were there.
Speaker 3: It was stronger than just feeling him in my heart.
Speaker 3: His love invaded me from the outside inn It was
Speaker 3: not my love that went out to him, but his
Speaker 3: that came to me. And another says it was real,
Speaker 3: not a feeling or a wish. It was as if
Speaker 3: the real person was present, not an image or a
Speaker 3: memory of the person. Another says, when I think of
Speaker 3: my loved one, I only imagine that he is connecting
Speaker 3: to me. I can only think that he is sending
Speaker 3: me signs that make me think of him. But during
Speaker 3: an ADC, I know that he is there. It's a
Speaker 3: feeling of knowing, not imagining or thinking. One mom says,
Speaker 3: I felt my son's presence several times, always behind my
Speaker 3: left shoulder. It was strong. I knew it was him
Speaker 3: precisely in that place. It never lasted very long. I
Speaker 3: didn't feel the need to turn around to see him
Speaker 3: or try to touch him. I knew there would be
Speaker 3: nothing to touch, but I could feel him. It was
Speaker 3: as if a simple curtain separated us. That's how I
Speaker 3: perceive what I call the elsewhere, simply behind a veil,
Speaker 3: really very close by. Often with these ADC's, there's a
Speaker 3: perceived message that comes to the person, whether they can
Speaker 3: hear it or whether they can feel it. Some of
Speaker 3: the experiencers their loved one said, I am here, I
Speaker 3: know how you are feeling. I am close to you.
Speaker 3: Everything is all right and another he loved me, and
Speaker 3: even though I was extremely depressed and in pain and
Speaker 3: my heart felt shattered, he said I'd be okay. And another,
Speaker 3: I felt my mother was trying to comfort me, to
Speaker 3: tell me that although she no longer was on this
Speaker 3: plane of reality, she was still alive. I felt her gentleness,
Speaker 3: a great gentleness in her presence. Another said, I felt
Speaker 3: that my grandfather was trying to soothe my pain by
Speaker 3: communicating his serenity and the fact that he was doing
Speaker 3: very well. Hearing these after death communication stories helps us
Speaker 3: to be more present in a way in our life.
Speaker 3: And you'll be interested to know that some people have
Speaker 3: actually seen their deceased loved ones. I've got some great
Speaker 3: stories about that when we get back from the break.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
Speaker 3: and today we are talking a DC's, which stands for
Speaker 3: After Death Communications, and I'm reading to you some stories
Speaker 3: from the book Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased by Evelyn L. Sasser.
Speaker 3: Hearing these stories leaves us open minded, I think, to
Speaker 3: what's possible keeping ourselves more in the present moment, talking
Speaker 3: to our loved ones, and being aware of those ever
Speaker 3: so slight feeling changes we might have. Now we're going
Speaker 3: to tell some stories of people who saw their loved ones. Yes,
Speaker 3: you heard that right, they saw them. Sixty two percent
Speaker 3: of the people saw their loved ones solid like a
Speaker 3: living being, thirteen percent said they were semi transparent, eleven
Speaker 3: percent said they were a foggy silhouette. Ready for some stories.
Speaker 3: Shortly after being widowed, probably a month or two after
Speaker 3: her transition, I sat at home one evening thinking about her,
Speaker 3: when she materialized in front of me in the form
Speaker 3: of her figure and head to shins. You see the
Speaker 3: lower portion of her feet wasn't visible. The form looked
Speaker 3: like it was made out of glass filled with smoke,
Speaker 3: and she moved through the living room into the back
Speaker 3: room where we used to spend time together. She moved
Speaker 3: as though on roller skates and glided through furniture going
Speaker 3: into the back room. I recently had rearranged the furniture,
Speaker 3: and it appeared she was using the old path around
Speaker 3: the old furniture. She appeared twice within several minutes, then disappeared.
Speaker 3: I'm sure she has survived death. Here's another story. I
Speaker 3: received a visit from my deceased wife in July twenty thirteen,
Speaker 3: ten months after her passing in October of twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: while I was unconscious and under anesthesia on an operating
Speaker 3: table for a gallbladder removal. At the age of her passing,
Speaker 3: she was seventy one years of age. In her visit,
Speaker 3: she appeared younger in age, serene, composed, beautiful, youthful, happy, smiling,
Speaker 3: filled with love and compassion. She was bathed in a
Speaker 3: gold and white light, The vision was clear and magnificent.
Speaker 3: She assured me with a loving smile that she was
Speaker 3: all right and that things were wonderful on her side,
Speaker 3: and that I would be all right too, and there
Speaker 3: was no need to worry about her. When I woke up,
Speaker 3: I felt incredibly relaxed and had full recollection of the experience.
Speaker 3: I felt like I had experienced heaven. This intensely relaxed
Speaker 3: state stayed with me for several days, during which time
Speaker 3: I initially assumed it might have been caused by the
Speaker 3: anesthetic drug. In the months that followed, the magnificence and
Speaker 3: intensity of the experience remained. Around the same time as
Speaker 3: my experience, my dentist who had treated my wife shortly
Speaker 3: before her passing, and a very close lady friend of
Speaker 3: my wife independently advised me, both in somewhat a shaken state,
Speaker 3: that they too had been visited by my wife, asking
Speaker 3: that they would look after Matt that's me, and she
Speaker 3: also told them that she was all right. These visits
Speaker 3: all happened around the same time. Now, some five years later,
Speaker 3: I feel truly blessed that I have had a very
Speaker 3: real experience. It's interesting to note that the people interviewed,
Speaker 3: over fifty percent of them said they're deceased came to
Speaker 3: them looking younger than they were when they died, such
Speaker 3: as although she died at eighty two, in the vision,
Speaker 3: I saw her as I knew her in her thirties.
Speaker 3: She was radiantly healthy, and it was lunchtime. I was
Speaker 3: in the kitchen talking to my daughter. Suddenly we saw
Speaker 3: through the window in the garden my husband, who had
Speaker 3: died seven months earlier from cancer. He looked younger than
Speaker 3: at the time of his death, which did not correspond
Speaker 3: to a memory, as I had known him only since
Speaker 3: he was around fifty. In this appearance, it looked like
Speaker 3: he only wanted to show the very best part of him.
Speaker 3: It was thin and still had his hair, which he
Speaker 3: had lost due to his illness. It was only a
Speaker 3: quick vision, and I really did not see his face,
Speaker 3: but he was real. I was extremely shocked and happy,
Speaker 3: and my heart was beating very fast. And another story.
Speaker 3: Three weeks after my husband passed, I woke up early
Speaker 3: one morning to find him sitting on the bed, looking
Speaker 3: thirty years younger than he did when he passed. He
Speaker 3: was solid, smiling and happy. Before he passed, we had
Speaker 3: an agreement that whoever passed first would let the other
Speaker 3: know that there was an afterlife. Another story. I saw
Speaker 3: my deceased husband exactly one week after he passed away.
Speaker 3: He was standing in a doorway of our bedroom, wearing
Speaker 3: a dark blue sweatshirt and dark blue sweatpants. His hair
Speaker 3: was black, like it was when he was younger. He
Speaker 3: didn't say anything, and he was gone within a minute,
Speaker 3: and I'm comforted to know that he's still alive. Another story.
Speaker 3: I was awakened around six a m. In the morning.
Speaker 3: I saw someone walking on my front porch through my
Speaker 3: bedroom window. I got dressed and went to the front door.
Speaker 3: I opened the door and saw a woman with her
Speaker 3: back to me crying. I asked if she was okay.
Speaker 3: She turned around and it was my grandmother from my
Speaker 3: father's side of the family. She spoke and asked me
Speaker 3: for forgiveness and apologized for no longer talking to me
Speaker 3: after my father had passed away. I told her it
Speaker 3: was okay, I forgave her. She walked towards me and
Speaker 3: we hugged. I felt her frail body hug me and
Speaker 3: I hugged her back. I felt her clothes, her smell,
Speaker 3: I felt this most intense feeling of love. Then she
Speaker 3: started to turn into this bright white light. I had
Speaker 3: to close my eyes due to it being so bright.
Speaker 3: I could see the light fading away through my eyelids.
Speaker 3: I opened my eyes and she was gone. I was
Speaker 3: standing there with my arms still, looking like I was
Speaker 3: hugging someone. My grandmother, you see, had been dead for
Speaker 3: about seven years. The next experience occurred when the participant
Speaker 3: was concentrating on a specific activity and was not thinking
Speaker 3: about his deceased daughter. He saw her engaged in an
Speaker 3: everyday task, as he had no doubt seen her do
Speaker 3: it often in her lifetime. He says, I was in
Speaker 3: the middle of gathering things in preparation for a road trip,
Speaker 3: loading up my vein out the back door to the
Speaker 3: shed carrying things, so I was busy and focused on
Speaker 3: what I was doing. I walked in the back door
Speaker 3: of my house with a box in my hands. I
Speaker 3: came around the corner and I saw my daughter in
Speaker 3: the kitchen, appearing to cook something on the stove. She
Speaker 3: was wearing a long, black, flowy type of outfit, unlike
Speaker 3: anything she had worn in life. She was only twenty
Speaker 3: two when she passed. The previous summer. When we grieve,
Speaker 3: we often have guilt that we could have or should
Speaker 3: have done something different. Some ABC's help release us of
Speaker 3: that guilt. Here's an example. My grandfather appeared to me
Speaker 3: after his unexpected passing. He had gone into hospital for
Speaker 3: a simple operation, and I had decided I would visit
Speaker 3: him after he had gone home, as I didn't like hospitals.
Speaker 3: He died that day. I felt guilty for weeks for
Speaker 3: not going to the hospital, and as I was sick
Speaker 3: in my apartment during the day, I got up to
Speaker 3: go to the kitchen and I saw a full apparition
Speaker 3: of him in the hallway. He looked at me and
Speaker 3: smiled and faded away. I took it as his way
Speaker 3: of saying, it's okay and for me not to feel guilty.
Speaker 3: ADCs may occur at important moments in our lives. Listen
Speaker 3: to this story. My deceased sister materialized at her daughter's wedding.
Speaker 3: I can even describe to you what she was wearing.
Speaker 3: Once I realized what was happening, she disappeared visual after death.
Speaker 3: Communications like any ADC can occur anytime, in any place,
Speaker 3: and here's a story that happened on an airplane. My
Speaker 3: mother was in the hospital in Pennsylvania after having surgery.
Speaker 3: She had been on a ventilator for a week and
Speaker 3: could not breathe on her own, so my father and
Speaker 3: I decided to take her off the machine on my
Speaker 3: way to Pennsylvania at about ten fifty pm that night,
Speaker 3: while on the plane, I began to weep and must
Speaker 3: have gone into a light meditative state. While in this
Speaker 3: state of mind and in my mind's eye, I clearly
Speaker 3: saw my mother. She was wearing a pale blue nightgown
Speaker 3: and was walking across a theater stage from left to right,
Speaker 3: and there were clouds of smoke around her ankles. Suddenly,
Speaker 3: the words now I can rest popped into my mind.
Speaker 3: I felt her place a kiss on my forehead. An
Speaker 3: incredible sense of peace filled me, and I felt like
Speaker 3: I no longer needed to fear death and she was okay.
Speaker 3: I remember coming out of the state, wiping my tears
Speaker 3: away and looking at my watch. It was eleven to
Speaker 3: ten pm. Twenty minutes had passed. When I arrived at
Speaker 3: the hospital and told my family about what had happened.
Speaker 3: They told me that they had gathered around my mother's
Speaker 3: hospital bed, telling her it was all right to go
Speaker 3: and for her to go find me. My younger sister
Speaker 3: told me that as Mom took her last breath, that
Speaker 3: she had looked at my father's watch to note the time.
Speaker 3: It was about eleven oh eight pm, meaning that Mom
Speaker 3: found me on that airplane within minutes of her physical passing.
Speaker 3: One last story, my grandmother appeared in my car while
Speaker 3: I was alone driving. I sensed her, and I saw her.
Speaker 3: I knew that it was not a material body and
Speaker 3: that I could not touch her because she looked transparent. However,
Speaker 3: I took my handbag off the seat and apologized so
Speaker 3: she could sit comfortably. She was wearing a dress and
Speaker 3: a black coat, her usual glasses, and a handbag was
Speaker 3: on her lap. At the traffic lights, I got a
Speaker 3: long look at her. She turned her head to look
Speaker 3: at me too. I was not afraid, and it sounds strange,
Speaker 3: but I thought it was norm that she was there
Speaker 3: with me. I am a scientist by training and an
Speaker 3: atheist to boot. The light turned green and my grandmother disappeared,
Speaker 3: and I know she's still alive. If you like these stories,
Speaker 3: I wholeheartedly recommend that you pick up the book Spontaneous
Speaker 3: Contacts with the deceased by Evelyn el Sassar, filled with
Speaker 3: so many more stories. My friend, our time together is
Speaker 3: up for today. Please know, whether your loved ones appear
Speaker 3: to you or not with your eyes, that your loved
Speaker 3: ones are around. Their love for you is real. Your
Speaker 3: life matters and you are never alone. Don't forget to
Speaker 3: come visit me at We Don't Die dot com. I'm
Speaker 3: Sander Champlain. Thank you so much for listening to Shades
Speaker 3: of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
Speaker 3: am Hairinormal podcast Network.
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