Has someone you knew on earth contacted you from the “other
side”? If so, you’re not alone. According to Canadian sociology professor Ian
Currie, “contact with the dead is not rare. It is, in fact, commonplace.” In
his book You Cannot Die, Dr. Currie
reports numerous studies of people who say they’ve been in touch with deceased
loved ones. In one, psychologist Dr. Robert Kastenbaum at Wayne State
University in Detroit asked 140 people if they’d experienced this type of otherworldly
communication; 45 percent answered yes. In
another study in Wales, Dr. W.D. Rees asked 300 widows and widowers the same
thing––and got a similar response: 47 percent said their departed spouses had
contacted them.
Rather than being scared, most people welcome such “visits”
and feel comforted knowing that their loved ones aren’t really gone. Soon after
my life partner, Ron Conroy, left his physical body in April 2013, he began
talking to me, reassuring me that he was all right and happy now that he’d returned
“home.” Since then, he has continued to share fascinating information with me daily
about other worlds of experience, what happens in the life of a soul, the
purpose of incarnation on earth, and much more.
Spirits contact us for a variety of reasons. Often, disembodied
beings want to console the people they loved on earth and let us know they’re
okay. They also show up to assure us that they still love us, they are with us
all the time, and that we can talk to them whenever we choose. In some instances,
these soul entities come to take care of unfinished business, or to bring
messages to us from the world beyond. They may offer guidance and protection to
mortals, and help us in our own journeys during this lifetime. One reason Ron
stays in constant contact with me is to collaborate on our forthcoming book, The Three Wounds of Wisdom (which I plan
to publish in 2015). We both hope that the book––and these posts about the
afterlife––will ease the grief experienced by people like me whose loved ones
have entered the spirit world, and diminish the fear of death that causes
suffering for so many humans.
According to many researchers, beings on the “other side” really
want to talk to us––and they go to great lengths to get us to pay attention to
them. Often we meet our loved ones in dreams, because when we’re asleep we’re
more receptive to the spirit realm. They also contact us through epiphanies and
coincidences. Sometimes they present themselves as scents or sounds, such as
tinkling bells, familiar perfumes, or music. They may even communicate through
meaningful symbols. Once Ron placed a tumbled piece of rose quartz at my
feet––a crystal that represents love and emotional peace. But spirits also may
move objects, make noises, or even show themselves to us.
In the summer of 2013, several friends and I visited
Massachusetts and stayed in a house built in 1690. An elderly lady who’d live in
the house and died a few years earlier at the age of 102 visited us. She called
my name clearly, nudged one of my friends several times, crossed the bedroom of
another in a ghostly form, and looked down upon another friend while she lay in
bed. I often heard unexplained footsteps on the floor above my head, when no
other human being but me was in the house. Even a workman doing renovations on
the house sensed the former resident’s spirit. I felt she wanted to make
certain it was okay for us to be there and that we weren’t harming her house.
How can you communicate with spirits? Talk to them, just as
you would if they were still embodied. Send thoughts to them. Offer them
prayers. Pay attention to your dreams. Meditate. A tarot reading or even a
Ouija board may provide insights. The holiday Samhain Eve (October 31) honors
those who’ve gone on to other places. This is an ideal time to try to connect
with loved ones in the soul world, for the veil between the physical and
nonphysical realms is thinnest on this day. Light candles in memory of those
you wish to contact. Then be still and listen.
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