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An Introduction To |
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After-Death Communications |
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The following is a
"crash course" in after-death communications (ADCs). I also briefly describe the
types of ADCs that my family received from my mother from the Other
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The
Twelve
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of After-Death Contact |
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 Based upon
Bill and Judy Guggenheim's groundbreaking after-death communication
research, the following list contains the twelve most
frequent types of after-death communication people
report having with their deceased loved ones.
Combinations of these twelve types of contact are also
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(1) |
Sensing
their presence |
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Smelling their fragrance |
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Seeing their
apparition |
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Seeing a
flat vision of them like a photo |
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Experiencing one of these types while half-asleep |
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Having a visitation
dream |
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Having an out-of-body experience and
meeting them |
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Experiencing physical activity such as lights, TVs, and radios going on and off |
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Receiving a symbolic
message, sign, meaningful coincidence, or synchronicity |
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The
Most Frequent Messages |
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Expressed
By the
Departed |
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According
to the Guggenheim's research,
the purpose of such contact is
to offer comfort, reassurance,
and hope to surviving family
and friends. They want us to
know they're still alive and
that we'll be reunited with
them when our time comes.
Their most frequent messages,
expressed verbally or
non-verbally, are:
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I'm
okay ... I'm fine ...
Everything is okay ... I love
you ... Everything will be all
right ... I'm watching over
you ... I'll always be there
for you ... Don't worry
about me ... Don't grieve
for me ... Please let me go
... I'm happy ... I'll see
you again ... Go on with your
life ... Please forgive ...
Thank you ... Good-bye.
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The
Classifications of Contact |
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With the Departed |
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The Types of
After-Death Contact |
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My Family Received From My Mother |
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 Since my mother's death, we have received strong indications of her survival after death through the following after-death
communication contact listed in the chart below. All these indications
suggests to me that my mother wanted very much to contact us
to help us with our grief. Her passing was very tragic, in
that, along with everyone's pain of losing her, two other
family members were severely injured and one almost killed.
In NDE research,
it is not uncommon to come across NDE testimony where the
experiencer is so concerned about
loved ones left behind that they are permitted to return for a
visit. Some experiencers are revived from death because of
their concern. So I can easily imagine how the tragic
accident that my mother was killed in may have caused her to
have a strong desire to contact her loved ones from the
Other Side. Here are the ways that she contacted us: |
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Visitation
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Two days after my mother's death, my sister and I had a dream where our mother suddenly appeared
and let us know
that she is still alive. Our surprised response at seeing her in our dreams was identical: "Mom, you're not dead!" In my case, she replied
back with these exact words: "I haven't told Glenn yet." By this, I understood that she hadn't
given Glenn this same message yet. |
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After-Death
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Nine days after my mother's memorial, one night I was alone watching TV when I suddenly had a
very powerful emotional experience lasting roughly an hour which did not involve any of my five senses.
I suddenly felt my mother's
presence and love magnified hundreds of times enter the room and my
heart. She brought heaven with her and filled the room and
my heart with a level of love and happiness that I have never experienced before or since. |
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"Meaningful coincidences" are usually more than
just "coincidences" to those who experience them. The
actual term for this phenomenon is "synchronicity," coined by psychologist
Carl Jung
whose
near-death experience
I profile on my
website. His NDE was instrumental in his research in the phenomenon. |
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"Synchronicity"
is defined as: an occurrence of events which
have the following characteristics: (a) the
events are simultaneous, (b) the events are very
meaningful, and (c) the events are not connected
by cause and effect. Read
some examples of synchronicity. |
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My
entire immediate family experienced many meaningful
and highly unusual "coincidences" after my mother's
death. What made them more unusual than they were
was the fact that hey would occur at times that had
a very special significance to my mother. And the
coincidences would all involve a favorite song of
hers called
Moon River. Moon River would suddenly play
seemingly by pure coincidence on several television
programs, on the radio, on the internet, in a music
store, and be heard by individual family members at
special times of significance such as: around the
time of her death, during her memorial/internment
seven months later, and on the day of the second
anniversary of her death. Many of these coincidences
were so unlikely to occur by mere chance that it
became obvious to me that something supernatural was
going on. One coincidence involved my turning on a
television set and, by pure coincidence, a movie
came on which began to play the song Moon River from
the very beginning. About a year later, I calculated
the odds of turning on a television set at random
and hearing the song Moon River.
My calculations
show that the odds of it occurring by mere chance is
over 1 in 18 billion. The odds of being killed
by space junk is 1 in 5 billion. |
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All of
these "Moon River coincidences," as our family
affectionately calls them, involve facts that can be
verified through such sources as cable television
listings, telephone records, radio program logs,
email archives, internet news articles, website
update logs, and hospital records, but more
importantly, personal testimony from my family.
Altogether, this evidence does not meet the high
standards of being scientific proof of life after
death, for myself and my family, it was much more
than mere proof of life after death. It was proof
that my mother still exists after death and her love
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| Actual
Examples |
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of After-Death Communications |
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 In
the ground-breaking book entitled Hello
From Heaven, Bill
and Judy Guggenheim (former NDE researchers), describe how
they collected more than 3,300 firsthand reports from people who
believe they were contacted by a loved one from the Other
Side. In doing so, they founded a new field of research on
after-death communications. I read this book many years ago, and since
then, I have been recommending the book to people who would email me
about the loss of a loved one. Had I not read this book, I wouldn't
have recognized my own family's after-death communications that
occurred. You can read examples of some of the more unusual ADCs
from this excellent book. To better understand what ADCs are all
about, the following are brief summaries of four actual examples:
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Example
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Receiving
a Sign From Heaven
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A woman's 12-year old daughter was killed after
being hit by a car while riding her bicycle. The grief-stricken mother
prayed to God to allow her daughter to give her a sign that she is okay. She prayed this prayer all day and nothing happened. That night she had to attend a meeting at church. As she
backed out of the driveway, she happened to glance down and saw a pencil on the side of the road. Something told her to pick it
up and she did. When she looked at the pencil, she was surprised to see that it had written on it, "I'm okay." She had no doubt that this was the sign she prayed for.
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Example
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Sensing
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A woman did not get along well with her mother and when her mother died,
she was saddened about their sour relationship. Sometime after the funeral, the woman was laying in bed grieving when all of a sudden she strongly sensed her mother in the room. At first, she
thought she was hallucinating. The women sensed her mother's arms around her and
comforted her for about 15 minutes. She knew it was her mother comforting her
and helping her through her pain. (p. 57, Bill Guggenheim's book, Hello
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Example
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Hearing
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A woman lost a close friend. A week later at a Christmas party, she put a Christmas CD on the stereo. But the song she
wanted to hear on the CD which helped her with her grief wouldn't play. She became aggravated and turned on the radio instead. Immediately, the song
"Wherever you will go" came on the radio - a song she identified
with her deceased friend. She already had several such experiences
with this song since her friend died. Immediately after that song was over, the song that wouldn't play on her Christmas CD came on the radio! She couldn't believe it! She began to cry because she knew that
it was her friend giving her another sign from heaven that he is still around.
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Example
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Seeing
Their Apparition
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Rosalyn is
a chemical dependency counselor in Washington who had
an apparition ADC. When she was seven years old, her
alcoholic uncle sexually abused her for two years
which was very traumatic for her. By the time she was seventeen, she was an alcoholic
herself, and later became a heavy drug user. She
eventually sobered up, but in order to stay sober, she had to go back through her past and
deal with the people, places, and things that had harmed her.
Besides her need to deal with her sexual abuse, she also
wanted to make peace with her uncle. She chose to believe that if her uncle had been sober he wouldn't have abused her. So she wrote
her uncle a letter and told him how she felt and told him that she held nothing against him. However, she
never learned whether or not he received it. As a
Christian, she would pray that her love would cover her uncle's sin. Then one day, she awoke from sleep and turned over.
To her amazement, she saw Jesus and her uncle next to her bed. She could only see their heads and
shoulders. There was also a light behind both of them. There was an overwhelming presence of love but also a seriousness. Jesus asked her a question that she heard in her mind. There was an authority and power in his voice, yet a gentleness as well. Jesus asked her, "Do you hold anything against this man?" She told him, "No, I don't." Then Jesus turned and looked at her uncle and said, "Neither do I hold anything against him." Rosalyn knew then that her uncle was at peace and with Jesus. A couple of days later, she received a letter from her mother telling her that Uncle Mickey had died.
(p. 371, Bill Guggenheim's book, Hello
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"Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any
knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality
starts from experience and ends in it." - Albert
Einstein |
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