August 15, 2025 • 53 mins
Join Sandra for her 250th show celebration featuring a boy’s vision of his father in Heaven and an NDE with proof from a beloved dog. Explore the afterlife and learn a technique to find peace.
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've
been on a journey to prove the existence of life
after death. On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we
now know that our loved ones have survived physical death,
and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife.
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Today is a day of celebration, and you know why.
This is episode number two hundred and fifty. Hard to believe.
I've been talking about the afterlife for so many hours
with you, but it is time for celebration. So on
this episode today we're going to do a few things. One,
I had an amazing conversation with a man about his
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near death experience. I want to tell you about that.
It's got some good verifiable evidence in it. Also, there's
a teenager who had a skateboarding accident and coming out
of anesthesia, it's as if he was looking into the
afterlife and talking to the afterlife. The veil between the
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two worlds is very thin. In fact, I believe our
world is a part of their world. So I want
to talk about the architecture of the afterlife and the
veil between two worlds. We are going to celebrate two
hundred and fifty episodes, of course, but also before we end,
I learned a new technique this week about how to
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slow down the busy mind if we're experiencing grief or worry,
how to return to the present moment. Remember that present
moment is a gift. Not only does it help our
neurotransmitters get back to normal and help that healing process
through grief, but it's also the access way to our abilities,
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those natural psychic mediumistic and to perceive the love from
the afterlife. So first, let me tell you the story
that's making headlines. It's a teenage boy named Cason, who,
after a serious skateboarding accident, required surgery and then had
this remarkable experience coming just out of anesthesia. What makes
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this event so compelling is not just what Cason says,
but his physical state. His mother filmed him staring intently
upwards with glassy eyes, seemingly looking at a point far
beyond the hospital room ceiling, and this video she has
shared has now captured and touched the lives of millions.
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He was filmed staring intently upwards with glassy eyes. His
expression and focus are strikingly similar to what many hospice
workers have reported for years, the look of patients who
in their final hours begin seeing and interacting with deceased
loved ones at their bedside, as if a welcoming party
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is already gathering. Now, Cason is on his road to recovery,
which is a good thing, but this video begins with
him in a state of apology and guilt, the way
many of us feel about our human improfections. I'm sorry,
he whispers, I'm a bad kid. I cause trouble, But
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his focus quickly shifted from his earthly worries to something,
in fact, someone else. He says, hi Jesus with a
sense of awe, you're so beautiful, Oh, my gosh. As
he continues to gaze into the space above him, another
visitor arrives. Dad. I miss you, Dad, You're so pretty,
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Cason says, with a peaceful tone, Hi Dad.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's important to note that Cason's father passed away a
year before, yet here was his son, not only seeing him,
but interacting with him as if he were right there
in the room, asking Dad, do you see me skateboarding?
What follows is a beautiful, heartfelt conversation that seems to
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bridge the two worlds. Cason becomes a messenger of love,
reassuring his father Mom loves you, Dad, she tells you
all the time. He then makes a solemn promise, his
voice full of a teenager's earnest vow, I'll treat mom better.
I'll listen, I promise. His description of where his father
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is paints a picture familiar to many who have had
near death experiences. He says, I wish I was with you, Dad.
It's so pretty up here. There's so many flowers and butterflies.
He sees not only his father, but perhaps his grandfather
as well, calling out, Hi, Papa, I miss you. Give
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me a hug please. He even described his dad's appearance, saying, Dad,
you have such big muscles, You're so strong. Throughout the experience,
Cason's love for his family on earth is a constant theme.
He tells Jesus, you should see my mom, Jesus, She's
so pretty. She works so hard to provide for us,
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and I love her so much. The experience seems to
fill him with a renewed sense of purpose and a
profound sense of love, not just for his family, but
for everyone. In a moment of pure grace, he thinks
of his caretakers, saying, I'll pray for my nurses. Make
sure you make the nurses go to heaven. They're so
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nice to me. While skeptics might attribute this entire event
to the effects of anesthesia, for millions who have watched,
and for anyone who has studied these profound phenomena, Casin's
heartfelt and detailed conversation is not a rambling dream. It's
a stunning glimpse of a reality that awaits us all.
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A place where our loved ones are healthy, strong and beautiful,
a place so pretty, filled with flowers and butterflies, and
a place where the love we share in this life
continues on echoing through eternity. It's a powerful testament that
those we love and for ourselves we simply do not
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die Now, just for kicks. I was looking on YouTube
to tell you what to search for, and there's been
an update. There's another video and it's the story from
the mother's perspective. So I want to tell you about that.
The mother's name is Caylin, and she came forward to
share that that video was actually taken one year ago.
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So she provides an extra layer of context and I
think it confirms the reality of what her son was experiencing.
She says, to truly understand what was happening in the
hospital room, we have to go back a year before
Cason's accident. The family had just endured the unimaginable. Cason's
father had been diagnosed with stage four cancer and had
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passed away in September of twenty twenty two after a
long and difficult battle. Cayln shared that her faith in
Jesus was her lifeline through that immense pain, and she
came to understand a deep truth that she so powerfully
articulated in the video. She says the presence of pain
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does not equal the absence of God. Pain is the
very thing that can wake us up to his presence.
So this is the sacred ground upon which the events
in the hospital unfold. Caylen was in the waiting room
praying for her son as he underwent the procedure to
reset his badly broken arm. When the nurse finally came
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to get her, she walked into the recovery room, and
what happened next is the detail that changes everything. Before
she started recording, the very first words her son said
were I can't see it's too bright for mom. Caylan,
time stopped. She said that immediately it triggered so many
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emotions because those words were almost a perfect echo of
the lasts towards her husband spoke as he was passing away.
He too was looking straight up, unaware of his surroundings,
and told her I can't see it's too bright, It's
so beautiful. In that instant, she knew her son was
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not just coming out of anesthesia, he was having a
sacred experience. In her own words, she said, there was
not one minute that I did not think he was
seeing what he was seeing. I knew he was seeing
what he was seeing. The feeling in that room was
so powerful that one of the nurses actually whispered in
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her ear that she should be recording it. Calin confirmed
that Casin had no memory of the event itself. The
only thing he remembers is that it was really bright
before being wheeled out to the car. This detail is
significant as it rules out the possibility that he was
consciously creating the story. He was just a vessel for
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the experience. Now, the mother said that Cason said his
new name was Brian, and she believes he was referencing
the new name we are given in heaven, as the
Bible says, and that the name Brian means high and noble.
So this update transforms the teenager Casin's story from a
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fascinating viral video into a profound testament of a family's
enduring bond through tragedy and also their faith. It's a
story of a father reaching across the veil to connect
with the son he had to leave behind, using the
very same words to describe the beauty of his new home.
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And it's the story of a mother whose faith forged
in the fire of grief, allowed her to recognize the
miracle that was unfolding right before her eyes. I'm so
glad I just found that new video. No matter what
religious belief people have, there are so many similarities between
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all the near death experiences. That bright light, that feeling
of love seeing loved ones. In fact, in our next
segment together, I'll tell you about a profound near death
experience where a father meets up with his little daughter.
I don't get into religion in this show, as I
respect everybody's religious beliefs, but I do like to say
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that religions are like lamps. There can be many different ones, right,
but the light remains the same. So whatever that light
is for you, I believe, is that light that both
Casin and his dad saw. Well. It is our two
hundred and fiftieth episode celebration, after all. So here's some
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great quotes about the afterlife. This one from Helen Keller.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
But there's a different for me, you know, because in
that other room I shall be able to see. And
John Taylor says, while we are mourning the loss of
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our friend, others are rejoicing to meet them behind the veil.
And Rumy said death is a coming together. The tomb
looks like a prison, but it's really a release into union.
Your mouth closes here and immediately opens with a shout
of joy over there, and let us not forget. Albert
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Einstein said there are only two ways to live your life.
One as if nothing is a miracle. The other is
as though everything is a miracle. Author J. K. Rowling says,
to the well organized mind, death is nothing but the
next great adventure. Let's head off to the break and
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we'll be back with Omar Perez's near death experience. We'll
be right back listening to Shades of the Afterlife on
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Speaker 3 (14:42):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandras Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth celebration episode. Now,
of all the stories I've had the honor of sharing,
some are so profound, so filled with evidence and emotion,
that they have the power to change the way we
see the world. Just recently, I recorded episode five hundred
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of my We Don't Die Radio podcast, which you can
find on YouTube, and from time to time I like
to share clips or stories from those episodes. Now, there
is a big difference between We Don't Die Radio and
Shades of the Afterlife. If you think of the Olympics
and someone getting a silver medal. That is my We
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Don't Die. Those are full length interviews with extraordinary people
about why they believe in the afterlife. Shades of the
Afterlife is my gold medal podcast which I try to
bring you the best of the best of all things afterlife.
The sound quality isn't great on the YouTube video, and
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you can certainly go to YouTube and watch episode five
hundred and meet Omar, But I want to tell you
his story now. Omar Perez, a father who journeyed through
the deepest valley of grief and skepticism, was brought to
the brink of death himself and had an experience that
transformed his understanding of life and the afterlife. Omar's story
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begins with a life that felt perfect. He and his
loving wife had a son, and in twenty seventeen were
blessed with fraternal twin daughters. Life was good, their careers
were thriving, and their family was complete. But in late
twenty twenty, their world shattered. One of their twin daughters, Chloe,
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became suddenly and unexplainably ill over a few short days.
Despite multiple trips to the hospital, they were told it
was a virus, but her condition worsened. The final day
was terrifying. Chloe's temperature shot to one hundred and six degrees.
She became lethargic and unresponsive, and was rushed to the
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children's hospital. Due to COVID protocols, only one parent was
allowed in, and Omar selflessly let his wife go to
their daughter's side. Events snowballed with terrifying speed. Chloe began
to have seizures and went into cardiac arrest. By the
time Omar arrived at the hospital, he only had minutes
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with her before the doctors delivered the devastating news her
little heart was just too weak, barely beating at twenty
two beats per minute. There was nothing more they could do.
In the sterile quiet of the hospital room, Omar held
his daughter as her heart beat one last time, and
she was gone. And this was all within a span
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of six hours. To this day, nearly five years later,
there's still no medical explanation for what took Chloe's life.
The loss was absolute, and for Omar it was the
end of everything he thought he might believe. While his
wife had always been a deeply spiritual person, Omar was
a skeptic. He'd tried everything, Catholicism, Baptist churches, even atheism,
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but nothing ever felt right. He admitted, when Chloe passed,
I lost all my faith in God, all my faith
in anything after life. It just completely destroyed even an
inkling of faith or hope that I had. This is
a man whose foundation was utterly destroyed, left with nothing
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but grief and doubt. So life moved on as it does.
The family moved to South Carolina, unable to bear living
in the same house where they had lost their daughter,
and then in December of twenty twenty four, the universe
intervened in the most dramatic way possible. Omar came down
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with what he thought was a simple case of pneumonia,
but it progressed rapid and on December twelfth, he woke
up unable to breathe. He was rushed to the hospital
with a high fever and sepsis. His lungs collapsed back
to back. He was intubated and put on life support
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with only a ten percent chance of survival. His wife
had already signed that do not resuscitate paperwork, but Omar
wasn't in the hospital. He was somewhere else entirely. All
I remember was waking up, and I was on a
beautiful pathway, just a winding, beautiful pathway. It wasn't the
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bright light so many describe, but a bluish, grayish, foggy
space that was somehow calming and beautiful. He felt no confusion,
only a gentle curiosity to walk the path before him.
To his right, his most cherished core memories began to
play out, like visions in the fall, his wedding day,
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the birth of his children, the moments of his life
that defined him. To his left, a group of people
came into view, smiling and conversing peacefully. He felt an
overwhelming sense of fulfillment. The constant worry he carried since
Chloe's passing was gone. I know they're gonna hurt, but
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they're gonna be fine, he realized about his family. I
didn't have this yearning. It's just a knowing that they
were going to be okay. Then he saw a vision
of the present, his wife crying on their living room couch,
consoling their son. On the coffee table was the butterfly
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shaped urn with Chloe's ashes, and next to it another urn.
The sight of that second urn saddened him deeply. He
blinked and the scene vanished. He was now sitting in
a vast open space, and out of the fog came
his little Chloe. She was everything he remembered, but as
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she would have been at six years old, her dark
curly hair longer, wearing a favorite red shirt with two
gold hearts and the little gold sandals he himself had
put on her for her funeral. She came to him
and they had the most beautiful conversation. Later, he realized
they never moved their lips. They were speaking telepathically, but
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he heard her voice as clear as day. Daddy, I
miss you. I love you so much, she told him,
explaining that she was okay. Then she gave him the
gift of what he had been aching for since the
day she passed. She told him, Daddy, you were right.
My job was done and I did a good job. Dad,
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I did a very good job. Omar explained he always
felt Chloe had an old soul, but that she had
been here to guide her twin sister, Sophia. Chloe's words
were a direct validation of that private joke. It meant
everything to me, Omar. Wept everything. I wanted to hear
everything I wanted to feel. He was able to hold her,
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smelled the unique scent of her hair, and felt a
peace that had been absent for years. As their time
came to an end, Chloe told him she had to go,
but that she was always with him and his family.
As she walked away, he didn't feel the panic of loss.
He felt peace, knowing she was okay. But right before
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she disappeared, something incredible happened. My dog, which is at home,
comes bolting in from the right hand side. It was Leyla,
their family dog, who had an especially strong bond with Chloe.
The two of them walked away together, and Omar was
left with the feeling that he needed to take good
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care of their dog back home. Omar's next memory was
waking up in the hospital on Christmas Day, unable to
speak because of the tubes in his throat. He was
overcome with the need to tell his family about what
he had seen, so he gestured for a pen. His
son handed him aboard and a marker. Omar frantically began
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to write out every detail of his experience, including the
reunion of Chloe and their dog, Layla. He was sent
home from the hospital about a week later, his recovery
shocking everyone. When he walked to the door, he looked
for the dog. That's when his wife sat him down,
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tears in her eyes, and gave him the validation that
would change everything. She explained that while he was in
the induced coma, the dog had suddenly become very ill
with seizures. There was nothing they could do. They had
put Leylah down on Christmas Eve, the day before Omar
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woke up. The family broke down in tears. The detail
about the dog, which Omar couldn't possibly have known, was
undeniable proof. It's what they call a verritical nd, an
experience where one obtains information that is later verified and
could not have been known through normal means. Omar's vision
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wasn't a dream. It was real. Chloe was real, and
she was with their dog. Today, Omar is a changed man.
The skeptic is gone, replaced by a man who has
an unshakable knowing. He knows that our souls are amazing,
and that this life is not the end, and that
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feeling of fulfillment he experienced on the other side is
what awaits us all. He no longer fears death, his purpose.
He now believes is to share his story and plant
a small seat of hope in others who are grieving.
They are there, They are with us, he says, with
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absolute certainty. They send us so many signs, little things
that we bypass as a coincidence. There's no coincidences. That
fulfillment that I felt. We are all going to feel that.
Omar's incredible journey reminds us that even in the face
of unimaginable loss and doubt, there is a reality far
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greater than the one we see. It affirms that our
loved ones are not gone, but are waiting for us,
living in a state of peace and wholeness. It's a
testament to the idea that life is indeed an education
for the soul, and that every moment here matters, And
it is powerful, verifiable proof that we, along with our pets,
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simply do not die. As we continue our two hundred
and fiftieth episode celebration, a couple bits of trivia about
near death experiences. Did you know near death experiencers remember
clearer than any vision they've ever had in their life,
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even if it was during childhood. Also, many people who
were blind from birth can see during near death experiences
for the very first time, including giving accurate accounts of
what was happening in an operating room or what the
doctors were wearing. Time for our break and we'll be
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right back looking at how thin the veil is and
the architecture of the afterlife. Will be right back. You're
listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and
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Speaker 3 (27:41):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth episode celebration.
Some people believe there is meaning in numbers, So just
for fun, I looked up the number two fifty and
did you know it is considered symbolic of newbie positive
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changes and the importance of trusting your intuition on your
spiritual path. How perfect is that for today, we often
talk about the veil between the two worlds, that invisible
boundary that separates us from the world of spirit. It's
not a wall, but more like a difference in frequency,
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a divine filter that allows us to focus on our
human journey. But sometimes, in moments of great love, deep grief,
or sudden crisis, that veil becomes incredibly thin. It's in
these sacred moments that our loved ones prove that a
difference in vibration is no barrier to the love that
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needs to be felt, or a message that needs to
be delivered, or a final goodbye or an apology that
needs to be shared. This brings us to our first story,
a classic example of what researchers call a crisis apparition.
It's the story of a year young college student named Jessica.
Jessica and her older brother, Michael, weren't just siblings. They
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were best friends who shared everything. One night, Jessica was
in her dorm room, hundreds of miles away from her
family home, forcing herself to study for a final exam.
It was late, around two in the morning, and the
silence of the library quiet dorm was making her feel
isolated and exhausted. As she was reading the same paragraph
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for the tenth time, a strange, sudden chill swept through
the room, making the hairs on her arms stand up.
She looked up from her textbook toward the doorway, and
her heart stopped standing. There was her brother, Michael. He
wasn't transparent or ghostly. He looked completely real, solid, healthy,
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wearing the comfortable green flannel shirt and the jeans he
loved wearing. He didn't speak, but his presence filled the room.
He looked directly at her, and in his eyes she
saw an ocean of love and a hint of sadness.
He offered her a small, gentle smile, a smile of
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reassurance and farewell. Then, as quickly and as silently as
he had appeared, he simply faded away into nothing. Jessica
sat there frozen for a moment, her mind racing. Had
she fallen asleep? Was it a waking dream? No, it
felt too real, too profound to just be a product
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of her tired mind. She grabbed her phone and tried
to call Michael's cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail.
A not of worry tightened in her stomach. She tried
to call her parents' house, but there was no answer. Finally,
after pacing her small room, she convinced herself she was
just overtired and emotionally exhausted from the stress of the exams.
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She crawled into bed. The vision of her brother with
his sad but loving smile burned into her mind. The
next morning, she was jolted awake by a phone call
from her mother. Through gut wrenching sobs, her mother told
her the terrible news. Michael had been killed in a
car accident the night before. When Jessica, her voice shaking,
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asked what time the accident had happened, her mother confirmed
their worst fears. The police had estimated the time of
his death was around two in the morning. It was
the exact moment Michael had appeared in his green flannel
shirt in her dorm room doorway, hundreds of miles away
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to say a loving goodbye. In that moment of crisis,
his love tore through the veil, allowing him to be
in two places at once, offering one last moment of
earth connection before crossing over. This thinning of a veil
is also profoundly evident at the bedside of the dying.
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Hospice nurses and doctors have long reported the phenomena known
as deathbed visions, where a dying person begins to see
and interact with deceased loved ones as if a welcoming
party is gathering to escort them home. Take the story
of hospice nurse Margaret, who was caring for an elderly
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man named Arthur. He was in his nineties, a kind
man who had lived a full life, but he had
been non responsive for several days, lost in the space
between the worlds. His family was gathered around his bed,
speaking in hushed tones, keeping a quiet, loving vigil. Suddenly,
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Arthur's eyes, which had been closed for so long, they
opened wide, but they weren't looking at his face family.
They were focused on the corner of the room, and
a beautiful, radiant smile spread across his entire face, erasing
years of pain and worry. He lifted his frail hand
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a gesture full of joy, and said, in a voice
clearer and stronger than he'd used in weeks, Eleanor, you came.
You look so beautiful. Eleanor was the name of his
beloved wife, who had passed away ten years earlier. Arthur
continued to have a one sided conversation with his wife,
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his face full of a light his family hadn't seen
in years. He would nod, smile, and sometimes laugh softly,
as if sharing a private joke with her. At one
point he said, yes, yes, I'm ready, Just let me
say goodbye. He then turned his head, his eyes now
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clear and present, and looked directly at his crying daughter.
He took her hand and said, don't you worry, sweetheart.
Eleanor is here to take me home, and it's beautiful.
Those were his last words. He closed his eyes, a
peaceful smile on his lips, and passed just moments later.
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For his family, it was a moment that transformed their
grief into a certainty that Arthur was not alone, that
death is not an end but a reunion, and that
his wife had come through the veil to take his
hand and lead him home. These experiences show us that
the veil is not a barrier to love. It is
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merely a difference in perception and sometimes the proof that
love can part. That veil is not just a vision
or a feeling, but something undeniably physical. Here is the
incredible story of a man named Ben whose father was
a watchmaker. His father's most prized possession was an old
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silver pocket watch that belonged to his father. It was
a family heirloom, a symbol of time and legacy. When
he was dying, he told Ben, when I'm gone, this
watch is yours. As long as it's ticking, you'll know
I'm with you. After his father passed, Ben cherished the watch.
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It was a wind up watch, and every single morning,
without fail, he would perform the small ritual of winding it,
a quiet moment to connect with the memory of his dad.
Years later, Ben was on a family vacation boating on
a large, deep lake. He was leaning over the side
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of the boat to help his daughter when he felt
a sickening slip. The pocket watch, which had been securely
in his shirt pocket, fell out, hit the side of
the boat, and then plunged it into the deep, dark water.
He was, of course devastated. It felt like a physical
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severing of his connection to his father. He even hired
professional divers, but the lake was too deep and too murky.
The watch and the promise it held was gone forever.
For months, Ben felt a profound sense of loss, as
if he had let his father down all over again.
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About a year later, on the very anniversary of his
father's death, Ben was walking along the lake shore, many
miles from where the watch was lost. He was feeling
particularly sad, walking with his head down, talking to his
dad in his mind, telling him how sorry he was
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for being so careless. As he walked, he kicked at
a pile of dark, wet sand. There, half buried in
the wet sand was a silver pocket watch. His heart
pounded in his chest. He picked it up. It was
caked with sand and corroded from what must have been
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years in water, but he could just make out the intricate,
familiar engravings on the back. It was his father's watch.
It was impossible. He held it up to his ear,
his hands shaking, and then he heard it, faintly but clearly,
the watch was ticking. This is what some call a
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physical apport, an impossible gift from across the veil. It
was a father's promise kept in the most miraculous way,
proving that the veil isn't just thin. Sometimes it seems
it can be parted completely by a love that defies
all earthly logic. Time and dis since the journey from
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this life to the next is not a journey into silence,
but into a different kind of communication. Our loved ones
are not gone, They are simply speaking in a different language,
a language of signs, symbols, and love that pierces the
veil in the most personal and goosebump inducing ways. And
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our next segment will journey deeper into what lies beyond
this veil, exploring the very landscape of the afterlife, and
discuss what we can do right here and now to
get in the present when the storms of life feel overwhelming,
and don't forget. Be in that present moment as much
as you can, and sometimes unexpected memories will just come
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into your mind. Those are little calling cards from our
loved ones, piercing the veil, letting you know they're right
here with you. I'd like to I'll tell you an
apport of my own. I was traveling wearing my favorite
pair of gold ear rings, and in the bathroom I
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dropped one of the earrings. I looked everywhere, and I
believed it went down the sink. So I put the
one remaining earring in a little pocket in my suitcase.
In desperation, I did say a little prayer to any
relatives or guides or God, anyone who was listening, because
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I felt terrible losing that single earring. When I got
home from the trip and unpacked my bag, I looked
in the little pocket where I placed the one earring,
and both ear rings were there. It's time for our
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Today we've journeyed through the unseen world. We've heard stories
of the thin veil that separates us from spirit. So
the big question is what lies beyond it. The thousands
and thousands of consistent accounts from near death experiences paint
of vivid and spectacular picture. The key to understanding these
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landscapes is the concept of vibration or frequency. The afterlife
seems to have its own amazing architecture, but it's built
from something very different than physical matter. It's often described
as being made from light, love and from thought itself.
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Intention is the hammer and nails of the spirit world.
What you think, you create, what you feel you attract.
Let me share a few stories that give us some
incredible glimpses. A woman named Mary who had a profound
nd after a serious car accident, She was drawn into
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an incredibly beautiful expanse of landscape. She described it as
a vast, shimmering meadow filled with flowers whose colors she
had never seen on earth. They seemed to glow with
their own internal light. She felt an overwhelming sense of
peace and belonging, and she realized she could move simply
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by thinking, appearing instantly where she intended to be. Another
man after a heart attack described finding himself in a
forest where the trees were ancient and wise, and he
could feel their consciousness. Their leaves were like millions of
tiny green stained glass windows, and the sunlight filtering through
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them created a symphony of light on the forest floor.
He could hear a soft, harmonious hum that he knew
was the life force of the forest itself, a sound
of pure peace. He understood that in the afterlife, nature
isn't something just to look at. It is something you
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are a part of a living, conscious and loving system.
Others describe incredible structures. A man named Thomas experienced an
nd and found himself in what he called a city
of light. These weren't built holdings made from stone or steel,
but massive structures made of pure radiant energy, glowing with
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different hues that pulsed with a quiet, powerful life. He
saw beautiful bridges made of woven light, and towers that
reached into a sky filled with multiple moons and soft
nebula like clouds of color. The beings there also seemed
to be made of light, and they communicated not with words,
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but through a direct transfer of thoughts and feelings. He
felt a profound sense of love and recognition, as if
this city was more real and more like home than
any place he had ever lived on Earth. This realization
that consciousness shapes experience is where the true creative power
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of the soul comes in. This is perfectly illustrated by
the story of an architect named Arthur. On Earth. Arthur
was brilliant but frustrated. His grandest designs were always limited
by budgets, clients, and the laws of physics. His greatest
dream was to build a cathedral, not made of stone,
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but a computerized cathedral of pure light and sound. He
died of a heart attack in his office. Arthur found
himself in a peaceful, dark void. He wasn't scared. He
simply thought about his cathedral. Instantly the structure began to
form around him. He described walls made of solid harmonious
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music and pillars of shimmering, warm light. The stained glass
windows weren't glass at all, They were living portals that
showed beautiful memories from across the universe. The Great Dome
wasn't a ceiling, but an opening into the cosmos itself.
He realized he could change any detail with a single
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focused thought. He wasn't just building his creation in a way,
he was his creation. These stories of expanded senses and
peaceful landscapes are our ultimate destination. But what if, as
souls having a human experience, we can use them here too.
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So many people talk about visualization and the power of gratitude.
If you feel like playing with this sometime, think about
some things you desire and feel the gratitude as if
they've already happened. Now, really soak in that gratitude, put
it out to the universe. On the other side, there
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is no time, and here there is time. So don't
sit around waiting for things to happen. Instead, be amazed
at that thought or picture that you created in your
mind that eventually it did show up in time and space.
I want to share a power full tool that I
just learned this past week. So many of us are
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drawn to shades of the afterlife because we are navigating grief, stress, worry.
If you've ever felt a wave of grief so strong
that it feels like it's going to pull you under,
you know how disorienting it can be. In those moments,
our minds are lost in the past with our memories
and sometimes regrets. We're spiraling into the future with fears.
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The one place we are not is right here and
the safety of the present moment. So I want to
offer you an anchor. It's a technique used by therapists
and counselors all over the world to help people who
are feeling grief, feeling stressed, worried, or overwhelmed. It's called
the five four three two one grounding technique. You can
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do it anywhere, anytime. You can even do it with me. First,
just pause wherever you are, take one slow deep breath. Now,
look around and silently name five things you can see.
Could be a lamp, a book on the table, picture frame,
the color of the wall, your shoes or your toes.
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Just name five separate things. Next, bring your awareness to
your sense of touch. Silently, name four things you can
physically feel. Maybe it's the solid chair beneath you, the
texture of your skin, your feet resting on the floor,
the touch of the cat on your lap, or the
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cool air on your skin. Now listen, quiet your mind
and just listen. What are three things you can hear.
It might be the hum of a refrigerator, a clock
ticking on the wall, a car driving by outside, or
even the sound of your own breathing. Then notice what
you can smell. This one can be subtle. What are
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two things that you can smell right now? Perhaps it's
the scent of your coffee or a nearby flower, or
even just the neutral scent of the air in your room.
Or you can smell your skin and smell the perfume
or shampoo or aftershave you have on. And finally, bring
your awareness to your sense of taste. Name one thing
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you can taste. It could be the lingering taste of
your last meal or drink, or simply the natural taste
of your own mouth. You know what you just did.
You brought all of your focus, all of your awareness,
right back here into the present moment, into this exact second.
You just threw out an anchor. Grief is real and
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it deserves our respect, but you also deserve moments of peace.
This little tool doesn't erase your feelings, but it can
give you a precious moment of stability to catch your
breath and remember that you are safe right here, right
now now. It can be your anchor in any storm.
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Knowing about the other side isn't just about our future comfort.
It's about changing how we live on this side right now.
It calls us to live differently. The stories of near
death experiences are filled with people who are not just
shown a beautiful reality, but were given a new mission.
Do you remember my episode with Daniel Brinkley in nineteen
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seventy five. He was one tough, cynical, skeptical guy who
didn't believe in the afterlife. One day, while on the
phone during a thunderstorm, a bolt of lightning struck the
phone line and hit him directly in the head. He
was even pronounced dead, He traveled through a tunnel and
was met by a being of light who showed him
a panoramic life review. But like many others, his review
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was shown from the perspective of every person that he
had ever interacted with. He was forced to feel the
fear of the people he had bullied and the emotional
pain he had caused his family. After this difficult but
profound lesson, he came back into his body, waking up
in a morgue, but a completely changed man. The bully
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was gone, replaced by a man filled with compassion. Danian
went on to dedicate his life to service, founding a
program called the Twilight Brigade to sit with dying veterans
and hospice care. He still uses his experience to bring
peace to thousands of people at the edge of the veil,
ensuring that they will not die alone. His life is
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a testament to how these glimpses of the unseen world
can inspire a mission of love back here in the
physical world. The journey of understanding is not about leaving
this life behind. It's about living this life more powerfully.
It's about knowing your eternal nature and stepping into your
power as a divine soul having a human experience. It
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is about knowing that that you, my friend, are never
ever alone. A few announcements as we close out our
two hundred and fiftieth episode, Remember our friends at IMS
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I read it. I want to leave you with this
powerful quote from brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla. He said, the
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day science begins to study non physical phenomena, it will
make more progress in one decade than in all the
previous centuries of its existence. My friends, today is that day.
We are living in a most exciting time. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Thank you so much for listening to Shades of the
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Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've
been on a journey to prove the existence of life
after death. On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we
now know that our loved ones have survived physical death,
and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife.
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Today is a day of celebration, and you know why.
This is episode number two hundred and fifty. Hard to believe.
I've been talking about the afterlife for so many hours
with you, but it is time for celebration. So on
this episode today we're going to do a few things. One,
I had an amazing conversation with a man about his
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near death experience. I want to tell you about that.
It's got some good verifiable evidence in it. Also, there's
a teenager who had a skateboarding accident and coming out
of anesthesia, it's as if he was looking into the
afterlife and talking to the afterlife. The veil between the
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two worlds is very thin. In fact, I believe our
world is a part of their world. So I want
to talk about the architecture of the afterlife and the
veil between two worlds. We are going to celebrate two
hundred and fifty episodes, of course, but also before we end,
I learned a new technique this week about how to
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slow down the busy mind if we're experiencing grief or worry,
how to return to the present moment. Remember that present
moment is a gift. Not only does it help our
neurotransmitters get back to normal and help that healing process
through grief, but it's also the access way to our abilities,
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those natural psychic mediumistic and to perceive the love from
the afterlife. So first, let me tell you the story
that's making headlines. It's a teenage boy named Cason, who,
after a serious skateboarding accident, required surgery and then had
this remarkable experience coming just out of anesthesia. What makes
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this event so compelling is not just what Cason says,
but his physical state. His mother filmed him staring intently
upwards with glassy eyes, seemingly looking at a point far
beyond the hospital room ceiling, and this video she has
shared has now captured and touched the lives of millions.
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He was filmed staring intently upwards with glassy eyes. His
expression and focus are strikingly similar to what many hospice
workers have reported for years, the look of patients who
in their final hours begin seeing and interacting with deceased
loved ones at their bedside, as if a welcoming party
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is already gathering. Now, Cason is on his road to recovery,
which is a good thing, but this video begins with
him in a state of apology and guilt, the way
many of us feel about our human improfections. I'm sorry,
he whispers, I'm a bad kid. I cause trouble, But
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his focus quickly shifted from his earthly worries to something,
in fact, someone else. He says, hi Jesus with a
sense of awe, you're so beautiful, Oh, my gosh. As
he continues to gaze into the space above him, another
visitor arrives. Dad. I miss you, Dad, You're so pretty,
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Cason says, with a peaceful tone, Hi Dad.
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Now.
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It's important to note that Cason's father passed away a
year before, yet here was his son, not only seeing him,
but interacting with him as if he were right there
in the room, asking Dad, do you see me skateboarding?
What follows is a beautiful, heartfelt conversation that seems to
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bridge the two worlds. Cason becomes a messenger of love,
reassuring his father Mom loves you, Dad, she tells you
all the time. He then makes a solemn promise, his
voice full of a teenager's earnest vow, I'll treat mom better.
I'll listen, I promise. His description of where his father
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is paints a picture familiar to many who have had
near death experiences. He says, I wish I was with you, Dad.
It's so pretty up here. There's so many flowers and butterflies.
He sees not only his father, but perhaps his grandfather
as well, calling out, Hi, Papa, I miss you. Give
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me a hug please. He even described his dad's appearance, saying, Dad,
you have such big muscles, You're so strong. Throughout the experience,
Cason's love for his family on earth is a constant theme.
He tells Jesus, you should see my mom, Jesus, She's
so pretty. She works so hard to provide for us,
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and I love her so much. The experience seems to
fill him with a renewed sense of purpose and a
profound sense of love, not just for his family, but
for everyone. In a moment of pure grace, he thinks
of his caretakers, saying, I'll pray for my nurses. Make
sure you make the nurses go to heaven. They're so
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nice to me. While skeptics might attribute this entire event
to the effects of anesthesia, for millions who have watched,
and for anyone who has studied these profound phenomena, Casin's
heartfelt and detailed conversation is not a rambling dream. It's
a stunning glimpse of a reality that awaits us all.
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A place where our loved ones are healthy, strong and beautiful,
a place so pretty, filled with flowers and butterflies, and
a place where the love we share in this life
continues on echoing through eternity. It's a powerful testament that
those we love and for ourselves we simply do not
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die Now, just for kicks. I was looking on YouTube
to tell you what to search for, and there's been
an update. There's another video and it's the story from
the mother's perspective. So I want to tell you about that.
The mother's name is Caylin, and she came forward to
share that that video was actually taken one year ago.
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So she provides an extra layer of context and I
think it confirms the reality of what her son was experiencing.
She says, to truly understand what was happening in the
hospital room, we have to go back a year before
Cason's accident. The family had just endured the unimaginable. Cason's
father had been diagnosed with stage four cancer and had
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passed away in September of twenty twenty two after a
long and difficult battle. Cayln shared that her faith in
Jesus was her lifeline through that immense pain, and she
came to understand a deep truth that she so powerfully
articulated in the video. She says the presence of pain
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does not equal the absence of God. Pain is the
very thing that can wake us up to his presence.
So this is the sacred ground upon which the events
in the hospital unfold. Caylen was in the waiting room
praying for her son as he underwent the procedure to
reset his badly broken arm. When the nurse finally came
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to get her, she walked into the recovery room, and
what happened next is the detail that changes everything. Before
she started recording, the very first words her son said
were I can't see it's too bright for mom. Caylan,
time stopped. She said that immediately it triggered so many
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emotions because those words were almost a perfect echo of
the lasts towards her husband spoke as he was passing away.
He too was looking straight up, unaware of his surroundings,
and told her I can't see it's too bright, It's
so beautiful. In that instant, she knew her son was
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not just coming out of anesthesia, he was having a
sacred experience. In her own words, she said, there was
not one minute that I did not think he was
seeing what he was seeing. I knew he was seeing
what he was seeing. The feeling in that room was
so powerful that one of the nurses actually whispered in
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her ear that she should be recording it. Calin confirmed
that Casin had no memory of the event itself. The
only thing he remembers is that it was really bright
before being wheeled out to the car. This detail is
significant as it rules out the possibility that he was
consciously creating the story. He was just a vessel for
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the experience. Now, the mother said that Cason said his
new name was Brian, and she believes he was referencing
the new name we are given in heaven, as the
Bible says, and that the name Brian means high and noble.
So this update transforms the teenager Casin's story from a
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fascinating viral video into a profound testament of a family's
enduring bond through tragedy and also their faith. It's a
story of a father reaching across the veil to connect
with the son he had to leave behind, using the
very same words to describe the beauty of his new home.
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And it's the story of a mother whose faith forged
in the fire of grief, allowed her to recognize the
miracle that was unfolding right before her eyes. I'm so
glad I just found that new video. No matter what
religious belief people have, there are so many similarities between
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all the near death experiences. That bright light, that feeling
of love seeing loved ones. In fact, in our next
segment together, I'll tell you about a profound near death
experience where a father meets up with his little daughter.
I don't get into religion in this show, as I
respect everybody's religious beliefs, but I do like to say
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that religions are like lamps. There can be many different ones, right,
but the light remains the same. So whatever that light
is for you, I believe, is that light that both
Casin and his dad saw. Well. It is our two
hundred and fiftieth episode celebration, after all. So here's some
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great quotes about the afterlife. This one from Helen Keller.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
But there's a different for me, you know, because in
that other room I shall be able to see. And
John Taylor says, while we are mourning the loss of
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our friend, others are rejoicing to meet them behind the veil.
And Rumy said death is a coming together. The tomb
looks like a prison, but it's really a release into union.
Your mouth closes here and immediately opens with a shout
of joy over there, and let us not forget. Albert
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Einstein said there are only two ways to live your life.
One as if nothing is a miracle. The other is
as though everything is a miracle. Author J. K. Rowling says,
to the well organized mind, death is nothing but the
next great adventure. Let's head off to the break and
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we'll be back with Omar Perez's near death experience. We'll
be right back listening to Shades of the Afterlife on
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandras Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth celebration episode. Now,
of all the stories I've had the honor of sharing,
some are so profound, so filled with evidence and emotion,
that they have the power to change the way we
see the world. Just recently, I recorded episode five hundred
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of my We Don't Die Radio podcast, which you can
find on YouTube, and from time to time I like
to share clips or stories from those episodes. Now, there
is a big difference between We Don't Die Radio and
Shades of the Afterlife. If you think of the Olympics
and someone getting a silver medal. That is my We
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Don't Die. Those are full length interviews with extraordinary people
about why they believe in the afterlife. Shades of the
Afterlife is my gold medal podcast which I try to
bring you the best of the best of all things afterlife.
The sound quality isn't great on the YouTube video, and
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you can certainly go to YouTube and watch episode five
hundred and meet Omar, But I want to tell you
his story now. Omar Perez, a father who journeyed through
the deepest valley of grief and skepticism, was brought to
the brink of death himself and had an experience that
transformed his understanding of life and the afterlife. Omar's story
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begins with a life that felt perfect. He and his
loving wife had a son, and in twenty seventeen were
blessed with fraternal twin daughters. Life was good, their careers
were thriving, and their family was complete. But in late
twenty twenty, their world shattered. One of their twin daughters, Chloe,
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became suddenly and unexplainably ill over a few short days.
Despite multiple trips to the hospital, they were told it
was a virus, but her condition worsened. The final day
was terrifying. Chloe's temperature shot to one hundred and six degrees.
She became lethargic and unresponsive, and was rushed to the
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children's hospital. Due to COVID protocols, only one parent was
allowed in, and Omar selflessly let his wife go to
their daughter's side. Events snowballed with terrifying speed. Chloe began
to have seizures and went into cardiac arrest. By the
time Omar arrived at the hospital, he only had minutes
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with her before the doctors delivered the devastating news her
little heart was just too weak, barely beating at twenty
two beats per minute. There was nothing more they could do.
In the sterile quiet of the hospital room, Omar held
his daughter as her heart beat one last time, and
she was gone. And this was all within a span
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of six hours. To this day, nearly five years later,
there's still no medical explanation for what took Chloe's life.
The loss was absolute, and for Omar it was the
end of everything he thought he might believe. While his
wife had always been a deeply spiritual person, Omar was
a skeptic. He'd tried everything, Catholicism, Baptist churches, even atheism,
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but nothing ever felt right. He admitted, when Chloe passed,
I lost all my faith in God, all my faith
in anything after life. It just completely destroyed even an
inkling of faith or hope that I had. This is
a man whose foundation was utterly destroyed, left with nothing
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but grief and doubt. So life moved on as it does.
The family moved to South Carolina, unable to bear living
in the same house where they had lost their daughter,
and then in December of twenty twenty four, the universe
intervened in the most dramatic way possible. Omar came down
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with what he thought was a simple case of pneumonia,
but it progressed rapid and on December twelfth, he woke
up unable to breathe. He was rushed to the hospital
with a high fever and sepsis. His lungs collapsed back
to back. He was intubated and put on life support
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with only a ten percent chance of survival. His wife
had already signed that do not resuscitate paperwork, but Omar
wasn't in the hospital. He was somewhere else entirely. All
I remember was waking up, and I was on a
beautiful pathway, just a winding, beautiful pathway. It wasn't the
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bright light so many describe, but a bluish, grayish, foggy
space that was somehow calming and beautiful. He felt no confusion,
only a gentle curiosity to walk the path before him.
To his right, his most cherished core memories began to
play out, like visions in the fall, his wedding day,
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the birth of his children, the moments of his life
that defined him. To his left, a group of people
came into view, smiling and conversing peacefully. He felt an
overwhelming sense of fulfillment. The constant worry he carried since
Chloe's passing was gone. I know they're gonna hurt, but
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they're gonna be fine, he realized about his family. I
didn't have this yearning. It's just a knowing that they
were going to be okay. Then he saw a vision
of the present, his wife crying on their living room couch,
consoling their son. On the coffee table was the butterfly
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shaped urn with Chloe's ashes, and next to it another urn.
The sight of that second urn saddened him deeply. He
blinked and the scene vanished. He was now sitting in
a vast open space, and out of the fog came
his little Chloe. She was everything he remembered, but as
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she would have been at six years old, her dark
curly hair longer, wearing a favorite red shirt with two
gold hearts and the little gold sandals he himself had
put on her for her funeral. She came to him
and they had the most beautiful conversation. Later, he realized
they never moved their lips. They were speaking telepathically, but
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he heard her voice as clear as day. Daddy, I
miss you. I love you so much, she told him,
explaining that she was okay. Then she gave him the
gift of what he had been aching for since the
day she passed. She told him, Daddy, you were right.
My job was done and I did a good job. Dad,
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I did a very good job. Omar explained he always
felt Chloe had an old soul, but that she had
been here to guide her twin sister, Sophia. Chloe's words
were a direct validation of that private joke. It meant
everything to me, Omar. Wept everything. I wanted to hear
everything I wanted to feel. He was able to hold her,
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smelled the unique scent of her hair, and felt a
peace that had been absent for years. As their time
came to an end, Chloe told him she had to go,
but that she was always with him and his family.
As she walked away, he didn't feel the panic of loss.
He felt peace, knowing she was okay. But right before
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she disappeared, something incredible happened. My dog, which is at home,
comes bolting in from the right hand side. It was Leyla,
their family dog, who had an especially strong bond with Chloe.
The two of them walked away together, and Omar was
left with the feeling that he needed to take good
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care of their dog back home. Omar's next memory was
waking up in the hospital on Christmas Day, unable to
speak because of the tubes in his throat. He was
overcome with the need to tell his family about what
he had seen, so he gestured for a pen. His
son handed him aboard and a marker. Omar frantically began
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to write out every detail of his experience, including the
reunion of Chloe and their dog, Layla. He was sent
home from the hospital about a week later, his recovery
shocking everyone. When he walked to the door, he looked
for the dog. That's when his wife sat him down,
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tears in her eyes, and gave him the validation that
would change everything. She explained that while he was in
the induced coma, the dog had suddenly become very ill
with seizures. There was nothing they could do. They had
put Leylah down on Christmas Eve, the day before Omar
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woke up. The family broke down in tears. The detail
about the dog, which Omar couldn't possibly have known, was
undeniable proof. It's what they call a verritical nd, an
experience where one obtains information that is later verified and
could not have been known through normal means. Omar's vision
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wasn't a dream. It was real. Chloe was real, and
she was with their dog. Today, Omar is a changed man.
The skeptic is gone, replaced by a man who has
an unshakable knowing. He knows that our souls are amazing,
and that this life is not the end, and that
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feeling of fulfillment he experienced on the other side is
what awaits us all. He no longer fears death, his purpose.
He now believes is to share his story and plant
a small seat of hope in others who are grieving.
They are there, They are with us, he says, with
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absolute certainty. They send us so many signs, little things
that we bypass as a coincidence. There's no coincidences. That
fulfillment that I felt. We are all going to feel that.
Omar's incredible journey reminds us that even in the face
of unimaginable loss and doubt, there is a reality far
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greater than the one we see. It affirms that our
loved ones are not gone, but are waiting for us,
living in a state of peace and wholeness. It's a
testament to the idea that life is indeed an education
for the soul, and that every moment here matters, And
it is powerful, verifiable proof that we, along with our pets,
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simply do not die. As we continue our two hundred
and fiftieth episode celebration, a couple bits of trivia about
near death experiences. Did you know near death experiencers remember
clearer than any vision they've ever had in their life,
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even if it was during childhood. Also, many people who
were blind from birth can see during near death experiences
for the very first time, including giving accurate accounts of
what was happening in an operating room or what the
doctors were wearing. Time for our break and we'll be
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right back looking at how thin the veil is and
the architecture of the afterlife. Will be right back. You're
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Speaker 3 (27:41):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth episode celebration.
Some people believe there is meaning in numbers, So just
for fun, I looked up the number two fifty and
did you know it is considered symbolic of newbie positive
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changes and the importance of trusting your intuition on your
spiritual path. How perfect is that for today, we often
talk about the veil between the two worlds, that invisible
boundary that separates us from the world of spirit. It's
not a wall, but more like a difference in frequency,
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a divine filter that allows us to focus on our
human journey. But sometimes, in moments of great love, deep grief,
or sudden crisis, that veil becomes incredibly thin. It's in
these sacred moments that our loved ones prove that a
difference in vibration is no barrier to the love that
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needs to be felt, or a message that needs to
be delivered, or a final goodbye or an apology that
needs to be shared. This brings us to our first story,
a classic example of what researchers call a crisis apparition.
It's the story of a year young college student named Jessica.
Jessica and her older brother, Michael, weren't just siblings. They
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were best friends who shared everything. One night, Jessica was
in her dorm room, hundreds of miles away from her
family home, forcing herself to study for a final exam.
It was late, around two in the morning, and the
silence of the library quiet dorm was making her feel
isolated and exhausted. As she was reading the same paragraph
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for the tenth time, a strange, sudden chill swept through
the room, making the hairs on her arms stand up.
She looked up from her textbook toward the doorway, and
her heart stopped standing. There was her brother, Michael. He
wasn't transparent or ghostly. He looked completely real, solid, healthy,
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wearing the comfortable green flannel shirt and the jeans he
loved wearing. He didn't speak, but his presence filled the room.
He looked directly at her, and in his eyes she
saw an ocean of love and a hint of sadness.
He offered her a small, gentle smile, a smile of
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reassurance and farewell. Then, as quickly and as silently as
he had appeared, he simply faded away into nothing. Jessica
sat there frozen for a moment, her mind racing. Had
she fallen asleep? Was it a waking dream? No, it
felt too real, too profound to just be a product
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of her tired mind. She grabbed her phone and tried
to call Michael's cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail.
A not of worry tightened in her stomach. She tried
to call her parents' house, but there was no answer. Finally,
after pacing her small room, she convinced herself she was
just overtired and emotionally exhausted from the stress of the exams.
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She crawled into bed. The vision of her brother with
his sad but loving smile burned into her mind. The
next morning, she was jolted awake by a phone call
from her mother. Through gut wrenching sobs, her mother told
her the terrible news. Michael had been killed in a
car accident the night before. When Jessica, her voice shaking,
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asked what time the accident had happened, her mother confirmed
their worst fears. The police had estimated the time of
his death was around two in the morning. It was
the exact moment Michael had appeared in his green flannel
shirt in her dorm room doorway, hundreds of miles away
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to say a loving goodbye. In that moment of crisis,
his love tore through the veil, allowing him to be
in two places at once, offering one last moment of
earth connection before crossing over. This thinning of a veil
is also profoundly evident at the bedside of the dying.
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Hospice nurses and doctors have long reported the phenomena known
as deathbed visions, where a dying person begins to see
and interact with deceased loved ones as if a welcoming
party is gathering to escort them home. Take the story
of hospice nurse Margaret, who was caring for an elderly
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man named Arthur. He was in his nineties, a kind
man who had lived a full life, but he had
been non responsive for several days, lost in the space
between the worlds. His family was gathered around his bed,
speaking in hushed tones, keeping a quiet, loving vigil. Suddenly,
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Arthur's eyes, which had been closed for so long, they
opened wide, but they weren't looking at his face family.
They were focused on the corner of the room, and
a beautiful, radiant smile spread across his entire face, erasing
years of pain and worry. He lifted his frail hand
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a gesture full of joy, and said, in a voice
clearer and stronger than he'd used in weeks, Eleanor, you came.
You look so beautiful. Eleanor was the name of his
beloved wife, who had passed away ten years earlier. Arthur
continued to have a one sided conversation with his wife,
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his face full of a light his family hadn't seen
in years. He would nod, smile, and sometimes laugh softly,
as if sharing a private joke with her. At one
point he said, yes, yes, I'm ready, Just let me
say goodbye. He then turned his head, his eyes now
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clear and present, and looked directly at his crying daughter.
He took her hand and said, don't you worry, sweetheart.
Eleanor is here to take me home, and it's beautiful.
Those were his last words. He closed his eyes, a
peaceful smile on his lips, and passed just moments later.
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For his family, it was a moment that transformed their
grief into a certainty that Arthur was not alone, that
death is not an end but a reunion, and that
his wife had come through the veil to take his
hand and lead him home. These experiences show us that
the veil is not a barrier to love. It is
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merely a difference in perception and sometimes the proof that
love can part. That veil is not just a vision
or a feeling, but something undeniably physical. Here is the
incredible story of a man named Ben whose father was
a watchmaker. His father's most prized possession was an old
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silver pocket watch that belonged to his father. It was
a family heirloom, a symbol of time and legacy. When
he was dying, he told Ben, when I'm gone, this
watch is yours. As long as it's ticking, you'll know
I'm with you. After his father passed, Ben cherished the watch.
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It was a wind up watch, and every single morning,
without fail, he would perform the small ritual of winding it,
a quiet moment to connect with the memory of his dad.
Years later, Ben was on a family vacation boating on
a large, deep lake. He was leaning over the side
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of the boat to help his daughter when he felt
a sickening slip. The pocket watch, which had been securely
in his shirt pocket, fell out, hit the side of
the boat, and then plunged it into the deep, dark water.
He was, of course devastated. It felt like a physical
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severing of his connection to his father. He even hired
professional divers, but the lake was too deep and too murky.
The watch and the promise it held was gone forever.
For months, Ben felt a profound sense of loss, as
if he had let his father down all over again.
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About a year later, on the very anniversary of his
father's death, Ben was walking along the lake shore, many
miles from where the watch was lost. He was feeling
particularly sad, walking with his head down, talking to his
dad in his mind, telling him how sorry he was
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for being so careless. As he walked, he kicked at
a pile of dark, wet sand. There, half buried in
the wet sand was a silver pocket watch. His heart
pounded in his chest. He picked it up. It was
caked with sand and corroded from what must have been
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years in water, but he could just make out the intricate,
familiar engravings on the back. It was his father's watch.
It was impossible. He held it up to his ear,
his hands shaking, and then he heard it, faintly but clearly,
the watch was ticking. This is what some call a
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physical apport, an impossible gift from across the veil. It
was a father's promise kept in the most miraculous way,
proving that the veil isn't just thin. Sometimes it seems
it can be parted completely by a love that defies
all earthly logic. Time and dis since the journey from
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this life to the next is not a journey into silence,
but into a different kind of communication. Our loved ones
are not gone, They are simply speaking in a different language,
a language of signs, symbols, and love that pierces the
veil in the most personal and goosebump inducing ways. And
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our next segment will journey deeper into what lies beyond
this veil, exploring the very landscape of the afterlife, and
discuss what we can do right here and now to
get in the present when the storms of life feel overwhelming,
and don't forget. Be in that present moment as much
as you can, and sometimes unexpected memories will just come
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into your mind. Those are little calling cards from our
loved ones, piercing the veil, letting you know they're right
here with you. I'd like to I'll tell you an
apport of my own. I was traveling wearing my favorite
pair of gold ear rings, and in the bathroom I
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dropped one of the earrings. I looked everywhere, and I
believed it went down the sink. So I put the
one remaining earring in a little pocket in my suitcase.
In desperation, I did say a little prayer to any
relatives or guides or God, anyone who was listening, because
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I felt terrible losing that single earring. When I got
home from the trip and unpacked my bag, I looked
in the little pocket where I placed the one earring,
and both ear rings were there. It's time for our
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Today we've journeyed through the unseen world. We've heard stories
of the thin veil that separates us from spirit. So
the big question is what lies beyond it. The thousands
and thousands of consistent accounts from near death experiences paint
of vivid and spectacular picture. The key to understanding these
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landscapes is the concept of vibration or frequency. The afterlife
seems to have its own amazing architecture, but it's built
from something very different than physical matter. It's often described
as being made from light, love and from thought itself.
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Intention is the hammer and nails of the spirit world.
What you think, you create, what you feel you attract.
Let me share a few stories that give us some
incredible glimpses. A woman named Mary who had a profound
nd after a serious car accident, She was drawn into
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an incredibly beautiful expanse of landscape. She described it as
a vast, shimmering meadow filled with flowers whose colors she
had never seen on earth. They seemed to glow with
their own internal light. She felt an overwhelming sense of
peace and belonging, and she realized she could move simply
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by thinking, appearing instantly where she intended to be. Another
man after a heart attack described finding himself in a
forest where the trees were ancient and wise, and he
could feel their consciousness. Their leaves were like millions of
tiny green stained glass windows, and the sunlight filtering through
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them created a symphony of light on the forest floor.
He could hear a soft, harmonious hum that he knew
was the life force of the forest itself, a sound
of pure peace. He understood that in the afterlife, nature
isn't something just to look at. It is something you
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are a part of a living, conscious and loving system.
Others describe incredible structures. A man named Thomas experienced an
nd and found himself in what he called a city
of light. These weren't built holdings made from stone or steel,
but massive structures made of pure radiant energy, glowing with
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different hues that pulsed with a quiet, powerful life. He
saw beautiful bridges made of woven light, and towers that
reached into a sky filled with multiple moons and soft
nebula like clouds of color. The beings there also seemed
to be made of light, and they communicated not with words,
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but through a direct transfer of thoughts and feelings. He
felt a profound sense of love and recognition, as if
this city was more real and more like home than
any place he had ever lived on Earth. This realization
that consciousness shapes experience is where the true creative power
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of the soul comes in. This is perfectly illustrated by
the story of an architect named Arthur. On Earth. Arthur
was brilliant but frustrated. His grandest designs were always limited
by budgets, clients, and the laws of physics. His greatest
dream was to build a cathedral, not made of stone,
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but a computerized cathedral of pure light and sound. He
died of a heart attack in his office. Arthur found
himself in a peaceful, dark void. He wasn't scared. He
simply thought about his cathedral. Instantly the structure began to
form around him. He described walls made of solid harmonious
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music and pillars of shimmering, warm light. The stained glass
windows weren't glass at all, They were living portals that
showed beautiful memories from across the universe. The Great Dome
wasn't a ceiling, but an opening into the cosmos itself.
He realized he could change any detail with a single
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focused thought. He wasn't just building his creation in a way,
he was his creation. These stories of expanded senses and
peaceful landscapes are our ultimate destination. But what if, as
souls having a human experience, we can use them here too.
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So many people talk about visualization and the power of gratitude.
If you feel like playing with this sometime, think about
some things you desire and feel the gratitude as if
they've already happened. Now, really soak in that gratitude, put
it out to the universe. On the other side, there
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is no time, and here there is time. So don't
sit around waiting for things to happen. Instead, be amazed
at that thought or picture that you created in your
mind that eventually it did show up in time and space.
I want to share a power full tool that I
just learned this past week. So many of us are
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drawn to shades of the afterlife because we are navigating grief, stress, worry.
If you've ever felt a wave of grief so strong
that it feels like it's going to pull you under,
you know how disorienting it can be. In those moments,
our minds are lost in the past with our memories
and sometimes regrets. We're spiraling into the future with fears.
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The one place we are not is right here and
the safety of the present moment. So I want to
offer you an anchor. It's a technique used by therapists
and counselors all over the world to help people who
are feeling grief, feeling stressed, worried, or overwhelmed. It's called
the five four three two one grounding technique. You can
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do it anywhere, anytime. You can even do it with me. First,
just pause wherever you are, take one slow deep breath. Now,
look around and silently name five things you can see.
Could be a lamp, a book on the table, picture frame,
the color of the wall, your shoes or your toes.
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Just name five separate things. Next, bring your awareness to
your sense of touch. Silently, name four things you can
physically feel. Maybe it's the solid chair beneath you, the
texture of your skin, your feet resting on the floor,
the touch of the cat on your lap, or the
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cool air on your skin. Now listen, quiet your mind
and just listen. What are three things you can hear.
It might be the hum of a refrigerator, a clock
ticking on the wall, a car driving by outside, or
even the sound of your own breathing. Then notice what
you can smell. This one can be subtle. What are
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two things that you can smell right now? Perhaps it's
the scent of your coffee or a nearby flower, or
even just the neutral scent of the air in your room.
Or you can smell your skin and smell the perfume
or shampoo or aftershave you have on. And finally, bring
your awareness to your sense of taste. Name one thing
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you can taste. It could be the lingering taste of
your last meal or drink, or simply the natural taste
of your own mouth. You know what you just did.
You brought all of your focus, all of your awareness,
right back here into the present moment, into this exact second.
You just threw out an anchor. Grief is real and
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it deserves our respect, but you also deserve moments of peace.
This little tool doesn't erase your feelings, but it can
give you a precious moment of stability to catch your
breath and remember that you are safe right here, right
now now. It can be your anchor in any storm.
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Knowing about the other side isn't just about our future comfort.
It's about changing how we live on this side right now.
It calls us to live differently. The stories of near
death experiences are filled with people who are not just
shown a beautiful reality, but were given a new mission.
Do you remember my episode with Daniel Brinkley in nineteen
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seventy five. He was one tough, cynical, skeptical guy who
didn't believe in the afterlife. One day, while on the
phone during a thunderstorm, a bolt of lightning struck the
phone line and hit him directly in the head. He
was even pronounced dead, He traveled through a tunnel and
was met by a being of light who showed him
a panoramic life review. But like many others, his review
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was shown from the perspective of every person that he
had ever interacted with. He was forced to feel the
fear of the people he had bullied and the emotional
pain he had caused his family. After this difficult but
profound lesson, he came back into his body, waking up
in a morgue, but a completely changed man. The bully
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was gone, replaced by a man filled with compassion. Danian
went on to dedicate his life to service, founding a
program called the Twilight Brigade to sit with dying veterans
and hospice care. He still uses his experience to bring
peace to thousands of people at the edge of the veil,
ensuring that they will not die alone. His life is
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a testament to how these glimpses of the unseen world
can inspire a mission of love back here in the
physical world. The journey of understanding is not about leaving
this life behind. It's about living this life more powerfully.
It's about knowing your eternal nature and stepping into your
power as a divine soul having a human experience. It
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is about knowing that that you, my friend, are never
ever alone. A few announcements as we close out our
two hundred and fiftieth episode, Remember our friends at IMS
dot org are having the fiftieth celebration of doctor Raymond
Moody coining the term near death experience. It's a huge
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inspirational services with medium demonstration included. What part of today's
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I read it. I want to leave you with this
powerful quote from brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla. He said, the
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day science begins to study non physical phenomena, it will
make more progress in one decade than in all the
previous centuries of its existence. My friends, today is that day.
We are living in a most exciting time. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Thank you so much for listening to Shades of the
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