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Speaker 4 (00:49):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
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. This episode
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will first air around Christmas time. Now I realize you
may be listening to it another time of the year,
so it's not technically a Christmas episode, but you will
hear some advice from mediums in being in contact with
your own loved ones no matter what time of the
year or what occasion. Also, i'll read to you two
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special near death experiences that come from our friends at IANS.
If you love reading near death experiences, just go to
IANS dot org. That's the International Association for Near Death
Studies and they have a huge database of stories. And then,
in our final segment together, I'd like to take you
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on a little guided imageryence. I'll ask that you have
your eyes closed for this part. Of course, you can
always listen and replay the experience another time. Our first
near death experience comes from a woman who can still
clearly remember what happened to her when she was three
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years old. We lived in Toronto, Ontario, and on this
summer day, I went to the local swimming pool near
our townhouse with my father and my sister. I was
three and my sister was six. We were playing in
the pool for a while when my father said we
needed to get out for fifteen minutes for an adult
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only swim. I wasn't very happy about that because I
wanted to stay in the water and I didn't understand
why the adults couldn't swim with us still in there,
So my sister went and sat on our towels by
the deep end while my dad went for a swim
with his friends. I stood looking into the water near
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or my sister was sitting and thought about jumping in,
and that I could sink to the bottom and when
my feet touched I could push myself straight back up
and pull myself out and no one would even notice.
I wasn't sure if that would work or not, but
before I gave it much thought, I just jumped into
the water. The second I hit the water, I heard
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my sister start yelling for my dad, which was a
good thing because things didn't go as planned. I started
spinning and spinning and couldn't touch anything but water. I
noticed that I was running out of air, and I
thought for a second, uh oh. Then when I was
on the bottom of the pool, I started to feel wonderful.
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I was so relieved that the spinning had stopped. I
got up and kicked something off of my feet, and
I seemed to be able to swim. Now, I figured
I'd better go to the top and pull myself out,
since that was my original plan. I could see my
sister standing by the side of the pool looking at
something on the ground, and my dad and others were
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there looking down too. No one was looking at me,
so I figured they must have seen that I could
swim now and was okay in the water, and they
were busy watching something else. I guessed it must be
fine for me to stay in the water, so I
started to swim around again, but I remembered the look
on my sister's face. She looked scared. I was curious
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about what they were all looking at and decided to
swim back up and see. While I was on my
way up there, I saw a swirl of colors in
the water that turned into people. It seemed very odd,
but I was watching this and never ended up going
back up to see what my sister was looking at.
The people I saw all looked familiar. I had seen
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them before in nativity scenes at Christmas, except now they
were alive and life sized. It was dark around them,
even though it was a nice sunny summer day, but
not pitch black dark. It was dark like when the
lights are off in your house in the middle of
the day. I focused mainly on Mary who was wearing
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a dark blue robe and a lighter veil, but also
noticed a man, Joseph, I assume, in a brown robe
holding a staff. There was a manger, but I didn't
notice if there was a baby in it, and I
don't know if there were more people or animals there.
Mary and Joseph were staring straight down and I just
looked at them, and I was totally confused about what
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they were doing under the water in the pool. Then
it got very bright around them all and they looked up.
Mary smiled at me, and she was so beautiful. What
happened next all seemed to take place in one second.
It's as if Mary's face moved and I could see
behind her eyes was a very bright light, and I
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read recognize that light, and in my head I said, ah,
it's you. I knew her and was so happy to
see her again. I felt so much love and remembered
that I was so important. I just wanted to go
to her, and I did start moving towards her, but
then suddenly I was pulled out of the water and
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was sitting on the side of the pool. I felt
so disappointed. I wanted nothing more than to go to her.
I didn't know who pulled me out of the water.
There was no one behind me, and my dad was
standing by the fence and was very angry and yelling,
which was so out of character for him. My sister
was staring at me angrily with her hands on her hips,
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while my dad was telling me how selfish I was.
Everything looked so hazy compared to the crisp, bright people
I had been looking at under the water. It looked
like my dad had big tears in his eyes, but
I thought maybe it was just being in the water.
I felt so confused. Why was my dad mad at
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me for being in the water when a minute ago
he didn't seem to care while he was busy with
his friends. When he was done scolding me, he walked away.
I looked at my sister, who was still angry, but
then her face softened and she said, were you scared?
I looked around to make sure my dad wasn't near,
and I shook my head and said, no, it was fun.
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Then she yelled at me and said I'd better not
do it ever again. I got down on my knees
near the pool and looked for the people in the water.
I had no idea where they went. I didn't understand
what had just happened. My dad came back and got
upset that I was so close to the water again
and said it was time for us to go home.
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While we walked home, he seemed to be back to
his normal, fun dad self again, and I was so relieved.
But when we walked in the house, he went straight
to my mom and said that he thought he had
lost me. He sounded so upset again. I really felt
like he was making a much bigger deal out of
it than it really was. Later, my mom told me
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that I really upset him and I better not do
anything like that again. A few days later, we went
to my uncle's for dinner and my aunt started asking
me questions. She showed me pictures and statues of Jesus
and she asked me if I saw him that day,
and I said no. She asked me to point at
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who I saw, so I pointed at a nativity scene
and she said, oh, baby Jesus. You saw Baby Jesus.
Then she looked at my mom and dad and said
she died under that water. I didn't understand why seeing
baby Jesus meant that I died as far as I know,
I was very much alive the whole time. No one
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ever questioned me about it again. Over the years, I
would think about civic parts of it that baffled me.
What was under the water that I had to kick
my feet off of? I eventually told myself it must
have been a towel that fell into the water. That's
the only thing that made sense. Why did my dad
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leave me in the water for a while then get
mad at me for being there? None of it made sense.
My dad hardly ever got upset, and this was the
worst I had ever seen him. I didn't understand that
part until years later. Why did I see people under
the water? And why did it feel so good? As
I got older, I thought I must have hallucinated it,
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and maybe the lack of oxygen is what made me
feel good. I didn't understand why I would hallucinate a
Christmas Nativity scene, though, in the middle of summer I
decided that some of it probably would never make sense.
In two thousand and four, my dad had surgery to
remove a tumor from the side of his face. The
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operation was supposed to take about three hours, but the
tumor was more difficult to remove than they thought, and
it took hours longer. His heart stopped for a while
during the surgery, but they were able to get it
going again. When we went to see him afterwards, he
said that during the surgery he was on the ceiling
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watching the doctors operate on him, and he saw his
face be cut open by them. I told him that
maybe it was a dream, but after that knew he
may have had an experience like I did. Also, my
dad saw all of this from above, but he had
gone blind a few years prior to that. My dad
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unfortunately passed away a month later and never came home
from the hospital. In the summer of twenty twenty one,
my sister and I were talking about that day at
the pool and I said that I must have been
really groggy when I got pulled out of the water.
He was shocked by me, saying that she said, you
weren't breathing at all. You needed to be resuscitated. That
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made no sense to me. Months later, when I was
fifty six years old, I stumbled across near death experiences
on YouTube, and it wasn't until I watched quite a
few of them that I realized what actually happened.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That day.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Why I was able to swim if that was actually swimming,
I had kicked my body off my feet, not a towel.
Why when I came to the bottom of the pool
I never had to go up for air. When I
thought I had been pulled out of the water, I
was actually sucked back into my body, which is why
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there was no one around me. My dad did have
tears in his eyes because he thought he had lost me,
and no one could see me in the water because
it was my spirit or consciousness that was in there
having a great time while my body was beingusitated. It
took fifty three years before it all made sense, including
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realizing that my dad really was on the ceiling watching
his own surgery. In my mind, now death is not
scary because we really don't die. In fact, it's going
to be amazing. Reading this story today reminded me of
a man I sat next to on an airplane told
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me the story of when his little boy drowned and
was resuscitated. He said he wasn't scared at all because
the big face in the sun was there and told
him he still had a lot of life to live.
The kid grew up and went on making a difference
with young people, making his father very proud. Let's head
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off to the break and when we come back, you'll
hear another near death experience from a man who never
believed in any of this stuff. We'll be right back.
You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Pirinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain and here's
our next near death experience. Diagnosed terminal with cancer and
in and out of consciousness for several weeks, I had
been told there was no help. I was thirty nine
days into a thirty day life expectancy. I found myself
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in an open expanse of darkness. Oddly, it surrounded me,
and even odder was I could seemingly see three hundred
and sixty degrees without turning myne head. I just knew
it was endless. There was a noise, or maybe best stated,
a vibration or humming sound. The noise didn't scare me,
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In fact, it seemingly calmed me. Down in the distance,
there was a soft and peaceful, reddish glow. It grew
larger and larger. It seemed red, but as I got
closer it appeared peach colored and pink and even maybe orange.
To this date, describing the colors is difficult for me
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because I have never experienced colors so vivid and brilliant,
almost like the phases of a cloud cluttered sunriser sunset,
the way the colors evolve with the sun slipping in
and out and reflecting onto the clouds. I didn't move,
but I could certainly feel the glow getting larger and larger,
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as if I were rushing to it without any effort.
There was no tunnel, as some report. The glow of
red now seemed pinkish and orange and was clearly not
a volcano. But as I peered over my toes, there
was no end below. There was no heat or lava,
just a harmonic hum and a specific odor that I
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didn't recognize. I remember thinking, I don't ever recall smelling
anything in a dream. The smell I could actually taste
like after a thunderstorm, that crisp but refreshed smell. I
wasn't at all frightened. I wasn't confused either. In fact,
I was at the greatest piece I've ever known, without
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any hesitation, A bright light shaped ball or mass appeared
before me, like a giant ball of light swirling into itself,
rotating in nearly every direction, highlighted by blue streaks. It
wasn't perfectly round. It almost appeared jagged and occasionally squeezed
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into almost a thick, doughnut shaped structure of pure energy.
As I focused on this center, it began to distort
and glow brighter, with streaks of blue that began to
outline the shape of a face emerging. The mass of
light increased in brightness continually, but yet it didn't make
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me squint or shield my eyes. It made me feel
better and more peaceful. As it grew in intensity, Suddenly
there was a face that was definitive and energized. It
was a face of an older man, withered in appearance.
His face appeared and consumed the mass of light. His
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hair was longer and had gentle waves, not tight, but
rolling down past what I assumed or shoulders, but unseen
to me. He looked somewhat familiar, or rather felt familiar.
There was a burst or vibration from him that I
could feel down to the very core of my body.
That was the most comfort that I have ever felt.
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It was like a summer breeze in your face, without
a care in the world. I no longer felt physical
pain as I did in my awake state, which had
been so intense. It was just peace, unlike anything I
had ever experienced. Then there were words. There was no speaking,
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as the figure's lips never moved, nor did mine, but
there were words. It was a question, are you ready?
It was vague but decisive, and I felt no ambiguity
in its meaning. My lips didn't move, but I was
able to reply, no, I'm not ready yet. Then more
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words came from him, there is something important you still
need to do. And at the same time I felt
these words, a smile began to form on the man's face,
and more rays of light began to shoot out nearly
every part of his face. I reached for his face,
unafraid but exploring, just without thought, I reached for his
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face and placed my hands on his cheeks. I had
originally thought he would have been well out of my reach,
suspended over the expanse, but he was not. I reached
out slowly and deliberately. My body vibrated, and the light
grew again in intensity and brightness. As his smile expanded,
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I felt as if I was falling but hadn't moved. Suddenly,
there were valleys and mountains and streams and small specks
of numerous people and animals in the expanse below me.
It was brief, but a complete vision of a peaceful place,
void of definable color, but a great source of peace.
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The entire field of view became a white light. I
felt weightless, as in God. There was a sense of speed.
Somehow I felt what seemed like my body was traveling
at speeds bluring my view. Within seconds, I awoke in
my hospital bed. I was scared to suddenly be there,
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yet I still felt peaceful. I immediately assumed my encounter
was a dream. But yet somehow, deep inside me, I
knew it wasn't. Within minutes of this experience, I purposely
and incessantly asked to see all of my doctors and
asked them to explain my options and chances of survival.
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I told them I had to live. I told them
specifically that there was something important I was supposed to do,
and that this day marked the beginning of life saving
treatment that would take nearly three years. There were several
hurdles in those years, including a two month stint in
hospice which I miraculously got better, which is still unexplained
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by my doctors. Around Christmas of twenty thirteen, close to
the three year point, I neared what appeared to be
the end of my battle. I received a homemade calendar,
as usual at Christmas from my mother, with several photographs
on it. As I scanned the calendar, I came across
a picture of a man. I was instantly weakened and
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literally fell back in my seat. I was stunned and
left breathless. That man on that calendar was the same
face in the giant mass of light that I had
experienced at Death's door in my dream. That same face,
but I still didn't know who it was. Once I
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could muster the courage to ask the question, I was
told it was my grandfather. He had died in nineteen
fifty six, well before my birth, and as a result,
he had never been part of my life in stories,
and I had never seen any photographs.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
There was no.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Possible way I could recognize this man. In the next
few months, I discovered the near death experience ND and
its history in our society. I was never a believer
in these events, as perceptual prejudice dictated otherwise, although it
was clear to me at this point that I certainly
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had one. I compared my recorded after effects to several
lists developed by researchers and scientists. As you can imagine,
the changes I documented were exactly the same as millions
of near death experiencers around the world. This realization happened
almost three years from the actual event, exactly the timeframe
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recorded in research, as the time frame the majority of
near death experiencers go through until they're awakening or realization
of the event and acceptance of the same. Without trying,
I had evolved to a higher consciousness, and I had changed.
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I was not a believer in the afterlife. I am now. Obviously,
you can't ignore millions of people who change spontaneously after
a moment like this. It's hard for us to change
anything about ourselves, let alone major shifts in personality since
my awakening. I research, I read, and I learn, and
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I learn and I read. It's not all near death
experienced stuff either, very little is. In fact, it's things
like quantum physics, science, epiphanies of life's greatest questions, and
some questions I never even considered asking. Sometimes they flow
with such ease that I often just burst into laughter.
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Most importantly, a love for others simply cannot ignore. Then
there's the calling. We all experience, the same calling to
better mankind in some way. In fact, it seems this
is the only question I can't answer in life. Is
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the one thing said in my nd I am supposed
to do something important. This remains the caret I chase,
and I am perfectly okay with it, as long as
I keep working towards bettering mankind in some way. Here's
a short end. When I was shot, I recall walking
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through a doorway and a staircase presented itself. I immediately
ascended without thought. On the third step, I hesitated looking
back down, but saw a multitude of souls standing by
what seemed to be a river down below. I turned
and resumed. I assent to the fifth step, where I
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became centered within enlightenment. My universe became clear. I could
see beyond time, and there before me passed my life,
the lives of my parents, the lives of my grandparents,
all my accomplishments, failures, wants, needs, and desires, both past
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and future. It was very beautiful and a loving experience,
and all thought being as one. As I reviewed the
past and the future, it became clear that all was good,
all was in order. I was at peace within the cosmos,
and then I regained consciousness. Here's another short story. A
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gown named Katie says, my grandfather died at the age
of seventy three from a heart attack. He had been
in his garden and asked my grandma to call nine one.
The ambulance arrived and asked if he could climb up
on the gurney himself or not. He said he could.
Then all of a sudden, his eyes got glassy and large,
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as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing, and
then he said Dad, with a huge smile on his face.
He passed away. We'll be right back with four mediums
letting you know how to get in touch with your
own loved one and an experiential journey. You're listening to
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Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of
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the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain and in this segment you're
going to hear from four mediums. Now again, we're recording
this around Christmas time, but I think the advice is
good any time of the year. First will be Scott Billigan,
then Dominic Bogue, then Phil Dyke's, then Carrie McLeod. Here's Scott.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
I think we have to realize that the language of
the spirit is love, and each of us are capable
of love, and therefore we can never lose touch with
the spirit world. You've got to give something over for
the other world to then whisper back. If you can
think of your most powerful happy memory on earth, be
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it's within your childhood or in your adulthood, or somewhere
within your timeline when you have felt absolutely the best
you've ever felt, the happiest you've ever been, and think
of that memory very very strongly. And what that does
is creates a power, and that creates a change within
your atmosphere around you, in your aura. And once you've
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held thought for a few moments, I want you to
then think of the person you're missing today, someone who
now lives and exists within the spirit world, and just
kind of send the thoughts to them and say, Dad,
Mum or whoever it may be, are you there? And
can you fill me? Can you feel this love that
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I'm sending? And I want you just to become bodily
aware of any kind of static or tingle feeling that
you may have. Ordinarily it may be around your head
or around the back of you. And when you get
that tingle, just go, I'm aware. And you may find
that that tingle gets a bit stronger. And sometimes when
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it's with myself and people who are following the altered States,
you may find that that tingle makes you feel a
bit tired, and that tiredness starts to wash a little
bit more deeper with you. But then you can always
ask whoever you're missing, and you can feel them and
you recognize them. Is to say to that loved one,
when you introduce me to the others that stand with me,
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and you may find that your helper then steps forward,
and that tingle may feel different. You may start to
hear your own voice within your head, and that tiredness
gets a bit more deeper. And it's about learning to attune, blend,
and communicate. The ABC of life in Scott's version is ask,
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beg and cry, because how many times as mediums we
ask the spirit world, then we beg the spirit world,
and then when it doesn't work, we cry. But that's
very normal, So try it. When you have a moment,
think of a happy memory which attunes yourself to the power,
and then invite those that you miss and allow them
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to blend. And when they blend with you, that's when
you release those thoughts. I'm aware, and I love you still,
and I love you every moment of my life. And
just on a personal note, everyone, what's talking to you tonight? Sandra,
Dominic and myself all have fathers in the other world,
and it's a painful moment when someone you love that
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goes over.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
But we also still have mothers.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Here and we've got to squeeze every ounce out of
that time. So I invite all of you to squeeze
as much as you can from every situation, and if
they go to the spirit world, sit quietly and listen,
and therefore you will hear. So that's what I'm going
to offer you, my little lovies, and I wish you
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a happy Christmas. As I hand you over to Dominic.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Beautiful Scott, beautiful Ezacha Lake, Scott says, going into that
happy moment or that happy memory from me as a
medium allows the spirit to see your fault and that
allows that loved one to recognize your thinking of me.
Maybe that thinking turns into you are missing me. How
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do we allow the spirit world to you know that
we are thinking of them or missing them? You know,
you may hear crazy people like myself and Scott and
Steven Sandra say talk to them? So do we talk
to them? You may ask. I invite you as the
festive period comes close. This is just something that I've
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done many times on my own. Write a Christmas card
to your loved one, right, a greetings card or a
festive card to maybe your mom, or your son or
your best friend, to maybe is no longer here in
the physical and to spending Christmas in the spirit side
of life. Take a few moments to go into that stillness,
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like Scott said, going into that silence and within your thoughts,
so within your mind where every communication begins. Get your
pen and your card and write out the beautiful messages
that you would like to send to them. But don't
just write express the conversations, right, Maybe down the memories
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that you had with each other. Maybe write down the
last Christmas that you celebrated. Together. When you're writing, you
are becoming aware of your loved ones naturally without even realizing,
and sending that thought to them by reminiscing and almost
having that heart to heart conversation brings them so close
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that maybe your emotions get moved. Maybe other memories will
come from your loved one into your mind, maybe memories
you've forgotten, maybe conversations you forgot you even had. So
take a moment, and that's all it is. Take a
moment and write that Christmas card out to your loved ones,
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and don't forget to sign it at the end with
lots of love. And maybe when the Christmas cards start
to get delivered your friends and your family and maybe
your neighbors, get that Christmas card out that you wrote
for your loved one and put it out underly knowing
that they would have received your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Knowing that they would have watched over your shoulder as
you wrote that beautiful message for them, And just know
that they'll be sending that back to you on the
Christmas when it comes.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
And now here's Phil Dyke's then his beautiful wife Carrie McLeod.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
As a medium, we can work in many different ways.
Tonight was about impressions, clairvoyants, different things. But as we
work with those impressions, we know there's more than just
a picture that we see. We know there's emotional responses
that react within us. So when we receive information, that
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evidence is the feeling within us, emotional states, mental states,
and physical states the directors in the way to use
that information. So we're working within what we call a
spiritual reality. Right now, I'm in what we call the
normal reality, the beta frequency of the mind, where I
can talk to explain things. When we work with the
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spirit world, the mind, the consciousness has moved and we're
working with another reality and we're living it and we're
feeling those emotions, and especially this time of the year,
or leading up to this time of the year, when
we start to remember our loved ones and the interactions
and the experiences and those moments we shared, and it's
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those impressions that we we call back and it helps
us remember who they were, how they inspired us. So
those emotional impressions and feelings are really important because when
we feel a little bit low, the spirit world or
our loved ones react to that because they feel how
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we feel. And when we feel a little bit down,
they choose to come forward through that love, and that's
the greatest feeling of all. And when we've lost somebody
and we're in that club that nobody wants to be
part of, that we call grief, their loved ones come
around us. They uplift us. They try and inspire us
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through music, through memories, through TV programs, and when we
feel those low states, they want to come in and
not just lifter us. They understand that connection, albeit within
a different consciousness. They don't have the physical limitations we have.
The feelings they have are pure unconditional love. Yes, they
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miss us, but it's in a different context because that
love that we have touches their soul still and they
want to be part of that. That's why we get
the contacts we do tonight and other demonstrations is that
need of love upliftment. So if we can have those
feelings towards our loved ones, talk to them, joys with them,
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they come that little bit closer, and especially as we
feel them, because just like a mother with a father,
a mother with a daughter or a son, our love
goes beyond those thoughts that we have and they still
reach out, they still come close to us. If we
can hold that in our hearts, especially at this time,
because sometimes we might be on our own, we can
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realize that we're never on our own. They are only
a thought away.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Whether it's the festive season or any other religious or
family occasion throughout the year, when you don't have somebody
physically here every day, that they're a way that you
would normally celebrate with them can bring onsets of that grief.
I heard once a description of grief that you might
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be able to relate to. Grief is like a box
a cube, and in it is a balloon, and that
balloon is inflated, touching every internal side of that box
or cube, and the inside of that is raw. It's painful.
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Through time, that balloon loses some of it's inflation, so
it doesn't touch all of the sides all of the time,
but boy, when it does, it's just as painful as
the moment it happened. Now, that's a cost, in some
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respects of having loved at a really, really deep level.
So it stands to reason that in order to miss somebody,
we also have to remember somebody I know. I do
this and Phil does this when I feel grief I
also feel thanks and gratitude. It doesn't make the grief
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go away, but it brings more of a balance to
the emotions. I expose myself to emotions of gratitude, of love,
of smiles, and of happy memories. If you have both
of those, it connects you, yes, through the love, but
also through the memories, because if you think about it,
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that's what mediumship is. You meet in the same energetic
memory as your loved one or friend. Imagine being able
to do that for yourself. You can you feel and
think memory and your loved ones join you in that
same energetic experience. So whatever day is the share or next,
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if you ever feel a pang of grief or the
pain of grief, also remember the gratitude of love and
the memories that you shared keeps us together.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
That it does.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Time for a quick break and we'll be right back.
You're listening to Shades of the Apple for Life on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am hair Normal Podcast Network.
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
In our last minutes today, I want to do something
experiential to feel that closer connection with our loved ones.
So find a place to sit where you can close
your eyes for about ten minutes or so, take a
few deep breaths, filling your lungs slowly and then exhaling slowly.
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As you continue need to take those breaths, simply listen
to my words on how we receive information as souls,
whether we are on this side of life or the
other side. We communicate best with our emotions and our imagination.
Our happiest memories and even moments of laughter are like
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knocking on the door to talk with our loved ones. First,
we need to be in the present moment. The human
mind is not easy to slow down. But as we
continue to take those deep breaths, focus on each breath
and how it feels breathing in and breathing out. Now,
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scan how it feels being in your body right now.
If there is any tension or stress, send a deep
breath to that area, and now just let some relaxation
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flow into your chest, into your lungs, down into your body.
Let that relaxation flow into your arms, into your legs,
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into your head and neck, through the feet to the toes,
and even down into your hands and into your fingers.
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As we continue to take those deep breaths, feel your
body being supported, whether on a chair or couch. You
may feel the temperature of the air on your skin,
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and maybe there's some outside noise around you. Just sit
and take it all in in this present moment. Now,
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think of a loved one that no longer walks this earth,
one that you have some favorite, happy or fun shared
memories with. You can imagine them sitting right next to
you and greet them however you would greet them in
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the past. Maybe a big smile comes to your face,
perhaps a hug or holding their hands. Choose a great
memory of a time together, and remember as much as
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you can about it and the joy that it brought
to you. Where were you, what were you both doing,
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Who was there? What was happening that brought so much joy?
Take a moment and recall as much as you can
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and the wonderful emotions of joy, happiness, laughter. As there
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is a big smile on your face right now, your
loved one is by your side. You may wish to
ask them to hold your hand or put their hand
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on your arm, and pay attention to how you feel.
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Perhaps there are some words you have for your loved
one and they have for you. Take a moment and
talk with your loved one and be in their presence.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
M d The river La ne Orbos that would.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Lab your loved one continues to live and they can
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easily be in the world of spirit while keeping a
close eye on our world. Their love for you is eternal.
See that smile on their face as they spend time
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with you, feeling so grateful that you know how to
connect with them. Now, Imagine an upcoming holiday or birthday
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or anne nursery. They tell you they understand that you
miss them, but although you can't see them physically, they
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are still with you in the invisible space around you.
That all you need to do is slow down and
pay attention. Imagine yourself now on that special day, as
you continue to feel your loved one's presence, they remind
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you that your life here on earth is important and
to do your best to experience as much as you can,
to be kind to yourself, to be kind to others,
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and know that you will be together again in a
very special and magical place that will make this life
here on earth seem like it was just a dream.
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My friends, our loved ones are by our sides. All
we need to do is slow down, be present, recall
those emotions and ask them to be with us. Pay
attention in your day to day life. When thoughts and
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memories of a past event with your loved one seem
to come out of the blue, those are their little
calling cards that they are right here with you. Our
time together on this episode has come to an end.
Please continue to know your loved one ones are very
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real and always part of your life. Remember to come
visit me at weedotdie dot com, join me on our
free Sunday gathering with medium demonstration, or take one of
our new classes to experience more of the power of
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your soul. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for
listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and
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Hi.
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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. This episode
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will first air around Christmas time. Now I realize you
may be listening to it another time of the year,
so it's not technically a Christmas episode, but you will
hear some advice from mediums in being in contact with
your own loved ones no matter what time of the
year or what occasion. Also, i'll read to you two
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special near death experiences that come from our friends at IANS.
If you love reading near death experiences, just go to
IANS dot org. That's the International Association for Near Death
Studies and they have a huge database of stories. And then,
in our final segment together, I'd like to take you
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on a little guided imageryence. I'll ask that you have
your eyes closed for this part. Of course, you can
always listen and replay the experience another time. Our first
near death experience comes from a woman who can still
clearly remember what happened to her when she was three
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years old. We lived in Toronto, Ontario, and on this
summer day, I went to the local swimming pool near
our townhouse with my father and my sister. I was
three and my sister was six. We were playing in
the pool for a while when my father said we
needed to get out for fifteen minutes for an adult
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only swim. I wasn't very happy about that because I
wanted to stay in the water and I didn't understand
why the adults couldn't swim with us still in there,
So my sister went and sat on our towels by
the deep end while my dad went for a swim
with his friends. I stood looking into the water near
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or my sister was sitting and thought about jumping in,
and that I could sink to the bottom and when
my feet touched I could push myself straight back up
and pull myself out and no one would even notice.
I wasn't sure if that would work or not, but
before I gave it much thought, I just jumped into
the water. The second I hit the water, I heard
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my sister start yelling for my dad, which was a
good thing because things didn't go as planned. I started
spinning and spinning and couldn't touch anything but water. I
noticed that I was running out of air, and I
thought for a second, uh oh. Then when I was
on the bottom of the pool, I started to feel wonderful.
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I was so relieved that the spinning had stopped. I
got up and kicked something off of my feet, and
I seemed to be able to swim. Now, I figured
I'd better go to the top and pull myself out,
since that was my original plan. I could see my
sister standing by the side of the pool looking at
something on the ground, and my dad and others were
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there looking down too. No one was looking at me,
so I figured they must have seen that I could
swim now and was okay in the water, and they
were busy watching something else. I guessed it must be
fine for me to stay in the water, so I
started to swim around again, but I remembered the look
on my sister's face. She looked scared. I was curious
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about what they were all looking at and decided to
swim back up and see. While I was on my
way up there, I saw a swirl of colors in
the water that turned into people. It seemed very odd,
but I was watching this and never ended up going
back up to see what my sister was looking at.
The people I saw all looked familiar. I had seen
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them before in nativity scenes at Christmas, except now they
were alive and life sized. It was dark around them,
even though it was a nice sunny summer day, but
not pitch black dark. It was dark like when the
lights are off in your house in the middle of
the day. I focused mainly on Mary who was wearing
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a dark blue robe and a lighter veil, but also
noticed a man, Joseph, I assume, in a brown robe
holding a staff. There was a manger, but I didn't
notice if there was a baby in it, and I
don't know if there were more people or animals there.
Mary and Joseph were staring straight down and I just
looked at them, and I was totally confused about what
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they were doing under the water in the pool. Then
it got very bright around them all and they looked up.
Mary smiled at me, and she was so beautiful. What
happened next all seemed to take place in one second.
It's as if Mary's face moved and I could see
behind her eyes was a very bright light, and I
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read recognize that light, and in my head I said, ah,
it's you. I knew her and was so happy to
see her again. I felt so much love and remembered
that I was so important. I just wanted to go
to her, and I did start moving towards her, but
then suddenly I was pulled out of the water and
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was sitting on the side of the pool. I felt
so disappointed. I wanted nothing more than to go to her.
I didn't know who pulled me out of the water.
There was no one behind me, and my dad was
standing by the fence and was very angry and yelling,
which was so out of character for him. My sister
was staring at me angrily with her hands on her hips,
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while my dad was telling me how selfish I was.
Everything looked so hazy compared to the crisp, bright people
I had been looking at under the water. It looked
like my dad had big tears in his eyes, but
I thought maybe it was just being in the water.
I felt so confused. Why was my dad mad at
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me for being in the water when a minute ago
he didn't seem to care while he was busy with
his friends. When he was done scolding me, he walked away.
I looked at my sister, who was still angry, but
then her face softened and she said, were you scared?
I looked around to make sure my dad wasn't near,
and I shook my head and said, no, it was fun.
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Then she yelled at me and said I'd better not
do it ever again. I got down on my knees
near the pool and looked for the people in the water.
I had no idea where they went. I didn't understand
what had just happened. My dad came back and got
upset that I was so close to the water again
and said it was time for us to go home.
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While we walked home, he seemed to be back to
his normal, fun dad self again, and I was so relieved.
But when we walked in the house, he went straight
to my mom and said that he thought he had
lost me. He sounded so upset again. I really felt
like he was making a much bigger deal out of
it than it really was. Later, my mom told me
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that I really upset him and I better not do
anything like that again. A few days later, we went
to my uncle's for dinner and my aunt started asking
me questions. She showed me pictures and statues of Jesus
and she asked me if I saw him that day,
and I said no. She asked me to point at
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who I saw, so I pointed at a nativity scene
and she said, oh, baby Jesus. You saw Baby Jesus.
Then she looked at my mom and dad and said
she died under that water. I didn't understand why seeing
baby Jesus meant that I died as far as I know,
I was very much alive the whole time. No one
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ever questioned me about it again. Over the years, I
would think about civic parts of it that baffled me.
What was under the water that I had to kick
my feet off of? I eventually told myself it must
have been a towel that fell into the water. That's
the only thing that made sense. Why did my dad
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leave me in the water for a while then get
mad at me for being there? None of it made sense.
My dad hardly ever got upset, and this was the
worst I had ever seen him. I didn't understand that
part until years later. Why did I see people under
the water? And why did it feel so good? As
I got older, I thought I must have hallucinated it,
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and maybe the lack of oxygen is what made me
feel good. I didn't understand why I would hallucinate a
Christmas Nativity scene, though, in the middle of summer I
decided that some of it probably would never make sense.
In two thousand and four, my dad had surgery to
remove a tumor from the side of his face. The
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operation was supposed to take about three hours, but the
tumor was more difficult to remove than they thought, and
it took hours longer. His heart stopped for a while
during the surgery, but they were able to get it
going again. When we went to see him afterwards, he
said that during the surgery he was on the ceiling
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watching the doctors operate on him, and he saw his
face be cut open by them. I told him that
maybe it was a dream, but after that knew he
may have had an experience like I did. Also, my
dad saw all of this from above, but he had
gone blind a few years prior to that. My dad
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unfortunately passed away a month later and never came home
from the hospital. In the summer of twenty twenty one,
my sister and I were talking about that day at
the pool and I said that I must have been
really groggy when I got pulled out of the water.
He was shocked by me, saying that she said, you
weren't breathing at all. You needed to be resuscitated. That
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made no sense to me. Months later, when I was
fifty six years old, I stumbled across near death experiences
on YouTube, and it wasn't until I watched quite a
few of them that I realized what actually happened.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That day.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Why I was able to swim if that was actually swimming,
I had kicked my body off my feet, not a towel.
Why when I came to the bottom of the pool
I never had to go up for air. When I
thought I had been pulled out of the water, I
was actually sucked back into my body, which is why
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there was no one around me. My dad did have
tears in his eyes because he thought he had lost me,
and no one could see me in the water because
it was my spirit or consciousness that was in there
having a great time while my body was beingusitated. It
took fifty three years before it all made sense, including
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realizing that my dad really was on the ceiling watching
his own surgery. In my mind, now death is not
scary because we really don't die. In fact, it's going
to be amazing. Reading this story today reminded me of
a man I sat next to on an airplane told
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me the story of when his little boy drowned and
was resuscitated. He said he wasn't scared at all because
the big face in the sun was there and told
him he still had a lot of life to live.
The kid grew up and went on making a difference
with young people, making his father very proud. Let's head
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off to the break and when we come back, you'll
hear another near death experience from a man who never
believed in any of this stuff. We'll be right back.
You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Pirinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain and here's
our next near death experience. Diagnosed terminal with cancer and
in and out of consciousness for several weeks, I had
been told there was no help. I was thirty nine
days into a thirty day life expectancy. I found myself
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in an open expanse of darkness. Oddly, it surrounded me,
and even odder was I could seemingly see three hundred
and sixty degrees without turning myne head. I just knew
it was endless. There was a noise, or maybe best stated,
a vibration or humming sound. The noise didn't scare me,
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In fact, it seemingly calmed me. Down in the distance,
there was a soft and peaceful, reddish glow. It grew
larger and larger. It seemed red, but as I got
closer it appeared peach colored and pink and even maybe orange.
To this date, describing the colors is difficult for me
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because I have never experienced colors so vivid and brilliant,
almost like the phases of a cloud cluttered sunriser sunset,
the way the colors evolve with the sun slipping in
and out and reflecting onto the clouds. I didn't move,
but I could certainly feel the glow getting larger and larger,
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as if I were rushing to it without any effort.
There was no tunnel, as some report. The glow of
red now seemed pinkish and orange and was clearly not
a volcano. But as I peered over my toes, there
was no end below. There was no heat or lava,
just a harmonic hum and a specific odor that I
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didn't recognize. I remember thinking, I don't ever recall smelling
anything in a dream. The smell I could actually taste
like after a thunderstorm, that crisp but refreshed smell. I
wasn't at all frightened. I wasn't confused either. In fact,
I was at the greatest piece I've ever known, without
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any hesitation, A bright light shaped ball or mass appeared
before me, like a giant ball of light swirling into itself,
rotating in nearly every direction, highlighted by blue streaks. It
wasn't perfectly round. It almost appeared jagged and occasionally squeezed
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into almost a thick, doughnut shaped structure of pure energy.
As I focused on this center, it began to distort
and glow brighter, with streaks of blue that began to
outline the shape of a face emerging. The mass of
light increased in brightness continually, but yet it didn't make
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me squint or shield my eyes. It made me feel
better and more peaceful. As it grew in intensity, Suddenly
there was a face that was definitive and energized. It
was a face of an older man, withered in appearance.
His face appeared and consumed the mass of light. His
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hair was longer and had gentle waves, not tight, but
rolling down past what I assumed or shoulders, but unseen
to me. He looked somewhat familiar, or rather felt familiar.
There was a burst or vibration from him that I
could feel down to the very core of my body.
That was the most comfort that I have ever felt.
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It was like a summer breeze in your face, without
a care in the world. I no longer felt physical
pain as I did in my awake state, which had
been so intense. It was just peace, unlike anything I
had ever experienced. Then there were words. There was no speaking,
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as the figure's lips never moved, nor did mine, but
there were words. It was a question, are you ready?
It was vague but decisive, and I felt no ambiguity
in its meaning. My lips didn't move, but I was
able to reply, no, I'm not ready yet. Then more
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words came from him, there is something important you still
need to do. And at the same time I felt
these words, a smile began to form on the man's face,
and more rays of light began to shoot out nearly
every part of his face. I reached for his face,
unafraid but exploring, just without thought, I reached for his
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face and placed my hands on his cheeks. I had
originally thought he would have been well out of my reach,
suspended over the expanse, but he was not. I reached
out slowly and deliberately. My body vibrated, and the light
grew again in intensity and brightness. As his smile expanded,
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I felt as if I was falling but hadn't moved. Suddenly,
there were valleys and mountains and streams and small specks
of numerous people and animals in the expanse below me.
It was brief, but a complete vision of a peaceful place,
void of definable color, but a great source of peace.
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The entire field of view became a white light. I
felt weightless, as in God. There was a sense of speed.
Somehow I felt what seemed like my body was traveling
at speeds bluring my view. Within seconds, I awoke in
my hospital bed. I was scared to suddenly be there,
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yet I still felt peaceful. I immediately assumed my encounter
was a dream. But yet somehow, deep inside me, I
knew it wasn't. Within minutes of this experience, I purposely
and incessantly asked to see all of my doctors and
asked them to explain my options and chances of survival.
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I told them I had to live. I told them
specifically that there was something important I was supposed to do,
and that this day marked the beginning of life saving
treatment that would take nearly three years. There were several
hurdles in those years, including a two month stint in
hospice which I miraculously got better, which is still unexplained
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by my doctors. Around Christmas of twenty thirteen, close to
the three year point, I neared what appeared to be
the end of my battle. I received a homemade calendar,
as usual at Christmas from my mother, with several photographs
on it. As I scanned the calendar, I came across
a picture of a man. I was instantly weakened and
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literally fell back in my seat. I was stunned and
left breathless. That man on that calendar was the same
face in the giant mass of light that I had
experienced at Death's door in my dream. That same face,
but I still didn't know who it was. Once I
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could muster the courage to ask the question, I was
told it was my grandfather. He had died in nineteen
fifty six, well before my birth, and as a result,
he had never been part of my life in stories,
and I had never seen any photographs.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
There was no.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Possible way I could recognize this man. In the next
few months, I discovered the near death experience ND and
its history in our society. I was never a believer
in these events, as perceptual prejudice dictated otherwise, although it
was clear to me at this point that I certainly
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had one. I compared my recorded after effects to several
lists developed by researchers and scientists. As you can imagine,
the changes I documented were exactly the same as millions
of near death experiencers around the world. This realization happened
almost three years from the actual event, exactly the timeframe
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recorded in research, as the time frame the majority of
near death experiencers go through until they're awakening or realization
of the event and acceptance of the same. Without trying,
I had evolved to a higher consciousness, and I had changed.
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I was not a believer in the afterlife. I am now. Obviously,
you can't ignore millions of people who change spontaneously after
a moment like this. It's hard for us to change
anything about ourselves, let alone major shifts in personality since
my awakening. I research, I read, and I learn, and
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I learn and I read. It's not all near death
experienced stuff either, very little is. In fact, it's things
like quantum physics, science, epiphanies of life's greatest questions, and
some questions I never even considered asking. Sometimes they flow
with such ease that I often just burst into laughter.
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Most importantly, a love for others simply cannot ignore. Then
there's the calling. We all experience, the same calling to
better mankind in some way. In fact, it seems this
is the only question I can't answer in life. Is
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the one thing said in my nd I am supposed
to do something important. This remains the caret I chase,
and I am perfectly okay with it, as long as
I keep working towards bettering mankind in some way. Here's
a short end. When I was shot, I recall walking
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through a doorway and a staircase presented itself. I immediately
ascended without thought. On the third step, I hesitated looking
back down, but saw a multitude of souls standing by
what seemed to be a river down below. I turned
and resumed. I assent to the fifth step, where I
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became centered within enlightenment. My universe became clear. I could
see beyond time, and there before me passed my life,
the lives of my parents, the lives of my grandparents,
all my accomplishments, failures, wants, needs, and desires, both past
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and future. It was very beautiful and a loving experience,
and all thought being as one. As I reviewed the
past and the future, it became clear that all was good,
all was in order. I was at peace within the cosmos,
and then I regained consciousness. Here's another short story. A
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gown named Katie says, my grandfather died at the age
of seventy three from a heart attack. He had been
in his garden and asked my grandma to call nine one.
The ambulance arrived and asked if he could climb up
on the gurney himself or not. He said he could.
Then all of a sudden, his eyes got glassy and large,
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as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing, and
then he said Dad, with a huge smile on his face.
He passed away. We'll be right back with four mediums
letting you know how to get in touch with your
own loved one and an experiential journey. You're listening to
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Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of
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the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain and in this segment you're
going to hear from four mediums. Now again, we're recording
this around Christmas time, but I think the advice is
good any time of the year. First will be Scott Billigan,
then Dominic Bogue, then Phil Dyke's, then Carrie McLeod. Here's Scott.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
I think we have to realize that the language of
the spirit is love, and each of us are capable
of love, and therefore we can never lose touch with
the spirit world. You've got to give something over for
the other world to then whisper back. If you can
think of your most powerful happy memory on earth, be
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it's within your childhood or in your adulthood, or somewhere
within your timeline when you have felt absolutely the best
you've ever felt, the happiest you've ever been, and think
of that memory very very strongly. And what that does
is creates a power, and that creates a change within
your atmosphere around you, in your aura. And once you've
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held thought for a few moments, I want you to
then think of the person you're missing today, someone who
now lives and exists within the spirit world, and just
kind of send the thoughts to them and say, Dad,
Mum or whoever it may be, are you there? And
can you fill me? Can you feel this love that
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I'm sending? And I want you just to become bodily
aware of any kind of static or tingle feeling that
you may have. Ordinarily it may be around your head
or around the back of you. And when you get
that tingle, just go, I'm aware. And you may find
that that tingle gets a bit stronger. And sometimes when
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it's with myself and people who are following the altered States,
you may find that that tingle makes you feel a
bit tired, and that tiredness starts to wash a little
bit more deeper with you. But then you can always
ask whoever you're missing, and you can feel them and
you recognize them. Is to say to that loved one,
when you introduce me to the others that stand with me,
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and you may find that your helper then steps forward,
and that tingle may feel different. You may start to
hear your own voice within your head, and that tiredness
gets a bit more deeper. And it's about learning to attune, blend,
and communicate. The ABC of life in Scott's version is ask,
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beg and cry, because how many times as mediums we
ask the spirit world, then we beg the spirit world,
and then when it doesn't work, we cry. But that's
very normal, So try it. When you have a moment,
think of a happy memory which attunes yourself to the power,
and then invite those that you miss and allow them
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to blend. And when they blend with you, that's when
you release those thoughts. I'm aware, and I love you still,
and I love you every moment of my life. And
just on a personal note, everyone, what's talking to you tonight? Sandra,
Dominic and myself all have fathers in the other world,
and it's a painful moment when someone you love that
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goes over.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
But we also still have mothers.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Here and we've got to squeeze every ounce out of
that time. So I invite all of you to squeeze
as much as you can from every situation, and if
they go to the spirit world, sit quietly and listen,
and therefore you will hear. So that's what I'm going
to offer you, my little lovies, and I wish you
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a happy Christmas. As I hand you over to Dominic.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Beautiful Scott, beautiful Ezacha Lake, Scott says, going into that
happy moment or that happy memory from me as a
medium allows the spirit to see your fault and that
allows that loved one to recognize your thinking of me.
Maybe that thinking turns into you are missing me. How
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do we allow the spirit world to you know that
we are thinking of them or missing them? You know,
you may hear crazy people like myself and Scott and
Steven Sandra say talk to them? So do we talk
to them? You may ask. I invite you as the
festive period comes close. This is just something that I've
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done many times on my own. Write a Christmas card
to your loved one, right, a greetings card or a
festive card to maybe your mom, or your son or
your best friend, to maybe is no longer here in
the physical and to spending Christmas in the spirit side
of life. Take a few moments to go into that stillness,
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like Scott said, going into that silence and within your thoughts,
so within your mind where every communication begins. Get your
pen and your card and write out the beautiful messages
that you would like to send to them. But don't
just write express the conversations, right, Maybe down the memories
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that you had with each other. Maybe write down the
last Christmas that you celebrated. Together. When you're writing, you
are becoming aware of your loved ones naturally without even realizing,
and sending that thought to them by reminiscing and almost
having that heart to heart conversation brings them so close
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that maybe your emotions get moved. Maybe other memories will
come from your loved one into your mind, maybe memories
you've forgotten, maybe conversations you forgot you even had. So
take a moment, and that's all it is. Take a
moment and write that Christmas card out to your loved ones,
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and don't forget to sign it at the end with
lots of love. And maybe when the Christmas cards start
to get delivered your friends and your family and maybe
your neighbors, get that Christmas card out that you wrote
for your loved one and put it out underly knowing
that they would have received your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Knowing that they would have watched over your shoulder as
you wrote that beautiful message for them, And just know
that they'll be sending that back to you on the
Christmas when it comes.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
And now here's Phil Dyke's then his beautiful wife Carrie McLeod.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
As a medium, we can work in many different ways.
Tonight was about impressions, clairvoyants, different things. But as we
work with those impressions, we know there's more than just
a picture that we see. We know there's emotional responses
that react within us. So when we receive information, that
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evidence is the feeling within us, emotional states, mental states,
and physical states the directors in the way to use
that information. So we're working within what we call a
spiritual reality. Right now, I'm in what we call the
normal reality, the beta frequency of the mind, where I
can talk to explain things. When we work with the
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spirit world, the mind, the consciousness has moved and we're
working with another reality and we're living it and we're
feeling those emotions, and especially this time of the year,
or leading up to this time of the year, when
we start to remember our loved ones and the interactions
and the experiences and those moments we shared, and it's
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those impressions that we we call back and it helps
us remember who they were, how they inspired us. So
those emotional impressions and feelings are really important because when
we feel a little bit low, the spirit world or
our loved ones react to that because they feel how
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we feel. And when we feel a little bit down,
they choose to come forward through that love, and that's
the greatest feeling of all. And when we've lost somebody
and we're in that club that nobody wants to be
part of, that we call grief, their loved ones come
around us. They uplift us. They try and inspire us
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through music, through memories, through TV programs, and when we
feel those low states, they want to come in and
not just lifter us. They understand that connection, albeit within
a different consciousness. They don't have the physical limitations we have.
The feelings they have are pure unconditional love. Yes, they
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miss us, but it's in a different context because that
love that we have touches their soul still and they
want to be part of that. That's why we get
the contacts we do tonight and other demonstrations is that
need of love upliftment. So if we can have those
feelings towards our loved ones, talk to them, joys with them,
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they come that little bit closer, and especially as we
feel them, because just like a mother with a father,
a mother with a daughter or a son, our love
goes beyond those thoughts that we have and they still
reach out, they still come close to us. If we
can hold that in our hearts, especially at this time,
because sometimes we might be on our own, we can
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realize that we're never on our own. They are only
a thought away.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Whether it's the festive season or any other religious or
family occasion throughout the year, when you don't have somebody
physically here every day, that they're a way that you
would normally celebrate with them can bring onsets of that grief.
I heard once a description of grief that you might
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be able to relate to. Grief is like a box
a cube, and in it is a balloon, and that
balloon is inflated, touching every internal side of that box
or cube, and the inside of that is raw. It's painful.
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Through time, that balloon loses some of it's inflation, so
it doesn't touch all of the sides all of the time,
but boy, when it does, it's just as painful as
the moment it happened. Now, that's a cost, in some
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respects of having loved at a really, really deep level.
So it stands to reason that in order to miss somebody,
we also have to remember somebody I know. I do
this and Phil does this when I feel grief I
also feel thanks and gratitude. It doesn't make the grief
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go away, but it brings more of a balance to
the emotions. I expose myself to emotions of gratitude, of love,
of smiles, and of happy memories. If you have both
of those, it connects you, yes, through the love, but
also through the memories, because if you think about it,
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that's what mediumship is. You meet in the same energetic
memory as your loved one or friend. Imagine being able
to do that for yourself. You can you feel and
think memory and your loved ones join you in that
same energetic experience. So whatever day is the share or next,
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if you ever feel a pang of grief or the
pain of grief, also remember the gratitude of love and
the memories that you shared keeps us together.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
That it does.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Time for a quick break and we'll be right back.
You're listening to Shades of the Apple for Life on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am hair Normal Podcast Network.
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
In our last minutes today, I want to do something
experiential to feel that closer connection with our loved ones.
So find a place to sit where you can close
your eyes for about ten minutes or so, take a
few deep breaths, filling your lungs slowly and then exhaling slowly.
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As you continue need to take those breaths, simply listen
to my words on how we receive information as souls,
whether we are on this side of life or the
other side. We communicate best with our emotions and our imagination.
Our happiest memories and even moments of laughter are like
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knocking on the door to talk with our loved ones. First,
we need to be in the present moment. The human
mind is not easy to slow down. But as we
continue to take those deep breaths, focus on each breath
and how it feels breathing in and breathing out. Now,
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scan how it feels being in your body right now.
If there is any tension or stress, send a deep
breath to that area, and now just let some relaxation
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flow into your chest, into your lungs, down into your body.
Let that relaxation flow into your arms, into your legs,
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into your head and neck, through the feet to the toes,
and even down into your hands and into your fingers.
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As we continue to take those deep breaths, feel your
body being supported, whether on a chair or couch. You
may feel the temperature of the air on your skin,
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and maybe there's some outside noise around you. Just sit
and take it all in in this present moment. Now,
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think of a loved one that no longer walks this earth,
one that you have some favorite, happy or fun shared
memories with. You can imagine them sitting right next to
you and greet them however you would greet them in
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the past. Maybe a big smile comes to your face,
perhaps a hug or holding their hands. Choose a great
memory of a time together, and remember as much as
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you can about it and the joy that it brought
to you. Where were you, what were you both doing,
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Who was there? What was happening that brought so much joy?
Take a moment and recall as much as you can
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and the wonderful emotions of joy, happiness, laughter. As there
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is a big smile on your face right now, your
loved one is by your side. You may wish to
ask them to hold your hand or put their hand
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on your arm, and pay attention to how you feel.
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Perhaps there are some words you have for your loved
one and they have for you. Take a moment and
talk with your loved one and be in their presence.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
M d The river La ne Orbos that would.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Lab your loved one continues to live and they can
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easily be in the world of spirit while keeping a
close eye on our world. Their love for you is eternal.
See that smile on their face as they spend time
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with you, feeling so grateful that you know how to
connect with them. Now, Imagine an upcoming holiday or birthday
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or anne nursery. They tell you they understand that you
miss them, but although you can't see them physically, they
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are still with you in the invisible space around you.
That all you need to do is slow down and
pay attention. Imagine yourself now on that special day, as
you continue to feel your loved one's presence, they remind
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you that your life here on earth is important and
to do your best to experience as much as you can,
to be kind to yourself, to be kind to others,
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and know that you will be together again in a
very special and magical place that will make this life
here on earth seem like it was just a dream.
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My friends, our loved ones are by our sides. All
we need to do is slow down, be present, recall
those emotions and ask them to be with us. Pay
attention in your day to day life. When thoughts and
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memories of a past event with your loved one seem
to come out of the blue, those are their little
calling cards that they are right here with you. Our
time together on this episode has come to an end.
Please continue to know your loved one ones are very
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real and always part of your life. Remember to come
visit me at weedotdie dot com, join me on our
free Sunday gathering with medium demonstration, or take one of
our new classes to experience more of the power of
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your soul. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for
listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and
Coast to Coast, a paranormal podcast network.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
Thanks for listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost
Day and Paranormal podcast network. Make sure and check out
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