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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
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 debt, and so
will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I have
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a special guest today who had a rather unusual start
in believing in the afterlife. Scott Allen is a former
funeral director and embalmer and is now a well known
evidential medium appearing around New England. He is also a
teacher and host of the Enlightened Life podcast and Spirit
(01:22):
Talk Live. Scott is the author of a brand new
book called In the Presence of Light, a funeral director's
journey from Morning to Mediumship. You can find out more
about Scott at his website, which is Mediumscotallan dot com.
Scott my friend, Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, hello, thank you for having me. This is wonderful.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh, I'm so happy to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You had a very unusual start. Tell us a little
bit about you.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I know you're in.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
New England, but tell us a little bit about the backstory,
because this is an unusual one.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, it is a little bit. I grew up in Massachusetts.
I've lived here my whole life. My grandparents owned a
flower shop and we would deliver to the funeral homes together.
And I think that was sort of a point in
which I realized this was the path I needed to
go in, and I thought that I could inject a
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little more compassion into it than I thought I was seeing.
And that wasn't entirely accurate. I was a young mind
that didn't quite have life experience yet to understand. You
can't walk around with grief everybody else's grief all the time.
But I think I was experiencing this empathy, this empathic
side that I didn't even know what it was. It
wasn't a name for it back then. That's what started
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me in the funeral business. And so I got in
and started mowing lawns when I was just sixteen years old.
And one thing led to another. I went to college,
and I went to funeral service school, and you know,
when all was said and done, I owned three funeral
homes and had been on the Massachusetts Board of Directors
for the mass Funeral Directors Association. But all of this
other stuff was starting to happen. I was noticing when
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I was at the funeral home. Then I was aware
of spirit. And as I look back on my life,
I can see that it was like that right from
the beginning, but I didn't recognize it and I did
not know what it was. And then when I got out,
that's when things started to really ramp up a little bit.
But that's how I got into the funeral business, and
I did it for quite a long time.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
How long were you in it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Thirty five years before I got out, so now it
has been over forty.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Years, thank goodness. Now this is kind of a weird question,
but I love people, I love life, but there's something
about the dead bodies, whether it's animals or humans that
I think many of us human beings can't get our
heads around how someone could work in that field, even
though we're grateful that you do. But was that easy
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for you to just go into that? Did you just
care about people knowing that there's still people?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I had sort of convinced myself that I would learn
to deal with that part of it as long as
it meant that I could care for the living. That
was the thing. I was there for the living, and
because that was the primary concern, I would learn to
do whatever else I had to do to do it.
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It wasn't that I wanted anything to do with the deceased.
It was just that's part of the johop. It just
goes with the territory. And so I remember feeling that,
testing the waters a little bit and seeing that. I
felt I was a little in over my head at first,
but over time I got used to that because the
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rest of it was my purpose.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That makes sense. You care about people. I've seen enough
on TV and those who work in funeral homes or
very loving to the bodies. There's still people. The lady
who does my hair, her and her sister, both hairdressers.
In the evening, they'll go to the funeral home. And
they said they talked to the people and they do
their hair and want them to look the best, and
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they believe in the afterlife. So it's nice. It's a
nice tribute. You mentioned, Scott that you started feeling more
being kind of open to the afterlife. What kind of
experiences did you start having that you started looking okay,
there's something more here getting into mediumship. Tell us about
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that journey.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I can go back to the point. I was about
seventeen years old, and I remember we had gotten a
call that someone had passed unexpectedly and it was an
unattended death, and the police had called and asked us
to go to the place where they were waiting, and
I remember asking the man that I work for, how
do they know he's dead? How do they know he's gone?
And he just sort of brushed me off. I said,
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just I mean, I don't know, it's not my part
of the job. Just go. But I couldn't get it
out of my head. And finally he was pulling the
car out of the garage and as I was walking
over to get in the car. The phone rang and
it was the police and they said, don't come. We
found a breath in him, so he was alive still.
And it was this thing that I had been focusing on.
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That's probably one of the earliest recollections, and that was
quite a few years ago, and I didn't chalk it
up to being psychic at all. As time went on,
I remember just knowing that they were around me, and
that's something that's really hard to explain to someone who
doesn't have this ability. But I could feel them. I
knew how tall they were, how short they were. I
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could hear them coming up and down the stairs. And
I still wasn't thinking, my gosh, I must be a medium.
I thought, this place is haunted. This is crazy, because
I had built the place from the ground up. I
learned over time that it wasn't the properties that were haunted.
It was me that was bringing them through. And that
took me a while to kind of figure out. But
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they were there, and I started to notice little things
like that I would catch people out of the corner
of my eye. I would think about someone and I'd
get a call the next day that they had passed away.
There were a lot of different things like that, but
the big ones were just knowing they were there and
being able to actually feel them, the electricity around them,
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and to know that they were around and walking, like
I said, down the hallways, up and down the stairs.
Sometimes I'd smell sense perfumes, colognes. I'm alone. There's no
way I should be smelling that right now. So those
are the kinds of things that started to happen, and
to be honest, it was a little frightening for a while.
It's funny because when I got out of the funeral business,
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that's when things ramped up. And I really wasn't thinking,
oh my, I must be a medium. I'm thinking, what
is this? Why do I have this attachment to me?
Why is this spirit after me? And so I would
go and I reached out to a paranormal group hoping
they would be able to help me, and they couldn't, obviously,
but they did seem to think that it was me
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and not the location, which made me not feel any better.
I have to be honest with you, that was not
something that made me feel good. I wanted to know
that it was just something but not me, you know,
anything but me, because I didn't know how I would
get rid of it, how I would stop it if
it was me.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, Scott, did you ever know anything about the person,
whether you're embalming them or being a funeral director for
the families that maybe you shouldn't have known and just
knew something about the person.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That's a good question, and I don't know if I
can answer that. I guess the answer is I'm not sure.
And the reason is number one. I wasn't thinking that
I had any kind of ability at all. But I
also knew we were in a small town, so I
knew a lot of the people that came through. So
sometimes I already did know things. I knew their family,
but not always. There were moments that I would say,
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more than anything, it was this kind of empathic like,
why do I feel this? Whatever this is? You know,
why do I feel like this? I don't know that
I was getting, you know, memories or thoughts or anything
about them, but I could have been. It's been has
been such a long time. I don't remember that specifically.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
That's no problem. After I'd taken a couple of medium
classes myself, and not that I'm a practicing medium, but
I remember this woman made a delicious fish recipe and
she had told me that her mom had passed and
her adopted mom. Both of them loved to cook. And
I said, oh, which one taught you the fish recipe?
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Was it Doris or Edna? And she looked at me
like that stone cold face, and she says, I never
told you their names, right, so that it gives me
goosebumps to this day. You know, I do think we
are all mediumistic, but do we train ourselves? Do we
tap into it? So that leads me to the next question.
How did you make the from funeral director owning the
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businesses and get into mediumship? You said you started off
with paranormal, but at some point you took medium classes
and said, hey, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well. I had meta medium along the way, and when
nobody could help me, I reached out to her and
I said, listen, I don't know what's going on. I
have this spirit after me. I hope you can help me.
And she's the one that told me I was a medium.
And I thought, oh God, there's no chance I'm a
large There's no way I'm a medium. But you know,
I mean I joke about it, but I really didn't
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believe her. It took a long time for me to
wrap my head around it. And she introduced me to
someone who is a medium and a shaman, and her
thing was helping people open up and control it, because
I definitely needed to have help controlling it. And even
then I was humoring her, but she told me, I
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want you to just practice, like just say, humor me.
You know, have friends of friends you don't know, and
just sit with them and tell them what you get
and see what they understand. So I was sort of
humoring her. I really was. I told friends about this
and that they thought it was funny. They didn't believe
it either, but they would bring their friends over and
I'm coming up with names and you know, all kinds
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of things. And it got to the point where they
were then telling their friends, and their friends were telling
their friends. So now I'm like doing readings all the time.
I don't have time for this. I still have a job,
you know, I still had to work, and so I thought,
maybe there is something to this. So I decided I
would take some classes, and I did, and I ended
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up taking the first one that I could get, which
was actually an advanced Mediumship class, and I thought, I
don't know if I'm going to be able to keep
up with some of these people, but ironically I did,
and I was reading some of the people there and
getting names, and I thought that, you know, this is
just not something I'm used to. So I took a
few more classes and studied with somebody in New Jersey,
studied with Joe Shield from Journey Within in Palmpton Lakes,
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and did some online work and some development circles, and
I started to believe that it was real. But it
took a long time. We're talking a few years before
I really was willing to accept it. Because when you're
a funeral director, you don't talk to the dead people,
they'll run you out of town. I always say you
can join the Lions Club, but that's about as it gets.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You don't get into anything else beyond that, you know.
So I didn't know what was happening. I mean, once
I learned it, I said, okay, I think the thing
that kind of resonated with me is that when everybody
was getting their friends to call me, I thought there's
got to be something to this at that point, and
then I had to learn to trust it.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Don't go anywhere. There's more of my interview with medium
Scott Allen when we get back. You're listening to Shades
of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
a paranormal cast Network.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Stay there, Sandra will be right back. Hey the Coast
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Speaker 1 (13:26):
Hey, this is George Nori and you're listening to the
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Speaker 6 (13:32):
Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Now let's get back to more with Sandra.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and we're here with medium Scott Allen, author of the
new book In the Presence of Light, a funeral director's
journey from morning to mediumship. Scott, you were just talking
about once you learned mediumship.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Once I learned it, I said, okay, I think the
thing that kind of resonated with me is that when
everybody was getting their friends to call me, I said,
there's got to be something to this at that point,
and then I had to learn to trust it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Well, that's it, trust and have confidence, because with every
medium reading is it me Is it my thoughts and
feelings and memories or is it them? And so mediums
are really out in most skinny branches, trusting what they're
getting is for the other person.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Absolutely, And that's why I don't want to know anything
going into a reading, because I have a hard time
understanding what's mine and what they give to me. So
if I know too much, I can't read you to
kind of go in cold, and then I can be
a little more objective.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
That makes sense, Scott, What is it like for you
as a medium? Do you feel? Do you see? Do
you hear? A little bit of all of the above?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
A little bit of everything I hear occasionally, it's funny.
The only one that I can honestly say I don't
get a lot of is the hearing. But when I do,
I trust it because it's so right on. I had
a reading this weekend. I was in Naples, Florida, doing
an event. I was sitting with this woman and I
don't remember who was coming through, it's not important, but
she said, I wonder if there's anybody else here besides
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this person in my head? Said anybody else with you?
And I heard the name George. I went, oh, George
is here, she would, Oh my god, that's my father.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's bizarre, but that happens not all the time. Lately
it's been happening a little more than it used to.
But I see, I'm very visual, clairvoyant, clear cognizant. You
just kind of know. And the sentient is pretty strong too.
And that can mean both physically clear sentient like physical feelings,
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but it can also be emotional. And that's another one.
You know, how do you describe, well, I feel proud,
or I feel love, or I feel whatever it is,
And how do you feel that for some buddy or
something that you don't even know, that you've never met.
It's like it's not yours. They're giving it to you.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And correct me if I'm wrong, But you experience it
like you're in their shoes, Like you could be talking
to someone that you've never met, like you said, and
feel tremendous love for them or whatever that is. Is
that how it occurs for you, like you're in there
it is.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's kind of odd. And not to make it sound
creepy because I bring it on. Oh I know, but
you know, I do a lot of readings by zoom
I read for people all over the place. So if
I'm sitting here, there have been times I've said to people,
my god, I feel like your dad is right here
and I just want to reach through the computer and
give you a big hug. And he's telling me that
he wasn't a hugger. He wasn't even an I love
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you guy. But he's learning from that, and they, oh,
my god, he never was a hugger. It was like
to beg him to give you a hug because he's
doing it now, you know he really knows that, and
you just feel it. I don't know how to explain that.
It's like sitting in a warm bath and you're just
sort of encased in it. I don't know how else
to describe it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
That's okay. That's why I always recommend people take a
course in their psychic and medium abilities. You don't ever
have to go on and be a medium, but just
to know how the spirit world works with us, well.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's difficult for everybody, don't you think. I think I do.
I think it's different from person to person.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, I agree, But just knowing how your soul works
and getting that little taste of knowing something you shouldn't
know or about people. It takes us from a hoping
that there's an afterlife and a faith to really knowing,
because sometimes those images or feelings they give you have
these holy cownt moments like I couldn't possibly know that
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I couldn't possibly have guessed. So would you tell us
some stories? I know the books just come out in
the presence of light. I'm so proud of you for
doing that, for creating it. Tell us some of the stories.
You know that most of our audience here today has
a loved one who has passed. Looking for that evidence
that we go on.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well part of the book. I do share some experiences,
and they're not long. There's short, little experiences that I've
had readings, and you know, the names and places have
been changed, as they say, to protect the innocent. But
I'd love to share one with you that I think
was kind of cute, and if you don't mind, I'll
just read it to you. It's not terribly long, sounds great.
As a psychic medium, I've had the privilege of witnessing
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countless poignant and heartwarming moments, but none quite like the
one I shared with a man named James. He came
to me seeking a connection with his mother, who had
passed away three years earlier. It was a quiet longing
in his eyes, the kind that only comes from missing
someone deeply. I felt her presence almost immediately. She emitted
a warm, loving energy that wrapped around us like a
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familiar embrace. Your mother wants you to know that she
loves you very much, I began, my voice, soft but steady.
She wants to thank you for keeping her at home
with you until the end, she says, she heard you
when you spoke to her, And thank you for playing Elvis.
A flicker of recognition crossed James's face, and his eyes
welled up with a mix of relief and sadness. Thank you,
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he uttered. Then, with a bittersweet smile, he added, you know,
I played Elvis on the radio for her the day
she passed. She loved his music. Was one of the
last things we shared. As we let the moment settle,
I felt a sudden shift in the energy around us. Then,
like the soft tinkling of a bell, I heard gentle laughter,
light and playful, a sound so pure it lifted the
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heavens from the room. She's laughing, I said, my own
smile widening at the unexpected delight. She said, there's something
you all forgot, something about her pantyhose. You forgot to
put them on her. She always wore her pantyhose. James
looked puzzled, furrowing his brow. Pantyhose, he repeated, slowly searching
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his memory. I don't remember anything about that, yes, I confirmed,
feeling the insistence from his mother's spirit. She's quite adamant
about it, and she finds it really amusing that it
was overlooked. Still looking doubtful, James shook his head. I
don't know about that, but I'll call my cousin. He
was one of the pallbearers. Maybe he'll remember something with that.
He stepped outside to make the call. I waited, feeling
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the loving, playful presence of his mother lingering. Her laughter
was an affirmation of contentment, as if she knew the
surprise that was about twentyfold. A few minutes later, James returned,
his face a mixture of disbelief and amazement. You won't
believe this, he said, sinking back into his chair, still
processing what he had just learned. I called my cousin,
and he said. When they closed the casket. Before we
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left for the cemetery, they opened the bottom section to
lower the bed, and that's when the pall bearers noticed
she didn't have any pantyhose or socks on. Her legs
were bare, but they didn't think it was a big deal,
so they didn't mention it to anyone. Ironically, my mother
didn't go anywhere with her pantyhose. We sat there in
silence for a moment, absorbing the weight of this revelation.
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It was as if the room had stilled in reverence
to what had just been shared. That's incredible, James finally said,
his voice hushed with awe. It's like she knew exactly
what happened even after she was gone. I nodded, a
deep sense of connections settling in the room. It's a
reminder that the spirit remains aware of what happens in
this world long after they've left it. Your mother wanted
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to share this with you, to know that she's still
with you, aware of the details of your life, even
finding humor in them. And you know, I find that
a lot in readings is that people will come through
and share moments that you or the sinner has experienced
since the passing of the person that's here. It's really
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about the continuity of consciousness, I think, And in this
particular case, you might say, well, that's not such a
big deal, and it's not. But it's something amusing for
the woman who never left home without her pantios and
then she didn't have them, and to chuckle about it
and to let them know that they've forgotten, not in
a way that was accusatory or mean, but in a
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way that they could understand that she was still very
much aware of what was happening even after she passed.
That's what's so magical and so beautiful about what we do.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That story is priceless because so often you can get
a generic medium reading you know this as well as
I do. To have those specifics and to feel her presence,
I was filled with goosebumps when you talked about the
panty hose, and of course Elvis too. Those are those
little things that no one can know, and they let
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you know I'm still here and talk about your belief
about the hereafter. Clearly we still have our personalities.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, yes we do. I think when we cross it's
more of an a awareness of what our personalities were
when they were here, and how everything we did had
a ripple effect, good and bad. The things we did
that helped people, the things we said that may have
hurt people. That doesn't mean that's how we are, but
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it is what is familiar to us. And I really
believe that. You know, we talk about a judgment and
people have their views about what that judgment really is.
I think we judge ourselves more harshly than anyone else
would judge us, and it's because we have that awareness.
But the sense of humor stays, the quick wit will stay.
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Sometimes there's colorful language and that will stay. And it's
just meant to help the person that's sitting with us
know that we really have the right person. I mean,
let's face it. If you had someone came in that
used four letter words all the time and then they
come to looking like mother Teresa, you're probably not going
to recognize. The pact may give you. Something that's going
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to remind you.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Is your book filled with stories? Tell us what's in it?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
There are stories, there's a lot of stories, but it's
really one chronological story from the time I was a
little boy growing up. My friend John and there's a
story about him in there and how he passed. And
it's a little bit of a ghost story because that's
what it turned out to be at one point, as
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I was figuring out what all of this stuff was about,
and then moving beyond that and working with Spirit and
meeting actress Forbes Riley, who if people don't know who
she is, she's been on the Hallmark Channel, she's been
quite a few different movies, but she's also was one
of the top hosts on QBC and Home Shopping Network.
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She saw millions of dollars worth of stuff, and I
had an opportunity to meet her and read for her
on the air, and that sort of propelled things, and
I started reading for people in Alaska and Canada and
England and where that's in there. So it is a
lot of little stories, but it's one big story. I
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feel like some of this, too, was channeled. There are
readings that I did when I was delivering messages to people,
but I also wrote a poem at the beginning and
a poem at the end, and it's not a book
of poetry at all. There's only two, but I really
feel like they were channeled. One is about being exactly
where you're supposed to be even though you don't see
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it at the time, because we've all had those moments
that are difficult, right, I call them desert periods. And
then the other is waking up a new light in
the presence of light, because you are now exactly where
you're supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
There are some very wise and warm words coming from
you today, Scott. It is time for our break, So
when we get back, we'll talk more and perhaps even
hear those poems. We'll be right back. You're listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Stay right there, there's more Sandra coming right out, the
best afterlife information you can get.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, you're alarm.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Shades of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Hey everyone, it's producer Tom of Coast to Coast AM
and more Sandra starts right now.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and we're here with medium Scott Allen, and he just
said within the pages of his book In the Presence
of Light, he's got two poems.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
One is about being exactly where you're supposed to be,
even though you don't see it at the time, because
we've all had those moments that are difficult, right, I
call them desert periods. And then the other is waking
up a new light in the presence of light, because
you are now exactly where you're supposed to be and
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everywhere in between. In that book is this story of
transformation and change, and I think a lot of people
can resonate with this. May not be the stories of
the same, but we've all had moments where we've thought,
why is this happening to me? And you realize later
on that it was all meant for a reason.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah, I agree with you in the toughest times that
we can make no sense out of a couple of
years down the road looking back, and you say, oh
my gosh, this is what I learned. And the next
thing you know, you're sitting next to somebody on an airplane.
These are my stories, and I realize I'm just where
I need to be at the time. Because I'd not
gone through that, I could never have this conversation and
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I could never make a difference. So trust the process.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Can I read you a short little poem there? Yes,
And this is one of those I really feel like
it's channeled. It's the first poem in the book, and
it's called the Passing of Time. It says time moves quietly,
almost unnoticed, carrying us forward. Days slip through our hands
like leaves in a breeze, with moments collecting in the
corners of our memory. We watch ourselves change, evolving with
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every passing year. The laughter, the heartache, the moments of stillness.
Each one shapes us that we don't always see it.
With every ending, there is a sense of loss, a
quiet letting go of who we were, of the familiar,
the comfortable. But in that letting go, there is also
space space for something new to emerge. A new chapter begins,
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quietly at first, but filled with possibility. We walk forward,
leaving parts of our ourselves behind. Time passes, but it
does not leave us empty. It carries us to where
we were meant to be, into the light of a
new beginning, where we find ourselves once again in a
form we never could have imagined. And that's how I
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start the book, because that really is what happened. That
is my story, sort of in a nutshell, all this
stuff that I went through from the time I was
a little boy, until I discovered what mediumship was and
that I was a part of this. There were many
times I thought, why am I here? Why am I unhappy?
Why is this not where I want to be? Why
am I having to do this? And yet I can
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look back now and say it was preparing me for
something I never could have imagined.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Beautiful words. So we should all just kind of trust
the process. Obviously, we need to take action towards our dreams,
need to be proactive, not just sit around waiting for
the life and universe to happen to us. But really,
to just get where you are is okay, and it's
part of a bigger purpose.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I don't think anyone gets dragged along to a place
where they don't want to be, because I think that's
part of what makes this so magical and special, is
that spirit will point you in the direction, but it
will also somehow change your outlook so that it is
something that becomes your hope and dreams. I mean, I
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can't imagine doing anything other than I do now, except
there was a time when I couldn't imagine ever doing
what I do now. So I think they adjust you
to go along with your purpose.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I like it, how would you recommend people stay in
touch with their loved ones who have passed. Do you
think they're always around us, keeping the eye on us.
Can we just talk to them?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I believe so. And you know, just sort of funny.
I had reading here with three sisters came up to
visit me from New Jersey and while they were in
the car, they were talking about different things that they
wanted to do, you know, whether was to I don't
even remember, take a trip, go, you know, whatever it was.
And when they got here, Mom came through and brattled
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off four or five things that they had just been
talking about in the car. That is the proof that
they really are with us. I believe they are with us,
and they're not somewhere else. They're just here. All you
have to do is talk. But I think we all
have the power to be a little psychic, a little mediumistic.
I think the key is to just stop, breathe and
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listen to the quiet, you know, whether it's soft music, meditate,
whatever it is that you do, stop and shut the
world off. Because they will talk to you. You just
have to ask and trust and trust. Absolutely. Trust is
such a big thing.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
You could get a thought from a past vacation or
something you did together, or you laughed till you cried.
Sometimes thoughts and memories come out of nowhere and we
chalk it off, Oh that's just our imagination. But I
think those are their little calling cards. Remember when we
did this, Remember when we did that?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And I love those things.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
It's true. It wasn't a thought in your head a
moment ago, and it's a thought now, and that's sometimes
planted there.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
That's how they communicate beautiful words. Scott, with our time left.
Your website is Mediumscottallen dot com. We can find your
book there in the Presence of Light and on Amazon
and everywhere you buy books. But also you're a host
of two podcasts. Will you tell us a bit about
them and what we can find on your site?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yes, absolutely so, Spirit Talk Live. I believe we'll be
sunseted this year. I think we're moving beyond that. That
is the live version of a podcast where people can
call in and talk. But I've moved on and I
think I'm constantly evolving. The Enlightened Life podcast is audio only,
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but I've been able to reach professionals from all over
the world who are doing this work and it's about
empowering people to believe in the power of spirit, to
believe in themselves. So the Enlightened Life podcast is every
Thursday morning. It'll go live at five point thirty Eastern,
but they've been recorded ahead of time.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And what can people find listening to the podcasts? Is
it similar to finding out about the afterlife? What life
is about, tips and things for living in an empowered life,
all those sort of things.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
All that kind of stuff. I mean, not everyone that
comes on as a medium, but a lot of them
are very much centered and connected to this world, the
world of spirituality. But we have different you know, as
we have a woman that's coming on that is a
real expert in taro. I've had one that came on
from Australia who somehow connects spirituality and yoga and all
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of these other things. So it's there, you know what
I mean, They're all there. And we've had people come
on that have worked with people who have had near
death experiences, and so that's kind of the gist of it.
But it's not all mediums.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Which is good. I always like to recommend good people,
good podcasts. Now people are listening to this one, I
trust they like it, but there's other topics and things
that maybe I don't discuss that maybe you will, right,
So it's nice. So that's the Enlightened Life podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Enlightened Life.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
The easiest way to find them is through your website
Mediumscottallan dot com and Alan is a la m.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yes, and they can also go on there and book
a reading with me if they want, or book me
for a live event. I do travel. I just got
home from Naples. I'll be in Colorado Springs in June,
and I'm kind of everywhere in between in the short term.
But yeah, and also I have my show. One of
my episodes is coming out February first, I think Saturday
at nine pm, and that is through Paraflex, but will
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also be on Amazon Prime Video once the entire season
is uploaded. So that's called Dark Echos, So that'll be
out as well.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Dark Echoes. Okay, and now it's already out for the
people that are listening to this right now, you'll have
it on your site right.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I will put a link to it on my site.
There is a streaming service called Paraflex for people to
like go stuff. It won't just be there, it's going
to be on Amazon Prime Video, but only after the
full season has been released on Paraflex will they get
it on prime video?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
And what's the context of the show?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
They picked me up, dropped me down into place and
say what's here?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Pretty much, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, this particular episode took place in Bath, Pennsylvania, at
a restaurant called the Bath Exchange, and they've been having
some issues with spirits and a little bit of Poldergeist
activity going on there as well. And I don't know
anything going in, so they don't share anything with me.
But I went in and did a tour with the
owner and was sharing things that she was able to
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make sense of. And it's just an interesting concept. We
begin filming season two next month.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I love it. I'm proud of you. I'm being bold
asking this, but could you read the poem that's in
the end of your book?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I would love to, so, Like I said, there's only
two and the one is.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
What you said. But you'd started us off right, and
they had that beautiful story to the woman without the
pantios and Elvis, my soul.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Is telling me to ask you, okay, the one at
the end of the book, and this is how the
book closes, and it's called in the Presence of Light.
Just like the book, there comes a moment, after the
years of waiting, of searching, and the quiet ache that
lingers behind every choice, a moment when you step forward,
not because the path is clear, but because you are
no longer afraid the pain of the past, the weight
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of all you've carried no longer holds you. It was
never meant to to find you. It shaped you, yes,
but it is not who you are. You were always
meant to be more, something brighter, something real, something waiting
just beneath the surface. And now, as you stand in
the presence of light, you see it for the first time,
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the truth of who you are, unfiltered, unafraid, unapologetic. This
is not a beginning, but a return to the self
you've always known, to the life you were always meant
to live. The struggle fades, the questions fall away, and
you stand fully present in the light of your own becoming.
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And that's the poem.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
I love that well, Scott. It was fantastic talking to
you today. Any closing words.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
For our listener, just believe in the power, spirit, and
trust because they are there with all of us. It's
not just you and I that have this ability to
be connected. We are all connected, I think sometimes we
just don't see it. Believe with all your heart that
our loved ones are still with us, but also in
a place of eyes and imaginable beauty. So just remember
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they are okay, and you too may get that message
if you just open your heart to it and believe
beautiful words.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Thank you so much, Scott for being our guest.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
What a joy it is talk with Scott. Remember I've
told you in the past to book a medium reading
with someone who offers that ten minute guarantee. If you're
not getting your evidence within the first ten minutes, you
tell the medium the reading comes to an end and
you don't pay. He has that ten minute guarantee. We're
off to the break and when we get back, we'll
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hear some stories that show that love is not just
with us during our life, but at the end of
our life. We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades
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Speaker 4 (40:04):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and as we've heard from medium Scott Allen, our loved
ones are all around us. They continue their journey in
the afterlife, but they can easily keep one eye on us.
We always have monthly classes at Weedn'tdie dot com where
you can tap into your medium abilities, and then also
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our free Sunday gathering of course, so you can see
mediums in action and maybe get a reading yourself. But
one of the things taught in our medium classes by
our great teachers Carrie McLeod and Phil dikes Is. It's
not about the pictures that come into your head. It's
more about feelings and emotions. So try this. When you're
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talking to your loved one and you're quiet in your mind,
you're getting in that present moment and you want a
sign that they're close by, pay attention to your belly.
Now I say belly meaning your gut, your feelings. Don't
look for pictures in your head. How do you feel?
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And it may come right down to, oh, I'm feeling
a little hungry. But when you're that present through your feelings,
suddenly memories might come out of the blue, Joyful emotions
might come in. You might start seeing pictures of maybe
a shared memory together. It all starts in your gut.
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You've heard of gut instinct, Well, this is gut communication.
So come join one of our classes sometime and you
can discover that for yourself. So, as we've heard so
far on this episode, our loved ones join us in life.
They witness what we're doing. They're part of our lives.
They're also part of our deaths. No one dies alone. Next,
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I'm just going to read some short stories of people
who have witnessed their loved ones passing and those heavenly
visitors that help across the veil. The first person says,
when I worked for hospice, one of my patients sat
up in bed with a look of joy. He exclaimed
that they were all in the room. I asked who
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all of my old cowboy buddies? He said he had
worked all of his adult life on a ranch out west.
He sat there in his hospice bed, reaching out his hand,
gripping hands in the air. He couldn't get over how
many of his old buddies had come. He laid back
with a huge, contented sigh and smiled at me and asked,
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isn't my horse beautiful? He said quite clearly that they
told him they brought his horse because it was time
for him to ride. He closed his eyes and was
dead within the hour. I have never seen such a
beautiful passing in my life. Here's another. I took care
of my mom for the last three years of her life.
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She had stage four pancreatic and liver cancer. She was
in terrible pain in her last days. On the evening
she passed, she raised straight up out of bed, pointed
toward the wall, and in a questioning voice, she said Bobby. Again,
she said Bobby. Then in a more relaxed, excited voice,
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she said Bobby. Bobby was my father, who passed away
in nineteen eighty one. Next, my great grandmother said before
she passed that her beloved husband was standing at the
end of the bed waiting to take her with him.
He had passed eighteen months earlier. She outstretched her arms
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and sat up with the most beautiful, radiant smile, and
passed away just before she fell back on the pillow,
still smiling with a peaceful glow about her. Next, this
person says, my little cousin suffered severe brain damage in
a car wreck when he was in high school and
had been completely unresponsive for fifteen years. X rays showed
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his brain had liquefied, yet the exact moment he died,
he opened his eyes wide and just got the biggest
smile I've ever seen and let out his last breath.
He was seeing and responding to something beyond our world. Next,
my father was very weak and was not communicating well
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in his final days. Just before he died, he pushed
aside his oxygen and spoke clearly to an unseen person
in his hospital room. He said, but I'm not ready.
He was silent for a moment, as if listening to
someone speak. Then he said, with gentleness and acceptance, okay.
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And he was gone. Two weeks before, a close elderly
friend of mine passed away. She was in the hospital
for several days for proceed I came for a hospital
visit and she was crying when I entered the room.
She had seen her late brother in law standing by
her bed, smiling at her. She was taking no pain meds,
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and she was in a very sound, clear state of mind.
She insisted that he had been there. She saw him
as clearly as she saw me. She was so happy
and was convinced he had visited to comfort her in
her last days. She passed away about twelve days later,
absolutely resolute that she was going to be greeted by
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family when she crossed over. Next, I worked for hospice.
My best was Harry, a stroke victim who saw his
late sister Bernice, standing at a gate at the foot
of his bed. Oddly, during that time, his wife, he
called her Mommy, came down with pneumonia and died suddenly herself. Afterwards,
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he would say, today, Mommy is standing with Bernice at
the gate. He joined them shortly afterwards. When my own
mother passed, a snow had fallen the night before. At
the moment she passed, on a windless day, a snow
covered shrub outside of her window rattled and shook off
its snow cap. I believe it was her soul flying
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through the window. Here's another A close friend's grandmother was
basically comatose for about two days prior to her death.
Suddenly she sat up, put her arms out and said, Mama, Mama.
She went back down and that was it. She passed
right then. Another says my mom was home in hospice
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and one night she looked up at the ceiling and said, look, look,
they're all waiting for me. She named my late brother
and some other folks who had died next. I have
worked in healthcare for over forty years, including a few
years as a nurse in hospice. I can honestly say
we see our loved ones before we die. I think
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the most beautiful example I witnessed was a dying man
who broke out a huge smile and began waving and said,
I can't wait to see you. I asked who he
was waving and talking to, and he said my baby boy,
who died when he was just a few days old.
I was not surprised to hear he passed less than
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twenty four hours later. Next my ninety six year old
mom recently passed. She was the most beautiful person inside
and out. Before she passed, she pointed to the corner
of the room and said her deceased mother, brother, husband
were all there and they want her to go with them.
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I feel so blessed to have been able to have
been there to see this. She also said there were
two other people she didn't know. I missed my mom
so much, but I know she's with people she loved dearly.
When my grandmother passed, I was sitting by her bed
reading Out of the Blue. She yelled, Lovey, which was
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her deceased sister. It's been a long time. I stopped
reading and listened to her side of the conversation. I
knew then she didn't have much time left. She passed
early the next morning. Here's another My mom passed away
two weeks ago. Two days before she told me that
Andy was right there beside her that was my brother
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that died from drowning in nineteen sixty. He was only
six years old when he died. I believe she did
indeed see him. Her mind was good up until the end,
so I don't believe she was imagining that. Next, my
dad kept seeing a tunnel before he passed away. He
kept saying, I see a light, I see a tunnel.
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He was looking at a blank wall, but smiling at
the time. He passed from cancer three days later. Next,
my sister saw my grandparents the day before she died
of breast cancer at only thirty six years old. She
was talking to them and having a conversation while our mother,
their daughter, and I were in the room with her. Next,
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when my grandfather was really ill in the hospital, my
dad and I went to visit him. He was talking
to my dad when suddenly looked to the doorway and asked,
what are you doing here? My dad and I looked
at each other, confused as there was nobody at the door.
He turned to my dad and said, tell your sister
to get some rest. She's sick and doesn't need to
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travel so far to visit me. Here's the thing we
hadn't told my grandfather that she passed the night before,
but he saw her. He too passed a few days later.
Here's another. My mother told me about my grandfather's unexpected death.
He had a massive heart attack and was barely conscious,
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flat on his back on the living room floor. Suddenly
he sat straight up while looking at a blank wall
and sounding really surprised and happy. He said, well, hi.
He instantly fell back and died. Clearly he recognized someone
who made him happy. Here's another. I witnessed this phenomenon
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when my mother passed away. She had a quiet conversation
with two deceased brothers with whom she was especially close.
She paused to listen to them as they spoke to her.
Though their voices were inaudible to me, there were subtle
shifts in her facial expression as they conversed. They seemed
to be greeting and reassuring her. She said she was
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ready to go with them. Shortly after she passed away,
I felt an overwhelming presence in the room that's difficult
to describe, and I know they were there. And another.
My grandmother had been sick for years with cancer, and
the night before she died, she was telling everyone how
her four brothers were in her room that morning, and
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they had died years earlier. She was gone the next day.
Next here's a different kind of story. I had major
heart surgery in early February twenty twenty four and coded
three times while I was under My paternal grandmother, who
had died in the sixties, was in front of a
gate with her arms folded in a stern look on
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her face. She said to me, you have to go back.
It's not your time. You have work to do. My
family members think that the drugs made me crazy, but
I know what I saw and what I heard. I
will never change my story. Friends, be sure to come
visit me at We Don'tdie dot com. At the bottom
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of the page, enter your name an email address, and
I've got some great free afterlife goodies for you. Remember,
though our loved ones may not be seen, they walk
beside us, cheering us on in every moment, and when
the time comes, they'll be right there to embrace us
with open arms and take us back home. I'm Sandra Champlain.
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
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 debt, and so
will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I have
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a special guest today who had a rather unusual start
in believing in the afterlife. Scott Allen is a former
funeral director and embalmer and is now a well known
evidential medium appearing around New England. He is also a
teacher and host of the Enlightened Life podcast and Spirit
(01:22):
Talk Live. Scott is the author of a brand new
book called In the Presence of Light, a funeral director's
journey from Morning to Mediumship. You can find out more
about Scott at his website, which is Mediumscotallan dot com.
Scott my friend, Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, hello, thank you for having me. This is wonderful.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh, I'm so happy to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You had a very unusual start. Tell us a little
bit about you.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I know you're in.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
New England, but tell us a little bit about the backstory,
because this is an unusual one.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, it is a little bit. I grew up in Massachusetts.
I've lived here my whole life. My grandparents owned a
flower shop and we would deliver to the funeral homes together.
And I think that was sort of a point in
which I realized this was the path I needed to
go in, and I thought that I could inject a
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little more compassion into it than I thought I was seeing.
And that wasn't entirely accurate. I was a young mind
that didn't quite have life experience yet to understand. You
can't walk around with grief everybody else's grief all the time.
But I think I was experiencing this empathy, this empathic
side that I didn't even know what it was. It
wasn't a name for it back then. That's what started
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me in the funeral business. And so I got in
and started mowing lawns when I was just sixteen years old.
And one thing led to another. I went to college,
and I went to funeral service school, and you know,
when all was said and done, I owned three funeral
homes and had been on the Massachusetts Board of Directors
for the mass Funeral Directors Association. But all of this
other stuff was starting to happen. I was noticing when
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I was at the funeral home. Then I was aware
of spirit. And as I look back on my life,
I can see that it was like that right from
the beginning, but I didn't recognize it and I did
not know what it was. And then when I got out,
that's when things started to really ramp up a little bit.
But that's how I got into the funeral business, and
I did it for quite a long time.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
How long were you in it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Thirty five years before I got out, so now it
has been over forty.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Years, thank goodness. Now this is kind of a weird question,
but I love people, I love life, but there's something
about the dead bodies, whether it's animals or humans that
I think many of us human beings can't get our
heads around how someone could work in that field, even
though we're grateful that you do. But was that easy
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for you to just go into that? Did you just
care about people knowing that there's still people?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I had sort of convinced myself that I would learn
to deal with that part of it as long as
it meant that I could care for the living. That
was the thing. I was there for the living, and
because that was the primary concern, I would learn to
do whatever else I had to do to do it.
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It wasn't that I wanted anything to do with the deceased.
It was just that's part of the johop. It just
goes with the territory. And so I remember feeling that,
testing the waters a little bit and seeing that. I
felt I was a little in over my head at first,
but over time I got used to that because the
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rest of it was my purpose.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That makes sense. You care about people. I've seen enough
on TV and those who work in funeral homes or
very loving to the bodies. There's still people. The lady
who does my hair, her and her sister, both hairdressers.
In the evening, they'll go to the funeral home. And
they said they talked to the people and they do
their hair and want them to look the best, and
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they believe in the afterlife. So it's nice. It's a
nice tribute. You mentioned, Scott that you started feeling more
being kind of open to the afterlife. What kind of
experiences did you start having that you started looking okay,
there's something more here getting into mediumship. Tell us about
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that journey.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I can go back to the point. I was about
seventeen years old, and I remember we had gotten a
call that someone had passed unexpectedly and it was an
unattended death, and the police had called and asked us
to go to the place where they were waiting, and
I remember asking the man that I work for, how
do they know he's dead? How do they know he's gone?
And he just sort of brushed me off. I said,
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just I mean, I don't know, it's not my part
of the job. Just go. But I couldn't get it
out of my head. And finally he was pulling the
car out of the garage and as I was walking
over to get in the car. The phone rang and
it was the police and they said, don't come. We
found a breath in him, so he was alive still.
And it was this thing that I had been focusing on.
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That's probably one of the earliest recollections, and that was
quite a few years ago, and I didn't chalk it
up to being psychic at all. As time went on,
I remember just knowing that they were around me, and
that's something that's really hard to explain to someone who
doesn't have this ability. But I could feel them. I
knew how tall they were, how short they were. I
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could hear them coming up and down the stairs. And
I still wasn't thinking, my gosh, I must be a medium.
I thought, this place is haunted. This is crazy, because
I had built the place from the ground up. I
learned over time that it wasn't the properties that were haunted.
It was me that was bringing them through. And that
took me a while to kind of figure out. But
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they were there, and I started to notice little things
like that I would catch people out of the corner
of my eye. I would think about someone and I'd
get a call the next day that they had passed away.
There were a lot of different things like that, but
the big ones were just knowing they were there and
being able to actually feel them, the electricity around them,
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and to know that they were around and walking, like
I said, down the hallways, up and down the stairs.
Sometimes I'd smell sense perfumes, colognes. I'm alone. There's no
way I should be smelling that right now. So those
are the kinds of things that started to happen, and
to be honest, it was a little frightening for a while.
It's funny because when I got out of the funeral business,
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that's when things ramped up. And I really wasn't thinking,
oh my, I must be a medium. I'm thinking, what
is this? Why do I have this attachment to me?
Why is this spirit after me? And so I would
go and I reached out to a paranormal group hoping
they would be able to help me, and they couldn't, obviously,
but they did seem to think that it was me
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and not the location, which made me not feel any better.
I have to be honest with you, that was not
something that made me feel good. I wanted to know
that it was just something but not me, you know,
anything but me, because I didn't know how I would
get rid of it, how I would stop it if
it was me.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, Scott, did you ever know anything about the person,
whether you're embalming them or being a funeral director for
the families that maybe you shouldn't have known and just
knew something about the person.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That's a good question, and I don't know if I
can answer that. I guess the answer is I'm not sure.
And the reason is number one. I wasn't thinking that
I had any kind of ability at all. But I
also knew we were in a small town, so I
knew a lot of the people that came through. So
sometimes I already did know things. I knew their family,
but not always. There were moments that I would say,
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more than anything, it was this kind of empathic like,
why do I feel this? Whatever this is? You know,
why do I feel like this? I don't know that
I was getting, you know, memories or thoughts or anything
about them, but I could have been. It's been has
been such a long time. I don't remember that specifically.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
That's no problem. After I'd taken a couple of medium
classes myself, and not that I'm a practicing medium, but
I remember this woman made a delicious fish recipe and
she had told me that her mom had passed and
her adopted mom. Both of them loved to cook. And
I said, oh, which one taught you the fish recipe?
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Was it Doris or Edna? And she looked at me
like that stone cold face, and she says, I never
told you their names, right, so that it gives me
goosebumps to this day. You know, I do think we
are all mediumistic, but do we train ourselves? Do we
tap into it? So that leads me to the next question.
How did you make the from funeral director owning the
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businesses and get into mediumship? You said you started off
with paranormal, but at some point you took medium classes
and said, hey, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well. I had meta medium along the way, and when
nobody could help me, I reached out to her and
I said, listen, I don't know what's going on. I
have this spirit after me. I hope you can help me.
And she's the one that told me I was a medium.
And I thought, oh God, there's no chance I'm a
large There's no way I'm a medium. But you know,
I mean I joke about it, but I really didn't
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believe her. It took a long time for me to
wrap my head around it. And she introduced me to
someone who is a medium and a shaman, and her
thing was helping people open up and control it, because
I definitely needed to have help controlling it. And even
then I was humoring her, but she told me, I
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want you to just practice, like just say, humor me.
You know, have friends of friends you don't know, and
just sit with them and tell them what you get
and see what they understand. So I was sort of
humoring her. I really was. I told friends about this
and that they thought it was funny. They didn't believe
it either, but they would bring their friends over and
I'm coming up with names and you know, all kinds
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of things. And it got to the point where they
were then telling their friends, and their friends were telling
their friends. So now I'm like doing readings all the time.
I don't have time for this. I still have a job,
you know, I still had to work, and so I thought,
maybe there is something to this. So I decided I
would take some classes, and I did, and I ended
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up taking the first one that I could get, which
was actually an advanced Mediumship class, and I thought, I
don't know if I'm going to be able to keep
up with some of these people, but ironically I did,
and I was reading some of the people there and
getting names, and I thought that, you know, this is
just not something I'm used to. So I took a
few more classes and studied with somebody in New Jersey,
studied with Joe Shield from Journey Within in Palmpton Lakes,
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and did some online work and some development circles, and
I started to believe that it was real. But it
took a long time. We're talking a few years before
I really was willing to accept it. Because when you're
a funeral director, you don't talk to the dead people,
they'll run you out of town. I always say you
can join the Lions Club, but that's about as it gets.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You don't get into anything else beyond that, you know.
So I didn't know what was happening. I mean, once
I learned it, I said, okay, I think the thing
that kind of resonated with me is that when everybody
was getting their friends to call me, I thought there's
got to be something to this at that point, and
then I had to learn to trust it.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Don't go anywhere. There's more of my interview with medium
Scott Allen when we get back. You're listening to Shades
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Now let's get back to more with Sandra.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and we're here with medium Scott Allen, author of the
new book In the Presence of Light, a funeral director's
journey from morning to mediumship. Scott, you were just talking
about once you learned mediumship.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Once I learned it, I said, okay, I think the
thing that kind of resonated with me is that when
everybody was getting their friends to call me, I said,
there's got to be something to this at that point,
and then I had to learn to trust it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Well, that's it, trust and have confidence, because with every
medium reading is it me Is it my thoughts and
feelings and memories or is it them? And so mediums
are really out in most skinny branches, trusting what they're
getting is for the other person.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Absolutely, And that's why I don't want to know anything
going into a reading, because I have a hard time
understanding what's mine and what they give to me. So
if I know too much, I can't read you to
kind of go in cold, and then I can be
a little more objective.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
That makes sense, Scott, What is it like for you
as a medium? Do you feel? Do you see? Do
you hear? A little bit of all of the above?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
A little bit of everything I hear occasionally, it's funny.
The only one that I can honestly say I don't
get a lot of is the hearing. But when I do,
I trust it because it's so right on. I had
a reading this weekend. I was in Naples, Florida, doing
an event. I was sitting with this woman and I
don't remember who was coming through, it's not important, but
she said, I wonder if there's anybody else here besides
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this person in my head? Said anybody else with you?
And I heard the name George. I went, oh, George
is here, she would, Oh my god, that's my father.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's bizarre, but that happens not all the time. Lately
it's been happening a little more than it used to.
But I see, I'm very visual, clairvoyant, clear cognizant. You
just kind of know. And the sentient is pretty strong too.
And that can mean both physically clear sentient like physical feelings,
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but it can also be emotional. And that's another one.
You know, how do you describe, well, I feel proud,
or I feel love, or I feel whatever it is,
And how do you feel that for some buddy or
something that you don't even know, that you've never met.
It's like it's not yours. They're giving it to you.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And correct me if I'm wrong, But you experience it
like you're in their shoes, Like you could be talking
to someone that you've never met, like you said, and
feel tremendous love for them or whatever that is. Is
that how it occurs for you, like you're in there
it is.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's kind of odd. And not to make it sound
creepy because I bring it on. Oh I know, but
you know, I do a lot of readings by zoom
I read for people all over the place. So if
I'm sitting here, there have been times I've said to people,
my god, I feel like your dad is right here
and I just want to reach through the computer and
give you a big hug. And he's telling me that
he wasn't a hugger. He wasn't even an I love
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you guy. But he's learning from that, and they, oh,
my god, he never was a hugger. It was like
to beg him to give you a hug because he's
doing it now, you know he really knows that, and
you just feel it. I don't know how to explain that.
It's like sitting in a warm bath and you're just
sort of encased in it. I don't know how else
to describe it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
That's okay. That's why I always recommend people take a
course in their psychic and medium abilities. You don't ever
have to go on and be a medium, but just
to know how the spirit world works with us, well.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's difficult for everybody, don't you think. I think I do.
I think it's different from person to person.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, I agree, But just knowing how your soul works
and getting that little taste of knowing something you shouldn't
know or about people. It takes us from a hoping
that there's an afterlife and a faith to really knowing,
because sometimes those images or feelings they give you have
these holy cownt moments like I couldn't possibly know that
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I couldn't possibly have guessed. So would you tell us
some stories? I know the books just come out in
the presence of light. I'm so proud of you for
doing that, for creating it. Tell us some of the stories.
You know that most of our audience here today has
a loved one who has passed. Looking for that evidence
that we go on.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well part of the book. I do share some experiences,
and they're not long. There's short, little experiences that I've
had readings, and you know, the names and places have
been changed, as they say, to protect the innocent. But
I'd love to share one with you that I think
was kind of cute, and if you don't mind, I'll
just read it to you. It's not terribly long, sounds great.
As a psychic medium, I've had the privilege of witnessing
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countless poignant and heartwarming moments, but none quite like the
one I shared with a man named James. He came
to me seeking a connection with his mother, who had
passed away three years earlier. It was a quiet longing
in his eyes, the kind that only comes from missing
someone deeply. I felt her presence almost immediately. She emitted
a warm, loving energy that wrapped around us like a
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familiar embrace. Your mother wants you to know that she
loves you very much, I began, my voice, soft but steady.
She wants to thank you for keeping her at home
with you until the end, she says, she heard you
when you spoke to her, And thank you for playing Elvis.
A flicker of recognition crossed James's face, and his eyes
welled up with a mix of relief and sadness. Thank you,
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he uttered. Then, with a bittersweet smile, he added, you know,
I played Elvis on the radio for her the day
she passed. She loved his music. Was one of the
last things we shared. As we let the moment settle,
I felt a sudden shift in the energy around us. Then,
like the soft tinkling of a bell, I heard gentle laughter,
light and playful, a sound so pure it lifted the
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heavens from the room. She's laughing, I said, my own
smile widening at the unexpected delight. She said, there's something
you all forgot, something about her pantyhose. You forgot to
put them on her. She always wore her pantyhose. James
looked puzzled, furrowing his brow. Pantyhose, he repeated, slowly searching
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his memory. I don't remember anything about that, yes, I confirmed,
feeling the insistence from his mother's spirit. She's quite adamant
about it, and she finds it really amusing that it
was overlooked. Still looking doubtful, James shook his head. I
don't know about that, but I'll call my cousin. He
was one of the pallbearers. Maybe he'll remember something with that.
He stepped outside to make the call. I waited, feeling
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the loving, playful presence of his mother lingering. Her laughter
was an affirmation of contentment, as if she knew the
surprise that was about twentyfold. A few minutes later, James returned,
his face a mixture of disbelief and amazement. You won't
believe this, he said, sinking back into his chair, still
processing what he had just learned. I called my cousin,
and he said. When they closed the casket. Before we
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left for the cemetery, they opened the bottom section to
lower the bed, and that's when the pall bearers noticed
she didn't have any pantyhose or socks on. Her legs
were bare, but they didn't think it was a big deal,
so they didn't mention it to anyone. Ironically, my mother
didn't go anywhere with her pantyhose. We sat there in
silence for a moment, absorbing the weight of this revelation.
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It was as if the room had stilled in reverence
to what had just been shared. That's incredible, James finally said,
his voice hushed with awe. It's like she knew exactly
what happened even after she was gone. I nodded, a
deep sense of connections settling in the room. It's a
reminder that the spirit remains aware of what happens in
this world long after they've left it. Your mother wanted
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to share this with you, to know that she's still
with you, aware of the details of your life, even
finding humor in them. And you know, I find that
a lot in readings is that people will come through
and share moments that you or the sinner has experienced
since the passing of the person that's here. It's really
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about the continuity of consciousness, I think, And in this
particular case, you might say, well, that's not such a
big deal, and it's not. But it's something amusing for
the woman who never left home without her pantios and
then she didn't have them, and to chuckle about it
and to let them know that they've forgotten, not in
a way that was accusatory or mean, but in a
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way that they could understand that she was still very
much aware of what was happening even after she passed.
That's what's so magical and so beautiful about what we do.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That story is priceless because so often you can get
a generic medium reading you know this as well as
I do. To have those specifics and to feel her presence,
I was filled with goosebumps when you talked about the
panty hose, and of course Elvis too. Those are those
little things that no one can know, and they let
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you know I'm still here and talk about your belief
about the hereafter. Clearly we still have our personalities.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, yes we do. I think when we cross it's
more of an a awareness of what our personalities were
when they were here, and how everything we did had
a ripple effect, good and bad. The things we did
that helped people, the things we said that may have
hurt people. That doesn't mean that's how we are, but
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it is what is familiar to us. And I really
believe that. You know, we talk about a judgment and
people have their views about what that judgment really is.
I think we judge ourselves more harshly than anyone else
would judge us, and it's because we have that awareness.
But the sense of humor stays, the quick wit will stay.
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Sometimes there's colorful language and that will stay. And it's
just meant to help the person that's sitting with us
know that we really have the right person. I mean,
let's face it. If you had someone came in that
used four letter words all the time and then they
come to looking like mother Teresa, you're probably not going
to recognize. The pact may give you. Something that's going
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to remind you.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Is your book filled with stories? Tell us what's in it?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
There are stories, there's a lot of stories, but it's
really one chronological story from the time I was a
little boy growing up. My friend John and there's a
story about him in there and how he passed. And
it's a little bit of a ghost story because that's
what it turned out to be at one point, as
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I was figuring out what all of this stuff was about,
and then moving beyond that and working with Spirit and
meeting actress Forbes Riley, who if people don't know who
she is, she's been on the Hallmark Channel, she's been
quite a few different movies, but she's also was one
of the top hosts on QBC and Home Shopping Network.
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She saw millions of dollars worth of stuff, and I
had an opportunity to meet her and read for her
on the air, and that sort of propelled things, and
I started reading for people in Alaska and Canada and
England and where that's in there. So it is a
lot of little stories, but it's one big story. I
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feel like some of this, too, was channeled. There are
readings that I did when I was delivering messages to people,
but I also wrote a poem at the beginning and
a poem at the end, and it's not a book
of poetry at all. There's only two, but I really
feel like they were channeled. One is about being exactly
where you're supposed to be even though you don't see
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it at the time, because we've all had those moments
that are difficult, right, I call them desert periods. And
then the other is waking up a new light in
the presence of light, because you are now exactly where
you're supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
There are some very wise and warm words coming from
you today, Scott. It is time for our break, So
when we get back, we'll talk more and perhaps even
hear those poems. We'll be right back. You're listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Stay right there, there's more Sandra coming right out, the
best afterlife information you can get.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, you're alarm.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Shades of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Hey everyone, it's producer Tom of Coast to Coast AM
and more Sandra starts right now.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and we're here with medium Scott Allen, and he just
said within the pages of his book In the Presence
of Light, he's got two poems.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
One is about being exactly where you're supposed to be,
even though you don't see it at the time, because
we've all had those moments that are difficult, right, I
call them desert periods. And then the other is waking
up a new light in the presence of light, because
you are now exactly where you're supposed to be and
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everywhere in between. In that book is this story of
transformation and change, and I think a lot of people
can resonate with this. May not be the stories of
the same, but we've all had moments where we've thought,
why is this happening to me? And you realize later
on that it was all meant for a reason.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah, I agree with you in the toughest times that
we can make no sense out of a couple of
years down the road looking back, and you say, oh
my gosh, this is what I learned. And the next
thing you know, you're sitting next to somebody on an airplane.
These are my stories, and I realize I'm just where
I need to be at the time. Because I'd not
gone through that, I could never have this conversation and
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I could never make a difference. So trust the process.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Can I read you a short little poem there? Yes,
And this is one of those I really feel like
it's channeled. It's the first poem in the book, and
it's called the Passing of Time. It says time moves quietly,
almost unnoticed, carrying us forward. Days slip through our hands
like leaves in a breeze, with moments collecting in the
corners of our memory. We watch ourselves change, evolving with
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every passing year. The laughter, the heartache, the moments of stillness.
Each one shapes us that we don't always see it.
With every ending, there is a sense of loss, a
quiet letting go of who we were, of the familiar,
the comfortable. But in that letting go, there is also
space space for something new to emerge. A new chapter begins,
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quietly at first, but filled with possibility. We walk forward,
leaving parts of our ourselves behind. Time passes, but it
does not leave us empty. It carries us to where
we were meant to be, into the light of a
new beginning, where we find ourselves once again in a
form we never could have imagined. And that's how I
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start the book, because that really is what happened. That
is my story, sort of in a nutshell, all this
stuff that I went through from the time I was
a little boy, until I discovered what mediumship was and
that I was a part of this. There were many
times I thought, why am I here? Why am I unhappy?
Why is this not where I want to be? Why
am I having to do this? And yet I can
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look back now and say it was preparing me for
something I never could have imagined.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Beautiful words. So we should all just kind of trust
the process. Obviously, we need to take action towards our dreams,
need to be proactive, not just sit around waiting for
the life and universe to happen to us. But really,
to just get where you are is okay, and it's
part of a bigger purpose.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I don't think anyone gets dragged along to a place
where they don't want to be, because I think that's
part of what makes this so magical and special, is
that spirit will point you in the direction, but it
will also somehow change your outlook so that it is
something that becomes your hope and dreams. I mean, I
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can't imagine doing anything other than I do now, except
there was a time when I couldn't imagine ever doing
what I do now. So I think they adjust you
to go along with your purpose.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I like it, how would you recommend people stay in
touch with their loved ones who have passed. Do you
think they're always around us, keeping the eye on us.
Can we just talk to them?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I believe so. And you know, just sort of funny.
I had reading here with three sisters came up to
visit me from New Jersey and while they were in
the car, they were talking about different things that they
wanted to do, you know, whether was to I don't
even remember, take a trip, go, you know, whatever it was.
And when they got here, Mom came through and brattled
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off four or five things that they had just been
talking about in the car. That is the proof that
they really are with us. I believe they are with us,
and they're not somewhere else. They're just here. All you
have to do is talk. But I think we all
have the power to be a little psychic, a little mediumistic.
I think the key is to just stop, breathe and
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listen to the quiet, you know, whether it's soft music, meditate,
whatever it is that you do, stop and shut the
world off. Because they will talk to you. You just
have to ask and trust and trust. Absolutely. Trust is
such a big thing.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
You could get a thought from a past vacation or
something you did together, or you laughed till you cried.
Sometimes thoughts and memories come out of nowhere and we
chalk it off, Oh that's just our imagination. But I
think those are their little calling cards. Remember when we
did this, Remember when we did that?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And I love those things.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
It's true. It wasn't a thought in your head a
moment ago, and it's a thought now, and that's sometimes
planted there.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
That's how they communicate beautiful words. Scott, with our time left.
Your website is Mediumscottallen dot com. We can find your
book there in the Presence of Light and on Amazon
and everywhere you buy books. But also you're a host
of two podcasts. Will you tell us a bit about
them and what we can find on your site?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yes, absolutely so, Spirit Talk Live. I believe we'll be
sunseted this year. I think we're moving beyond that. That
is the live version of a podcast where people can
call in and talk. But I've moved on and I
think I'm constantly evolving. The Enlightened Life podcast is audio only,
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but I've been able to reach professionals from all over
the world who are doing this work and it's about
empowering people to believe in the power of spirit, to
believe in themselves. So the Enlightened Life podcast is every
Thursday morning. It'll go live at five point thirty Eastern,
but they've been recorded ahead of time.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And what can people find listening to the podcasts? Is
it similar to finding out about the afterlife? What life
is about, tips and things for living in an empowered life,
all those sort of things.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
All that kind of stuff. I mean, not everyone that
comes on as a medium, but a lot of them
are very much centered and connected to this world, the
world of spirituality. But we have different you know, as
we have a woman that's coming on that is a
real expert in taro. I've had one that came on
from Australia who somehow connects spirituality and yoga and all
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of these other things. So it's there, you know what
I mean, They're all there. And we've had people come
on that have worked with people who have had near
death experiences, and so that's kind of the gist of it.
But it's not all mediums.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Which is good. I always like to recommend good people,
good podcasts. Now people are listening to this one, I
trust they like it, but there's other topics and things
that maybe I don't discuss that maybe you will, right,
So it's nice. So that's the Enlightened Life podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Enlightened Life.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
The easiest way to find them is through your website
Mediumscottallan dot com and Alan is a la m.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yes, and they can also go on there and book
a reading with me if they want, or book me
for a live event. I do travel. I just got
home from Naples. I'll be in Colorado Springs in June,
and I'm kind of everywhere in between in the short term.
But yeah, and also I have my show. One of
my episodes is coming out February first, I think Saturday
at nine pm, and that is through Paraflex, but will
(35:02):
also be on Amazon Prime Video once the entire season
is uploaded. So that's called Dark Echos, So that'll be
out as well.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Dark Echoes. Okay, and now it's already out for the
people that are listening to this right now, you'll have
it on your site right.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I will put a link to it on my site.
There is a streaming service called Paraflex for people to
like go stuff. It won't just be there, it's going
to be on Amazon Prime Video, but only after the
full season has been released on Paraflex will they get
it on prime video?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
And what's the context of the show?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
They picked me up, dropped me down into place and
say what's here?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Pretty much, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, this particular episode took place in Bath, Pennsylvania, at
a restaurant called the Bath Exchange, and they've been having
some issues with spirits and a little bit of Poldergeist
activity going on there as well. And I don't know
anything going in, so they don't share anything with me.
But I went in and did a tour with the
owner and was sharing things that she was able to
(36:03):
make sense of. And it's just an interesting concept. We
begin filming season two next month.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I love it. I'm proud of you. I'm being bold
asking this, but could you read the poem that's in
the end of your book?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I would love to, so, Like I said, there's only
two and the one is.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
What you said. But you'd started us off right, and
they had that beautiful story to the woman without the
pantios and Elvis, my soul.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Is telling me to ask you, okay, the one at
the end of the book, and this is how the
book closes, and it's called in the Presence of Light.
Just like the book, there comes a moment, after the
years of waiting, of searching, and the quiet ache that
lingers behind every choice, a moment when you step forward,
not because the path is clear, but because you are
no longer afraid the pain of the past, the weight
(36:50):
of all you've carried no longer holds you. It was
never meant to to find you. It shaped you, yes,
but it is not who you are. You were always
meant to be more, something brighter, something real, something waiting
just beneath the surface. And now, as you stand in
the presence of light, you see it for the first time,
(37:11):
the truth of who you are, unfiltered, unafraid, unapologetic. This
is not a beginning, but a return to the self
you've always known, to the life you were always meant
to live. The struggle fades, the questions fall away, and
you stand fully present in the light of your own becoming.
(37:31):
And that's the poem.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
I love that well, Scott. It was fantastic talking to
you today. Any closing words.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
For our listener, just believe in the power, spirit, and
trust because they are there with all of us. It's
not just you and I that have this ability to
be connected. We are all connected, I think sometimes we
just don't see it. Believe with all your heart that
our loved ones are still with us, but also in
a place of eyes and imaginable beauty. So just remember
(38:02):
they are okay, and you too may get that message
if you just open your heart to it and believe
beautiful words.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Thank you so much, Scott for being our guest.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
What a joy it is talk with Scott. Remember I've
told you in the past to book a medium reading
with someone who offers that ten minute guarantee. If you're
not getting your evidence within the first ten minutes, you
tell the medium the reading comes to an end and
you don't pay. He has that ten minute guarantee. We're
off to the break and when we get back, we'll
(38:38):
hear some stories that show that love is not just
with us during our life, but at the end of
our life. We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades
of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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Speaker 4 (40:04):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and as we've heard from medium Scott Allen, our loved
ones are all around us. They continue their journey in
the afterlife, but they can easily keep one eye on us.
We always have monthly classes at Weedn'tdie dot com where
you can tap into your medium abilities, and then also
(40:26):
our free Sunday gathering of course, so you can see
mediums in action and maybe get a reading yourself. But
one of the things taught in our medium classes by
our great teachers Carrie McLeod and Phil dikes Is. It's
not about the pictures that come into your head. It's
more about feelings and emotions. So try this. When you're
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talking to your loved one and you're quiet in your mind,
you're getting in that present moment and you want a
sign that they're close by, pay attention to your belly.
Now I say belly meaning your gut, your feelings. Don't
look for pictures in your head. How do you feel?
(41:09):
And it may come right down to, oh, I'm feeling
a little hungry. But when you're that present through your feelings,
suddenly memories might come out of the blue, Joyful emotions
might come in. You might start seeing pictures of maybe
a shared memory together. It all starts in your gut.
(41:30):
You've heard of gut instinct, Well, this is gut communication.
So come join one of our classes sometime and you
can discover that for yourself. So, as we've heard so
far on this episode, our loved ones join us in life.
They witness what we're doing. They're part of our lives.
They're also part of our deaths. No one dies alone. Next,
(41:52):
I'm just going to read some short stories of people
who have witnessed their loved ones passing and those heavenly
visitors that help across the veil. The first person says,
when I worked for hospice, one of my patients sat
up in bed with a look of joy. He exclaimed
that they were all in the room. I asked who
(42:13):
all of my old cowboy buddies? He said he had
worked all of his adult life on a ranch out west.
He sat there in his hospice bed, reaching out his hand,
gripping hands in the air. He couldn't get over how
many of his old buddies had come. He laid back
with a huge, contented sigh and smiled at me and asked,
(42:38):
isn't my horse beautiful? He said quite clearly that they
told him they brought his horse because it was time
for him to ride. He closed his eyes and was
dead within the hour. I have never seen such a
beautiful passing in my life. Here's another. I took care
of my mom for the last three years of her life.
(43:00):
She had stage four pancreatic and liver cancer. She was
in terrible pain in her last days. On the evening
she passed, she raised straight up out of bed, pointed
toward the wall, and in a questioning voice, she said Bobby. Again,
she said Bobby. Then in a more relaxed, excited voice,
(43:24):
she said Bobby. Bobby was my father, who passed away
in nineteen eighty one. Next, my great grandmother said before
she passed that her beloved husband was standing at the
end of the bed waiting to take her with him.
He had passed eighteen months earlier. She outstretched her arms
(43:45):
and sat up with the most beautiful, radiant smile, and
passed away just before she fell back on the pillow,
still smiling with a peaceful glow about her. Next, this
person says, my little cousin suffered severe brain damage in
a car wreck when he was in high school and
had been completely unresponsive for fifteen years. X rays showed
(44:10):
his brain had liquefied, yet the exact moment he died,
he opened his eyes wide and just got the biggest
smile I've ever seen and let out his last breath.
He was seeing and responding to something beyond our world. Next,
my father was very weak and was not communicating well
(44:31):
in his final days. Just before he died, he pushed
aside his oxygen and spoke clearly to an unseen person
in his hospital room. He said, but I'm not ready.
He was silent for a moment, as if listening to
someone speak. Then he said, with gentleness and acceptance, okay.
(44:51):
And he was gone. Two weeks before, a close elderly
friend of mine passed away. She was in the hospital
for several days for proceed I came for a hospital
visit and she was crying when I entered the room.
She had seen her late brother in law standing by
her bed, smiling at her. She was taking no pain meds,
(45:13):
and she was in a very sound, clear state of mind.
She insisted that he had been there. She saw him
as clearly as she saw me. She was so happy
and was convinced he had visited to comfort her in
her last days. She passed away about twelve days later,
absolutely resolute that she was going to be greeted by
(45:36):
family when she crossed over. Next, I worked for hospice.
My best was Harry, a stroke victim who saw his
late sister Bernice, standing at a gate at the foot
of his bed. Oddly, during that time, his wife, he
called her Mommy, came down with pneumonia and died suddenly herself. Afterwards,
(45:58):
he would say, today, Mommy is standing with Bernice at
the gate. He joined them shortly afterwards. When my own
mother passed, a snow had fallen the night before. At
the moment she passed, on a windless day, a snow
covered shrub outside of her window rattled and shook off
its snow cap. I believe it was her soul flying
(46:20):
through the window. Here's another A close friend's grandmother was
basically comatose for about two days prior to her death.
Suddenly she sat up, put her arms out and said, Mama, Mama.
She went back down and that was it. She passed
right then. Another says my mom was home in hospice
(46:41):
and one night she looked up at the ceiling and said, look, look,
they're all waiting for me. She named my late brother
and some other folks who had died next. I have
worked in healthcare for over forty years, including a few
years as a nurse in hospice. I can honestly say
we see our loved ones before we die. I think
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the most beautiful example I witnessed was a dying man
who broke out a huge smile and began waving and said,
I can't wait to see you. I asked who he
was waving and talking to, and he said my baby boy,
who died when he was just a few days old.
I was not surprised to hear he passed less than
(47:24):
twenty four hours later. Next my ninety six year old
mom recently passed. She was the most beautiful person inside
and out. Before she passed, she pointed to the corner
of the room and said her deceased mother, brother, husband
were all there and they want her to go with them.
(47:44):
I feel so blessed to have been able to have
been there to see this. She also said there were
two other people she didn't know. I missed my mom
so much, but I know she's with people she loved dearly.
When my grandmother passed, I was sitting by her bed
reading Out of the Blue. She yelled, Lovey, which was
(48:04):
her deceased sister. It's been a long time. I stopped
reading and listened to her side of the conversation. I
knew then she didn't have much time left. She passed
early the next morning. Here's another My mom passed away
two weeks ago. Two days before she told me that
Andy was right there beside her that was my brother
(48:28):
that died from drowning in nineteen sixty. He was only
six years old when he died. I believe she did
indeed see him. Her mind was good up until the end,
so I don't believe she was imagining that. Next, my
dad kept seeing a tunnel before he passed away. He
kept saying, I see a light, I see a tunnel.
(48:49):
He was looking at a blank wall, but smiling at
the time. He passed from cancer three days later. Next,
my sister saw my grandparents the day before she died
of breast cancer at only thirty six years old. She
was talking to them and having a conversation while our mother,
their daughter, and I were in the room with her. Next,
(49:12):
when my grandfather was really ill in the hospital, my
dad and I went to visit him. He was talking
to my dad when suddenly looked to the doorway and asked,
what are you doing here? My dad and I looked
at each other, confused as there was nobody at the door.
He turned to my dad and said, tell your sister
to get some rest. She's sick and doesn't need to
(49:34):
travel so far to visit me. Here's the thing we
hadn't told my grandfather that she passed the night before,
but he saw her. He too passed a few days later.
Here's another. My mother told me about my grandfather's unexpected death.
He had a massive heart attack and was barely conscious,
(49:54):
flat on his back on the living room floor. Suddenly
he sat straight up while looking at a blank wall
and sounding really surprised and happy. He said, well, hi.
He instantly fell back and died. Clearly he recognized someone
who made him happy. Here's another. I witnessed this phenomenon
(50:15):
when my mother passed away. She had a quiet conversation
with two deceased brothers with whom she was especially close.
She paused to listen to them as they spoke to her.
Though their voices were inaudible to me, there were subtle
shifts in her facial expression as they conversed. They seemed
to be greeting and reassuring her. She said she was
(50:38):
ready to go with them. Shortly after she passed away,
I felt an overwhelming presence in the room that's difficult
to describe, and I know they were there. And another.
My grandmother had been sick for years with cancer, and
the night before she died, she was telling everyone how
her four brothers were in her room that morning, and
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they had died years earlier. She was gone the next day.
Next here's a different kind of story. I had major
heart surgery in early February twenty twenty four and coded
three times while I was under My paternal grandmother, who
had died in the sixties, was in front of a
gate with her arms folded in a stern look on
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her face. She said to me, you have to go back.
It's not your time. You have work to do. My
family members think that the drugs made me crazy, but
I know what I saw and what I heard. I
will never change my story. Friends, be sure to come
visit me at We Don'tdie dot com. At the bottom
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of the page, enter your name an email address, and
I've got some great free afterlife goodies for you. Remember,
though our loved ones may not be seen, they walk
beside us, cheering us on in every moment, and when
the time comes, they'll be right there to embrace us
with open arms and take us back home. I'm Sandra Champlain.
(52:05):
From the bottom of my heart. Thank you for listening
to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
And if you like this episode of Shades of the Afterlife,
wait until you hear the next one. Thank you for
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