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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain.
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hi, I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've
been on a journey to prove the existence of life
after death. Episode will discuss the reasons we now know
that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So will we.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Today is a very
special episode because I turn one year older. Yes, today
is my yearly birthday episode, So would you join me
in celebrating my fifty nine years here on planet Earth.
I've got some good things in store. Before I get
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deep into the episode, I figured something out that you
might want to know. Did you know you can listen
to Shades of the Afterlife from episode one forward. If
we watch any TV show on Netflix or Amazon Prime,
you would never consider going to the most recent episode
and then going backwards. No, we like to start at
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the beginning. While Shades of the Afterlife is certainly something
that on every episode there's something good. I know many
people have requested, how do I start from the beginning,
So I've got some simple steps. Whether you listen on iHeartRadio,
Apple Podcasts, or Spotify or whatever app you use, you're
going to be able to find the same thing. Let's
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go to the iHeartRadio app. Now you'll see just below
the episode an arrow going up and down. Just click
that and you can easily click most recent episodes first,
or oldest episodes first. If you're on Spotify, where it
says all episodes, just click sort and you can go
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from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. And on
Apple Podcasts, just beneath the episode, you'll see episodes with
a little down arrow. If you click on that, you
can sort it oldest to newest. There's so much that
I have talked about in the last four and a
half years, and I don't want you to miss a thing. Also,
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as my gift to you on my birthday episode, you
can always go to we Don't Die dot com. Go
to the bottom of the page and to your name
an email address. Not only will it give you a
free copy of my book, but there's some really good
bonus gifts that I think you will enjoy having one
of the PDF files in. There is a list of
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shades of the Afterlife episodes, but broken down into different categories.
For instance, if you're someone who likes to learn about
near death experiences, it's a list and you can click
on the different episodes to listen to. If you're interested
in children and the afterlife, click on that. If you're
interested in trying your own experiments like electronic voice phenomena,
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you can click on that, or deathbed visitations, or if
you're looking for ways to communicate with your own loved ones,
there's an area to click with things like automatic writing.
In past episodes, I've done some really nice visualizations that
are almost a hypnotic journey to slow your mind down
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to be able to reconnect with your loved ones. There's
much to be discovered there on our episode today, there's
a few things I want to just share from my heart.
I want to tell you some stories of course, also
some things that help me stay plugged in, helping me
to remember that we're each soul's having a human experience
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and that our life matters. Also at the end, my
dear friend Brian Smith, author and podcast host of Grief
to Growth podcast, has a simple strategy he uses every
day to get back into the driver's seat of life. Now,
when I say driver's seat, I'm sure you're fully aware
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that we each have this little voice that's talking to
us non stop in our heads. Don't know about the voice.
Let me be quiet for just a second. Perhaps your
little voice said, what little voice? What is she talking about?
How long is she going to stay quiet? Well, that's
the voice. It's not our champion. Most of the time.
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It's our inner critic, it's our inner skeptic. Everything that
we do gets filtered through that voice. Is it true?
Is it not true? Is this real? Is this fake?
That voice is not our champion? How do I know
that just wake up in the morning and look in
the mirror. What is the first thing that voice tells you?
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For me, it picks out the gray hair, the extra pounds,
the wrinkles, will tell me I can't believe you're fifty
nine already. The voice is quick to want me to
worry about something, or have me procrastinate, or tell me
I'm not good enough or I'm not smart enough. This
is important when we talk about the afterlife, because I
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think that voice is something that connects us to being human.
I call life the game of life, and I have
to be honest. And you know this all too well.
This game is painful. Yeah, there is some joy, absolutely,
but a lot of it is suffering, stressful, worries. Some
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people say they're opportunities and adventures, but in the moment,
they may occur as struggles. The voice inside of our
head keeps us playing this game, and is there an
ultimate way to win this game? Well, we're all going
to win it because at some point we are going
to migrate to the unseen world. If this is your
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first time listening to Shades, well you don't know about me.
It's been well over twenty five years that I've been
investigating the afterlife. We're here on episode two hundred and
thirty three. But my first podcast, doing only interviews with
great people about the afterlife, is called We Don't Die Radio,
and between the two podcasts, I now have well over
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seven hundred hours of episodes. I am somebody who really
wants to deliver the best reasons to believe. But why
do I want to do that? Well, I've experienced grief firsthand,
and it sucks. It is the worst pain we humans
will feel. I know many that I'm speaking to right
now have a loved one who has passed and you're
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desperately looking for reasons to believe. I always encourage you
to go on your own investigations. If you hear something
like automatic writing, get involved with it. Try it out.
Don't believe what I have to say, but experience your
own results to know how close your loved ones truly are.
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There is a certain amount of trust saying, hey, this
fifty nine year old gal, well, she has over seven
hundred hours of episodes. She's given her life to this.
Maybe she knows something I don't know. Maybe there's some
journeys that I've been on that maybe you won't go
on but you'll find in the episode's really interesting topics
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and reasons why you may be open to the afterlife. Now,
that little voice inside your head is going to be
very quick, very very quick to look at things from
a skeptical nature and to say that can't possibly be
We as human beings, I feel, are designed to forget
who we really are. How much fun would a game
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be if we knew it was a game. But someday
we will all cross the finish line, our loved ones
who have played the game before us, We'll all be there.
It'll be like crossing the finish line at a marathon,
everybody jumping for joy, clapping and screaming. Our loved ones
will be there, our pets will be there in a
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world that is so much similar to Planet Earth, only
a little cleaner and brighter and more colorful and more vibrant.
So as you listen to Shades of the Afterlife, or
any podcast or any book, we have to filter through
that skeptical mind. I ask that you're open to what if?
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What if this is real? What if we are divine
souls having a human experience. If you look at your
hand right now, and yes, look at your hand, looks
pretty real, doesn't it. Well, on a quantum level, if
we go down through our cells and the molecules and
all the atoms that make us up as a human being,
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did you know to our tiniest little piece, well, it's
not a piece at all. All we are is vibrating energy,
invisible vibrating energy, I might add, down to our tiniest
we are something called quarks qua rks, invisible vibrating strings
of energy that make us up. That's hard to believe
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because everything we see, we can touch, we can feel.
But down to a quantum level, we are all made
up of energy. I like to remind my myself that
we are on a planet in an ever expanding universe
that we can't possibly get our minds around. Why I'm
telling you this is because thinking this way helps to
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calm that skeptical mind that I have. Just say, hey,
you stay quiet for a little while. I'm going to listen.
What if I am a soul having a human experience.
What if everything I'm experiencing will help my soul on
my journey. Another tool that I use is just look
at everything around you. Just take a glance and think
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about all of these things somehow came from planet Earth.
Our Earth being made of rock and dirt and plants
and water, and somehow we have electricity, We have computers
and iPhones. You may pay attention to what's happening in
space and the International Space Station, and it's easy to
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get caught up. Wow, those people are so far out
in space. Well, don't forget you're in space right now. Two.
You just have gravity that is connecting you to the
home we call Earth. So as we go on in
our birthday episode today, I just ask you to consider
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that you are so much more than that little voice
in your head tells you you are. You are a divine,
one of a kind, miraculous soul. The energy that makes
us up can also be manipulated to have wonderful things
happen in our life. We'll get to some of my
favorite tips and tricks during our episode today, along with
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some of my top reasons for believing in the afterlife.
A big part of all that I do is to
remind you of who you really are. Theologian William shed said,
a ship in a harbor is safe, but that is
not what chips are built for. My friend, you are
the commander of your ship, and in the past you
may have felt all alone in your journey and that
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you don't have the tools. Through Shades of the Afterlife
my book We Don't Die, a skeptics discovery of life
after death, which I call a handbook for being human,
I want to give you those tools on our birthday
episode today, I want to just give you some tools
to help remind you of who you are, how powerful
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you are, that your loved ones are around you, that
your life matters, that you can create some really good
stuff in your life and have that ability to love
and to share. Mark Twain said, twenty years from now,
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't
do than by the things you did do. So throw
off the bow lines, sail away from safe harbor, catch
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the trade winds in your sales, explore, dream and discover.
Let's head off to the break and we'll discover together
when we get back. You're listening to Shades of the
after Life on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am
Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
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I'm Sandra Champlain and once a year I like to
do what I call is my Birthday episode. All that
really means is me speaking from the heart to you.
No interviews, not reading from books. I'm not telling other
people's signs from loved ones. It's just my stories and
again speaking from my heart. What I'd like to do
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now is share with you some of my experiences that
brought me from hoping that there's an afterlife to really
believing and knowing there is. Some of the things that
started happening early in my journey was having psychic experiences.
Now you have to know I was the skeptic who
didn't believe in any of this, So when I started
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having these weird experiences, I knew that there was more
to life than meets the eye. I had gotten a
deck of angel cards from a friend who believed in
this stuff, and I kind of laughed at her. But
I brought these angel cards with me to work, and
at the time, I was a chef catering for race
car teams. Every day I would pick out a card
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just to say, Okay, Angels, what's my inspirational message for
the day, thinking that any card would apply to the situation. Right,
That's what we humans do, our skeptical voice says, But
for most of the days, I got the same exact
card and it said music. So what I decided to
do was have music playing in the kitchen as I cooked.
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And the weirdest thing happened. I started knowing of the
songs that would come on the radio before they were played,
before the DJ even announced it. Sometimes the radio was
off and I'd hear a song in my mind and
as soon as I turned on the radio it was playing.
Then there would be times that the phone would ring
and I know exactly who was calling, even if it
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was a telemarketer. I knew the name. I hailed a
cab once and in my mind I knew the cab
driver's name, and sure enough, that was the name. One
of the freakiest experiences early on was catering at the
races and we had a gal who was helping me
cook in the kitchen. She made a delicious fish recipe,
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and earlier she told me that she was adopted, but
she had met her birth mom, and out of my mouth,
I said, well, which mom taught you the fish recipe?
And I named the two names, and she just looked
at me with that blank stare. She never told me
the names of her mom and her stepmom, and of
course both of them were deceased, so that stuff started happening. Well,
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that very first experience that I took my own medium
class is I wanted this to be real, believing in
the afterlife, but it was still rather far fetched to me.
But I was investigating all this just to kind of
quench that fear of dying. And we were given very
basic instructions, and we were told that we weren't really
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doing a medium reading. We were just going to do
like a trial run. And so with my eyes closed,
I was working with a nice lady and I simply
described who I thought that I made up standing behind her.
I knew her grandfather's name was Yon. He was a
fisherman in Denmark. He died of lung cancer. I described
him with blonde hair, blue eyes, that he had a
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big gap between his front teeth, and that he never
told his daughter, which is this lady's mom, that he
loved her. And I thought I made it all up.
I simply opened my eyes for her to take her
turn to make up somebody behind me, and the lady
was crying. I got every detail correct about her grandfather.
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Name was Jon Fisherman in Denmark died of cancer, never
said I love you. Those kind of experiences you can't
help but start thinking, there's so much more, and that
comfort of that fear started happening. I've had many other
medium experiences since then, so I always encourage people take
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a class in mediumship and psychic abilities, just to see
how it works, because, my friend, we are all psychic.
We are all mediums, just like somebody learning to play piano.
Though there are people that are naturally gifted in it
and there's others that need to practice, practice, practice, But
that's one of the gifts we have. As far as
being human. We have this intuition, we have this gut instinct.
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Electronic voice phenomena something I learned as well. There. I
was in a retreat center in upstate New York holding
a digital tape recorder after hearing a weekend full of
lectures and example of how the dead can manipulate sounds
within a recorder and put their voices on it. I
sat there in a cabin recording raindrops, talking to who
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I thought was nobody, but pictured my grandmother, grandfather, aunt,
and uncle at the end of the bed, and I said,
if you guys are real and I'm supposed to help
people believe in the afterlife. I really need you to
talk loud and then I'll say goodnight. So I recorded
for just a minute and I said good night. And
when I played it back, somewhere around second number forty
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six on the counter, it says good night, Sandra, and
a man's voice, two women whisper good night, good night,
and then another male voice saying good night. I went
on to doing hundreds and hundreds of these recordings, and
at this point I started doing them with other people.
Because I had the confidence that people could put their
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voices on these recordings. I didn't have to rely on
my medium abilities, which I have to say were pretty poor.
Every time I was trying to be a medium and
trying to get it right, I would be wrong, which
goes to show we need to turn off that analytical
side of our brain and be okay with being wrong
and use our imagination and that's when it flows. I
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had a great opportunity to go to a spirit artist.
Her name is Reverend Rita Berkowitz in Massachusetts. Even though
I believed in the afterlife. At this point, my dad
had just died and I so desperately wanted a reading
with someone I trusted. And not only did she describe
my dad and give me words from conversations a dad
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and I had alone that not a single person could know.
She pulled out her notepad and she drew a picture
of my dad, similar to what he looked like when
he was in his twenties in the Air Force. I
really felt that she had my dad with her. Also,
a couple of years ago, you heard on an episode
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my former boyfriend Michael passed. He drove himself right into
a telephone poll. It is thought he had a heart attack,
and that's what happened. But after he passed, even though
we had been broken up for a while, I was
still grieving. And there's a beautiful medium by the name
of Cath Shirley who her and her husband to run
our free grief cafes once a month, their mediums and
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their grief specialists. But I did reading with her over zoom,
and there's no place that I've had posted pictures of Michael.
This lady certainly didn't know, and she delivered such wonderful evidence,
as if he was whispering all these things into her ear,
all these journeys we had been on together. I helped
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him write two cartoon books. She knew about them. There
must have been forty pieces of evidence that I could
relate to, and it just felt like he was there,
in fact, a good medium reading. That's what happens is
you feel the joy and you feel like that person
right there, Sonya Andaldi the great researcher that we just
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did a live event on Zoom with her latest experiments. Wow,
was that incredible. You can still find that on my website.
I had spoken to my dad in the afterlife and said,
if you want to find this lady in Brazil and
put a picture on her computer, I would love that.
And I don't know how he did it, but Sonia
sent me a list of what she calls the unknowns.
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She has an unknown catalog, and lo and behold, there's
a picture of my dad looking very similar to again
those days when he was in the Air Force in
his twenties. We get to pick our best age. Don't
you love that? When we go to the other side.
Not too long after Michael died, I asked Sonya if
she might do an experiment, And now her experiments have changed.
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She's using vapor steam and she'll ask a person for
one photo of their loved one, put all kinds of
steam around it, and she'll film the steam not in
front of the picture, but aside from it. She says,
those in the afterlife need to have the colors to rearrange,
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and rearrange they do. She shows pictures of maybe working
with someone who had died when they were gray hair,
and lo and behold the photo that comes is them
younger with dark hair. And so in one of her experiments,
she brought through a whole bunch of different pictures of Michael.
So that made me happy. On one of our free
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Sunday gatherings, medium Dominic Bogue, who didn't know me at
the time and nobody knew about Michael, he said, I
have a man here named Michael, showing me that he
drove right into a tree or a phone pole, saying
his girlfriend is in the audience, and also that your
father's name is John and he is with your father.
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On the Sunday gathering, we have about two hundred people
from all over the world, and I always request from
the other side that let the reading go to the
person with the greatest need. And nobody raised their hand
to take this information. So I said, I can take
it all, and he gave even more information about Dad
and Michael and how they're together in the afterlife, and
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that made me really happy. I've had some incredible dreams.
I have talked to you before about lucid dreaming how
to do that, and I've seen my dad. I've hugged him.
But not only that, he's talked to me. I can
remember my dad's voice. But in this dream, which I'm
convinced wasn't a dream, he spoke to me with clear
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words and I could hear his voice. Also in this state,
I saw my grandmother. I called her Grammy. I only
saw her face, but it came in with almost like
beautiful piano music, heavenly music, and she had a big
smile for me, looking younger than she did as I
remembered her, but oh so real. I was on a
cruise once and the cruise line paired me up with
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another single lady. I ended up telling her this medium
story of taking the class, and she says, who do
you see around me? Who do you see around me?
And I was so scared. I didn't want to do it,
and she says, who cares if you do it wrong?
You'll never see me again. So in my mind's eye,
I saw these four people, which I thought were her grandparents,
and I gave her the names that I heard, and
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the one name I couldn't get right. It sounded like
Meggie or Maggie. And she'd said to me med Jay,
that was the name of her grandmother. And then after that,
I saw a man with a tan showing off a
bright gold watch by the name of Rick or Ricky.
And she says, well, that's where you're wrong. I don't
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know anybody like that. And after the cruise was over,
she called me crying. She said, while we were on
the cruise, her friend Rick died. She called him Ricky,
and she had given him that gold watch, proving that
he survived physical death. My how time goes by fast.
As I'm sharing what I love. It is time for
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a break, And when we get back, I'll tell you
a few more experiences that brought me from believing to knowing.
And I'll also let you know some of the tools
I use to remember that we are souls having a
human experience and that there is a much bigger picture.
So we'll be right back. You're listening to shades of
The Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
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Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
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I'm Sandra Champlain and we're celebrating my birthday this episode.
But another big anniversary this week is my parents. They
would have been married had they not gotten divorced sixty
one years this week. My mom and dad met when
they were in the Air Force. They got married when
Mom was just twenty two, Dad was twenty seven. Nine
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months later, they had my older brother and sister, which
are twins. When Mom went in for her three month
check up, she found out she was pregnant again. This
baby unexpected, but this baby was me. Little did they
know that I would be with them in their later years.
Of course, I was by my dad's side most of
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his last five months on planet Earth, and no doubt
he's by my side right now. And my dear mom
is going to turn eighty four in a couple of weeks,
and she's in her bedroom not too far away from
me right now. I feel so grateful that I could
spend time with my parents and be with my mom now.
We sure do laugh a lot. You Know, what I've
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noticed is as I'm recording this episode, I'm feeling good.
That's one great thing that I have learned. When we
share what we love and we tell stories, we can't
help but feel better. So that's just a little clue.
If you're ever having a down day or you're with
somebody in a bad mood, get them in a conversation
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about whether it was a great vacation they had, or
time they really laughed hard, or maybe when they met
their significant other or had the birth of their first child,
and see that person transform. Did you know that I'm
not this peachy, rosy, happy, wonderful Sandra twenty four to seven,
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even though I've been investigating the afterlife this long. It
is part of our human DNA. I think to forget
who we are. So I work hard. I'm busy, I'm
with mom full time. I've got bills to pay, responsibilities.
Sometimes I worry about getting things done. There's guilt that
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still sneaks in, there's procrastination, and I forget who I
really am. I don't think we're meant to remember. I
said it before, I'll say it again, but we need
to be reminded of who we are. In a little while,
I'll tell you some of my favorite tips and tricks
to stay plugged in to the greater reality. But let
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me continue with some more things that have taken me
from believing to knowing the reality of the afterlife. Although
I personally have never had a near death experience, nor
do I want one because it probably would involve pain,
and I have not had a deathbed visitation, However, I
have interviewed enough people and talked to people that I've
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come across in my own life that have told the
same story over and over and over again that I
know we go on. Near death experiences are fascinating and
a shout out to my friend and Ramona. Anytime she
hears a good story, she'll send it to me and
I often share them with you after that. But there
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are what's called verritical near death experiences, and these are
the experiences that can be verified when people float out
of their body and they witness things that happen elsewhere.
Of course, ken Ring did fabulous studies after working with
doctor Raymond Moody, studying near death experiences in blind people
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who could see for the very first time. I'll be
interviewing a fellow in a couple weeks time I think
who has just written a new book about these vertical
near death experiences, So I'm excited to share that with you.
But science has proven that near death experiences is not
our brains shutting down. I used to always think that
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the white lights, the tunnel feeling has to be our
brains shutting down. Nope, there's too much evidence that our
consciousness survives, and plenty of doctors and scientists are involved
with this. So to scroll back a few episodes and
you'll hear more about that. Deathbed visions. Oh my gosh,
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I never get sick of hearing them. Friends, you can
write me anytime with your stories of signs being with
a loved one when they passed, if you've had a
near death experience or something different that tells you that
the afterlife is real. Deathbed visions close to when we
pass and it could be within a month's time. Even
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people come to get us people meaning dead people, people
that we knew, often at somebody we really love. It's
not uncommon for people to see their parents or brothers
or sisters if they had passed first, or friends, all
looking healthy and radiant, looking as clear to them as
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someone alive would look, and the message is the same,
pack your bags, we're going on trip, so no one
dies alone. I am fascinated by the world of physical
and trance mediumship. Physical mediumship is something very rare, and
also I'm convinced there are a lot of people that
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don't have integrity who say they are physical mediums. And
this is a case where you get a group of
say thirty people sitting in a dark room, holding hands,
singing songs, building up the energy and voices of loved
ones seem to come out of the dark. This kind
of mediumship was in its heyday in the eighteen hundreds
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and early nineteen hundreds, but because of the Great Wars,
too many frauds came into the picture, claiming you could
talk to your loved ones hold these seances, and people
were conned out of their money. Even though that form
of mediumship is no longer widely available on planet Earth,
I know people are still sitting for physical mediumship and
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what they call home services, but that gave rise to
what we now have as evidential mediums. Those are the
mediums that you go to, Like I was talking to
you about my experiences with mediums giving me verbal evidence
that my dad and Michael live On. Scott Milligan is
one of the rare physical mediums on planet Earth, and
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I have sat in his groups probably three dozen times,
hearing the voices of loved ones, being with people that
think this sounds too good to be true, only to
have their lives change. Trance mediumship is something I'm grateful
that I get to witness almost every week. You've heard
me interview Scott Milligan, You've heard the words of mister Eric.
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This is someone with their eyes closed, blending with their
spirit team, allowing someone who has once lived on planet
Earth to speak through them. Messages of love, compassion, empowerment,
philosophy come through. And often on Fridays we host what's
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called in the Arms of Eternity, which we send healing
to the world, and then Scott Milligan will go into
trance and we have an extraordinary conversation with mister Eric
talking about life, death, in the afterlife. While being part
of these Fridays has me go from believing to knowing
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in the afterlife. I've had my own experiences as a
trance medium in training. It is the weirdest experience I
can tell you. To get into that meditative state that
if I'm to be used to give words of inspiration
work through me, and of course this is all done
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in a very loving and safe space. But with my
eyes closed in front of a group of people. I
went into that state, with that prayer in my heart.
I got the ball rolling, saying spirit wants to say
as that was the instruction, and then more words kept
coming out of my mouth. I was aware that words
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were coming out of my mouth, yet I was not
controlling it. I was not inventing the words. When I
tried to listen to the words, the voice stopped speaking
through me. However, the moment I relaxed, concentrated on my breathing,
the words started flowing again, and the voice continued to speak.
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I felt the presence of a rather stately man. After
it was over, I was told I was giving a
very detailed story about life is like crossing a great
ocean and how there are waves and uncertainty and eventually
we arrive at the shore. But during the experience, I
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kept speaking although I was not conscious of the words.
And during this experience, I felt like my body was
turning to the group and I was moving my arm
as I was explaining about crossing the ocean, and when
I opened my eyes, people were drawing their tears, saying
the words that came through were so inspiring. They asked
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how it was for me, and I said it was
weird because I felt the presence of someone with me.
And I said what was really weird is how much
I moved, And they said, Sandra, you remained perfectly still.
Holy cow, what was that? Well? Friends, we all have
guides and inspirers with us, and when we practice quieting
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the mind and with a loving heart asking for assistance,
they can work with us. I think they often work
with us when we get into the zone, but we
just don't realize it's them. We all have a team
that work with us. Can you tell I love this stuff?
I really do. Sometimes I have journaled sitting in that
same state, and I've had some great words of philosophy
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and great advice come out of my fingertips into my
computer through my pen. That's automatic writing with my soul
or perhaps a deceased loved one. I don't know. I'm
pretty lucky that I've been part of all of these
trance demonstrations online over the past five plus years and
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have recorded all of them. You can listen to them
all on my website, of course. But what always blows
my mind is how mister Eric could answer a question
that someone has before the question was even asked. People
type their questions into a Q and a box on zoom,
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and I'm the only person that can read them. Scott
has his eyes closed and very often I say like
to ask a question, and Eric will say, is this
from Lois? A question about her son who has recently passed?
And it's like, how does he know? He also says
we don't need to wait until Friday to talk to him. He,
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along with our spirit helpers, are always around, always available.
When we get a response from them, it sounds like
our own voice. So that's the thing. Pay attention when
you have some wise words coming in your own voice. Well,
we're getting close to the break here on the birthday episode.
When we come back, I want you to hear some
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words from dear Brian Smith, author, podcast host of Grief
to Growth. He's got a good method for us to
remember who we really are and be empowered in our life.
So don't go anywhere, We'll be right back. You're listening
to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast
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to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades
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of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlaine and I've decided to
bring a special guest on my birthday episode. It is
author and podcast host Brian Smith that you first heard
way back on episode forty two. Brian's beloved daughter Shana
had passed. Not only did he go out looking for
evidence of her life beyond physical death, he learned so
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much about grief, being instrumental and sharing, helping parents heal,
and so much more. His book is Grief to Growth,
and his podcast and website same names. It's the number
two Grief toogrowth dot com. Everything I do has a
foundation of helping people through grief, giving powerful words about
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the afterlife and how to live a powerful life while
we're here. Brian has a practice he calls gems gems
that I know will empower you today. Here's my dear friend,
Brian Smith.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
So I have a technique I called gems. Gems for gratitude, exercise, meditation,
self care. Those are four things I practice every day,
and I encourage all my clients and everybody else to
do so you can really keep your energy high. After
several years of going through this and trying all different
kinds of things to figure out what's going to work
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for me, there are basically four things that I found
that are really really easy to do that everybody can
do every day. It starts with gratitude. And every time
I say that, I remember how I used to roll
my eyes and people talked about gratitude practice. I'm like, again,
very practical guy, how is this going to help me?
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:55):
There's nothing great going on in my life right now.
Everything sucks, And that's a natural human tendency. Our brains
tend to focus on what's negative. If that's you, if
someone's going through that, there's nothing wrong with you. That's
our default mode. But we can get out of that.
So just really simply, I was talking with the client
yesterday whose son passed away very recently. I'm a little kid,
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and she's like, so, how do I do this gratitude thing?
You know, how do I make it a regular thing?
So I gave her a little tip as a free
app on your phone called journal if you have an iPhone,
you can journal it something really easier members before you
get out of bed, when you wake up in the morning,
before you even open your eyes, think of three things
you're grateful for. And for me, a lot of times,
it's like it's warm because I hate the cold. So
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in the winter I'm like, I'm in my bed and
it's warm. Or maybe that I'm having dinner with friends tonight,
or it may be I was sitting in my office
one day and I was giving someone an example. I said,
I've got electricity. We don't even think about it. We
just turn on the lights and they come on. And said,
but do you think about the time there's a power outage?
That feeling you get when the power comes back on
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and the lights come on and the refrigerator starts running.
You get this feeling of like it's like a jolt,
right because you're grateful for having the power. So what
if you had that feeling when it hasn't gone off.
This is what the gratitude practice will do for you.
So I walk pretty much every day and I'll think,
I'm grateful that my feet are okay, I'm grateful that
my back feels good, you know, stuff like that. So
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gratitude is what I start with exercise because of mind
body connection is really important. A lot of times it's
spiritual people. We can tend to bypass the body, but
our body influences how we feel. There's a feedback loop
between our body and our mind and our spirit. So
keep your body as strong as you can. So for me,
it's walking by Tell people find what works for you.
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It might be yoga, it might be gardening, it might
be whatever works for you. I interview one woman on
my podcast and her mother passed, and people are giving
us all this advice, like, try yoga, try this, try that.
She got into powerlifting, and it's like powerlifting was a
thing that just like really turned her on because she
could shape her body. It made her feel strong. She
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liked the repetition. So I'm like, yeah that, you know,
find what works for you. So that's the exercise piece
of it. Again. Try to find something you can do daily.
It could be walking ten minutes after dinner. It could
be very helpful, getting out in the sun, vitamin D.
There's a whole lot of benefits into it. Mindfulness or meditation,
which a lot of people push back on. They say,
can't meditate. And I say to people, if you can't meditate,
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you just haven't found the right technique. Yet you can
do it any way you want, so get out of
your mind. You can be sitting on a cushion for
thirty minutes without moving and shutting off your mind, because
you're never going to shut off your mind. So again,
I love technology, so I use insight Timer on my phone.
So I like the app because it keeps track of
what my streak is. So I'm a very competitive guy.
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So I took a three inches and sixty five day
challenge to meditate every day for three inch and sixty
five days. I ended up sticking with it for like
four years and it missed a day. So whatever mindfulness
technique works for you, and I work people to figure
out what works for them. And then the s is
for either sleep or self care, and it's actually both.
So when it comes to sleep again, our bodies we
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need sleep. I think our spirits need sleep too. This
world is hard, and I think why do we sleep?
What's the point of like zonking out and not being here? Well,
there's just physical need. If we don't have sleep, we
will literally go insane. We will die with that sleep.
But also I think our spirits need that release, and
I believe that we leave our bodies you know when
we sleep, so getting good sleep habits. I try to
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get to bed about the same time every night during
the week when I have to get up the next day,
keep in the room dark and cool, all those things
everybody knows, you know, do those things. But also self
care because people in our society don't practice self care enough.
You have to really prioritize yourself. So that can involve
not just sleep, but also during the day. I work
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from home, taking breaks and building breaks into your day,
not working too much, have a good work life balance.
A lot of people I know that are people pleasers.
They'll do everything for other people, but they don't take
care of themselves, you know, putting yourself as a priority.
So I really help people go through that. So those
are the four steps, and as I said that, the
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great thing is you can literally start doing them all.
You can start today. You can wake up and do
your gratitude. You can take a short walk, you can
practice a little bit of mindfulness if it's just two
minutes sitting at your desk, close your eyes and just
count your breath for two minutes. That's the gems thing
that I really encourage everybody to do.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Thank you Brian, that's gratitude, exercise, mindfulness or meditation, sleep
and self care. And I might add another s service.
Anytime we make a difference for another person, it comes
like a boomerang plus right back to us. I'd like
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to share some of the things that I do to
keep me motivated and connected that there's a bigger picture
one shades of the afterlife. There's no way I can
create a podcast episode and not be inspired. It's just
impossible because I have my eye on you. What are
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some stories that'll make a difference for you? In turn,
they make a difference for me. We have our weekly
free Sunday gathering with medium demonstration included. If you haven't
attended yet, please do. It is the best. We're going
into our sixth year two o'clock New York time every
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Sunday on Zoom details that we don't die dot com.
No matter how I feel prior to a Sunday gathering,
I am filled with so much joy during and after
every week, one hundred and fifty two hundred people. It's
non denominational. It is fabulous. And did I mention the
medium demonstration included? Also Fridays with Scott Milligan come sometime
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to in the arms of eternity. Ask your questions to
mister Eric. Monthly, we offer great classes with Scott Milligan
and myself. We have what's called Trance and the Altered States.
You never need to be a trance medium, but you
learn how to quiet that busy mind and blend with
the love from the unseen world, your soul, your guides,
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and your loved ones. We also have a very gentle
way for you to nurture your natural psychic and medium abilities.
My dear friends Carrie McLeod and Phil Dyke's are the
top medium tutors that I recommend. In fact, they're the
only ones I recommend. You'll learn how spirit communicates through
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your feelings. Yes, you might get some pictures through clairvoyance,
but you pay attention to that gut instinct and it's incredible.
New classes begin every month. Even if you join late
or don't want to join live at all, you can
watch them buy video replay. I keep myself connected with
books and podcasts and YouTube videos. My room is filled
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with books all over the place, and I'll read a
chapter of this, one chapter of that one. I stay
plugged in with reminders all over the place, of afterlife stuff.
I have regular conversations and meetings with people that are
important to me that know me as Sandra Champlain, divine
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soul having a human experience. I have a weekly call
with my good friend Greg. Monthly. I talk to my
dear friend Darla several times a week. I'm on with
mediums and friends Darren and Scott, Carrie and Phil. There's
others in our community that reach out quite often. Facebook
message works for us. I meet a few times a
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year with podcast host and author ROBERTA. Grimes. I get
regular emails and on the lists for tut dot com,
victor zammit dot com and others. One thing is for sure,
if you stay connected with people who talk the same language,
it stays strong for you. If you stay connected too
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much time with people that don't believe and complain a lot,
it doesn't work so well. I'm not saying get rid
of these people, but do more to stay connected with us.
I have a few other little tricks, like a daily
motivational calendar in my bathroom so I start the day
with positivity. And there's an oracle deck of cards that
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I really like called postcards from Spirit. Those are pretty
cool too. Remember, We Don't Die dot com is my
home base. Don't forget Fill in your name email address
at the bottom of the page. Go to the store page.
Check out what's coming up. Sunday gatherings are listed there
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medium classes. There's tons of things to investigate on that site.
If you have questions or you have a story, I
would love to hear it and with your permission, share
it with others on Shades of the Afterlife. Email me
please at Sandra Champlain at gmail dot com. As we
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close out this episode, I want to read some of
my favorite quotes from my book We Don't Die. This
is from Norman Vincent Peel, writer and clergyman. Physical death
is a transitional step and the total life process. The soul,
which does not die, having finished with its earthly body,
moves to a higher level of life where it grows
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under greatly enhanced circumstances. And you remember this from childhood.
Row row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.
Life is but a dream. With that, my friend, thank
you for celebrating my birthday with me, and thank you
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from the bottom of my heart for listening to Shades
of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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Hi, I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've
been on a journey to prove the existence of life
after death. Episode will discuss the reasons we now know
that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So will we.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Today is a very
special episode because I turn one year older. Yes, today
is my yearly birthday episode, So would you join me
in celebrating my fifty nine years here on planet Earth.
I've got some good things in store. Before I get
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deep into the episode, I figured something out that you
might want to know. Did you know you can listen
to Shades of the Afterlife from episode one forward. If
we watch any TV show on Netflix or Amazon Prime,
you would never consider going to the most recent episode
and then going backwards. No, we like to start at
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the beginning. While Shades of the Afterlife is certainly something
that on every episode there's something good. I know many
people have requested, how do I start from the beginning,
So I've got some simple steps. Whether you listen on iHeartRadio,
Apple Podcasts, or Spotify or whatever app you use, you're
going to be able to find the same thing. Let's
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go to the iHeartRadio app. Now you'll see just below
the episode an arrow going up and down. Just click
that and you can easily click most recent episodes first,
or oldest episodes first. If you're on Spotify, where it
says all episodes, just click sort and you can go
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from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. And on
Apple Podcasts, just beneath the episode, you'll see episodes with
a little down arrow. If you click on that, you
can sort it oldest to newest. There's so much that
I have talked about in the last four and a
half years, and I don't want you to miss a thing. Also,
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as my gift to you on my birthday episode, you
can always go to we Don't Die dot com. Go
to the bottom of the page and to your name
an email address. Not only will it give you a
free copy of my book, but there's some really good
bonus gifts that I think you will enjoy having one
of the PDF files in. There is a list of
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shades of the Afterlife episodes, but broken down into different categories.
For instance, if you're someone who likes to learn about
near death experiences, it's a list and you can click
on the different episodes to listen to. If you're interested
in children and the afterlife, click on that. If you're
interested in trying your own experiments like electronic voice phenomena,
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you can click on that, or deathbed visitations, or if
you're looking for ways to communicate with your own loved ones,
there's an area to click with things like automatic writing.
In past episodes, I've done some really nice visualizations that
are almost a hypnotic journey to slow your mind down
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to be able to reconnect with your loved ones. There's
much to be discovered there on our episode today, there's
a few things I want to just share from my heart.
I want to tell you some stories of course, also
some things that help me stay plugged in, helping me
to remember that we're each soul's having a human experience
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and that our life matters. Also at the end, my
dear friend Brian Smith, author and podcast host of Grief
to Growth podcast, has a simple strategy he uses every
day to get back into the driver's seat of life. Now,
when I say driver's seat, I'm sure you're fully aware
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that we each have this little voice that's talking to
us non stop in our heads. Don't know about the voice.
Let me be quiet for just a second. Perhaps your
little voice said, what little voice? What is she talking about?
How long is she going to stay quiet? Well, that's
the voice. It's not our champion. Most of the time.
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It's our inner critic, it's our inner skeptic. Everything that
we do gets filtered through that voice. Is it true?
Is it not true? Is this real? Is this fake?
That voice is not our champion? How do I know
that just wake up in the morning and look in
the mirror. What is the first thing that voice tells you?
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For me, it picks out the gray hair, the extra pounds,
the wrinkles, will tell me I can't believe you're fifty
nine already. The voice is quick to want me to
worry about something, or have me procrastinate, or tell me
I'm not good enough or I'm not smart enough. This
is important when we talk about the afterlife, because I
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think that voice is something that connects us to being human.
I call life the game of life, and I have
to be honest. And you know this all too well.
This game is painful. Yeah, there is some joy, absolutely,
but a lot of it is suffering, stressful, worries. Some
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people say they're opportunities and adventures, but in the moment,
they may occur as struggles. The voice inside of our
head keeps us playing this game, and is there an
ultimate way to win this game? Well, we're all going
to win it because at some point we are going
to migrate to the unseen world. If this is your
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first time listening to Shades, well you don't know about me.
It's been well over twenty five years that I've been
investigating the afterlife. We're here on episode two hundred and
thirty three. But my first podcast, doing only interviews with
great people about the afterlife, is called We Don't Die Radio,
and between the two podcasts, I now have well over
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seven hundred hours of episodes. I am somebody who really
wants to deliver the best reasons to believe. But why
do I want to do that? Well, I've experienced grief firsthand,
and it sucks. It is the worst pain we humans
will feel. I know many that I'm speaking to right
now have a loved one who has passed and you're
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desperately looking for reasons to believe. I always encourage you
to go on your own investigations. If you hear something
like automatic writing, get involved with it. Try it out.
Don't believe what I have to say, but experience your
own results to know how close your loved ones truly are.
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There is a certain amount of trust saying, hey, this
fifty nine year old gal, well, she has over seven
hundred hours of episodes. She's given her life to this.
Maybe she knows something I don't know. Maybe there's some
journeys that I've been on that maybe you won't go
on but you'll find in the episode's really interesting topics
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and reasons why you may be open to the afterlife. Now,
that little voice inside your head is going to be
very quick, very very quick to look at things from
a skeptical nature and to say that can't possibly be
We as human beings, I feel, are designed to forget
who we really are. How much fun would a game
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be if we knew it was a game. But someday
we will all cross the finish line, our loved ones
who have played the game before us, We'll all be there.
It'll be like crossing the finish line at a marathon,
everybody jumping for joy, clapping and screaming. Our loved ones
will be there, our pets will be there in a
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world that is so much similar to Planet Earth, only
a little cleaner and brighter and more colorful and more vibrant.
So as you listen to Shades of the Afterlife, or
any podcast or any book, we have to filter through
that skeptical mind. I ask that you're open to what if?
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What if this is real? What if we are divine
souls having a human experience. If you look at your
hand right now, and yes, look at your hand, looks
pretty real, doesn't it. Well, on a quantum level, if
we go down through our cells and the molecules and
all the atoms that make us up as a human being,
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did you know to our tiniest little piece, well, it's
not a piece at all. All we are is vibrating energy,
invisible vibrating energy, I might add, down to our tiniest
we are something called quarks qua rks, invisible vibrating strings
of energy that make us up. That's hard to believe
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because everything we see, we can touch, we can feel.
But down to a quantum level, we are all made
up of energy. I like to remind my myself that
we are on a planet in an ever expanding universe
that we can't possibly get our minds around. Why I'm
telling you this is because thinking this way helps to
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calm that skeptical mind that I have. Just say, hey,
you stay quiet for a little while. I'm going to listen.
What if I am a soul having a human experience.
What if everything I'm experiencing will help my soul on
my journey. Another tool that I use is just look
at everything around you. Just take a glance and think
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about all of these things somehow came from planet Earth.
Our Earth being made of rock and dirt and plants
and water, and somehow we have electricity, We have computers
and iPhones. You may pay attention to what's happening in
space and the International Space Station, and it's easy to
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get caught up. Wow, those people are so far out
in space. Well, don't forget you're in space right now. Two.
You just have gravity that is connecting you to the
home we call Earth. So as we go on in
our birthday episode today, I just ask you to consider
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that you are so much more than that little voice
in your head tells you you are. You are a divine,
one of a kind, miraculous soul. The energy that makes
us up can also be manipulated to have wonderful things
happen in our life. We'll get to some of my
favorite tips and tricks during our episode today, along with
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some of my top reasons for believing in the afterlife.
A big part of all that I do is to
remind you of who you really are. Theologian William shed said,
a ship in a harbor is safe, but that is
not what chips are built for. My friend, you are
the commander of your ship, and in the past you
may have felt all alone in your journey and that
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you don't have the tools. Through Shades of the Afterlife
my book We Don't Die, a skeptics discovery of life
after death, which I call a handbook for being human,
I want to give you those tools on our birthday
episode today, I want to just give you some tools
to help remind you of who you are, how powerful
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you are, that your loved ones are around you, that
your life matters, that you can create some really good
stuff in your life and have that ability to love
and to share. Mark Twain said, twenty years from now,
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't
do than by the things you did do. So throw
off the bow lines, sail away from safe harbor, catch
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the trade winds in your sales, explore, dream and discover.
Let's head off to the break and we'll discover together
when we get back. You're listening to Shades of the
after Life on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am
Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
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I'm Sandra Champlain and once a year I like to
do what I call is my Birthday episode. All that
really means is me speaking from the heart to you.
No interviews, not reading from books. I'm not telling other
people's signs from loved ones. It's just my stories and
again speaking from my heart. What I'd like to do
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now is share with you some of my experiences that
brought me from hoping that there's an afterlife to really
believing and knowing there is. Some of the things that
started happening early in my journey was having psychic experiences.
Now you have to know I was the skeptic who
didn't believe in any of this, So when I started
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having these weird experiences, I knew that there was more
to life than meets the eye. I had gotten a
deck of angel cards from a friend who believed in
this stuff, and I kind of laughed at her. But
I brought these angel cards with me to work, and
at the time, I was a chef catering for race
car teams. Every day I would pick out a card
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just to say, Okay, Angels, what's my inspirational message for
the day, thinking that any card would apply to the situation. Right,
That's what we humans do, our skeptical voice says, But
for most of the days, I got the same exact
card and it said music. So what I decided to
do was have music playing in the kitchen as I cooked.
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And the weirdest thing happened. I started knowing of the
songs that would come on the radio before they were played,
before the DJ even announced it. Sometimes the radio was
off and I'd hear a song in my mind and
as soon as I turned on the radio it was playing.
Then there would be times that the phone would ring
and I know exactly who was calling, even if it
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was a telemarketer. I knew the name. I hailed a
cab once and in my mind I knew the cab
driver's name, and sure enough, that was the name. One
of the freakiest experiences early on was catering at the
races and we had a gal who was helping me
cook in the kitchen. She made a delicious fish recipe,
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and earlier she told me that she was adopted, but
she had met her birth mom, and out of my mouth,
I said, well, which mom taught you the fish recipe?
And I named the two names, and she just looked
at me with that blank stare. She never told me
the names of her mom and her stepmom, and of
course both of them were deceased, so that stuff started happening. Well,
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that very first experience that I took my own medium
class is I wanted this to be real, believing in
the afterlife, but it was still rather far fetched to me.
But I was investigating all this just to kind of
quench that fear of dying. And we were given very
basic instructions, and we were told that we weren't really
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doing a medium reading. We were just going to do
like a trial run. And so with my eyes closed,
I was working with a nice lady and I simply
described who I thought that I made up standing behind her.
I knew her grandfather's name was Yon. He was a
fisherman in Denmark. He died of lung cancer. I described
him with blonde hair, blue eyes, that he had a
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big gap between his front teeth, and that he never
told his daughter, which is this lady's mom, that he
loved her. And I thought I made it all up.
I simply opened my eyes for her to take her
turn to make up somebody behind me, and the lady
was crying. I got every detail correct about her grandfather.
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Name was Jon Fisherman in Denmark died of cancer, never
said I love you. Those kind of experiences you can't
help but start thinking, there's so much more, and that
comfort of that fear started happening. I've had many other
medium experiences since then, so I always encourage people take
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a class in mediumship and psychic abilities, just to see
how it works, because, my friend, we are all psychic.
We are all mediums, just like somebody learning to play piano.
Though there are people that are naturally gifted in it
and there's others that need to practice, practice, practice, But
that's one of the gifts we have. As far as
being human. We have this intuition, we have this gut instinct.
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Electronic voice phenomena something I learned as well. There. I
was in a retreat center in upstate New York holding
a digital tape recorder after hearing a weekend full of
lectures and example of how the dead can manipulate sounds
within a recorder and put their voices on it. I
sat there in a cabin recording raindrops, talking to who
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I thought was nobody, but pictured my grandmother, grandfather, aunt,
and uncle at the end of the bed, and I said,
if you guys are real and I'm supposed to help
people believe in the afterlife. I really need you to
talk loud and then I'll say goodnight. So I recorded
for just a minute and I said good night. And
when I played it back, somewhere around second number forty
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six on the counter, it says good night, Sandra, and
a man's voice, two women whisper good night, good night,
and then another male voice saying good night. I went
on to doing hundreds and hundreds of these recordings, and
at this point I started doing them with other people.
Because I had the confidence that people could put their
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voices on these recordings. I didn't have to rely on
my medium abilities, which I have to say were pretty poor.
Every time I was trying to be a medium and
trying to get it right, I would be wrong, which
goes to show we need to turn off that analytical
side of our brain and be okay with being wrong
and use our imagination and that's when it flows. I
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had a great opportunity to go to a spirit artist.
Her name is Reverend Rita Berkowitz in Massachusetts. Even though
I believed in the afterlife. At this point, my dad
had just died and I so desperately wanted a reading
with someone I trusted. And not only did she describe
my dad and give me words from conversations a dad
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and I had alone that not a single person could know.
She pulled out her notepad and she drew a picture
of my dad, similar to what he looked like when
he was in his twenties in the Air Force. I
really felt that she had my dad with her. Also,
a couple of years ago, you heard on an episode
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my former boyfriend Michael passed. He drove himself right into
a telephone poll. It is thought he had a heart attack,
and that's what happened. But after he passed, even though
we had been broken up for a while, I was
still grieving. And there's a beautiful medium by the name
of Cath Shirley who her and her husband to run
our free grief cafes once a month, their mediums and
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their grief specialists. But I did reading with her over zoom,
and there's no place that I've had posted pictures of Michael.
This lady certainly didn't know, and she delivered such wonderful evidence,
as if he was whispering all these things into her ear,
all these journeys we had been on together. I helped
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him write two cartoon books. She knew about them. There
must have been forty pieces of evidence that I could
relate to, and it just felt like he was there,
in fact, a good medium reading. That's what happens is
you feel the joy and you feel like that person
right there, Sonya Andaldi the great researcher that we just
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did a live event on Zoom with her latest experiments. Wow,
was that incredible. You can still find that on my website.
I had spoken to my dad in the afterlife and said,
if you want to find this lady in Brazil and
put a picture on her computer, I would love that.
And I don't know how he did it, but Sonia
sent me a list of what she calls the unknowns.
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She has an unknown catalog, and lo and behold, there's
a picture of my dad looking very similar to again
those days when he was in the Air Force in
his twenties. We get to pick our best age. Don't
you love that? When we go to the other side.
Not too long after Michael died, I asked Sonya if
she might do an experiment, And now her experiments have changed.
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She's using vapor steam and she'll ask a person for
one photo of their loved one, put all kinds of
steam around it, and she'll film the steam not in
front of the picture, but aside from it. She says,
those in the afterlife need to have the colors to rearrange,
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and rearrange they do. She shows pictures of maybe working
with someone who had died when they were gray hair,
and lo and behold the photo that comes is them
younger with dark hair. And so in one of her experiments,
she brought through a whole bunch of different pictures of Michael.
So that made me happy. On one of our free
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Sunday gatherings, medium Dominic Bogue, who didn't know me at
the time and nobody knew about Michael, he said, I
have a man here named Michael, showing me that he
drove right into a tree or a phone pole, saying
his girlfriend is in the audience, and also that your
father's name is John and he is with your father.
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On the Sunday gathering, we have about two hundred people
from all over the world, and I always request from
the other side that let the reading go to the
person with the greatest need. And nobody raised their hand
to take this information. So I said, I can take
it all, and he gave even more information about Dad
and Michael and how they're together in the afterlife, and
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that made me really happy. I've had some incredible dreams.
I have talked to you before about lucid dreaming how
to do that, and I've seen my dad. I've hugged him.
But not only that, he's talked to me. I can
remember my dad's voice. But in this dream, which I'm
convinced wasn't a dream, he spoke to me with clear
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words and I could hear his voice. Also in this state,
I saw my grandmother. I called her Grammy. I only
saw her face, but it came in with almost like
beautiful piano music, heavenly music, and she had a big
smile for me, looking younger than she did as I
remembered her, but oh so real. I was on a
cruise once and the cruise line paired me up with
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another single lady. I ended up telling her this medium
story of taking the class, and she says, who do
you see around me? Who do you see around me?
And I was so scared. I didn't want to do it,
and she says, who cares if you do it wrong?
You'll never see me again. So in my mind's eye,
I saw these four people, which I thought were her grandparents,
and I gave her the names that I heard, and
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the one name I couldn't get right. It sounded like
Meggie or Maggie. And she'd said to me med Jay,
that was the name of her grandmother. And then after that,
I saw a man with a tan showing off a
bright gold watch by the name of Rick or Ricky.
And she says, well, that's where you're wrong. I don't
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know anybody like that. And after the cruise was over,
she called me crying. She said, while we were on
the cruise, her friend Rick died. She called him Ricky,
and she had given him that gold watch, proving that
he survived physical death. My how time goes by fast.
As I'm sharing what I love. It is time for
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a break, And when we get back, I'll tell you
a few more experiences that brought me from believing to knowing.
And I'll also let you know some of the tools
I use to remember that we are souls having a
human experience and that there is a much bigger picture.
So we'll be right back. You're listening to shades of
The Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
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Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
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I'm Sandra Champlain and we're celebrating my birthday this episode.
But another big anniversary this week is my parents. They
would have been married had they not gotten divorced sixty
one years this week. My mom and dad met when
they were in the Air Force. They got married when
Mom was just twenty two, Dad was twenty seven. Nine
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months later, they had my older brother and sister, which
are twins. When Mom went in for her three month
check up, she found out she was pregnant again. This
baby unexpected, but this baby was me. Little did they
know that I would be with them in their later years.
Of course, I was by my dad's side most of
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his last five months on planet Earth, and no doubt
he's by my side right now. And my dear mom
is going to turn eighty four in a couple of weeks,
and she's in her bedroom not too far away from
me right now. I feel so grateful that I could
spend time with my parents and be with my mom now.
We sure do laugh a lot. You Know, what I've
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noticed is as I'm recording this episode, I'm feeling good.
That's one great thing that I have learned. When we
share what we love and we tell stories, we can't
help but feel better. So that's just a little clue.
If you're ever having a down day or you're with
somebody in a bad mood, get them in a conversation
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about whether it was a great vacation they had, or
time they really laughed hard, or maybe when they met
their significant other or had the birth of their first child,
and see that person transform. Did you know that I'm
not this peachy, rosy, happy, wonderful Sandra twenty four to seven,
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even though I've been investigating the afterlife this long. It
is part of our human DNA. I think to forget
who we are. So I work hard. I'm busy, I'm
with mom full time. I've got bills to pay, responsibilities.
Sometimes I worry about getting things done. There's guilt that
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still sneaks in, there's procrastination, and I forget who I
really am. I don't think we're meant to remember. I
said it before, I'll say it again, but we need
to be reminded of who we are. In a little while,
I'll tell you some of my favorite tips and tricks
to stay plugged in to the greater reality. But let
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me continue with some more things that have taken me
from believing to knowing the reality of the afterlife. Although
I personally have never had a near death experience, nor
do I want one because it probably would involve pain,
and I have not had a deathbed visitation, However, I
have interviewed enough people and talked to people that I've
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come across in my own life that have told the
same story over and over and over again that I
know we go on. Near death experiences are fascinating and
a shout out to my friend and Ramona. Anytime she
hears a good story, she'll send it to me and
I often share them with you after that. But there
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are what's called verritical near death experiences, and these are
the experiences that can be verified when people float out
of their body and they witness things that happen elsewhere.
Of course, ken Ring did fabulous studies after working with
doctor Raymond Moody, studying near death experiences in blind people
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who could see for the very first time. I'll be
interviewing a fellow in a couple weeks time I think
who has just written a new book about these vertical
near death experiences, So I'm excited to share that with you.
But science has proven that near death experiences is not
our brains shutting down. I used to always think that
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the white lights, the tunnel feeling has to be our
brains shutting down. Nope, there's too much evidence that our
consciousness survives, and plenty of doctors and scientists are involved
with this. So to scroll back a few episodes and
you'll hear more about that. Deathbed visions. Oh my gosh,
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I never get sick of hearing them. Friends, you can
write me anytime with your stories of signs being with
a loved one when they passed, if you've had a
near death experience or something different that tells you that
the afterlife is real. Deathbed visions close to when we
pass and it could be within a month's time. Even
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people come to get us people meaning dead people, people
that we knew, often at somebody we really love. It's
not uncommon for people to see their parents or brothers
or sisters if they had passed first, or friends, all
looking healthy and radiant, looking as clear to them as
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someone alive would look, and the message is the same,
pack your bags, we're going on trip, so no one
dies alone. I am fascinated by the world of physical
and trance mediumship. Physical mediumship is something very rare, and
also I'm convinced there are a lot of people that
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don't have integrity who say they are physical mediums. And
this is a case where you get a group of
say thirty people sitting in a dark room, holding hands,
singing songs, building up the energy and voices of loved
ones seem to come out of the dark. This kind
of mediumship was in its heyday in the eighteen hundreds
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and early nineteen hundreds, but because of the Great Wars,
too many frauds came into the picture, claiming you could
talk to your loved ones hold these seances, and people
were conned out of their money. Even though that form
of mediumship is no longer widely available on planet Earth,
I know people are still sitting for physical mediumship and
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what they call home services, but that gave rise to
what we now have as evidential mediums. Those are the
mediums that you go to, Like I was talking to
you about my experiences with mediums giving me verbal evidence
that my dad and Michael live On. Scott Milligan is
one of the rare physical mediums on planet Earth, and
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I have sat in his groups probably three dozen times,
hearing the voices of loved ones, being with people that
think this sounds too good to be true, only to
have their lives change. Trance mediumship is something I'm grateful
that I get to witness almost every week. You've heard
me interview Scott Milligan, You've heard the words of mister Eric.
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This is someone with their eyes closed, blending with their
spirit team, allowing someone who has once lived on planet
Earth to speak through them. Messages of love, compassion, empowerment,
philosophy come through. And often on Fridays we host what's
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called in the Arms of Eternity, which we send healing
to the world, and then Scott Milligan will go into
trance and we have an extraordinary conversation with mister Eric
talking about life, death, in the afterlife. While being part
of these Fridays has me go from believing to knowing
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in the afterlife. I've had my own experiences as a
trance medium in training. It is the weirdest experience I
can tell you. To get into that meditative state that
if I'm to be used to give words of inspiration
work through me, and of course this is all done
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in a very loving and safe space. But with my
eyes closed in front of a group of people. I
went into that state, with that prayer in my heart.
I got the ball rolling, saying spirit wants to say
as that was the instruction, and then more words kept
coming out of my mouth. I was aware that words
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were coming out of my mouth, yet I was not
controlling it. I was not inventing the words. When I
tried to listen to the words, the voice stopped speaking
through me. However, the moment I relaxed, concentrated on my breathing,
the words started flowing again, and the voice continued to speak.
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I felt the presence of a rather stately man. After
it was over, I was told I was giving a
very detailed story about life is like crossing a great
ocean and how there are waves and uncertainty and eventually
we arrive at the shore. But during the experience, I
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kept speaking although I was not conscious of the words.
And during this experience, I felt like my body was
turning to the group and I was moving my arm
as I was explaining about crossing the ocean, and when
I opened my eyes, people were drawing their tears, saying
the words that came through were so inspiring. They asked
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how it was for me, and I said it was
weird because I felt the presence of someone with me.
And I said what was really weird is how much
I moved, And they said, Sandra, you remained perfectly still.
Holy cow, what was that? Well? Friends, we all have
guides and inspirers with us, and when we practice quieting
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the mind and with a loving heart asking for assistance,
they can work with us. I think they often work
with us when we get into the zone, but we
just don't realize it's them. We all have a team
that work with us. Can you tell I love this stuff?
I really do. Sometimes I have journaled sitting in that
same state, and I've had some great words of philosophy
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and great advice come out of my fingertips into my
computer through my pen. That's automatic writing with my soul
or perhaps a deceased loved one. I don't know. I'm
pretty lucky that I've been part of all of these
trance demonstrations online over the past five plus years and
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have recorded all of them. You can listen to them
all on my website, of course. But what always blows
my mind is how mister Eric could answer a question
that someone has before the question was even asked. People
type their questions into a Q and a box on zoom,
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and I'm the only person that can read them. Scott
has his eyes closed and very often I say like
to ask a question, and Eric will say, is this
from Lois? A question about her son who has recently passed?
And it's like, how does he know? He also says
we don't need to wait until Friday to talk to him. He,
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along with our spirit helpers, are always around, always available.
When we get a response from them, it sounds like
our own voice. So that's the thing. Pay attention when
you have some wise words coming in your own voice. Well,
we're getting close to the break here on the birthday episode.
When we come back, I want you to hear some
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words from dear Brian Smith, author, podcast host of Grief
to Growth. He's got a good method for us to
remember who we really are and be empowered in our life.
So don't go anywhere, We'll be right back. You're listening
to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast
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to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades
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of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlaine and I've decided to
bring a special guest on my birthday episode. It is
author and podcast host Brian Smith that you first heard
way back on episode forty two. Brian's beloved daughter Shana
had passed. Not only did he go out looking for
evidence of her life beyond physical death, he learned so
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much about grief, being instrumental and sharing, helping parents heal,
and so much more. His book is Grief to Growth,
and his podcast and website same names. It's the number
two Grief toogrowth dot com. Everything I do has a
foundation of helping people through grief, giving powerful words about
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the afterlife and how to live a powerful life while
we're here. Brian has a practice he calls gems gems
that I know will empower you today. Here's my dear friend,
Brian Smith.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
So I have a technique I called gems. Gems for gratitude, exercise, meditation,
self care. Those are four things I practice every day,
and I encourage all my clients and everybody else to
do so you can really keep your energy high. After
several years of going through this and trying all different
kinds of things to figure out what's going to work
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for me, there are basically four things that I found
that are really really easy to do that everybody can
do every day. It starts with gratitude. And every time
I say that, I remember how I used to roll
my eyes and people talked about gratitude practice. I'm like, again,
very practical guy, how is this going to help me?
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:55):
There's nothing great going on in my life right now.
Everything sucks, And that's a natural human tendency. Our brains
tend to focus on what's negative. If that's you, if
someone's going through that, there's nothing wrong with you. That's
our default mode. But we can get out of that.
So just really simply, I was talking with the client
yesterday whose son passed away very recently. I'm a little kid,
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and she's like, so, how do I do this gratitude thing?
You know, how do I make it a regular thing?
So I gave her a little tip as a free
app on your phone called journal if you have an iPhone,
you can journal it something really easier members before you
get out of bed, when you wake up in the morning,
before you even open your eyes, think of three things
you're grateful for. And for me, a lot of times,
it's like it's warm because I hate the cold. So
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in the winter I'm like, I'm in my bed and
it's warm. Or maybe that I'm having dinner with friends tonight,
or it may be I was sitting in my office
one day and I was giving someone an example. I said,
I've got electricity. We don't even think about it. We
just turn on the lights and they come on. And said,
but do you think about the time there's a power outage?
That feeling you get when the power comes back on
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and the lights come on and the refrigerator starts running.
You get this feeling of like it's like a jolt,
right because you're grateful for having the power. So what
if you had that feeling when it hasn't gone off.
This is what the gratitude practice will do for you.
So I walk pretty much every day and I'll think,
I'm grateful that my feet are okay, I'm grateful that
my back feels good, you know, stuff like that. So
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gratitude is what I start with exercise because of mind
body connection is really important. A lot of times it's
spiritual people. We can tend to bypass the body, but
our body influences how we feel. There's a feedback loop
between our body and our mind and our spirit. So
keep your body as strong as you can. So for me,
it's walking by Tell people find what works for you.
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It might be yoga, it might be gardening, it might
be whatever works for you. I interview one woman on
my podcast and her mother passed, and people are giving
us all this advice, like, try yoga, try this, try that.
She got into powerlifting, and it's like powerlifting was a
thing that just like really turned her on because she
could shape her body. It made her feel strong. She
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liked the repetition. So I'm like, yeah that, you know,
find what works for you. So that's the exercise piece
of it. Again. Try to find something you can do daily.
It could be walking ten minutes after dinner. It could
be very helpful, getting out in the sun, vitamin D.
There's a whole lot of benefits into it. Mindfulness or meditation,
which a lot of people push back on. They say,
can't meditate. And I say to people, if you can't meditate,
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you just haven't found the right technique. Yet you can
do it any way you want, so get out of
your mind. You can be sitting on a cushion for
thirty minutes without moving and shutting off your mind, because
you're never going to shut off your mind. So again,
I love technology, so I use insight Timer on my phone.
So I like the app because it keeps track of
what my streak is. So I'm a very competitive guy.
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So I took a three inches and sixty five day
challenge to meditate every day for three inch and sixty
five days. I ended up sticking with it for like
four years and it missed a day. So whatever mindfulness
technique works for you, and I work people to figure
out what works for them. And then the s is
for either sleep or self care, and it's actually both.
So when it comes to sleep again, our bodies we
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need sleep. I think our spirits need sleep too. This
world is hard, and I think why do we sleep?
What's the point of like zonking out and not being here? Well,
there's just physical need. If we don't have sleep, we
will literally go insane. We will die with that sleep.
But also I think our spirits need that release, and
I believe that we leave our bodies you know when
we sleep, so getting good sleep habits. I try to
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get to bed about the same time every night during
the week when I have to get up the next day,
keep in the room dark and cool, all those things
everybody knows, you know, do those things. But also self
care because people in our society don't practice self care enough.
You have to really prioritize yourself. So that can involve
not just sleep, but also during the day. I work
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from home, taking breaks and building breaks into your day,
not working too much, have a good work life balance.
A lot of people I know that are people pleasers.
They'll do everything for other people, but they don't take
care of themselves, you know, putting yourself as a priority.
So I really help people go through that. So those
are the four steps, and as I said that, the
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great thing is you can literally start doing them all.
You can start today. You can wake up and do
your gratitude. You can take a short walk, you can
practice a little bit of mindfulness if it's just two
minutes sitting at your desk, close your eyes and just
count your breath for two minutes. That's the gems thing
that I really encourage everybody to do.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Thank you Brian, that's gratitude, exercise, mindfulness or meditation, sleep
and self care. And I might add another s service.
Anytime we make a difference for another person, it comes
like a boomerang plus right back to us. I'd like
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to share some of the things that I do to
keep me motivated and connected that there's a bigger picture
one shades of the afterlife. There's no way I can
create a podcast episode and not be inspired. It's just
impossible because I have my eye on you. What are
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some stories that'll make a difference for you? In turn,
they make a difference for me. We have our weekly
free Sunday gathering with medium demonstration included. If you haven't
attended yet, please do. It is the best. We're going
into our sixth year two o'clock New York time every
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Sunday on Zoom details that we don't die dot com.
No matter how I feel prior to a Sunday gathering,
I am filled with so much joy during and after
every week, one hundred and fifty two hundred people. It's
non denominational. It is fabulous. And did I mention the
medium demonstration included? Also Fridays with Scott Milligan come sometime
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to in the arms of eternity. Ask your questions to
mister Eric. Monthly, we offer great classes with Scott Milligan
and myself. We have what's called Trance and the Altered States.
You never need to be a trance medium, but you
learn how to quiet that busy mind and blend with
the love from the unseen world, your soul, your guides,
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and your loved ones. We also have a very gentle
way for you to nurture your natural psychic and medium abilities.
My dear friends Carrie McLeod and Phil Dyke's are the
top medium tutors that I recommend. In fact, they're the
only ones I recommend. You'll learn how spirit communicates through
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your feelings. Yes, you might get some pictures through clairvoyance,
but you pay attention to that gut instinct and it's incredible.
New classes begin every month. Even if you join late
or don't want to join live at all, you can
watch them buy video replay. I keep myself connected with
books and podcasts and YouTube videos. My room is filled
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with books all over the place, and I'll read a
chapter of this, one chapter of that one. I stay
plugged in with reminders all over the place, of afterlife stuff.
I have regular conversations and meetings with people that are
important to me that know me as Sandra Champlain, divine
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soul having a human experience. I have a weekly call
with my good friend Greg. Monthly. I talk to my
dear friend Darla several times a week. I'm on with
mediums and friends Darren and Scott, Carrie and Phil. There's
others in our community that reach out quite often. Facebook
message works for us. I meet a few times a
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year with podcast host and author ROBERTA. Grimes. I get
regular emails and on the lists for tut dot com,
victor zammit dot com and others. One thing is for sure,
if you stay connected with people who talk the same language,
it stays strong for you. If you stay connected too
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much time with people that don't believe and complain a lot,
it doesn't work so well. I'm not saying get rid
of these people, but do more to stay connected with us.
I have a few other little tricks, like a daily
motivational calendar in my bathroom so I start the day
with positivity. And there's an oracle deck of cards that
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I really like called postcards from Spirit. Those are pretty
cool too. Remember, We Don't Die dot com is my
home base. Don't forget Fill in your name email address
at the bottom of the page. Go to the store page.
Check out what's coming up. Sunday gatherings are listed there
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medium classes. There's tons of things to investigate on that site.
If you have questions or you have a story, I
would love to hear it and with your permission, share
it with others on Shades of the Afterlife. Email me
please at Sandra Champlain at gmail dot com. As we
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close out this episode, I want to read some of
my favorite quotes from my book We Don't Die. This
is from Norman Vincent Peel, writer and clergyman. Physical death
is a transitional step and the total life process. The soul,
which does not die, having finished with its earthly body,
moves to a higher level of life where it grows
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under greatly enhanced circumstances. And you remember this from childhood.
Row row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.
Life is but a dream. With that, my friend, thank
you for celebrating my birthday with me, and thank you
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from the bottom of my heart for listening to Shades
of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
am Paranormal Podcast Network.
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