August 1, 2025 • 54 mins
Join Sandra for her 250th show celebration featuring a boy’s vision of his father in Heaven and an NDE with proof from a beloved dog. Explore the afterlife and learn a technique to find peace.
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
that our loved ones have survived physical death, and so
will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Today is
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a day of celebration, and you know why. This is
episode number two hundred and fifty. Hard to believe. I've
been talking about the afterlife for so many hours with you,
but it is time for celebration. So on this episode
today we're going to do a few things. One, I
had an amazing conversation with a man about his near
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death experience. I want to tell you about that. It's
got some good verifiable evidence in it. Also, there's a
teenager who had a skateboarding accident and coming out of anesthesia,
it's as if he was looking into the afterlife and
talking to the afterlife. The veil between the two worlds
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is very thin. In fact, I believe our world is
a part of their world. So I want to talk
about the architecture of the afterlife and the veil between
two worlds. We are going to celebrate two hundred and
fifty episodes, of course, but also before we end, I
learned a new technique this week about how to slow
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down the busy mind if we're experiencing grief or worry,
how to return to the present moment. Remember that present
moment is a gift. Not only does it help our
neurotransmitters get back to normal and help that healing process
through grief, but it's also the access way to our abilities,
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those natural psychic mediumistic and to perceive the love from
the afterlife. So first, let me tell you the story
that's making headlines. It's a teenage boy named Cason, who,
after a serious skateboarding accident, required surgery and then had
this remarkable experience coming just out of anesthesia. What makes
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this event so compelling is not just what Cason says,
but his physical state. His mother filmed him staring intently
upwards with glassy eyes, seemingly looking at a point far
beyond the hospital room ceiling, and this video she has
shared has now captured and touched the lives of millions.
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He was filmed staring intently upwards with glassy eyes. His
expression and focus are strikingly similar to what many hospice
workers have reported for years, the look of patients who
in their final hours begin seeing and interacting with deceased
loved ones at their bedside, as if a welcoming party
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is already gathering. Now, Cason is on his road to recovery,
which is a good thing, but this video begins with
him in a state of apology and guilt, the way
many of us feel about our human imperfection. I'm sorry,
he whispers, I'm a bad kid. I cause trouble, But
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his focus quickly shifted from his earthly worries to something,
in fact, someone else. He says, hi Jesus with a
sense of awe, you're so beautiful, Oh, my gosh. As
he continues to gaze into the space above him, another
visitor arrives. Dad. I miss you, Dad, You're so pretty,
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Cason says, with a peaceful tone, Hi Dad.
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Now.
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It's important to note that Cason's father passed away a
year before, yet here was his son, not only seeing him,
but interacting with him as if he were right there
in the room, asking Dad, do you see me skateboarding?
What follows is a beautiful, heartfelt conversation that seems to
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bridge the two worlds. Cason becomes a messenger of love,
reassuring his father Mom loves you, Dad, she tells you
all the time. He then makes a solemn promise, his
voice full of a teenager's earnest vow, I'll treat mom better.
I'll listen, I promise. His description of where his father
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is paints a picture familiar to many who have had
near death experiences. He says, I wish I was with you, Dad.
It's so pretty up here. There's so many flowers and butterflies.
He sees not only his father, but perhaps his grandfather
as well, calling out, Hi, Papa, I miss you. Give
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me a hug please. He even described his dad's appearance, saying, Dad,
you have such big muscles. You're so strong. Throughout the experience,
Casin's love for his family on earth is a constant theme.
He tells Jesus, you should see my mom. Jesus, She's
so pretty. She works so hard to provide for us,
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and I love her so much. The experience seems to
fill him with a renewed sense of purpose and a
profound sense of love, not just for his family, but
for everyone. In a moment of pure grace, he thinks
of his caretakers, saying, I'll pray for my nurses. Make
sure you make the nurses go to heaven. They're so
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nice to me. While skeptics might attribute this entire event
to the effects of anesthesia, for millions who have watched,
and for anyone who has studied these profound phenomena, Cason's
heartfelt and detailed conversation is not a rambling dream. It's
a stunning glimpse of a reality that awaits us all.
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A place where our loved ones are healthy, strong and beautiful,
a place so pretty, filled with flowers and butterflies, and
a place where the love we share in this life
continues on echoing through eternity. It's a powerful testament that
those we love and for ourselves we simply do not
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die Now, just for kicks. I was looking on YouTube
to tell you what to search for, and there's been
an update. There's another video and it's the story from
the mother's perspective. So I want to tell you about that.
The mother's name is Caylin, and she came forward to
share that that video was actually taken one year ago.
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So she provides an extra layer of context and I
think it confirms the reality of what her son was experiencing.
She says, to truly understand what was happening in the
hospital room, we have to go back a year before
Cason's accident. The family had just endured the unimaginable. Casin's
father had been diagnosed with stage four cancer and had
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passed away in September of twenty twenty two after a
long and difficult battle. Cayln shared that her faith in
Jesus was her lifeline through that immense pain, and she
came to understand a deep truth that she so powerfully
articulated in the video. She says the presence of pain
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does not equal the absence of God. Pain is the
very thing that can wake us up to his presence.
So this is the sacred ground upon which the events
in the hospital unfold. Calan was in the waiting room
praying for her son as he underwent the procedure to
reset his badly broken arm. When the nurse finally came
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to get her, she walked into the recovery room, and
what happened next is the detail that changes everything. Before
she started recording, the very first words her son said
were I can't see it's too bright for mom, Caylen,
time stopped. She said that immediately it triggered so many
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emotions because those words were almost a perfect echo of
the last world words her husband spoke as he was
passing away. He too was looking straight up, unaware of
his surroundings, and told her I can't see it's too bright,
It's so beautiful. In that instant, she knew her son
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was not just coming out of anesthesia, he was having
a sacred experience. In her own words, she said, there
was not one minute that I did not think he
was seeing what he was seeing. I knew he was
seeing what he was seeing. The feeling in that room
was so powerful that one of the nurses actually whispered
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in her ear that she should be recording it. Calin
confirmed that Casin had no memory of the event itself.
The only thing he remembers is that it was really
bright before being wheeled out to the car. This detail
is significant as it rules out the possibility that he
was consciously creating the story just a vessel for the experience. Now,
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the mother said that Cason said his new name was Brian,
and she believes he was referencing the new name we
are given in heaven, as the Bible says, and that
the name Brian means high and noble. So this update
transforms the teenager Casin's story from a fascinating viral video
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into a profound testament of a family's enduring bond through
tragedy and also their faith. It's a story of a
father reaching across the veil to connect with the son
he had to leave behind, using the very same words
to describe the beauty of his new home. And it's
the story of a mother whose faith, forged in the
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fire of grief, allowed her to recognize the miracle that
was unfolding right before her eyes. I'm so glad I
just found that new video. No matter what religious belief
people have, there are so many similarities between all the
near death experiences, that bright light, that feeling of love
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seeing loved ones. In fact, in our next segment together,
I'll tell you about a profound near death experience where
a father meets up with his little daughter. I don't
get into religion in this show, as I respect everybody's
religious beliefs, but I do like to say that religions
are like lamps. There can be many different ones, right,
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but the light remains the same. So whatever that light
is for you, I believe, is that light that both
Casin and his dad saw. Well it is our two
hundred and fiftieth episode celebration, after all. So here's some
great quotes about the afterlife. This one from Helen Keller.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
But there's a difference from me, you know, because in
that other room I shall be able to see. And
John Taylor says, while we are mourning the loss of
our friend, others are rejoicing to meet them behind the veil.
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And Rumy said death is a coming together. The tomb
looks like a prison, but it's really a release into union.
Your mouth closes here and immediately opens with a shout
of joy over there, and let us not forget. Albert
Einstein said there are only two ways to live your life.
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One as if nothing is a miracle. The other is
as though everything is a miracle. Author JK. Rowling says,
to the well organized mind, death is nothing but the
next great adventure. Let's head off to the break and
we'll be back with Omar Perez's near death experience. We'll
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Speaker 3 (14:44):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandras Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth celebration episode. Now,
of all the stories I've had the honor of sharing,
some are so profound, so filled with evidence and a
motion that they have the power to change the way
we see the world. Just recently, I recorded episode five
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hundred of my We Don't Die Radio podcast, which you
can find on YouTube, and from time to time I
like to share clips or stories from those episodes. Now,
there is a big difference between We Don't Die Radio
and Shades of the Afterlife. If you think of the
Olympics and someone getting a silver medal. That is my
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We Don't Die. Those are full length interviews with extraordinary
people about why they believe in the afterlife. Shades of
the Afterlife is my gold medal podcast which I try
to bring you the best of the best of all
things afterlife. The sound quality isn't great on the YouTube video,
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and you can certainly go to YouTube and watch episode
five hundred and meet Omar, But I want to tell
you his story now. Omar Perez, a father who journeyed
through the deepest valley of grief and skepticism, was brought
to the brink of death himself and had an experience
that transformed his understanding of life and the afterlife. Omar's
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story begins with a life that felt perfect. He and
his loving wife had a son, and in twenty seventeen
were blessed with fraternal twin daughters. Life was good, their
careers were thriving, and their family was complete. But in
late twenty twenty, their world shattered. One of their twin daughters, Chloe,
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became suddenly and unexplainably ill over a few short days.
Despite multiple trips to the hospital, they were told it
was a virus, but her condition worsened. The final day
was terrifying. Chloe's temperature shot to one hundred and sixty.
She became lethargic and unresponsive, and was rushed to the
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children's hospital. Due to COVID protocols, only one parent was
allowed in, and Omar selflessly let his wife go to
their daughter's side. Events snowballed with terrifying speed. Chloe began
to have seizures and went into cardiac arrest. By the
time Omar arrived at the hospital, he only had minutes
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with her before the doctors delivered the devastating news her
little heart was just too weak, barely beating at twenty
two beats per minute. There was nothing more they could do.
In the sterile quiet of the hospital room, Omar held
his daughter as her heart beat one last time, and
she was gone. And this was all within a span
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of six hours. To this day, nearly five years later,
there's still no medical explanation for what took Chloe's life.
The loss was absolute, and for Omar it was the
end of everything he thought he might believe. While his
wife had always been a deeply spiritual person, Omar was
a skeptic he'd tried everything, Catholicism, Baptist churches, even atheism,
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but nothing ever felt right. He admitted, when Chloe passed,
I lost all my faith in God, all my faith
in anything after life. It just completely destroyed even an
inkling of faith or hope that I had. This is
a man whose foundation was utterly destroyed, left with nothing
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but grief and doubt. So life moved on as it does.
The family moved to South Carolina, unable to bear living
in the same house where they had lost their daughter,
and then in December of twenty twenty four, the universe
intervened in the most dramatic way possible. Omar came down
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with what he thought was a simple case of pneumonia,
but it progressed rapidly, and on December twelfth, he woke
up unable to breathe. He was rushed to the hospital
with a high fever and sepsis. His lungs collapsed back
to back. He was intubated and put on life support
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with only a ten percent chance of survival. His wife
had already signed that do not resuscitate paperwork, but Omar
wasn't in the hospital. He was somewhere else entirely. All
I remember was waking up, and I was on a
beautiful pathway, just a winding, beautiful pathway. It wasn't the
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bright light so many describe, but a bluish, grayish, foggy
space that was somehow calming and beautiful. He felt no confusion,
only a gentle curiosity to walk the path before him.
To his right, his most cherished core memories began to
play out like visions in the fog, his wedding day,
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the birth of his children, the moments of his life
that defined him. To his left, a group of people
came into view, smiling and conversing peacefully. He felt an
overwhelming sense of fulfillment. The constant worry he carried since
Chloe's passing was gone. I know they're gonna hurt, but
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they're gonna be fine, he realized about his family. I
didn't have this yearning. It's just a knowing that they
were going to be okay. Then he saw a vision
of the present, his wife crying on their living room couch,
consoling their son. On the coffee table was the butterfly
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shaped urn with Chloe's ashes, and next to it another urn.
The sight of that second urn saddened him deeply. He
blinked and the scene vanished. She was now sitting in
a vast open space, and out of the fog came
his little Chloe. She was everything he remembered, but as
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she would have been at six years old, her dark
curly hair longer, wearing a favorite red shirt with two
gold hearts and the little gold sandals he himself had
put on her for her funeral. She came to him
and they had the most beautiful conversation. Later, he realized
they never moved their lips. They were speaking telepathically, but
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he heard her voice as clear as day. Daddy, I
miss you. I love you so much, she told him,
explaining that she was okay. Then she gave him the
gift of what he had been aching for since the
day she passed. She told him, Daddy, you were right.
My job was done and I did a good job. Dad,
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I did a very good job. Omar explained he always
felt Chloe had an old soul, but that she had
been here to guide her twin sister, Sophia. Chloe's words
were a direct validation of that private joke. It meant
everything to me, Omar. Wept everything. I wanted to hear
everything I wanted to feel. He was able to hold her,
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smelled the unique scent of her hair, and felt a
peace that had been absent for years. As their time
came to an end, Chloe told him she had to go,
but that she was always with him and his family.
As she walked away, he didn't feel the panic of loss.
He felt peace, knowing she was okay. But right before
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she disappeared, something incredible happened. My dog, which is at home,
comes bolting in from the right hand side. It was Leyla,
their family dog, who had an especially strong bond with Chloe.
The two of them walked away together, and Omar was
left with the feeling that he needed to take good
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care of their dog back home. Omar's next memory was
waking up in the hospital on Christmas Day, unable to
speak because of the tubes in his throat. He was
overcome with the need to tell his family about what
he had seen, so he gestured for a pen. His
son handed him aboard and a marker. Omar frantically began
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to write out every detail of his experience, including the
reunion of Chloe and their dog, Layla. He was sent
home from the hospital about a week later, his recovery
shocking everyone. When he walked in the door, he looked
for the dog. That's when his wife sat him down,
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tears in her eyes, and gave him the validation that
would change everything. She explained that while he was in
the induced coma, the dog had suddenly become very ill
with seizures. There was nothing they could do. They had
put Leylah down on Christmas Eve, the day before Omar
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woke up. The family broke down in tears. The detail
about the dog, which Omar couldn't possibly have known, was
undeniable proof. It's what they call a verritical nd, an
experience where one obtains information that is later verified and
could not have been known through normal means. Omar's vision
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wasn't the dream. It was real. Chloe was real, and
she was with their dog. Today, Omar is a changed man.
The skeptic is gone, replaced by a man who has
an unshakeable knowing. He knows that our souls are amazing,
and that this life is not the end, and that
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feeling of fulfillment he experienced on the other side is
what awaits us all. He longer fears death his purpose.
He now believes is to share his story and plant
a small seat of hope in others who are grieving.
They are there, They are with us, he says, with
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absolute certainty. They send us so many signs, little things
that we bypass as a coincidence. There's no coincidences. That
fulfillment that I felt. We are all going to feel that.
Omar's incredible journey reminds us that even in the face
of unimaginable loss and doubt, there is a reality far
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greater than the one we see. It affirms that our
loved ones are not gone, but are waiting for us,
living in a state of peace and wholeness. It's a
testament to the idea that life is indeed an education
for the soul, and that every moment here matters. And
it is powerful, verifiable proof that we, along with our pets,
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simply do not die. As we continue our two hundred
and fiftieth episode celebration, a couple bits of trivia about
near death experiences. Did you know near death experiencers remember
clearer than any vision they've ever had in their life,
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even if it was during childhood. Also, many people who
were blind from birth can see during near death experiences
for the very first time, including giving accurate accounts of
what was happening in an operating room or what the
doctors were wearing. Time for our break and we'll be
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right back looking at how thin the veil is and
the architecture of the afterlife. Will be right back. You're
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth episode celebration.
Some people believe there is meaning in numbers, So just
for fun, I looked up the number two fifty and
did you know it is considered symbolic of new beginnings,
positive changes, and the importance of trusting your intuition on
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your spiritual path. How perfect is that for today? We
often talk about the veil between the two worlds, that
invisible boundary that separates us from the world of spirit.
It's not a wall, but more like a difference in frequency,
a divine filter that allows us to focus on our
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human journey. But sometimes, in moments of great love, deep grief,
or sudden crisis, that veil becomes incredibly thin. It's in
these sacred moments that our loved ones prove that a
difference in vibration is no barrier to the love that
needs to be felt, or a message that needs to
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be delivered, or a final goodbye or an apology that
needs to be shared. This brings us to our first story.
A classic example of what researchers call at isis apparition.
It's the story of a young college student named Jessica.
Jessica and her older brother, Michael, weren't just siblings. They
were best friends who shared everything. One night, Jessica was
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in her dorm room, hundreds of miles away from her
family home, forcing herself to study for a final exam.
It was late, around two in the morning, and the
silence of the library quiet dorm was making her feel
isolated and exhausted. As she was reading the same paragraph
for the tenth time, a strange, sudden chill swept through
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the room, making the hairs on her arms stand up.
She looked up from her textbook toward the doorway, and
her heart stopped standing. There was her brother, Michael. He
wasn't transparent or ghostly. He looked completely real, solid, healthy,
wearing the comfortable green flannel shirt and the jeans he
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loved wearing. He didn't speak, but his presence filled the room.
He looked directly at her, and in his eyes she
saw an ocean of love and a hint of sadness.
He offered her a small, gentle smile, a smile of
reassurance and farewell. Then, as quickly and as silently as
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he had appeared, he simply faded away into nothing. Jessica
sat there frozen for a moment, her mind racing. Had
she fallen asleep? Was it a waking dream? No, it
felt too real, too profound to just be a product
of her tired mind. She grabbed her phone and tried
to call Michael's cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail.
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A not of worry tightened in her stomach. She tried
to call her parents' house, but there was no answer. Finally,
after pacing her small room, she convinced herself she was
just overtied and emotionally exhausted from the stress of the exams.
She crawled into bed. The vision of her brother with
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his sad but loving smile burned into her mind. The
next morning, she was jolted awake by a phone call
from her mother. Through gut wrenching sobs, her mother told
her the terrible news. Michael had been killed in a
car accident the night before. When Jessica, her voice shaking,
asked what time the accident had happened, her mother confirmed
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their worst fears. The police had estimated the time of
his death was around two in the morning. It was
the exact moment Michael had appeared in his green flannel
shirt in her dorm room doorway, hundreds of miles away,
to say a loving goodbye. In that moment of crisis,
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his love tore through the veil, allowing him to be
in two places at one, offering one last moment of
earthly connection before crossing over. This thinning of a veil
is also profoundly evident at the bedside of the dying.
Hospice nurses and doctors have long reported the phenomena known
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as deathbed visions, where a dying person begins to see
and interact with deceased loved ones as if a welcoming
party is gathering to escort them home. Take the story
of hospice nurse Margaret, who was caring for an elderly
man named Arthur. He was in his nineties, a kind
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man who had lived a full life, but he had
been non responsive for several days, lost in the space
between the worlds. His family was gathered around his bed,
speaking in hushed tones, keeping a quiet, loving vigil. Suddenly,
Arthur's eyes, which had been closed for so long, they
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opened wide, but they weren't looking at his family. They
were focused on the corner of the room, and a beautiful,
radiant smile spread across his entire face, erasing years of
pain and worry. He lifted his frail hand a gesture
full of joy, and said, in a voice clearer and
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stronger than he'd used in weeks, Eleanor, you came. You
look so beautiful. Eleanor was the name of his beloved wife,
who had passed away ten years earlier. Arthur continued to
have a one sided conversation with his wife, his face
full of a light his family hadn't seen in years.
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He would nod, smile, and sometimes laugh softly, as if
sharing a private joke with her. At one point he said, yes, yes,
I'm ready, Just let me say goodbye. He then turned
his head, his eyes out clear and present, and looked
directly at his crying daughter. He took her hand and said,
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don't you worry, sweetheart. Eleanor is here to take me home,
and it's beautiful. Those were his last words. He closed
his eyes, a peaceful smile on his lips, and passed
just moments later. For his family, it was a moment
that transformed their grief into a certainty that Arthur was
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not alone, that death is not an end but a reunion,
and that his wife had come through the veil to
take his hand and lead him home. These experiences show
us that the veil is not a barrier to love.
It is merely a difference in perception and sometimes the
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proof that love can part. That veil is not just
a vision or a feeling, but something undeniably physical. Here
is the incredible story of a man named Ben, whose
father was a watchmaker. His father's most prized possession was
an old silver pocket watch that belonged to his father.
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It was a family heirloom, a symbol of time and legacy.
When he was dying, he told Ben, when I'm gone,
this watch is yours. As long as it's ticking, you'll
know I'm with you. After his father passed, Ben cherished
the watch. It was a wind up watch, and every
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single morning, without fail, he would perform the small ritual
of winding it, a quiet moment to connect with the
memory of his dad. Years later, Ben was on a
family vacation boating on a large, deep lake. He was
leaning over the side of the boat to help his
daughter when he felt a sickening slip. The pocket watch,
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which had been securely in his shirt pocket, fell out,
hit the side of the boat, and then plunged into
the deep, dark water. He was, of course devastated. It
felt like a physical severing of his connection to his father.
He even hired professional divers, but the lake was too
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deep and too murky. The watch and the promise it
held was gone forever. For months, Ben felt a profound
sense of loss, as if he had let his father
down all over again. About a year later, on the
very anniversary of his father's death, Ben was walking along
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the lake shore, many miles from where the watch was lost.
He was feeling particularly sad, walking with his head down,
talking to his dad in his mind, telling him how
sorry he was for being so careless. As he walked,
he kicked at a pile of dark, wet sand. There,
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half buried in the wet sand was a silver pocket watch.
His heart pounded in his chest. He picked it up.
It was caked with sand and corroded from what must
have been years in water, but he could just make
out the intricate, familiar engravings on the back. It was
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his father's watch. It was impossible. He held it up
to his ear, his hands shaking, and then he heard it,
faintly but clearly, the watch was ticking. This is what
some call a physical apport, an impossible gift from across
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the veil. It was a father's promise kept in the
most miraculous way, proving that the veil isn't just thin.
Sometimes it seems it can be parted completely by a
love that defies all earthly logic. Time and distance. The
journey from this life to the next is not a
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journey into silence, but into a different kind of communication.
Our loved ones are not gone, They are simply speaking
in a different language, a language of signs, symbols, and
love that pierces the veil in the most personal and
goosebump inducing ways. And our next segment will journey deeper
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into what lies beyond this veil, exploring the very landscape
of the afterlife, and discuss what we can do right
here and now to get in the present when the
storms of life feel overwhelming, and don't forget. Be in
that present moment as much as you can, and sometimes
unexpected memories will just come into your mind. Those are
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little calling cards from our loved ones, piercing the veil,
letting you know their right here with you. I'd like
to tell you an apport of my own. I was
traveling wearing my favorite pair of gold ear rings, and
in the bathroom I dropped one of the earrings. I
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looked everywhere, and I believed it went down the sink.
So I put the one remaining earring in a little
pocket in my suitcase. In desperation, I did say a
little prayer to any relatives or guides or God, anyone
who is listening, because I felt terrible losing that single earring.
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When I got home from the trip and unpacked my bag,
I looked in the little pocket where I placed the
one earring, and both earrings were there. It's time for
our break and we'll be right back. You're listening to
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Today we've journeyed through the unseen world. We've heard stories
of the thin veil that separates us from spirit. So
the big question is what lies beyond it. The thousands
and thousands of consistent accounts from near death experiences paint
of vivid and spectacular picture. The key to understanding these
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landscapes is the concept of vibration or frequency. The afterlife
seems to have its own amazing architecture, but it's built
from something very different than physical matter. It's often described
as being made from light, love, and from thought. Itself.
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Intention is the hammer and nails of the spirit world.
What you think, you create, what you feel you attract.
Let me share a few stories that give us some
incredible glimpses. A woman named Mary who had a profound
nd after a serious car accident, She was drawn into
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an incredibly beautiful, expansive landscape. She described it as a vast,
shimmering meadow filled with flowers whose colors she had never
seen on earth. They seemed to glow with their own
internal light. She felt an overwhelming sense of peace and belonging,
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and she realized she could move by thinking, appearing instantly
wherever she intended to be. Another man after a heart
attack described finding himself in a forest where the trees
were ancient and wise, and he could feel their consciousness.
Their leaves were like millions of tiny, green stained glass windows,
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and the sunlight filtering through them created a symphony of
light on the forest floor. He could hear a soft,
harmonious hum that he knew was the life force of
the forest itself, a sound of pure peace. He understood
that in the afterlife, nature isn't something just to look at.
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It is something you are a part of, a living
conscious and loving system. Others describe incredible structures. A man
named Thomas experienced an nd and found himself in what
he he called a city of light. These weren't buildings
made from stone or steel, but massive structures made of
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pure radiant energy, glowing with different hues that pulsed with
a quiet, powerful life. He saw beautiful bridges made of
woven light, and towers that reached into a sky filled
with multiple moons and soft nebula like clouds of color.
The beings there also seemed to be made of light,
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and they communicated not with words, but through a direct
transfer of thoughts and feelings. He felt a profound sense
of love and recognition, as if this city was more
real and more like home than any place he had
ever lived on Earth. This realization that consciousness shapes experience
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is where the true creative power of the soul comes in.
This is perfectly illustrated by the story of an architect
named Arthur. On Earth. Arthur was brilliant but frustrated. His
grandest designs were always limited by budgets, clients, and the
laws of physics. His greatest dream was to build a
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cathedral not made of stone, but a computerized cathedral of
pure light and sound. He died of a heart attack
in his office. Arthur found himself in a peaceful, dark void.
He wasn't scared. He simply thought about his cathedral. Instantly
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the structure began to form around him. He described walls
made of solid harmonious music and pillars of shimmering warm light.
The stained glass windows weren't glass at all, They were
living portals that showed beautiful memories from across the universe.
The Great Dome wasn't a ceiling, but an opening into
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the cosmos itself. He realized he could change any detail
with a single focused thought. He wasn't just building his
creation in a way, he was his creation. These stories
of expanded senses and peaceful landscapes are our ultimate destination.
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But what if, as souls having a human experience, we
can use them here too. So many people talk about
visualization and the power of gratitude. If you feel like
playing with this sometime, think about some things you desire
and feel the gratitude as if they've already happened. Now,
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really soak in that gratitude, put it out to the universe.
On the other side, there is no time and here
there is time. So don't sit around waiting for things
to happen. Instead, be amazed at that thought or picture
that you created in your mind that eventually it did
show up up in time and space. I want to
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share a powerful tool that I just learned this past week.
So many of us are drawn to shades of the
afterlife because we are navigating grief, stress, worry. If you've
ever felt a wave of grief so strong that it
feels like it's going to pull you under, you know
how disorienting it can be. In those moments, our minds
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are lost in the past with our memories and sometimes regrets.
We're spiraling into the future with fears. The one place
we are not is right here and the safety of
the present moment. So I want to offer you an anchor.
It's a technique used by therapists and counselors all over
the world to help people who are feeling grief, feeling stressed, worried,
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or overwhelmed. It's called the five four three two one
grounding technique. You can do it anywhere, anytime. You can
even do it with me. First, just pause wherever you
are and take one slow, deep breath. Now look around
and silently name five things you can see. Could be
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a lamp, a book on the table, picture frame, the
color of the wall, your shoes or your toes. Just
name five separate things. Next, bring your awareness to your
sense of touch. Silently, name four things you can physically feel.
Maybe it's the solid chair beneath you, the texture of
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your skin, your feet resting on the floor, the touch
of the cat on your lap, or the cool air
on your skin. Now listen, quiet your mind and just listen.
What are three things you can hear? It might be
the hum of a refrigerator, a clock ticking on the wall,
a car driving by outside, or even the sound of
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your own breathing. Then notice what you can smell. This
one can be subtle. What are two things that you
can smell right now? Perhaps it's the scent of your
coffee or a nearby flower, or even just the neutral
scent of the air in your room. Or you can
smell your skin and smell the perfume or shampoo or
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aftershave you have on. And finally, bring your awareness to
your sense of taste. Name one thing you can taste.
It could be the lingering taste of your last meal.
Or drink, or simply the natural taste of your own mouth.
You know what you just did. You brought all of
your focus, all of your awareness, right back here into
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the present moment, into this exact second. You just threw
out an anchor. Grief is real and it deserves our respect,
but you also deserve moments of peace. This little tool
doesn't erase your feelings, but it can give you a
precious moment of stability to catch your breath and that
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you are safe right here, right now. It can be
your anchor in any storm. Knowing about the other side
isn't just about our future comfort. It's about changing how
we live on this side right now. It calls us
to live differently. The stories of near death experiences are
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filled with people who are not just shown a beautiful reality,
but were given a new mission. Do you remember my
episode with Daniel Brinkley in nineteen seventy five. He was
one tough, cynical, skeptical guy who didn't believe in the afterlife.
One day, while on the phone during a thunderstorm, a
bolt of lightning struck the phone line and hit him
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directly in the head. He was even pronounced dead. He
traveled through a tunnel and was met by a being
of light who showed him a panoramic life review. But
like many others, his review was shown from the perspective
of every person that he had ever interacted with. He
was forced to feel the fear of the people he
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had bullied and the emotional pain he had caused his family.
After this difficult but profound lesson, he came back into
his body, waking up in a morgue, but a completely
changed man. The bully was gone, replaced by a man
filled with compassion. Daniel went on to dedicate his life
to service, founding a program called the Twilight Brigade to
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sit with dying veterans and hospice care. He still uses
his experience to bring peace to thousands of people at
the edge of the veil, ensuring that they will not
die alone. His life is a testament to how these
glimpses of the unseen world can inspire a mission of
love back here in the physical world. The journey of
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understanding is not about leaving this life behind. It's about
living this life more powerfully. It's about knowing your eternal
nature and stepping into your power as a fine soul.
Having a human experience. It is about knowing that you,
my friend, are never ever alone. Few announcements as we
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If you feel so inclined, I would love to hear
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listen to your podcasts. I read everyone. I want to
leave you with this powerful quote from brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla.
He said, the day science begins to study non physical phenomena,
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it will make more progress in one decade than in
all the previous centuries of its existence. My friends, today
is that day we are living in a most exciting time.
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I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
that our loved ones have survived physical death, and so
will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Today is
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a day of celebration, and you know why. This is
episode number two hundred and fifty. Hard to believe. I've
been talking about the afterlife for so many hours with you,
but it is time for celebration. So on this episode
today we're going to do a few things. One, I
had an amazing conversation with a man about his near
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death experience. I want to tell you about that. It's
got some good verifiable evidence in it. Also, there's a
teenager who had a skateboarding accident and coming out of anesthesia,
it's as if he was looking into the afterlife and
talking to the afterlife. The veil between the two worlds
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is very thin. In fact, I believe our world is
a part of their world. So I want to talk
about the architecture of the afterlife and the veil between
two worlds. We are going to celebrate two hundred and
fifty episodes, of course, but also before we end, I
learned a new technique this week about how to slow
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down the busy mind if we're experiencing grief or worry,
how to return to the present moment. Remember that present
moment is a gift. Not only does it help our
neurotransmitters get back to normal and help that healing process
through grief, but it's also the access way to our abilities,
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those natural psychic mediumistic and to perceive the love from
the afterlife. So first, let me tell you the story
that's making headlines. It's a teenage boy named Cason, who,
after a serious skateboarding accident, required surgery and then had
this remarkable experience coming just out of anesthesia. What makes
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this event so compelling is not just what Cason says,
but his physical state. His mother filmed him staring intently
upwards with glassy eyes, seemingly looking at a point far
beyond the hospital room ceiling, and this video she has
shared has now captured and touched the lives of millions.
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He was filmed staring intently upwards with glassy eyes. His
expression and focus are strikingly similar to what many hospice
workers have reported for years, the look of patients who
in their final hours begin seeing and interacting with deceased
loved ones at their bedside, as if a welcoming party
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is already gathering. Now, Cason is on his road to recovery,
which is a good thing, but this video begins with
him in a state of apology and guilt, the way
many of us feel about our human imperfection. I'm sorry,
he whispers, I'm a bad kid. I cause trouble, But
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his focus quickly shifted from his earthly worries to something,
in fact, someone else. He says, hi Jesus with a
sense of awe, you're so beautiful, Oh, my gosh. As
he continues to gaze into the space above him, another
visitor arrives. Dad. I miss you, Dad, You're so pretty,
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Cason says, with a peaceful tone, Hi Dad.
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Now.
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It's important to note that Cason's father passed away a
year before, yet here was his son, not only seeing him,
but interacting with him as if he were right there
in the room, asking Dad, do you see me skateboarding?
What follows is a beautiful, heartfelt conversation that seems to
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bridge the two worlds. Cason becomes a messenger of love,
reassuring his father Mom loves you, Dad, she tells you
all the time. He then makes a solemn promise, his
voice full of a teenager's earnest vow, I'll treat mom better.
I'll listen, I promise. His description of where his father
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is paints a picture familiar to many who have had
near death experiences. He says, I wish I was with you, Dad.
It's so pretty up here. There's so many flowers and butterflies.
He sees not only his father, but perhaps his grandfather
as well, calling out, Hi, Papa, I miss you. Give
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me a hug please. He even described his dad's appearance, saying, Dad,
you have such big muscles. You're so strong. Throughout the experience,
Casin's love for his family on earth is a constant theme.
He tells Jesus, you should see my mom. Jesus, She's
so pretty. She works so hard to provide for us,
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and I love her so much. The experience seems to
fill him with a renewed sense of purpose and a
profound sense of love, not just for his family, but
for everyone. In a moment of pure grace, he thinks
of his caretakers, saying, I'll pray for my nurses. Make
sure you make the nurses go to heaven. They're so
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nice to me. While skeptics might attribute this entire event
to the effects of anesthesia, for millions who have watched,
and for anyone who has studied these profound phenomena, Cason's
heartfelt and detailed conversation is not a rambling dream. It's
a stunning glimpse of a reality that awaits us all.
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A place where our loved ones are healthy, strong and beautiful,
a place so pretty, filled with flowers and butterflies, and
a place where the love we share in this life
continues on echoing through eternity. It's a powerful testament that
those we love and for ourselves we simply do not
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die Now, just for kicks. I was looking on YouTube
to tell you what to search for, and there's been
an update. There's another video and it's the story from
the mother's perspective. So I want to tell you about that.
The mother's name is Caylin, and she came forward to
share that that video was actually taken one year ago.
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So she provides an extra layer of context and I
think it confirms the reality of what her son was experiencing.
She says, to truly understand what was happening in the
hospital room, we have to go back a year before
Cason's accident. The family had just endured the unimaginable. Casin's
father had been diagnosed with stage four cancer and had
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passed away in September of twenty twenty two after a
long and difficult battle. Cayln shared that her faith in
Jesus was her lifeline through that immense pain, and she
came to understand a deep truth that she so powerfully
articulated in the video. She says the presence of pain
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does not equal the absence of God. Pain is the
very thing that can wake us up to his presence.
So this is the sacred ground upon which the events
in the hospital unfold. Calan was in the waiting room
praying for her son as he underwent the procedure to
reset his badly broken arm. When the nurse finally came
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to get her, she walked into the recovery room, and
what happened next is the detail that changes everything. Before
she started recording, the very first words her son said
were I can't see it's too bright for mom, Caylen,
time stopped. She said that immediately it triggered so many
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emotions because those words were almost a perfect echo of
the last world words her husband spoke as he was
passing away. He too was looking straight up, unaware of
his surroundings, and told her I can't see it's too bright,
It's so beautiful. In that instant, she knew her son
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was not just coming out of anesthesia, he was having
a sacred experience. In her own words, she said, there
was not one minute that I did not think he
was seeing what he was seeing. I knew he was
seeing what he was seeing. The feeling in that room
was so powerful that one of the nurses actually whispered
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in her ear that she should be recording it. Calin
confirmed that Casin had no memory of the event itself.
The only thing he remembers is that it was really
bright before being wheeled out to the car. This detail
is significant as it rules out the possibility that he
was consciously creating the story just a vessel for the experience. Now,
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the mother said that Cason said his new name was Brian,
and she believes he was referencing the new name we
are given in heaven, as the Bible says, and that
the name Brian means high and noble. So this update
transforms the teenager Casin's story from a fascinating viral video
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into a profound testament of a family's enduring bond through
tragedy and also their faith. It's a story of a
father reaching across the veil to connect with the son
he had to leave behind, using the very same words
to describe the beauty of his new home. And it's
the story of a mother whose faith, forged in the
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fire of grief, allowed her to recognize the miracle that
was unfolding right before her eyes. I'm so glad I
just found that new video. No matter what religious belief
people have, there are so many similarities between all the
near death experiences, that bright light, that feeling of love
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seeing loved ones. In fact, in our next segment together,
I'll tell you about a profound near death experience where
a father meets up with his little daughter. I don't
get into religion in this show, as I respect everybody's
religious beliefs, but I do like to say that religions
are like lamps. There can be many different ones, right,
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but the light remains the same. So whatever that light
is for you, I believe, is that light that both
Casin and his dad saw. Well it is our two
hundred and fiftieth episode celebration, after all. So here's some
great quotes about the afterlife. This one from Helen Keller.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
But there's a difference from me, you know, because in
that other room I shall be able to see. And
John Taylor says, while we are mourning the loss of
our friend, others are rejoicing to meet them behind the veil.
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And Rumy said death is a coming together. The tomb
looks like a prison, but it's really a release into union.
Your mouth closes here and immediately opens with a shout
of joy over there, and let us not forget. Albert
Einstein said there are only two ways to live your life.
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One as if nothing is a miracle. The other is
as though everything is a miracle. Author JK. Rowling says,
to the well organized mind, death is nothing but the
next great adventure. Let's head off to the break and
we'll be back with Omar Perez's near death experience. We'll
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandras Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth celebration episode. Now,
of all the stories I've had the honor of sharing,
some are so profound, so filled with evidence and a
motion that they have the power to change the way
we see the world. Just recently, I recorded episode five
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hundred of my We Don't Die Radio podcast, which you
can find on YouTube, and from time to time I
like to share clips or stories from those episodes. Now,
there is a big difference between We Don't Die Radio
and Shades of the Afterlife. If you think of the
Olympics and someone getting a silver medal. That is my
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We Don't Die. Those are full length interviews with extraordinary
people about why they believe in the afterlife. Shades of
the Afterlife is my gold medal podcast which I try
to bring you the best of the best of all
things afterlife. The sound quality isn't great on the YouTube video,
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and you can certainly go to YouTube and watch episode
five hundred and meet Omar, But I want to tell
you his story now. Omar Perez, a father who journeyed
through the deepest valley of grief and skepticism, was brought
to the brink of death himself and had an experience
that transformed his understanding of life and the afterlife. Omar's
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story begins with a life that felt perfect. He and
his loving wife had a son, and in twenty seventeen
were blessed with fraternal twin daughters. Life was good, their
careers were thriving, and their family was complete. But in
late twenty twenty, their world shattered. One of their twin daughters, Chloe,
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became suddenly and unexplainably ill over a few short days.
Despite multiple trips to the hospital, they were told it
was a virus, but her condition worsened. The final day
was terrifying. Chloe's temperature shot to one hundred and sixty.
She became lethargic and unresponsive, and was rushed to the
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children's hospital. Due to COVID protocols, only one parent was
allowed in, and Omar selflessly let his wife go to
their daughter's side. Events snowballed with terrifying speed. Chloe began
to have seizures and went into cardiac arrest. By the
time Omar arrived at the hospital, he only had minutes
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with her before the doctors delivered the devastating news her
little heart was just too weak, barely beating at twenty
two beats per minute. There was nothing more they could do.
In the sterile quiet of the hospital room, Omar held
his daughter as her heart beat one last time, and
she was gone. And this was all within a span
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of six hours. To this day, nearly five years later,
there's still no medical explanation for what took Chloe's life.
The loss was absolute, and for Omar it was the
end of everything he thought he might believe. While his
wife had always been a deeply spiritual person, Omar was
a skeptic he'd tried everything, Catholicism, Baptist churches, even atheism,
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but nothing ever felt right. He admitted, when Chloe passed,
I lost all my faith in God, all my faith
in anything after life. It just completely destroyed even an
inkling of faith or hope that I had. This is
a man whose foundation was utterly destroyed, left with nothing
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but grief and doubt. So life moved on as it does.
The family moved to South Carolina, unable to bear living
in the same house where they had lost their daughter,
and then in December of twenty twenty four, the universe
intervened in the most dramatic way possible. Omar came down
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with what he thought was a simple case of pneumonia,
but it progressed rapidly, and on December twelfth, he woke
up unable to breathe. He was rushed to the hospital
with a high fever and sepsis. His lungs collapsed back
to back. He was intubated and put on life support
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with only a ten percent chance of survival. His wife
had already signed that do not resuscitate paperwork, but Omar
wasn't in the hospital. He was somewhere else entirely. All
I remember was waking up, and I was on a
beautiful pathway, just a winding, beautiful pathway. It wasn't the
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bright light so many describe, but a bluish, grayish, foggy
space that was somehow calming and beautiful. He felt no confusion,
only a gentle curiosity to walk the path before him.
To his right, his most cherished core memories began to
play out like visions in the fog, his wedding day,
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the birth of his children, the moments of his life
that defined him. To his left, a group of people
came into view, smiling and conversing peacefully. He felt an
overwhelming sense of fulfillment. The constant worry he carried since
Chloe's passing was gone. I know they're gonna hurt, but
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they're gonna be fine, he realized about his family. I
didn't have this yearning. It's just a knowing that they
were going to be okay. Then he saw a vision
of the present, his wife crying on their living room couch,
consoling their son. On the coffee table was the butterfly
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shaped urn with Chloe's ashes, and next to it another urn.
The sight of that second urn saddened him deeply. He
blinked and the scene vanished. She was now sitting in
a vast open space, and out of the fog came
his little Chloe. She was everything he remembered, but as
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she would have been at six years old, her dark
curly hair longer, wearing a favorite red shirt with two
gold hearts and the little gold sandals he himself had
put on her for her funeral. She came to him
and they had the most beautiful conversation. Later, he realized
they never moved their lips. They were speaking telepathically, but
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he heard her voice as clear as day. Daddy, I
miss you. I love you so much, she told him,
explaining that she was okay. Then she gave him the
gift of what he had been aching for since the
day she passed. She told him, Daddy, you were right.
My job was done and I did a good job. Dad,
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I did a very good job. Omar explained he always
felt Chloe had an old soul, but that she had
been here to guide her twin sister, Sophia. Chloe's words
were a direct validation of that private joke. It meant
everything to me, Omar. Wept everything. I wanted to hear
everything I wanted to feel. He was able to hold her,
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smelled the unique scent of her hair, and felt a
peace that had been absent for years. As their time
came to an end, Chloe told him she had to go,
but that she was always with him and his family.
As she walked away, he didn't feel the panic of loss.
He felt peace, knowing she was okay. But right before
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she disappeared, something incredible happened. My dog, which is at home,
comes bolting in from the right hand side. It was Leyla,
their family dog, who had an especially strong bond with Chloe.
The two of them walked away together, and Omar was
left with the feeling that he needed to take good
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care of their dog back home. Omar's next memory was
waking up in the hospital on Christmas Day, unable to
speak because of the tubes in his throat. He was
overcome with the need to tell his family about what
he had seen, so he gestured for a pen. His
son handed him aboard and a marker. Omar frantically began
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to write out every detail of his experience, including the
reunion of Chloe and their dog, Layla. He was sent
home from the hospital about a week later, his recovery
shocking everyone. When he walked in the door, he looked
for the dog. That's when his wife sat him down,
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tears in her eyes, and gave him the validation that
would change everything. She explained that while he was in
the induced coma, the dog had suddenly become very ill
with seizures. There was nothing they could do. They had
put Leylah down on Christmas Eve, the day before Omar
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woke up. The family broke down in tears. The detail
about the dog, which Omar couldn't possibly have known, was
undeniable proof. It's what they call a verritical nd, an
experience where one obtains information that is later verified and
could not have been known through normal means. Omar's vision
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wasn't the dream. It was real. Chloe was real, and
she was with their dog. Today, Omar is a changed man.
The skeptic is gone, replaced by a man who has
an unshakeable knowing. He knows that our souls are amazing,
and that this life is not the end, and that
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feeling of fulfillment he experienced on the other side is
what awaits us all. He longer fears death his purpose.
He now believes is to share his story and plant
a small seat of hope in others who are grieving.
They are there, They are with us, he says, with
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absolute certainty. They send us so many signs, little things
that we bypass as a coincidence. There's no coincidences. That
fulfillment that I felt. We are all going to feel that.
Omar's incredible journey reminds us that even in the face
of unimaginable loss and doubt, there is a reality far
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greater than the one we see. It affirms that our
loved ones are not gone, but are waiting for us,
living in a state of peace and wholeness. It's a
testament to the idea that life is indeed an education
for the soul, and that every moment here matters. And
it is powerful, verifiable proof that we, along with our pets,
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simply do not die. As we continue our two hundred
and fiftieth episode celebration, a couple bits of trivia about
near death experiences. Did you know near death experiencers remember
clearer than any vision they've ever had in their life,
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even if it was during childhood. Also, many people who
were blind from birth can see during near death experiences
for the very first time, including giving accurate accounts of
what was happening in an operating room or what the
doctors were wearing. Time for our break and we'll be
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right back looking at how thin the veil is and
the architecture of the afterlife. Will be right back. You're
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain
and this is our two hundred and fiftieth episode celebration.
Some people believe there is meaning in numbers, So just
for fun, I looked up the number two fifty and
did you know it is considered symbolic of new beginnings,
positive changes, and the importance of trusting your intuition on
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your spiritual path. How perfect is that for today? We
often talk about the veil between the two worlds, that
invisible boundary that separates us from the world of spirit.
It's not a wall, but more like a difference in frequency,
a divine filter that allows us to focus on our
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human journey. But sometimes, in moments of great love, deep grief,
or sudden crisis, that veil becomes incredibly thin. It's in
these sacred moments that our loved ones prove that a
difference in vibration is no barrier to the love that
needs to be felt, or a message that needs to
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be delivered, or a final goodbye or an apology that
needs to be shared. This brings us to our first story.
A classic example of what researchers call at isis apparition.
It's the story of a young college student named Jessica.
Jessica and her older brother, Michael, weren't just siblings. They
were best friends who shared everything. One night, Jessica was
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in her dorm room, hundreds of miles away from her
family home, forcing herself to study for a final exam.
It was late, around two in the morning, and the
silence of the library quiet dorm was making her feel
isolated and exhausted. As she was reading the same paragraph
for the tenth time, a strange, sudden chill swept through
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the room, making the hairs on her arms stand up.
She looked up from her textbook toward the doorway, and
her heart stopped standing. There was her brother, Michael. He
wasn't transparent or ghostly. He looked completely real, solid, healthy,
wearing the comfortable green flannel shirt and the jeans he
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loved wearing. He didn't speak, but his presence filled the room.
He looked directly at her, and in his eyes she
saw an ocean of love and a hint of sadness.
He offered her a small, gentle smile, a smile of
reassurance and farewell. Then, as quickly and as silently as
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he had appeared, he simply faded away into nothing. Jessica
sat there frozen for a moment, her mind racing. Had
she fallen asleep? Was it a waking dream? No, it
felt too real, too profound to just be a product
of her tired mind. She grabbed her phone and tried
to call Michael's cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail.
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A not of worry tightened in her stomach. She tried
to call her parents' house, but there was no answer. Finally,
after pacing her small room, she convinced herself she was
just overtied and emotionally exhausted from the stress of the exams.
She crawled into bed. The vision of her brother with
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his sad but loving smile burned into her mind. The
next morning, she was jolted awake by a phone call
from her mother. Through gut wrenching sobs, her mother told
her the terrible news. Michael had been killed in a
car accident the night before. When Jessica, her voice shaking,
asked what time the accident had happened, her mother confirmed
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their worst fears. The police had estimated the time of
his death was around two in the morning. It was
the exact moment Michael had appeared in his green flannel
shirt in her dorm room doorway, hundreds of miles away,
to say a loving goodbye. In that moment of crisis,
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his love tore through the veil, allowing him to be
in two places at one, offering one last moment of
earthly connection before crossing over. This thinning of a veil
is also profoundly evident at the bedside of the dying.
Hospice nurses and doctors have long reported the phenomena known
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as deathbed visions, where a dying person begins to see
and interact with deceased loved ones as if a welcoming
party is gathering to escort them home. Take the story
of hospice nurse Margaret, who was caring for an elderly
man named Arthur. He was in his nineties, a kind
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man who had lived a full life, but he had
been non responsive for several days, lost in the space
between the worlds. His family was gathered around his bed,
speaking in hushed tones, keeping a quiet, loving vigil. Suddenly,
Arthur's eyes, which had been closed for so long, they
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opened wide, but they weren't looking at his family. They
were focused on the corner of the room, and a beautiful,
radiant smile spread across his entire face, erasing years of
pain and worry. He lifted his frail hand a gesture
full of joy, and said, in a voice clearer and
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stronger than he'd used in weeks, Eleanor, you came. You
look so beautiful. Eleanor was the name of his beloved wife,
who had passed away ten years earlier. Arthur continued to
have a one sided conversation with his wife, his face
full of a light his family hadn't seen in years.
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He would nod, smile, and sometimes laugh softly, as if
sharing a private joke with her. At one point he said, yes, yes,
I'm ready, Just let me say goodbye. He then turned
his head, his eyes out clear and present, and looked
directly at his crying daughter. He took her hand and said,
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don't you worry, sweetheart. Eleanor is here to take me home,
and it's beautiful. Those were his last words. He closed
his eyes, a peaceful smile on his lips, and passed
just moments later. For his family, it was a moment
that transformed their grief into a certainty that Arthur was
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not alone, that death is not an end but a reunion,
and that his wife had come through the veil to
take his hand and lead him home. These experiences show
us that the veil is not a barrier to love.
It is merely a difference in perception and sometimes the
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proof that love can part. That veil is not just
a vision or a feeling, but something undeniably physical. Here
is the incredible story of a man named Ben, whose
father was a watchmaker. His father's most prized possession was
an old silver pocket watch that belonged to his father.
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It was a family heirloom, a symbol of time and legacy.
When he was dying, he told Ben, when I'm gone,
this watch is yours. As long as it's ticking, you'll
know I'm with you. After his father passed, Ben cherished
the watch. It was a wind up watch, and every
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single morning, without fail, he would perform the small ritual
of winding it, a quiet moment to connect with the
memory of his dad. Years later, Ben was on a
family vacation boating on a large, deep lake. He was
leaning over the side of the boat to help his
daughter when he felt a sickening slip. The pocket watch,
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which had been securely in his shirt pocket, fell out,
hit the side of the boat, and then plunged into
the deep, dark water. He was, of course devastated. It
felt like a physical severing of his connection to his father.
He even hired professional divers, but the lake was too
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deep and too murky. The watch and the promise it
held was gone forever. For months, Ben felt a profound
sense of loss, as if he had let his father
down all over again. About a year later, on the
very anniversary of his father's death, Ben was walking along
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the lake shore, many miles from where the watch was lost.
He was feeling particularly sad, walking with his head down,
talking to his dad in his mind, telling him how
sorry he was for being so careless. As he walked,
he kicked at a pile of dark, wet sand. There,
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half buried in the wet sand was a silver pocket watch.
His heart pounded in his chest. He picked it up.
It was caked with sand and corroded from what must
have been years in water, but he could just make
out the intricate, familiar engravings on the back. It was
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his father's watch. It was impossible. He held it up
to his ear, his hands shaking, and then he heard it,
faintly but clearly, the watch was ticking. This is what
some call a physical apport, an impossible gift from across
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the veil. It was a father's promise kept in the
most miraculous way, proving that the veil isn't just thin.
Sometimes it seems it can be parted completely by a
love that defies all earthly logic. Time and distance. The
journey from this life to the next is not a
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journey into silence, but into a different kind of communication.
Our loved ones are not gone, They are simply speaking
in a different language, a language of signs, symbols, and
love that pierces the veil in the most personal and
goosebump inducing ways. And our next segment will journey deeper
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into what lies beyond this veil, exploring the very landscape
of the afterlife, and discuss what we can do right
here and now to get in the present when the
storms of life feel overwhelming, and don't forget. Be in
that present moment as much as you can, and sometimes
unexpected memories will just come into your mind. Those are
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little calling cards from our loved ones, piercing the veil,
letting you know their right here with you. I'd like
to tell you an apport of my own. I was
traveling wearing my favorite pair of gold ear rings, and
in the bathroom I dropped one of the earrings. I
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looked everywhere, and I believed it went down the sink.
So I put the one remaining earring in a little
pocket in my suitcase. In desperation, I did say a
little prayer to any relatives or guides or God, anyone
who is listening, because I felt terrible losing that single earring.
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When I got home from the trip and unpacked my bag,
I looked in the little pocket where I placed the
one earring, and both earrings were there. It's time for
our break and we'll be right back. You're listening to
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Today we've journeyed through the unseen world. We've heard stories
of the thin veil that separates us from spirit. So
the big question is what lies beyond it. The thousands
and thousands of consistent accounts from near death experiences paint
of vivid and spectacular picture. The key to understanding these
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landscapes is the concept of vibration or frequency. The afterlife
seems to have its own amazing architecture, but it's built
from something very different than physical matter. It's often described
as being made from light, love, and from thought. Itself.
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Intention is the hammer and nails of the spirit world.
What you think, you create, what you feel you attract.
Let me share a few stories that give us some
incredible glimpses. A woman named Mary who had a profound
nd after a serious car accident, She was drawn into
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an incredibly beautiful, expansive landscape. She described it as a vast,
shimmering meadow filled with flowers whose colors she had never
seen on earth. They seemed to glow with their own
internal light. She felt an overwhelming sense of peace and belonging,
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and she realized she could move by thinking, appearing instantly
wherever she intended to be. Another man after a heart
attack described finding himself in a forest where the trees
were ancient and wise, and he could feel their consciousness.
Their leaves were like millions of tiny, green stained glass windows,
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and the sunlight filtering through them created a symphony of
light on the forest floor. He could hear a soft,
harmonious hum that he knew was the life force of
the forest itself, a sound of pure peace. He understood
that in the afterlife, nature isn't something just to look at.
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It is something you are a part of, a living
conscious and loving system. Others describe incredible structures. A man
named Thomas experienced an nd and found himself in what
he he called a city of light. These weren't buildings
made from stone or steel, but massive structures made of
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pure radiant energy, glowing with different hues that pulsed with
a quiet, powerful life. He saw beautiful bridges made of
woven light, and towers that reached into a sky filled
with multiple moons and soft nebula like clouds of color.
The beings there also seemed to be made of light,
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and they communicated not with words, but through a direct
transfer of thoughts and feelings. He felt a profound sense
of love and recognition, as if this city was more
real and more like home than any place he had
ever lived on Earth. This realization that consciousness shapes experience
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is where the true creative power of the soul comes in.
This is perfectly illustrated by the story of an architect
named Arthur. On Earth. Arthur was brilliant but frustrated. His
grandest designs were always limited by budgets, clients, and the
laws of physics. His greatest dream was to build a
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cathedral not made of stone, but a computerized cathedral of
pure light and sound. He died of a heart attack
in his office. Arthur found himself in a peaceful, dark void.
He wasn't scared. He simply thought about his cathedral. Instantly
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the structure began to form around him. He described walls
made of solid harmonious music and pillars of shimmering warm light.
The stained glass windows weren't glass at all, They were
living portals that showed beautiful memories from across the universe.
The Great Dome wasn't a ceiling, but an opening into
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the cosmos itself. He realized he could change any detail
with a single focused thought. He wasn't just building his
creation in a way, he was his creation. These stories
of expanded senses and peaceful landscapes are our ultimate destination.
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But what if, as souls having a human experience, we
can use them here too. So many people talk about
visualization and the power of gratitude. If you feel like
playing with this sometime, think about some things you desire
and feel the gratitude as if they've already happened. Now,
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really soak in that gratitude, put it out to the universe.
On the other side, there is no time and here
there is time. So don't sit around waiting for things
to happen. Instead, be amazed at that thought or picture
that you created in your mind that eventually it did
show up up in time and space. I want to
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share a powerful tool that I just learned this past week.
So many of us are drawn to shades of the
afterlife because we are navigating grief, stress, worry. If you've
ever felt a wave of grief so strong that it
feels like it's going to pull you under, you know
how disorienting it can be. In those moments, our minds
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are lost in the past with our memories and sometimes regrets.
We're spiraling into the future with fears. The one place
we are not is right here and the safety of
the present moment. So I want to offer you an anchor.
It's a technique used by therapists and counselors all over
the world to help people who are feeling grief, feeling stressed, worried,
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or overwhelmed. It's called the five four three two one
grounding technique. You can do it anywhere, anytime. You can
even do it with me. First, just pause wherever you
are and take one slow, deep breath. Now look around
and silently name five things you can see. Could be
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a lamp, a book on the table, picture frame, the
color of the wall, your shoes or your toes. Just
name five separate things. Next, bring your awareness to your
sense of touch. Silently, name four things you can physically feel.
Maybe it's the solid chair beneath you, the texture of
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your skin, your feet resting on the floor, the touch
of the cat on your lap, or the cool air
on your skin. Now listen, quiet your mind and just listen.
What are three things you can hear? It might be
the hum of a refrigerator, a clock ticking on the wall,
a car driving by outside, or even the sound of
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your own breathing. Then notice what you can smell. This
one can be subtle. What are two things that you
can smell right now? Perhaps it's the scent of your
coffee or a nearby flower, or even just the neutral
scent of the air in your room. Or you can
smell your skin and smell the perfume or shampoo or
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aftershave you have on. And finally, bring your awareness to
your sense of taste. Name one thing you can taste.
It could be the lingering taste of your last meal.
Or drink, or simply the natural taste of your own mouth.
You know what you just did. You brought all of
your focus, all of your awareness, right back here into
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the present moment, into this exact second. You just threw
out an anchor. Grief is real and it deserves our respect,
but you also deserve moments of peace. This little tool
doesn't erase your feelings, but it can give you a
precious moment of stability to catch your breath and that
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you are safe right here, right now. It can be
your anchor in any storm. Knowing about the other side
isn't just about our future comfort. It's about changing how
we live on this side right now. It calls us
to live differently. The stories of near death experiences are
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filled with people who are not just shown a beautiful reality,
but were given a new mission. Do you remember my
episode with Daniel Brinkley in nineteen seventy five. He was
one tough, cynical, skeptical guy who didn't believe in the afterlife.
One day, while on the phone during a thunderstorm, a
bolt of lightning struck the phone line and hit him
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directly in the head. He was even pronounced dead. He
traveled through a tunnel and was met by a being
of light who showed him a panoramic life review. But
like many others, his review was shown from the perspective
of every person that he had ever interacted with. He
was forced to feel the fear of the people he
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had bullied and the emotional pain he had caused his family.
After this difficult but profound lesson, he came back into
his body, waking up in a morgue, but a completely
changed man. The bully was gone, replaced by a man
filled with compassion. Daniel went on to dedicate his life
to service, founding a program called the Twilight Brigade to
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sit with dying veterans and hospice care. He still uses
his experience to bring peace to thousands of people at
the edge of the veil, ensuring that they will not
die alone. His life is a testament to how these
glimpses of the unseen world can inspire a mission of
love back here in the physical world. The journey of
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understanding is not about leaving this life behind. It's about
living this life more powerfully. It's about knowing your eternal
nature and stepping into your power as a fine soul.
Having a human experience. It is about knowing that you,
my friend, are never ever alone. Few announcements as we
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close out our two hundred and fiftieth episode, Remember our
friends at IMS dot org are having the fiftieth celebration
of doctor Raymond Moody coining the term and near death experience.
It's a huge conference with over one hundred speakers out
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What part of today's episode made a difference for you today?
If you feel so inclined, I would love to hear
your comments on Apple podcast Us or Spotify wherever you
listen to your podcasts. I read everyone. I want to
leave you with this powerful quote from brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla.
He said, the day science begins to study non physical phenomena,
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it will make more progress in one decade than in
all the previous centuries of its existence. My friends, today
is that day we are living in a most exciting time.
I'm Xander Champlain. Thank you so much for listening to
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