October 5, 2025 • 24 mins
This podcast episode delves into the profound phenomenon of precognitive dreams related to death and dying, exploring the intricate connection between intuition and the awareness of impending loss. We discuss personal experiences, including those of loved ones who seemed to possess a deeper understanding of their mortality, manifesting through subtle hints and conversations prior to their passing. The narrative reflects on how these intuitive signals can often go unrecognized until retrospectively examined, prompting a contemplation of the emotional and spiritual implications of such experiences. We invite listeners to share their own stories and insights regarding this topic, fostering a communal dialogue on the nature of grief and the unseen connections that bind us to our loved ones. Ultimately, this episode serves as a catalyst for reflection on the ways in which we prepare for loss, both as individuals and as part of a larger human experience.
The discussion revolves around the complex interplay between precognitive dreams and the phenomenon of death, particularly focusing on personal experiences that illuminate these themes. As we delve into the realm of precognition, I reflect on how dreams can sometimes serve as harbingers of significant life events, especially the death of loved ones. Through the lens of my own experiences and those of my wife, we explore the intuition that often accompanies these dreams, suggesting that there is more at play than mere coincidence. The narratives shared highlight instances where individuals appeared to possess a deep, almost instinctual awareness of their impending demise, prompting them to prepare in subtle yet profound ways. This leads us to contemplate the implications of such knowledge, both for the individuals experiencing it and for those who bear witness to their journeys.
Throughout the episode, I recount touching anecdotes that illustrate how our loved ones may begin to hint at their mortality well before the actual event, as seen in the case of my dear friend Sheila. Her conversations about death and preparations for her own funeral became eerily prescient, prompting me to question why we often overlook such signs until it is too late. These reflections stir a deeper inquiry into the nature of grief and how it manifests in anticipation of loss. I emphasize the importance of recognizing these intuitive cues, as they may offer a pathway to understanding our grief more profoundly and preparing ourselves emotionally for the inevitable.
Moreover, I encourage listeners to consider their own experiences with precognitive dreams and intuitive knowledge of death. This episode serves not only as a personal exploration of grief but also as an invitation for others to share their stories, fostering a community of understanding and support. By engaging with these themes, we can collectively navigate the challenging landscape of loss, drawing strength from the shared human experience and the insights gained from recognizing the signs that our intuition may provide. Ultimately, this dialogue aims to illuminate the intricate connections between our dreams, our intuition, and our relationships with those we love, particularly as we face the reality of mortality together.
Takeaways:
- In this episode, we discuss the intriguing phenomenon of precognitive dreams concerning death and dying.
- We explore personal experiences where loved ones seem to intuitively know their impending demise.
- The conversation emphasizes the subjective nature of precognition and how it can manifest in various forms.
- Listeners are invited to share their own experiences with precognitive events related to loved ones.
- The episode highlights the emotional impact of anticipating loss, even before the death occurs.
- We examine how intuition may guide loved ones towards an understanding of their mortality.
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Hi there, guys.
Welcome to Pillars of Grief.
Have you had an experience ora dream?
Have you had a dream thatsomeone, a loved one or someone you
know is dying?
Have you dreamt about deathand consequently that has happened?
Or has one of your loved onesdreamt about their death and that's
(00:21):
happened?
When we come right back, we'regoing to jump into that field of
research, or not so much research.
We're going to talk about it.
We're going to talk about itfrom my personal experience, in my
wife's personal experience.
It's something that we've beendiscussing recently as well.
And it's experiences that wehave gone through our recent losses
(00:47):
and many times in the past inmy own life, I've actually witnessed
it and experienced it as well.
So I want to dive into it alittle bit.
So we're going to dive intoyour, your precognitive dreams of
death and dying and whereintuition can actually come into
play with this as well.
So when we come right back,that's what we're going to jump into.
(01:09):
God bless.
Welcome back, guys.
So this is really kind of interesting.
It's an interesting thing thatI want to talk about on Pillars of
(01:33):
Grief because we're alwaystalking about loved ones and signs
and everything else.
And this is kind of somethingI want to maybe identify in your
life.
Maybe you've had experience of this.
There's a phenomena known as apremonition of death or precognitive
(01:55):
death and dying where there'san element of undeathbed visions.
You know, loved ones havedeathbed visions, people have precognition.
Precognition means that you.
It's a phenomenon on beingable to foretell something, foretell
an event.
And sometimes people willdream they'll have precognitive dreams
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about a loved one dying.
And then, you know, and that happens.
And there's been a lot ofresearch into this.
I'm not going to go into theacademic side of it because that's
maybe for another.
Another aspect or somethingthat we're doing.
Paranormal Daily News andDeadly Departed.
But there's also thephenomenon near death experiences
(02:39):
and people having premonitionsof their own death, which actually
I find rather fascinating.
Why did I want to jump into this?
Well, because it's verydifficult to measure something like
this empirically.
You can't really measure it,but there's a great subjectivity
(03:02):
to it.
It's very subjective, so it'sreally what you're experiencing in
your mind.
But it can be a very reallived Experience.
And that is an element I thinkyou can measure when this comes to
pass.
But what I find reallyfascinating, ladies and gentlemen,
is how sometimes, and thismaybe is a bit of a reversal, it's
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not about what I would maybedream about.
Right.
Or what my wife would dreamabout or what you guys would dream
about, but sometimes, and I'dlove to hear from you people out
there, our loved ones knowthey've got a deep knowing that they're
going to pass.
They know that their time's coming.
Maybe their higher self, they just.
And, you know, something thatwe've been chatting about recently,
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because in a lot of the.
The losses that we'veexperienced this year, I found that
out a great deal.
I found out, you know, forinstance, our friend Sheila started
to talk about her demise a lot more.
She started to hint at thingsway before this even happened.
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And I don't mean like yearsbefore, because that wouldn't be.
But I'm talking about maybe acouple of months before.
You know, at one point, wewere on holiday in Florida, and she
was, you know, she was kind oftalking a lot more about setting
up her funeral, setting upthings, getting things ready, talking
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about passing, asking us a lotof questions and things as well.
And we kind of knew.
We kind of knew that would bethe, you know, that that's probably
going to be the last time thatwe're going to see.
We're going to see Sheila.
It's going to be the last time.
And I remember driving homeand my wife, you know, saying to
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me, you know, she's given up.
Which was really fascinatingbecause it wasn't long after that,
within a year, within thatyear or the very next year, unfortunately,
we lost Sheila.
It was devastating to us,absolutely devastating.
And we're still affected by itas well.
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But there was something, andit's something we've been talking
about recently, is that sheseemed to know her higher self.
Not so much her material selfin this world, her higher self just
seemed to know that her timewas coming and she was going to pass.
And that led me to think aboutthis even more recently as well,
(05:40):
because there's beenexperiences in my life where even
when my work is a medium, Ihave gone to people's bedsides who
are dying, who are gettingready to pass.
And they tell me, they've toldme of stories where they felt it
was their time, it was theirtime to go, and they were kind of
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prepared for it before.
And I find that really fascinating.
But there's an intuitiveelement to this because Intuitively,
I think we, as loved ones, weknow, we feel that there's something
not right.
We feel that our intuition istelling us something.
It's telling us that maybe ourloved one's not going to be there.
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As an example, one of the mostfavorite pictures I've ever shot
as a photographer was the oneof my wife and my mother in law before
she passed.
And I remember actually Iwrote about this in a magazine, in
Frames magazine.
I wrote an article about thisbecause dealing with photography
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and loss and stuff.
And I remember taking thatshot and knowing that the minute
that I hit the button, theshutter button, that was the last
image that I was ever going totake of them two together.
And it's such a special imageto me.
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It really is.
Absolutely.
I love it.
It's such a special image.
You know, I've shared it incertain professional photography
forums and.
And I'll never forget it now.
At the same time, when I wasout and I was doing sort of media
work during Helene and takingphotos, there was.
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There's elements of yourintuition that kind of foretells,
helps, warns you, gives you,gives you guidance and stuff like
that, you know.
But this is weird, this isdifferent because even before mum
had passed, right, Even beforemy mother in law passed, my wife
had not dreams, but she hadprecognition, she had intuitive,
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she'd have known something wasshe was grieving before the loss
and couldn't quite put afinger on it.
We both kind of knew that itwasn't going to be long.
Even though everything was normal.
The same with Sheila,everything was normal.
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But what's interesting is thateven my mother in law, she started
to talk about her passing orher way before that.
She started to have theselittle hints, these subtle cues in
her life that looking backnow, we can recognize the pattern.
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But then we couldn't.
Even when we recognized thatour friend Sheila had given up, that
was an aha moment after, right?
It wasn't.
We could feel it, I mean, Imean, immediately after, just when
we were driving home.
But we kind of knew.
But having someone so close toyou, and I think a lot of us feel
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this, I think many of us havethese experiences but put them away
because you don't want to face reality.
For me, I know that when Itook that last image, I knew that
was the last image, but Idenied it for so long because I couldn't
face that loss.
I couldn't face the realitythat I was going to lose beautiful
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woman, my mother in law, who Iadored so much.
But she seemed to know andwhen we were talking recently that
there's probably our lovedones out there.
Many of our loved ones alreadyknow when their time is coming up.
But we seem to just not wantto face it.
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There's been many times evenmy grandfather, my grandfather came
and knew there was like apreparation going on.
So I would like to know fromyou guys out there, what experiences
have you had, right, whatexperiences have you had where your
loved ones have literally prepared?
And I don't mean that they'redoing the last will and testament,
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right?
I don't mean that they'restarting to give things away because
they're like, oh, you know, coming.
The pearly gates are openingup and stuff.
I don't mean that.
I mean that there's a pattern,there's a subtleness, there's a stirring
in your soul.
There's something in them that is.
They're starting to send thesigns that the time is coming up.
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So I believe that our lovedones have, and I think a lot of people
that lost loved ones duringCOVID There's an element of those
loved ones that had some kindof control that could hang on for
some other reasons to say goodbye.
There's been many exampleswhere people, loved ones have not
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passed until their other lovedone had got to the hospital.
And there's many, manyexamples of that.
But there's a deep kind ofprecognition that our loved ones,
I think, know.
There's a deep seatedintuition within them that gets them
ready.
They're tight.
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They might not know.
They might not, you know,recognize it in the material world
there and then.
But when you look in hindsightand you look back, you can see that
they knew, they knew.
They know when their time'scoming, their soul knows and there's
preparations that happen.
Maybe subconsciouslysomething's going on at a deeper
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level that is preparatory.
I think that's really fascinating.
But there's an element as wellwhere we.
If you're sensitive at all,you have a good spiritual foundation
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and you're sensitive, there'sa very big chance that you start
grieving way before it happens.
And I think that's kind oflikened to a precognitive event.
It's kind of precognition.
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We talk about anticipatedgrief, right?
That's different.
It's different to anticipated grief.
I did a great conversationwith one of my academic colleagues,
one of my good friends inLiverpool, and you could go and watch
her and I chat aboutanticipated grief.
Now, anticipated grief is whenyou know Someone's dying, they're
(12:35):
maybe ill, right?
There's maybe they're inhospital, they're in, they're in
a home, you know, they've beengiven so long to live, or they're
not in good health.
And so you're waiting, youknow that.
So you're anticipating thatyou start this.
There's grief, but I thinkthere's an intuitive grief.
I think there's a. I believethere's an intuitive aspect to it.
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There's an intuitive grief andthere's a precognitive grief, a precognition
that we kind of get ready forit, right?
Because that certainly I sawthat within my wife.
I felt it in myself as well,but we couldn't quite put our fingers
on it, right?
It was like.
It was almost like we weren'tallowed to really know, but we were
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getting spiritually prepared.
Now, whether that was comingfrom other loved ones in spirit or
other, a higher power that waspreparing us or whether it was our
higher self, we don't know.
Because I often think, had Ireally 100% have known that maybe
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my uncle was passing or mygrandmother or my friend.
I remember, for instance, howwould I have reacted?
I remember a really goodfriend of mine and Steve and him
and I, we trained together and stuff.
And I remember we had a.
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He came to my house, we had abeer or coffee or whatever it was
one night and hours later hewas dead.
He had gone home to his house.
He started dabbling withsteroids and stuff on the training
and he passed on his couchjust because he must have taken.
I think he took too much ofwhat he was taking.
Growth hormone, Diana.
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Well, whatever it was.
But he passed.
And I often think about howwould I have reacted 100% if I had
known when I saw him coming inthat he was going to die there and
that he was going to die a fewhours later.
Then maybe I would havecreated some kind of imbalance in
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time.
Maybe I couldn't have copedwith it.
And that makes me think aswell about even with my mother in
law, how would I have acted?
Would I have acteddifferently, knowing that was.
Yes, I could feel it with thephotography, yes.
But actually know that she'sgoing to go for she's dying soon.
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And when she looks so healthy,so brilliant, so radiant, so happy,
how would that have changed things?
And how would that havechanged the grief journey as well?
Maybe it's.
We are not allowed to knowsomething in our soul, but there's
a preparation.
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We're not allowed to know100%, because it will maybe affect
us mentally differently.
Maybe it would triggerpsychosis, schizophrenia, something
like that.
Maybe it's just our soul orspirit, higher being, whatever you
believe or whatever you think,maybe we're just getting prepared
for it.
Maybe we're just getting.
Preparing our soul and we'reallowed to have that preparatory
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feeling.
But then you've also got to.
That's got to be similar toour loved ones.
Like my grandfather.
I know my grandfather knew hewas going to go.
Obviously, in people that whenthey're ill, they know they're passing
and their time's coming, butthey seem to have some kind of control
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over the timeline.
Right.
There's something stronger,there's something more ethereal working.
There's a power that's there.
There's an intuition as well.
An intuitive power is runningthrough that individual at a soul
level and that is able tocontrol the outcome a little bit.
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And so I believe that eventhose that are not ill, and this
is something Joe and I hastalked about a lot, that they know
at some kind of deeper levelthat their time is coming to a close.
And so they start to makepreparations unknowingly, like Sheila
did.
It was really weird.
She started to make thesepreparations and talk to us and we
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never caught onto it untileven just when we.
Even when we were driving homeand we both looked at each other
and Joe had said to me she'dgive it up.
Yeah, I agree it was weird.
But, yeah, we never thoughtany of it because we didn't think
it would happen.
We didn't have.
We couldn't comprehend that reality.
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And it was the same with Mum.
We couldn't comprehend that reality.
Same with my father.
My father, when he got ill,when he had esophageal viruses and
he knew his time was coming up.
I always regret therelationship that I had, that we
could have been closer and stronger.
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Anyway, that's another thing.
But even I think there waselements in me that knew because
prior to him passing thatnight when I was working, I couldn't
quite put my.
My feelings, my.
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My.
I just.
I wasn't feeling right, youknow, and I'd always gone, you know,
my intuition was a big thingfor me.
I used intuition when I wasdoing security operations, when I.
When I did undercover work,surveillance operations.
Intuition was a massive partof my.
My.
My life and not reallyunderstanding or labeling it or,
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you know, but I knew thatthere was something.
There's a power there, there'ssomething there.
But I couldn't put Anything onthat night.
And then it was that nightthat my father passed.
So I think deep inside of uswe all know our intuition is there
to help us through our life,to be our guidance system.
It can save us in our time and need.
That's one of the reasons whyI wrote Powers of the Sixth Sense.
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But it also has that power toalert us to when things are about
to change and when ouremotions are about to change.
And that it may go beyond a dream.
People will dream.
Like I said, there'sprecognitive dreams, people precognition
dreams all the time.
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And people dream about theirdeath and dream about dying.
And sometimes it comes to passor sometimes there's a deeper meaning
to it.
I mean, Jungian psychology ismassive in looking at, analyzing
these dreams, you know.
And Stanislav Grof would havea look at these dreams in a different
way.
Even asagioli, there's anelement to that inner power, that
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inner wisdom that givesinformation, that gives us the guidance.
But it's interesting for me,it's interesting.
It's something I've beenthinking a lot about recently and
my wife and I have beentalking to it.
So I want to hear from you guys.
Have you had a precognitivedream about a loved one passing or
dying that has actually happened?
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And, or can you, can you shareexamples of your loved one that knew,
not that they were ill?
We're not talking aboutanticipated grief, but that you can
recognize now looking back,that they started to prepare like
Sheila started to prepare.
My mother in law started totalk about things and was getting
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things ready as well.
They seem to know at a deeper level.
And maybe when we understandthat we do know at a deeper level
and maybe we understand thatwe can lean on our deep intuitive
power to help us through, toprepare us, knowing that we're going
to be prepared for this.
Maybe it would make thejourney a little bit easier, maybe
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it would make the awareness softer.
Maybe developing our spiritualawareness and our intuitive power
to embrace loss in itsethereal capacity.
Or we're talking about notloss of a job or loss, but loss in
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the fact of a loved one who'spassing or some kind of loss.
Maybe there is somethinginherent to that to learn to harness
that power, to learn toembrace it so that it doesn't become
a shock, it doesn't becomesomething that will develop into
a mental imbalance and, andcause mental health issues.
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So that's all I wanted to kindof jump on and talk about, ladies
and gentlemen, is to give yousomething to Think about nothing
for me to teach today or to.
It's something that we can discuss.
I'd love to know more.
I'd love to know about yourexperiences with this.
I've had many experiencesthrough my life.
As I said, I've talked aboutsome of them today.
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But I wanna know more about this.
I'm not talking about terminallucidity or deathbed visions or anything
like that.
I'm talking about intuitive pull.
This knowing, this preparationfor a passing precognitive event,
if you like, precognitive phenomena.
Not.
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Not as we are looking at, youknow, anticipated grief, where someone's,
you know, getting ready for it is.
We're expecting it because weknow everything that's happened.
This is something deeper,something that you can't quite know,
something you don't put your.
But the patterns are there.
Intuitive power is also aboutyour experiences and your patterns
and putting them together andbeing able to discern and then make
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a spirit, if you like, and apsychic, intuitive judgment on something.
So I'll go into a lot moredetail, maybe later, but share with
me your examples.
Guys, I'm really interested in this.
Like I said, something I'vebeen fascinated with, that I've been
discussing a lot more.
I'd love to hear more examplesof this that's happened in your lives
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or with your loved ones.
So, ladies and gentlemen, ifyou've got any questions, then please
reach out to me.
Thank you for joining me here today.
Again, just a short one, but Ithink it's a nice conversational
thing to kind of discuss as well.
If you're not a member of myprivate community, they're more than
welcome.
To join the private community,just go to my website, dropbrooks.com,
(23:03):
you'll find a page for thegrief group and you can apply for
it.
It's free.
As long as you're grieving andyou're looking for support or help,
then that's.
That's what it's there for.
And if anybody is interestedin working with me direct, then you
can also do that.
You can also apply to do that.
I only work with a few peoplea year, but you can certainly do
that if that's somethingyou're interested in.
(23:24):
And I am definitely lookingforward that.
I'll have a couple of gueststhat are going to be coming up and
joining me very soon as well.
And I recently interviewed Dr.Marjorie Willico on Deadly Departed
on PDM, which is a fascinatingsubject matter and I'm going to get
her back.
And she's going to come on myshow and we're going to talk about
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terminal lucidity and theresearch that's going on in terms
of that as well, which ismaybe a deeper aspect to deathbed
vision.
So I'm looking forward to that.
Guys, thank you for joining me.
Get back to me, let me know ofyour experiences and I will see you
in the next episode.
God bless.
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Hi there, guys.
Welcome to Pillars of Grief.
Have you had an experience ora dream?
Have you had a dream thatsomeone, a loved one or someone you
know is dying?
Have you dreamt about deathand consequently that has happened?
Or has one of your loved onesdreamt about their death and that's
(00:21):
happened?
When we come right back, we'regoing to jump into that field of
research, or not so much research.
We're going to talk about it.
We're going to talk about itfrom my personal experience, in my
wife's personal experience.
It's something that we've beendiscussing recently as well.
And it's experiences that wehave gone through our recent losses
(00:47):
and many times in the past inmy own life, I've actually witnessed
it and experienced it as well.
So I want to dive into it alittle bit.
So we're going to dive intoyour, your precognitive dreams of
death and dying and whereintuition can actually come into
play with this as well.
So when we come right back,that's what we're going to jump into.
(01:09):
God bless.
Welcome back, guys.
So this is really kind of interesting.
It's an interesting thing thatI want to talk about on Pillars of
(01:33):
Grief because we're alwaystalking about loved ones and signs
and everything else.
And this is kind of somethingI want to maybe identify in your
life.
Maybe you've had experience of this.
There's a phenomena known as apremonition of death or precognitive
(01:55):
death and dying where there'san element of undeathbed visions.
You know, loved ones havedeathbed visions, people have precognition.
Precognition means that you.
It's a phenomenon on beingable to foretell something, foretell
an event.
And sometimes people willdream they'll have precognitive dreams
(02:19):
about a loved one dying.
And then, you know, and that happens.
And there's been a lot ofresearch into this.
I'm not going to go into theacademic side of it because that's
maybe for another.
Another aspect or somethingthat we're doing.
Paranormal Daily News andDeadly Departed.
But there's also thephenomenon near death experiences
(02:39):
and people having premonitionsof their own death, which actually
I find rather fascinating.
Why did I want to jump into this?
Well, because it's verydifficult to measure something like
this empirically.
You can't really measure it,but there's a great subjectivity
(03:02):
to it.
It's very subjective, so it'sreally what you're experiencing in
your mind.
But it can be a very reallived Experience.
And that is an element I thinkyou can measure when this comes to
pass.
But what I find reallyfascinating, ladies and gentlemen,
is how sometimes, and thismaybe is a bit of a reversal, it's
(03:26):
not about what I would maybedream about.
Right.
Or what my wife would dreamabout or what you guys would dream
about, but sometimes, and I'dlove to hear from you people out
there, our loved ones knowthey've got a deep knowing that they're
going to pass.
They know that their time's coming.
Maybe their higher self, they just.
And, you know, something thatwe've been chatting about recently,
(03:50):
because in a lot of the.
The losses that we'veexperienced this year, I found that
out a great deal.
I found out, you know, forinstance, our friend Sheila started
to talk about her demise a lot more.
She started to hint at thingsway before this even happened.
(04:12):
And I don't mean like yearsbefore, because that wouldn't be.
But I'm talking about maybe acouple of months before.
You know, at one point, wewere on holiday in Florida, and she
was, you know, she was kind oftalking a lot more about setting
up her funeral, setting upthings, getting things ready, talking
(04:34):
about passing, asking us a lotof questions and things as well.
And we kind of knew.
We kind of knew that would bethe, you know, that that's probably
going to be the last time thatwe're going to see.
We're going to see Sheila.
It's going to be the last time.
And I remember driving homeand my wife, you know, saying to
(04:56):
me, you know, she's given up.
Which was really fascinatingbecause it wasn't long after that,
within a year, within thatyear or the very next year, unfortunately,
we lost Sheila.
It was devastating to us,absolutely devastating.
And we're still affected by itas well.
(05:17):
But there was something, andit's something we've been talking
about recently, is that sheseemed to know her higher self.
Not so much her material selfin this world, her higher self just
seemed to know that her timewas coming and she was going to pass.
And that led me to think aboutthis even more recently as well,
(05:40):
because there's beenexperiences in my life where even
when my work is a medium, Ihave gone to people's bedsides who
are dying, who are gettingready to pass.
And they tell me, they've toldme of stories where they felt it
was their time, it was theirtime to go, and they were kind of
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prepared for it before.
And I find that really fascinating.
But there's an intuitiveelement to this because Intuitively,
I think we, as loved ones, weknow, we feel that there's something
not right.
We feel that our intuition istelling us something.
It's telling us that maybe ourloved one's not going to be there.
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As an example, one of the mostfavorite pictures I've ever shot
as a photographer was the oneof my wife and my mother in law before
she passed.
And I remember actually Iwrote about this in a magazine, in
Frames magazine.
I wrote an article about thisbecause dealing with photography
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and loss and stuff.
And I remember taking thatshot and knowing that the minute
that I hit the button, theshutter button, that was the last
image that I was ever going totake of them two together.
And it's such a special imageto me.
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It really is.
Absolutely.
I love it.
It's such a special image.
You know, I've shared it incertain professional photography
forums and.
And I'll never forget it now.
At the same time, when I wasout and I was doing sort of media
work during Helene and takingphotos, there was.
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There's elements of yourintuition that kind of foretells,
helps, warns you, gives you,gives you guidance and stuff like
that, you know.
But this is weird, this isdifferent because even before mum
had passed, right, Even beforemy mother in law passed, my wife
had not dreams, but she hadprecognition, she had intuitive,
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she'd have known something wasshe was grieving before the loss
and couldn't quite put afinger on it.
We both kind of knew that itwasn't going to be long.
Even though everything was normal.
The same with Sheila,everything was normal.
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But what's interesting is thateven my mother in law, she started
to talk about her passing orher way before that.
She started to have theselittle hints, these subtle cues in
her life that looking backnow, we can recognize the pattern.
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But then we couldn't.
Even when we recognized thatour friend Sheila had given up, that
was an aha moment after, right?
It wasn't.
We could feel it, I mean, Imean, immediately after, just when
we were driving home.
But we kind of knew.
But having someone so close toyou, and I think a lot of us feel
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this, I think many of us havethese experiences but put them away
because you don't want to face reality.
For me, I know that when Itook that last image, I knew that
was the last image, but Idenied it for so long because I couldn't
face that loss.
I couldn't face the realitythat I was going to lose beautiful
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woman, my mother in law, who Iadored so much.
But she seemed to know andwhen we were talking recently that
there's probably our lovedones out there.
Many of our loved ones alreadyknow when their time is coming up.
But we seem to just not wantto face it.
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There's been many times evenmy grandfather, my grandfather came
and knew there was like apreparation going on.
So I would like to know fromyou guys out there, what experiences
have you had, right, whatexperiences have you had where your
loved ones have literally prepared?
And I don't mean that they'redoing the last will and testament,
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right?
I don't mean that they'restarting to give things away because
they're like, oh, you know, coming.
The pearly gates are openingup and stuff.
I don't mean that.
I mean that there's a pattern,there's a subtleness, there's a stirring
in your soul.
There's something in them that is.
They're starting to send thesigns that the time is coming up.
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So I believe that our lovedones have, and I think a lot of people
that lost loved ones duringCOVID There's an element of those
loved ones that had some kindof control that could hang on for
some other reasons to say goodbye.
There's been many exampleswhere people, loved ones have not
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passed until their other lovedone had got to the hospital.
And there's many, manyexamples of that.
But there's a deep kind ofprecognition that our loved ones,
I think, know.
There's a deep seatedintuition within them that gets them
ready.
They're tight.
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They might not know.
They might not, you know,recognize it in the material world
there and then.
But when you look in hindsightand you look back, you can see that
they knew, they knew.
They know when their time'scoming, their soul knows and there's
preparations that happen.
Maybe subconsciouslysomething's going on at a deeper
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level that is preparatory.
I think that's really fascinating.
But there's an element as wellwhere we.
If you're sensitive at all,you have a good spiritual foundation
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and you're sensitive, there'sa very big chance that you start
grieving way before it happens.
And I think that's kind oflikened to a precognitive event.
It's kind of precognition.
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We talk about anticipatedgrief, right?
That's different.
It's different to anticipated grief.
I did a great conversationwith one of my academic colleagues,
one of my good friends inLiverpool, and you could go and watch
her and I chat aboutanticipated grief.
Now, anticipated grief is whenyou know Someone's dying, they're
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maybe ill, right?
There's maybe they're inhospital, they're in, they're in
a home, you know, they've beengiven so long to live, or they're
not in good health.
And so you're waiting, youknow that.
So you're anticipating thatyou start this.
There's grief, but I thinkthere's an intuitive grief.
I think there's a. I believethere's an intuitive aspect to it.
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There's an intuitive grief andthere's a precognitive grief, a precognition
that we kind of get ready forit, right?
Because that certainly I sawthat within my wife.
I felt it in myself as well,but we couldn't quite put our fingers
on it, right?
It was like.
It was almost like we weren'tallowed to really know, but we were
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getting spiritually prepared.
Now, whether that was comingfrom other loved ones in spirit or
other, a higher power that waspreparing us or whether it was our
higher self, we don't know.
Because I often think, had Ireally 100% have known that maybe
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my uncle was passing or mygrandmother or my friend.
I remember, for instance, howwould I have reacted?
I remember a really goodfriend of mine and Steve and him
and I, we trained together and stuff.
And I remember we had a.
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He came to my house, we had abeer or coffee or whatever it was
one night and hours later hewas dead.
He had gone home to his house.
He started dabbling withsteroids and stuff on the training
and he passed on his couchjust because he must have taken.
I think he took too much ofwhat he was taking.
Growth hormone, Diana.
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Well, whatever it was.
But he passed.
And I often think about howwould I have reacted 100% if I had
known when I saw him coming inthat he was going to die there and
that he was going to die a fewhours later.
Then maybe I would havecreated some kind of imbalance in
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time.
Maybe I couldn't have copedwith it.
And that makes me think aswell about even with my mother in
law, how would I have acted?
Would I have acteddifferently, knowing that was.
Yes, I could feel it with thephotography, yes.
But actually know that she'sgoing to go for she's dying soon.
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And when she looks so healthy,so brilliant, so radiant, so happy,
how would that have changed things?
And how would that havechanged the grief journey as well?
Maybe it's.
We are not allowed to knowsomething in our soul, but there's
a preparation.
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We're not allowed to know100%, because it will maybe affect
us mentally differently.
Maybe it would triggerpsychosis, schizophrenia, something
like that.
Maybe it's just our soul orspirit, higher being, whatever you
believe or whatever you think,maybe we're just getting prepared
for it.
Maybe we're just getting.
Preparing our soul and we'reallowed to have that preparatory
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feeling.
But then you've also got to.
That's got to be similar toour loved ones.
Like my grandfather.
I know my grandfather knew hewas going to go.
Obviously, in people that whenthey're ill, they know they're passing
and their time's coming, butthey seem to have some kind of control
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over the timeline.
Right.
There's something stronger,there's something more ethereal working.
There's a power that's there.
There's an intuition as well.
An intuitive power is runningthrough that individual at a soul
level and that is able tocontrol the outcome a little bit.
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And so I believe that eventhose that are not ill, and this
is something Joe and I hastalked about a lot, that they know
at some kind of deeper levelthat their time is coming to a close.
And so they start to makepreparations unknowingly, like Sheila
did.
It was really weird.
She started to make thesepreparations and talk to us and we
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never caught onto it untileven just when we.
Even when we were driving homeand we both looked at each other
and Joe had said to me she'dgive it up.
Yeah, I agree it was weird.
But, yeah, we never thoughtany of it because we didn't think
it would happen.
We didn't have.
We couldn't comprehend that reality.
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And it was the same with Mum.
We couldn't comprehend that reality.
Same with my father.
My father, when he got ill,when he had esophageal viruses and
he knew his time was coming up.
I always regret therelationship that I had, that we
could have been closer and stronger.
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Anyway, that's another thing.
But even I think there waselements in me that knew because
prior to him passing thatnight when I was working, I couldn't
quite put my.
My feelings, my.
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My.
I just.
I wasn't feeling right, youknow, and I'd always gone, you know,
my intuition was a big thingfor me.
I used intuition when I wasdoing security operations, when I.
When I did undercover work,surveillance operations.
Intuition was a massive partof my.
My.
My life and not reallyunderstanding or labeling it or,
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you know, but I knew thatthere was something.
There's a power there, there'ssomething there.
But I couldn't put Anything onthat night.
And then it was that nightthat my father passed.
So I think deep inside of uswe all know our intuition is there
to help us through our life,to be our guidance system.
It can save us in our time and need.
That's one of the reasons whyI wrote Powers of the Sixth Sense.
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But it also has that power toalert us to when things are about
to change and when ouremotions are about to change.
And that it may go beyond a dream.
People will dream.
Like I said, there'sprecognitive dreams, people precognition
dreams all the time.
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And people dream about theirdeath and dream about dying.
And sometimes it comes to passor sometimes there's a deeper meaning
to it.
I mean, Jungian psychology ismassive in looking at, analyzing
these dreams, you know.
And Stanislav Grof would havea look at these dreams in a different
way.
Even asagioli, there's anelement to that inner power, that
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inner wisdom that givesinformation, that gives us the guidance.
But it's interesting for me,it's interesting.
It's something I've beenthinking a lot about recently and
my wife and I have beentalking to it.
So I want to hear from you guys.
Have you had a precognitivedream about a loved one passing or
dying that has actually happened?
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And, or can you, can you shareexamples of your loved one that knew,
not that they were ill?
We're not talking aboutanticipated grief, but that you can
recognize now looking back,that they started to prepare like
Sheila started to prepare.
My mother in law started totalk about things and was getting
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things ready as well.
They seem to know at a deeper level.
And maybe when we understandthat we do know at a deeper level
and maybe we understand thatwe can lean on our deep intuitive
power to help us through, toprepare us, knowing that we're going
to be prepared for this.
Maybe it would make thejourney a little bit easier, maybe
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it would make the awareness softer.
Maybe developing our spiritualawareness and our intuitive power
to embrace loss in itsethereal capacity.
Or we're talking about notloss of a job or loss, but loss in
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the fact of a loved one who'spassing or some kind of loss.
Maybe there is somethinginherent to that to learn to harness
that power, to learn toembrace it so that it doesn't become
a shock, it doesn't becomesomething that will develop into
a mental imbalance and, andcause mental health issues.
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So that's all I wanted to kindof jump on and talk about, ladies
and gentlemen, is to give yousomething to Think about nothing
for me to teach today or to.
It's something that we can discuss.
I'd love to know more.
I'd love to know about yourexperiences with this.
I've had many experiencesthrough my life.
As I said, I've talked aboutsome of them today.
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But I wanna know more about this.
I'm not talking about terminallucidity or deathbed visions or anything
like that.
I'm talking about intuitive pull.
This knowing, this preparationfor a passing precognitive event,
if you like, precognitive phenomena.
Not.
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Not as we are looking at, youknow, anticipated grief, where someone's,
you know, getting ready for it is.
We're expecting it because weknow everything that's happened.
This is something deeper,something that you can't quite know,
something you don't put your.
But the patterns are there.
Intuitive power is also aboutyour experiences and your patterns
and putting them together andbeing able to discern and then make
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a spirit, if you like, and apsychic, intuitive judgment on something.
So I'll go into a lot moredetail, maybe later, but share with
me your examples.
Guys, I'm really interested in this.
Like I said, something I'vebeen fascinated with, that I've been
discussing a lot more.
I'd love to hear more examplesof this that's happened in your lives
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or with your loved ones.
So, ladies and gentlemen, ifyou've got any questions, then please
reach out to me.
Thank you for joining me here today.
Again, just a short one, but Ithink it's a nice conversational
thing to kind of discuss as well.
If you're not a member of myprivate community, they're more than
welcome.
To join the private community,just go to my website, dropbrooks.com,
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you'll find a page for thegrief group and you can apply for
it.
It's free.
As long as you're grieving andyou're looking for support or help,
then that's.
That's what it's there for.
And if anybody is interestedin working with me direct, then you
can also do that.
You can also apply to do that.
I only work with a few peoplea year, but you can certainly do
that if that's somethingyou're interested in.
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And I am definitely lookingforward that.
I'll have a couple of gueststhat are going to be coming up and
joining me very soon as well.
And I recently interviewed Dr.Marjorie Willico on Deadly Departed
on PDM, which is a fascinatingsubject matter and I'm going to get
her back.
And she's going to come on myshow and we're going to talk about
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terminal lucidity and theresearch that's going on in terms
of that as well, which ismaybe a deeper aspect to deathbed
vision.
So I'm looking forward to that.
Guys, thank you for joining me.
Get back to me, let me know ofyour experiences and I will see you
in the next episode.
God bless.
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Thank you for joining me here today.
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