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Conscious and Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Angel
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Speaker 8 (02:22):
Well, hello, everyone, welcome to the Angel Quest Show. I'm Kareni,
author of Your Life After Their Death and Week Consciousness.
My guest today is Stephanie James. Stephanie's a respected psychotherapist, filmmaker, author,
and host of Igniting the Spark podcast. Today we're going
to talk about her new book, Your Big, Fat, Juicy
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Life and Everything After. Drawing from her own wisdom and
spiritual journey and also from riveting conversations with global visionaries,
Stephanie's book shows us how to dissolve our deepest fears
and in so doing, ignite a zest for living in
our hearts and souls. With the compassion of a trusted friend,
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she unveils the extraordinary hidden potential within every moment of
our lives. Thank you so much for being with us today, Stephanie.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
Thank you so much. Karen. It's such a joy to
be with you.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
It was so nice meeting you in Colorado. Wasn't that
a great event?
Speaker 9 (03:25):
That was so fun?
Speaker 10 (03:27):
Sacred awakenings was just absolutely incredible, and I was just
so thrilled that not only did we get to meet,
but we got to hang out and go to dinner together,
and it was just such a joy.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
You picked a very nice vegan restaurant, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
It was book.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
So are you ready to begin?
Speaker 9 (03:49):
I'm ready?
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Okay. So when were you first aware that life continues
after death?
Speaker 10 (03:57):
I would say my first memory of that knowingness was
when I was a little girl. I was probably five
or six, and I have a vivid memory of exactly
where I was standing. I was looking at the carpet
downstairs and then my grandmother's antique dresser, and the thought
was I was trying to remember being born. And I
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said to myself, you know, I've oh, I don't remember
being born, and I don't remember dying. I just know
that that just keeps continuing, that that is just this
ongoing thing. And so that was this deep awareness at
a very young age, and it continued that from that
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point on with just incredible experiences that helped validate that
that was the truth.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Can you tell me some of those experiences. I know
one of them was about your daughter when she was
four years old.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, well I would. I would say that my
earliest things that are really.
Speaker 10 (04:59):
Happened, and then I'll tell that story because that was
definitely a powerful, powerful story and experience in my life.
But I did start seeing at a young age. I
would have these three figures that were surrounded by light
that I would I would call energy imprints that would
show up at my door of my bedroom night after night,
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and they wouldn't come in, they just stood there. And
I guess now I might might say, oh, those were
Reguardian angels. I didn't know at the time what it was.
I wasn't afraid. And the wild thing was when my
daughter Akasha was ten years old and she stayed at
my mom's house in my old bedroom, she had the
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exact same experience happened to her.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
So yeah, so this really, you know, beautiful connection. There's
a lot of things have happened in mom's house. And
the story that you're referring to is when I was
twenty five and Akasha was four. My daughter and I
always have to start with saying Akasha is actually the
Greek word for immortality, and you know in Acasia it's
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the I mean acacia tree in Africa is the tree
of life.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
So it was.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
Really interesting that here I didn't even think about when
I named her Akasha, that she would actually be the
one teaching me about immortality. And what happened was at
that time, my aunt Gwen, who was forty six, had
been struggling with breast cancer and had lots of things
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going on for about five years, and that particular morning,
she had gone in for some exploratory surgery and my
mom called and I was actually in the bathtub at
the time, and little Acasha brings in the big cortaphone
and I'm talking to Mom and she says, you know,
they opened up Gwen and she just had cancer all
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through her body, so they sewed her back up and
they're giving her about three months to live. So I'm just,
you know, crying, sobbing there in the bathtub, and Little
Acasha wanders back in and she sits on the side
of the tub and she says, why are you crying, Mama,
And I said, oh, honey, you know, Mama just doesn't
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want anyone to die. And she just looks at me
with these little, sweet, innocent eyes and she's like, but Mama,
we never die. And so even though we didn't go
to church, you know, and we didn't have conversations about heaven,
I thought, oh, she means heaven. And I said, oh, honey,
I know, you know, we go to heaven. And she
just shakes her head and she's like, Mama, there's no heaven.
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She said, when I was a light up in the
sky with God. And then she pauses and she says,
do you remember your other mother Dorothy?
Speaker 8 (07:50):
Oh, see that habits with my daughter too. I'd love
to hear this.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
I'm sorry, go ahead, Oh it's okay.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
And it's like, oh, my gosh, because my other mother,
Dorothy was my grandmother, Dorothy, who died when.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I was thirteen.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
And so the fact that she phrased it that way,
you know, she said, your other mother, Dorothy, her light
was up in the sky with me and God, and
then God put some of her light with my light,
and I got to come down and be your daughter.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Did she know Dorothy.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
No, No, because of course she had. My grandmother had
died twelve years before Acacia was, you know, not quite
twelve years before she was born. But let's see, at
that time it had been twelve years. So yeah, I
mean so eight years, eight years she had been dead
and my grandfather had remarried right away, you know, a
year later, I don't want to say right away, but
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a year later to Grandma Seal. And that's the only
person Akasha knew. And we didn't talk about Grandma Dorothy.
Of course we didn't want to. We wouldn't have talked
about my grandmother in front of Grandma Seal. And it
was just we just didn't talk about my grandmother. I
didn't have pictures of them, and it had been so
long paths that it was like, no, this is just
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you know, Grandpa Oscar and Grandma Seal. So to have
her say that, you know, and I called my mom,
who's it's my mom's mother, you know, and we just cried,
knowing that wow, out of the mouths of babes that
this was, this was real.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
That's incredible, that's incredible. My daughter, when she was two
and just learning how to talk, she said, mom, Memba,
when a previous at other life, memba, when you I
was your mommy memba?
Speaker 9 (09:40):
She a memo.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Oh, and she's so mad at me that I didn't remember.
I said, tell me about it. She goes just forget it,
you know, but it's crazy. But that's amazing. So she
was your grandmother reincarnated.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
Not so you know, this is my understanding, and I
really do believe since and this is my understanding. Again,
I don't This doesn't have to be the big tea
truth for everyone. But from what I really understood, it
was that part of my grandmother's light was in Akasha,
not that she was totally reincarnated as her. And interestingly,
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because I know you're so close to the DIYers, when
I was talking with Sage Dier not long after this,
and she was saying, well, you know that her mom
had had that experience with Wayne and feeling like maybe
Julian Sage's son was Wayne reincarnated. And I told her
I shared with her that story of Acacia and my
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grandma Dorothy's light, and Sage was like, oh my gosh,
I love that because you know it's like they're their
own unique spirits, their your own unique souls, and yet
this other light can also be a part of that.
And so Karen, as I thought about that more, I
started thinking, well, that makes so much sense because when
our spirits go back to source it's all light, and
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there's no time, there's no space. So a part of
that light is the light that comes through and speaks
to you, you know, speaks to mediums and can be
there to comfort loved ones. And part of that light
gets reincarnated and is being a part of another life,
you know. And so this, this light can be in
many different dimensions at many different times. So that light,
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it's like it becomes a part of the collective, it
becomes a part of the whole. And yet just like
as we know, you know, Einstein says, there's no time
or space, that we're having all these dimensions of existence
all at once. And so that made so much sense
to me. The more I thought about it, I was like, yeah,
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well that's it. That we're a part of each other.
We are all a part of the one, and so
maybe that's what connects us to one another, you know,
we recognize that light that is also a part of
us in each other.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Incredible.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Now that she's older, does she have any recollection of
any of this or does she have experiences? A lot
of time they get older, they don't.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Yeah, she didn't. She didn't for a while.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Like I said, though she's always kind of had that
that same kind of gift that I have, which I call,
you know, being a seer. She you know, she would
see the spirits in Mom's house.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
My mother.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
She hates when I talk about her house because she's like,
my house isn't haunted.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
And it's not that it's haunted.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
It has just really been a place where people that
don't even believe in spirits, you know. I always think
about my cousin's son. He was this farm kid, you know,
grew up in rural Colorado, and yet when he spent
the night at mom's house. And this is years and
years ago, but he had spent the night and had
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this experience. He didn't tell anybody about it. But then
we had come at the time, we lived in Wyoming,
and we had come and spent the night. The very
next night he went and stayed with my grandpa. We
stayed in that room that night. And that night I
opened my eyes and I thought my daughter, Haley, who
was six at the time, was standing at the end
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of the bed, and I said, Honey, what do you want.
And as soon as I said that, the real Haley,
who was laying down beside me in the trundle bed
moved and I was like, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
I'm like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
And I and I talk about this in the book
because I this is not one of my best mothering moments.
I ran out of the room and I was like,
because my daughter and my cousin's daughter were sitting there
watching TV. And I said, oh my gosh, you guys,
there was a little girl that appeared in the room.
And then I realized, oh, I left Haley in there.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
I better go back.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
It felt good, right. I wasn't scary.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
No, she was never scary, and Acacia has experienced for
several more times. Akasha ended up living with my mother
for a while as a as a grown woman and
had other experiences. But the funniest thing, Karen was that
next morning, we're all sitting around the table together and
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my cousin's son says, I just have to tell you, guys.
He's like, I woke up, he said, in the middle
of the night and there are some little girl at
the base of my bed. We all just we all
just exploded, you.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Know, freaking out, and he was freaking out.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
A little bit, and we all were laughing because we
had all just you know, experienced that the night before
and so so it's just great. It has been further
confirmation that you know that again, you know, for me,
it's life, doesn't Death isn't the end for us. It's
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just the next chapter in our book of eternity exactly.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
And next question I wanted to ask is how does
it help us to know that death is in the end.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
What I think is really helpful is, especially in America,
there's such a huge fear of death, and so in
other cultures, death is celebrated, you know, and we can
think about Dia de los mortos and it's very different
in India when someone passes. I mean, these are celebrations,
and you know Egypt, ancient Egypt, it was a celebration.
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So it's interesting when we cling to that fear like
that's the end, we don't know what's going to happen,
then we're not fully living in this moment.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
You know.
Speaker 10 (15:44):
It's always this underlying anxiety and fear. And when we
can start letting go of that fear and befriending death,
knowing that it is not the end of our journey,
you know, and not that no one you know we
don't want to die. It's not where we chose to
be here in this physical incarnation. So we're experiencing this
interesting world of duality here. And yet when we know
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that death isn't the end, this moment becomes sacred. We
can let go of that fear. We can move into love.
We're not clinging, we don't feel desperate. There's not this timeline,
and so maybe that gives us permission to love more,
to be more open hearted, to say it's okay, like
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I can show up right here and know I'm exactly
where I need to be in this moment.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Exactly, And it helps us because we know our loved
ones are truly existing after the physical body dies as well,
and we will join them again, which is it brings
a tremendous peace to everybody too.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
Absolutely absolutely, I think that's yeah, thank you for saying that,
because that is one of the biggest joys as you've
experienced through your career and I've experienced as well. We
can actually even have better relationships with our loved ones
when they've passed, when they're no longer held by personality
or ego, and there's just this pure love that comes
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through it's incredible.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Absolutely, and I wanted to ask you, how has your
relationship with your father improved since he made his transition.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Yeah, it's been phenomenal, Karen.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
You know, we I always talk about this as far
as you know, wanting to give a little bit of
context for Dad and I's relationship, because for the first
thirteen years of my life, I was my dad's little shadow.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
You know, I just adored my dad and.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
He was incredible. I mean, of course I love my mom.
I have an incredible mother as well. I think you
met my mom even at the event, but she, you know,
she had my little brother, and I think my dad
was just I was like just enamored and just wanting
to be near him. So if my dad was out
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raking the leaves, I'd be right there, you know, holding
the bag to help put them in. Or you know,
if he was working in the workshop, I would sit
beside him and he'd give me a nail and a
board just so I could, you know, I could nail
nails and a board to just be with him. And
even you know, he's a professor at CSU, and I
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would go with him to his office and just you know,
of course I knew nothing about economics, but I would
take his test and write on his chalkboard, and you know,
so he was a very loving and devoted dad.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
And then.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
This kind of beautiful golden childhood with tons of family,
and we were all just so close with my cousins
and grandparents and everybody lived pretty close. One night, you know,
my brother and I are awakened in the middle of
the night by the sound of screeching tires going out
of our driveway, and he and I look out of
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the second story window and there's my mom tearing down
the driveway and my dad jumping on the hoot of
the car, beating on the windshield for her to get out,
and we're like, what is happening? And unbeknownst to us,
he had waited till the kids went to bed, and
he told my mom, I'm in love with someone else,
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oh boy, and I want a divorce. And they never
fought in front of us. You know, I think I'd
only seen my mom cry one time in my life.
So it was all of a sudden, this golden childhood
was completely shattered, you know, and irreversibly broken. And in
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a very short time, I moved with my father. You know,
when he left, I moved with him. I mean I
was very connected to him, and pretty soon I had
a stepmother who made it very clear that I wasn't welcomed.
And from that point on in my life, Karen, I
wasn't allowed to talk to my father alone. I couldn't
be in a room with him alone, and to the
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day he died, I wasn't allowed to speak with him
on the phone alone. So that's all important for context.
I mean, it went from this very loving, connected relationship
to like being told you're not number one anymore, right,
you know, and really feeling rejected, and you know, that
was that was a big heartache and pain through my life.
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I probably went through the next ten years of my
life trying to earn love, trying to earn his unconditional
love again, and having some powerful learning lessons about love.
Actually I don't have to earn it. It's not outside
of me. That all the things I was trying to
prove or earn they were already there, they were already
within me. But that was a tough journey, and so
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throughout my life, my father continued to be very rejecting,
very conditional, and so finally six years before he passed,
I wrote a letter and I talk about this in
my Becoming Fierce book, my book before This where it's
okay for us to disconnect with love, and I wrote
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he and my stepmother and said, thank you for these gifts,
thank you for these things. And also, you know, I've
had a pretty large therapy bill over my life dealing
with this heartache, dealing with and it was very kind
and very honoring and honoring my part. But also you know,
at the end, I said, I love you both dearly,
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and please don't ever contact me again. Okay, Yeah, I
mean I just because there was every time I would
speak with them, it was harsh, even I mean, I'm
a grown up at this point, you know, I'm in
my forties, and you know when it was always critical
and always very again, very conditional love, and it was
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so freeing Karen, it was so beautiful. And then I
could just love my dad, even though we didn't have
a relationship. I we just could love him and I
felt very free. But it went to such a depth
when he passed. So he had a stroke six years later,
and I would say several days before he passed, and
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then it was twelve days in a row altogether, or
twelve nights in a row. I dreamt of him every night,
and he would come to me, and sometimes we were
just doing something totally benign, like playing cribbage together he
had taught me cribbage as a little girl. Or we'd
just be having conversations, you know. It was really just beautiful.
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But the biggest thing that started happening right after he
passed my ex husband and I would say, what is
going on because the electrical stuff in our home. I mean,
it was not just lights flickering, it was we had
a new stove and a new dishwasher we'd probably only
had six months. At random times, all of a sudden,
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the time would change on the clock, the date would change,
the dishwasher would turn on, and then it even got bigger.
You know, my car seat would be moved back in
my car by electric car seat. And so he just
really wanted us to know he was around, right, and
so the loving presence that was my father started coming
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through just I mean I could just feel him very,
very purely. And that's continued now it's almost been three
years since his death. There's been times Suzanne Geeseman, who
you know, and I had on my show. I was
listening to her book for that interview, and she said,
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you know, it's never too long. You can always say
I would like a sign. I want to know you're here.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I called him, without a doubt signs.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Exactly without a doubt signs. And at this point, when
I was listening to that Karen, I hadn't spoken to
not spoken to my father, but he hadn't been around
in a while in spirit form, I hadn't been hearing
from him or having the signs, and so I took
the headphones out of my ears and I said, Dad,
I'm really going through a hard time right now. I
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would love to know you're still here if you'd let
me know. And I had been out walking my dog,
and my dog and I came back to the house
and I cooked dinner, sat down. I thought, I'm gonna
watch a movie while I eat, and all of a
sudden I heard something in the other room and.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
I listened, and I listened.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
I just started laughing, and I was like, oh my gosh,
the dishwasher's back on.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Oh yes, that is so cool. So what was happening
is for our listeners, what happens is after we leave
the physical body, we go through a life review where
we're able to see and feel how we've affected our
living loved ones as if we are the living loved one.
So your dad he was able to see through your
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eyes how he affected you, and he wanted to say
you know, I love you and I'm sorry something to
that effect, so he keeps coming to you. I would
tell everybody out there to ask the aloft wants to
give them signs, and then be patient and wait, and
the signs will come when they least expect it. We
have to take a little break, but we will be
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right back.
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Speaker 8 (26:49):
Hello and welcome back to the Angel Quest show. I
have with me Stephanie James, and she is talking about
her wonderful book, Your Big Fat Jersey Life and everything it.
So this is very interesting. It's right up my alley here.
So I wanted to ask you, why is it helpful
when we open up to others about our experiences with
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the other side.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
Yeah, I think that right now it's so important. I
mean it's always been important, but maybe now more than ever.
When I was doing research for the book, people that
were pulled, seventy three percent of them have had these
kind of experiences, but we don't talk about it. You know,
people are afraid to talk about it. They're afraid of
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being marginalized or categorized, or you know, someone saying, Oh,
you're just crazy. So people keep the stories to themselves.
But how powerful Karen, if we start having these conversations.
Part of it is even being able to start talking
about death. I write in the book about a friend
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of mine started telling me about these death dinners where
people go and they dress up very nice and they
go and have a gourmet meal and the topic of
the night is death. And part of that is so
that we're not so afraid of it, and we're not
afraid of entering into these conversations, and so this becomes.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
More normalized and people sharing.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
As you know, when you start kind of diving into this,
you'll find a person after person after person who has
had experiences either a near death experience where they know
death isn't the end, or they've had angel encounters, or
they've had loved ones come back to them. And so
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I just think that it helps to normalize it. It
helps so people don't feel so alone, so they don't
feel crazy, and they know that no, this is a
shared experience. And when we can share our experiences, it
just lights up. It's like the pebble and the pond,
you know, these concentric circles of love and healing and
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acceptance just radiate from us.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Beautiful. I like to call those those meetings life after
death rather than death, because it's almost like an ending
that word, you know.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Yeah, no, I hear you.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
People are afraid of that word. But it doesn't end
the energy of who we are continuous exactly well.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
And I think that's part of what those dinner's agendas were,
is to not make death scary.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
It doesn't have to be scary exactly. That's beautiful.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
So is it okay to grieve?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Oh my gosh, yeah, you know, as a psychotherapist, it
was really important to me, and just as a as
a loving heart, I guess too to put in the
chapter on growing through grief. And when I talk about,
you know, this big fat, juicy life, part of what
makes our life juicy is the whole experience. It's not
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that everything's just joyful every moment. It's that we have
the richness, the depth of our human experience, which is
also that we're going to have moments of deep sorrow.
We're going to have moments where we're really angry and
to embrace it all. And I'm reminded of Roomy's poem
The Guest house and in a not so great paraphrase,
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but I think the essence of that poem is, you know,
he says this, this life is a guesthouse. Every day
a new visitor comes, a meanness, a sorrow, a depression.
Meet them at the door, laughing, and invite them in.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
He said. You know, even they.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Clear you out, even if they clear out your house
of its furniture, you know, they may be clearing you
out for some new delight. And the last line is,
you know, welcome them all because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Absolutely, and you, probably being a psychotherapist, see how that
helps people to discuss their grief, to get it out
because it's there anyway, and say, oh, I'm not experiencing this.
I don't want to is stuff it down? It gets worse.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Absolutely, yes, you know.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
And it was just a little over a month ago, Karen,
that my favorite uncle in the world unexpectedly died and
you so I really got to thank you. I really
got to experience this again, you know, that that depth
of you know, you get that early morning phone call
and you're just I was like, no, no, we were
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all just together and you know, my uncle Dick was
the one who played ukulele at every Christmas Eve and
we'd sing all the songs and laugh, and I just
have the greatest videos just from this last Christmas of
us together. And so it wasn't about, Oh, I understand
that death isn't the end, so I'm going to not
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feel sad.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
No.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
I was sobbing for days, feeling like, oh my gosh,
in the physical realm, I am really going to miss
his physical presence. And what was beautiful, though, is after
a few days, I live right now in this beautiful
five acres in Santa Fe, and I get to just
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walk these dirt roads with the mountains all around it
so gorgeous, and I'm out with my dog walking and
all of a sudden, I just felt this beautiful peace
come over me, and I just was so clear that
my uncle was with my aunt, his wife who was
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really his life partner, who had died almost a year
to the day. They were like three days apart the
year before, and you know, they kayaked through Alaska together,
they rode their bikes through Europe together, and I just
had this fun, kind of funny image of them up
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in the clouds, kayaking through the clouds together.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
And it made me laugh.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
But there was this peace in my heart knowing like
he's good, he's good, they're together, he's happy, and that
I can talk to him whenever I want to. You
know that I can really just say. And I can't
tell you, Karen, how many times since then, I'll be
on that same walk and just say, Oh, I love
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you so much. I I just want you to know.
I never told you when you were here just how
much I loved you, and I just want you to know.
And the instant message I always received back is kind
of a laugh. And I know I know.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
They can hear us when we speak to them. They
can hear us. I'm telling how our listeners they can
hear what we're saying. Sometimes you want maybe ask them
to give you a sign to let you know they're
aware of what you're telling them, something like that, But
you just have to speak to them. And this is
something else, Stephanie. Most people expect to hear an audible
voice or to see an apparition of their loved one,
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But our loved one is not in a physical body anymore.
So oftentimes they come to us as thoughts right as
they speak to us telebathically. They give us a sign,
they come to us in a dream, so we have
to be on the lookout for all of that as well.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
Yes, you know, I actually just held me spectacular like
that happened just yesterday. I was working with a client
here online and she was talking. She started crying. Even
though her mother has you know, passed probably twenty years ago.
She just was remembering her mother and started to cry.
And as she started to do that, I had these
two blurt bluebirds that kept flying up under the canopy
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right here, and one of them just perched on my
fence and she said, my mom comes to me as
a bluebird. And I said, oh, I have to show
you this, and I turned the computer around and showed
her and she was like.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
Oh, my gosh, that's my mom. My Mom's saying she's here.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
Exactly. They love to use their energy to go inside
of an animal, a ladybug, a butterfly, a bird, and
it would stand out to let us know they're with us.
So that's really cool. Everyone be on a look out
for that. You know what else I would love to
touch upon you write about our connection to the divine
and that we're not separate from the divine. Or one another.
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Can you speak more about that?
Speaker 9 (35:30):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 10 (35:32):
You know what's interesting, Karen too, is there's so many
ways to talk about that, but I want to share
at the end of the book, I talk about this
dream that I have, which I feel like is such
a beautiful analogy for the divine and for this experience
of how we're all interconnected. And in the dream, I
was very, very It was like I was a bee,
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I was part of this beehive. And what was so
interesting and the message was, you know, there's times where
we feel like we're in a single cell of the beehive,
that we're all alone. But the reality is even if
one bee flutters its wings, the vibration is felt by
the whole hive, and how each each and every bee
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is essential for the health and well being of the
hive well. And the same is true for us, you know.
And and to know that the divine is us, you know,
it flows through us, as us to us. And we've
heard the many analogies like you know, like if you
think of the divine as the ocean, and we're all
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drops in that ocean, we cannot be separate from it.
You know, it is us, right, And I think in
order sometimes to really start actualizing that, we've got to
stop being so distracted. Stop looking at our phone, stop
you know, doing the TV thing. There's so many things
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try to pull us away from that. Because the divine
is always right there within us. It is our eternal spark.
And when we quiet ourselves, even for a few moments,
you know, I always invite people to put their hands
on their heart and breathe into that heart space, and
that's where you can start realizing and thinking about who's
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breathing this breath, who's making this heartbeat? You know, are
you having to be conscious and thinking, Okay, now I
got to breathe now, Okay, now I gotta breathe again.
I mean, there is something beautiful that is breathing us.
There is something beautiful that is beating our hearts, and
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so I think that that's one of the essential things
for us too. And at the end of every chapter
of this book, Karen, I do these tapping in exercises
so that people can take the different whether they're the
stories or information from the book and in it into
their own lives and their own personal experience, so they're
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having that inner alchemy and being in touch with these things,
whether it's a loved one beyond or the divine within.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
Beautiful and again, your book is called Your Big, Fat,
Juicy Life and Everything After. We have to take another break,
but we will be right back.
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Speaker 8 (38:41):
Hey, welcome back to the Angel Quest Show. I have
Stephanie James with us, and I was wondering, how did
this book come about? What inspired you to write this book?
Speaker 10 (38:52):
Well, this is so interesting, Karen, because I was not
planning on writing another book. And a year ago March,
So a year ago this last March, I was interviewing
Neil Donald Walsh for the show. And I don't know
if I had shared this with you when we met
or not, but okay, so what happened was he and
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I got on the recording and we could not get
to the interview. We just had this like beautiful heart
connection and we just kept talking and talking and sharing
stories and at one point, and I'm so blessed I
have this video still.
Speaker 9 (39:33):
It's mine.
Speaker 10 (39:34):
I mean, I didn't share it live, but it's this
beautiful video where you see, you know, he gets this download,
and he says, Stephanie, you're going to write your next book,
and you're going to start tomorrow morning, and this book
is going to have a global impact, and I'm going
to endorse this book.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (39:53):
And he did endorse the book, and I did start
the next morning. And Karen, what was miraculous for me
was my first two books each took nine months each
to write. It was like just dating a baby. And
this book came through in under six weeks.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
And as you may or may not know, during that time,
it was like people just started showing up that became
essential parts of the book.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
You know.
Speaker 10 (40:23):
Sage Dyer came through and she and I had this
great conversation. And then after she and I met, she
sent me an email and said, oh, you've got to
meet my mom too. Yeah, And so Marcelene and I
had a beautiful phone call, and then I interviewed her
for the book. And then Stephen Simon, who's the Academy
(40:44):
Award winner for What Dreams May Come, He's in there
along with Ari l Ford, Suzanne Geeseman. I mean, it
was just like people just started showing up and sharing
their stories. And so that's a beautiful inner weave with
the book, you know, are sharing all and there's all
kinds of people, people that don't have a following, people
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that you know, I had a couple of clients who said, yes,
please share my story because they had incredible experiences of
contact with the beyond.
Speaker 8 (41:19):
Can you share some of these stories and maybe one
of the with Marcelene die or I'd love to hear
about that as well.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
Sure, sure, Well.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
Marcelene's was really really interesting. You know, Sage had shared
about the first time that her father came to her
and it was right before she met you at Wayne's
celebration of life, and you really validated to her that
that experience was real, and so she had total clarity
(41:48):
with that. And then when I met with Marcelline, Marcelene
was talking about when she did an ayahuasca journey and
Wayne appeared to her very clearly, and so she knew
he was with her and then had messages for her,
and that's why she you know, she was asking him,
are you Julian you know? And he didn't say yes
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or no, he just you know, I think there was
some kind of indication that he was a part of
Julian Sage's son. Yes, yes, who was born after he passed,
and then Marcelene had asked him, well, is he supposed
to carry on your work? And she was shown a
bookcase that had all of Wayne's books in it, and
(42:34):
then Wayne kind of, you know, kind of brushed his
hand over it and all the books disappeared, as if
to signify, no, my work is done.
Speaker 9 (42:42):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (42:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (42:44):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 10 (42:47):
She was extremely so comforted to know that he was
there and that he was you know, has continued and
as you know, because Wayne's talked.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
To you and come to you so much.
Speaker 10 (42:59):
Yes, yeah, so yeah, I was just gonna say, I mean,
so that was fascinating, and I would have to say
one of the most fascinating stories to me too was
Stephen Simon's experience of his wife passing who she passed
about six years ago and maybe seven now, but she
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was young. I mean, she was in her mid fifties
and had struggled with leukemia. But they thought things were okay,
and Stephen came home after doing things in the morning
and she had passed that morning. She was just in bed,
and so he said he went into total despair. Ironically,
(43:43):
his best friend is Neil Donald Walsh you know he yeah, yeah,
he ended up going to Ashland he lives, I believe
he lives close by and he about four hours away,
but he ended up spending time I think twenty four
hours with Neil. And what ended up happening, though, Karen
that was just so beautiful, is about six weeks later,
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his beautiful wife started coming through to him and he
would hear like this inner voice, of course, not this
clear voice, but like this inner knowingness. And it started
with he was watching a show and at the end
credits he always turned off you know, when she was live,
(44:30):
they'd always turn off the credits because they didn't want
anything to be revealed. If they were watching a series,
they didn't want to see what was going to happen next,
you know, the next like when they say, oh, stay tuned,
you know, this is what's going to happen on the
next episode. They never wanted to see that. But as
he was sitting there watching the show, you know, one
of these episode shows, he could feel like this interior
(44:52):
voice of her saying, keep watching the credits, and so
he was like okay, and so is he watches the credits.
All of a sudden, this song comes through and the
song was their song. You know what it was this
this I don't want to try to sing on air,
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but it was this, you know, beautiful, beautiful song which
is someday will be together.
Speaker 8 (45:20):
Oh yes, yes, I know that song.
Speaker 10 (45:22):
Yeah, so you know so and then she's been you know,
he said, almost every day. There's a certain what he
calls tell that happens when he's then aware that she's
with him. And so he started doing what Neil Donald
Walsh did, which is because she would come to him
and they would have these conversations, so he just started
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writing them down.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
And you know, automatic writing.
Speaker 10 (45:47):
Automatic writing, and so they have a book together. The
film was What Dreams May Come. The book is called
What Dreams Have Come?
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (46:00):
Well yeah, you know I would would love to tell
everyone who's listening also they could do the same thing.
It's not nobody special here. We can all do this.
Our loved ones are trying to talk to us all
the time. We have to be quiet and listen. And
it's the thoughts that just pop in your head for
no reason. So there's a difference between your thoughts about
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your loved ones and your loved ones talking to you.
So if you're thinking about your loved ones, saying, maybe
you see a picture that reminded you of something that
reminded you, that's you. But if you're driving and after
my mom passed, for example, I was driving and all
of a sudden I heard it was not a voice,
it was a thought, Hi, sweetheart. Now I don't say
that to myself. She called me sweetheart. So that's that's
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how it comes. So you could take a pen and
write when these things happen, and you will be amazed
at what you receive.
Speaker 9 (46:52):
Right yeah, So love it.
Speaker 8 (46:55):
Is there anything we didn't cover that you'd like to
add right now? Words?
Speaker 10 (47:01):
Yeah, I think I think you're really speaking to part
of what I would would say is that every single
one of us are these essential golden threads in the
tapestry of humanity, and each one of us has this
ability inside of us. You're right, nobody's special, and we're
all special, you know. I love Jacob Lieberman saying of
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we're all the same heights, so it's just the same height,
meaning we're all equal.
Speaker 8 (47:30):
I'm going to say, you saw me in.
Speaker 9 (47:32):
Personal I'm five a little over five eight. I know.
Speaker 10 (47:40):
I love the pictures of us together and I'm just
bending down and being snuggled into you. But you know
that that saying, though, is that we're all equal, right,
and we all matter. And that's why on my film
poster the words are your period, healing, period, matter, period,
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and that's from my film When Sparks Ignite, which is
playing on Humanity Stream, which is how you and I connected.
Speaker 9 (48:09):
And so I would say.
Speaker 10 (48:11):
People, you know, allow yourself to explore this, allow yourself
to start doing some of these things where you just listen,
you start just noticing the signs and not to discard them,
you know, to really just say, wow, this is beautiful.
And I think if you kept a journal of when
those things happen, very much like my client, when my
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father first started appearing to me in a visual form,
he kept coming through hawks and I speak about that
in the book and I won't take time sharing those
stories right now, but again, it was just phenomenal. And
when you start to notice, you can't stop noticing. You
know it's there, and it's there and available for each
one of us.
Speaker 8 (48:52):
Once you acknowledge what they're sending to us, they get
excited and they'll keep sending us more if we don't
acknowledge those signs, they'll stop, they'll say they're not paying
attention and so forth. So that's amazing. And how can
our listeners find you and your books?
Speaker 10 (49:08):
Yeah, well, the easiest way to find out information about
me is to go to my website, which is Stephanie
James dot world, and that's Stephanie James dot world. And
they can see the trailer to my film, they can
order my books, they can see retreats and events that
I'm doing, they can sign up for coaching, and for
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all your listeners, I have a free gift. When they
go on they can just put their name and email
address and they will get sent a beautiful guided chakra
meditation to start putting them in touch with that interior
spark that was that is within each one of us.
So and the books available on Amazon if someone you know,
if you want to just go to Amazon, you can get.
Speaker 9 (49:50):
It there too.
Speaker 8 (49:51):
Wow, beautiful. That was. That's very kind and generous of you.
Thank you for the free link for the chakra exercise.
It's what is it a meditation?
Speaker 10 (50:00):
It's a meditator. It's just a ten minute meditation if all. Yeah,
I'd shared it with so many of my clients. They
were like, oh my gosh, can you record this? And
so I recorded it and share it with people because
it's such a beautiful way to start your day and
to really be in that grounded space where you are
very connected to the divine with them.
Speaker 8 (50:21):
I love it. Thank you so much for being with
us today. It was amazing.
Speaker 10 (50:25):
Oh thank you, Karen. Such a joy always to be
with you. Thank you for having me, and.
Speaker 8 (50:30):
I will see you again soon online probably. Okay, so
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Speaker 8 (02:22):
Well, hello, everyone, welcome to the Angel Quest Show. I'm Kareni,
author of Your Life After Their Death and Week Consciousness.
My guest today is Stephanie James. Stephanie's a respected psychotherapist, filmmaker, author,
and host of Igniting the Spark podcast. Today we're going
to talk about her new book, Your Big, Fat, Juicy
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Life and Everything After. Drawing from her own wisdom and
spiritual journey and also from riveting conversations with global visionaries,
Stephanie's book shows us how to dissolve our deepest fears
and in so doing, ignite a zest for living in
our hearts and souls. With the compassion of a trusted friend,
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she unveils the extraordinary hidden potential within every moment of
our lives. Thank you so much for being with us today, Stephanie.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
Thank you so much. Karen. It's such a joy to
be with you.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
It was so nice meeting you in Colorado. Wasn't that
a great event?
Speaker 9 (03:25):
That was so fun?
Speaker 10 (03:27):
Sacred awakenings was just absolutely incredible, and I was just
so thrilled that not only did we get to meet,
but we got to hang out and go to dinner together,
and it was just such a joy.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
You picked a very nice vegan restaurant, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
It was book.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
So are you ready to begin?
Speaker 9 (03:49):
I'm ready?
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Okay. So when were you first aware that life continues
after death?
Speaker 10 (03:57):
I would say my first memory of that knowingness was
when I was a little girl. I was probably five
or six, and I have a vivid memory of exactly
where I was standing. I was looking at the carpet
downstairs and then my grandmother's antique dresser, and the thought
was I was trying to remember being born. And I
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said to myself, you know, I've oh, I don't remember
being born, and I don't remember dying. I just know
that that just keeps continuing, that that is just this
ongoing thing. And so that was this deep awareness at
a very young age, and it continued that from that
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point on with just incredible experiences that helped validate that
that was the truth.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Can you tell me some of those experiences. I know
one of them was about your daughter when she was
four years old.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, well I would. I would say that my
earliest things that are really.
Speaker 10 (04:59):
Happened, and then I'll tell that story because that was
definitely a powerful, powerful story and experience in my life.
But I did start seeing at a young age. I
would have these three figures that were surrounded by light
that I would I would call energy imprints that would
show up at my door of my bedroom night after night,
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and they wouldn't come in, they just stood there. And
I guess now I might might say, oh, those were
Reguardian angels. I didn't know at the time what it was.
I wasn't afraid. And the wild thing was when my
daughter Akasha was ten years old and she stayed at
my mom's house in my old bedroom, she had the
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exact same experience happened to her.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
So yeah, so this really, you know, beautiful connection. There's
a lot of things have happened in mom's house. And
the story that you're referring to is when I was
twenty five and Akasha was four. My daughter and I
always have to start with saying Akasha is actually the
Greek word for immortality, and you know in Acasia it's
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the I mean acacia tree in Africa is the tree
of life.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
So it was.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
Really interesting that here I didn't even think about when
I named her Akasha, that she would actually be the
one teaching me about immortality. And what happened was at
that time, my aunt Gwen, who was forty six, had
been struggling with breast cancer and had lots of things
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going on for about five years, and that particular morning,
she had gone in for some exploratory surgery and my
mom called and I was actually in the bathtub at
the time, and little Acasha brings in the big cortaphone
and I'm talking to Mom and she says, you know,
they opened up Gwen and she just had cancer all
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through her body, so they sewed her back up and
they're giving her about three months to live. So I'm just,
you know, crying, sobbing there in the bathtub, and Little
Acasha wanders back in and she sits on the side
of the tub and she says, why are you crying, Mama,
And I said, oh, honey, you know, Mama just doesn't
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want anyone to die. And she just looks at me
with these little, sweet, innocent eyes and she's like, but Mama,
we never die. And so even though we didn't go
to church, you know, and we didn't have conversations about heaven,
I thought, oh, she means heaven. And I said, oh, honey,
I know, you know, we go to heaven. And she
just shakes her head and she's like, Mama, there's no heaven.
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She said, when I was a light up in the
sky with God. And then she pauses and she says,
do you remember your other mother Dorothy?
Speaker 8 (07:50):
Oh, see that habits with my daughter too. I'd love
to hear this.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
I'm sorry, go ahead, Oh it's okay.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
And it's like, oh, my gosh, because my other mother,
Dorothy was my grandmother, Dorothy, who died when.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I was thirteen.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
And so the fact that she phrased it that way,
you know, she said, your other mother, Dorothy, her light
was up in the sky with me and God, and
then God put some of her light with my light,
and I got to come down and be your daughter.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Did she know Dorothy.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
No, No, because of course she had. My grandmother had
died twelve years before Acacia was, you know, not quite
twelve years before she was born. But let's see, at
that time it had been twelve years. So yeah, I
mean so eight years, eight years she had been dead
and my grandfather had remarried right away, you know, a
year later, I don't want to say right away, but
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a year later to Grandma Seal. And that's the only
person Akasha knew. And we didn't talk about Grandma Dorothy.
Of course we didn't want to. We wouldn't have talked
about my grandmother in front of Grandma Seal. And it
was just we just didn't talk about my grandmother. I
didn't have pictures of them, and it had been so
long paths that it was like, no, this is just
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you know, Grandpa Oscar and Grandma Seal. So to have
her say that, you know, and I called my mom,
who's it's my mom's mother, you know, and we just cried,
knowing that wow, out of the mouths of babes that
this was, this was real.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
That's incredible, that's incredible. My daughter, when she was two
and just learning how to talk, she said, mom, Memba,
when a previous at other life, memba, when you I
was your mommy memba?
Speaker 9 (09:40):
She a memo.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Oh, and she's so mad at me that I didn't remember.
I said, tell me about it. She goes just forget it,
you know, but it's crazy. But that's amazing. So she
was your grandmother reincarnated.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
Not so you know, this is my understanding, and I
really do believe since and this is my understanding. Again,
I don't This doesn't have to be the big tea
truth for everyone. But from what I really understood, it
was that part of my grandmother's light was in Akasha,
not that she was totally reincarnated as her. And interestingly,
(10:15):
because I know you're so close to the DIYers, when
I was talking with Sage Dier not long after this,
and she was saying, well, you know that her mom
had had that experience with Wayne and feeling like maybe
Julian Sage's son was Wayne reincarnated. And I told her
I shared with her that story of Acacia and my
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grandma Dorothy's light, and Sage was like, oh my gosh,
I love that because you know it's like they're their
own unique spirits, their your own unique souls, and yet
this other light can also be a part of that.
And so Karen, as I thought about that more, I
started thinking, well, that makes so much sense because when
our spirits go back to source it's all light, and
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there's no time, there's no space. So a part of
that light is the light that comes through and speaks
to you, you know, speaks to mediums and can be
there to comfort loved ones. And part of that light
gets reincarnated and is being a part of another life,
you know. And so this, this light can be in
many different dimensions at many different times. So that light,
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it's like it becomes a part of the collective, it
becomes a part of the whole. And yet just like
as we know, you know, Einstein says, there's no time
or space, that we're having all these dimensions of existence
all at once. And so that made so much sense
to me. The more I thought about it, I was like, yeah,
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well that's it. That we're a part of each other.
We are all a part of the one, and so
maybe that's what connects us to one another, you know,
we recognize that light that is also a part of
us in each other.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Incredible.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Now that she's older, does she have any recollection of
any of this or does she have experiences? A lot
of time they get older, they don't.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Yeah, she didn't. She didn't for a while.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Like I said, though she's always kind of had that
that same kind of gift that I have, which I call,
you know, being a seer. She you know, she would
see the spirits in Mom's house.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
My mother.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
She hates when I talk about her house because she's like,
my house isn't haunted.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
And it's not that it's haunted.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
It has just really been a place where people that
don't even believe in spirits, you know. I always think
about my cousin's son. He was this farm kid, you know,
grew up in rural Colorado, and yet when he spent
the night at mom's house. And this is years and
years ago, but he had spent the night and had
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this experience. He didn't tell anybody about it. But then
we had come at the time, we lived in Wyoming,
and we had come and spent the night. The very
next night he went and stayed with my grandpa. We
stayed in that room that night. And that night I
opened my eyes and I thought my daughter, Haley, who
was six at the time, was standing at the end
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of the bed, and I said, Honey, what do you want.
And as soon as I said that, the real Haley,
who was laying down beside me in the trundle bed
moved and I was like, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
I'm like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
And I and I talk about this in the book
because I this is not one of my best mothering moments.
I ran out of the room and I was like,
because my daughter and my cousin's daughter were sitting there
watching TV. And I said, oh my gosh, you guys,
there was a little girl that appeared in the room.
And then I realized, oh, I left Haley in there.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
I better go back.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
It felt good, right. I wasn't scary.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
No, she was never scary, and Acacia has experienced for
several more times. Akasha ended up living with my mother
for a while as a as a grown woman and
had other experiences. But the funniest thing, Karen was that
next morning, we're all sitting around the table together and
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my cousin's son says, I just have to tell you, guys.
He's like, I woke up, he said, in the middle
of the night and there are some little girl at
the base of my bed. We all just we all
just exploded, you.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Know, freaking out, and he was freaking out.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
A little bit, and we all were laughing because we
had all just you know, experienced that the night before
and so so it's just great. It has been further
confirmation that you know that again, you know, for me,
it's life, doesn't Death isn't the end for us. It's
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just the next chapter in our book of eternity exactly.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
And next question I wanted to ask is how does
it help us to know that death is in the end.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
What I think is really helpful is, especially in America,
there's such a huge fear of death, and so in
other cultures, death is celebrated, you know, and we can
think about Dia de los mortos and it's very different
in India when someone passes. I mean, these are celebrations,
and you know Egypt, ancient Egypt, it was a celebration.
(15:32):
So it's interesting when we cling to that fear like
that's the end, we don't know what's going to happen,
then we're not fully living in this moment.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
You know.
Speaker 10 (15:44):
It's always this underlying anxiety and fear. And when we
can start letting go of that fear and befriending death,
knowing that it is not the end of our journey,
you know, and not that no one you know we
don't want to die. It's not where we chose to
be here in this physical incarnation. So we're experiencing this
interesting world of duality here. And yet when we know
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that death isn't the end, this moment becomes sacred. We
can let go of that fear. We can move into love.
We're not clinging, we don't feel desperate. There's not this timeline,
and so maybe that gives us permission to love more,
to be more open hearted, to say it's okay, like
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I can show up right here and know I'm exactly
where I need to be in this moment.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Exactly, And it helps us because we know our loved
ones are truly existing after the physical body dies as well,
and we will join them again, which is it brings
a tremendous peace to everybody too.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
Absolutely absolutely, I think that's yeah, thank you for saying that,
because that is one of the biggest joys as you've
experienced through your career and I've experienced as well. We
can actually even have better relationships with our loved ones
when they've passed, when they're no longer held by personality
or ego, and there's just this pure love that comes
(17:12):
through it's incredible.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Absolutely, and I wanted to ask you, how has your
relationship with your father improved since he made his transition.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Yeah, it's been phenomenal, Karen.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
You know, we I always talk about this as far
as you know, wanting to give a little bit of
context for Dad and I's relationship, because for the first
thirteen years of my life, I was my dad's little shadow.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
You know, I just adored my dad and.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
He was incredible. I mean, of course I love my mom.
I have an incredible mother as well. I think you
met my mom even at the event, but she, you know,
she had my little brother, and I think my dad
was just I was like just enamored and just wanting
to be near him. So if my dad was out
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raking the leaves, I'd be right there, you know, holding
the bag to help put them in. Or you know,
if he was working in the workshop, I would sit
beside him and he'd give me a nail and a
board just so I could, you know, I could nail
nails and a board to just be with him. And
even you know, he's a professor at CSU, and I
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would go with him to his office and just you know,
of course I knew nothing about economics, but I would
take his test and write on his chalkboard, and you know,
so he was a very loving and devoted dad.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
And then.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
This kind of beautiful golden childhood with tons of family,
and we were all just so close with my cousins
and grandparents and everybody lived pretty close. One night, you know,
my brother and I are awakened in the middle of
the night by the sound of screeching tires going out
of our driveway, and he and I look out of
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the second story window and there's my mom tearing down
the driveway and my dad jumping on the hoot of
the car, beating on the windshield for her to get out,
and we're like, what is happening? And unbeknownst to us,
he had waited till the kids went to bed, and
he told my mom, I'm in love with someone else,
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oh boy, and I want a divorce. And they never
fought in front of us. You know, I think I'd
only seen my mom cry one time in my life.
So it was all of a sudden, this golden childhood
was completely shattered, you know, and irreversibly broken. And in
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a very short time, I moved with my father. You know,
when he left, I moved with him. I mean I
was very connected to him, and pretty soon I had
a stepmother who made it very clear that I wasn't welcomed.
And from that point on in my life, Karen, I
wasn't allowed to talk to my father alone. I couldn't
be in a room with him alone, and to the
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day he died, I wasn't allowed to speak with him
on the phone alone. So that's all important for context.
I mean, it went from this very loving, connected relationship
to like being told you're not number one anymore, right,
you know, and really feeling rejected, and you know, that
was that was a big heartache and pain through my life.
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I probably went through the next ten years of my
life trying to earn love, trying to earn his unconditional
love again, and having some powerful learning lessons about love.
Actually I don't have to earn it. It's not outside
of me. That all the things I was trying to
prove or earn they were already there, they were already
within me. But that was a tough journey, and so
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throughout my life, my father continued to be very rejecting,
very conditional, and so finally six years before he passed,
I wrote a letter and I talk about this in
my Becoming Fierce book, my book before This where it's
okay for us to disconnect with love, and I wrote
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he and my stepmother and said, thank you for these gifts,
thank you for these things. And also, you know, I've
had a pretty large therapy bill over my life dealing
with this heartache, dealing with and it was very kind
and very honoring and honoring my part. But also you know,
at the end, I said, I love you both dearly,
(21:30):
and please don't ever contact me again. Okay, Yeah, I
mean I just because there was every time I would
speak with them, it was harsh, even I mean, I'm
a grown up at this point, you know, I'm in
my forties, and you know when it was always critical
and always very again, very conditional love, and it was
(21:51):
so freeing Karen, it was so beautiful. And then I
could just love my dad, even though we didn't have
a relationship. I we just could love him and I
felt very free. But it went to such a depth
when he passed. So he had a stroke six years later,
and I would say several days before he passed, and
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then it was twelve days in a row altogether, or
twelve nights in a row. I dreamt of him every night,
and he would come to me, and sometimes we were
just doing something totally benign, like playing cribbage together he
had taught me cribbage as a little girl. Or we'd
just be having conversations, you know. It was really just beautiful.
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But the biggest thing that started happening right after he
passed my ex husband and I would say, what is
going on because the electrical stuff in our home. I mean,
it was not just lights flickering, it was we had
a new stove and a new dishwasher we'd probably only
had six months. At random times, all of a sudden,
(23:00):
the time would change on the clock, the date would change,
the dishwasher would turn on, and then it even got bigger.
You know, my car seat would be moved back in
my car by electric car seat. And so he just
really wanted us to know he was around, right, and
so the loving presence that was my father started coming
(23:23):
through just I mean I could just feel him very,
very purely. And that's continued now it's almost been three
years since his death. There's been times Suzanne Geeseman, who
you know, and I had on my show. I was
listening to her book for that interview, and she said,
(23:44):
you know, it's never too long. You can always say
I would like a sign. I want to know you're here.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I called him, without a doubt signs.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Exactly without a doubt signs. And at this point, when
I was listening to that Karen, I hadn't spoken to
not spoken to my father, but he hadn't been around
in a while in spirit form, I hadn't been hearing
from him or having the signs, and so I took
the headphones out of my ears and I said, Dad,
I'm really going through a hard time right now. I
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would love to know you're still here if you'd let
me know. And I had been out walking my dog,
and my dog and I came back to the house
and I cooked dinner, sat down. I thought, I'm gonna
watch a movie while I eat, and all of a
sudden I heard something in the other room and.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
I listened, and I listened.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
I just started laughing, and I was like, oh my gosh,
the dishwasher's back on.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Oh yes, that is so cool. So what was happening
is for our listeners, what happens is after we leave
the physical body, we go through a life review where
we're able to see and feel how we've affected our
living loved ones as if we are the living loved one.
So your dad he was able to see through your
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eyes how he affected you, and he wanted to say
you know, I love you and I'm sorry something to
that effect, so he keeps coming to you. I would
tell everybody out there to ask the aloft wants to
give them signs, and then be patient and wait, and
the signs will come when they least expect it. We
have to take a little break, but we will be
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right back.
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Speaker 8 (26:49):
Hello and welcome back to the Angel Quest show. I
have with me Stephanie James, and she is talking about
her wonderful book, Your Big Fat Jersey Life and everything it.
So this is very interesting. It's right up my alley here.
So I wanted to ask you, why is it helpful
when we open up to others about our experiences with
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the other side.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
Yeah, I think that right now it's so important. I
mean it's always been important, but maybe now more than ever.
When I was doing research for the book, people that
were pulled, seventy three percent of them have had these
kind of experiences, but we don't talk about it. You know,
people are afraid to talk about it. They're afraid of
(27:33):
being marginalized or categorized, or you know, someone saying, Oh,
you're just crazy. So people keep the stories to themselves.
But how powerful Karen, if we start having these conversations.
Part of it is even being able to start talking
about death. I write in the book about a friend
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of mine started telling me about these death dinners where
people go and they dress up very nice and they
go and have a gourmet meal and the topic of
the night is death. And part of that is so
that we're not so afraid of it, and we're not
afraid of entering into these conversations, and so this becomes.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
More normalized and people sharing.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
As you know, when you start kind of diving into this,
you'll find a person after person after person who has
had experiences either a near death experience where they know
death isn't the end, or they've had angel encounters, or
they've had loved ones come back to them. And so
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I just think that it helps to normalize it. It
helps so people don't feel so alone, so they don't
feel crazy, and they know that no, this is a
shared experience. And when we can share our experiences, it
just lights up. It's like the pebble and the pond,
you know, these concentric circles of love and healing and
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acceptance just radiate from us.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Beautiful. I like to call those those meetings life after
death rather than death, because it's almost like an ending
that word, you know.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Yeah, no, I hear you.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
People are afraid of that word. But it doesn't end
the energy of who we are continuous exactly well.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
And I think that's part of what those dinner's agendas were,
is to not make death scary.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
It doesn't have to be scary exactly. That's beautiful.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
So is it okay to grieve?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Oh my gosh, yeah, you know, as a psychotherapist, it
was really important to me, and just as a as
a loving heart, I guess too to put in the
chapter on growing through grief. And when I talk about,
you know, this big fat, juicy life, part of what
makes our life juicy is the whole experience. It's not
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that everything's just joyful every moment. It's that we have
the richness, the depth of our human experience, which is
also that we're going to have moments of deep sorrow.
We're going to have moments where we're really angry and
to embrace it all. And I'm reminded of Roomy's poem
The Guest house and in a not so great paraphrase,
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but I think the essence of that poem is, you know,
he says this, this life is a guesthouse. Every day
a new visitor comes, a meanness, a sorrow, a depression.
Meet them at the door, laughing, and invite them in.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
He said. You know, even they.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Clear you out, even if they clear out your house
of its furniture, you know, they may be clearing you
out for some new delight. And the last line is,
you know, welcome them all because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Absolutely, and you, probably being a psychotherapist, see how that
helps people to discuss their grief, to get it out
because it's there anyway, and say, oh, I'm not experiencing this.
I don't want to is stuff it down? It gets worse.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Absolutely, yes, you know.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
And it was just a little over a month ago, Karen,
that my favorite uncle in the world unexpectedly died and
you so I really got to thank you. I really
got to experience this again, you know, that that depth
of you know, you get that early morning phone call
and you're just I was like, no, no, we were
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all just together and you know, my uncle Dick was
the one who played ukulele at every Christmas Eve and
we'd sing all the songs and laugh, and I just
have the greatest videos just from this last Christmas of
us together. And so it wasn't about, Oh, I understand
that death isn't the end, so I'm going to not
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feel sad.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
No.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
I was sobbing for days, feeling like, oh my gosh,
in the physical realm, I am really going to miss
his physical presence. And what was beautiful, though, is after
a few days, I live right now in this beautiful
five acres in Santa Fe, and I get to just
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walk these dirt roads with the mountains all around it
so gorgeous, and I'm out with my dog walking and
all of a sudden, I just felt this beautiful peace
come over me, and I just was so clear that
my uncle was with my aunt, his wife who was
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really his life partner, who had died almost a year
to the day. They were like three days apart the
year before, and you know, they kayaked through Alaska together,
they rode their bikes through Europe together, and I just
had this fun, kind of funny image of them up
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in the clouds, kayaking through the clouds together.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
And it made me laugh.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
But there was this peace in my heart knowing like
he's good, he's good, they're together, he's happy, and that
I can talk to him whenever I want to. You
know that I can really just say. And I can't
tell you, Karen, how many times since then, I'll be
on that same walk and just say, Oh, I love
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you so much. I I just want you to know.
I never told you when you were here just how
much I loved you, and I just want you to know.
And the instant message I always received back is kind
of a laugh. And I know I know.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
They can hear us when we speak to them. They
can hear us. I'm telling how our listeners they can
hear what we're saying. Sometimes you want maybe ask them
to give you a sign to let you know they're
aware of what you're telling them, something like that, But
you just have to speak to them. And this is
something else, Stephanie. Most people expect to hear an audible
voice or to see an apparition of their loved one,
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But our loved one is not in a physical body anymore.
So oftentimes they come to us as thoughts right as
they speak to us telebathically. They give us a sign,
they come to us in a dream, so we have
to be on the lookout for all of that as well.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
Yes, you know, I actually just held me spectacular like
that happened just yesterday. I was working with a client
here online and she was talking. She started crying. Even
though her mother has you know, passed probably twenty years ago.
She just was remembering her mother and started to cry.
And as she started to do that, I had these
two blurt bluebirds that kept flying up under the canopy
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right here, and one of them just perched on my
fence and she said, my mom comes to me as
a bluebird. And I said, oh, I have to show
you this, and I turned the computer around and showed
her and she was like.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
Oh, my gosh, that's my mom. My Mom's saying she's here.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
Exactly. They love to use their energy to go inside
of an animal, a ladybug, a butterfly, a bird, and
it would stand out to let us know they're with us.
So that's really cool. Everyone be on a look out
for that. You know what else I would love to
touch upon you write about our connection to the divine
and that we're not separate from the divine. Or one another.
(35:28):
Can you speak more about that?
Speaker 9 (35:30):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 10 (35:32):
You know what's interesting, Karen too, is there's so many
ways to talk about that, but I want to share
at the end of the book, I talk about this
dream that I have, which I feel like is such
a beautiful analogy for the divine and for this experience
of how we're all interconnected. And in the dream, I
was very, very It was like I was a bee,
(35:55):
I was part of this beehive. And what was so
interesting and the message was, you know, there's times where
we feel like we're in a single cell of the beehive,
that we're all alone. But the reality is even if
one bee flutters its wings, the vibration is felt by
the whole hive, and how each each and every bee
(36:18):
is essential for the health and well being of the
hive well. And the same is true for us, you know.
And and to know that the divine is us, you know,
it flows through us, as us to us. And we've
heard the many analogies like you know, like if you
think of the divine as the ocean, and we're all
(36:38):
drops in that ocean, we cannot be separate from it.
You know, it is us, right, And I think in
order sometimes to really start actualizing that, we've got to
stop being so distracted. Stop looking at our phone, stop
you know, doing the TV thing. There's so many things
(37:00):
try to pull us away from that. Because the divine
is always right there within us. It is our eternal spark.
And when we quiet ourselves, even for a few moments,
you know, I always invite people to put their hands
on their heart and breathe into that heart space, and
that's where you can start realizing and thinking about who's
(37:20):
breathing this breath, who's making this heartbeat? You know, are
you having to be conscious and thinking, Okay, now I
got to breathe now, Okay, now I gotta breathe again.
I mean, there is something beautiful that is breathing us.
There is something beautiful that is beating our hearts, and
(37:41):
so I think that that's one of the essential things
for us too. And at the end of every chapter
of this book, Karen, I do these tapping in exercises
so that people can take the different whether they're the
stories or information from the book and in it into
their own lives and their own personal experience, so they're
(38:04):
having that inner alchemy and being in touch with these things,
whether it's a loved one beyond or the divine within.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
Beautiful and again, your book is called Your Big, Fat,
Juicy Life and Everything After. We have to take another break,
but we will be right back.
Speaker 12 (38:23):
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Speaker 11 (38:29):
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Speaker 1 (38:35):
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Speaker 8 (38:41):
Hey, welcome back to the Angel Quest Show. I have
Stephanie James with us, and I was wondering, how did
this book come about? What inspired you to write this book?
Speaker 10 (38:52):
Well, this is so interesting, Karen, because I was not
planning on writing another book. And a year ago March,
So a year ago this last March, I was interviewing
Neil Donald Walsh for the show. And I don't know
if I had shared this with you when we met
or not, but okay, so what happened was he and
(39:17):
I got on the recording and we could not get
to the interview. We just had this like beautiful heart
connection and we just kept talking and talking and sharing
stories and at one point, and I'm so blessed I
have this video still.
Speaker 9 (39:33):
It's mine.
Speaker 10 (39:34):
I mean, I didn't share it live, but it's this
beautiful video where you see, you know, he gets this download,
and he says, Stephanie, you're going to write your next book,
and you're going to start tomorrow morning, and this book
is going to have a global impact, and I'm going
to endorse this book.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (39:53):
And he did endorse the book, and I did start
the next morning. And Karen, what was miraculous for me
was my first two books each took nine months each
to write. It was like just dating a baby. And
this book came through in under six weeks.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
And as you may or may not know, during that time,
it was like people just started showing up that became
essential parts of the book.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
You know.
Speaker 10 (40:23):
Sage Dyer came through and she and I had this
great conversation. And then after she and I met, she
sent me an email and said, oh, you've got to
meet my mom too. Yeah, And so Marcelene and I
had a beautiful phone call, and then I interviewed her
for the book. And then Stephen Simon, who's the Academy
(40:44):
Award winner for What Dreams May Come, He's in there
along with Ari l Ford, Suzanne Geeseman. I mean, it
was just like people just started showing up and sharing
their stories. And so that's a beautiful inner weave with
the book, you know, are sharing all and there's all
kinds of people, people that don't have a following, people
(41:07):
that you know, I had a couple of clients who said, yes,
please share my story because they had incredible experiences of
contact with the beyond.
Speaker 8 (41:19):
Can you share some of these stories and maybe one
of the with Marcelene die or I'd love to hear
about that as well.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
Sure, sure, Well.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
Marcelene's was really really interesting. You know, Sage had shared
about the first time that her father came to her
and it was right before she met you at Wayne's
celebration of life, and you really validated to her that
that experience was real, and so she had total clarity
(41:48):
with that. And then when I met with Marcelline, Marcelene
was talking about when she did an ayahuasca journey and
Wayne appeared to her very clearly, and so she knew
he was with her and then had messages for her,
and that's why she you know, she was asking him,
are you Julian you know? And he didn't say yes
(42:11):
or no, he just you know, I think there was
some kind of indication that he was a part of
Julian Sage's son. Yes, yes, who was born after he passed,
and then Marcelene had asked him, well, is he supposed
to carry on your work? And she was shown a
bookcase that had all of Wayne's books in it, and
(42:34):
then Wayne kind of, you know, kind of brushed his
hand over it and all the books disappeared, as if
to signify, no, my work is done.
Speaker 9 (42:42):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (42:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (42:44):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 10 (42:47):
She was extremely so comforted to know that he was
there and that he was you know, has continued and
as you know, because Wayne's talked.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
To you and come to you so much.
Speaker 10 (42:59):
Yes, yeah, so yeah, I was just gonna say, I mean,
so that was fascinating, and I would have to say
one of the most fascinating stories to me too was
Stephen Simon's experience of his wife passing who she passed
about six years ago and maybe seven now, but she
(43:22):
was young. I mean, she was in her mid fifties
and had struggled with leukemia. But they thought things were okay,
and Stephen came home after doing things in the morning
and she had passed that morning. She was just in bed,
and so he said he went into total despair. Ironically,
(43:43):
his best friend is Neil Donald Walsh you know he yeah, yeah,
he ended up going to Ashland he lives, I believe
he lives close by and he about four hours away,
but he ended up spending time I think twenty four
hours with Neil. And what ended up happening, though, Karen
that was just so beautiful, is about six weeks later,
(44:07):
his beautiful wife started coming through to him and he
would hear like this inner voice, of course, not this
clear voice, but like this inner knowingness. And it started
with he was watching a show and at the end
credits he always turned off you know, when she was live,
(44:30):
they'd always turn off the credits because they didn't want
anything to be revealed. If they were watching a series,
they didn't want to see what was going to happen next,
you know, the next like when they say, oh, stay tuned,
you know, this is what's going to happen on the
next episode. They never wanted to see that. But as
he was sitting there watching the show, you know, one
of these episode shows, he could feel like this interior
(44:52):
voice of her saying, keep watching the credits, and so
he was like okay, and so is he watches the credits.
All of a sudden, this song comes through and the
song was their song. You know what it was this
this I don't want to try to sing on air,
(45:13):
but it was this, you know, beautiful, beautiful song which
is someday will be together.
Speaker 8 (45:20):
Oh yes, yes, I know that song.
Speaker 10 (45:22):
Yeah, so you know so and then she's been you know,
he said, almost every day. There's a certain what he
calls tell that happens when he's then aware that she's
with him. And so he started doing what Neil Donald
Walsh did, which is because she would come to him
and they would have these conversations, so he just started
(45:43):
writing them down.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
And you know, automatic writing.
Speaker 10 (45:47):
Automatic writing, and so they have a book together. The
film was What Dreams May Come. The book is called
What Dreams Have Come?
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (46:00):
Well yeah, you know I would would love to tell
everyone who's listening also they could do the same thing.
It's not nobody special here. We can all do this.
Our loved ones are trying to talk to us all
the time. We have to be quiet and listen. And
it's the thoughts that just pop in your head for
no reason. So there's a difference between your thoughts about
(46:22):
your loved ones and your loved ones talking to you.
So if you're thinking about your loved ones, saying, maybe
you see a picture that reminded you of something that
reminded you, that's you. But if you're driving and after
my mom passed, for example, I was driving and all
of a sudden I heard it was not a voice,
it was a thought, Hi, sweetheart. Now I don't say
that to myself. She called me sweetheart. So that's that's
(46:45):
how it comes. So you could take a pen and
write when these things happen, and you will be amazed
at what you receive.
Speaker 9 (46:52):
Right yeah, So love it.
Speaker 8 (46:55):
Is there anything we didn't cover that you'd like to
add right now? Words?
Speaker 10 (47:01):
Yeah, I think I think you're really speaking to part
of what I would would say is that every single
one of us are these essential golden threads in the
tapestry of humanity, and each one of us has this
ability inside of us. You're right, nobody's special, and we're
all special, you know. I love Jacob Lieberman saying of
(47:23):
we're all the same heights, so it's just the same height,
meaning we're all equal.
Speaker 8 (47:30):
I'm going to say, you saw me in.
Speaker 9 (47:32):
Personal I'm five a little over five eight. I know.
Speaker 10 (47:40):
I love the pictures of us together and I'm just
bending down and being snuggled into you. But you know
that that saying, though, is that we're all equal, right,
and we all matter. And that's why on my film
poster the words are your period, healing, period, matter, period,
(48:01):
and that's from my film When Sparks Ignite, which is
playing on Humanity Stream, which is how you and I connected.
Speaker 9 (48:09):
And so I would say.
Speaker 10 (48:11):
People, you know, allow yourself to explore this, allow yourself
to start doing some of these things where you just listen,
you start just noticing the signs and not to discard them,
you know, to really just say, wow, this is beautiful.
And I think if you kept a journal of when
those things happen, very much like my client, when my
(48:31):
father first started appearing to me in a visual form,
he kept coming through hawks and I speak about that
in the book and I won't take time sharing those
stories right now, but again, it was just phenomenal. And
when you start to notice, you can't stop noticing. You
know it's there, and it's there and available for each
one of us.
Speaker 8 (48:52):
Once you acknowledge what they're sending to us, they get
excited and they'll keep sending us more if we don't
acknowledge those signs, they'll stop, they'll say they're not paying
attention and so forth. So that's amazing. And how can
our listeners find you and your books?
Speaker 10 (49:08):
Yeah, well, the easiest way to find out information about
me is to go to my website, which is Stephanie
James dot world, and that's Stephanie James dot world. And
they can see the trailer to my film, they can
order my books, they can see retreats and events that
I'm doing, they can sign up for coaching, and for
(49:28):
all your listeners, I have a free gift. When they
go on they can just put their name and email
address and they will get sent a beautiful guided chakra
meditation to start putting them in touch with that interior
spark that was that is within each one of us.
So and the books available on Amazon if someone you know,
if you want to just go to Amazon, you can get.
Speaker 9 (49:50):
It there too.
Speaker 8 (49:51):
Wow, beautiful. That was. That's very kind and generous of you.
Thank you for the free link for the chakra exercise.
It's what is it a meditation?
Speaker 10 (50:00):
It's a meditator. It's just a ten minute meditation if all. Yeah,
I'd shared it with so many of my clients. They
were like, oh my gosh, can you record this? And
so I recorded it and share it with people because
it's such a beautiful way to start your day and
to really be in that grounded space where you are
very connected to the divine with them.
Speaker 8 (50:21):
I love it. Thank you so much for being with
us today. It was amazing.
Speaker 10 (50:25):
Oh thank you, Karen. Such a joy always to be
with you. Thank you for having me, and.
Speaker 8 (50:30):
I will see you again soon online probably. Okay, so
tune in again to next month's angel Quest podcast. While
Hudson River Radio is no longer stream streaming live, you'll
still be able to find all the latest angel Quest shows,
as well as all archives shows by clicking on the
(50:50):
angel Quest podcast link on Hudson Riverradio dot com. Also,
this and all other angel Quest shows are offered as
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most of the podcast platforms out there,
including the one you're listening to now. For more information
about me or my books, you could go to my
website at Karenoi dot com. That's Kori Nne dot com,
(51:13):
or follow me on my Facebook or Instagram pages at
Karenoi Author. Have an amazing day and always remember to
focus on the beauty and love all around you, and
spread the love that you are. Angel. Blessings to you
now and always, Bye bye.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
From our spirit, we perceive we are one humanity, awakening, sanctity,
awareness and unity. We are here to dance and see
(52:10):
our connection with everything, understanding.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Who we are through the ways of the heart.
Speaker 5 (52:24):
Let's choose love, inner peace, living one in harmony with
the novel.
Speaker 6 (52:34):
At our core.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
We are the ones we've been waiting or.
Speaker 6 (52:39):
We can do it with the truth and bring new
light into all we do. We are in love at
our best in.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
The weed consciousness. As we grow consciously, we claim sovereignty.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
For our lives. Land dan see.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Ground it in equality.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Let's choose love inner beast, living one in harmony with
the knowledge.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
At our core.
Speaker 6 (53:30):
We are the ones we've been waiting before. We can
do it with our truth, bring new light into all
we do. We are love.
Speaker 4 (53:43):
At our best any consciousness as a time, like.
Speaker 5 (53:53):
The mother within us, all we can discof looking out
for one love heart.
Speaker 6 (54:03):
To heart, Sisters and bra.
Speaker 5 (54:34):
Let's choose love inners, living one in harmony with.
Speaker 11 (54:41):
The love.
Speaker 3 (54:44):
At our cars.
Speaker 6 (54:46):
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We can
do it with the truth. Bring new life into all
we do. We are in love and up.
Speaker 3 (55:01):
In the wise consciousness.
Speaker 6 (55:05):
We love at our first.
Speaker 13 (55:12):
Consciousness, venture to the consciousness.
Speaker 14 (55:37):
We are all one. Whatever we do to ourselves or
another affects the whole. May the divine within you guide
you as to what steps to take to be of
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