Many who have lost loved ones are familiar with the feelings that loss causes. Emptiness, melancholy and wild pain in the soul. Grieving for departed loved ones is one of the most painful psychological conditions.

However, there is a lot of information that the living receive messages from the subtle world.

Let's not take into account researchers who purposefully study possibilities of two-way communication with the other world. There are a considerable number of people who claim that they do not make any effort to see the souls of the departed. Visions occur, in their opinion, involuntarily.

From this article you will learn how the souls of the dead communicate with the living.

Stuck Between Worlds

People often get scared when footsteps are clearly heard in their homes where no one is walking. Water taps and light switches turn on by themselves, things fall off the shelves with enviable regularity. In other words, poltergeist activity is observed. But what's really going on?

To understand who or what is communicating with us on behalf of the dead, you need to imagine what happens after death.

After the death of the physical body, the soul strives to return to the Creator. Some souls will do this faster, while others will take longer. The higher the level of development of the soul, the faster it will reach Home.

However, the soul can, for various reasons, linger in the closest density to the physical world astral plane. Sometimes the deceased does not realize what is happening and where he is. He doesn't understand that he died. He is unable to return to the physical body and is stuck between worlds.

For him, everything remains the same, except for one thing: living people stop seeing them. Such souls are considered to be ghosts.

For how long a ghost soul will linger near the world of the living, depends on the level of development of the soul. By human standards, the time spent by a certain soul in parallel with living people can be calculated in decades, or even centuries. They may need help from the living.

Call from the other world

Telephone calls from the inhabitants of the subtle world are one of the ways of communication. SMS messages are received on mobile phones, calls are received from strange numbers from a variety of numbers. When trying to call back to these numbers or send a response, it turns out that this number does not exist, and later it is completely deleted from the phone’s memory.

Such calls are usually accompanied by a very loud noise, similar to the wind in a field and a loud crash. Through the crackling, contact with the world of the dead is manifested. It's like a curtain is breaking through between worlds.

The phrases are short and only the caller speaks. Calls coming to mobile phones are observed for the first time after a person has died. The further from the day of death, the rarer they become.

The recipients of such calls may not suspect that the caller is no longer alive. This becomes clear later. It is possible that such calls are made by ghosts who themselves are not aware of their physical death.

What do dead people talk about when they call on the phone?

Sometimes, when calling on the phone, the deceased may ask for help.

So, one woman received a call late at night from her younger sister, who asked her to help her. But the woman was very tired, so she promised to call back the next morning and help in any way she could.

And about five minutes later, the younger sister’s husband called and said that his wife had been dead for about two weeks, and her body was in the forensic morgue. She was hit by a car and the driver fled the scene of the accident.

Souls, by calling the phone, can warn the living about the danger.

A young family was traveling by car. A girl was driving. The car skidded and miraculously did not roll over, leaving the road. At this time he called mobile phone girls.

When everyone came to their senses a little, it turned out that the girl’s mother had called. They called her back, and she asked in a trembling voice if everything was okay. When asked why she was asking, the woman replied: “Grandfather called (he died six years ago) and said: “She’s still alive. You can save her.”

Besides cell phones voices of dead people can be heard in the computer speakers along with technical noise. Their degree of intelligibility can vary from very quiet and barely intelligible to relatively loud and clearly distinguishable.

Reflections of ghosts in mirrors and more

People talk about seeing reflections of their deceased loved ones in mirrors, as well as on TV screens and computer monitors.

The girl saw a rather dense silhouette of her mother on the tenth day after her funeral. The woman “sat” on a chair nearby, as she did during life, and looked over her daughter’s shoulder. A few moments later the silhouette disappeared and did not appear again. Later, the girl realized that her mother’s soul came to her to say goodbye.

Raymond Moody in his books talks about the ancient technology when by peering into the mirror you can establish contact with the deceased. This technique was used in ancient times by priests. True, instead of mirrors they used bowls of water.

An unprepared person can see in the mirror the image of someone who has died by briefly glancing into it. The image can either transform from the reflection of the face of the person looking in the mirror, or appear next to the reflection of the viewer.

In addition to the signs that residents of the subtle planes leave through technology or some household items, attempts to make contact are made directly. That is, people physically feel the otherworldly presence of spirits, hear their voices and even recognize the smells characteristic of their timelessly departed loved ones during life.

Tactile sensations of presence

Sensitive people feel an otherworldly presence as a light touch or a breeze. Often mothers who have lost their children, in moments of intense grief, feel as if someone is hugging them or stroking their hair.

It is possible that in moments when people experience desire see deceased relatives subtle bodies are capable of perceiving energies of more subtle planes.

The dead ask the living for help

Sometimes a person is in an unusual state. He feels that he needs to do something, he is “pulled” somewhere. He doesn’t understand what exactly, but the feeling of confusion does not let him go. He literally does not find a place for himself.

Natalia:

“We came to visit relatives in another city, where my grandparents once lived. It was Monday, and tomorrow was Parents' Day. I couldn’t find a place for myself, I was drawn somewhere, I felt like I had to do something. The family discussed tomorrow. They didn’t remember where my grandfather’s grave was - the cemetery had become disorganized and all the landmarks had been removed.

Without telling anyone, I went alone to the cemetery to look for my grandfather’s grave. I didn't find her that day. The next day, the third, the fourth - to no avail. And the condition does not go away, it only intensifies.

Returning to my city, I asked my mother what my grandfather’s grave looked like. It turns out that there is a photograph of a stele with a star at the end, on the grave of my grandfather. And we went - this time with my sister and my daughter. And my daughter found his grave!

We put it in order and painted the monument. Now all relatives know where grandfather is buried.

After that, it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I feel like I should have brought my family to his grave.”

Calling voice

Sometimes, being in crowded places, you can very clearly hear the calling voice of the deceased, similar to a call. This happens when sounds are mixed, and unexpectedly.

They just sound in real time. It happens that in moments when a person is thinking deeply about something, he can hear the hint in the voice of the deceased.

Meetings with the souls of the dead in dreams

There are a lot of people saying that they dream of the dead. And the attitude towards such meetings in dreams is ambiguous. They scare some people, others try to interpret them, believing that such a dream contains an important message. And there are those who do not take dreams about the dead seriously. For them it's just a dream.

What are dreams about in which we see those who are no longer among us:

• we receive various kinds of warnings about upcoming events;
• in dreams we learn how the souls of the dead “settled” in another world;
• we understand that they are asking for forgiveness for their actions during life;
• through us they can convey messages to others;
• the souls of the dead can ask the living for help.

One can list for a long time the probable reasons why the dead appear alive. Only those who dreamed about the deceased can understand this.

Regardless of how people receive signs from the deceased, it is safe to say that they are trying to get in touch with the living.

The souls of our loved ones continue to take care of us even while in the subtle world. Unfortunately, not everyone is always ready for this kind of contact. Most often, this causes panic fear in people. Memories of loved ones are very deeply imprinted in our memory.

Perhaps in order to meet the departed, it is enough to open access to our own subconscious.

There is an opinion that some people have the gift of not only seeing the dead, spirits and other otherworldly entities in their dreams, but can also communicate and receive information from parallel worlds. Usually such people are called clairvoyants or mediums. Such stories of communication with the other world in a dream have not been proven by science, but scientists are not able to refute this evidence. Believe it or not, it is the choice of each person.

But there are examples from life different people, causing great amount questions. Whether there is a life after death? What are the souls of dead people trying to convey to us? Is it possible to contact the dead in a dream when it is significantly necessary? There are no clear answers, but encounters with the mysterious and inexplicable have always been and will continue to occur.

According to Edgar Cayce, an American mystic of the twentieth century, death is like moving from one place to another. And when we move, we do not stop communicating with loved ones through means of communication: telephone, Internet, letters. Sleep is the very remedy communication with souls in other dimensions.

Prophetic dreams as a method of communicating with the dead

People have dreams in which a person receives information from sources unknown to science. In such dreams, a person can see a warning about something in the future or predict an event. As a rule, prophetic dreams are a rare and exceptional event. A famous example in history is prophetic dream scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, in which he saw his table chemical elements. But there are also examples from the lives of ordinary people: friends, acquaintances or neighbors. The most common stories you hear are about dreams of warnings.

if you dreamed of a dead person or a ghost, you shouldn’t be afraid of such a dream. We need to think about what accompanied such a dream, who or what did you have to face? What did the dead want to convey to the living, in what mood is the soul in that world? It is no coincidence that such meetings occur in dreams. A dream is an intermediate state of consciousness. During daytime activity, the human brain is loaded with worries and affairs Everyday life, therefore, is not attuned to the subtle energy wave of his inner consciousness. In the sleep state, everything happens the other way around: brain activity slows down, the person is in a motionless state, and it becomes possible to accept information that the brain had no idea about when awake. In most cases, the deceased dream of their close relatives, with whom they were closely connected during their lifetime. Contact may occur when the person leaving is under one year old. During this period, it is believed that the soul is in places dear to it during life. Sometimes the dead come to ask for help. When you wake up, you should say your request out loud and do what your soul asked.

Dead people can appear in a dream in different images. It’s worth remembering the details: how he’s dressed, how old he is, whether there’s a smell. Clean and beautiful clothes speak of a harmonious state of mind, also good sign there will be youth and beauty. A pleasant smell speaks of a cozy place in the soul. Be sure to pay attention to your state after sleep. With a positive awakening, one can judge that the deceased person is in the afterlife feels good.

Examples of contact with dead people in a dream

The Story of Edgar Cayce

This story was told by Edgar Cayce's son, based on his father's recollections.

Not yet old woman, with whom E. Casey had previously worked, suddenly died of illness, and after some time, several years later, she appeared in a dream to her colleague. The story got everyone very excited. The father said that in his sleep he heard a knock on the window. Then he began to hear a voice, realizing that someone was speaking to him from another world. He found out who wanted to talk to him, it was a girl who worked with him many years ago. She was well brought up during her lifetime and strictly observed the rules of lady behavior, so she asked, without changing her habits, to open the door for her in accordance with the rules of etiquette. Which is what Casey did, letting her into the house. Having examined the girl, I noticed that her body was smoky and slightly transparent. In the conversation, she said that she was confused and asked for help, realizing that she had died and no longer knew who to turn to. She told about the cause of her death, that she died from a stomach disease during surgery. After her death, she continued to suffer from the disease, so the doctor who operated on her died, and being already dead next to her, he completed the operation. Now she is healthy. She was no longer aware of the time after death; the years flew by in minutes. In order to understand the time, they explained to her that she needed to wait for the white light, which would lead her, but in the meantime she needed to pray and meditate.

Mother comes to her son

Jay's mother was a heroin addict and when he was 14 years old, she went missing. Jay believed that she was dead because of drug deals. Due to her addiction, the woman’s social circle included criminals. But, despite this mother’s lifestyle, the son remained faithful and close to her, even in the most difficult periods, since he loved her very much, and the mother took care of her son as best she could. Two months after her disappearance, Jay saw his mother in a dream. In his dream, he was driving along the road and crossed an old railway bridge, just beyond the bridge he saw the spirit of his mother, who wanted to warn him about something. In the dream, he also realized that his mother had died a violent death, and her body was severely tortured. His mother took him to a vacant lot behind the bridge and began to explain something, pointing down with her hand. This place turned out to be a fresh grave. Jay was filled with a feeling of liberation from invisible shackles, and he suddenly woke up. After waking up, the son felt deep relief that he now knew for sure that his mother was dead, but her soul felt good.

Father communicates with daughter

The adult daughters learned of their father's death. After the funeral took place, Janet, one of the daughters, dreams that she is sitting in a chair, very worried about her father's departure. The father's spirit appears in the same room. According to Janet's story, she clearly understood that she could speak to the soul. Her father was busy getting himself in order. The daughter began to ask her father if she could have helped him during his lifetime, since she felt guilty for not making an effort to save her father’s life by treatment in another clinic. To which the father replied to Janet not to worry, since he felt better after his death. After the dream, Janet realized that this was a real contact with her father, because she felt lightness in her soul, and also all her endeavors went sharply uphill.

A way to communicate with the deceased in a dream

And finally, about one way to try to tell a deceased person in a dream about something important.

Before going to bed, make up your mind about what you need to say to the person who is no longer alive. While lying in bed, begin to repeat your sentences with the goal of falling asleep with these thoughts. Perhaps this exercise will help you meet a deceased person, and if you are very lucky, you will be able to remember this contact. But if this meeting in a dream cannot be remembered, but it happened, upon awakening a feeling of joy and relief will come, and then everything will become clear whether there was contact with the deceased or not.

Chapter 6. Specific cases of communication with the dead

The transition that we call death was compared in Edgar Cayce's readings to moving from one city to another. Even when we travel long distances in this world, we still continue to communicate with people by phone, text, Internet, and so on. Likewise, there are ways and means by which the living can communicate with souls residing in other dimensions of consciousness.

Casey was once asked an interesting question about communicating with the dead in a trance state:

(Q) Is it possible for this subject, that is, for Edgar Cayce, who is in a trance, to communicate with those who have passed into the spirit world?

(O) The souls of all who have left the physical plane remain near this plane until their development takes them further or until they are returned here [to the earthly plane] for development. When they are on the plane of communication or remain within this sphere, anyone can communicate with them. There are thousands of them around us. (3744-1)

In some periods it is easier for the dead to communicate with the living than in others. The optimal state of consciousness for encountering the dead is dreaming or an “intermediate state” of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, sometimes called hypnogogic state of consciousness. It is in this state that our souls are most receptive to the spheres where the dead reside, thanks to the “network” of the collective unconscious of all people.

It is not unusual for those who die shortly after their death are to the living and communicate with them in one form or another. These "appearances" take many different forms and can occur in the waking state of consciousness, in dreams, or during periods deep meditation. In many cases, the dead “talk” to the living through certain circumstances, coincidences or episodes where they somehow make themselves known to the mourners. In some cases, the soul tries to communicate with the grieving in order to console them, in others, the soul itself needs instructions and help from the living, and we talked about this in previous chapters. In Testimony of Light, Francis Banks describes in detail how such communication occurs between the living and the dead:

“On this plane there are Stations that make communication with the earthly plane possible.”

“At these Stations there are assistants and servants who have dedicated their knowledge and service to helping those who wish to send news about themselves to their loved ones remaining on earth. As I understand it, the technique they use is very "specific" and very difficult at first even for those who wish to use it. But there are Stations, there are Directions for this work, there are administrators and, in a sense, technical specialists who know how to run this equipment..."

“...On this telepathic wave I can record snippets of information regarding such a controversial topic as Life After Death... but now I can tell you that, on my part, this was not a solo performance... There is an Orchestra, who helps me and guides me in the selection of episodes to be telepathically transmitted to you... there are others in this Orchestra, and I understand that we are but instruments in this work. The veil between the worlds must be pulled apart... People living on earth, possessing erudition, culture and mental abilities, believers and religious people, as well as the uneducated, ignorant and closed minds - all need to be contacted. Everyone needs knowledge to get rid of fear, which is one of the darkest and most powerful earthly emotions and which must be conquered before peace and progress can come to earth».

Edgar Cayce helps the soul of one deceased head towards the Light

Hugh-Lynn Casey told the story of his father's extraordinary encounter with a deceased woman whom he had known when he began his career as a photographer. This woman died at a relatively young age and a few years later visited Edgar Cayce's home in Virginia Beach:

“One morning he woke up, very excited about an interesting and strange story that happened to him. He said that at night he heard some knocking on the window in a dream. He began to realize that someone was talking to him. other world, and he found out who it was. This was a girl who worked for him in his studio in Selma, Alabama, many years ago. And he knew that she died. But she was a true young lady, and so she asked him to come downstairs and let her in at the front door. She wanted to meet him and decided to do it in accordance with the rules of good manners. He went downstairs and opened the door: she was standing in front of him. He could see through it, but it was dense enough to come in and sit down and start talking to him. She wanted to know what to do.

“I know I'm dead,” she said. - I live with my mother and father. They constantly avoid me, leave me alone, and I don't know where to go or what to do. I was close to the photo studio and remembered that if I could get to you, you would tell me what to do. I'm in a terrible situation right now."

The next part of this story illustrates the holding power of our beliefs and the unusual circumstances that can surround the soul after physical death:

“You know that I died from a stomach disease that I suffered from,” this woman explained. - The doctor began to operate on me, and during the operation I died. When I passed on, I continued to get sick and suffer, and I was very worried. Then this doctor also died and, already in the other world, completed this operation. I'm fine now."

Hugh-Lynn said that many years had passed since she died, but how much time had actually passed, she did not realize:

“Years passed, but to her they seemed like ten minutes... So dad told her about the light, how to look for it and how to pray for it. He said that he would pray for her, that he would gather a group for her [praying for healing], and that when she saw the light, she should follow it: then she would know where to go. You will hear us mention from time to time about the light that comes during meditation, and that it would be better if we found it before we cross to the other side. Apparently, we need this light to understand where to go. Losing the sense of time on the other side can cause significant anxiety. So we need to be able to move on."

Murdered woman returns to her son

When Jay was fourteen years old, his mother disappeared without a trace. He believes she was kidnapped and killed over a drug deal. For as long as Jay remembers her, she periodically “got on” heroin. Over the years of her drug addiction, she became well acquainted with the underworld of drugs and some were quite dangerous people. Jay remained close to his mother even during the dark periods of her life, when drugs came with a price tag and she had to resort to prostitution to support her habit.

“No matter how bad she was,” Jay said, “she always made sure I had enough to eat. She always made sure I was safe. We were very close."

Six weeks after her disappearance, Jay saw a very vivid dream about his mother, in which he believed she was communicating with him. In this dream, he was driving along some highway and crossing a rusty railroad bridge. Immediately after crossing this bridge, he saw the ghost of his mother.

“I saw her torn to pieces,” Jay said, “but because she was torn to pieces, you could say for sure that she was not the victim of a grizzly bear. There were gaps on her body separating her head from her body and her arms from her shoulders, but I did not see her legs. Her face was very distinct, and from its expression one could read “pay attention... this is very important for you to understand.”

In this dream he followed his mother through the woods to a vacant lot about twenty-five yards from the bridge. As they walked towards this wasteland, the sun came out from behind the clouds and illuminated the entire landscape. His mother pointed to the ground. When Jay looked, he immediately realized that in front of him was a shallow, poorly buried grave. Surprisingly, neither Jay nor his mother lost their minds in this dream. As he looked at his mother and that shallow grave, a paradoxical sense of relief filled him. Jay said that when he suddenly awoke from his sleep, he was filled with the “knowing” of two things at once: he knew that his mother was dead and that there was nothing wrong with her soul.

“Somehow I knew she was killed,” Jay said. “And no matter how strange it may sound, when I woke up and this understanding came to me, I was filled with a great feeling of peace. I felt that my mother was relieved simply because I now know and understand what happened to her».

A comprehensive book by Thomson J. Hudson The Law of Psychic Phenomena("The Law of Psychic Phenomena") illustrates one incident that surprisingly echoes Jay's encounter with his mother in a dream:

“The nature of the manifestation [of the appearance of the deceased] is as varied as the phases of human emotion or the objects of human desire... When a mother dies away from her children, she is often overcome by a strong desire to see them once more before she goes. This is often expressed in the transfer of her phantom to the place where they are: this phantom peers for a long time into the faces of her loved ones, and then fades away.

All ghosts of the dead are phantoms of those people who died under conditions of severe mental or emotional stress... At this climax, the murdered person feels a strong desire to acquaint the world with the circumstances of his “departure”, and the thought arises in him of reproducing the scene and place of his murder until its meaning is understood and until the criminal is brought to justice... those [of the living] whose nerves are strong enough to withstand this shock can see every night a realistic reproduction of this tragedy. This may continue for days, months, and even years, but it will definitely stop when the goal is achieved...”

Jay's mother came to him to tell him that she had left him against her will, but had become a victim of murder and was unable to physically return to him. The evidence that his mother’s wish had come true was precisely the state of calm that Jay felt in his dream. This dream was repeated for seven nights. After each subsequent night, Jay's sense of peace increased and his sadness subsided. After the seventh night, the dream encounters with his mother ceased, as did the paralyzing grief he had experienced for six weeks previously. Jay has not yet found that railway bridge and that grove where his mother showed him her grave in a dream. But he is confident that this meeting with his mother in a dream was a real experience that allowed her to calm down after her brutal death, and also enabled him to live on, knowing that death is not the end.

A drowned girl reports herself

Edgar Cayce experienced a similar situation when he and his wife Gertrude experimented with a Ouija board in the early thirties. Casey told how, with the help of this tablet, news was received from a little girl who drowned in the lake:

“Saw a few Ouija board messages that struck me the most...received a few messages one evening that proved this to be the absolute truth. Although all those who were in this room knew nothing both about the messages received and about the people from whom they apparently came or to whom they were addressed. However, everyone's address turned out to be correct, and the message turned out to be useful to that the person to whom it was sent. For example, one message said: “I'm a little girl named B.E. Please inform my father D.R. that I did not run away from home, but drowned in the log pool. My dad is a foreman at a sawmill. Please tell him to get my bones from such and such a place in the pool...” A father who had lost his little daughter was written about this, and he found her remains exactly where it was said. This may serve as corroborative evidence of many other cases...” (1196-1)

In this example, the father's immense grief was directly transmitted to the little girl on the other side. Naturally, this prompted the child’s soul to seek communication through any open channel. The Ouija board and Edgar Cayce as one of its operators represented this opened channel through which the soul in the other world could communicate. Before advancing to the higher realms of the afterlife, this child needed to console his father's grief.

Many strange phenomena can occur around the death of loved ones, in many cases eliminating the barrier between the world of the living and the world of the dead. In his book The Law of Psychic Phenomena("Law of Psychic Phenomena") Hudson describes a theory that provides an explanation for this experience, especially when it comes to cases of sudden or violent death:

“The generally accepted theory which is supposed to explain this coincidence is that the soul, suddenly and prematurely torn from the body, retains more of the material elements of the body than if death had resulted from the gradual destruction and natural separation of the material form from intangible. It is believed that the physical elements, held by the soul for some time, enable it to become visible to the living, and also to manifest itself in actions on the physical level, which we are accustomed to attribute to various spirits. At first glance, this is quite plausible, and in the absence of any facts stating the opposite, this theory can be considered correct...”

Phone call from the other world

In many cases, souls in the other world communicate with the living intangibly, that is, without appearing in dreams or visions. The following two cases illustrate the fact that sometimes contacts with the dead are expressed in signs and circumstances that bear the “stamp” of the deceased person, to the point that they express the humor that was inherent in the deceased.

Barbara was caring for her husband, who was in the final stages of terminal bone cancer. They had a happy marriage with a lot of laughter and humor. As long as Barbara remembers her husband, he always loved to whistle. He whistled when he was doing something and when he was just hanging around the house.

“He drove his family around in the car, constantly whistling along the way,” Barbara recalled with a laugh. - But this whistle didn’t bother us too much, because it was its peculiarity. It was part of his nature. He whistled constantly."

Before he died, Barbara's husband jokingly told her that he wanted to tape himself whistling for her before he died so she wouldn't miss him too much. They both had a good laugh about it, and the conversation was soon forgotten as the cancer progressed rapidly. After his death, Barbara experienced long, dark days of grief. She missed her husband terribly.

“I used to come home completely broken,” said Barbara. “I was so lost without him that I didn’t even know how to continue to live.” I felt such a turmoil of emotions - anger, loss, pain - oh, it was terrible."

Barbara went away for a while, and when she returned home, she decided to listen to the messages left on the telephone answering machine.

“I pressed the button on the answering machine,” Barbara said, and the only message on this tape was someone’s whistle. I listened further and further, but in the end there was only silence. This tape was played until the very end.”

Barbara sat in complete confusion, not knowing what to say. Suddenly she remembered that her husband, before his death, said: “I’m going to record my whistle for you on tape so that you don’t miss me too much.”

“When he did something, he did it beautifully,” Barbara said. - He had an amazing sense of humor, and he always did everything in such a way as to “extol” himself and others. I don't know how it was possible to do such a thing [inexplicable whistle on film], but it was completely in his spirit - to do something that would make me laugh, not cry."

It is important to remember that the integrity of our soul and our personality remains after death. The dead can console the living in exactly the same manner in which they consoled them when they themselves were alive, that is, leaving an “imprint” of their humor, their gaiety and love. As Edgar Cayce said:

“... and do not think that an individual soul-entity leaving the earthly plane, belonging to the Catholic, Methodist or Anglican Church, becomes different, simply because the person died! It is only a dead Anglican, Catholic or Methodist.” (254-92)

Father communicates with his daughters

Janet and her sister received news of their father's unexpected death. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of seventy-two. The night after the funeral, Janet dreamed that she was sitting in a chair and grieving over the death of her father.

“I saw him very clearly,” said Janet, “and he was just like alive. He seemed to be very busy cleaning himself up, as if he was clearing out all his clogged arteries. I said:

Dad, if only I had known you needed this, I would have taken you to a treatment center that treats heavy metal poisoning and you would have gotten the help you needed.

Father smiled at Janet and said:

No, I'm fine. Now that I'm dead, I'm better."

Janet awoke from her dream with the feeling that this was a very real contact. Soon there was another contact (it reflected her father's sense of humor) that gave the whole family something to think about.

“One evening we were all telling stories about Dad,” Janet said. - And my uncle remembered one funny story about how he and my dad, taking their dog with them, went hunting. It so happened that during the hunt the dog was sprayed by a skunk, not once, but twice. Since they were traveling by car, they had no choice but to take the dog with them in the car, despite the unbearable stench. My dad and uncle drove all the way back, leaning out the window. When they returned a week later, literally everything stank of skunk - the car, clothes and, of course, the dog. Well, literally the next day after remembering this incident, my sister began to pray that Dad would give some sign that he was okay. She, like all of us, missed him terribly. And suddenly it came out of the window like a skunk! My sister asked, “Dad, is this a sign?” She went outside to see if there really was a skunk splattering around here. But there was no skunk smell anywhere. And this sign in the form of a smell disappeared as unexpectedly as it appeared.”

The sister was amazed by the experience and the incident made them both laugh. Janet said this was the type of sign they expected from their father, something that would lift their spirits, make them laugh and convey the message: “I’m alive and well!”

“That would be totally my dad,” Janet said, laughing. - He had an amazing sense of humor. And to make sure that the news got through, dad made sure that I also smelled this! This happened several times during our visit and my sister and I couldn't believe it until we finally did! It was just like him."

Just like Barbara, who received the news from her husband, Janet and her sister understood without question that their father was happy and alive in the other world.

A girl consoles her friends after her death

Gina underwent a liver transplant, but the operation was unsuccessful and after a few days in a coma, Gina died. While Gina was in a coma, her father called Laura, one of their family's close friends, and asked her to pray for Gina so that she could make her transition easier.

Laura, terribly upset by this news, wandered the streets for a long time, praying for Gina and talking to her all the way. During this walk, Gina's face appeared in front of her, looking very worried. “I don't know what to do,” Gina said. Laura felt that the very words that were supposed to help her dying friend immediately came to her mind. She said, “It's okay, Gina. Just let yourself go. Everything will be OK". Laura saw Gina’s face clearly, and after she said these few words, Gina seemed to calm down. The vision disappeared. Laura said that this event occurred at approximately 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

While Laura was experiencing this vision, several miles away, Gina's sister noticed a distinct change in her dying sister as she lay in her hospital bed. “Her expression became peaceful,” her sister said. Gina then made her transition easily at 4:25 p.m.

Shortly after Gina's death, her close friend Mary was driving to the hospice where she worked, volunteering to help children with AIDS. On the way, Mary suddenly felt Gina's presence in the car. Gina and Mary met at a spiritual conference and became close friends. They discussed many topics: spirituality, the possibility of reincarnation, and what happens to the soul after death. Mary remained with Gina and her family throughout Gina's transition.

“I felt static electricity in the car,” Mary said, “as if my whole body was tingling with tiny needles. I knew that it was Gina. And I felt her next to me when I entered the hospice. I said loudly: “Well, Gina, now you will meet my children.” I took Johnny in my arms little boy, an AIDS patient to whom I was very attached. I started telling him my favorite story about angels, how they were always hovering around him and watching over him. I told Johnny that he now has a new and special angel named Gina. As I began my story, the toy musical rocking horse that was in the room began to rock on its own. She swayed for ten minutes while I told Johnny about Gene and the angels.

“At that moment I knew that this was a sign that Gina was next to me and Johnny,” Mary said. Johnny died in October 1992. “I had a feeling that Johnny was serving as an intermediary between me and Gina, and that when he died, Gina would be there for him.”

This experience did not surprise Mary so much as it gave her some understanding. During their short period of friendship on earth, the two women developed a spiritual connection between themselves, and, as many people say, Mary was not at all surprised by this phenomenon. On the contrary, Gina's response filled her with knowledge that life continues after death.

Visiting a dead friend in a dream

Bob had a dream experience that he seemed to be communicating with a friend of his who had died at the age of twenty-five from complications of AIDS. Bob volunteered at the hospice, where he cared for Mark until his death. Mark assured Bob in advance that he would try to contact him after his transition.

“A few years after Mark died, I had a dream in which Mark appeared in my room,” Bob said, “and brought with him a stack of some textbooks. I was very surprised. In this dream, I remembered that Mark had died, and I could not believe that he was standing in front of me."

In this dream, Bob asked Mark:

What are you doing here, Bob?

Bob was confused for a moment, but then realized that he was dreaming, and that in this dream Mark was communicating with him.

Mark said:

Come on Bob, I'll show you something now.

My initial shock gave way to surprise. I have never had a lucid dream in which I was aware that I was dreaming and dreaming. And next to me was Mark, looking fully recovered and energetic. He said he was going to show me something, but I couldn't remember what exactly he was going to show me.

Bob only remembered that Mark showed him the large campus and the university itself, similar to the “university of light” that George Ritchie had seen. Professors and students walked around it, and Mark was right at home among them.

“But what struck me most was that the place looked like a university campus on earth,” Bob added, “except it was much brighter: there were so many bright colors that they are almost impossible to describe. But Mark, it seemed, possessed a very real “body,” just like all the other souls living there. Finding myself in the midst of this activity, I asked Mark if he had managed to complete all the things he had planned on earth. He smiled at me and said with great enthusiasm: “No, it didn’t work. But I’m taking courses here!” Mark pointed to the books he was holding and we both laughed. At that moment I realized that learning and development continues after death. It was the most vivid dream I've ever had, and I don't even think it was a dream. In this dream I was more conscious than ever. When the dream ended and I said goodbye to Mark, I returned to waking consciousness as if I had re-entered a familiar room. I did not have the feeling that my normal consciousness was gradually returning to me, as happens when you awaken from an ordinary sleep. It seemed as if I had simply moved from one place, or dimension, to another in an instant.”

It is very important to note the way in which Mark appeared to Bob in a dream. He appeared to him healthy, strong and strong. Often people report that their deceased loved ones appear to them in the same way as they did during life. Moreover, Cayce's readings emphasize that the physical body, debilitated by an incurable disease, in no way becomes an obstacle to the soul. The physical body dies, but the soul and spiritual powers remain:

“...if we learn more and more that partings [at the moment of death] are only a passage through the rooms of the abode of God, then we will begin - in these partings, in these experiences - to realize what is meant by that which has always been and will be the law: “The Lord our God is the One Lord.” And you must be one - one with each other, one with Him, for you are flow particles life of your Savior! (1391-1)

At the moment of death, the soul is given the opportunity to free itself from its earthly bonds and the material dimension of consciousness and go towards the light for further growth and development. For some souls, this possibility is not obvious: if a person spent his entire earthly life in pursuit of material values ​​and did not strive for spiritual development, then his soul will remain so absorbed in the same earthly activities that it may continue to hover near his home or in the vicinity of friends, household members and acquaintances whom a person knew during life, or try to participate in the affairs of living people.

Freedom of the soul continues after death. Each soul is responsible for its position both here and in the other world. The soul, both in this world and in the next, remains where its desires lead it. The less the desires and intentions we cultivate are focused on the material and the more they are focused on the spiritual, the higher the consciousness to which we will gravitate after death.

Father who committed suicide appears to his daughter

Susan grew up with her sisters in a dysfunctional family. Their father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive. He ended his life by shooting himself with a gun. In the days following his death, Susan and her sister June saw his ghost. Susan saw him in her dreams three nights in a row, and June had a vision of meeting him in reality.

Susan had a very sensitive psyche, which was especially evident in her lucid dreams. She often had dreams predicting crises and revolutions. Susan regularly informed her family and close friends about the things she had dreamed about, warning them of trouble, and more often than not her advice turned out to be correct. Thanks to her prophetic dreams, a number of critical situations were prevented. In a dream about her father, Susan noticed that her father looked exactly the same as he did in life.

“Susie, don’t tell anyone that I’m dead,” the father said and disappeared.

“It seemed like he wanted to move on from what he had done, which was his suicide,” Susan said. He was fully aware of what he had done and knew it was a mistake. I think that's why he told me not to tell anyone." Susan's sister was living on the West Coast when her father died. A few days after her father's suicide, June saw his ghost sitting on the couch.

“He talked to her,” Susan said, “but she couldn’t hear what he was saying to her. He appeared to her exactly as he was during life.”

Naturally, Susan grieved for many years over her father's death. One of her close friends introduced her to the idea of ​​​​being able to communicate with her father in her dreams to help him stop finishing all the “unfinished business”. Susan missed her father very much and really wanted to talk to him. For two weeks, she instilled a certain attitude in herself before going to bed and kept in her mind the affirmation that she would communicate with her father in her sleep. Two weeks later, Susan experienced something special in her sleep that surprised her greatly.

“Suddenly in a dream I saw him in an irritated state of mind,” said Susan. “But I was so happy that I finally met him, and I exclaimed, ‘I really tried to keep you!’” His response was quite unusual: he did not show the enthusiasm and joy that Susan felt in herself.

“He looked at me and said, ‘I know! I know! But I'm busy! I have a lot to do!”

Susan felt that her father was reprimanding her for interfering with his work in the other world. She had good intentions to interact with her father, and apparently, her intentions drew him back just at a time when he was very busy with his work and studies.

“The feeling that arose in my dream,” Susan added, “was akin to trying to keep a guest in your house, preventing him from leaving, although you know that he should go somewhere else. I knew he still loved and cared about me and was fully aware that I had been trying to contact him for weeks. He just needed to visit some places and some people. I don’t think I realized how good I was at communicating with him!”

Susan's experience of receiving a remark from her father is reminiscent of an incident in Edgar Cayce's readings. One woman was looking for answers to questions regarding post-mortem contact with her late husband:

(Q) Will I continue to have contact with my deceased spouse?

(Oh) If there is a desire, he will continue to wait... Do you want to return him to these restless energies or do you want to pour out your soul to him so that he can be happy? What is your desire: to satisfy yourself with communication or to continue to hold it and thereby delay [its development]?... Transfer it into the hands of the One who is the Resurrection! Then prepare yourself for the same (1786-2)

After Susan realized that her desire to communicate with her deceased father was interfering with his continued spiritual development, she was able to let him go. She knew for sure that she had established contact with him. Subsequently, she began to contact him only when she felt very lonely and when she needed his advice, just as she turned to him for advice when he was alive.

Susan later developed a very positive relationship with her father, just as her granddaughter was born. Susan was very happy about the birth of her granddaughter and wanted her father to be alive to see baby Chrissie. Shortly after Chrissie was born, Susan had a conscious physical sensation that her father was near her.

“I didn’t so much hear him as I felt him communicating with me,” said Susan, “but I clearly understood what he was communicating to me. He said of Chrissie: “I knew her here before she came to you!” He was very happy and apparently even surprised that I thought he didn't know Chrissie. He told me that he knew Chrissie already there, in the other world.”

Edgar Cayce often said that death in the physical world is birth in the spiritual worlds, and vice versa. We should take Susan's story about communicating with her father as confirmation that our loved ones continue to be aware of many aspects of our lives even after their death.

A gift from the “other world” for a granddaughter

When Heather buried her father, Thomas, in May 1992, she was pregnant with her second child, Shirley. After Shirley was born in October 1992, Heather continued to experience deep grief for her father. She so wanted her father to live long so he could see Shirley. Although time heals all things, Heather continued to mourn her father for many years. Little Shirley inherited so many of Heather's father's qualities that it even seemed like something supernatural. This added to Heather's sadness that her father did not live to see a child who looked so much like him. Five years after Thomas's death, Heather, while cleaning her daughter's room, suddenly heard music that sounded like a music box. She found a pink stuffed rabbit on the shelf playing this music. Heather couldn't remember seeing this rabbit before. It looked very old and even dusty. When she picked it up, she noticed that inside this rabbit there was actually a music box.

“I had never seen him before,” Heather said, “and I asked Shirley where this rabbit came from. She replied: “My Thomas gave it to me.” I had no idea who she was talking about, and then she said, “You know, your dad Thomas.” My dad didn't like being called grandpa or grandfather. He preferred that his grandchildren call him Thomas. So I said, “Shirley, but you never knew Thomas,” and she turned and said, “But he gave me that bunny while I was sleeping. He put it in my crib." I didn't know what to say! Shirley is a very practical and sensible little girl, and I was very surprised to hear such words from her lips. I thought she was just laughing or joking, but she was completely serious when she said it. I said, "Shirley, this can't be true." And she answered me, again very loudly and clearly: “But he brought me a gift! My Thomas came to me in a dream. He talked to me, and then he put this bunny in my bed.”

Heather showed the stuffed rabbit to her family, friends and acquaintances. None of them had seen him before. Shirley has told the story unchanged all these years, and she still claims to really know her grandfather. It's interesting to note that since Heather discovered this pink bunny on the shelf in Shirley's room, this bunny has never played a tune on its own again. This materialization served as a sign for Heather to let go of her grief, for death did not separate Thomas from his family. Her father sent his granddaughter a gift, and although the phenomenon cannot be explained, the materialization of this gift convinced Heather beyond doubt that Thomas truly knew and loved his granddaughter Shirley.

Edgar Cayce described a similar encounter with his deceased mother. During a period of great financial difficulties, Edgar Cayce's late mother appeared and materialized a silver coin:

"I had great experience experiences, and I, of course, believe in materialization, but not with the goal of receiving some instructions, but in order to have this or that confirmation. In March 1934, my mother came to me and spoke to me, although I was at the time in the pasture in New Mexico. And she materialized a silver dollar to assure me that I should not worry about money, but that I should have faith in God, live right, and then the money I needed would come to me. I took this as an assurance, and that’s how it turned out...” Reports, (294-161).

Scientist explores ghosts of the dead

Many years after Dr. Raymond Moody conducted his extensive research on near-death experiences, he began to study the phenomenon of people experiencing their deceased loved ones.

“Many people return from their near-death experiences transformed,” Dr. Moody said, “because they see their loved ones happy in the next world. Visions of meetings with their deceased loved ones help people in exactly the same way.”

Dr. Moody said that in last years In medical journals for specialists, the issue of communication between the dead and the living began to be explored. “There were articles that clearly stated that very large percentage Bereaved people feel close to the deceased for a certain period of time and actually communicate with them. In fact, several medical studies have stated that this experience occurs in almost sixty percent of widows. Widows make up the largest group of bereaved people. We also know that people who have lost siblings, parents and children have similar experiences.”

Dr. Moody's research on near-death experiences caused great debate among his medical colleagues in the seventies. He came under fire when he announced that he was going to systematically study communication with the dead in a controlled situation. Unwavering in his intentions dr. Moody began his pioneering research and came to astonishing results:

“A whole series of things were revealed to me. One of them is simply the recognition that communication with the dead is a fairly common phenomenon. And if this phenomenon is indeed widespread, then there is reason to believe that the probability of obtaining these experiences in some controlled situation is very high. Since encounters with the dead are such a common part of near-death experiences (NDEs), it seems to me that if I knew how to arrange an encounter with a ghost in a controlled situation, I would have an additional way to study near-death experiences. Seeing deceased loved ones has a tremendous therapeutic effect. Meeting deceased relatives is one of the elements of near-death experiences that makes these experiences less frightening and traumatic. Many people come back transformed by their NDEs because they see their loved ones happy in afterlife. Visions of meetings with deceased loved ones help the living in the same way. They ease fear and grief. People usually don't get scared when they see the ghosts of the dead. This experience brings them great comfort. This is what prompted me to conduct further research.”

To conduct this research, Dr. Moody created what he called a “Theater of the Mind,” a place where people could experience visionary encounters with deceased loved ones. The ancient Greeks had institutions called psychomantheums, where people came to interact with the souls of the dead. They conjured ghosts using reflections or mirrors. Having researched this ancient tradition, Dr. Moody began creating his own version of the "psychomanteum" in Anniston, Alabama:

“I found an old mill built in 1839. She stood on a creek that flowed through a very old agricultural area of ​​Alabama. I wanted people to be able to do this in a place that makes them feel... Nice memories. I had a feeling that if this experiment succeeded, it would evoke very, very strong emotions in these people. I designed this place so that people would have no sense of time. I furnished it with antique furniture and created an environment that makes you feel like you're moving back in time."

Dr. Moody created a "ghost room": it was a room with black velvet curtains. On the wall, at such a height that a person could not see his reflection, hung a very tall Victorian mirror. On the floor stood an upholstered chair with sawn-off legs. The walls were also covered with velvet, and thus the space in which the person was placed, with the exception of the surface reflected in the mirror, was a completely black cocoon. Behind human doctor Moody placed a lamp with a dim glow, giving a very diffused light. Since in this darkened room the only source of light was behind the person, this light was not reflected in the mirror.

“I tell people to just relax and then sit and wait,” Dr. Moody said. - I ask them not to worry about time and assure them that I will look at them in half an hour. But I also tell them that they can be here as long as they want. After that, they come out and we begin a processing session during which we discuss what happened.”

Before the participant enters the ghost room, Dr. Moody spends a lot of time talking with people about their reasons for encountering deceased loved ones. At the beginning of his studies, he carefully selected participants and invited only specialists, priests, doctors, nurses, etc., as well as those who had no preconceptions about the experience. In other words, he selected those who could perceive whatever happened with an open mind. The results surprised even Dr. Moody himself. The participants had many more experiences with the dead than he initially expected:

“This study really amazed me. When I first began to present these ideas, I made certain assumptions as to what my results would be. All of these assumptions turned out to be completely wrong! I assumed that one in ten people participating in this experiment would see their deceased loved one. I thought this assumption was quite reasonable. Besides, I believed that if they saw anyone in that mirror, it would be the person they wanted to see. I also expected that this experience would be entirely visual, and that everyone who had this experience would claim that they had a “vision.” It never occurred to me that there would be any communication between the deceased and the person in the room. Moreover, I believed that the people I chose for this experiment would approach their experience purely speculatively.”

A striking aspect of this study was the fact that the results exceeded all of Dr. Moody's expectations. Not one in ten had a visual encounter—fifty percent of the twenty-seven participants who initially went through the psychomanteum experience had an encounter with a deceased loved one.

“Participants did not necessarily see the person they chose to see,” Dr. Moody added. “One man came to us, and we spent the whole day preparing for him to meet his father. But nevertheless, in the evening his deceased business partner appeared to him! One woman, a lawyer by profession, was preparing to meet her husband, but as a result, she saw her father.”

Another intriguing fact about Dr. Moody's research is that these experiences went far beyond seeing ghosts. Participants not only saw the ghosts of deceased loved ones, but also talked to them, and in some cases, these ghosts even came out of the mirror into the room in which the participants were sitting.

“In many cases,” said Dr. Moody, “people had very complex, lengthy conversations with the dead. In many cases, the ghosts of the dead actually came out of the mirror and appeared in the room to talk to a loved one. One woman said that her grandfather actually hugged her and wiped away her tears. It was amazing!”

Participants who had the experience of communicating with deceased loved ones felt profound changes in themselves as a result of this experience. They realized the reality of this experience, realized that they were communicating with their loved ones, and that their deceased loved ones were in all respects no more “dead” than themselves. The goal of Dr. Moody's research was not only to satisfy curiosity about this phenomenon, but also to help people alleviate their grief and sense of loss. In most cases, when our loved ones and friends die, there is a real sense of “unfinished business.” Many of us really want to be able to say goodbye to them and also remind them once again that we love them. Dr. Moody did a laborious job of documenting all of his research to put it on a scientific basis, although his main goal was to help people understand that there is no death.

Chapter 23. Creating a new model of communication with women In this chapter, I will touch on one of the most controversial models of RMES - building a “new self”. In fact, we will be talking about modeling new behavior, thereby learning new skills and gaining access to other