My brother died almost two years ago. We did not know what had happened to him. A couple of weeks after I laid down on the couch and went to sleep within five minutes. Which is very unusual for me, it normally takes me an hour to fall asleep. He came to me in my dream and told me what happened to him and then right before I woke up, something touched me on my forehead, either him, or an angel, I don't know. When I woke up the exact spot where I was touched was still pulsating. A few months later, we got the results from the autopsy, and what happened was exactly what he told me. I feel that my experience was nothing short of a miracle, a gift from God to give me one last chance to talk with my brother, because I never had a chance to tell him goodbye and we had a tumultuous relationship. I am at peace with him and with God.
Postscript: I would like to add that before this happened I did absolutely nothing to try and get into contact with him. No Ouija, no seances or anything. I do not dabble in things like that. What I DID do was pray.
2007-07-15 14:11:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Hi!
Having read some of the answers here, I ponder if those who cling to absolutes can really be in relationship with the God of love and wonder. The bible seems so often quoted as if it's words are the substance of a prison, when it should be the most liberating of books read with respect and an open mind.
Our youngest son, who was profoundly disabled, died a little before his 10th birthday. The previous Christmas he had made a simple battery operated musical card at school for his Mother. We missed him terribly, but were not devestated. People said they were sorry we had lost him - but we knew exactly where he was. It was just not for us to go there yet.
Around the first week of December, the time we usually got out the decorations for Christmas, we started to hear a familiar tune. We couldn't work out where it was coming from. It was when we started sorting the decorations that we found the card our son had made. Nothing unusual. Just a coincidence that it went off when it did.
The thing is, this happened every year for at least eight years afterwards. We would put the decorations away in January and just as we were thinking of getting them out again, we would hear that simple melody. The battery life was about one year.
Then one November I gave a talk about how we are always connected to those we have loved and the subtle ways that we are reminded of the beauty and wisdom they brought into our lives. It is also common, by the way, for soldiers to be always connected to those they have killed in battle, but not in a haunting or a guilt trip way. No one is forgotten and nothing is lost in the universe - though the state of things is in state of constant change. In my talk, I used the musical card as a simple example of the many ways our sons life has touched our hearts memories. The card has never sounded since that talk. It doesn't need to. We can never forget the wonder he brought into our lives nor that we are still connected across the cusp of the worlds.
People say that seeing is believing, but some things have to be believed to be seen. Don't go pining for what can not be and don't allow others to limit the definition of your reality. Accept what is and live with it - but live with a heart opened to love and a mind opened to possibilities.
Good wishes.
2007-07-16 03:44:10
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answered by pilgrimspadre 4
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The Bible strongly condemns the practice of spiritism, mediums, occult, psychics, etc. (Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:10-13). Horoscopes, tarot cards, astrology, fortune tellers, palm readings, séances, etc., fall into this category as well. These practices are based on the concept that there are gods, spirits, or deceased loved ones that can give you advise and guidance. These “gods” or “spirits” are demons (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). The Bible gives us no reason to believe that deceased loved ones can, or would even want to contact us. If they were believers, they are in heaven, enjoying the most wonderful place imaginable – in fellowship with a loving God. If they were not believers, they are in hell, suffering the un-ending torment for rejecting God’s love and rebelling against Him.
So, if our loved ones cannot contact us, how do mediums, spiritists, psychics, etc. get such accurate information? There have been many “exposes” on psychics. It has been exposed how a psychic can gain immense amounts of information on a person through ordinary means. Sometimes by just using a telephone number through caller ID and then an internet search, a psychic can get names, addresses, dates of birth, dates of marriage, family members, etc. However, it is undeniable that psychics sometimes know things that should be impossible for them to know. Where do they get this information? The answer is - Satan and his demons. 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 tells us, “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.” Acts 16:16-18 describes a fortune teller who was able to predict the future until the Apostle Paul rebuked a demon out of her.
Satan pretends to be kind and helpful. He tries to appear as something good. Satan and his demons will give a psychic information about a person, in order to get that person hooked into spiritism – something that God forbids. It appears innocent at first, but soon a person finds himself addicted to psychics – allowing Satan to control and destroy their life. 1 Peter 5:8 proclaims, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." In most cases, the psychics themselves are likely deceived, not knowing the true source of the information they receive. Whatever the case, and wherever the source of the information – nothing connected to spiritism, witchcraft, astrology, etc. is God’s intention for us as a means to discover information. How does God want us to discern His will for our life? Simple: (1) Study the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16-17), (2) Pray for wisdom (James 1:5).
Much love to you through Christ Jesus,
Dusty
2007-07-16 00:12:30
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answered by Dustin M 3
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No I have not had contact from the Otherside from a Deceased loved one!!!! But I have a friend that keeps having a dream of her deceased mother!! She say they talk about what is going on in her life and her mother helps her on this!!!!
2007-07-15 21:25:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, many times, and it always amazes me, and puts light in my heart.
I was with my mom as she was passing, and it had been kind of a long experience for her - she was ready to go. She had always admonished me to not hang on to her, because this was her last incarnation, and I needed to accept that. This, from when I was a child.
Anyway - a few days after she had died, I was at her home, taking care of things. I was actually on my way down the outside hallway -it was late at night in the desert, very hot and very still. I was talking to her in my mind, and then observed how still it was. Right in that second, her wind chimes began to shake like crazy - as if there was a monsoon wind on them. I stopped in my tracks -mouth open, amazed. I even stuck my hand up to see if there was some freak current, but nothing.
As soon as I realized it was my mom, I spoke aloud to her, and tears welled up.... I stood there for awhile, not wanting that to end, as I could feel her presence. But then, that was it she was gone, and as promised, off very far away.
2007-07-16 12:31:59
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answered by cosmicshaktifire? 5
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One night, in the middle of an intensive Zen meditation retreat in July, I was sitting zazen in the zendo. I was in some physical discomfort. Then my shoulder started to raise up, I kind of began to rock, and I heard Christmas songs. My sweetheart grandmother came to mind, and it was like I was a child in her arms, in a rocking chair, being sung to. The discomfort melted away.
That was a time in my life I was not having any communication with my family of origin, and hadn't had for more than a year.
At the end of the evening's meditations, I returned to my bedroom and found a note on my pillow saying, "Call your sister."
I phoned her on the other side of the continent, after more than a year of not speaking to one another, and she informed me, "Granny died tonight."
It was so sweet. I'm not one who feels a requirement to believe or not believe in spirits, but it sure felt like a caressing "bye for now" from my Southern Baptist Granny there in the Zen temple!
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2007-07-15 21:37:56
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answered by bodhidave 5
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Yes, lots of times. The day my dad died he played music in my car on the way home so loud. I hate blue grass music and that was what my dad loved. I did not have the radio on.
On another time, I was standing by my car getting ready to go on vacation and he told me to look at my tires. So I looked at my tires and could find nothing. So I asked him where and he said look closer and sure enough there was this huge nail in my tire.
On another time I saw him what I call shadowing, at ponderosa I was sitting there and he came right in front of the man sitting across from me. It was the most exciting thing I ever saw.
There were others, all were telepathic and he is doing just fine. I have not heard from him in almost a year now.
2007-07-15 21:18:31
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answered by suesf7 2
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I have been told from some that we can't have contact from the other side because, when we die, that's it. We are in a deep sleep and there is no consciousness. But, I believe that the day after my grandmother died, she said my name to me. My grandmother was the only one that said my name the way that she did. I was told that our loved ones that have crossed over come to the ones that are suffering the most over their death. I believe this to me true. My grandmother has been gone for eight years and I'm still not over it.
2007-07-15 21:10:55
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answered by tessababyboo 2
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My paternal grandmother was a very clever yet profoundly uneducated woman who raised 16 children during the great depression while working as a sharecropper.
She manipulated her Son (My father) into divorcing my mother when I was three. I had no further contact with my mother until I was twenty-six. I had to live with my grandmother until I was six.
After I met my mother and learned what had happened I spoke with my father and discovered it all to be true. I’ve resented my grandmother ever since. Some years ago I had a dream about her. I found myself at that old run down house in Mississippi I’d lived in with her back in 1962. I wondered why I was there, and realized that I was bound there as long as I didn’t forgive her and in part my anger bound her as well.
After I woke up I meditated on forgiving her, and my father who had died in 2002. The next morning my brother called and told me that he had dreamt about our father and that our Dad told him that he was finally free to move on.
Blessed Be!
2007-07-15 21:22:17
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answered by ♥Gnostic♥ 4
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i just had to answer your question. The night my mother passed away in hospitol. Her perfume filled the air between our sitting room and kitchen. The air where we stood became cool and my brother froze where he stood. It only lasted a few minutes and then everything returned to normal. her perfume no longer wafted in the air and the room returned to warm. To this day we believe that she came back for those moments to check we were/are alright, then returned to that plan for the departed. since that experience, we have never had or shared another.
2007-07-16 05:03:57
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answered by Anonymous
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