Signs from the other side
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I was sent a link this morning to an article about a woman named Maria Malin- who lost her 11 year old son to a freight train accident in 2003. Today, she admits to looking for signs and signals that he is with her always. I have been doing this since my dad died of a brain tumor in 2001, and while at first I thought the signs may have been coincidences, it's a lot more soothing to think our loved ones are giving us winks from the other side.
The morning that my father passed away, I was sleeping on a fold out couch outside of his bedroom when I woke to a tickling on my leg. I pulled back the covers and there was a butterfly right there in the bed. I scooped it up and it flew away and disappeared into thin air.
Was that in my mind?
Over the next few days, I saw butterflies everywhere. The morning of his funeral, a butterfly landed on the hood of the car, and rode all the way with us to the funeral. As I was brushing my teeth the day after he died, a butterfly was in my bathroom trying to escape to the outdoors by banging against the glass.
Convinced these were more than just coincidences, I set out to interview renowned medium James Van Praagh who says he's been talking to dead people since he was about 8 years old
"You need to speak to your dead relatives as if they are in the next room," he told me. "They can hear you. They might not be able to answer every single request at every single moment that you make it, but they can send you signs and signals that they are with you."
So what does James consider to be a sign?
Flickering appliances are big ones- or lights. He says they can move pictures, or make the phone ring out of nowhere. Someone might mention a dead loved one's name just as you were thinking about them, or you might hear their favorite song just as they pop into your mind. Rainbows, or wildlife can also be a smile from a spirit. Get a whiff of their perfume or cologne? James says that's the dead people too.
When I was considering a move from the West Loop to Evanston, I took James' advice, and asked my Dad for a sign.
"If I'm supposed to look for real estate in Evanston Dad, you need to let me know, because otherwise, we're going to stay in the city," I said to the sky.
The next morning, I had an email from a realtor whom I hadn't heard from in years for a property in Evanston. I called her immediately and asked why she sent me a listing out of nowhere.
"I didn't send you and email, Jen." She said.
"Then who did?!" I barked. "It's right here in my in-box!"
James didn't mention that dead people can send emails?!
These coincidences have been so numerous, it's the subject of my book and one woman show. And based on the amount of emails I've gotten over the last couple of years describing similar incidents, Maria Malin and I are not the only ones who keep an eye out for those rainbows and butterflies.
"It's a different dimension, sure." Van Praagh said. "But the reality is, our dead loved ones are so close, you could practically touch them."
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Robin Ernst said:
I know exactly what you are talking about. There was a mourning dove couple that used to nest on the column of my mother and step-father's porch. They came back year after year and had several babies. In 1998 my step-father succumbed to Myelofibrosis in February. That Spring, only the female mourning dove came back. In November of the same year, my mother passed away. It was a hard time for me, but I inherited the house and tried to take care of it. In Spring of 1999, the mourning dove couple came back. I took it as a sign that it was my mother and step-father letting me know that they were watching over me. In 2005, I moved to Florida to be closer to my brother. I wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do. After about a month of living in the new house in FL....I looked outside and perching on the pool ladder handles was a mourning dove couple. I figured again it was my mother and step-father who were giving me a sign that they were still watching over me. Since that, I have moved back to Chicago. The mourning doves were in Lake Zurich with me for almost two years. I now have moved to the city and I have yet to find the mourning doves but I am sure that some day they will make an appearance.
Sometimes I consider myself silly for believing that these doves are the spirits of my mother and step-father, but other times, it gives me great comfort to know that they are watching over me.
Edgar Garcia said:
My own experience with this was with my Godfather, I was close to him and his family. I wrote about it on my blog. The summary was that he came to me the night he died in a dream telling me to take care of his family and even if I see a dime on the floor to pick it up and give it to them to help them. Since he had left behind a wife and three daughters. This was about 20 years ago.
Here's the kicker, one of the daughters recently read that blog post and told me that since he had passed, any time she would find coins on the ground, they were always dimes and she always felt her dad had something to do with it. She mentioned this on my father's birthday this year at a restaurant. Not five minutes later she noticed a dime on the floor under the table.
Coincidence? Memory tricks? Yeah right... Nay-sayers will have a difficult time convincing me otherwise.
Synthia Rose said:
Sure spirits commmunicate from the other side. I am extremely spiritually sensitive and can pick up on vibrations from nonhumans. Even those not related to me -- particularly if I'm delving into something related to their prior earthly lives.
I personally would be too enthralled with the afterlife to talk to earthly people, but like Prince says some spirits like to "stick around for the aftershow."
He has a great song about this, by the way. It's called "Comeback" on the acoustic album "The Truth." Here are the lyrics:
"Walking up the stairs Thursday afternoon
Sweet wind blew not a moment 2 soon
Ooh, I cried when I realized
That sweet wind was U
Spirits come and spirits go
Some stick around 4 the aftershow
I don't have 2 say I miss U
Cuz I think U already know
If U ever lose someone dear 2 U
Never say the words - "They're gone"
They'll come back, yeah
They'll come back, yeah, yeah
They'll come back
Tears go here {x4} "
With the acoustic music it's a very beautiful and haunting song. You should try to listen to it.
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