Episode 141: Hello From Heaven

On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. How is your day going today? How are you feeling about life? You know, I've been watching the news the past couple of weeks. I know there are many of us who have experienced grief and then there's been some real scary stuff on And sometimes when you see someone else experiencing grief or worry, it can ignite the grief that you've

felt before in the past. So always, I say be gentle on yourself. If you haven't taken me up on this offer already, Chapter ten of my book is how to Survive Grief, and if you want a free copy of it, go to we Don't Die dot com. Enter your name and your email address. It says it's just the first few chapters of my book, but in truth it is the entire book. Most of mankind has no idea how grief can lock hold on us. And so many things that we think are in our control, our feelings,

our thoughts, they really are not. They're part of the grieving process. But there are things we can do to move through grief to feel better. So please take me up on my offer we Don't Die dot com. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see just where to put your email address in name. Now, if you've felt yourself emotional lately, know something that our emotional center is how our loved ones communicate from the afterlife. The more emotional we are might mean the more sensitive

we are to afterlife communications. You've heard that everybody can play piano, right, Some people are just natural at it, and some people it takes years, but of course they can learn through practicing. Our spiritual development is the same way some people find and you've heard these stories of I saw people in spirit when I was a little kid, and then there's others that in their sixties, seventies, eighties end up learning how mediumship works. We all have the ability.

Like I said, they communicate through our feelings and through our emotions. If you're somebody like me who doesn't like to experience the negative ones and might eat something, or some people drink something or others do other distracting things to avoid feeling emotions, I recommend that we all try to sit with those emotions and actually pay attention to them. Sometimes it's our loved ones trying to communicate with us.

Here's something you can do. Take a picture of your loved one, think about them, look at their picture, recall and experience that you had together, and then pay attention to your belly. How do you feel, what's your gut? Say about it? Soak up the laughter, the love, the memories,

and really pay attention to those feelings. When we can activate those feelings, also pay attention to the other thoughts and feelings that come into your mind, paying attention to our feelings, looking at a picture of our loved one, talking to them. It's like knocking on the door saying, hey, will you let me know you're still around, And don't be surprised when all of a sudden other thoughts and feelings and memories come flooding in. It's them just saying

I'm right here with you. Our new medium glasses are also starting. Whether or not you want to be a medium, I think it's so cool for any of us just to learn how our soul communicates. And I tell you you would be blown away by realizing you are not the flow in blood that you think you are, that you are so much more. We really do have divine powers as being a human, and oftentimes we don't pay attention,

but they are there. And I'm sure you've had plenty of opportunities to have instincts intuitions about people and things you just knew. So moving on with our show, The World Lost and the Spirit World Gained. Our wonderful pioneer Bill Guggenheim this past month. I'd like to start by reading his obituary, and several years ago I got an opportunity to talk with him, so I want to play some of his words. Here's the obituary. Sadly, Bill Guggenheim has left this world for the next at the age

of eighty four. He died suddenly and unexpectedly of natural causes at his longtime home in Florida. Bill would not want us to grieve his life, but rather celebrate his exceptional life and joyous transition into the realm of spirit. For those of us who knew him and loved him, this task is much easier said than done. Not to grieve the death of one so very special, who gave so much to so many, often anonymously, asking nothing in return,

is nearly an impossible challenge. Bill was a pioneer in the field of after death communication, also known as ADC experiences. He is considered by many to be the father of after death communication research, based on his project in which he and his ex wife Judy, collected over thirty three hundred first hand ADC accounts and interviewed over two thousand people.

The ADC project resulted in a best selling book entitled Hello from Heaven, publish in two thousand and six, featuring three hundred and fifty three cases now critically regarded as classic work. Hello from Heaven has helped hundreds of thousands of people all over the world to heal their grief over the loss of a loved one. Generously, Bill made it a practice to send out copies of his book free of charge to newly bereaved individuals, especially parents who

had lost young children. Based on his diligent research in his first hand experiences, he came to the abiding conclusion that life and love are eternal and that death is merely a transition to a higher realm of continued existence. His longtime personalized automobile license tag beautifully and succinctly summed up his firm conviction about life's purpose be life. So here is a conversation I shared with the wonderful Bill Guggenheim.

We had one son at that time, and I had a spiritual awakening in nineteen seventy four that led me to attend day five day workshop which would be very, very famous. That's doctor Elizabeth Koubler Ross wrote who and she wrote all the books yearly books on death and dying. Yes, And this workshop was held in nineteen seventy seven. It was just a series of coincidences, if there are tutch things. Happened to be watching her on the Phil Donna Hugh Show.

One day, Judy called me in to see her. I had heard her name, but I didn't know who she was. I watched for an hour and she really spoke about near death experiences, which I was a bit familiar with. I had read Raymond Body's book Life After Life, which was published in nineteen seventy five, and I knew some people involved with that research and things like that. I didn't, you know, this didn't change my life or anything at all.

I just watched it, and then coincidentally, the same show came on another cable channel when we were living in Sarasota two weeks later, and in that show it had her name and mailing address below. So, feeling kind of magnanimous at the moment, I wrote a check to support her work. Break the check twenty five dollars what you might do if the Brownie Scouts came around, or the fire department or any other you know, house to house

charity call kind of thing. And I thought, that's you know, I did my good need for the day and that would be the end of it. But as it turned out, what Elizabeth wrote back to me sent me a number of audio cassette tapes called Lessons from the Dying Patient and invited me to attend a five day workshop with her.

And I didn't know anything about it. So I waited up to the last day before registration, and I thought, well, if I went, then probably a doctor or a nurse, or a social worker or you know, somebody in the medical profession would not be able to attend if I went.

So I called her office in Illinois to speak to her secretary, I thought, and I was going to apologize and say very much, thank you, very much for inviting me, but really, you know, get my seat away, don't hold a place for me for somebody who could make a bigger difference in the field of death and dying. And however, that particular day was snowing in Illinois, and Elizabeth answered

her own phone denised her voice immediately. So bringing this into context, imagine calling some movie star or somebody like that, and you know Jennifer Aniston, and you get her right on the phone. It's her. It's not you know, a machine or somebody else that works there. But it was Elizabeth.

So I went to my little routine about thank you for inviting me, but and she listened patiently, and then she simply said, in her German Swiss accent, Miria, I think you should be there, And I just point out I guess I'm gonna push over for dominant women, because I said, well, Elizabeth, if you think so, I will, And six months later, sure enough, I was there for five days. It was about the workshop was not about

duck and dying. It was about life and living and people releasing their grief for their pain, their sorrow, all kinds of things, not just death by having been abused, having been this out or the other throughout life, you know, all the different emotions, and we bonded so much. That's by the end of the workshop we all wanted to just call our immediate family members and friends and go off to an island together and never go back to reality.

It was so incredibly loving. I've never experienced in a group the love we shared in those few days, which Bill Bill filt throughout the workshop. The big point is that on that Thursday evening she flew Raymond Moody down from Virginia to Florida where the workshop was to speak to us. And he spoke about us in your Death's Experience research and whatnot in his book, and a couple of people or three people talked about they had had one of.

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contact from her daughter. And then she went on to say how her son had seen his sister while he was doing his homework one evening scared him and he went running into the living room and saying, Kaffi's there, Kaffiy's air, and he described what she was wearing and whatnot. And I had never heard of anything like this before ever, anyone who had died. Was my praise was when you're dead, you're dead, you know, and the body is white, a flash,

white battery and the juice runs out. You throw it away. Wow, those were live views. So I was I was very skeptical about this. I thought it was very nice that the mother had a dream, but when she called her a dream, I dismissed that he not real. And when the boy gave his account of saying, sister, and so your teenage boy in little marijuana, who knows what?

although her background was from Switzerland. When finished, when Elizabeth finished her long story, which is in our books, I'm not going to go through it. You could literally hear a pin drop would have sounded like a crowbar following

on a concrete floor or something. It was so dramatic, And so I went home with the idea, well, if it happened to one person, Elizabeth Koola Ross, who had everything to lose and nothing to gain by telling this experience, I felt maybe taped to some other people now and back then in nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight, late seventies throughout the eighties, there was no Internet or anything like it.

It was the interlibrary loan system. So I was able to get books from anywhere in the country that I could locate, or you know, a title over in Arthur or whatever. And so I would get a book here, in a book there, and there'd be one accound or two accounts its, maybe three of something like this, and one had a whole chapter on it, you know, had of all the books that have ever been written, one had a chapter. And I was curious, and I didn't

know what to do about it. But I went to Raymond Moody, who I had gotten to know myself again, the father of near death experience research, and I asked, I figured if he wrote the book, it would get attention. And well, Raymond never said no, he never said yes, And he kept postponing me for years because and I even found a man who he worked with up in Georgia, so he would find people to interview, so the three

of us would work together. But it never happened, and I finally had an experience of hearing a voice, my old head say do your own research, write your own book. It's your spiritual work to do. And so it was back on me and I didn't know. I mean I could figure out what to do, yes, but I had done it, and that was very simply find people who had had some kind of experience, have been contacted by love when who would die, and interviewed them. That was

my messondolity, very simple. I called my former wife Q come over, and we had been married seventeen years. We were divorced for four years, but I had shared all my information and interest in this with her before where you were divorced, and even afterwards, and so she did it.

Even that day when she was there for an hour, we got a phone call from somebody telling us about accounts this woman's aunt seeing a friend of hers who had died having the experience before she was even informed that the friend had died.

That they learned something they didn't know before or before they were told to loved one had died, things like that. So with that I plunged. I had. My job was to find ten people a week here in Orlando, Florida, and I did to who would claim to have such an experience because I didn't know if we'd find fifty

people a year or one hundred and a year. Long story short, we interviewed five hundred people the very first year, and that led to being in contact with various bereavement organizations and asking them to help us by providing people who were grieving that's a little loved one, especially grieve parents.

And we gave our first lecture workshop whatever you want to call it, one year after we began our research, which we began in nineteen eighty eight through nineteen ninety five, but nineteen eight nine, we gave our first workshop with over three hundred people in it all beieve parents Wow. And a second one the same day with more than two hundred for parents in it. And because another little coincidence, I had met a woman who was a reporter for

the Saint Petersburg Times. She was there and she brought a cameraman. So we had a wonderful, beautiful article over in the Saint Petersburg newspaper that was written with the color photograph and we use that as evidence that our research was real and honest and straightforward. And we use that throughout the rest of our six years of research whenever we contacted anybody, individuals or organizations. So we had and there were other stories and other newspapers, including New

Orlando Sentinel two in there. So we got a great deal of publicity before a book was ever published. West kept going and going and going. We kept hearing more and more experiences, so we didn't stop, and we wound up interviewing two thousand people in all fifteen American states and all ten Canadian provinces, all backgrounds, all interests, all

different relationships, everything, and that's in the book. And Hello from Heaven contains three hundred and fifty three first hand accounts that we planned the books that were all representative of all the others we heard.

We're actually seeing them. They fall into patterns those types of experiences, and within those we found the ones that were the clearest and easiest to understand, the best told frankly avorbally and edited down to a reasonable amount of space in a book. And yes there's a lot of hard choices, but we have to not have a thousand page books that we do. Nobody would read that.

person they communicated. Usually it was detailed, it was personal, it was comforting, uplifting, and even other people in their dreams, there are a group of people didn't see that person. Only they did, so there were unique little twists and turns within many of these.

It said go outside and check the swimming pool. It's very common in Florida for people to have screened in pools, and then you don't have to be a millionaire or anything like it. I mean, you look from the air. It's hard to fly in some areas and suburban area. Houses that don't have pools'll come there. So we had a average size screened in pool. And so I walked from the front of the house to the rear, which had sliding glass doors between us and the pool we

had about fifteen feet away. There was a wrought iron fence and the gate had been left open, and we had three sons at that point. Two of the older ones used to use that as a shortcut to go to the backyard. So from the back door through the gate to the pool and around the pool through another door outside the pool, And so I went to close the gate, and as I did, I had to look down at the deep end of the pool. There our youngest son, Jonathan was floating and not moving at all,

and iaginet Nelson's dead. Her alive. He was only less than two years old. He didn't know how to swim, and I tore her off to the other end of the pool and just before I jumped in the water. Jonathan was floating face upwards. His arms were a kid boat, and he spread out with his legs. His eyes were open and he wasn't moving, but he had almost like a small smile on his face, him buying memory. And so I jumped in the water. I came up under him, pushed him to the side, and while I had been

running down the side, I yelled out, Judy. I screeched down Judy. She came running immediately, and she literally pulled him out. I pushed him and she told him. He both got out. It may the water was still cold. I was shivering a bit. We didn't know what yet, and within a few seconds he split up water and he was flying. He did not even require CPR so quickly. How occurred?

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But if you ever ever receive information about slow down now, or stop your car now, or anything like that, please be good about it and listen to that voice and heat it because it will probably save your life or at least prevent you from having a serious accident.

share easily. So let's pretend you're calling me from northern Minnesota in the middle of a blizzards snow outside, no flowers anywhere, and you're working in an office in a big building, in a cubicle or whatever, and there's no flowers and there's no colonne, there's no perfume of anything, and all of a sudden, you start smelling violets, which may not even be a flower native to there, I don't know, but you smell my life, and well, I like to remind you that what you say your mother's

favorite flower when she was alive, and you, guys, feel surrounded by lilacs and uplifted, and you feel a warm hug from your mother emotionally, and you say thank your mom or whatever, and somebody comes along and you go sniff, sniffles, smell it. Oh yes, it's flowers, flylax, and they'll smell it. And a third person will come along in a four and aft. So these and we have one in which twelve people all smell the same roses when there are

no roses there. So that's evidential, where there's two or more people at the same time, in the same place, sharing the same experience, again with no words involved, without anybody saying, oh do you smell that, not prompting them or listening Oh yes, yes, you know, cause you know to say yes, but stay on their own noticing it and commenting on it.

was gone. So he the fella just assumed that, well, somebody else must have gotten the number or something like that, so he dialed the number back and the number had been disconnected.

but it's the smallest category. But one man wrote a whole book on it called Phone Calls from the Dead. He's a parapsychologist and who I read his book long and many years ago. But what it is is imagine your okay two forms. When is when you're asleep. Now maybe you can accept it more easily that you're sleeping and the phone rings that you hear in your head and you pick it up and it's your ant parent

or your child or whoever it is. You can accept that more readily than actually seeing them and person who are you know during a so called dream, six stage, ADC or whatever, and you have a two way conversation with them, buy telephone and hang up, and that's that, okay. But what about when you're wide awake. Let's say you're in the kitchen, you're cooking or cleaning up, or some other room of a house doing whatever you're doing, doesn't matter.

Wherever you are, could be a business even, and the phone rings, you pick it up, and it's the voice of your love one who died, and they communicate to you. They speak to you, and you can have one way or two way communication with them during this type or other types of experiences as well, but to one a two way communication and generally their voice then begins to fade away and that's the end of it. But there's never a hang up or a disconnect sound or a

dial tone. It just phades away. And in some cases they can be on a cell phone there it can show the phone number. But if you die, what that's not valid or whatever. But we have the whole chapter in the on phone calls yes.

And they will also know when that's no longer there, when the person is left. But they'll say, oh, that's it. Mayory just died, or that's so and so. It's usually somebody is not quite as close to them, and they say, well, I'm just you know, I'm upset because I'm thinking about them, or something like that. So that's why I imagined this. But really they are feeling it. They know what. But because in our culture we discard so many things like that as not real, they throw it away. In other cases,

it's maybe their deceased husband arrived or child. Others can go on for months and even years, and what we say is very simply is not that they just want you to feel their presence. But they're not just letting you know they're there. There's something you can do right here, right now when you have that occur, and that is sit down, relax, relax your body as much as you can, close your eyes, take a few deep breats, just like your untermeditation, and open your mind and ask we see

the message. At first, you're, you know, your mind just turning away, usual mind shatter. But you should in time receive a message from them, because they want to communicate with you. Want more than to just give you a fragrance for you to spell, or a touch or things like that. They want to communicate something primal. And there's a whole list of those. I'll be happy to get into it a minute. But feeling the presence is the most common, and I would say the sweep States so

called dream is the second was common. Here's the body analogy because I was doing I have a lot of time in the works. Now. How hard is it to get hold of somebody today? You call them on the phone, you get wife mail, right, you have to send them an email. You may and may not get back to you. For a day or two, you call them on and on and on all these different ways, and yet we're

further apart of me. And the joke is about kids who can text, and they're doing incessively, But if you put the same kids in the same room together, they don't know what to say to each other. And by the way, they have no idea what to say with real words right out of their mouth. And so we're clos there by texting and tweeting and all this, but we're further away from each other in terms of emotionality and harsh health words.

three first hand accounts. It's not about Juliet Bill Googianhang, and I don't care if we have PhDs, He's still not going to reach more people than by having the account and the experience's own words, first hand accounts, in other words, that they can read and a sign for themselves or these authentic or not. And that's what we wanted to do, and that's what we did. And books are not usually done this way because it's very little of us in the book, and we're not trying to

be the experts. So this means this, and that means that, and of course you must believe such and such. We wanted their readers to read these accounts and make their own objective opinion of what they thought it meant. And I loved as one comment, you know on Amazon, this guy I said, I believe it was a man who kept reading a book and then throwing it against the wall we're discussed, but then started to read it again. And they said he could put it down well, there's.

real as far as through science goes. These occur in other parts of the world, such as Central and South America, parts of Europe, the Far East, especially in the Philippines, where people have these experiences at night, will say share them with their friends and family members the next day, openly and easily, and they're accepted fully. We're the ones was blinders on. We're the ones that don't accept what the rest of the world does accept. And it's all

because our whole society is so scientifically oriented. It goes back to the Sun revolves around the Earth, and that was disproven and this was a disclimer, and that was this route, and science gradually ascended be the master of the truth. And if science obayed it was true, and it didn't, Okay, it wasn't true.

Bill Guggenheim. See who this wonderful man is. And I say is because he is still working, no doubt on behalf of humanity from the other side. Bill going to raise a glass and toast you. A little bit later, I'd like to continue on with just a few more words from Bill. He was just talking about science and if science can't believe something, we human beings tend not to believe.

is science. Science is a way of looking at Earth, life on Earth and evaluating it in a certain way. And it's fine for physical matter, I'm not disputing it, and energy in those things, but it's no good for these areas and that. Yet we attribute it as being intallible and having the last word and everything. And so we're the ones who are starving and fearful about death. I hear from the many Hawsess people, how many people die hanging on to life with their fingernails because of

their religion and science. They're afraid that they're going to go to hell or to oblivion, one or the other. You know, right, that's a scary way to Yes, it is. And they look at and they act it and they speak it if they can speak, and that's the way they leave this planet, leave this life. They don't have to. That's between science and some performs the religious belief. That's what there's not's with typically though, let me give you

the positive. The positive is that many people, even if they've been in a coma well for a few moments before they make their transition, they open their eyes, they sit up, they're smiling. They will sometimes mentioned or a point or indicate that their deceased loved one or one or more loved ones are present and have a big smile and in a way saying I'll be with you

in a moment. And then they take their last breath and they're gone, that they have a whole welcoming committee waiting for them and escorting them to the light.

has had one a third of the population. But then take into account many people have never been to RIDD certainly young yes, and many older people there's never been that close to somebody who's died. Maybe it was a grandparent, but they just weren't that close to that grandparents or whoever, so they haven't dealt with this. Or if they had somebody who come back, they wouldn't have recognized him more. It would have blown it off very easily. Wow, just

just discounted it. And that's sad, but it's the way it is.

Now you pray with to me and maybe i'll maybe maybe maybe I'll consider No, not's not asking, I mean asking was it be sincere or open loving heart? And maybe they want to give a message to somebody else and offered to be a service to them, to give a message to maybe their spouse or another child or whoever it may be. But asking is a form of being open, and it's a form of prayer, and it creates an openness in your mind, in your emotions, and

you're in the possible for what is possible. Because that's what we're talking about, what is possible. It's amazing as they say that, I know atheists and foxhols, well here nobody has to be an atheist or agnostics. So you don't have to tell anybody if it doesn't happen, or even if it does happen, you don't have to tell anybody. Let's see what happens now. The other thing is, which is very positive. Yes, learn how to meditate.

do You Think You Are? When you were born this world with partial amnesia, These reminders will make your life happier, easier, and more fulfilling. You are an eternal soul who lives primarily in the spirit world. You chose your current lifetime and physical reality aboard Spaceship Earth as a student enrolled in the human experience to achieve spiritual growth in a universe of duality. You carefully selected your gender race, color, nationality, culture, talent, education,

and other personal characteristics. All your choices will provide lessons you will learn and lessons you will teach others. You picked out your physical body, the earth suit you're wearing to function in this space. Time to mention. One day it will stop working and you will continue to exist. You mutually agreed to your primary relationships grandparents, parents, part children, pets, et cetera. Be aware that every person and every experience

is your teacher. You chose Earth to experience human emotions and elevate your consciousness. You're also here to learn to love every person unconditionally. To master these spiritual lessons, treat everyone with loving kindness, including yourself. To assure abundance, be humble, serve others lovingly, express gratitude often, be understanding, compassionate, and forgiving. Acquire serenity, courage, and wisdom. Nurture others and yourself. Be creative,

Always do your best, and celebrate life joyfully. To expand your awareness and develop your inner intuitive senses, meditate daily. This will broaden your spirituality and deepen your relationship with the source. Learn to tune in trust and act upon your intuition. It offers clarity, insight, and practical guidance for all your situations, and it will empower you to make your best decisions. If you can't recall your purpose in life,

pray it will be revealed. Of course, you have free will, and you can live any lifestyle you are able to create. You will receive everything you need for spiritual growth, but not necessarily what you want. Your sole plan and consciousness determine the experiences, people, and things you will attract. Do not judge others. You do not know what they came here to learn. Like the leaves on a huge tree, all people are connected to each other and part of

the source. Do everything you can do to relieve suffering, inspire healing, harmony, and unity. When your physical body dies, when you graduate, you will bring with you all of the love and kindness you have shared, your memories, and the lessons you have learned. After your transition, you will have a life review. You will relive every thought, feeling, word, and action of your entire lifetime and experience how they affected everyone else. Remember, you are a being of light,

an immortal spirit. You are enrolled in the human experience to learn spiritual love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, wisdom, peace, etc. Eventually, your physical body will die and you will return to heaven. There you will have joyous reunions with all of your deceased loved ones who are looking forward to your arrival and last love one another, Serve one another, honor the source. Life and love are eternal. Thank you, Bill, and thank

you for Hello from Heaven. As a reminder of my friends, we Don't Die dot com is your home base for all past episodes of my podcasts. Also to receive a free copy of my book and to your name and email address on the bottom of that homepage, come join one of our medium classes. See what your soul is made of. You're pretty incredible. And last but not least, come join our free Sunday gathering. It's pretty darn special.

I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you for listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal podcast Network.