Episode 210: Ghosts with the Most: Spirits that Inspire Us from Beyond the Grave!

long illness. She and her husband have been attending our online events like our Sunday Gathering, listening to the podcast episodes for over four years. Sue, I know you're listening. This episode is an honor of you. As we know, there's been some terrible things happening in the world, the conflicts, hurricanes, natural disasters, suffering, So I'm here to remind us all today that the afterlife is real. Our loved ones do

go on and we will see them again. Yesterday I spent some time with a lovely new friend named Jennifer Foley, who wrote a book called My Ghost with the Most, a widow's story to reconnection across the Veil. We'll hear from Jennifer a little later in this episode, but her title My Ghost with the Most reminded me that some people call me the Hostess with the Mostest. But it also reminded me that we have our ghost with the most.

If you're a longtime listener of Shades of the Afterlife, you've heard about trance, mediumship, you've heard words from medium Scott Milligan and mister Eric who speaks through Scott. Yesterday we had one of our in the arms of Eternity events. Scott led us into a nice meditation type sitting where we sent healing to the world, and then at some point Scott's eyes closed, he became quiet, and in time

another voice came out of Scott's mouth. This is mister Eric, filled with inspiration, working through Scott for over twenty seven years. You'll hear from him today too. The word ghost, though, is a little unsettling for me. I know what it means. Reminds me of Halloween and the spooky stuff, so I had to look it up. The word ghost is an old English word that dates back before the twelfth century.

The concept of a ghost, of course, is based on the idea that a person's spirit continues to exist after their death. What I didn't know is that the origin of many funeral rituals was to ensure that the spirits of the dead, these ghosts, would not return to haunt the living. Now we'll save that for another episode. But there is a special time once a year that we celebrate ghosts. So I've been digging. No pun intended on the history of Halloween and also the Day of the Dead.

A quick history lesson Halloween has been celebrated for over one thousand years. It dates back from an ancient pagan festival that held bonfires with jack o' lanterns and costume wearing to disguise against evil spirits, and then in the eighth century, Pope Gregory declared November first as All Saints Day, and the evening before became All Hallow's Eve Hallow means Saint.

In time this was shortened to Halloween. They had the tradition of dressing as saints and angels, and eventually this became our modern day costumes such as superheroes, witches, beetlejuice, and whatever else is popular out there now. Trick or treating began as poor people going door to door offering to pray for people's souls in exchange for pastries called soul cakes. The other holiday celebrated beginning of November is the Day of the Dead, which is a three thousand

year old tradition in Latin American cultures. It's gained a lot of popularity lately, no doubt, because Disney did a film named Coco. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. Day of the Dead is actually held on two days, November first and second, to celebrate loved ones returning to Earth. November first honors deceased children, and November two our adult loved ones. In this culture, the dead

are considered to be very much alive. They are still members of our community and families, and mourning is thought to be disrespectful. Altars are built inside homes, stores, and cemeteries, adorned with family photos, gifts, flowers, candles, and food. In fact, candies and toys are sold decorated with skulls and skeletons, happy reminders that are loved ones still live on. How many of us get excited around Halloween? But do we

let it remind us of the afterlife? No matter what time of year you're listening to this, whatever celebrating, you do know that your deceased loved ones are celebrating right along with you. Let's head over now to our ghost with the most our dear friend and mister Eric. And here is his answer when someone asked him yesterday, what do we see immediately after death?

be there to greet you. And the moment of the gasp, then others will be seen. The darkness that surrounds the light will fade away. Some people wish that they wake from their sleep, so as they awake in our world, they are in the bed and the family surround the bed. You will be rested. The pain that once was is no more, and therefore you can take a deeper breath without any pain whatsoever. You'll instantly recognize everyone, for love

has always been felt. Some people will arrive in the golden shores and they will hear the oceans of our world, and as they stand in the golden shores, they will see their family waving to them and walking towards them. Some others choose, through their religious understandings, who enter the temples of our world, and the moment that the temple doors open, their families will be standing at the altar.

I witness only recently a friend that came to our side of life that was crippled by pain and suffering, was met by her cats. But then as she bowed to her cats, her mother and father stood there, and as they embraced one another, standing directly behind them was every one else. You have to understand, my friends, that our world is not governed by time. Time is an

illusion created by man. So this embrace may only be a moment to us that can be a number of days to you of its warm embrace, you forget why you shed tears in the former world, for you realize in that death that is being described to you is a lie. That nothing can truly die. It is only the body, and it can also be the condition that takes the body into ash or back to the earth. So, my friends, it is down to the individual. You speak

of being crowded or find warmth from this. But would one agree that those who have gone before you become a part of light. Light takes up no room at all. There will always be space for everyone you have loved and continue to love. For there will come a time, my friend, and it will be you who will be

at the center of their gaze. But then there will be a time that you will stand at the great portals to welcome the family that you left behind who have now lived their life, slow down at death and enter the world that you will embrace them whatever you wish to see. If it is part of your motivation to aid you from one world to the next, that

will become your reality. But those who fear death, who believe they are going to the piers of hell, we will intervene and they will not see that, for that fear will be taken from them to aid in their migration from one to another. So, my, then, every individual will have their own unique experience, but there is always a common threat. They see the light. It is always our way to encourage you to take away the fear from death. For did you fay your birth, you will

not remember it. You neither will remember your death. It is something that may be understood when you come back to Commune because the media arms of today are conditioned to find how you die, when others should be taught to share how they live. If that is pleasing, let us move along.

I voice them. Sometimes, like on yesterday's session, we had over one hundred people attending and we had over forty questions. We only have a limited amount of time, and people often wonder how I pick the questions that will be asked. I pick them based on the greatest need. You'll underst stand when I ask this question from a mother, she said, Dear Sandra, could you please ask Eric to talk about

pets that have crossed over? How can we know that they are with us and that they are sending us messages. My daughter lost her beloved dog, who passed on his sixteenth birthday. She is so terribly devastated, to the extent that all she can think of is to follow him and be with him. They were never parted for one single day. She is listening with me right now, but hasn't got the strength to ask herself thank you.

a different form. For an animal shows great compassion for in your modern world, you may choose not to sit with your mother why you are being fed, But the animal will choose to sit next to you when you wish to watch or read, or with modern technology, be lost in your world, the animal will lay with you. If you have conversations to yourself, the animal will listen.

This is true love, the one you miss today, my dear, that may have struggled to walk, to digest, to do things that it used to do, that is all gone, my friend. But in our world the animals run and act like children who have been given candy. But those animals that have been loved by you will be cared for by your grandparents and also others that have known you. Your world is of time. In your short life, you have experienced a lot. In its short life, it has

felt your love and known your company. But in our world there is no time. To this animal, the separation is only a moment, do you think, my dear, But our world is above you or below you.

You will live. And if one can say, as young Daniel has cheekily moved close to me, you adopted this animal. You gave it love. You have an opportunity, when you so wish, to give another animal, an opportunity to know the love. But that is only at your own pace,

my friend. The pain you are feeling now, as Sandra has given voice, you said you are thinking of coming to our side of life, to follow that pain you feel will go away, but it will be given to someone else, like your mother, like others who have known and loved you. That is a gift that no one wishes to receive. Your animal is not next to me, It is next to you. Now. We just pray that through the language of love, you would accept that. But I will say this to you. Nothing will throw this

animal down, Nothing will hurt this animal more. It only knows love. That is why you feel the pain that you're feeling now. But as you go to bed, as you go to your place of rest, be aware of the sounds around you, but also in your dreams. Be aware of how you hear the snuffles of breath, and you will know that nothing has ever left you. It just changes form. And so to the family, I say this to you. You are grieving together. Grief is the shadow of love. You can never replace, You can only expand.

If you are feeling this pain, go to a place where animals are abandoned and volunteer a short moment of your time so you can give love as painful as it is, but you are giving those who have been abandoned an opportunity to fall in love with you, and know that by your side there's the one you miss, encouraging you to smile. Sund my dear, anything I say will never be pleasing when one has tears in their eyes. And know this the love you have will always be.

And when your life has run its course, when you yourself find romance and be a person that travels the world, when you are old and lay in a bed sweetly, will you dream and be woken by the snuffling sound, and together you will be again. Sandra might dear never please him, but let us move along.

extraordinarily quick, both outside our character. We're both very left brained, tight, analytical logistic people, and he had some things going on that just was really deep. A lot of on dealt with depression and PTSD that wasn't properly diagnosed till much later in life, and he ended up taking his life

unfortunately in twenty twenty two. That's, of course, a very tragic experience all in itself, but through that process, it's just been a world wind of events that have unfolded, and I realized that I could hear him, and so we have essentially continued our journey. We basically just continue our marriage. It's shifted and it's become different in how that looks, but we still maintain that bond of communication.

Our goal is going forward to help other people, even know that that's possible, because I sure didn't know that that was possible until this's happened. And then we ended up putting our story into our memoir because he was just giving me so much content that I hadn't really heard before. That's kind of where the journey began. Well, first of all, our condolence is with you. We send lots of love.

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it would be like little things. I remember one day I would go to the mailbox, which is across the street from our house, and I would hear, you look cute in that blue shirt as I'm like putting the key in the and I would just pause and look down, like why would I say that? To myself? It was sexually kind of like my voice, but with his syntax sort of overlaid, and I was like, why would I say that? In these insines kept happening. I went to Walmart and prior to his passing, he had gotten me

an orchid that had stayed on my counter. We had gotten in a fight at the time, and I'd ended up throwing it away. So fast forward to after he passed. I was a Walmart and I left the checkout laid and there's a wall of orchids, and I heard, you should get an orchid.

she does. And that happened at least three different times in a row, across three different mediums, where at that point I had to sit back and be like, Okay, I need to start assessing my thoughts because something's happening. I just don't quite understand it yet. I'd never meditated today in my entire life. Before my husband passed away. I was willing to do anything. If you told me that it could help, I probably have tried it. And I started doing meditations, you know, short ones. I don't

have time to sit there all day. And took about three months of me trying to meditate, right, but I was like, we're just going to commit to this however it turns out. It turns out about three months in I had my first what I would quote an experience with him where we were walking on the beach and he handed me the seashell and he told me strength comes from the inside. And that was the first time I felt like I'd had an experience where he had

handed me something and it was so impactful. I didn't really know what he was talking about, but I even wrote a note when I came out of it, just so I could reflect on it. Well. Fast forward about three weeks after that. One of the mediums that I deal with is primarily clear audience, where she can kind of hear him really well, and she goes, He's showing me a CE show and it looks like a clam show and he's talking about something about strength being inside

of it. And I almost peed my pants at that point because here I am thinking, like, you know, like it feels kind of like a dream, but I guess I was with him. Something happened, but I don't know what. Then, when the medium verified it, I didn't know whether I needed to call a scientific journal the news station, like what do you do with this? This woman just validated an experience that I only had inside my mind, like a third party validated something that didn't even happen in

the physical realm. My left brain wanted to explode at that point, just into a million pieces. And he's done that on numerous occasions to where it's just been so overwhelming. I'm not here to convince people to believe or not believe, but I personally have had so much experience that, even coming from a left brain side myself, it would almost be unrealistic for me to not believe that he is very much a part of my life and with me. That's such good news.

to be honest with you. Right out the gate. It was like weird sounds and sometimes they threw an animal sound in there. It was just this whole weird thing. But I was like, we're committing to this. I call it kind of brain training. But at some point, I think my mind just gave up and was like, this is just what we're doing. We're sitting here for the ten minutes and whatever happens happens. And since that point we have pretty much been connecting almost daily in that fashion.

I generally say his name at the beginning of the meditation to kind of create that lak. Obviously he's around, but just to pool him to me and away we go. And sometimes they're really epic experience. Sometimes it's just me sitting on his lap crying for the whole time. But either way, it's an experience that we get to engage and essentially create new memories.

If I can ask, because I know he must have experienced much depression and unsettled things within his own mind in order to depart the way he did. Has he been able to share with you things to either apologize or explain, And you don't have to get into personal things you don't. But from his side, I can imagine that all that he's left with really is pure love and he can see life now from a whole different perspective.

he was doing all the right things. He was on medication, he was doing DMR therapy, he had a psychologist, all of the things that you're told to do, and unfortunately, through a series of behavioral events, just kind of spiraled with him mentally. So there's been a lot of healing on both sides. But one of the first readings that I had after he passed, I got the most epic apology that I think probably one could get, and he since then just completely evolved into this absolutely amazing spirit.

He's literally known as the ghost with the most indifferent spiritual communities. But a lot of that he was saying is that nothing could really make him feel comfortable in his own skin, and now that he's there, he's still all the good parts of him. He's extremely funny, he's

extremely charismatic. He sends me hilarious signs, all kinds of things, But you can see that layer of just mental torment kind of stripped away, but he's had to really work through that on that side, and I think our forgiveness on this side has really allowed him to release a lot of the stuff that he crossed with and he's been able to clear all of that out where he is just such a high vibration now and just really pouring into myself, our family, people that I associate with

have been able to hear him communicate with He's come to my friends in dreams who aren't even medios. He's all over.

just to take a breather. Right, the weather was like terrible and I almost canceled it, and the whole drive there on cry and it's like pouring, like please make the weather sunny. For two hours I got there, the clouds were as black as night, Like we're just gonna sit outside in the rain, then that's what we're gonna do. Those clouds shifted all the way the sun came out for two hours. And had a session a few weeks after that, and he's like, I was so happy you when I even helped.

engage with them. And this is the hard part because we feel like we're pretending in a way, but to engage with them like they're still here. So if I'm going out a lock, I'm talking to him, I usually kind of initiate. I don't know how that works, because sometimes he does initiate, but I've noticed a lot of times I almost think they want us to initiate and then they jump in. So it's kind of same with mediumship, right like we're the ones initiating the link or the content.

So I kind of initiate and just start talking, and I've noticed that that is when he will be immediately there and come through really strong. So they love the car. They really enjoy the bathroom for whatever reason, taking a bath, being in the shower when you first wake up, when you first fall asleep, really just incorporating them sort of in the day to day, even if it's only a

few minutes, because our time is not their time. Even if you can only spend you know, five ten minutes, it goes a long way for them because they really appreciate that we're carving that time out of our busy schedules. I personally have come to really believe the issue why most people don't engage or feel like they can't. They don't hear, they don't feel they do. It's just we

are far too busy. We're everywhere doing all the things, and our brain is going a mile a minute that we never really slowed down enough to widen our perception, and that's where we get stuck.

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One of the members of our community had written to me that her family is in the Middle East, caught up in these wars, and when we have no money, what can we do? Here is his answer.

become the aggressor. This love will be the healing moment, so that the soul itself can step forward. Of a soul does not desire war, it comes from the earthly part of their nature. So, my friends, it is easy to love the lovable, but also it is important that you love unconditionally. Of course, those who make decisions so wisdom seeps within them begin instead of negativity. If you continue to set negativity, it will make the individual stronger,

it will bury their soul, so they make the wrong decisions. Also, my friends, this path now is made of gravel, and it is uneven, unsteady, and can be painful. But as you have asked, I will deliver. You. Speak of those who do not have the funds of the resources. Go to your government and tell the government to stop aiding. Withdraw all support, withdraw all things that aids this countries or countries to function, Starve them so that these individuals

become weak. They then have to lean on each other, and if they lean on each other, they can rise together. You could say to me Eric, my friend, that this is not a spiritual fought. But it was often said if you make someone strong so that they can go and kill another man, this is not helping the war. Take away all suppot so everything runs out. Then they've

got nothing to fight with. They'll be too weak. And then give them the subpot, give them the wisdom so not only are you appeasing to the spiritual mind, you're also aiding the physical body. If we can exhaust you, you cannot fight, and therefore no one has a right to take a life. The reason you are seeing so much, as we have explained throughout the years, your world itself is evolving, mankind must evolve with it. What has been throughout history is war that repeats itself. There is also

false God that sit within temples and shines judges. And if the religion states that you should go and kill another man, this is a false religion. This is easy blame for God. However you see God to be is the sun that shines for you. It shines for everyone. For no one is born bad. It is something they grew into for what they have been given. So, my friends,

the time of change which is upon you. If you can imagine, there is an untamed beast that has roamed across your world has now been hunted down and cornered. It is at its most aggressive. If you continue to feed it negativity, it will become strong and overpower. It's captive. But if you feed it love, feed it something, it will then slowly dissolve. It will slowly change, and negativity knows its days are numbered. But I have also said, if bombs continue to fall in your countries, you will

continue to see the earth respond. You will see fire rise from the earth. You will see the water run across your land. You will fill the great winds. But you can say, Eric, but why is it happening to other countries. It is happening to humanity. But you also could see how people who have the resources now have to use those funds for their own countries to help their people, so that the people of your world who are squabbling and bickering and fighting now have to sort

it out by themselves. This is not my will, but it is only an observation that I make this firm commitment that many of my world stand with all of you in the ring of peace, surrounding the countries, trying our best. But we need your support, need your voice, and you need to be inspired to bring light. If the false religion is the sun, then you must turn your back upon it, take away the distractions, and find the true light. And that light is not around you,

it is within you. The temple of your God is within you, As it was said by the language of Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God is inside of you, not of mansions of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and I am there. Lift a stone and you will find me. Go to your church that is within you. It is not the symbols that you carry. It is beyond all things. And so, my friend, even the beggar in the street can rise to inspire. So I say to you all in the simplistic way, don't

fight fire with negativity. Send love to those who make decisions, and hopefully they are inspired by your love to then make the right decisions. To see what they are doing is a harm in their own progression, but insulting the natural law that no one has the right to end life in a matress or in the vindictive or whatever capacity we wish for you to live. There was a man that came to our world who survived the two wars.

He said to us all as he lectured of his life, if I can tell the young ones today, no one wishes to see war I own. He wished now for peace, and that is our message for you all. Live your life in peace. It will be a difficult time for your world. We will continue to stand with you and those who are motivated to speak on our behalf, you will be called to serve. For the mass migration from your world to ours has created great grief within your world.

And there are too many thoughts and two lesser of voices. And that is why those who are inspired to sit you are being called to serve. Patient no bet, a tide of change is now.

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I want to leave you with one thought. Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. Is it true? Is it necessary? And is it kind? Remember you are never alone. You're supported by so many in the invisible world around you, and you are dearly loved. I'm Sandra Champlain, and from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal podcast Network.