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And welcome back George Murray. With you Suzanne Eastman with us spiritual teacher who has been recognized on the Watkins List of the one hundred most spiritually influential living people and awarded the prestigious twenty twenty four Humanities Team Spiritual

Well, thank you, George. I think there was a good synergy with us, with you and your Navy.

Background, it was fun.

Have you been excellent? Excellent.

We're traveling across the country right now.

Let's on the road again.

How did you go for being a Navy commander to a spiritual teacher.

Well, unfortunately, it was a family tragedy, and that's what often happens for people. They have a wake up call, And in my case, it was the very unexpected death of my stepdaughter, Susan.

She was a sergeant in.

The Marine Corps, crossing the flight line at work and was struck and killed by lightning. And I just took one look at her body at her funeral, George, and I just knew there had to be something more than this physical life. And that started me on a journey of exploration of the afterlife, and I discovered much more than I expected to find.

Did you ever change your mind or feelings about the afterlife along the way?

Oh, it didn't change my mind.

It rocked my whole worldview.

I had no idea there was an afterlife. I had a basic curiosity but hadn't really dived into it. But after Susan died, I began meditating every day trying to connect with her, and I discovered that there really is an afterlife and it's very much alive.

Your latest book is called Mediumship Sacred Communications with Loved Ones from Beyond the Veil. That says it all, doesn't it?

It does.

It is sacred to me because when you discover that someone you love and has died is not really gone. That it's like you said, it.

Changes everything, and that word's sacred to me.

It means tinged with awe and I'm just awed when I can connect with people's loved ones who have passed and show them what I've come to know, that death is really not the end.

What do you say to people who are on the fence?

Ah?

I laugh at that because I had a guy who came to me for a reading. He came with his wife. His wife wanted the reading and they wanted two separate readings, so he came in first and I said, how do you feel about mediumship? And he said, well, I'm really on the fence about that, and I said, well, let's just see what happens. So I remember bringing through his

And at the end of the.

Reading, he's sitting there with wide eyes and I said, well, how do you think about mediumship now? And he said, well, I'm not on the fence anymore because.

The evidence is just life changing.

Your publisher has sacred stories. Tell me about them.

Well, I really love the publisher. The main publisher, her name is Ariel and in fact George. She was a sergeant in Marines, just like my Yeah, so we have this nice connection there. But she really comes from the heart in her work.

She's published a series of books.

Called Common Sentience, and every book starts has just a one word title like my Mediumship, but everyone has to do with.

A sacred topic such as Akasha and God talk.

And then we have like my book Mediumship, and they all have the same format. Three parts to each book. The first is the who, how, what, Where, when why? The third part is special tools that you can do techniques to.

Practice what the book is about.

And the middle on each of the book consists of stories examples of what the book is about, with two stories by the main author, and then in my case in the book of Mediumship twenty eight thirty contributor stories of what I call no their explanation moments noes that show that mediumship is real.

So it's just a really good read with a lot.

Of practical information and then a lot of stories that you can just pick it up and put it down anytime you need a.

Lift, Susander. Religions encourage people to try to deal with the other side.

That would depend on the religion.

It's interesting that I was raised with no religion, so I didn't have any belief system that I had to clear out or move past. I haven't really studied the religions much, George, because for me, it's not so much about what others tell me, and that's what religion is as the spiritual path, which is finding out for yourself what is real and what is meaningful and what is sacred.

Do you find that most people want to connect with their loved ones who have passed on or not, well, it's do Orge.

I find that those who come to a medium definitely want to find out. But then there are those who are or whose religion might have told them that it's wrong to connect, and so it's going to be very personal for each person. But I have found that when you have someone very close to you, who you love very much, who passes, sometimes it doesn't matter what.

Your belief system is.

You just want to connect with them, and that will lead anybody, no matter what their background, to a medium.

You're subtitl in your book says, beyond the veil, what is the veil?

The veil is a filter that blocks us from awareness of a reality that's right here. So really, if you look at it scientifically, the veil is the brain, because when we no longer have a brain, when we pass through that veil at the time of death, we realize that there is no after life. There's only what I call the ever life. Life is existence and experience and it's ongoing.

But we're not aware of.

The after life when we only focus on our physical senses and the brain, that veil between this life and an expanded awareness of life. The brain just gets in the way of that.

That's the veil.

Is the spirit and the soul one and the same.

Wow, that's a good one.

It's different for different people, depending on what they believe about those two terms. My understanding of the two is that spirit is synonymous with consciousness, and.

That is all that is.

Everything is consciousness expressing itself through various experiences. But the soul is one aspect of spirit that makes sense.

It does. So when you summon up the spirit, are you also summoning up the soul?

Yes? Yeah, absolutely.

What happens if you can't connect. What are we doing wrong?

Oh, well, tell you that'sn't an interesting question. We're not necessarily doing something wrong. There could be another reason that we're not aware of. We don't always have the bigger picture.

So to say we're.

Doing something wrong, it's to place blame. There are different techniques. We can use different methods to pierce that veil to get through the brain's filter.

But George, it took.

Me three years of daily meditation to connect with my stepdaughter Susan.

That's why I started connecting.

That's why I started meditating daily, and I started connecting with other people's loved ones before I connected with my stepdaughter. Now, was I doing something wrong?

Not at all.

She explained to me later that she helped back. She didn't come through to me for three years because she wanted me to hone my ability to connect to that different frequency of.

What we call the after life.

If she had come to me right away, I would have just said, Okay.

Mission accomplished, I'm done. It's great. You just talked to Susan.

But I kept working at it every day, trying to determine what is it that makes this connection so clear, working on myself to clear out doubts and my lack of trust, and all of that has helped make my connection with others and with higher beings more clear. So was I doing something wrong?

Not at all. It was part of a bigger plan.

You had a number of contributors who added to your book co Mediumship. Tell me about them. How did you find them?

Well, the publisher's Sacred Stories put out a call and I also.

Is working with them.

Send out an email to all the people that follow my work, and I know they had boy at least two hundred contributors. Because George, when you start talking to people about have you had communications from across the veil? Have you had no other explanation stories of connecting with the afterlife? It is stunning how many people have a story to tell.

So we put out that call and they had to sort.

Through all these stories and choose the very best ones, the ones that when I read them, I would turn to my husband time and say, God, Honey, you have to hear this one because they were just fascinating. And those are the stories that made the cut, But there are so many more that were just as interesting.

Because once we.

Start talking about these things, the stories are limitless.

They truly are. Give us one of the examples without giving away all of the book. One of the stories.

Oh gosh, how about the woman that was missing her son very much. He had passed, he had crossed the veil, and his name is Kevin.

And she went for a.

Walk on a trail and saying, Kevin, I wish you could just show yourself to me in some way, just to let me know that you're around. And she's walking on the trail and it's a trail where there aren't normally many people, and a long come I believe it was a man with his dog, and they stopped and they got to talking on the trail, and she said, what's your dog's name?

And he said it's Kevin.

I don't know, George, have you ever met anybody with a dog named Kevin.

I've never known a dog named Kevin.

I haven't either.

And that people might say is just the synchronicity. And you do this work long enough and you've learned that there are no coincidences when you ask for signs like that. Signs like that are called app death communications. That's a different form of mediumship. When I do mediumship, I connect mentally mind to mind with the spirits. But after death, communications include signs that you just can't deny, show that

Your dog's name?

That's a form of connecting mind to nine with your loved one, And you may not even realize it until you have this kind of surprising, stunning moment that touches you in your heart and lets you know, oh my gosh, there's something else going on.

Here that when Sacred Stories put on its request for contributions, you got more than the twelve people who are in the book.

Seahreds, hundreds of them. They were flooded.

I don't think that the Ariel, the publisher, realized what she was getting into when.

She asked for that.

How is the the easiest what is the best way to connect with spirit?

As you ask that, I just automatically took a deep breath because right.

Now I'm talking much faster than I normally do.

I'm a little excited to share with everybody. But to connect with spirit you shift channels. Basically, I'm using the human mode channel to talk to you.

But if I were to talk to.

A spirit, I simply set an intention to connect with that different frequency beyond the physical senses. I slowed down my brain a little bit with a deep breath, and then I notice what stands out from my normal thoughts.

How do we know it's not the brain trickiness?

But we don't know.

So that's why we look for what stands out. We look for things that we don't possibly can't possibly know. But most of all, George, we look for what is helpful and healing. So anything that might be tricking us might come from the ego, might come from another aspect of consciousness.

That's not what we're asking for.

So as long as it's helpful in healing, that's what matters.

Most is some people Susanne, who have lost loved ones not have any desire to get a hold of them for whatever reason.

They do.

Absolutely I found that that very rarely do I get what I call drop ins when I'm aware of a spirit with when I'm interacting with somebody, not doing a reading. For example, one day, my husband and I were checking into a campground.

We travel a lot.

By r V, and I was checking in with the camp host, and suddenly I became aware of the presence of a woman. And I looked at a photo frame that was on his desk, and I knew it was his wife. And I I don't usually do the There's a TV show called The Long Island Medium, and she tunes in all the time to people, just when she's grocery shopping or in her normal life. I've never actually seen the whole show, but I know that that's the way she works. But all of a sudden, here's this man's wife.

And I said to him, I see that picture on your desk.

I know that's your wife and that she passed and I can sense her now, and oh my gosh, Steard he bristled, He looked afraid, and he said, I don't want to hear any of that. And I said, okay, I did not intend to barge in on your privacy.

And I left the office, and I.

Felt like I had done something wrong. But I looked to spirit to that woman. I said, well, we tried so, because she was right there.

She just wanted to.

Tell him that she's okay and that she loved him. So all I could do was deliver, try to deliver the message, but he didn't want to hear it. That's okay, that was his path and he was on well.

With Susan geze Man, we are talking about one of her books, Mediumship, but she's got several others, including The Awakened Wind, The Awakened Way, and The Messages of Hope. How many books do you have, Suzanne, Well.

It's interesting, George.

Mediumship just came out today and it's my fifteenth book. But not all of them are about spiritual topics, but those certainly are my favorites.

Well, it was ironic. I was getting on the plane ready to go to Denver to do our Beyondbelief TV show with you and your book arrived at my place. Huh, and I went, oh, this is great. She's going to be a guest on Coast to coast, but she's a guest on Beyondbelief. Synchronicity. It's the best, isn't it.

It's beyond Belief.

We talked a little bit about the brain confusing us. Does that happen a lot?

Confusing us or blocking us from being aware of what's going on happens almost all the time.

We're walking in two worlds at once.

The physical world in a non physical world, and we don't even realize it. We say the sun rises and sets, but it doesn't, does it.

That's an illusion.

So when you start questioning reality, that's what I ask people to do in my book The Awakened Way. It reveals an entirely different reality that's right here, but until we shift our focus, we're not aware of it. But the thing is, when we shift our focus, especially in an expanded state of consciousness, and find out that we are accompanied by non physical helpers all the time, that changes everything.

I mean, George, I went through.

My military career without being aware that I have help, we all have help, and that life will flow so much more easily. We don't have to do it all alone. We're not only humans. That changes everything, and that's my new mission to help people live what I call the Awakened Way. Mediumship brought me to that awareness. So that was just the start of a much greater journey that all of us are really on as souls.

It's exciting the path that you're on, Suzanne, any regrets, The.

Only regret is that I didn't know about it earlier. And yet I see the perfection and how it unfolds now, so you know, you think that you understand something and then another door opens.

So I get.

Excited when I wake up every day like, well I know now, I don't know it at all, So what's coming next? And so just always pushing the boundaries a little bit more, stretching ourselves beyond our comfort zone. That's what leads to growth, and that's what leads to more and more literally.

Joy in our lives.

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