Signs From the Spirits
May 15th, 2006 by Erin Pavlina
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Have you ever wondered if your deceased relatives or friends are trying to reach you from beyond? Have you ever felt a presence in your house and turned around only to see nothing? Have you ever suddenly smelled your deceased mother’s favorite perfume wafting through the room? Do your clocks stop for no apparent reason, light bulbs burn out in threes, or does your phone ring once on your deceased relative’s birthday? If so, you may be receiving signs from the spirits. Or you may have faulty wiring and bad batteries. 
So how do you tell the difference?
Sometimes clocks just stop. Sometimes three light bulbs will burn out in the same day. Sometimes a phone ringing once just means it was a wrong number. But sometimes it really is an attempt at communication from a spirit. Spirits have limited ability to affect our plane. And spirits who have recently crossed over don’t always know how to make clocks stop or phones ring. Most often, the recently departed will appear to you in a dream since that is a time when you are halfway to their plane. But many experienced spirits will learn how to affect electronic equipment. Once they do you could have a cacophony of activity going on around you.
Besides affecting electronic equipment, spirits will make their presence known through all five (maybe even six) senses. You might smell your grandmother’s perfume, feel a feathery touch on your shoulder or back, you might hear your name called, or see a shadowy figure out of your peripheral vision. You might even just sense their presence in the room.
What I’ve learned to do is ask for signs and then watch for them. For example, as I related in my blog entry, A Visit from Grandpa my first pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage as the result of a blighted ovum. So when I got pregnant for a second time I was naturally concerned about whether there was really a baby in there or not. I couldn’t wait for my doctor appointment to confirm it so I asked the spirits to send me a sign that there really was a baby in my belly. Boy did they ever! The next morning I woke up and found 3 of my clocks had stopped at the same time in the middle of the night! One clock was a simple wall clock with batteries. Okay, maybe the batteries went dead. But the second clock that stopped was our VCR clock. It was not flashing. It was simply stuck at 1:37 and never moved past that time. That’s very unusual. It was still plugged in and getting power, it was simply stuck on 1:37 and not moving. And the third clock was a quartz crystal clock that had been running perfectly fine for more than 15 years! And on that night it suddenly decided it had had enough and stopped at 1:37. No batteries or plugs on that one. So three different type of clocks all decided to stop in the middle of the night. I knew it was a strong sign from the spirits that there was indeed a baby growing inside me. And there was.
Try this exercise, which is best done in the morning so you have time to notice the effect. Sit on your bed and ask a specific deceased relative for a sign that they are present. Then be very very open to seeing a sign. Don’t ask them to do something specific like stop a clock because they simply might not know how to do it. Be open for any kind of synchronicity or event that is out of the ordinary. Just for that day don’t be so quick to explain away unusual or extraordinary things. Sometimes a picture of them will fall over. Or you’ll find an old hairclip under your bed that your mom gave you. Or maybe you’ll get a wrong number asking for Julie and Julie is the name of the deceased relative you were asking for signs. In other words, don’t decide in advance how your sign will come to you. Be open for anything. It’s fairly difficult for spirits to affect our plane so they will jump on any opportunity to show you they are there.
Don’t be disappointed if you don’t get a sign. Keep asking for one and wait. Spirits are busy people and they’ll get around to it when they have time.
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May 16th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Erin,
I’m not so sure if the exercise you talked about is such a good idea. I’ve been “dealing” with spirits too and I think it’s kinda dangerous for someone that doesn’t know much about death and where the spirits go. When you call for someone you know, the person (now a spirit) may not still be able to communicate or even don’t know where they are. Also, as we are always surrended by all kinds of spirits, as we call for a known person, we might get an answer from someone else, another spirit that just wanna play with us, making us believe we’re in touch with our loved ones. There are many “bad” spirits out there and opening our walls for them can be really dangerous.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Fabio, that’s a good point. If people are resonating at a low energy or are fearful they could call into their space an entity of negative intent.
If you’re trying this exercise at home, please ask for spiritual signs in this manner:
I ask that only a spirit of high vibrational energy who is loving and kind and of God to send me signs. Specifically I wish to receive signs from (name of deceased relative) and ask that only that spirit attend me.
May 17th, 2006 at 4:48 am
Erin, I do agree with you. But I wouldn’t recommend people without any knowledge in this subject to do this kind of exercise.
Anyway, I love your postings and I can see myself in many of them. Thanks a lot.
June 26th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
I was wondering if spirits can make a phone call,and say things to people like a warning of something coming.
September 30th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
my mom passed away a week ago at home with everyone around her that night the lamp that was next to her bed went out when her grandson turned it on, the next night my sisters lights in her house were amber like a brown out, my other sisters light bulb in her house went out the next day followed my the morturies light in there closet when we went to look for an easel to hang my moms paintings on, the next day the light in her art room. Iam the oldest sister i wasnt in the room at the time of her death and i didnt experience any lights going out but two days later we were all outside talking about her and what to wear to the services and i said wear whatever mom would like to see you in all of a sudden this hugh black flying bug, you could hear the wings flapping it flew to each of us and then attacked my hair, then flew off iam thinking that was my sign that she had to have the last word as usual and she knew i wouldnt be happy till she touched me once more.