Recently on the forums a couple of people asked a bunch of really good questions about the dead, the afterlife, reincarnation and the reasons to connect with deceased loved ones. I am going to answer all of their questions here since not all of my readers visit the forums. If you have follow up questions [...]
Question: The other night I had a really vivid dream about my deceased grandfather. He told me all kinds of interesting things and it felt so real. Was it really his spirit talking to me or just a dream? How can I tell the difference?
Answer: It is possible for deceased loved ones to visit us [...]
A Vietnamese friend of mine recently asked me an interesting question. In her culture it is customary to lay some food out as an offering to deceased relatives and ancestors. She wanted to know what effect that really had on the spirits. She remarked that sometimes her family would have dreams that their deceased relatives [...]
Question: You mention in your blog entry, Picking Our Parents and Life Circumstances, that people choose the circumstances of their life. I was born deaf. Did I choose to suffer with this disability? Does everyone who is born disabled choose it ahead of time? Was it karma that made me this way?
Answer: I asked my [...]
Let’s talk about suicide and its aftereffects from a spiritual perspective. I often get emails from people asking if they should commit suicide and wanting to know what will happen to their souls when they do. That’s a really good question.
We’re going to use the analogy of a play, as in a theatre production. When [...]
Question: If every person has a “higher-self” then are we, as a race, just physical manifestations of our higher-selves’ energy? If a person is violent, or drug addicted, or acting with a prejudiced belief system, what does that mean about the energy of their higher-self?
Answer: To answer the first part of your question I would [...]
Question: Can it be that it’s “designed” for a person to be “evil” in this world? I.e. could it be that for example Hitler’s life was preplanned by his higher self prior to his birth? Were all deaths and suffering caused by Hitler’s plans pre-designed in the ether, since suffering is no big deal from [...]
It’s been nearly a year since I began communicating with deceased loved ones on the other side. I am continually amazed by this process. If you had asked me 5 years ago if it was possible to speak to dead people in the afterlife I would have said yes but I wouldn’t have known how [...]
Question: How do people look in the spirit realm? Are they just energy or do they look like they did in the physical realm? If so, do they look like the moment they died?
Answer: Great question from one of our forum members.
The answer is that it depends on who is looking, why they are looking, [...]
Question: I recently had to put my animal companion down. She was suffering for years. Is she on the other side? Does she have a soul? Is she doing okay now? Will I see her again?
Answer: I believe animals do have souls, though they are not quite like our own. In the last year as [...]