Want to know what your pet is thinking? You may need a pet psychic.

Animals are pure souls of unconditional love. Anatole France once said, “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” I truly believe that to be true.

So, today I’m please to share an interview with a true lover of animals, pet psychic and medium Jeanne Miller. Jeanne has written several books about her experiences as a pet communicator. Her newest book is, “Pet Chatter” and she is here to tell us about it plus give away a digital copy to one lucky reader who leaves a comment!

 1. What made you want to become a pet medium and pet communicator?

 I’ve always loved animals and wanted to work with them. Because I can’t bear to see them in pain, the veterinary field wasn’t a good option for me. 

When I first saw The Pet Psychic show on Animal Planet, it struck me like a lightning bolt. Previous to that, I had no idea communication with animals was even possible.  At the time, I was in general psychic development, and it became clear to me that this was what I had been yearning for. 

 2. Aside from pet communication do you also read people?

 My original intention of entering into the psychic field was to work with people. It became clear over time though, that I was being drawn very strongly to the animals.  But I’ve found that in talking with people’s pets, I’m actually working with both the pet and their humans. So I have the best of both worlds.

 3. Your first book on this topic, “The Pet Psychic Diaries” was wonderful and I enjoyed it very much. What prompted you to write “Pet Chatter?”

Thank you so much. I’m so happy that you enjoyed it.  I’ve received many wonderful emails from people who have enjoyed my other book, “The Pet Psychic Diaries.” 

I noticed that the parts of the book they spoke of most often were the quotes from the animals. Because of this, I thought the readers might enjoy having a book of all animal quotes.  

I culled these from the email readings I’ve done over the last few years. Each chapter is about a different subject, some funny, some sad, some loving and spiritual. It was so much fun to write and I hope people enjoy hearing from these special babies.

 4. Is there one comment you hear most often from animals? And, what’s the funniest thing, most surprising or unusual thing you ever heard a pet say during a pet communication session?

 There are a few things that come up a lot. Many dogs speak with pride of their “job” of being the protectors of their family. Cats get very specific about what they want and don’t want in a toy. Surprisingly, many don’t want catnip on all of their toys. Horses talk about training issues. Birds often talk about not being understood and not understanding us.

The pets constantly surprise me with some of the comments they come out with. The one that really threw me for a loop was the dog who misunderstood what was happening when men came to mow the grass. 

He showed me a picture of them putting the mown grass into bags and loading it onto their truck.  He was so angry when he told me, “They are stealing our yard!”  That earned him a place in the chapter called, “Lost in Translation.”

5. What do pets want from their humans or want us to know? 

They mostly want the same things we want: To be loved, to be listened to, and to be respected.  What they generally would like us to know is how grateful they are when we allow them to be themselves and not take all the “wildness” out of them. 

Dogs love it when we let them sniff what they want. Cats love it when we let them jump up on furniture and tables.  But even if we don’t, they will find a way. As one cat recently told me, “I’m up on things a lot more than they know about.” 

6. What one or two things can pet owners do to try to communicate with their pets?

I always recommend spending quiet time with them. No TV, radio, phone off. Lean back, close your eyes and picture them in your head. Then talk to them.  They are amazing at reading our thoughts and I think people are in constant communication with their pets without really knowing it. 

Also, speak to them verbally.  They do understand most of what we say, so we must always remember to choose our words carefully. An overweight kitty I spoke to, had taken to hiding under tables when company came so she wouldn’t have to hear about how fat she was anymore.

7. Any last words? 

Before we part, I would like to thank my pet clients and readers for making my work so enjoyable. I would also like to let them know that  I’m currently working on “Pet Psychic Diaries Two” and hope to have it out by late summer, early fall. 

Thank you Angela. I enjoyed visiting with you today.  If anyone wants to reach me, I have a contact form on my site: www.thepetmedium.com 

To hear of pet reading special sales, contests, and new book releases, please sign up for my newsletter. On the 15^th of each month, I award a free pet reading by drawing a name from my mailing list.  The sign up form is on the home page of my site -  use this link here.

Do you sense that you know what your pet is thinking? What questions do you have for Jeanne about pet communication? Leave a comment and you might be the lucky winner of a free book from Jeanne!

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Jeanne Miller is a pet psychic medium who lives in Vermont with her rescued Siamese cat, Simon Pasquale.  She has been communicating with animals both here and on the other side since 2008. Pick up “Pet Chatter,” her latest book on Amazon. Visit Jeanne at: www.thepetmedium.com

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“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” –John Taylor

It was a foggy Wednesday morning around  2 am when I awoke from a deep sleep to see the most beautiful image of a woman at the end of my bed. She wore a long sleeved white gown  with a square neckline her dark wavy hair fell to her shoulders.

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She looked down at my daughter lying next to me sleeping, her pale face  glowed  with a most beautiful and serene smile. I knew at once it was my mum. She had said she would come back to one of us when she passed. I’m so pleased she chose me.

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She left as quick as she came leaving the room smothered in a loving energy.

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–Annette Bullivant

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My papa passed back in 1998. I was blessed to be with him at his passing over. He and I still have a strong connection.

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Just about every time I work outside in the yard, he is sitting on my porch and just grinning from ear to ear wearing his orange shaded glasses and shaking his head in disbelief at how much I am loving my “country Life.” He marvels at how much I am doing in my “country life style” such as filling 12 bird feeders, sawing logs for the fire pit, growing herbs and such. doing more and more organically all the time…

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I can feel how much joy he has seeing all of this.

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–Rosemary Pizio

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I was “visited” by my maternal grandmother at the time of her death in 1985.  I was sleeping in my dorm room, freshman year in college in Wisconsin, a great distance away from my grandmother’s home in Washington where she passed after a several-year struggle with cancer.  I knew she was ill, but was not sure when she would die. 

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I was woken from a deep sleep to find my grandmother at my bedside.  I remember feeling very comforted by her presence.  She appeared as a 3D being, not a dream.  I felt the softness of her skin as she placed her long-fingered hand on my forehead and told me “It’s okay.  Everything will be all right.  Good bye.”  She proceeded to sort of disappear through the wall near my bed.

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I glanced at my digital clock that read 5:30 a.m. and for a moment felt confused about what she was doing there so far from home.  I decided it was a dream and went back to sleep.  At 6:30 a.m. I woke again to knocking on my door, being told there was a phone call for me on the public hall phone.  I put on my robe, took the call, and it was my dad telling me my grandmother had died during the night.

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The day before my mother passed over I became unwell and was unable to be with her..

While I was resting I had a vision in my minds eye of my mother.

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She passed over that night and I know that Spirit sent me a message to let me know that she was going.

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I saw her very clearly.

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She is still with me and often sends me a message through a medium when i go for a reading.

She recently told me that I should contact my brother because he was going through a rough patch.

When I called him he told me that he had throat cancer and was going for treatment this week

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–Jeanette Lawrence

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I hope you enjoyed these stories of encounters with the spirit of a loved one from Powered by Intuition readers. If you have a story of your own please do feel free submit it to me.

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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” –George Washington

Do you wince when someone says, “My mother is my best friend. We talk everyday and do everything together?” Wish things were different between the two of you?

If so, this post is for you.

This Mother’s Day make peace with your mother. 

For the last several weeks I had asked my intuition for a dream with an answer to a decision I had been grappling with regarding the care taking of my mother. If the situation continues to be intolerable do I stay or do I go?

I had a dream that my mother passed. I was filled with regret that I hadn’t made peace with her before it was too late.

In this the dream I received a flash of intuition with the intuitive insight that she had spent her entire life reacting out of her own pain, and that it had been anything but her intention to be so hurtful.

We had been locked in a dance of egos….if only one of us had the courage to rise above the ego things might have ended differently.

When I awoke from my intuitive dream I understood that we are here to love one another at the soul level despite human  flaws.

Neither of us is perfect. It is time to end the perpetual sparring match. Time to change my thinking.

While I didn’t get the answer I expected or needed my intuition had given me a clear message:

Make peace with your mother. Do it now before it’s too late.

Love is all that matters. Wounds, hurts and bruises dim the light of love for as long as you allow them to. Make the effort to wipe them away as often as necessary by forgiving and you will see that the light never stopped shining.

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers, daughters and sons included. Here’s to hoping you can make peace. 

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“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono

When I began the journey to develop my intuition I was very interested in healing and medical intuitive training. I took many courses with local teachers and every course offered by the Silva Method. One of my favorite spiritual healing courses, taught by Jose Silva, was a hands on faith healing course.

(I’ve written about the Silva Method before and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you want to open your intuitive channels there is no better method out there than the one and only original Silva Method developed by Jose Silva in the 1960s.)

The first time I took this spiritual healing course I was amazed to feel the energy flowing through my hands. After the course I experimented on people, pets, plants, office equipment and even cars with ignition problems; basically anything that needed “healing.” Medical intuition work was when I first became aware of our “oneness” and the life force flowing through all things. I came to understood that “I” wasn’t responsible for the healing but merely an instrument of the spirit used for the healing.

Since then I continue to be fascinated by faith healing and have read many books on energy healing, spiritual healing and medical intuition and today I’d like to share five of my favorites with  you.

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You the Healer by Jose Silva. Based on the most successful mind development program in the world today, You the Healer offers a complete course in Silva Method healing techniques in a do-it-yourself, forty-day format.

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Diary of a Medical Intuitive by Cristel Nani. A native New Yorker and die-hard skeptic offers a personal look at the development of her medical intuition while serving as a trauma nurse in this riveting memoir.

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Medical Intuition by C. Norman Shealy, MD. This book is your primer to medical intuition. From beginning to end, you ll learn how to use your basic healing power effectively and immediately.

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The Creation of Health by Carolin Myss & C. Norman Shealy, MD. A collaboration between a traditionally trained physician and a medical intuitive, The Creation of Health illuminates the deep connection between emotional dysfunction and physical illness.

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Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan. With the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted healer with fifteen years of professional experience observing 5,000 clients and students, Barbara Ann Brennan presents the first in-depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential.

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The Intuition Principle: How to Attract the Life You Dream Of. Don’t worry – I can count! I added my own book because there is an entire section in it devoted to medical intuition and intuitive healing with techniques I developed to help you find physical problems in the body, for yourself and others. I also include methods for healing yourself and others once the disease is located. 

If you’re interested in energy healing and medical intuitive training you will love these books.

Have you ever had an experience with medical intuition? Share your story with us. If you have any suggestions for other books on medical intuition and faith healing please share them in the comment section too.

**Special note: The winner of the free membership to the Windbridge Institute is Joe Bill Schirtzinger. Congratulations Joe!

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“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” –Frances Scovel Shinn

Intuition is not reserved for the chosen few.

Everyone is intuitive and each of us has had at least one experience where we had a gut feeling or heard our intuition guiding us in a particular situation.

Intuition is a higher form of instinct.

This sense was built into us primarily to keep us safe to ensure the propagation of our species but has since evolved.

Your body continually senses what is in your environment even if you aren’t consciously aware of it.

Can you imagine how important it was for our ancient ancestors to “sense” that danger was lurking in the jungles; to feel the hair stand up on the back of the neck and slowly turn to see a huge saber-tooth tiger crouching in the bush?

Many of  us have learned from our mistakes that when we don’t listen to our intuition we regret it later. I like to say that:

Ignoring intuition is a lot like touching a hot stove: You need only get burned once to know that ignoring your intuition is NOT a good idea!

If you’re not clear on how intuitive guidance works or how to recognize your intuition read on.

These examples of what I call “everyday intuition” will give you a very clear idea of how your intuition guides you with your home, friends and family, ensures your safety and in business with business intuition in “everyday life.”

13 Examples of Everyday Intuition from Top Creatives:

Home, Friends and Family

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A few months ago a neighbor approached us about selling our house.  Although our house was not for  sale, we were very happy to listen to his proposal until he told us what he was willing to pay.  

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He started thousands of dollars less than our house was worth. He proceeded to tell us all that was wrong with our house.  It was very negative and upsetting.  Why would he want our house if there was so much wrong with it? 

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My intuition told me to call a realtor friend.  We found out that our house was worth even more than we thought.  Our neighbor was just trying to get a deal.  My husband and I talked about putting it up on the market.  Again, we hadn’t planned on selling but I had a gut feeling which said, “Let’s go for it.”  I knew that if we did we would be putting the wheels of the universe into motion.

So we did!  It sold the day after it went on the market for full price!  We found the most wonderful house to move into, perfect for our needs and in a great neighborhood.  We move in on Wednesday and couldn’t be happier!

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Betsy Henry - Zen-Mama

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I don’t consider myself an intuitive, but sometimes my intuition comes through loud and clear. My younger son, Andrew, is in his third year of college where he has been awarded a scholarship to play baseball.

With his college 90 miles away, my wife, and I see him frequently, but there are weeks when our only contact is through a telephone call or text message. In early March, I got a hunch he wasn’t okay – that he was struggling.

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I dismissed the thought knowing that I would see him in a few days at his next game. I would asses him then. But the feeling kept coming back until it urged me to call my son.

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He wasn’t okay.

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My son was struggling with his grades, and the demands of the baseball team were weighing on him to the point he was thinking about quitting. After talking about his challenges, we came up with a plan of action he thought was achievable.

I truly think if I had waited to speak with him, he would have given up on his goals. I’m thankful that some everyday intuition moved me into action so I could help my son find the right answers.

Alex Blackwell – The Bridgemaker

The experience that made the biggest impression on me was in 2002..I was getting a strong sense of wanting to move from the beautiful town I was living in with my two small boys. It wasn’t a good fit for me. I kept “seeing” an old white farmhouse in my mind. Began drawing it in detail in my journals, began designing the rooms and picking out paint colors, thought about it before bed, every time I passed an old white farmhouse would think to myself “There’s my house”.

Some months later, I went to meet an old friend in her remote country town for lunch and I was describing to her my dream business, and where I would live and work. She said, “I have to show you this house”. I was not house-hunting, and did not have any money for a downpayment.. but.. we drove up to the house and it was in fact “my” house. Down to the last detail, everything I’d been seeing in my mind, drawing, thinking about.

And in spite of the reality of the finances, no deposit in sight.. I was able to buy it and we’ve been here for almost 11 years.”

            Lisa Claudia Briggs, MSW – Intuitive Body

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“It seems that every time I get a gut feeling that I am going to see someone I know, I do. It happened most profoundly several years ago when I was flying from Pennsylvania to St. Croix VI (where I am from).

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Unbeknownst to me, my father was also traveling on that same day. He was flying from St. Croix to the Dominican Republic.  As I was walking down the concourse to my connecting flight in Puerto Rico, something told me to look left and when I did, I saw my father walking by. It turned out, he was also waiting for a connecting flight in Puerto Rico and had to go to the restroom.

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If I hadn’t looked left and he hadn’t had to go to the restroom, we never would have met that day. “

I recently spent nine days in Michigan visiting my family. I have a very big ego! I am often tempted to give my opinion, a comment or unasked for advice when I see or hear something that I question or don’t agree with. Notice I said “tempted!” Because my gut feeling says loud and clear, “Don’t do it!” 

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I always bring myself back to these Truths: I don’t know what anything is for. Everyone is on their own path. Everyone has a right to live their life, their own way. Everything is in Divine Order. This is not my business. And judgment is just plain wrong!

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It’s because I have listened to my intuition  that I still have awesome relationships with my daughters, son-in-laws and grandchildren.

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Tess Marshall – The Bold Life

I was looking for household help and interviewing several women for a two-year contract.  The search had been going on for weeks.  

Finally a suitable candidate came up. She appeared cheerful, positive and willing to learn.  Elated, I signed the required papers.  

However, when I got home, I had a gut feeling that started gnawing at me.  But, I had no logical explanation on why I was feeling that way.  This was troublesome because I had already signed the contract. 

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Quite a few years ago, my family and I were at a marina enjoying lunch outside and watching the boaters go in and out of the bay.  A young family with two very small children — one in a car seat — placed their children in their boat and set off to enjoy the beautiful afternoon on the water. 

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They did not put life jackets on their children and I had an intense urge to stand up and call out to them to do so.  But I don’t always want to be the person drawing attention to “what’s wrong with this picture” and so instead used the situation as a water safety conversation with our own boys.  

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After lunch, several rescue vehicles started to arrive and I had another really sick feeling.  The next day, I read in the paper that the young family’s boat had flipped in the water and one of those boys drowned.  I’ve never known quite what to make of this situation or how to process it.

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Jennifer Boykin – Life After Tampons

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“The most powerful example of intuitive guidance in my life comes from times when logic and external sources all tried to work in the opposite direction of the “inner guidance” I was feeling and receiving.

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One such example was deciding to make a major life change that included resigning from a secure job, and moving away from the city life, into a more natural way of life based on self-sufficiency. Reason and logic tried to sway against it, as did some family and friends. However by going within and trusting my inner guidance—my intuition—it turned out to be the most perfect set of choices for my path of personal evolution.

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Three years later I look back with awe at how perfectly everything turned out because I chose to trust and follow my inner voice. Today I listen to that inner guidance more than ever, and greatly appreciate its role in my life.”

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Evita Ochel – Eveta Ochel

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Today I have the pleasure of sharing a recorded interview with Julie Beischel, Ph.D., the author of

“Among Mediums: A Scientist’s Quest For Answers.”

Dr. Julie Beischel is the co-founder and director of research at the Windbridge Institute, and following the suicide of her mother and an evidential mediumship reading, Dr. Julie Beischel forfeited a potentially lucrative career in the pharmaceutical industry to pursue rigorous scientific research with mediums full-time.

She is currently a member of Parapsychological Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration.

Dr. Beischel has generously offered the gift of a Windbridge Institute membership to one lucky PBI commentor……scroll down to find out how to participate!

You can listen to the two-part audio or read the full transcript below.

Part one:Part two:

Angela: Dr. Beischel welcome. I loved reading your bio. You have such an accomplished background and such a fascinating one especially since you are studying mediumship. It is a pleasure to have you. I reached out to you because of the book that you published in January. “Among Mediums”, and it’s abook that you were gracious enough to send me.  I read it and loved it. It was fun because your voice was just so funny. I found myself entertained while I learned a lot as I read it.

Readers of Powered by Intuition would really love to know a bit more about you since you are someone who is leading a way in researching mediumship.

De.Beischel: My Ph.D. is in Pharmacology and Toxicology with some minor in Microbiology and Immunology. While I was in graduate school my mom committed suicide and I went through my normal grieving process and a few years later “The Crossing Over, With John Edwards” show was on TV and that was sort of my first interaction with the medium.

My family is of German decent, very Catholic, I went to Catholic high school and I had never heard of medium before. It wasn’t something that I was familiar with but here was this guy on TV and it looked real, and often the people looked authentically moved by what he was saying and the things they were told were very specific. I decided I would like to see that myself as a scientist and collect my own data, so I had a mediumship reading.

It was very evidential. I read a little bit about cold reading beforehand, and what kind of things a cold reader would say, but it wasn’t general at all. It was very specific, very  you know, things that would not be true for other people’s moms. I sort of took that experience back to my lab and shared my experience. Some professors said things like “Oh wow, interesting, I don’t know anything about that but that sounds interesting”. But some were saying “No that’s all in your mind, he was cold reading you and he picked all that up.” And I thought, no I was there, I collected this data, I know what happened.

That really made me angry that people were dismissing an entire phenomenon without experiencing it themselves and they were just saying “No”.  I thought that’s terrible. These people need a voice. This medium needs a voice because they are just trying to help people and they are just being who they were, doing what comes naturally to them so, they need an advocate, and they need a scientist.

So oddly enough, I had the opportunity to do a post-doctoral fellowship studying mediumship full time. When the funding ended for that position, my husband Mark Boccuzzi, and I founded the Windbridge Institute in order to keep doing the research and we are about 5 years old now. So I have been doing Mediumship research full time for about 10 years.

Angela: Mediums are always getting a bad rap. It can’t all be cold reading. When someone tells you something so specific and many times even the sitter won’t know something and they have to go to somebody else in their family for validation, how can that be a cold reading?

Dr. Beischel: Exactly. In our research, the protocol we use is quintuple blind; it has five levels of blinding. So in our research readings when the mediums do a phone reading, I’ve never even been in the same room as some of the medium that we work with our team. And its just the medium and me on the phone and all we have is the first name of the dead person and then I ask them specific questions about that person, so the sitter is not even on the phone. Its just me and the medium so its entirely blinded and when the sitter does the scoring they receive two readings, their own reading called the “Target” and someone else’s reading the “Decoy.” They cant tell which one’s the target and which one’s the decoy. So even the sitter is blinded in our protocol and it still we are seeing things that are significant in the difference between the scores given to the target reading and scores given to decoy reading.

Angela: I read somewhere that if you took studies on people who had heart attack who were later given aspirin—

Dr. Beischel: It’s actually aspirin in prevention of a heart attack. A statistician, Jessica Utz, did a meta analysis where you had a bunch of studies and you collect the data as if it was just one giant study and she looked at the data for the evidence that aspirin prevents heart attacks. She did the same thing with the meta analysis of all of the research for the existence for psy-ablity, precognition and the evidence for psi was stronger the the evidence for aspirin preventing heart attack.

Angela: Yet it’s given routinely as a protocol around the world I mean, at least in western countries. Sure take an aspirin a day to prevent a heart attack.

Dr. Beischel: Exactly, If you ask anyone on the street if aspirin prevents heart attacks, people will say yes but if you say is psi real they will say, “No there is no evidence that psi is real.”

But it is. So it’s the politics, not the research that keep that knowledge down. So that’s why I can’t break into a main stream science, they are never going to listen to me, so instead I tried to bring it to the people with my book “Among Mediums.” That way people can get the real story right from the researcher’s mouth and make a decision. I am not trying to change anyone’s mind, from the information I gathered, they can make their own decisions about whether they think that that’s enough to decide they want further study on this topic.

Angela: The data speaks for itself. People might say “Oh well, psi is only 60% accurate but that’s light year more statistically significant then the data on taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack. Those numbers are something like 0.00003 or something very miniscule and yet it’s gospel. Just take a little aspirin you won’t get a heart attack.

Dr. Beischel: Right, right.

Angela: I wanted everyone to know more about Windbridge Institute. Tell us who can join and what you do there and if they want to become a member, what types of information they get from you.

Dr. Beischel: The Windbridge Institute is a independent research organization. Our mission is “To investigate the capabilities of the mind, body and spirit and investigate what kind of things the mind, body and spirit can do and how can that knowledge best server all living beings.” Our main focus, at this time is research into the survival of consciousness. So my focus is with mediumship and Mark is interested in the use of technology and how to potentially interact and detect the deceased and so that includes EVP (electronic voice phenomena) and those sorts of things.

My focus is on mediumship. We receive funding from private institutions; most of our grant money comes from overseas. First, we need money to fund specific studies but we also need money to pay the electric bill and for printing, and for that we rely on public support so we sell memberships for $19.99. You can buy annual membership or you could pay a $100  and become a lifetime member, and we wont bother you for money ever again.

What members get is quarterly e-newsletters. Our newsletter is called winds of change and we have guest articles and sometime mediums write articles and updates about where will be speaking or their the findings. Our member are the first to hear the news.

We also have the email list people can sign up to. They can learn more about memberships on our website which is www.windbridge.org . If you sign up to our email list, you get several automatic emails in coming for weeks after you sign up.  These give you the overview of the things you should know about us and there is sign up for free access an article called, “How to get most out of your mediumship reading”.

I think that’s more important now-a-days then it has been previously because people are seeing mediums on the TV. They have a lot more assumptions now about how mediumship works then they used to.

Angela: If Windbridge were fully funded and had all the money coming in you wanted what kind of study, or what would be your dream study be?

Dr. Beishel: Oh wow! I would do a study about grief and mediumship. People who receive mediumship readings are almost like night and day before and after they receive their readings. Anecdotally people who had readings, understand how that works but, there is no data to support this.

I designed study to look into this just as if I were doing a drug trial except that instead of drug, it’s a mediumship reading. I have the study, the clinical trial, randomized control group design and I have submitted it but it has not found a home with the funding organization. So instead we are bringing it to the people through “crowd funding.”  I think people who have had readings, understand that its important. I like to say I wont rest until Insurance companies pay for mediumship readings.

The meta-analysis was published in 2000. It analyzed some grief intervention studies and found that traditional psychotherapy is not necessarily beneficial in the treatment of grief. You can’t treat grief with antidepressents because grief is not depression so there is not a whole lot that we can offer people who are grieving. But there is a lot of data about spontaneous experiences of communication with your lost loved ones [being healing] and so this indicates that induced communication through mediumship reading may have the same effect as the spontaneous experiences of personal communication.

So we want to work at that so I designed a study about it. If people visit www.afterlifescience.com they can learn more about how to support that through crowdfunding.  This study is the first step in a future in which the therapist can work with mediums to help the grieving. We really can help people we really can change the grief in this country if this very simple study goes through but we do need support for that. So again, people can go to afterlifescience.com to learn more about that crowdfunding initiative.

And then If I really had all the money, like in a fantasy world, I have a number of ideas about FMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining studies that I’d love to do. FMRI studies are expensive though.  I hope to be able to do some FMRI studies because you can’t call is cold reading if the brain is doing something that the medium cannot hide. You cant hide her brain from from the FMRI.

Angela: If you can find certain parts of the brain that lights up only when a mediumship reading is performed in a consistent number of mediums you might have found the “mediumship spot” in the brain! That is fascinating.

Grief is usually the reason that people get a mediumship reading just like you did with your mother but doing so won’t legitimize mediumship for skeptics. Having a practical application like grief therapy where insurance companies pay the bill would be awesome.

What you would say has been the most surprising thing that you ever learned or happened since you started studying mediums?

Dr. Beischel: I was surprised to learn that dead people are not scary because the popular culture will lead you to believe that they are. They are just people with no bodies. Its just people still and they still have their faults.  I learned that,  “oh when you die you don’t become immediately self actualized.” If you had issues, you had personalities quarks and you were kind of pain, you are still kind of pain even though you are dead. You still continue to grow and learn even though you don’t have a body anymore so you are not perfect when you die, and you are not scary when you die so that was the most surprising thing that I learned.

Angela: Yes, I think that is the huge misconception that people have. It probably comes from all the movies they’ve seen where right away you just become an angel looking down smiling down serenely even if life you were a bitch.

Dr. Beischel: One of the questions that we ask when we do a research readings is: Does the discarnate [deceased] have any comments, questions or requests for the sitter. We’ve gotten responses like, “Where the heck is my headstone? Why it isn’t there?” And we have to say well, “The ground is so frozen and they can’t put it up yet.”

One time I did a research reading and the medium said, “Can you call me back after the reading because I am getting something for you from your mother.” So I called her back and she said your mother is showing me this one thing over and over. The words: Dr. Julie Beischel, Dr. Julie Beischel.  Then the medium asked me, “Are you thinking about changing your name?” And, at the time she didn’t know this but I got engaged and so we were talking about whether I should change my name or not. So I am getting advice from my mother to keep my name, even from the other side. But again, when you die you aren’t perfect though. You don’t have to listen to that anymore then you would have to listen if your mother were giving you advice and she were still alive.

Angela: What other practical application are there for mediumship?

Dr. Beischel:  That’s our main focus. Our full name is Windbridge Institude for Applied Research. Aside from studies on grieving we are interested how mediumship could assist Law enforcement. Mediumship readings can be used to find missing person or solve murders. Perhaps someday mediums could speak for murder victims in a court of law.

Clearly there are law enforcement persons using mediums that are not coming clean and being public about this but its happening. More research needs to be done because everything that comes out of a medium’s mouth isn’t always accurate and the medium can tell which things are accurate and which things aren’t. We don’t know why that happens. So we think that research is necessary in this area.

Angela: Years ago one of the first psychic development courses I took, and I am going back now probably about 25 years, there was a police detective in the course and he drove down from Massachusetts. I took the course in New York. He didn’t want anybody to know that he was taking this course but he said he was quite intuitive and he wanted to see if he developed it could it help him solve cases. Now that was the first time I had ever heard of anything like that and I was like Wow that’s really awesome!! I don’t know what happened to him but it was really amazing

Dr. Beischel: And that’s what I have heard is that people in law enforcement don’t want to be make fun of. They use the psychic off the books without telling their colleagues, and then once that person is solving cases repeatedly and then department aks how are you getting leads and they tell them and then they can get behind it.

Angela: S0 aside from publishing your book what else is you working on?

Dr. Beischel: We just received funding to study the hematology and psycho-physiology of medumship. We take the medium’s blood before and after reading and see what kind of blood components might change because it seems that, mediums have the threat of higher health risks then the rest of the population. And again if you can show physiological components to this,  it supports the reality that it’s not psychopathology or that they are just delusional.

Angela: When I read about this in your book I got little upset. I don’t want to  have any health issues.

Dr. Beischel: It’s not a 100% but as a population, we have seen higher rates of autoimmune disorder. My theory is that because you are sort of interacting with the energy of the people so often that may be the body becomes confused about what’s self and what’s other. So that’s, I have no data to support but that’s my hypothesis,

Angela: That makes sense.

Beischel: So the other thing that we are working on is, my husband and I are writing a book called “Psychic Intimacy.” People can visit psychicintimacy.com to learn more about it. Mark and I met at a parapsychology two week parapsychology summer program. We were on  a camp and we were hearing from experts and we were doing demonstrations of para-psychological research experiment and that’s where we met. We participated in an experiment where our physiology linked up even though we were strangers in two different buildings. My physiology was reacting to Mark’s physiology even though he was in the different building and so we got married. [LOL]

So through our relationship as, you know we are both scientists and we are never ‘not’ scientists. In our everyday life we try to do experiments in our house. We try and demonstrate our non local connection and we thought there must be other couples who would benefit from it. It brings people closer together to know that even mentally you are connected even if you are in two different cities or countries.

So we are writing this book called “Psychic Intimacy a Handbook for Couples.” And it will include real world exercises that people can use to demonstrate their connections to each other even if not in the same room. Lots of people have experiences where their partners so we are collecting stories from people.

You know, that sentence like meeting someone for the first time but feel like you have known them for a long time.

Angela: Yes, that’s happened to me. I recall a Dean Radin experiment where there were couples they were in different room.

Dr. Beischel: That’s the study he was doing at the time. He told us about it and we said that’s really interesting and we said why not try it> So we acted like we were a couple in his study though we were strangers. It was called the “Love study” That was the code name they used. One of the spouses had cancer and they looked to see if the body of the other spouse linked up and it did.

Angela: Is this the same Dean Radin experiment where he was showing things to one of the spouses and the other spouse reacted in the other room?

Dr. Beischel: The way we did was, I was in the room with a camera and mark was in another building with a TV and sometimes the camera would be pointed at me and sometimes he could see me on the TV and sometimes he couldn’t and so when he could see me his instructions were to try and get my attention from the other building. He would be going, “Julie Julie Julie,” and my blood pressure would go up.

Angela: So your body was reacting even though you weren’t consciously aware of what was going on. See that to me is such a proof for psi. I can’t imagine how anyone could refute that.

Dr. Beischel: Once I got into the field it really opened my eyes. I realized that everything I learned isn’t the whole picture. Its arrogant to think that we understand everything in the universe so, it make you really open to thinking that, “Okay maybe these other things are possible too.” And as a good scientist you have to stay open minded. Unless you have data to refute something you can’t say it can’t happen.

Angela: Who is to say that what we see as our reality is only the tiny tip of the iceberg. We really don’t know what’s really under there.

Dr. Beischel please tell readers where they can connect with you.

Dr. Beischel: People can visit Windbridge.org . All our peer viewed papers are available on the Windbrige page and people can sign up to receive emails.  They can also become members to get the quarterly e-newsletter – that’s a members only newsletter.

They can visit afterlifescience.com for information and to contribute to the crowdfunding about the grief clinical trial that I want do.

They can also visit psychicintimacy.com where we are actually not doing studies. Its really just the collection of exercises we have developed in our own house and in our own relationship and where we think might be helpful to people. We are collecting stories about psychic connections that they have had and, it doesn’t have to be romantic partner either. We have a friend who is an author and she has a connection with her writing partner. They are not couple but they can communicate across time and space. So it doesn’t have to be a romantic couple, just things that lots of people share. Go to psychicintimacy.com  we are collecting stories and sign up to a different email list to be notified when that book comes out.

Angela: Dr. Beischel you have generously offered a special gift to Powered by Intuition readers. You are giving away a free membership to the Windbridge Institute to one lucky reader who leaves a comment about why supporting a controversial research is important.

When you say “controversial research” is it because the scientific community puts their nose up in the air?

Dr. Beischel: Yes. Almost any other thing that you want to study in this country, the government has a grant for but there aren’t any government grants available supporting mediumship studies.

What questions do you have for Dr. Beischel? Why do you think it’s important to support controversial research studies such as mediumship? (Enter the contest for a free WB membership by leaving your comment).

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**Special note: The winner of the free membership to the Windbridge Institute is Joe Bill Schirtzinger. Congratulations Joe!

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Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. –Anne Wilson Schae

A heard a tiny whisper in my head saying, “Check again for your keys.”

I ignored it….and discovered I was locked out of my house when I got home at 11 pm. I had to get a locksmith to make an emergency visit to drill the lock. Ignoring my intuition cost me a lot of money.

Has something like this ever happened to you?

If you often find yourself in pickles like this you are ignoring your intuition.

Here are the top reasons you ignore your intuition:

1. Doubt. You play down the importance of this “voice.”

Antidote: You need to develop trust in your intuition. The only way to do this is to listen to these whispers and act upon them. The more you do and find they are “right” the more trust you’ll gain in your inner voice.

2. Lack of intention. Listening to your intuition is not a priority in your life.

Antidote: You’ve got to create an intention to develop your intuition. After all if you don’t make it a priority to listen this voice, who will? Recognize the importance of these messages from your intuitive wisdom and become conscious of them.

3. Monkey mind. You lack focus and clarity in your thinking.

Antidote: You have not set aside time each day to meditate and clear your mind. Develop the habit of sitting in silence and listening for 20 minutes a day. Your thoughts will slow and your intuition will come through more loudly and clearly.

4. Insecurity. You listen to others (external voices) rather than yourself.

Antidote: You must develop your self-confidence and self-reliance. Pay attention to how you feel when you override your own instincts to listen to what others say you should do. Feeling “twisted” up inside like maybe it’s “wrong” is a signal that you’ve ignored your inner wisdom.

5. Multi-tasking. You are always in a hurry and doing too many things at once.

Antidote: Stop it! When you rush and try to accomplish too much at once you will not hear this subtle voice. Focus on one thing at a time. Take breaks where you walk away and give yourself a breather so your intuition can come through.

6. Distraction. You are never alone or have your cell phone, radio or television on at all times.

Antidote: If you cannot be alone with your self and need to have constant company, conversation or “noise” you will block your intuition from coming through. Turn everything off and spend at least an hour a day being “mindful” while you accomplish a simple task such as washing the dishes.

7. Self-medicating. You drink, do drugs or use food to shut out your inner voice.

Antidote: Using any substance to deal with your fears or quiet the critical internal voice will also block your intuition. Try journaling to get in touch with these inner stressors instead. When you write about your feelings you become conscious of what is driving you to self-medicate.

8. Toxic relationships. You live with or are involved with controlling or negative people.

Antidote: Find a way to cut off from or lessen the time you spend around toxic people. If you can’t get away make it a habit to have “alone” time. Toxic people poison your thoughts and undermine your confidence and self-esteem which muffles your intuition.

9. Control. You are a controlling personality who is attached to things turning out exactly as you think they should.

Antidote: Having to be “in control” all the time comes from having many fears. You fear what may happen if you don’t “control” the outcome. This is a no win way to live though. You cannot control everyone or everything. Learn to let go and allow the answers to bubble up naturally.

10. Negativity. You have a habit of thinking negatively.

Antidote: Look for the positive in everything. Stop looking for what can go wrong. Change your attitude and look for what can go right instead. You created the habit of thinking negatively and you can break that habit too – if you want to. Negative thinking overrides your intuition. You’ll hear it but you won’t believe it!

11. People pleasing. You put yourself last all the time.

Antidote: Stop putting the needs of others ahead of yourself all the time. Yes, we should help others and be selfless at times but, not at the expense of ignoring our own needs. People pleasing is a habit that absolutely shuts down your intuition.

Do you see yourself on this list? Can you think of any other habits or things you do that cause you to ignore your intuition? Share them with us in the comments.

If you notice that you are ignoring your intuition by doing one or more of these things I highly suggest you focus on the antidote. I cover these blocks to intuition extensively in my book, “The Intuition Principle.”

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April 2013 Numerology Forecast – You’re Number One!

April’s Numerology Forecast brought to you by intuitive numerologist, Kari Samuels, is about manifesting your desires.

You will be showered with opportunities for empowerment and self-love.

Numbers are similar to planets in the way they affect us, since they are both vibrations.

All throughout 2013 we are experiencing the influence of the number 6. (2+0+1+3 = 6). 6 energy teaches us to have balance, foster healthy relationships, and create more love and harmony.

Every month, as the numeric value changes so does the energy.

April 2013 is the 4th month of the year. Therefore, we always experience the influence of the 4 vibration in April. Four is a number associated with the Earth, our physical bodies, and our material world. Squares have four sides, and are a stable shape on which to build a foundation.

It’s the perfect time to square your corners, get your finances in order, and create a structured plan for your future. No wonder this is the month for taxes! There are far more glamorous applications, of course. The most important being honoring your body, enjoying the Earth, and creating the building blocks for the life you love.

During April 2013 we are influenced by the number 1.

We get this by adding the Universal Year number (6) to the number of the month (4). 6+4 =10. In numerology, we reduce numbers until they are a single digit, 10 is reduced to 1 (1+0 =1). This is such powerful energy! 1 teaches you to put yourself first, follow your intuition and do something for the first time, and celebrate your uniqueness.

This is a wonderful time to learn how to listen to your own needs, rather than other people’s.

Do you often hold back from saying or doing something because you are afraid of what others will think of you? Do you accommodate other people rather than voice what you want? Is there an idea that you want to share with the world, but are afraid it is not practical? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, it’s now time to say YES to you!

There is a beautiful synchronicity of energies in the Universe now that are encouraging you to believe in yourself by following your intuition. It is never selfish to be self-nourishing. In fact, it is the best thing you can do for the people you love!

The burst of energy you will receive is similar to a sprout pushing it’s way through the soil. Why not harness this force to promote some needed changes in your life?

Here are some tips for suggested actions you can take:

• Release yourself from any social obligations you have that are draining you.
• Make time for yourself every day.
• Tune into your intuition
• Put recreation and self-care on your calendar
• Write up a business plan for your dream career
• Share with your friends and family something about yourself you’ve been afraid to tell them.
• Be yourself!

It’s time to celebrate you!

Remember, if you don’t make yourself number one in your life, who will? You’re the only one of you on the planet, and we all need you to be your shining beautiful self.

Happy April!

What will you do to take advantage of this month’s self-focused energy? Are you starting any new projects? A new job? Have questions for Kari? Share with us in the comments.

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Kari Samuels is an Intuitive Counselor and Happiness Coach.  She is highly sought-after for her expertise and innovation as a numerologist.  Using the letters of your name and the numbers in your birth date – she can tune into your past, present and future, decipher your destiny, and guide you on your path toward happiness like a human GPS. You can find Kari at: www.karisamuels.com

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Life after death evidence

Today, I’m excited to share submissions from Powered by Intuition readers about encountering the spirit of a deceased loved one.

These stories illustrate what I believe: We’re all connected in spirit and naturally intuitive and psychic beings.  Each of these readers is a quality psychic in their own right. Communication with the spirit of a loved happens spontaneously and requires no preparation such as, the need to study psychic development, mediumship or the tarot cards meaning.

Their stories prove that the love that connects us to one another survives physical death and is all we need to receive a communication from the spirit world. Your loved ones want to let you know they are okay. They want to let you know they still love you and will always be with you. All you need to do is stay open to receiving their message.

These four personal encounters are great examples of the variety of ways your loved ones communicate their presence to you.

Seeing a spirit

When I was a young girl approximately 8 or 9 years old my favorite uncle passed away from a heart attack. I was devastated by his death, he was always the one who was there for my brother, sister and I. Our favorite ritual if you will, was heading down back to the lower part of our property to build a camp fire for roasting marshmallows and hot dogs. My uncle Bill would tell us stories, make us laugh and couldn’t get enough of those roasted marshmallows. Ha.

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On the morning of the funeral, we all went to say our goodbyes to a great man. Upon walking up to the casket and looking at my uncle, I knew he was no longer there. The only thing I saw was an empty body, I knew his spirit had moved on. The hardest part was knowing I would never see him again, not in this life anyway. I went home and cried myself to sleep that night.

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The following morning I awoke and sat up on the edge of the bed, when I looked up my uncle Bill was standing in the doorway looking down at me. There he was in his black pin stripe suit that he loved so well. I knew he came back to let me know that everything was alright and that his spirit would always be near.

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I wasn’t able to tell my parents about this experience because I knew in my heart they would never believe me. We were taught that there are no such things as spirits or ghosts and of course would have been punished had we ever spoke of such things. I pray that parents of today will be more open and receptive of things their children see and hear. I can tell you from personal experience that there is a spirit world and it isn’t something to be feared.

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–Susan Reese

Clairaudience – Hearing from the spirit world

A few years ago I was living in Florida and my aunt, who lived in Detroit area, was very ill and in the hospital.  I was very close to her and my sister called to say she was dying.  I immediately made a plane reservation to return to Detroit before she passed.

While on the plane I suddenly heard, “It’s all over now.”

Don’t know who said it to me but, it did not sound like her.  When I landed my sister said she died and gave me the time 8:50 p.m. which was the exact time I had received the message.

While babysitting for my grandchild and doing my nails I heard my aunt, whom had passed say, “Bow, what in the world is going on?”   I explained to her that she had passed and was now in the spirit world.  She didn’t reply but, did not return to visit me again.

–Clara Sifers

Smelling the presence of a spirit

My eldest son passed away 3 years ago.
It was my father`s 70th birthday recently.
We live 16,000 km apart on different continents & hemispheres.
They live in a mountainous area and don`t often have satellite reception.
I just sent a text message birthday wish.
Later that evening, in a specific area, I `smelled` my son’s scent.
A couple of days later it happened again.
I`m not sure, maybe it`s him making his presence known & acknowledging
this special time for his grandfather.

–Xanele Talbot

Spirit Visitation in a Dream

When my father died, I was very shocked, and there was one thing I was really sorry about. I felt I mistreated him in one way, on a specific occasion, and I really felt sorry for hurting him (emotionally).

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It was maybe about a year after he had passed, that I had this dream:

I was in a graveyard of some kind, or larger field, other ‘people’ helpers were there (maybe angels), and then a floor door (or a door on the ground) opened, and out came my father, he came up the steps. I was so happy to see him, we hugged and embraced, and I told him, that I was so sorry about what happened, and that I didn’t want to hurt him. He told me, that all is fine, and that he had no hard feelings, and he completely understood, and didn’t take it personally. That all is well.

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I was so relieved and so happy, and then we had to say goodbyes , and he had to go down those steps again and retreat under ground.

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I wasn’t sad seeing  him leave, it was all right.

I know he was fine and that all is well.

This very vivid dream helped me tremendously

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I really believe he came and visited me from the other side…

–Caroline Cameron

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