There are plenty of stories about loved ones who have passed on and come back in energetic form to watch over their surviving family members. A bewildering situation played out when my own mother had passed away several years ago. Right before the funeral director was going to close her casket, I and my oldest son approached her casket and asked her to please come back as a cardinal to let us know that she is ok on that “other side”. Cardinals were not common birds to see around our neighborhood, so seeing one would be a significant sign. A few days after my mom’s burial, my son was outside our home playing basketball after school. While he was out there, a cardinal suddenly appeared in the tree in front of our home. He got so excited he called me at work, and said “Mom remember how we asked grandma to come back as a cardinal? Well, a cardinal just appeared in the tree in our front yard! I know that it is grandma. I just know it! I’m going to wave to her. Hi grandma (waving)! OMG mom, I waved at her and the cardinal flew closer to me. She is here by the garbage cans near the basketball hoop!” I could hear the excitement and disbelief in his voice. I said, “Great sweetie, she is letting us know that she is all good on that other side.” When I hung up the phone, I sat there in bewilderment myself. Wondering whether that could actually be her living energy in the form of a cardinal coming to us as we had requested or simply an unusual coincidence. My other two sons had also made special requests for grandma to come back and let them know that she was doing good in the afterlife, and unbelievably their requests were honored as well. It seemed that she was communicating to us in the new ways in which she now could.
I like to think of life as being similar to a bubble. The air all around us is inhaled into our lungs and exhaled into a soapy solution to form a bubble. The encapsulated air floats around until the bubble bursts, at which point the soapy solution falls away releasing the air within it to return to that from which it came. The air inside the bubble returns to the surrounding environmental air. A lifeform has a similar fate. The life energy some would call a soul or spirit is encased in a physical body. Upon death, the life energy is released back to the energy all around from which it came. The physical body is also returned to that from which it came, the Earth. Once the life energy is released from the body it is liberated energy, free to do as it pleases.
This energy can now transfer to other things in order to communicate. The tricky part is this free energy has to communicate via certain channels that we humans can pick up on with our normal senses of sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch. Thus, our deceased loved ones attempt to communicate with us in the following ways:
- Through dreams
- Specific scents
- Apparitions/Ghosts/Figures/Shadows
- Images/messages on the TV or computer
- Through the radio or via certain songs/commercials
- Phone calls with static or silence on the other end
- Objects like feathers, pebbles, stones, or other reminders of them
- Opening and closing cabinets/doors/drawers
- Moving objects
- A gentle brushing or touch
- Sudden changes in temperature, chilling air
- Being an invisible presence for us to sense
- Lights flickering/dimming/brightening
- Coming as small animals, insects, birds (similar to how Patrick Swayze took over Whoopi Goldberg’s body in the movie Ghost)
- Unexpected synchronicities
- Orbs in photographs or a gray ball of light
- Significant numbers or numerical patterns
If we remain open minded, then we can start to receive their messages from beyond. We start to realize that it is THEM who are causing unusual things to happen as a means of communicating with us. If we are closed minded, then we will brush off these inexplicable occurrences as mere coincidence or chance. When we are open minded, then we start to recognize the communications, and they become more and more frequent. In fact, we are then able to start a new way of bantering with our deceased loved ones. It is a phenomenon that cannot be reasoned with limited human logic and rationale. We cannot fully explain the strong “coincidences” that happen, and so we normally give a simple explanation in order to not feel the discomfort of the mysteries of the unknown. Fear can overcome us if we allow it to or we can simply embrace the new communication pathways that we now have to chat with our deceased loved ones. It is better to keep an open mind and explore the possibilities.
What are your experiences after the loss of a loved one? Did you experience bewildering events after their passing? If so, comment and share your stories!