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THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH! I'm sure of it!
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Those of you who've read my blogs know that I think of myself as a practicing psychic and metaphysical expert, just like a doctor or a scientist practices her or his specialty or should. Our dear friend and national treasure, Dr. Jerry Epstein, M.D. pointed out to me today that the word "science" comes from the concept "to know," but certainty is not scientific - there's been at least six concepts of the atom that I know about and our understanding of atomic things and everything is evolving. I approach everything I write and do from the standpoint of:
Can I stand 100% behind what I am writing today while at the same time not being closed-minded? Can I speak what I believe to be true - including giving voice to my psychic abilities while at the same time acknowledging that I am not infallible and might be wrong? And if I am proved wrong am I brave enough to admit it and incorporate this new information into my life and my work?
Unlike far too many scientists and doctors and politicians and blame-Americans-first citizens, I am proud to say that I can honestly answer all of the above questions in the affirmative. A side note: I'd love to see the Un-Civil War that is currently raging in the USA end and both sides admit that the other side could be correct - do you hear that, gay-bashers and Bush haters, to name only two of the polarized Polaroid "citizens" infecting our nation with their sixty-second loyalties and beliefs? If you can't conceive of the fact that gay people are people just like you or that the President and the Vice-President and Secretary Rumsfeld and the generals (who are also not demons but people just like you or me) might not just believe that they are doing the right thing - which by itself seems too hard for too many otherwise truth-seeking people to believe - but that they may actually be doing the right thing, then how can you expect to be able to see what the right thing is?
But, as usual, I digress: I know my stuff and I'm not afraid to speak my truth to anyone, anywhere, anytime, but my mind is open and looking to learn as much as I can during my short stay on this plane of existence and that brings me to the subject of today's blog and it might be the most important one I've ever written or that I will ever write: I HAVE PROVED TO MYSELF THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH!!!
I am a professional psychic adviser to businesses and individuals and I have apparently communicated with deceased people in the past,. The fact that I've not been ready to say there's life after death with certainty may surprise you. However, doing readings has taught me that virtually everyone has an inner critic - a voice reminiscent of a parent, teacher, or other authority figure that one hears relentlessly judging one's actions - and I am no exception. Everyone who is good at what they do has this voice and once you come to understand and befriend your inner critic you realize that its purpose is to help you do your best and to avoid past mistakes.
Following each and every time I do a psychic reading I discuss it with Amy and though I'm as astonished as anyone by the information I get, I want to keep a level, scientific head about what I've done. And so I subject the whole process to my inner critic who I like to believe thinks and sounds a lot like James "The Amazing" Randi, someone who seems to have always been in my life, first as the great stage magician performing tricks on "Wonderama," a great children's TV show from my 1950's childhood, and now as the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant for the purpose of debunking psychics, which he's done for a long time, following in the footsteps of another great magician, Harry Houdini, who wanted them to be real but couldn't find one (or wouldn't admit he had found a real psychic medium.)
So even though I would get messages for Amy and me, my clients, my friends and other people that seemed to come from their dearly departed I would always hear the Randi-like inner critic offering other explanations. Randi himself would have said that, at best, I was a good reader of other people and extrapolated clues from their appearance, voice, or mannerisms. I went him one better and postulated that perhaps my ability to know things about the deceased might have come from my ability to read people's minds - no mean feat, to be sure, but no proof of an afterlife to someone like me who thinks of himself as a scientist (very Aquarian of me!)
But owing to events surrounding the sudden and totally unexpected (from our point of view) death of our dear friend Rona Jaffe, which was the subject of my previous blog, I can now say with certainty that I have proved to myself beyond doubt that there is an afterlife. Of course, Randi won't give a damn what I've proved to myself - he's looking for a different kind of proof - but frankly in this case I don't give a damn what Randi's looking for. I know what I know and I've convinced myself with what I consider to be scientific proof. One day, if I feel like it, I'll take his challenge and win his money, but this is more important than him or me or any challenge. Here's why I am now a believer in life after death.
About five minutes after we learned over the phone that Rona had died, Amy asked me if Rona had a message for anyone. We were both in shock and asking this kind of a question made Amy and me feel a bit better. After all, I first started doing overt psychic work after the equally untimely death of Amy's incredible mother, Jessie Spicer Zerner, whose name I love to write as another way of keeping her alive for me. I started by contacting Jessie and I still speak to her, but my inner Randi critic is always aware that I may just be fooling myself somehow, however accurate it seems, because of wistful and wishful thinking. Though I have to admit I've gotten a ton of amazing accurate information from "Jessie" that has enabled me to predict future events and even the weather with amazing accuracy.
But what later transpired at Rona' funeral because of my answer to Amy's question regarding any message that Rona Jaffe had for anyone burned off any doubt I had. Out of my mouth tumbled the words "Tell ________ that I'm not mad at her." And nothing more. I felt like I had heard her say these words in my mind.
There's no room for an inner critic when you're doing psychic work but my inner critic went to work the second I finished speaking. Rona and this person were as close as close could be and had never had a bad word to say about each other. I assumed that I was wrong.
Had this not happened, one of the things that I would have always regretted was that I hadn't seen Rona in the flesh since September (she died December 30, 2005). However, my not having seen her or communicated with her prevented me from learning anything about her problem with _________. Most people who have lost a loved one have some regret regarding something they did or they didn't do to or for the deceased. It can be devastating, something that haunts the person for the rest of their lives.
Amy and I love and loved Rona and we wanted to be with other people who love Rona and so we made a special trip to New York City the night before her funeral and stayed in a hotel so that we could be there on time. I'm a bit shy to admit that I have a habit of causing us to be late for funerals and weddings. Hey, I never said I was perfect! We would have had to leave at 5 AM to get there otherwise. At the funeral we saw the person that "Rona" had given me the message for and she looked more distraught than anyone else at the funeral - she looked plagued by guilt. But I was still not ready to go up to her and give her this message. It would have been rude of me to say such a thing anytime following Rona's passing but especially at her funeral!
Amy and I took a wonderful and supremely trustworthy mutual friend of ours and Rona's into our confidence about "Rona's" message through me to this person and we asked her if prior to her passing Rona had mentioned anything about a problem with this other person - and there had been! And so I steeled myself for conveying "Rona's" message and, waiting until the gathering of friends and family after we returned from the burial, I conveyed "Rona's" message to this person.
When I told her that I had gotten the message that I should tell her that Rona was not mad at her, it was as if a weight had been lifted off her shoulders and I felt wonderful. She asked me if I had heard about the problem they had and I had to be truthful (or else I'll lose my magic powers!) and I told her that, yes, I had heard at the funeral but not prior. We were both nearly in tears of delight that what she thought would be a life-long regret had been transformed into a magical, life-affirming event.
When I got that message from "Rona" I had no idea of any problem. I was not in the same room with anyone other than Amy. I simply did what I do and tried to contact Rona Jaffe and I did. Period. What she told me was VERY IMPORTANT to her, the kind of thing a person does say on their death bed. It was also very important to this person she held and still holds so dear and it was VERY important to this skeptical psychic. I can't deny what happened. I contacted a deceased person who was still in existence somehow and somewhere and was herself enough to convey to me this important message.
So - if you believe me - then you have more reason to believe in life after death. I hope that this gives you some measure of comfort as it does me. Amy was convinced by my abilities many years ago and thinks me odd for not believing prior to this, what I consider to be a particularly rigorous scientific experiment.
However, and in science there is always a "however" and there always should be, although I now know beyond doubt that there is an afterlife, I do not claim to know more than that. I don't know "where" it is. I'm not sure how people "live" there. I don't know about reincarnation, one way or another, though I'm leaning against it. I'm not even sure about "karma" from past lives affecting this one, and I am the author of "Karma Cards: A Guide to Your Future Through Astrology!"
Of course, I do believe without question in how our lives here and now are affected by "karma," the spiritual equivalent of Sir Issac Newton's First Law of Motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and that our beliefs and actions in the past have consequences in our present and our future, just as our present actions can affect our future and change our "karma." I even suspect that time might be fluid enough where our present beliefs and actions affect our past, but that is for another blog and another time when I am more sure of what I believe.
But regarding all of the questions raised by my now firm belief that I have proved to myself that there is life after death, my mind is open.I'll let you know right here if I have any other breakthroughs because I'm actively working on learning as much as I can on this plane of existence about the next one - before I get there and learn all there is to know! |
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