Hi Everyone,

Two weeks ago Jerry, Aaron, Erin and I attended a group session with the medium Roland Comtois. Roland is from Rhode Island but travels for his work and often holds sessions in Chappaqua, in the home of a woman named Helen Escofia, who runs a business called Star Visions. On this night Helen was hosting 30 people, all who came wanting to connect with someone who had passed.

Roland, who is a warm and caring, gifted medium went out of his way to try to give everyone a message that was meaningful. I think, in these big group sessions, it's a matter of which spirit speaks the loudest. Sometimes Roland will be in the middle of imparting a message to someone when it seems as if he is pulled in another direction entirely and has to give someone else a message immediately. It's as if many loved ones are around, all vying for his attention in order to get their messages across....and of course, I sat there in wait for Dan.

To our great pleasure Dan was very present and unmistably himself. His personality comes through so thoroughly Dan, that it reassures us time and again of his continued existence. His words, so factually correct about what is going on in our lives, show us how connected to us he still is. I cannot tell you the level of solace I receive from this but it is palpable! Although it doesn't bring him back to me in the flesh, it does allow for our relationship to continue in another way, and that is so much better than nothing at all. If I can't have Danny here, I will seek him where he is, and I will connect up with him any way that I can.

Initially I thought that all of this connecting up was solely for the benefit of us who remain here in physical form, missing our loved ones on the other side. I have since learned differently. Through numerous sessions with the medium Glenn Dove, I have heard from Dan himself how much he has benefitted from our continued connection to him. He expresses that the thoughts, the prayers, the love, the place settings for him at our birthday tables, the jokes, the memories, everything that we do for him and in his name, helps him. He said that his own healing has actually been accelorated because we go out of our way to include him rather than to forget him. Whether you like to hear this or not, I have been brought to believe that those on the other side who find their loved ones in perpetual agony, are held down by it. Those, on the other side, whose continued existence is not understood or excepted, feel ignored.

I know this may seem radical to many of you. I know of many bereaved parents who pack away their old photographs and endeavour to never mention or think their loved one at all, if they can help it. And I know it can feel sacreligious to even laugh and enjoy a good meal when you are grieving. But if you think that it is even remotely possible that your loved one has gone on and can feel and observe your feelings, wouldn't you want to consider what you are doing and how you can do your best for him or her?

For me, the benefit of having spent the last 35 years of my life exploring spiritulism, is that I already believed in the survival of spirit after death. By the time Dan died I had been a student and teacher, exploring healing and mediumship for many years. Not only that, but I talked about life after death with my kids and so Dan knew quite a bit about the survival of personality and communication between the worlds. Dan was so aware of this that even in the first few weeks after his death he came through various different mediums to friends of mine who were having personal sessions for themselves, in order to get messages to me. One woman was told that a very recent, younger crossing was coming through to anyone who knew his mother in order to get his message across that he was okay. He even impressed himself so strongly on a medium in Nyack that the woman approached my sister-in-law, (Dan's aunt) at a street fair in order to give her a message that was extremely meaningful. Now that's pretty unheard of...mediums approaching people who do not have appointments! But, leave it to Dan. He is quite a powerful spirit!

There is so many great incidents to share that I have blog material for days to come. In conclusion for today, I want to share a paragraph that I am copying from the book "Raymond Or Life And Death," by Sir Oliver Lodge. Lodge, who was a renowned scientist in Britian, lost his son Raymond in the war and sought connection to him through exploring the world of mediums with his wife and other children. The information that came through proved to Lodge and his family that Raymond, in fact, existed in another realm which was very closely related to this one and that they could maintain communication and engage in relationship. The book is fascinating and I recommend it to all. The following was said by Raymond through the mediumship of a Mrs. Kennedy through the act of automatic writing.

"Father, tell mother she has her son with her all day on Christmas Day. There will be thousands and thousands of us back in the homes on that day but the horrid part is that so many of the fellows don't get welcomed. Please keep a place for me. I must go now. Bless you again, Father-Raymond."

It makes you think...doesn't it? I welcome all comments and shares!
Be well,
Love,
Sheri