Table of Contents

Preface 1

Foreword 6

Acknowledgments 11

Personal Introduction 13

Part 1 Fear of Death 19

Scientific Name for Fear of Death

Spiritual Immortality 20

The Journey of the Soul 21

What is Soul? It is the Essence of who you truly are 22

The Silver Cord 25

My Vision of Witnessing the Silver Cord: Yvette my Friend 26

Where is the Soul Located? 28

Soul Lessons: Important challenges to help you Evolve 30

What are Spiritual Blockages?

Exercise to awaken your Soul 32

My First Experience of Seeing a Soul

Witness to real life Karma presenting itself from a Previous Life 33

The Sweetness of the Soul 35

Scientific Evidence Supporting Near-Death Experiences and Afterlife 36

Reincarnation

The Influence of Reincarnation on my Personal Life 39

Personal Past Life Regression - Personal Evidence that I lived before 40

NDEs - No one Really Dies - Compelling Evidence that Life Continues 45

Children Experience NDEs - similar to adults 49

Blind People see during NDEs 51

What are Out-of-Body Experiences or OBEs? 53

Signs of Out-of-Body Experiences 54

Client's Spontaneous Out-of-Body Experience: Survival from Abuse 56

Bobby's Soul Retrieval 57

Indications of Soul Fragmentation 58

Further Evidence in Support of an Afterlife 60

The Phenomenon of Deathbed Visions - DBV 62

Personal Experiences of Deathbed Visions 63

My final hours with Ellie and her Family 65

Last Words spoken by Famous People 67

Children receive deathbed visions too - similar to adults Angelic Beings - the Invisible Companions seen around the Deathbed 68

Premonitory Death Vision Experienced by my Oldest Client 72

My youngest brother had a Premonitory Vision of his own death 75

My Brother Joseph's Poem 78

After Death Communication - ADC

Swedenborg Case - Swedenborg Contacts Countess's dead husband over Receipt 79

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross encounters patient who died ten months earlier 80

Dead husband saves his young wife 81

My father saved me from ending my Life: Personal After Death Communication 82

Pay Attention to your Dreams: They are Sacred Love Messages 84

Personal experience of Dream Visitation: My Father to the Rescue 85

Heavenly Signs: your Loved One is trying to Contact You 87

Sensing their Presence

Feeling their Touch 88

Smelling their Fragrance

Hearing their Voice

Unexpected Electrical Activity 89

Dreams and Visitations

Symbols, Signs, Coins: Communication from your Loved One 90

Rainbows are Heaven's Calling Card

Orbs of Loved Ones appearing in Digital Photographs 91

Reasons why your Loved One cannot get through to you

Beautiful Exercise: Creating a Sacred Heartlink to connect with your Loved One 93

A Powerful Parable of Life after Delivery: Death/Rebirth/Existence 95

Conversation in the Womb: A Parable of Life after Delivery 95

Part 2 Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Grief 99

My first experience with Death as a young Girl 100

Helping Children Navigate the emotions of Grief 101

The Story of Valerie: the child who carried her childhood grief into adulthood 102

Techniques to Facilitate Children through the Grieving Process 105

How to help Children continue a positive connection with a Loved One 106

Healthy Techniques to help Children Express their Grief 108

Create a Sacred Place

Create a Direct Telephone Line 109

Create Time for Letter Writing

Create a Family Hour 110

Create an Arts & Crafts Activity Session

Create a Memory Box 111

Create a Balloon Releasing Ceremony

Young Akiane remembers visits of Jesus while she was in the cradle 112

Poem: Loss of a Child by Kahlil Gibran 113

Zen Buddhist story on Sharing the Sorrow 114

Burial Rituals and Ceremonies

A Wife's Wonderful Humor in the face of Husband's final act of Malice 117

Learning to Identify the Stages and Phases of Grief 118

Denial 119

Anger 120

Bargaining 121

Depression 122

Acceptance 123

Descriptions of other types of Grief and Loss

Anticipatory Grief 124

Normal Grief

Delayed Grief 125

Complicated Grief Disenfranchised Grief

Ambiguous Grief 126

Exercise: Identifying the Five Stages of Grief on your Healing Journey

Grieving the Loss of a Child: Broken Heart Syndrome 128

The Most Inconsiderate Things you could say after the loss of a child 129

Examples of Helpful Statements that provide comfort and support 130

Poem: Love Till It Hurts 131

Out of your brokenness, know your child is not alone 132

Heavenly Message from your Child

The Act of Suicide - Demystifying the Stigma 133

The Life Review: The phrase, "My whole life flashed before my eyes." 136

The Life Review: Judgment is multifaceted

No Blame, No Shame, No Guilt, No One's Fault 138

Take a few moments every day to reflect on the preciousness of your human life 140

True Story of Gregory: A Planned Suicide by one of my Clients

Spirit message from a Loved One who ended his life by the act of Suicide 143

Part 3 Love and Forgiveness: The Keys to Inner Peace and Freedom 145

Love and Forgiveness = Healing and Freedom

Forgiveness of Self and Others: Forgiveness is a Gift you give to Yourself 151

Forgiveness by man whose wife and children were shot before his eyes 154

Eva Mozes Kor: An Auschwitz Survivor's Journey to Forgiveness 155

The Railway Man - Forgiveness Versus Revenge: Most Powerful Film on Forgiveness 157

Nelson Mandela: Icon of Reconciliation and Forgiveness 159

The Ancient Hawaiian Practice of Forgiveness: Ho'oponopono 160

The Four Components of Ho'oponopono Technique 161

Powerful Forgiveness Exercise 162

Freedom Mantra: Choosing Victory over Victim 163

Letting Go of the Past: Surviving in the ocean of Life 165

Closure: A Bridge between Grief and Acceptance 167

Exercise: Connecting with your Loved One in spirit 168

Heavenly Messages from Spirit 170

Heavenly Messages from Mom/Dad to Daughter/Son on their Wedding Day 171

If only I had one more hour, one more day 172

Make friends with your grieving heart

Continue to Celebrate the occasions in my Memory 173

Tears and Fears 174

Nobody has a regret-free Life - Regrets are a part and fact of life 175

Personal Exercise 176

Create a sacred place to honor the memories of your Loved One

My belongings are merely things 177

One day at a time, Dear One 178

Does the Afterlife Exist?

The Land Beyond the Rising Sun 179

Meditation: Loved One's A Whisper Away 182

References 189

List of Scientists who investigated the Afterlife 192