Psychic Messages by George Ministeri          
Volume Number 2, Issue Number 3

The Veil between Life and Death

Every year around this time as we approach Halloween, people become more aware of ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Most of us are afraid of these things because we really don't understand what this phenomenon actually represents. I think part of this fear arises from our own fear of death, and our questions regarding what if anything exists beyond this life. What is a spirit? The scientific community has lead us to believe that spirits are hallucinations, or the result of an overactive imagination. In other words, they do not exist if they cannot be scientifically proven to exist, or theories cannot be developed to model or explain their behavior. However, we have all heard stories from friends, or family members which involve ghosts or spirits, or we have seen things with our own eyes that cannot be explained and our natural reaction is fear. We shouldn't be afraid of spirits or need scientists or religion to explain what a spirit is because we all have a spirit within us. It is called our soul. When we pass from this world to the next, it is our soul that makes that journey. When people who are close to us pass away, they are not really gone forever, they have just moved onto a higher plain of existence. They have lost their physical bodies but can still interact with us in this world. It is that interaction that people have perceived as spirits or ghosts.

During my life I have experienced many different contacts with the spirit world, both on a conscious and a subconscious level. When I was a child I was told that this was all because I had a vivid imagination, but as an adult I know the difference between fantasy and reality and this realization has opened the door to a whole new world of opportunity, knowledge, and experiences. These experiences have made me strongly believe that our spirits do go on even though our physical body perishes. Let me tell you a short story as an example of an experience I had to help you understand what can happen when you open up your mind to the world around you and how you can interact with people who have passed.

Several years ago I was working on a psychic investigation at a famous haunted inn and restaurant in Lambertville, New Jersey called The Inn of the Hawk. I was there to investigate the many reports of paranormal activity and help the spirits that resided at the inn to either remain there in peace, or to move on to the next world. After doing a lot of work with the local media, the owners of this inn, and the many active spirits that inhabited the inn, I decided to also take on some clients, and became very busy. I was asked by a friend to visit a friend of his who owned a bed and breakfast called Porches in New Hope, Pennsylvania, which is just across the Delaware River from Lambertville. The owner of this bed and breakfast wanted to speak to me in regards to some very interesting sightings her clientele had reported. I initially protested because by this time I just wanted to relax and enjoy some vacation time before returning to Boston. However, I felt obligated to go because he had promised her that I would at least drop by for the dinner she had prepared in anticipation of my arrival. In order to reach this bed and breakfast you had to drive up a narrow dirt path called Fisher's Alley. The approach to porches was like something you would only see in your imagination, at the end of this small road stood the most quaint and enchanting home you could ever want to see. It was a simple brick home with a wrap around farmer's porch which inspired the bed and breakfast's name, and was surrounded by gardens. I approached the front door and was greeted by the woman who owned this inviting place. She was a very warm and attractive woman in her forties with bright cheerful eyes and a welcoming smile. She was wearing a thick light brown mohair turtle neck sweater, with a long dark flowing wool skirt, and a full length baker's apron which was covered with a few little spots of the evening's meal. We entered into the house directly into the kitchen which had the aroma of pot roast, one of my favorites, along with the faint aroma of freshly baked bread. Porches was not a new home it had been there for over one hundred years and the kitchen was as quaint as porches was itself. It had a large fireplace decorated with dried herbs, and a simple shaker style kitchen table. On the table were a little bouquet of freshly cut fall flowers, and a dish of freshly made butter for the bread which was to accompany the meal I was now greatly anticipating. After the meal we were about to enjoy the apple pie she had made for dessert, when one of the spirits which inhabited this home made himself known. In my mind I could hear him speaking to me, but I could not clearly understand what he was saying. That's when I realized that he had a speech impediment. He was accompanied by a second spirit, another man, and this spirit spoke with a stammer. They told me that they had been the previous owners of this home before it was sold to this woman and turned into a bed and breakfast. To them the house was exactly the same as it was when they lived there, and that there was little more than a thin veil between their home and this woman's bed and breakfast. One day they accidentally walked through this veil and found themselves in this woman's bed and breakfast. They said they where very happy to see their home turned into a bed and breakfast because in life they had often considered doing exactly the same thing. They however faced many hardships in life and had to live their lives based on what other people thought instead of just being able to be happy and live as they wanted. Despite not always being happy in life, they were always happy in this home, and returned to it. It's been said that heaven is what you make of it, and perhaps to them this home was heaven. One of the things these spirits liked was to help guide troubled guests who had come to this bed and breakfast to try and resolve their problems. I think because these two spirits had so many problems in their own lives they felt a certain compassion for people with their own problems and tried to help in whatever way they could. Most of the information I received from these two men was later confirmed by people who lived in town, and people who new these two men in life. It was also confirmed by a number of the guests of the bed and breakfast who admitted they arrived with heavy hearts and left feeling that a weight had been taken off of their shoulders. Also these two spirits had been seen by many guests since the bed and breakfast had opened. After this experience I often traveled back to this bed and breakfast to enjoy a comfortable vacation and always had a comforting feeling knowing that my spirit friends' vibes were all around me. Although I only gave a brief synopsis of this whole story I hope it gives you an idea of what a spirit is and how we interact with them without perhaps even knowing it.

There are ways to open up your senses in order to make a connection with the spirit world, and not to simply look at them as ghosts. Remember, when you are going to have contact with a spirit, you are in complete control of the whole experience. It may seem impossible, but I am going to give you a few suggestions to help you out. Before I do so, I feel I should make you aware of some of the practices of con artists and charlatans who try to make a buck off of people's grief and feeling of loss. If you go to a medium, or spirit channeler and the information they give you just doesn't fit with your dearly departed loved one or if the only things they can tell you is vague and general information such as that they are very happy and no longer feel any pain and that they are waiting for you on the other side, just get up and leave. If you go to someone who is supposed to be communicating with your loved ones and they can't say or describe anything convincing to assure you that they are in contact with a person you knew in life, then most likely they are not talking to a spirit at all. That's not to say that the medium or spirit channeler will be talking to the exact person with whom you wish to communicate. It may be a relative or another spirit with some connection to you, but that spirit should be able to pass on relevant information about your loved one and not just vague information. Just because we have passed onto a higher plain it does not mean that we can suddenly only communicate in vague pleasantries. That said just remember that all mediums are not psychics, and all psychics are not mediums we develop the gifts we are given. For example with my clients I primarily deal with the issues and events that have happened and will happen in their lives, and a medium or channeler deals with communicating with the hereafter. So you wouldn't want to go hire a plumber to have a tooth pulled. You also don't need to be a professional psychic or medium to communicate with those who have passed. We all have the ability to communicate with those who have passed, assuming that that those who have passed have something to say in the first place. The first thing we need to do is to accept the fact that we can do this and to learn how to focus ourselves to lift that veil between this world and the spirit world. The method to accomplish this is fairly easy it just takes some time, effort, and consistency. When those who have passed travel from this world to the next, they loose the physical energy that grounds us to this world and they can no longer interact with the physical world. They need assistance from us here in the physical world to communicate by acting on our senses or by being able to feel their presence by changing the atmospheric conditions around us. In order to manifest themselves back in this world, they need the physical energy they used to have as living beings, and to do this they draw on, or as I like to put it, borrow a little of our physical energy. When a spirit does this it causes us to feel a slight chill. Borrowing this little bit of energy does no harm to us. It is just something they need in order to allow them to do some physical task needed to draw our attention. Of course every time you feel a chill it doesn't necessarily mean a spirit is around you. Sometimes a chill is just a chill. Living in the northeast if there was a spirit around every time I got a chill in the winter I would never have any peace at all. It is easier for spirits to communicate with us when we are in the Alpha level of our brain wave patterns because this is the level they exist on. One of the ways we reach this level is when we are asleep. Remember, you are in control of the physical level, because they have no rights to it anymore, so you can see that it would be much easier for them to come to you in your sleep when you are in your Alpha phase, than when you are in a waking condition because you are closer to their level. In order for a spirit to do this you must give them permission, so each night before you go to sleep, you must give permission out loud by name to the spirit with whom you wish to make contact. Tell that person that it is ok to come to you in your dreams, but don't expect any miracles overnight. You need to be patient and consistent, it may take a few days or even a few months before the actual contact is made, but hang in there because it will happen. I have given this advice to many friends and acquaintances over the years and I have always suggested that they keep a pen and a pad of paper beside their bed so that when you finally do make contact you can write down your dream while it is still fresh in your mind. I am sure that you won't forget this dream, but you might forget some of the important details.

We should never be afraid of death, spirits and what lies beyond this world. In most cultures and religions around the world death is seen as a wonderful prize at the end of our long journey through life. It may be hard to accept the death of loved ones because it seems that they have left us forever and have gone to a far away place, but that place is just a thin veil away. If we can learn to push aside that veil they are there waiting for us. When we come to the end of our existence in this world it is truly not the end, our bodies are only a shell that carries the energy that is our soul, and it is that energy which we carry from this world to the next.

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