"If you ask a question strongly enough, the universe cooperates and gives you information relevant to the question." - John E. Mack
OddsnEnds -
- Traces of psychedelics make you feel good, but so does placebo. Results of ‘self-blinding’ study. ScienceMag.
- Mobile brain wave reader can detect the emotions of a Horse. Science.
- "Can we ask people questions that they could actually hear in their dreams that we could kind of have a more meaningful conversation?" NPR.
- Using a Dyson Sphere to bring the dead back to life. "Humans can’t build a Dyson Sphere - yet - but the researchers say nanorobots could one day do the job." (On the other hand, a body isn't required for immortality.) PopMech
- Study: Social media users behave a lot like animals searching for food. UPI
- New Theory about the 2020 Monoliths: We're the Aliens. NYTimes.
- 'Third quarter phenomenon' - First named in 1991 by researchers studying people living in cold regions, the phenomenon (still theoretical) is characterized by mood shifts among people nearly finished with a long period of isolation. Those affected often feel anxious, withdrawn, and increasingly vulnerable. Time
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Breadcrumbs - Afterlife Books and blogs
“After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond” (St. Martin’s Essentials), Amazon, March 2, Dr. Bruce Greyson
"5% have had a near death experience and they say it made life worth living." - NYPost
Reviews:"Bridges the gap between science and spirituality with elegance." -Anita Moorjani, bestselling author of Dying to Be Me "
"This book will change the consciousness of many readers in a very positive way." - Pim van Lommel, M.D., author of Consciousness Beyond Life
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Checking in with Near Death researchers Ring and Moody -
- Dr. Kenneth Ring’s 'theory is that both near death experiencers and UFO experiencers are able to enter an altered state of consciousness through dissociation. This enables them to enter an objectively real “imaginal realm” or alternate reality in which their unusual experiences take place.' -Blog.
In 1968, Dr. Raymond Moody says he was a sceptic and an atheist. He now considers himself as neither. Why? He says 'after 50 years of investigating near death experiences and hearing from thousands of doctors and patients, he could no longer deny the survival of consciousness.' - Website and Blog.
A short excerpt from the documentary, 'Hidden Beyond the Veil'. Regarding the life review:YouTube. It isn't about judgement. Rather, the focus is, how have you learned to love? More videos from the documentary. Youtube.
When I was Someone Else: The Incredible True Story of Past Life Connection, 2021, Amazon.
Stephane is a former war reporter and documentary director, founding member and President of the French Institute of Research on Extraordinary Experiences (INREES)
We talk about his past life journey but I was also curious about his connection to John Mack after I saw the Experiencersdocumentary [by Stephane Allix] about Alien Abductions listed among the titles posted on the John E Mack Institute site.
What happened to Stephane in the Amazon was definitely a jump start from spirit. Not one to trust his own inner guidance, the entire journey was an exercise in developing trust and discernment.
For substantiating evidence, the book includes photos, maps and historical documents. Details are cross referenced for dates and locations to track the movements of the soldiers and locate the finale resting place.
If the photo resemblance is remarkable and the documentation irrefutable, being accepted by the relatives was the deciding factor. He passed that test.
There are multiple synchronicities in connecting the dots to unfold the timeline suggesting assistance from an unseen source. When the pastlife aspect of the soul found an outlet to address a deep seeded wound, healing resulted on both timelines, allowing the aspect of soul that is the present incarnation to progress without further impediment.
Stephane is continuing to explore the topic of consciousness and extraordinary knowing. No doubt, more will be revealed.
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"If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop." - Kurt Cobain
Best of: "You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice."
"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection." - VoltaireSource.
OddsnEnds -
Asgardia is warning us to be prepared for the potential of a killer asteroid. Futurism.
Practicing our offensive. New York went bust in the latest practice round. Phys Org.
On the radar now, an asteroid named after the God of Chaos. (Self-fulfilling prophecy notwithstanding.) Earth rendezvous due: April of 2029MSN.
Just like the plot from 50 First Dates, this teen loses her memory every night. Source.
Drug-free stress buster: Birdsong. And a nod to Climate Change. RSPB. Can this Charity song make a difference? The Guardian. (My cats like it. However, there is some debate over Inspiring vs. Soothing.)
Doorbell Cam EVP - of the unfriendly sort. Coast to Coast.
The sound of Millions of Monarch Butterflies. Nature's Zen. Source.
TBA - Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview with Reincarnation Researcher, Walter Semkiw, MD
There are volumes of cases offering proof of reincarnation. Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Walter Semkiw in a 4 part series. Part Two: Xenoglossy, the ability to speak a language one has not learned in the present lifetime. Fascinating evidence suggesting some abilities and talents can be carried forward from a past life incarnation. Details covered: "Souls plan lifetimes and souls in the spirit world can interact with human beings on the physical plane."
Detailed, profound and life changing. When past life stories are verified, current life issues can sometimes be permanently resolved. Example: James Linegar.
Walter Semkiw, MD is carrying on and adding to the research of Ian Stevenson (Background Info) and Jim Tucker, cataloging stories with documented evidence of past life history.
In Born Again, Semkiw covers some the most important cases of reincarnation, including evidence of Xenoglossy.
One of the most fascinating aspects is evidence that a soul can inhabit more than one body at a time.
Given the number of confirmed cases, Adults and Children, the evidence is staggering. And yet, this topic is still relegated to fringe content.
Have a past life memory to share or to inquire about? Visit the website, an excellent resource. All of the cases we discussed during the interview can be found with an entry in the search bar.
One of the cases I am fascinated by (on the website) is the boy who remembered a past life as a Snake. And I asked Walter about his encounter, the telepathic message he received from a giant Squirrel. That story is at this same link regarding telepathy with animals.
One of the most incredible cases with a fascinating and detailed story line is Barbro Karlen. She remembered a past life as Anne Frank. Link.
We are connected in ways that are beyond logic. Walter's goal is to get people to realize that and to understand the lives we live today have an impact going forward and a basis in the past. Peace is possible when we learn that each and every lifetime we can inhabit a new religion, a new culture a new mindset. We switch places.
In the big picture - we are all cut from the same cloth.
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”- Walt Whitman
OddsnEnds -
Terrific Metaphysics Mind Fodder. Life After Death, Unexplained and Paranormal Curious - If you haven't checked it out, I suggest the classic TV series, circa 1960. One Step Beyond. Binge watching now. Monitor your dreams afterward.YouTube.
It's that time. Ghost tales of Weston. October 19, 20, and 26th (27th is Sold Out) Link.
- One year at the Weston Dining with Ghosts event, I happened to connect with a deceased relative who was an atheist. Did he believe in God after he died? He said he was still on the fence about that issue.
Nick Pope reports on the renewed interest - by the US Congress - in UFOs. The Guardian.
Association TransCommunication was founded in 1982 by Sarah Estep to provide objective evidence that we survive death in an individual conscious state. The ATransC website is a tremendous resource for anyone remotely interested in the topic of life after death.
Quick clarification as noted from the website: “If what you know about EVP is based on movies like White Noise or from television, then everything you know about EVP is very wrong. Please read a few of the techniques articles on this website and leave your TV turned off.” - Tom Butler (Tom and Lisa Butler consulted on that Film, Link.)
Tom and Lisa Butler are the current Directors of the Association Transcommunication, where they have logged results of past, present and ongoing research, including examples of their EVP recordings. Even more fascinating are the visual, ITC images. Link. Extra food for thought. There have been some instances of recordings that picked up thoughts/voices from individuals who were very much alive.Link.
To help update the research history and track the science, Tom and Lisa wrote: There is No Death and There are No Dead. Background: The Butlers have been experimenting with EVP for over fourteen years. They have recently begun experimenting with Video ITC, which is a video loopback technique that produces images of apparent nonphysical origin. They describe this technique in the book and explain why they and other researchers believe the images are phenomenal.
Listen to some of Sarah Estep's EVP samples, including the Beethoven audio we referred to in the interview.
These first person accounts include examples of their EVP contact.
Part Two on YouTube includes the reaction of Big Cats when their person passes.
My Sedona EVP - I was working in Sedona in 1998 when I recorded tapping. On the daily drive to the Radio Station I would hear tapping in the car and wondered if I could get it on tape. The morning I rolled tape I was disappointed because I didn't hear a thing. I am even on the recording saying there was nothing to hear - and I am saying that as the tapping is happening - right there beside me. Only when I reviewed the tape did I realize what I had captured.
At the beginning of the interview, I talked about losing our 14-year-old cat, my beautiful Chloe.
I have experienced pet ghosts and have communicated with my pets as they transition. That, in no way, makes the experience less emotional. Grief is still part of it. With Chloe, meds for her heart issues appeared to help for a short while - until she stopped eating.
We then let her choose where she wanted to spend her days and what/if she wanted to eat and monitored her behavior. Very little intake, water and a few sips of milk.
During the last few weeks, I had focused on sending healing energy. I asked for guidance on anything else I could do.
The response: "You can't heal death, Wendy." A blunt answer. I assumed it was to remind me exits are unavoidable.
Chloe Sunbathing.
Then she started to fail. In meeting with the Vet, I was asked to consider continuing extraordinary measures to extend her life, even though she was showing indications of having just suffered a stroke that impaired her front paw (preventing her from standing or walking), coldness in that limb, loss of bladder control and loss of appetite.
Force a cat to eat? Force life back into a pet who has a clock that is winding down? Submit her to extra tests, needles, separation from her familiar human and animal companions, indefinite hospitalization?
I realized I had been given that blunt response because it was the only one that registered when I repeated it to the Vet. Chloe was experiencing a transition not an illness. I didn't have to like it but I could prevent her from undergoing any needless suffering.
When she lost the use of her paw and her bladder had already failed, it became a quality of life issue. That quality was rapidly deteriorating. And yet, she was so calm and breathing more peacefully than she had at any time since she had been on the medications. She was exiting on her own schedule.
That is enough for now.
I have since seen her in fleeting glimpses around the house. She appeared in a dream, looking as she did when she left. I asked why she chose to show me that view. She said, "So you would know it was me."
Funny, I thought she might prefer the kitten stage. Apparently, that was my hang-up not hers.
This is the link to the show I did about her on Conscious Living on Empower Radio. I talk more about the metaphysics and psychic elements of my connection with my pets and other animals. Ode to Chloe.
Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. My interview with Leslie Kean has stayed in the top ten most listened to shows in the Wendy's Coffeehouse podcast archives since the first broadcast in March of this year. Intro for this 11/5/17 show is current and the interview is a rebroadcast, given the popularity of the topic.
I hope you enjoy the show. This is one of those topics I return to again and again. As an intuitive, I have no doubt as to the information being helpful. My own experiences are all the validation I need. But there are so many fascinating stories to be told of how each connects and discovers for himself a truth beyond knowing.
Believing is optional. Learning never stops. I learn from everyone I interview.
Quick note on the float I mentioned. A few weeks ago, we were in an accident. I got whiplash. Of course, the full extent of that injury didn't register at the immediate moment but I knew from past experience I needed to act fast.
I scheduled a float within 48 hours and experienced relief from the intense headache that had begun within the first 24 hours. The accident was Saturday and by Sunday night the pain was intense. Monday's float removed the headache. What a relief!
This is the third visit and, even now the recovery in my spine and neck continues. (Also incorporating massage therapy. 3 sessions.)
I am amazed at how much of a difference it can make. I am not a doctor nor offering this as medical advice. My experience with floating at Floating KC in Kansas City has included many sessions where the result was simply a complete disconnect from the world and total relaxation, stress reduction.
I also meditate when I float and that's a story for another time. (First time float offer I mentioned is 30 percent off your first session. Do tell them I referred you.)
- On the ghost sighting during the Weston Ghost tales event, she lurks in the hallway, near the bathroom. At least one tourist encountered her. Details coming up in a subsequent post.
- Identifying the propaganda bots about US politics on twitter. Wired
--- Evidence of the afterlife exists. Few people have explored the topic in this manner and that's what makes the book an exceptional read. I first spoke with Leslie Kean about her New York Times best seller on UFOs. She invested a decade of research, relying, at times, on family for encouragement and support. The result was an outstanding effort. She took on the challenge of covering a controversial topic and brought a new layer of credibility to the category by linking a broad list of reputable, credentialed and undeniably verifiable sources. About Leslie Kean
"My
intention is to present some of the most interesting evidence from
diverse sources and show how it interconnects, making it accessible for
the intelligent and curious reader encountering the material for the
first time. Strict journalistic protocols can be applied to any topic
for which there is data, no matter how unusual or even indeterminate." - Leslie Kean - Read an excerpt on Live Science
One of the most fascinating areas Leslie covers is Physical Mediumship. Background on what that entails from the First Spiritual Temple: FST, a Spiritualist Church. Details: About FST. The topic is helpful in highlighting the extreme end of the wide range of methods that can be undertaken to establish contact with the deceased. I have no doubt Leslie's personal viewpoint of life after death, as a result of her experience, underwent a profound change.
Leslie writes about her experiences with Stewart Alexander. You can learn more about Stewart in this video. He shares his journey, coming from a family with no background or Spiritualism connection, to becoming Physical Mediumship: YouTube
Stewart references a book that he calls the best resource for information related to life after death and Spiritualism: On the Edge of the Etheric
He also talks about an extraordinary Medium: Leslie Flint
Interview with Leslie - Express UK, Short Video. The interviewer shares a story about his Grandmother and an after death contact.
Annie Kagan, Author, The Afterlife of Billy Fingers has had tremendous success with her book on life after death. Here's just one example of the glowing recommendations she's received. --
Dannion Brinkley (who woke up in the morgue after being struck by lightning) is the bestselling author of Saved by the Light: "The Afterlife of Billy
Fingers reaffirms the NDEs experiences of the light and love I
encountered on the other side. It's an engaging account of the
transformation of the spirit and I highly recommend."
Annie had been taking a break from media when I requested an interview but the timing was great so we had a chance to recap all that has happened since she started hearing from her deceased brother. No matter what it sounds like now, after a few years of integrating and becoming more comfortable with the process and confident in the connection, the initial event still required a significant mind shift.
From personal experience, there are a lot of mixed emotions involving wonder, curiosity, euphoria, questioning one's sanity, to name a few. But the continuity and the routine, combined with information so personal that only the person who shared those moments with you could really provide the intimate details, helps the relationship gel. Everything changes.
That's what happened. Everything changed when Annie's brother checked back in to report on his new surroundings. His sense of humor is intact. Here's the book promo for Annie's Bestseller -
"Billy has reminded me that we are literally made of stars, that the intelligence that runs the Universe is available to us. The same intelligence that breathes our breath and heals our wounds and beats in our hearts also gives birth to stars and galaxies. As Billy says, when you imagine the infinite, you're touched by the infinite itself."
Visit Annie's site and sign up for the Newsletter: link
Related Topic - this classic, award winning film on the Afterlife: Astral City - Full film/subtitled on YouTube and DVD link, from the Channeled book, published in 1944. About his abilities and his writing with a warning or a prophecy? Deadline/YouTube
Wagner de Assis: “Only a few lucky people have seen this early Afterlife TV episode. Brazilian medium Chico Xavier channeled the story of Dr.
Andre Luiz who experienced an enlightening spiritual awakening after his
death. Chico Xavier published Andre’s story in his bestselling book,
‘Nosso Lar,’ which is Portuguese for Our Home. The book has been made into a movie. Filmmaker Wagner de
Assis wrote and directed ‘Astral City: A
Spiritual Journey.’ Trailer - YouTube
- For those who would die, there is life.
For those who would dream, there is reality.
For those who would hope, there is knowledge.
For those who would grow, there is eternity. -
Robert Monroe - Out of Body Research Pioneer - Far Journeys
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