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How To Contact The Afterlife - Learn To Talk With The Dead

Who else wants to know how to contact the afterlife? The ties of our loving relationships are not severed after death. And we often have lingering questions and matters that were not settled while our deceased friends or family members were alive. 

So, wouldn't it be nice to pick up the phone and have the ability to talk to your deceased loved one? Well, it is not quite that simple, but . . .

Known also as an ALC, afterlife communication can provide personal reassurances of life after death, and a way to find some relief for the grief. For those who are not innately gifted with this ability, there are many psychics who can help you.

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Here are some common psychic gifts used to speak with deceased loved ones:

  • Clairvoyance: Clair- is French for “clear”. Someone who is clairvoyant “sees clearly”. They often get glimpses into the future or can see ghosts or other apparitions that others cannot. This psychic gift is a little misunderstood. You may ask that since some people claim to be clairvoyant, then they should always know the winning lottery numbers or the location of any missing person. Even though the word means that all is clear, the psychic really sees through a mist and may see symbols that are open to interpretation. No one has the perfect gift. Psychics are still human and can make mistakes in their human interpretations of spiritual visions.
  • Clairaudience: In this case, the psychic medium can hear clearly. This is an important gift to have when communicating with ghosts or spirits. The entities are speaking on a different plane and the medium might be the only one who can hear them. The medium must listen carefully and convey the message to the client. Clairaudients can also hear other sounds that are symbolic in the message. They must use their psychic abilities to decipher any codes they hear to make the communication clear.
  • Clairsentience: Some psychics can feel supernatural things through their human senses. They can sense the spirit of your loved ones. They can get specific, and sometimes uncomfortable, sensations from a loved one who suffered a lot in the world of the living. This gift can be a powerful tool to help with spiritual communication.
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If you do not want to learn how to contact the afterlife yourself, genuine psychic mediums will help you to find answers you need. Ghosts and spirits should be treated with the same respect that you would show to a living person. They are just as eager to reach out to our dimension as we are theirs. 

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Mediums Know How To Contact The Afterlife With Various Tools

As with any special gift, psychic mediums use physical tools to enhance their powers and bring their revelations to light. These tools help the psychic stay focused and can often provide a better understanding for the clients. Ancient mystics knew how to contact the afterlife and gave spiritual significance to four powerful elements: air, earth, fire, and water. These are some of the most common elementary tools that have been used by psychic mediums for millennia: 

  • Crystals: The iconic crystal ball has been a recognized tool of divination for years. The crystal does not have to be in a spherical shape to be used during a spiritual session. Mediums psychically charge the crystal to help them see things that provide a message. Most of the time, mediums will see misty shapes that must be interpreted. These beautiful stones bring out the element of earth.
  • Scrying Bowl: Water is one of the most important of the four elements and was one of the first tools used for divination. The ancients attributed mystical powers to all the elements—especially water. Because they could see their own reflection in pond or lake, it was assumed that water was a portal into the spirit world. Many gifted seers, such as Nostradamus, used a bowl of water to conjure spirits and see into the future. They looked for a relationship in shapes to understand patterns that represented good or evil foreboding. Scrying bowls are still used by many psychic mediums today.
  • Mirrors: Glass or shiny metal mirrors have also been used to see a spiritual presence in the room. Mirrors represent the element of air.
  • Candles: Candles represent the human body, and the flame represents the spirit within. Some psychic mediums swear by the patterns they see in candle flames to announce a ghostly visitor. Flaming candles provide the element of fire.

It is also possible for psychics to use their own bodies for afterlife communication. Known as channeling, the medium will go into a trance and will take on the voice and characteristics of the loved one who is being called. 

Afterlife Communication: 16 Proven Methods, 85 True Accounts contains descriptions of methods people are using today to communicate with loved ones who have passed away. The authors are acknowledged experts in afterlife communications who developed the methods, are using them consistently, and are teaching people how to contact the afterlife with them. The book contains actual accounts of people's connections with their loved ones on the other side using the methods described in the book. This is the book that contains all the methods presented by the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies in Scottsdale, Arizona, July 11-13, 2014. 

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How To Contact The Afterlife Yourself

There are other ways that the spirit world is able to come through. These are the easiest methods to try for yourself.

  • How to communicate with the dead by automatic writing: This is a gift that many mediums have for spiritual communication. They will sit in the séance with paper and pencil while they call up ghosts from the other side. While they are in a semi-trance state, they will start transcribing messages without even looking at the paper. There have also been cases reported over the years where ghostly writing appears on paper without help from the medium. Some automatic writers will draw pictures or symbols that are significant to the clients. It is common for the medium’s handwriting to resemble that of the deceased. Right-handed mediums have been known to write perfectly with their left hand like the ghost did while alive.
  • How to contact the afterlife with the Ouija board: Since its conception in the late 1800s, the Ouija board has been one of the most controversial tools ever used in spiritual communication. It was invented for the general public to communicate with the dead without the use of a real psychic medium. A majority of psychic experts warn of the dangers of inexperienced people releasing evil ghosts or spirits in their homes. When used in a respectful way by one with the gift of spiritual discernment, the Ouija board can be a useful tool for getting messages from another dimension too. 
  • How to contact the afterlife within the dream world: Some psychic mediums work by receiving lucid dreams for afterlife communication. A client’s loved one may give the medium an important message to convey to the client. If the client is having such spiritual dreams, and she or he knows a teaching medium, they may learn to further develop their own gift.  When you lucidly dream of deceased loved ones, it can really be a sign they want to share some news with you now.
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Reasons To Believe In Afterlife Communication - by Penny Clark Babson

Many people search for reasons to believe in afterlife communication and wonder what happens to us when we die. Churches, of one faith or another, have taught us many different beliefs about life after death throughout the ages.

The atheist viewpoint is that that once we die, we simply snuff out; much like a light bulb that has finally blown. Some with a reincarnation leaning may believe that when we die, we come back to live another life.

Some followers of reincarnation believe we may return not necessarily as people next time, but in other forms of life which would depend on the deeds we accomplished in our last incarnation. And some angel enthusiasts believe we go on to become wonderful angels, loving and guiding anyone who needs our help.

Through meditation with my spirit guides I have learned a lot about the other side and what happens to our consciousness after we die:

  • I have learned that we do not become angels; angels have never had an incarnation in this life or any other. They have always been angels, the right hands of God so to speak.
  • First and foremost, we are all born with a primary spirit guide. A spiritual entity we have chosen before we were born to guide us through this life. Our unique spirit guide stays with us until after our consciousness has returned to the afterlife.
  • In the afterlife we can become spirit guides for other people who are about to be born into a new life. But we do not become spirit guides for our families because we cannot see a family member’s pain and not try to intervene.
  • Our main objective while in the afterlife, as well as in this life, is to learn for God and for our own soul’s perfection. We must learn through doing. This is why so many people go through so many of the same hardships in life. And when we decide to learn more, we sometimes decide to reincarnate into a new life.
  • No matter how many lives we have lived we always leave a part of the essence of who we were in our existence in the afterlife. So even though we reincarnate again we never forget the people who we loved in any of our lives.

When you want to communicate with someone who has died, I am able to connect in many different ways. I always tell my clients, even though they may specifically wish to talk to their mother or a child or sibling who had passed on, the family member who comes through may not always be the one expected. A psychic medium can only connect with the person who is around you at the time of the reading. That may not always be who you want to get answers from, but they can also send through information that is validating to you.

I have heard people who talk about going to mediums online who had asked for the name, birth date and even location where the deceased person had lived. Be suspicious of this practice. Chances are that medium uses the internet to download death and birth records and use those records to make you feel they are connecting. A true medium like myself will ask you for none of that! Your loved one will tell me that information to prove they are connecting with you.

I get images in my mind. It’s almost like seeing a movie. Different pictures are flashed to me in my inner frame of reference. When I am able to understand one it drops out and separates from the rest of the flashing pictures. I am often able to see your past loved-one; not as fully as seeing a person that would be standing next to me, but as a shadowy figure standing off to the right watching these flashing pictures with me. I see them in my mind's eye like they are standing at the side of a movie theater. When that happens I am also able to make out some of what they are saying and I receive energy vibrations from them as well. So it is reasonable to say that I see, feel and hear them; this makes the psychic connection with them a lot better for me and gives you solid reasons to believe in the afterlife and that genuine communication is happening.

When we pass away it is hard at first for us to come through to our loved ones. It takes a lot of energy. Most of the time the person needs to have been on the other side for a few months before they can come through to a psychic medium for you. Small children and infants usually come through with the help of older family members who have passed. It’s harder for them to speak with a psychic medium like myself and to show pictures for messages because they have had little life experience.

One of the most important things that I have learned about life after death communication is that you do not need a person like me to connect with your loved ones who have crossed over.

They can show you signs every day that they are around you. All you have to do is look for them. And if you talk to your loved ones in the afterlife they will hear you. By talking to them you are telling them that you do indeed believe they are around you and this helps them to connect with you and give you signs that they are around you so much more.

Our bond is love. And love knows no boundaries of time and space. It simply is. There are plenty of reasons to believe in afterlife communication if you look for them.

Penny Clark Babson has been an online psychic medium since 2002 and is a published author, she is a specialist psychic who knows how to contact the afterlife.

Originally from West Pawlet Vermont and living there most of her life, Penny now resides in the neighboring lakeside town of Wells in a cabin on the East Shore with her daughters. Her office, Impressions Unlimited, is also now located in Wells Vermont.

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