After Life Connection & Spiritual Awakening is part 2. The first video and blog, part 1 is titled, After Death Communication and Spiritual Awakening. In After Life Connection & Spiritual Awakening learn the different ways people experience after life connections through different sensory and normal intuitive experiences. There are nine true stories of after life connections, most are with people who are connecting to a loved one who has passed, and other stories of people who experience after life connection that are not with people they know. Discover how these experiences relate to the process of spiritual awakening and how different intuitive abilities are part of this process.
Did you know it is more than common to have a mystical or anomalous experiences with a person who has passed? That is an experience where that person has communication with you. And that an experience may occur shortly after they have passed or years afterwards. And some people have experiences that do not fit into this scenario-examples of true stories that also explain what intuitive awareness abilities are in operation are included below.
If you have had either of these type of experiences you probably are aware of a feeling of taboo around sharing this experience or simply an innate knowing not to share, not knowing who will be receptive or instead judge you for sharing, strain the relationship and/or think you are crazy. That is why this video is here.
The research shows people who experience communication in some form with those who have passed, known as after death communication or after life connection are from all age groups, different cultural backgrounds, all genders, and different economic backgrounds and the experiences are almost always beneficial.
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When people are on the spiritual awakening path one of the key elements of their process is not only having more intuitive awareness experiences but also heightening awareness of their intuitive abilities. The having more intuitive abilities and heightening awareness develops the ability to notice subtle changes in the environment that are understood differently or go unnoticed by people who are not on a spiritual awakening path. Because of this heightened awareness perceiving and communicating with those who have passed in different ways also is part of the process. It is also noted generally as heightened perception continues, using intuitive abilities and awareness beyond seeing or perceiving those who have passed, there is continuous expansion of perception and understanding as the person continues their spiritual awakening journey.
And for people who are on the spiritual awakening journey there can be more to the story. This means while people on the spiritual awakening journey often experience after death communication (after life connections), they also are able and do experience other anomalous and mystical occurrences with those who have passed that goes beyond.
Communication and After Life Connection
The following true stories are from people who have experienced communication with those who have passed as after death communication and after life connection, some stories identify the different intuitive abilities that are triggered while other stories are about another level of communication with those who have passed that continue to open and going beyond in spiritual awakening experiences. In sharing these stories it will also assist with your understanding.
It is noted that while for some people after death communication and after life connection are uplifting, deepening long-lasting connection with those who’ve they had a close relationship for some people in different stages of these  experiences they can even be a great annoyance, and for others they are intrigued by the ability to lend further and deeper and valuable contributions to their understanding in their expanding spiritual awakening journey. This can involve bringing meaning to others who have a loved family member who has passed, assisting a spirit or person who has recently passed, and/or a deeper and profound understanding of the complexity and layers of our relationship with the Earth and the Otherworld. All people do not respond the same to these experience and while for some people this experience is easy and folds into life, for some people it is an unwanted disruption. And for others it takes time to become comfortable with the experience as part of their work.
Adrianna’s Abilities
While most people associate after death communication and after life connection with someone they know this is not always the case. Adrianna had persistent experiences with those who passed who she did not know. As a method to manage these intrusions she shut herself off from these experiences by taking sleeping pills for many years until she learned some methods of creating boundaries for herself and also made some decisions about how she wanted to interact with these experiences.
One evening Adrianna had a distinct experience of a young male who came to her and was asking for help while she was making jewelry. (Often Adrianna’s experiences happened in the evening and at night). She noted his hair cut was a stylish type, one side long and the other side short. He was very persistent, was asking for help, and was stressed. He needed assistance first with figuring out what had happened to him as he was uncertain.  He was concerned if he was dead, and also how he had died. Adrianna was also shown a car accident scene on a very curvy road. She did assist him in understanding he was in the accident and had died. And she showed him how to leave to go on.
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Because we are trained to think in terms of linear time we are often surprised when we have pre-death communication or experience an event (or events) that we think are out of sequence to linear time. Two days later Adrianna was attending an event or party at her private school’s principals house. When she arrived she found herself in the foyer where she unexpectedly noticed a photograph of the young guy who had shown up at her house. Here he was in the photo with the same haircut. She asked her friend who the photo was and was told the son had died two days before in an auto accident just as he had graduated from high school. He was in an auto accident on a twisty curvy road.
Adrianna’s experience was a clear sequence out of linear time that made sense to . She shared during the experience she wondered why is this strange person at my house contacting me and seeking my help?  It wasn’t until after the gathering, after seeing the photo, and after getting the explanation of his that all the information came together.
Adrianna’s  intuitive abilities include clairaudience (clear hearing), clairsentience (clear knowing), clairvoyance (clear seeing). She also knew what she needed to do to be of assistance.
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A Component of Adrianna’s Experience is a Feeling Presence
A feeling presence is an awareness or sense of the or a person around, in the room. It is specific to one person and not general to a generic presence but specifically to the person who has passed over that is the person’s loving connection or who is present. This experience is when we are wide awake and not while sleeping or in an altered state of consciousness of hypnosis, dreaming, or meditation.
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Scuba Diving Miquel and Yogi
In the video that precedes this one on the same topic titled, After Death Communication and Spiritual Awakening there is a true story of a Navy Seal and a pre-death or during-death communication. The following story is about Miquel again but another occurrence of communication as a pre-death or during passing experience.
Miquel and Yogi were partners during their time as Navy Seals in Vietnam through nine tours. When Miguel left the Navy he left the entire experience behind accept for his love of the ocean and always living in different areas of the world on the beach. He no longer had contact with his partner Yogi and went on with his life. It was an unspoken agreement that was about the layers of trauma of their experiences. Miguel did know that Yogi had left the Navy SEALS and like himself was always around water and had a second career in Thailand taking people out to SCUBA dive for a living. Nearly four decades passed and Miquel had a dream about Yogi. He remembered Yogi appeared in his dream, the ocean was in the background and Yogi was waving in greeting. The feeling of the dream was Yogi was content and was acknowledging the deep connection between them. The dream was significant because it was remembered easily and the different layers and meaning. It was about 10 days later Miquel received a notice from the Navy that Yogi had passed.
Out of Linear Time
Miguels’ dream about Yogi acknowledging their connection occurred around the time that Yogi was getting ready to pass or it could have occurred right afterwards. He will never know. Miquel felt that Yogi had said goodbye, however like Adrianna’s experience above, at the time of the interaction and dream it was unclear of the relationship to events he would discovery later in linear time. It was only clear after he received notification of Yogi’s passing in reflection about the content of the dream and its meaning and purpose.
Remembering the dream was a confirmation of their deep connection, the traumas they had gone through and another layer of their non-verbal, deep communication that was part of their connection noted in the last video.
Other After Life Connections
Odor
An odor of the person who has passed also is a common connection with the person that is experienced during after death communication and after life connection. The odor may be connected to smoke, perfume, leather, even deodorant, or laundry soap smell mixed together. I had two different clients share these experiences with me. The intuitive ability of identifying and odor connection with someone who passed is clarodiance also known as claraliance. The following three experiences describe how clarodiance occurs and in different ways.
Nadia’s Grandfather
Nadia was well on the spiritual awakening journey with a variety of experiences for many years. One consistent experience she had that was comforting for her was the smell of her grandfather’s cigars. She would smell the odor out of the blue and that was the trigger for her to have awareness that her grandfather was around. There wasn’t a distinct connection of a message but that of comfort. Nadia appreciate this connection.
Grandmother of Jolene
Jolene was a medical doctor who had a wisdom beyond her years and connected deeply with her relationship with her grandmother even over her mother and father. Jolen’s grandmother had provided a sense of balance, safety, and love through her life and when her parents divorced. Although Jolene’s mother had recently passed it was the presence of her grandmother around her at certain times that she noticed that was comforting and felt supportive especially during difficult times. It was the odor of her grandmother’s perfume which had a violet smell to it that she would notice unexpectedly. Again, similar to Nadia, Jolene did not have a sense of identifying the odor with a particular specific message. Instead the message was of comfort and knowing that her grandmother was around,
The following story is not associated with someone who has passed, however is about the same clarodiance or claraliance ability that is activated when odors occur that are communicating a presence.
Suzanne’s Encounter with an Ascended Master
Suzanne had lived off the grid for a while on a farm in St. David Arizona where they had no electricity to her dwelling which was a one-room small building. Suzanne was a consistent reader and often stayed up late at night reading different books by the light of a kerosene lamp. She had recently read a book about ascended masters and one in particular who would manifest with the smell of roses. One night while Suzanne was reading she began at first slightly becoming aware and then intensely aware of the smell of roses. The odor permeated the room and along with the odor was the awareness of strong permeation of light and a strong feeling of peace and brilliance that was uplifting, and comforting.
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Auditory Connections
Often it is through images that we are closely connected to we keep close with us to remind us of the person who has passed. However it is our memory of our experiences and the feelings we shared that last within. Sometimes people make recordings of the voices of the people they are close with, like keeping phone messages to refer back to. This auditory connection is another significant component of our connection with people. The voice holds nuances and tonal qualities that are more living than a photograph for some people. Even the tone sometimes is more meaningful than the words. The voice recording is of the energy of the person in their moment in time.
When there isn’t a recording there is sometimes a strong connection to the phrases that are remembered that pop up in memory, These phrases may be about responses to ideas or activities the person who is living is thinking about or is doing and serves as a way to connect with person.
More About the Feeling Presence
A feeling presence is an awareness or sense of the person around, in the room. It is specific to one person and not general to a generic presence but specifically to a person who has passed and is when we are wide awake and not while sleeping or in an altered state of consciousness of hypnosis, dreaming, or meditation. However, this presence can be so strong it wakes people up if they are asleep and the presence does not enter dreams. Alternatively when we are awake experiencing the presence of someone who has passed can be experienced as a breeze, a gentle movement that is almost imperceptible, or even sometimes as a interruption or discontinuity of how things are occurring.
Other auditory and sensory cues of the presence of someone who has passed include hearing footsteps, the phone ringing, the rustling of clothing. Other people report seeing feathers which is a sign of being on the right path.
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Feathers and Pennies
A woman, Lydia who was a nurse had a close relationship with her mother. As she was growing up they had been homeless for time living out of a vehicle. Lydia’s mother had passed, and she always knew when her mother was guiding her because she would leave feathers in her path as a message she was doing in the right direction. An older movie that illustrates similar concept is Dragonfly.
Some people also report finding pennies in odd places like the refrigerator not because it is a message about being on the right track but in a playful way that shows the pennies are intentionally placed.
Expanding Understanding in Spiritual Awakening
In some situations seeing a person who has passed is not an attempt to communicate information in thought transference but is unrelated and even considered an understanding of a situation. The following story reveals how perceiving the presence of a person or persons who have passed has a different outcome and purpose of presence.
Maylene’s Guest Ranch
Maylene owned a guest ranch in Tucson, Arizona on the West side, which was originally the land of the indigenous people, the Tohono O’odham. This land was occupied by the Tohono O’odham over 200 years ago. The people who originally settled the 5 acres had built many different buildings one of which was an auto repair building from the 1940’s. Maylene’s family purchased the property from the original owners and turned it into a guest ranch. Maylene was getting ready to sell the property and knew she needed to clear out some of the disturbances because they experienced the presence of different personalities or characters that create disruption. Maylene had made peace with presence of the old man who worked on cars from the 1940’s because he seemed to be friendly and part of the family. It was the unsettling experiences further away from the living quarters and guest houses that concerned her that she thought would cause the property not to sell.
Maylene invited several people, Cora and Samanda who she knew that had intuitive abilities to not only perceive, interpret, and understand those who had passed, but also knew how to assist them to go further on their path leaving their disturbing existence peacefully and going to a more peaceful place. During the thorough investigation of all the buildings and property, Cora and Samanda  discovered the origin of the disturbance. On the western boundary of her property there were guardians of the land. These guardians were not visiting because they were friendly or because they had a message. They had made a commitment to be part of the protection of the land and were in service. Their role was to stay with the land as guardians and protectors. The disturbances that Maylene had encountered were based on Maylene or someone who was working for Maylene disrupting the land which agitated the guardians and protectors. Cora and Samanda communicated with the Guardians and made a peaceful arrangement. This exchange satisfied the Guardians and as a result also Maylene.
Deeper Layer of Spiritual Awakening Understanding
This experience contributed to a greater understanding of Cora and Samanda’s spiritual awakening because it was a layer of understanding they had not encountered before. Understanding human beings can and do make commitments as guardians for 100’s of years and even longer was a profound understanding of the sacred interrelationships for and with people, the Earth and land across time.
Pre-death Connection or Push
A reminder can occur as a thought to reach someone often out of the blue. First it occurs as thinking about the person, often not for a long time, and the person’s name sticks around. Then their name continues to come up as a persistent reminder to reach out. I have learned to act on these persistent reminders to connect. The experience can become almost nagging push to call or connect with someone.
Electric Lights Flickering
A phenomena that is common after someone passes is changes in the electrical lights. This can include the lights flickering when the presence of the person who has passed is attempting to make their presence known. In my own experience when my father passed there was a group of people in the house standing around in smaller groups of two or three people talking together. I was on a balcony looking down at the people and noticed a standing lamp flickering. It was an interesting to watch everyone slowly turn around and notice slightly out of synch with each other, then as if orchestrated, a brief moment of silence, not really acknowledging what that meant, and then everyone turned back to their conversation as if nothing happened at all. I felt my father’s presence and his frustration at not being able to get the attention he wanted.
Shoshanna’s Experience with Abilities
In one woman’s near-death experience she was able to pass on information from the person who was deceased because of her profession. Shoshana worked within hospice with families. Her role changed after she had her own near-death experience where she gained the ability to see and communicate with the person who had passed. Her near-death experience opened her to profound changes that allowed her to ‘see’ (clairvoyance), have thought transmissions or telepathy, and also how to deliver the communicated information from the person who had passed to those who were living without freaking them out or jeopardizing her professional role.   Understanding this ability was not part of her role and was also not within the purview of her profession to even discuss, she wisely found ways to share comforting information from the person who had passed to the family. She was able to discreetly provide reassurance without saying, ‘hey I spoke with your loved one and this is what they said.
 Reclamation
In our reclamation of our relationship with those who have passed and how our shared lives impacted us, ancient practices arise that have nearly been forgotten that bring peace, insight, sustain our connection as we hold the energy in our hearts, and how we attend to our feelings. In this relationship there is a continuation of connection that lives within us that we sustain through our lives, as we honor that relationship.
Our Relationship to Spiritual Awakening
As we progress and expand our understanding of the different components of our being we are less fearful and more aware of our capacity to take in content on different levels with our multi-senses. This process applies to our spiritual awakening abilities of perception, acceptance, and integration. In our spiritual awakening process we extend through our hearts of healing compassion, kindness, and consideration that also opens simultaneously to our insight and intuition including pre-death communication, after life connection, perceiving subtleties as part of our process and growth.
These are not new perceptions and abilities, but they are newly accepted. In accepting these occurrences as normal it builds our relationship with our capacity to perceive, accept, and understand that which has always been there, but we screened out.
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