“If you’re never going to die, you don’t need this book”

Last fall I was asked by a mother, with a missing presumed deceased son, to work in meditation. I knew this kind woman would not sue me, but the responsibility was almost overwhelming. I prayed and prayed over this one reading. Then I got the idea to call in some helpers.

I may have mentioned Nicole in some of my letters to you. Beautiful Nicole died in an auto accident at the age of 16 a few years ago. I had also recently worked with a delightful old soul named Zack, who died young. (I have permission by both Zack’s and Nicole’s Moms to use their real names). So I asked them to help find J., the young man we were looking for.

As it turned out, J was deceased.  I found him with a friend who had also died after J did. In the meditation J was able to give his mother enough of the feeling and details of his death to ease some of her pain. His disappearance has been a terrible strain emotionally on this mother as she was not able to give up hope that he was alive somewhere and perhaps did not remember who he was.

So there we were in the meditation, Nicole, Zack, J. and his friend, all there to help this mother process the information, all there to help me deliver it. I could not, in my wildest dreams have guessed this was possible, but there we all were. I couldn’t help but wonder if once introduced, any of these young people would continue communicating, having been connected by a medium who was still alive on earth.

As fantastic as this story seems to us on earth, imagine them telling this story to their friends on the other side of the veil. I can just hear all the: you’re kidding, no way!, what B.S., …..seriously?

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When I work in meditation, as the go between with living and deceased clients, my work is to change the energy surrounding the death event somehow for the better. I hope to soften the grief of the living, perhaps bring more self realization to the deceased….make a positive change.  I have been observing how these changes in energy take place, from even something as small as a prayer for someone, or the setting of an intention within myself that they feel better.

I recently declined a reading.  This widow and I had emailed each other several times. I did some soul searching and realized that the living client was probably not going to let me make a change in her grief.  I work with people in extreme grief all the time and I don’t know what made me so sure I could not help this woman, but I did recommend her to someone I respected nearer to her home. My prayers are that she find the right person to work with.

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There are some readings where my living client, my deceased client and I laugh a lot. This story comes to you thanks to Carrie, who gave me the green light to tell you all about her reading which was just a few weeks ago.

Carrie lives in West Virginia and I was contacting her aunt, Helen,  who transitioned in 2003. Aunt Helen was not much older than Carrie, they were more like sisters growing up.

The first thing out of Aunt Helen’s mouth addressing me was: “You’re (a psychic) hitting below the Bible belt down here.” It took me a heartbeat to figure out she was joking, I’m not used to the readings opening this way.

Then Aunt Helen showed me her fluffing up a maroon throw pillow. Not sure where this was going, I asked Carrie if there were maroon pillows in the room she was in. She replied that, yes, there were some on the couch she was sitting on. So then I knew that Aunt Helen was in Carrie’s house, in that room with her.

The meditation was moving really fast, and I struggled a bit to keep up with Aunt Helen.  I started describing to Carrie the room she was sitting in. I saw that her TV was directly in front of her and window/s on either side of it. The chair that Aunt Helen was sitting in was to the left across the room.

When I do remote viewing, I  might be looking through the eyes of the deceased, or I might be reading their mind visually. Or, my mental vehicle, that travels to do the readings, might be perceiving the environment the deceased is within. Quite frankly,  I’m not sure exactly how this works. With some deceased clients it is relatively easy for me to see where they are and with others I don’t  see the scenery as vividly. When this information does come through these are the clear details that assure the living that I am with their loved one.

I apoligized to Carrie if this remote viewing was creeping her out. Carrie replied: “no problem,  it takes a lot to creep me out.” Then Helen showed me that Carrie was still in her pajamas and her robe.

To which Cathy replied: “now I am getting creeped out, that is exactly what my husband said when he left then house this morning.”
Aunt Helen chimed in:  “you might have gotten dressed up for me!”

That is how this rather raucous reading began, and even though it did touch on the serious topics that Carrie wanted to discuss,  Helen’s light, her personality, her energy was a delight to work with.

Helen had transitioned at a fairly young age, and even though she did not want to be deceased she was making the most of her experience. Carrie has a great guide in her aunt. Carrie was so in the spirit of this reading, of course she misses her aunt every day, but this was much more of a reunion than a healing session.

On another note:
I have a fan page connected to Facebook… If any of you wish to become a fan here is the link. Also thanks to those of you who have posted a review on Amazon. You can chat with me through my web site as well. Personally I don’t understand the importance of all this social networking but I am assured it is the thing to do.

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I average two readings a week. This past year I have had three “misses”: three deceased people that did not come through for their loved ones. I always feel bad for my clients when this happens as we irrationally feel rejected by the one who dies as part of the anger of grief.  So here is another disappointment added to that when a medium fails. One was a mother of the living client who had transitioned just a month before, another, as my living client described her husband, was an introverted man after I had spent more than an hour trying to reach him, and the third was inexplicable, perhaps she simply did not believe, even from the other side, that the veil was breach able.

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Dear Friends,

On Christmas Eve my husband and I went to a friend’s house for dinner. Our host was a man who’s parents had recently died, and the other guest was an old friend- I had known both her parents before they died.

At one point, I looked at my girlfriend and said: “It is so good to see you again”, which kind of spooked her as it was out of context with the conversation. But I felt like I was seeing her for the first time,. so enhanced was my vision and so detailed and vivid was the way I was seeing her face.

Later I found myself studying the host’s hands as he cooked our next course, and that feeling of super enhanced vision of my surroundings came over me once again. It me a while to realize what was happening.

It felt similar to what I had happened at my friend Dotte’s funeral in Florida a few years ago. Several times I felt Dotte looking out my eyes, as if she was “borrowing” my eyes and ears to be with her family in a more tangible way. You could say I was channeling her, but I like to think of it as simply sharing my physical body with a deceased loved one. At one point in her reception I went up to her father, hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, looking right into his eyes and said: Dotte loved you so very much, he looked back into my/her eyes and said that he loved her as well. I think we both knew something a bit different was occurring.

Since Christmas I have been spending several days a week with my 91 yr old Dad at his home as he was in a health crisis. My mother died in that house in 2003. I always feel her there. For the past month I have been having that enhanced sensory experience again, as if I am seeing the house and watching the sunset through her eyes- or she through mine. Also, I seemed to be acutely hearing the wild bird songs.  I believe I was lending my eyes and ears to Mom.

I am finishing this letter April 4th. Yesterday was my Dad’s funeral. While I am willing to share my senses with him, he had quite a sweet tooth. Hopefully I won’t gain any weight!

Thanks and Godspeed,
Gretchen

PS, I’ve been told that the animals share like this, that from time to time one of my deceased horses will come into the horse I am riding to feel me once again. It is a nice thought that the pets we have lost get another chance to snuggle with us through our living pets.

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