Bridges to Heaven: Loved Ones on the Other Side

We all felt a rush of energy and knew that Paul was with us. It was a healing moment for everyone in the group— a sense of his presence and a sign of divine order in action. Later I learned that the sky configuration with Jupiter nestled inside the crescent moon rarely occurs.

I don’t believe in coincidences. Imagine how many factors were in motion to line up that exact astronomical configuration (which had always symbolized our relationship) on the night I would be sitting outside, mourning his loss with my friends at his memorial service. Divine order is so much greater than we can imagine.

Because our culture highly values our left brain and its linear logical thought processes, we learn early in childhood that this is the important piece of the brain to develop— starting with words and language. We slowly learn to dismiss the right- brain impressions, visions, intuitions, and dreams that come to us so naturally in our early years.

As a result, by the time we’ve reached adulthood, many of us are no longer even aware that we’re receiving information from the right brain. We’ve developed such a habit of giving priority to our left- brain linear thinking that we’ve silenced our intuition. Yet our departed loved ones speak to us through these right brain impressions, gut feelings, dreams, and images that we so easily dismiss.

There’s a large body of scientific research validating intuition. My previous book I See Your Soul Mate cites much of it. You can learn more about the science behind intuition in books such as The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds by Dean Radin, PhD. As director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences for more than two decades, Radin has conducted psychic research in academia at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and in three Silicon Valley think tanks, including SRI International.