Talking to the Dead
by Michael Peter Langevin
What if you could talk clearly to your deceased relatives and friends, and even famous dead people you have admired? This is not a joke or a scam or even a sales pitch. It is an old phenomenon which seems to be occurring on an ever widening basis. Mystics, shamans, physics and mediums have done this in a wide variety of ways throughout time. Yet it seems from a wide-ranging volume of books and media coverage that an increasing number of fairly average people now are reporting experiencing these communications.
David Young, a two time Grammy nominee for his flute music and longtime concert performer, has recently transformed his concerts into Soul Ascension Journeys. Many of the participants report his guided meditations and transformative music brings about personal communication with dead loved ones. Young believes that setting a group expectation and activating the chakras to a higher vibration, creates ideal circumstances for such occurrences. He goes on to state. “All people have this capacity naturally to shift from the limited, logical part of our self, to our unlimited, higher intelligence. Our soul has access to information and experiences that our logical, lower part does not have access to. Music helps people access that sacred part of themselves by lifting the vibration of the room.”
Frank DeMarco, author of ten books, the most recent being Rita’s World: A View from the Non-Physical, bases much of the information in many of his books on what he has been told from people who are no longer in human bodies. DeMarco tells us that anyone can talk to the dead. It only requires a combination of suspense of doubt and disbelief and an equal amount of healthy discretion. He says that we must find a way to become open to receiving information and then ask: Does the information resonate? Is it helpful? Am I trying to convince myself, or is this new and challenging input? Many of DeMarco’s books are written with the premise that he has opened a clear channel of communication with one or more disincarnate beings and that they are willing to share important information for the benefit of anyone who reads it.
P.M.H. Atwater is the author of over 15 books, primarily on near death experiences. She believes anyone can communicate with people who has passed over. In her book, Dying to Know You, she explains that she sees an open heart, love and sincere intentions as the thresholds. Dying is just like shifting our frequency on the radio dial. The living can tune in to the deceased’s altered frequency and communicate.
If these people, among many others, are right then how do we go about to communicate with the dead? First it helps to have a clear desire. For example, I want to speak to my Mother, because I miss her and feel there are things I never said to her that should be said. Then it is good to set aside a time and place when you are least likely to be interrupted. For me, Sunday night at 7 p.m. in my living room is perfect, phones TV and computers turned off naturally. After this there has to be an angle to take away resistance or disbelief in our own ability to communicate. The best method I have found is to begin imagining you were talking to the person. If they were sitting in front of you in spirit form, how might they answer your questions? At this point it is important to not listen to yourself thinking this is just silly, or plain impossible. Rather tell yourself: If I could do it, what might I hear? What would this person want to tell you? You can choose if you want to speak out loud or have the conversation inwards. You can also choose if you want to write down whatever comes to you. It probably won’t take long until you begin hearing answers. If this doesn’t happen right away, be patient, it might take a few sessions. Then you will most likely hear information you did not expect, things you weren’t aware of and wouldn’t know how to make up.
Discretion in the first sessions is not important. Take in whatever comes and refine the process as you go along. Once you begin to feel you can regularly bring in deceased people and hear them well, you start looking at the quality of the material you bring in. Only then do you begin to ask the difficult questions. If you do this too early you stifle the flow. Is this only what I want to hear? Is this me reinforcing my beliefs? Is this only pieces of what I read or heard? Is this information which I did not really expect and does some of it feel slightly uncomfortable and challenging? Through this process you begin to fine tune the clarity and quality of what you bring in.
In Rita’s World: A View from the Non-Physical, Frank DeMarco credits his deceased friend Rita with saying that the dead do not live in a separate world. Living humans just think their material world is separate and isolated. Once you see that it is all one, you can step across the threshold and communicate often and easily.
Of course, the things that keep most of us from doing this is that our society, does not teach how to and even discourages strongly from even trying. These obstacles must be overcome. We must convince ourselves that only we can decide what is possible. Then there is fear. What if evil, bad ghost or demons come through instead of the ones we want to communicate with? The truth is those things almost never happens. But if it does, all you need to do is state strongly that they are not welcomed in your life. Only beneficial, well-meaning beings and energies are allowed to communicate. If you do this, they will be forced to leave. You are more powerful than any ill-intentioned ghost or demon. But maybe the biggest obstacles are doubt and disbelief. When I began doing this, I kept thinking, “I have a better imagination then I ever knew. How arrogant to think the dead would talk clearly through me, that is just what I wish they would say.” When I stopped those inner doubt-based conversations with myself, wide new vistas of possibilities and clear communications opened up to me.
I think what Steve Jobs stated not long before he died was a big help to me, and might be to you who read this piece: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon, is the most important tool I have ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know, to stop thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked, there is no reason not to follow your heart.”
So give it a try, if it feels right to you. What have you got to lose but a little time? And what have you got to gain? Make the time and effort to reconnect with deceased loved ones on the other side. They are there waiting for you to try.
More on David Young’s Soul Ascension Journeys at: http://DavidYoungMusic.com More of Frank DeMarco’s Rita’s World: http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/ More if PMH Atwater’s Dying to Know You: http://RainbowridgeBooks.com
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About the Author
Michael Peter Langevin, former publisher of Magical Blend Magazine. He has authored three books: Secrets of the Ancient Incas (Career Press), and Secrets of the Amazon Shamans (Crossroads Press) Spiritual Business, (Hampton Roads), and has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America. He has danced with Shamans in the Andean Mountains and the Amazon Jungle, and leads workshops. His present-day company, LangevinAxelsson Marketing, specializes in Social Media Marketing and Public Relations Consulting. To contact Michael, email: LangevinAxelssonMarketing@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/LangevinMarketing
