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  1. Julia
    2013-05-24 @ 7:19 PM

    Hello,

    I’m the “Julia” in the above and I contacted Dr. Assante about 6wks after the last incident to rely my experiences to her to get her take on them…When something like this happens you aren’t exactly comfortable bringing it up in regular conversation with friends, but I wanted to share it with someone…Preferably someone with knowledge of these types of things…I think I was looking just as much for someone to disprove what had happened to me, as much as I was looking for affirmation of it…As I said in my quickly typed letter to her, ( please excuse typo’s, etc.), I wouldn’t have considered myself an overly religious person or someone who was expecting any contact with my son after his death…I would have said I was something of a believer in the afterlife, but with a bit of skepticism for sure.

    But, what I’d really like to convey to anyone reading this is how much more at peace I’ve felt after having each experience…At peace with my son’s death…And at peace with the idea that there is much more “life” beyond this one…That doesn’t mean I don’t still miss him greatly or wish things would have turned out differently for him…But, I just have this deep innate sense now that he still exists and is on a different journey now…I also feel he’s with our family when we need him to be…Or when he wants to be!!

    And as I said to Dr. Assante I have never had any fear during or after any of these experiences…If someone had told me prior these things happening that they would, I would have said, “Thanks, but no thanks”!!…Too eerie for me!! 🙂 But, instead there was no fear only a sense of peace, love, and reassurance…That fact makes them even more real to me.

    I don’t know what people will make of these things…I hope they can provide some of you hope and reassurance…For those who are skeptical, I understand that too…All I know is that they are real to me and have been life-changing to me in regards to my grief…How I think of my son now…And how I perceive things beyond this life.

    I don’t know if or when I’ll hear from Riley again, but I’ll welcome it when it happens.

  2. Linda H
    2013-06-15 @ 4:41 PM

    Julia M.,

    I loved reading the synopsis of your experiences. Thank you for sharing them. My 19 year old grandson took his own life a little more than 6 months ago. We had a kind of special relationship that I feel privileged to have had now but resulted from difficult circumstances in his life that included an absent mom and difficulties that I always hoped would get better for him. He and his dad (my son) were very close until the last year or so of his life when family circumstances with the blended family they had worked so hard to create went badly, and my grandson came to live with us. He was battling some depression, the break up with the girl he thought he would marry, was out of step with his friends who had moved on to college and was so very lonely. Still, he tried hard while he was here, was getting treatment for his depression and was working at the same place where I work until he could enter college in January. On the day after he took his placement exams, he asked to stay home from work for some R&R. He seemed so good — he got up,and showered and ate breakfast and talked about how he thought he had done on the placement exams. We left him behind that day to enjoy a day off with video games, his bike and whatever else he had planned. He proceeded to binge drink, text his friends, make a phone call to his girlfriend and then hung himself in our garage. The circumstances of his death are complex within the family — everyone is in pain and we aren’t able to support each other or be with each other much because of that. So I don’t see my son or my other grandchildren all that often anymore. And, while my husband and I have grown comfortable again in our home — others find it difficult to be here. Your dream about Riley cooking at the stove really spoke to me — that’s what Zachary always did, too, and while I haven t had your vision, I envision him there all the time — well, I environs him everywhere I guess. But I haven’t heard from him — in dreams, in visions, in doggie experiences or any other “coincidental” way. I am reading Julia A’s latest book now in the hopes that I can open up more to such an experience. I think the grieving has been so all consuming that maybe there isn’t “room” for Zachary to come to me in some way — but I so wish for that. I just want to know he’s okay and happy and finally at peace. It haunts me. I am so happy for you that you have this new sense of peace after your Riley communication because I think I know how much that means to you and how much relief it likely brings. I’m wondering if you have any recommendations for practice of some kind that might put me in a place to be more receptive to Zachary. I have read, like you, dozens of books about life after death about suicide about mediums and after death communication and — yes, like you, I even went the angel way for a while. I have been hoping that increased understanding from all this might open me up to hearing from Zachary — and sometimes I think I’m not hearing from him because his exceptional death has kept him too busy in the after life doing his work first before he can relax and interact with us here again. Who knows. Thanks again for sharing your experiences — they give me hope.

    Linda

    • Julia
      2013-07-12 @ 1:14 PM

      This is for you, Julia M!

      Linda, I am so sorry it took so long to post this. How wonderful of you to write. I work with a lot of grandparents who have lost their grandchildren, often by suicide. It you have any questions, let me know. If you are looking for ways to communicate with your grandson on your own, I have written a great deal about that in my book, The Last Frontier.

  3. Ineke Gaster
    2014-08-20 @ 7:57 PM

    To Julia, Linda and others,
    Thank you so much for sharing your stories.. they moved me deeply and I cried reading about your experiences.
    I have been interested in NDE, afterlife experiences, ESP all my life. About 2 years ago someone mentioned to me a book written by a woman called Lorna Byrne who is able to communicate with angels and with people who have ‘died’. It is called Angels in my hair. Lorna lives in Ireland and has been interviewed several times for television. If you”re interested you can see her on Youtube.
    I can strongly recommend this book to you.. it gave me a deep sense of peace and expanded my inner knowledge about Life and Reality.

    With love,
    ineke gaster
    the Netherlands

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