After-Death Communication
For someone experiencing intense bereavement due to the loss of a loved one, the healing effect of an after-death communication can be profound.
After-Death Communication (ADC) has become a far more open in recent years. I was at a conference in 2017 where a recently retired consultant psychiatrist from a leading London hospital admitted to the assembly to having used trusted mediums whenever the merits of a case called for it. The results, he said, were nearly always very positive.
ADC comes in several forms.
1. Communication soon after a loved one’s death
This usually happens within 24 to 48 hours after the death, and usually only once, occasionally twice. Some communications are easily missed by the bereaved. The most common reasons are dismissing the sensation of a presence through disbelief, putting it down to some other cause, or ignoring it through fear of being wrong. It’s also very common for people not to talk about their experience for fear of ridicule. Years can pass before some talk about it.
One of the most thorough research projects undertaken was by Guggenheim and Guggenheim. They eventually published their findings in their book Hello from Heaven (1996). Taking their evidence from over 1000 people, they identified 12 types of communication. By far the most common, was the feeling of a physical presence, as if the deceased was nearby. Next was hearing a voice, followed by feeling a touch as if the deceased was perhaps putting their arm around them. Others include, familiar smells, visual appearances and dreams etc.
Therapists are stressing now that people must understand that these experiences are not wishful thinking and certainly not hallucinations. They are real and of great benefit to the recipient.
Like many others who study afterlife science, people say to us: This or that happened, have I had a psychical experience? The usual answer given is that if you feel you need to ask, then you haven’t had one. The reason being that when you do have a psychical experience, you’re in absolutely no doubt of its authenticity. The experience is not one of having sensed something. It’s more a case of feeling as if something took over a part of your brain and implanted feelings and words. How one knows this, is virtually impossible to explain; like trying to describe the colour blue to someone who’s been blind from birth. I do know the feeling only too well though from when my mother died.
There are of course cases of people having psychical experiences which are perfectly genuine but less clear. It’s important when this happens to be very careful not to diminish in any way their very valuable experience.
2. Deathbed Visions
This link takes youto the webpage decicated to Deathbed Vision.
3. Mediumship
A more technical name for mediumship would be After-Death Communication by Proxy. The name used for the person asking the medium for information is the sitter. The sitter is not in direct communication with the target discarnate (deceased). It all comes via the medium. There should be no surprise then that it’s prone to ambiguity and inaccuracy. A highly talented medium will, on a good day, be right just 85% of the time.
In near-death experiences and deathbed visions, the end of life is potentially very close, imminent even. There’s urgency, an appointment with destiny. But things are very different for a medium. Are they perhaps intruding, playing on the deceased’s patience? Successful medium, Evelynn Adams, picked up on this when she wrote a book about her work. She called it Annoying Dead People. Her books were so successful that wrote two more. She called the third one Really Annoying Dead People.
One of the biggest problems with mediumship is, and always has been, that it’s relatively easy to fake with the unsuspecting. A ‘medium’ with the requisite skills can manoeuvre the sitter into giving away information without them even realising it. This is especially true when someone is recently bereaved and desperate to hear from their deceased wife, husband, sister etc.
So, does mediumship really work? Yes.
Are genuine mediums hard to find? Very.
Are all mediums psychic? Yes, but not all psychics are mediums.
This link takes youto the webpage decicated to Mediumship.