i've made several attempts over the years too see sylvia browne about my brother that's been missing for almost 5yrs,and learning of his murder,but have yet to find his remains.i'm glad she was able to help you!i'm sorry for your loss1

Dear Robin:
First, my condolences. I always wanted to have children but wasn't lucky enough. I have the deepest respect/heartfelt sympathy for parents - particularly Moms - who lose a child. It's a grief that is beyond any other, in my opinion.

Second, I've always wondered/been interested in Sylvia Brown and was just talking about her with someone. How does one know?

I believe in Heaven, hell and Purgatory, as my religion teaches. It's always been easy for me to accept but now hard for me to deal with after Mom's passing. We're taught that if you make it to Heaven, you still have to be purged of small things in Purgatory. I guess like a surgeon who's clean but has to sterilize up to his elbows before entering surgery.

But I need to know where Mom is. And I never expected to be asking that question afterwards. I know what I was taught. I have to hope I helped Mom in the religious aspect before her death. But after reading books, I

I believe that everything happens for a reason. I spoke to my boyfriend on a Wednesday and he had a terrible headache. I called him Thursday and Friday without reaching him. This wasn't unsusal. Saturday morning I had decided that if he hadn't called me by noon I would go to his place. I got a call just before noon from him. He had been in the hospital since Thursday with a fever over 104 and delirium. My son and I went to the hospital and visited with him. I kissed him goodnite and said I'll see you tomorrow. I explained I had errands to run. He told me to take my time.I got the call the next day that he had passed away earlier that Sunday morning. He could have died between Thursday and Friday but he waited to see us. This is what my heart is telling me. I no longer believe in coincedences. I believe there is a physical plain and a spiritual realm. We cross from one to the next.
Hugs,
Invictus5

FIRST I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, I CANT IMAGINE THE PAIN THAT YOU ARE FEELING!!!I LOST MY 16 YR OLD SISTER IN JUNE AND THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE!!!I AM HERE IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO OR JUST HAVE SOMEONE LISTEN!!!

NOW AS TO WHAT I BELIEVE....I TOO BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON ALTHOUGH WE DONT KNOW WHAT THAT REASON IS GOD DOES!!!!THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO MAKE ME AFFIRM MY BELIEFS....A YEAR BEFORE MY SISTERS DEATH,MY MOM AND MY SISTER MOVED AWAY TO WASHINGTON (MY OTHER 4 SISTERS AND 1 BORTHER ARE GROWN NOW AND HAVE THEIR OWN LIVES,HEATHER WAS THE ONLY ONE LEFT STILL AT HOME WITH MOM)SO HER AND MY MOM GOT TO SPEND SOME QUALITY TIME TOGETHER GETTING CLOSER AND SUCH...SHE EVEN IS THE ONLY ONE OF US KIDS THAT GOT TO GO TO THE OCEAN WITH MY MOM (WHICH WAS 1 OF MY MOMS WISHES FOR HER TO BE ABLE TO TAKE HER KIDS TO THE OCEAN BEFORE SHE DIES)THEN HEATHER MISSED EVERYONE HERE SO SHE CAME TO LIVE WITH ME FOR A WHILE SO THAT SHE COULD GO TO HER 1ST YEAR IN HIGHSCHOOL WITH ALL OF HER FRIENDS AND MY MOM MOVED TO KANSAS TO LIVE WITH MY SISTER ASHLEY SO THAT SHE COULD BE CLOSER TO FAMILY. I WAS TOO STRICT SHE SAID AFTER A FEW MONTHS (LOL) SO SHE MOVED IN WITH MY SISTER KIM(WHICH LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM ME)AND STAYED THERE FOR ABOUT 6MONTHS OR SO, THEN THEY GOT EVICTED FROM THERE HOUSE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON SO MY MOM MADE HEATHER MOVE BACK WITH HER (THIS WAS A COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE HER DEATH)EVERYTHING WAS GOING GOOD AND SHE WAS NOW GETTING TO SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH OUR SISTER ASHLEY AND BROTHER BRYAN(WHOM SHE HADNT REALLY SPENT TIME WITH SINCE THEY MOVED AWAY THE 1ST TIME)THEN OUR GRANDPA PASSED AWAY SO THEY HAD TO COME TO OKLAHOMA FOR THE FUNERAL AND HEATHER DECIDED THAT SHE WANTED TO STAY WITH MY SISTER LAURA IN TULSA FOR A FEW MONTHS SINCE IT WAS SUMMERTIME AND SHE COULD SEE ALL OF HER FRIENDS SO MY MOM LET HER EVEN THOUGH SHE DIDNT WANT TO...MY GRANDPA'S FUNERAL WAS ON MONDAY JUNE 26TH OF THIS YEAR AND THAT DAY MY MOM LEFT TO GO BACK TO KANSAS THEN AT 12:30AM ON SATURDAY THE 30TH THE POLICE KNOCK AT MY DOOR AND TELL ME THAT HEATHER HAD BEEN SHOT AND WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL, I CALLED EVERYONE AND MY MOM, SISTER ASHLEY AND BROTHER BRYAN RUSHED HERE FROM KANSAS!!!THE BLESSING THAT I THINK THAT GOD GAVE TO US SINCE HE KNEW THAT SHE WASNT GOING TO BE HERE MUCH LONGER WAS THAT EVERONE OF US GOT TO SPEND OUR OWN QUALITY TIME WITH HEATHER BEFORE SHE WAS TAKEN FROM US AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL HAVE TO CHERISH FOREVER!!!!(IT JUST TOOK A YEARS TIME SINCE WE HAVE SO MANY SIBLINGS!!!LOL!!!)

What do I believe?? I do not know what the after life is like but I believe that love is too powerful for this plane of existince to be the end if it all..I believe that our stay here on earth is just a blink of the eye in the life of the universe and I sometimes believe that the earthly plane is the real hell and that those who die young have been released early for good behavior

I am so sorry for your loss.

I believe we are on this earth a very short time and when we die we go to heaven.

I believe that god is a loving god and everything that happens in life is for a greater purpose. I can't imagine your pain and I know your son is in peaceful place now.

I believe everything you have said. A mothers bond to her child is beyond discription. It is totally probable that a higher power was a work during the last two weeks you and your son had together. For what ever reason you and your son were given two weeks together that will always be a teasure.

I believe your son has a very special mother.

I completely believe in what you are saying. Quick recap for me, my fiancee died a month ago of cardiac arrest. Hindsight being what it is, we all recall things she said in the months leading up to the event. She woke me one morning about two months prior telling me she had a nightmare that she died at work while talking on the phone to a friend of hers and she felt so sad because she was never going to see me again. At the time I just hugged her and said it was just a dream and she was awake now and I was there for her. She had a cardiac arrest at work while talking to a co-worker at a branch office. Coincidence? A little while later, she mentioned to me that she just filled out her life insurance paperwork and put her sisters down as beneficiaries. She had a discussion with her father about not wanting to live if she was hopelessly on life support, which she later was, and also discussed organ donation with him. She told her sister that I was the love of her life but she didn't think she was the love of my life, possibly meaning that she was going to die and I would meet someone new some day.

These are all real things that happened which we did not project after the fact. I believe that she subconsciously knew that this was about to befall her. I'll believe that until they day I die and hopefully she'll be the first one there to greet me.

What do I believe? Right now I have very little belief in things, life, & the world around me.. but I know that is the depression I fight.

The weekend before Mike died, he wanted to see a friend of his who he hadn't seen in a while. We played Canasta all night. Before I went home that Sunday, he told me how much he loved me and how he always would. I told him I loved him as well & would love him forever.

I believe in life after death. That we do come back on this earth more than once. I also love Sylvia Brown and have read several of her books. Especially since mom died. I wonder if Sylvia would say the same thing about my mom. She overdosed on her meds in Dec. We just about lost her. She had stopped breathing. The paramedics reached her on time. She passed away Mar 7. In those 2 1/2 months by brother moved here to help me with her. I was able to spend more quality time with her as she really seemed to pick up and get better. Then she died peacefully in her sleep. We were shocked. We thought she was getting better. So I think this may be a possibility too. I also think mom is around me in spirit. this has comforted me.

I am so glad that you had a chance to talk these things over with your son. I believe that we have a sense of our impending death.

Oh yes....I most certainly believe these things happen....they have happened to me. I'm so very sorry you lost your son. I lost my son, also, and I know what you're going through. There's no greater sorrow than to lose a child. Our son died of lung cancer. He was 56 years old, with a wife and three adult children, but he was still my baby. I'll try to make this as brief as possible, OK? Our son "claimed" to be an athiest from the time he began college until he was in his early 30's, and then, because of the way things happened at that time, his life turned completely around. He joined a non-denominational church (we are Catholic), was "born again", and became an avid believer in the Christian faith. We were extremely happy about it, and we saw his whole life take a huge change. He quit smoking when he was 40, and we all thought he would live for many years...but it was not to be. He spent much of the 2001-2002 winter with one problem after another...and by June he was in a very bad way, couldn't breath, had a lot of pain, and then began coughing up blood. They studied his x-rays again, and finally diagnosed himwith 4th stage non-small-cell lung cancer, and was given THREE MONTHS to live. We all went through hell, trying to figure a way to make him better... nothing worked. By the end of July we had people praying in every kind of church you could imagine, and many prayer lists, too. Of course we were praying for a "MIRACLE", which for us was a "miraculous cure". The doctors in our large cancer hospital, here, had given up on him, after trying a myriad of trial drugs, which didn't work. No details, but in January of 2003 he heard about The Cancer Treatment Centers of America, from a good friend, and gave them a try. THAT WAS OUR MIRACLE!!
He ended up living 4 more years....3 of which were happy, active, and wonderful years, in which he not only did things he always wanted to do, but he felt very inspired to tell people about his spiritual feelings,and he said many times, that he felt God had given him this extra time to do that very thing.
He spent his last month in the CTCA Hosp., in Phili, which is a 5 hour drive from where we live. There's much more to this story, but to make it brief, we got word that he had taken a turn for the worst, and was not expected to live through the night. We traveled those 5 hours to Phili, and reached his bedside at 10:20. He was NOT able to communicate, at all. However, we all told him we loved him, etc., and his wife told him that we were there now, so "he could go", and within seconds, he passed away. It was 10:45. I KNOW that he waited for us. I feel that it was God's gift to him. I KNOW that my son is with God....without ANY doubts. I asked my son to give me a sign, and he does. I won't go into what he does, but I KNOW that it's a sign from him. I have only told two people, because it sounds like I've gone off the deep end, but I KNOW what I KNOW. I feel very deeply that we'll be with all our loved ones, again. How could we stand it if we thought for one moment that this was not true?? I believe your son was given a chance that not everyone gets, and that is to be able to say goodbye, which he did. What a wonderful gift!!! God bless you.
SK77

I've always been a "closet" Christian, following the rules, but not much more. Since Greg died, I've had signs of an afterlife. I have to believe. What else is there?

I believe that my son's spirit knew time on earth was coming to an end. In the weeks before his death he was working at his job at pizza hut one night when he waited on a preacher, he ended up asking to be saved and so he was, right there that night. This preacher spoke at my sons service. Devin was a big hearted kid who loved everyone but he stayed in and out of trouble, it was almost like you could see this little devil sitting on one shoulder and an angel sitting on the other, and both were whispering in each ear. The day he passed we went to pick out the casket and decided on a blue one with a dove in flight on it. I said it was perfect because the dove represents peace. When I returned home that day my friend had emailed something her daughter had made for me, it was a picture of a dove in flight. She had no way of knowing about the dove. I believe this was one of my son's ways to let us know he is at peace. The day of the service we released doves, all of them flew around a few times together then flew away, all but one, he continued to circle over us until we left. You can see the picture my friend made for me at my myspace dedicated to my son, www.myspace.com/dutchess72269

Hi Robin, I was so sorry to read about your son!!

I lost my Dad 18 months ago. I am a scientist and was an atheist, but we've had so many signs of an afterlife since his passing that I've turned into a deeply spiritual person.

Most notably, the day of his birthday, two baby doves appeared on my mother's back deck. They were so unafraid of us that we have a picture of me right beside them - I could reach out and touch them. They stayed there the ENTIRE day. We have never seen baby doves there before or since.

With this spiritual awakening I've also started to notice the coincidences that you talk about! They're so prevalent that I just can't ignore them.

If you haven't already, check out James Redfield's books: the Celestine Prophecy, and specifically the Secret of Shambala. It is all about these coincidences and society's awakening to understanding them. Finding that book felt like one of those strong coincidences to me!

I'm sure your son is somewhere doing something special for us, and that he will be waiting for you to join him!

Peace,
C

a few weeks before joey left his body, he was recuperating from back surgery at my house. he asked me to go get him a book at the library, called House of Spirits, by Isabelle Allende. i was surprsed he wanted to read it, he usually read tech books.
nonetheless, i got the book for him and he went into his bedroom. i was assuming he was reading it.
a couple days later he came out of his room holding a beautiful drawing he had made of Isabelle Allende! he used the picutre of her on the book jacket. a beautiful woman, a kind angelic face she had. well, i told joey i was amazed at what he had done. he had never drawn pictures before, especially ones this good.
i put the picture in a drawer, intendng to frame it.
3 weeks after joey let go of his body, i found the picture. i looked at it, and heard a voice inside of my head saying ;go to issabelle allendes website.
si i did. and there she was, more beautiful then the picture.
i wrote her an email, and i told her about the drawing did of her just before he lost his body.
i thought, well, thats done, and didnt expect any thing back,'
but, she did write back...she not only wrote back, she sent me a book called PAULA, the story of Issabelle Allende;s 32 yr old daughte who had lost her life and the while book was about healing thru grief and trauma.
there are no coincidences in the universe. i believe with all my heart that joey knew IN SPIRIT while he was in his body that this was histime to go from his body.
and he drew a picture before he crossed over to help me prepare.
i do believe we all know, everyone of us know when its our time, and i do blieve we chose that event before we were born into this existence.joey has shown me many more things, but i do know he isvery much alive