My sister-in-law, Susan, passed away this week. She was the last surviving sibling of my late husband, David. It dawned on me that of all the people who attended my wedding rehearsal dinner way-back-when, only two survive ~ my life-long supernal friend, Sue, and me. My, how the decades have flown. Life is one decision after another. Consequences lead to more necessary decisions. The life partner you choose, the food you eat, the exercise you do (or don’t do), the philosophies you adopt, all steer a course for your life journey.
I’ve come to see that living well is an art. It’s learning to make conscious decisions and considering where various consequences may lead. Living well to the last breath requires good decisions. Making a beautiful transition to the Afterlife can be artfully done.
I am gratified to be participating in the Death Summit Webinar on All Souls Day, November 2nd, sponsored by Ripples of Light. This three-hour Facebook Live seminar offers wisdom and guidance for living your best life to the final moments.
Featured Speakers
Father Nathan Castle, Noon Eastern, 9 AM Pacific ~ Catholic priest, author of the Afterlife, Interrupted Series, popular speaker and host of The Joyful Friar Podcast, Father Nathan ministers to souls in the Afterlife. For thirty years he has been helping souls “graduate” in heavenly realms. He offers important insights for the living from his unique perspective about what happens after physical death.
Intuitive Helen Nibs interviewed by Dana Taylor1 PM Eastern, 10 AM Pacific ~ Medium, Healer, Intuitive Counselor from Ripples of Light, Helen will reveal what she’s learned from the departed that she thinks you should know. Expect the unexpected!
Bekah Jane, Death Doula2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific~ Bekah Jane specializes in comfort care for both the dying and those grieving them, integrating herbalism, essential oils, and total healthcare management into her practice. She and her team works closely with families and doctors to ensure clear communication and coordination during sensitive times. She offers important information for navigating this little-talked about chapter of life.
Mark your calendar for this FREE Death Summit on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the Ripples of Light Facebook page for a LIVE presentation, beginning at Noon Eastern, 11 AM Central, 9 AM Pacific.
This is a photo of my mother, Gloria, and me from the Christmas of 1987. We knew it would be her last Christmas. I was 34 years old when my mother passed away after the slow deterioration from cancer. She and my grandmother had both spent that decade following doctors’ recommendations of surgeries and chemo, seemingly better for a while, but ultimately worn out by the disease and treatments. After they passed, I decided I would not go down their road. I would embark on a different path of health management. As the years rolled by, I explored Chinese medicine, spirituality, discovered the power of essential oils, and Reiki healing. I believe it was a better path. This year I’ve reached the milestone birthday of 70!😲 And what I’ve decided is good health comes down to energy. We each have an energy bank account, and every day we are either taking withdrawals or making deposits.
This is an exciting era when science and medicine are exploring beneficial energy devices to activate the innate regeneration of the human body. Let me share a few I have incorporated into my life.
FLFE.net came into my life just when I really needed it. In the summer of 2021, I was living in the Silicon Valley when 5G towers began broadcasting microwaves across the land. It took me weeks to understand why I suddenly couldn’t sleep and felt like I was jumping out of my skin. My whole body clock was blown out-of-whack. I tried many aids and remedies. One night a thought whispered in my mind “It’s the 5G.” Soon after that I happened upon an interview between Regina Meredith and the co-founders, Jeff Stegman and Clayten Stedmannof the Focused Life-Force Energy company. FLFE is an energy that is delivered to addresses or objects. There is also a component that mitigates EMF pollution. It’s a monthly service that can be transferred to locations as needed. Since I moved to the Santa Cruz mountains away from the ubiquitous 5G towers of San Jose, I have felt much better. But, I have continued to keep the FLFE service on the reasoning that having my home receiving a constant stream of positive energy is bound to be beneficial. Also, it allows me to sleep in EMF polluted locations on visits and vacations without feeling totally miserable. FLFE subscribers share anecdotal stories of positive experience, but it only takes buying some flowers and seeing how long they stay vibrant to know something good is happening. I can keep flowers 4 to 6 weeks before they lose their life force. If it’s good for the flowers, it’s good for me!
Back in 2018 I wrote a post called The Scalar Energy Experience when I first encountered the invention of Dr. Sandra Rose Michael in the offices of Dr. Terry Shintani in Honolulu. Surrounded by a bank of computer screens, clients are immersed in a scalar healing energy field, often with dramatic results. After my first session, I experienced an immediate and long-lasting improvement of my hearing. I bought a package of sessions in the pre-pandemic days and loved going and lying in a recliner for an hour in the energy soup. At the time, I understood Dr. Shintani was almost the only clinic available. Fast forward to spring 2024. I’m now in Northern California and dealing with a lingering respiratory illness and an “incompetent eustachian tube.” In other words, my ear was all plugged up and there wasn’t a medical solution. I wished I could jump on a plane to Hawaii and take some EESystem sessions. By chance, Dr. Sandra Rose Michael scrolled on my FaceBook feed and I discovered Energy Enhancement System wellness centers have popped up all across the world! There are two in my area. I booked a two-hour session and got on the road to wellness. I highly recommend discovering the healing power of Dr. Michael’s system at a center near you.
RED-LIGHT THERAPY
One of my birthday presents in June was a $40 red light therapy panel. I’d seen some beauty shops with “red light therapy” signs in windows, but I had never investigated it. A quick internet search reveals red light therapy enhances mitochondria function at the cellular level, which helps the body repair and regenerate. Popularity began in salons because it improves skin conditions. It increases blood flow and collagen production and decreases inflammation. I decided to give it a go. Nightly, I turn my small bathroom into a red-light therapy spa. The red light bounces off the walls as I shower, towel off and apply magical lotions to my arms and legs. I bask my face and neck for a couple of minutes and give my hands a good treatment also. The best benefit has been in my right hand, which was beginning to feel sore and swollen from nightly crocheting. That has completely gone away. Also, an area on my face had become chronically irritated from wearing pandemic masks. Despite no longer wearing a mask, the irritation persisted. That has also disappeared. And I think my skin looks pretty good—for my age!😉
Finally, I’d like to give a shout-out to the MONICOR USAhealing system. Though I haven’t personally experienced it, yet, I hope to find an opportunity soon. Earlier this year I wrote a post entitledHealing Devices Offer New Hope that featured the amazing healing of stage 4 cancer of a man in his 70’s using the Monicor USA device. Alden Butcher, whose wife Anne Archer Butcher I know through Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI), was given only two months to live after lumpy tumors appeared in his neck. His story of healing was featured on the Spiritual Awakening with AJ Parr YouTube channel. Now, AJ has created an in-depth look at the Monicor USA device through interviews with several health practitioners who have adopted it into their services. Basically, a patient is attached to wires that plug into the Monicor machine, which then uses AI to give a full analysis of body systems based on a Chinese medicine grid. Blockages and weaknesses are revealed. The practitioner than creates a program of electrical frequencies to be administered through the machine to elevate and balance the body. As with all healing energy modalities, it’s up to the body to utilize these frequencies to repair and rejuvenate. As a Reiki-minded person, that makes perfect sense to me.
I’ve learned so much since I took this picture with Mom. I’ve outlived my mother by 12 years, so far, and am grateful to have the health and energy to take care of the youngest of my grandchildren, ages two and three, several times a week. Plus, I’m going to water aerobics, joined a women’s singing circle, writing and recording for Supernal Living, volunteering for SAI and generally enjoying life. I make deposits into my body energy bank account through drinking plenty of water, eating live, uncooked foods, exercising and walking in nature. I believe incorporating energy devices is enhancing my health and quality of living. I encourage you to explore new inventions and innovations to live your best life!
Several weeks ago, Spirit nudged me to create a meditation for people dealing with grief. At the time, I wondered if it was a portent for things to come. Of course, grief is part of the human experience. Loving deeply delivers greatest joy, but also greatest loss when a loved one dies. At this point in life, I am no stranger to grief. I’ve walked the path of the “Valley of the Shadow of Death,” as described in Psalm 23, most memorably when my mother died, and later, my husband. Both greatly loved, both greatly missed.
For me, grief is something to acknowledge and experience. It’s a time to slow down and allow feeling to bubble up and flow out, sometimes in tears, sometimes in closet cleaning or long, long walks. The relationship mourned is not really over, but transformed. With my mother, I ultimately came to feel how much of her lives on in me–my style, my voice pattern, my love for music and family, my ready smile. Gratitude replaced grief.
Grief for my husband took a different route, as it seems we maintain a relationship of sorts as he has simply gone from physical to non-physical. We aren’t in a day-to-day marriage any longer. No more, “what do you want to eat? What should we do tonight?” But rather, he is still around when I really need him, but most of the time now, we’re leading our post-marriage lives. Me, still on planet earth, he in another dimension. But when I am in a crisis, he makes his presence known, usually through music or the sudden appearance of coins.
Two weeks ago, grief came calling to my family as my older daughter, Sara lost her father-in-law, Gary. He’d gone into sudden decline, entered the hospital to hopefully get stronger, but instead, passed away. I’d been following the unfolding drama through long-distance communications with Sara. The afternoon Gary was breathing his last breaths, I found a shiny penny sitting on top of my car. How strange, I thought. How did that get there?
A couple hours later, I received the message that Gary had passed. Though not surprised, I still felt the reverberating shock wave of emotion of the family gathered around his bed. Gary had been a strong, much beloved center of his family. Greatly loved, now to be greatly missed.
When I returned to my car, a bright shiny dime sat in the passenger’s seat. The penny, the dime. Now I got it. My husband makes his presence known when I need him….Truly, love never dies.
The Relief from Grief Meditation is my humble offering for those dealing with the pangs of loss. Hopefully, those who listen will feel their spirits lifted and find their way ever so steadily to joy and appreciation for the love they have known.
So long 2023! It was….fun. My intuition told me it was going to be a challenging year. The winter atmospheric rivers that roared through the Santa Cruz mountains made simple things like getting to the grocery store and safely home again a major accomplishment. By the end of March living on the edge of a river had gone from charming to alarming. Without solid plans, but with faith in my heavenly guides and earthly friends, I moved my belongings into storage, and lived in several locations over the ensuing months. I had many adventures along the way, with old friends and new. As I look back on the year, one of the highlights was finding my way to Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI).
SAI was founded in 2020 by Dr. Yvonne Kason and Robert Bare, two people well-known in the community of Near-Death Experiencers. (See my review of Lessons from the Light by Dr. Yvonne Kason.) They felt led to provide a global community for people who’ve experienced a variety of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs). From the Spiritual Awakenings International website:
“Spiritually Transformative Experiences” is an umbrella term for a broad range of spiritual and paranormal experiencesof consciousness, that all tend to cause a spiritual awakening and gradual expansion of one’s range of consciousness. All types of STEs tend to transform experiencers’ values in a more spiritual direction and propel an increased desire to be loving, ethical, and of service to others. Dr. Kason defines Spiritually Transformative Experiences into 6 major sub-types:
Mystical experiences;
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs);
Other Death-related STEs such as: Deathbed experiences/End-of-life experiences; Death-Watch/Shared-Death experiences; and After-Death Communications;
Psychic/intuitive and out-of-body experiences of many types;
Kundalini / Spiritual Energy Awakenings
Inspired creativity
SAI sponsors monthly guest speakers and Experiencers Sharing Circles. I began watching the presentations, both live and on their SAI YouTube channel. The quality of the presentations impressed me. When they put out a call for an administrative volunteer, I felt that little intuitive nudge, “go for it.” I responded and soon found myself in training with Dr. Yvonne Kason on a weekly basis as their YouTube administrator. Getting to know Dr. Yvonne and the other SAI board members has been inspiring, energizing and just plain fun. Their individual spiritual journeys are the stuff of novels. Together they share a sense of the Awakening of humanity. So many stories, so many people having extraordinary spiritual experiences. SAI provides a global community for them to come together.
This Saturday, February 3 is the Experiencers Sharing Circle on Zoom. People from around the world show up and are divided into small groups. Each Zoom room has a trained leader. Participants can share any Spiritually Transformative Experience, usually for about five minutes, each time around within about 40 minutes. There isn’t crosstalk or counseling, but sharers find comradery and acceptance. Some people simply listen if they aren’t ready to tell their story. If you are interested in attending, register at the SAI website to receive the Zoom link on Friday. All SAI events are free with donations suggested to cover administrative costs. You can register HERE.
This weekend I’ll be joining the Sharing Circle from my two-bedroom cottage in the redwoods of Boulder Creek, CA. My wanderings ended in September when fortune smiled upon me, and I secured a house near my daughter and her tribe of five. I have friendly, helpful neighbors, should the weather cause some calamity. For moment, I am settled, snug and looking forward to the year ahead. I hope you are also.
As a long-time subscriber to Gaia TV, I’ve enjoyed watching episodes of Cosmic Disclosure, Ancient Aliens, Open Minds interviews with Regina Meredith, Dr. Steven Greer, and, lest we forget, George Noory’s Beyond Belief. I’ve taken it all with a grain of salt, but the idea that our planet is regularly visited by extraterrestrials is old news to me. Yet, the culture of ridicule runs so deeply in the US, I’ve only engaged in hushed discussions with “safe” people about subjects like UFO’s and other worldly visitations. There’s been talk of “slow disclosure” for the past couple of years. The Feds have sparingly released old UFO documents. But, the sense of stonewalling by the US government hasn’t changed, until now.
The National Geographic channel on Disney+ six-part series entitled UFO: Investigating The Unknownfeaturing journalist investigator Leslie Kean blew me away. It’s a highly credible compilation of historical information of UFO events since the 1940’s. Though Gaia interviews speak of Dr. J. Allen Hynek and his work on Project Blue and beyond, the National Geographic series has access to television footage interviews to see Hynek in action.
The major UFO events in Stephenville, Texas in 2008; the 1967 Malmstrom, Montana nuclear base disruption; and the 1997 Phoenix Lights sightings are covered in detail. The US policy of whitewashing, ridicule, and secrecy becomes obvious. Especially revealing are the commanders at Malmstrom who were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements and knew their careers would be over if they spoke to anyone about the incident. They waited 40 years to break their silence.
But times are changing. The series also features prominent government disclosure advocates like Leon Panetta, Senator Harry Reid, and Senator Kristen Gillibrand who believe the American public can handle the revelations without running wild in the streets with fear. After all, this is now a nation of Trekkies and Star Wars fanatics.
This week got even more real with Congressional hearings with Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch and retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor testifying before the subcommittee on UFO’s. When NPR (National Public Radio) runs a story, you know it has the powers-that-be stamp of approval.
Disclosure is definitely happening. The rationale seems to be safety for aircraft that has to deal with UAPs (Unknown Anomalous Phenomena). Personally, I’m skeptical that it’s a ruse for furthering the military industrial complex. Hopefully, this isn’t another excuse for war, but, rather a path to peaceful co-existence with highly intelligent civilizations that have been watching human development since the dawn of man.
I first met Helen Nibs in 2005 when I made an appointment for a Reiki treatment in her Oklahoma City office. The session literally changed my life, challenged my world view, and set me on a new path of exploration. You can read all about that in my book, Ever-Flowing Streams: Christ, Reiki, Reincarnation & Me. Beyond all the events that unfolded, I gained a life-long friend in Helen.
Through the years, I watched Helen constantly developing her natural, extraordinary healing and psychic gifts. Besides her energy healing work, she discovered an affinity for spirit communication. She learned the craft of mediumship with some of the top teachers of the day, including Mavis Pattilla and James Van Praagh. She also connects to the guides of Akashic Records for invaluable life counseling. What I’ve come to appreciate about Helen’s gift, is her ability to deliver messages from the spirit realm that are precisely what someone needs to hear at that particular moment in time.
A few months ago I attended one of Helen’s Evening with Spirit World Zoom events. She limits the sessions to 20 participants, with the hope that each person will receive a pertinent message. The expectation is that Helen will be functioning as a medium connecting to loved ones who have passed over. I signed up for the event mainly to support Helen and to see how it would go. Personally, there’s no one on the Otherside that I have much desire to hear from. No great unfinished business at this point. I didn’t expect a message for me.
The session started out with what appeared to be a “miss” on Helen’s part. She said a boy in a baseball uniform was coming through very strongly. No one in the group could claim a connection. She moved on. New people or information came through, appropriately matched to each participant. Interestingly, it wasn’t just a parade of the dearly departed, though a few showed up. The most moving one was a woman who had died from cancer and came to thank the friend who had cared for her. But in another instance, Helen appeared to be more visionary, relating the connection to animals and nature of another participant. She delivered a message of encouragement from Spirit.
a powerful message to me: your prayers make a difference
Then, the boy baseball player showed up again. He was persistent. At that point, I realized the ball player message was for me, which was mind boggling, because the boy is still very much alive. You may recall a boy named Easton Oliverson who suffered a major head injury in 2022 when he fell from a top bunk at the Little League World Series. The press always displayed him in his baseball uniform. While I had never met Easton, I’d been praying and sending him healing energy quite intensely in the weeks after his accident. Though I maintain a faithful daily practice of meditation and distance healing work, I sometimes wonder if I’m accomplishing anything at all. I might simply be a delusional, dotty woman spinning daydreams. Helen’s impression of Easton delivered a powerful message to me: your prayers make a difference. It was just what I needed to hear at the time.
Seeing Helen hone in on each person, catch a thread of connection and reel in a message was impressive to watch. Her lilting English accent and kind demeanor is a balm to the hurting and confused. Helen exudes a healing energy that comes through the ether like a warm hug.
Her next Evening with Spirit World is Thursday, March 16th, for the extremely modest price of $20. I understand she still has some spaces available. The participants will have an experience they will long remember. If you act now, you might be one of them. Sign up HERE.
