Can I contact a deceased relative on my own? (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

Can I contact a deceased relative on my own?

[Bliss Sage]

1. Why does a person have to be dead in order for communication to take place? Can't you also have successful, "unearthly" communication with someone you are close to but geographically distant from? Theoretically, it seems if one is possible, the other must also be...?

2. How do you invite someone into your dream? And, again, can you invite a living, but geographically distant person into your dream and have the dream be equally accurate and genuine?

[Erin Pavlina]

Answers:

1. Successful telepathic communication with a living person is possible but extremely difficult. You would have to somehow find the same frequency and have enough energy/power to cast out a message. I don't know many people who can do this consciously and repeatedly. Do you?

2. Inviting someone into your dream is difficult too, but if you are both skilled at telepathic communication and lucid dreaming you may be able to "meet" up in a dream. You'd have to do a lot of experimentation and practice to make this work. I think picking up a phone is much simpler

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Answers:
1. Successful telepathic communication with a living person is possible but extremely difficult. You would have to somehow find the same frequency and have enough energy/power to cast out a message. I don't know many people who can do this consciously and repeatedly. Do you?

Hmmm...well, I don't think I had telepathy in mind, per se...the actual articulate transmission of thoughts in words from my mind to someone else's seems a bit beyond me. But the not-necessarily articulate communication that occurs when you feel someone. Or that occurs, for example, between a married couple who can "read each others' minds" - actually not reading minds at all, but have such an intimate knowledge and feeling of each other that they are so connected, so through that connection end up thinking and feeling the same things and knowing what the other is feeling, without reading their mind. Really, feeling someone else from a distance. From the feeling of a person, or of a spiritual entity, you can put words to what you feel them emitting, even if they don't articulate the words themselves.

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

2. Inviting someone into your dream is difficult too, but if you are both skilled at telepathic communication and lucid dreaming you may be able to "meet" up in a dream. You'd have to do a lot of experimentation and practice to make this work. I think picking up a phone is much simpler

Yes, but not very impressive or interesting.

[shant121]

OMG Erin, I was talking on Sunday to a frnd who was very upset from remembering her Dad (who passed away in her teens). I made some suggestions and was going to search your blog for a post on .... EXACTLY this topic! talk of manifesting

Can't wait to read it in the evening!

[Rachelle]

How is it that animals and bird can often "see spirits" while most humans can't?
Apparently my mom's dog often reacts as if it is seeing some kind of ghost or whatnot; it will be yappy and barking and rushing into a room, for example, when suddenly it will stop in its tracks and stare at the ceiling as if it sees something. My mom's father passed away in the same house this happens in, and my family thinks it's his ghost. He *did* pass away somewhat traumatically - his heart essentially exploded and he was only in his mid-40's I believe. But he passed away about 30 years ago now, so it doesn't seem to make sense to me that his 'spirit' would *still* be floating around the house... or does it?

[Mew3692002]

Great entry Erin! Although, I can talk to spirits too and sometimes be able to see them out of the corner of my eye but my question is this, what if you don't want to talk to spirits. I mean, I love talking to angels and my guardian angels but as a result of doing that I've been able to hear spirits and see them out of the corner of my eye in a greater frequency. Is it possible to just talk to my angels while not talking to dead spirits? It does seem kind of silly but talking to dead spirits was never really anything I was interested in at all.

[Erin Pavlina]

Mew, you can ask your guides to filter and sort what you see. It may be difficult though. It's like being able to see colors and asking if you can skip seeing green.

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Answers:

1. Successful telepathic communication with a living person is possible, but extremely difficult. You would have to somehow find the same frequency and have enough energy/power to cast out a message. I don't know many people who can do this consciously and repeatedly.

what about when both people 'oobe'

[Erin Pavlina]

Yes when you are both out of body you can pretty easily have interaction and communication. The hard part is getting both people out of body at the same time. That communication, however, will be in the form of thoughts and feelings. It's not like using your mouth and vocal cords to have a regular conversation. So it can be hard to interpret the information going back and forth. You would probably need to practice with a single person for months or maybe years to be able to fully communicate in an out of body state.

[Hari.c]

This is very helpful and fascinating article Erin. Thank you so much for writing it so clearly. I will try to invite some of my deceased relatives in to my dream. But I am scared.

[Erin Pavlina]

Don't be scared. It's an extremely loving feeling.

[Hari.c]

Thank you so much for your support. I am exited now.

[kgiuliani]

After my mom passed, I was upset and crying and I felt her communicating to me that I shouldn't be upset - that she was like sunshine. I felt her telling me that she was as a very bright, white blinding sort of light that was pure joy. That truly helped me cope with her death knowing that she was no longer struggling to breathe (she died from lung cancer).

I also dream of people who have died. I had a dream once that my great aunt had crossed over and I "saw" her being greeted by my grandma (her sister) and for some reason my father was also a part of the group (they weren't related in this lifetime on earth except by marriage). There were other relatives there as I felt their energy but they were people I didn't know very well in this lifetime - pretty sure one of my great-uncles was there. My mom called me the next day to tell me my great-aunt had died that night and I told her I already knew because I had seen it in a dream.

I have gotten feelings from other people who have crossed over - I felt my friend's father trying to communicate something when I was with my friend once but couldn't figure it out so never said anything.

Maybe I should learn to be a medium?

[supertom]

i read a some works by william walker atkinson, and he talks about a psychic cabinet, he says after a certain level of development spirits can actually get manifestions, even come and give hugs to loved ones.

You guys might already know this but im in awe. his books are on project gutenburg, and hes got a lot of other names, so lookout for those

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by Hari.c

This is very helpful and fascinating article Erin. Thank you so much for writing it so clearly.

I will try to invite, some of my deceased relatives in to my dream. But I am scared.

yeah, we have no way! of knowing, exactly who/what shows up;
so your fears are justified. No way am I gonna risk that!

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Yes when you are both out of body you can pretty easily have interaction and communication.
The hard part is getting both people out of body at the same time.
That communication, however, will be in the form of thoughts and feelings.
(It's not like using your mouth and vocal cords to have a regular conversation.)
So it can be hard to interpret the information going back and forth.
You would probably need to practice with a single person for months, or
maybe years to be able to fully communicate in an out of body state.

Strange; that wasn't my experience! - one day, 3 of us Christians just did it, like
(snap) Lightening fast and
we had the greatest of ease both "communicating thoughts... & feelings", accurately.

Course, that was 30 yrs. before I even heard of such a concept called an "oobe"

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by Rachelle

How is it that animals and bird can often "see spirits" while most humans can't?

missed this post earlier.
Tho this thread is about "> Can I contact a deceased relative?" - and, as a Christian, Jesus' caution is "avoid, don't go there, nor join" (as we could be either fooled, or worse possessed by another spirit, with harmful intentions & abilities, more advanced than ours.

That said, animals (not having been taught by humans, to not), do use all their abilities continuously...) for their own, as well as people's helpful benefits...

[Ace22]

From the ADCRF:

We analyzed 238 contributions to our ADC website form exploring the relationship between the deceased and the person reporting the ADC. We found that 46 (19%)of the contacts occurred within 24 hours or less. Interestingly, 35 (76%) of the 46 contacts occurred between blood relatives. Only 5 (14%) occurred between significant others.