Can a Medium Pick Up On a Code Word? (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

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

Can a Medium Pick Up On a Code Word?

[Zach M]

"It would be awesome if someone could invent a translator that would accurately translate energy into English."

Give Google another 10 years. Then everything changes.

[JoePike]

Loved the post Erin, very informative. We really don't know how things work on the other side or what 'rules' spirits must adhere to when communicating with the living. It makes sense that spirits wouldn't be able to communicate in plain language so must figure out how to do it energetically or some other way (sending smells, images, etc).

The famous medium John Edward wrote in one of his early books that he and his mother agreed on a code word before she died that she would deliver to him to let him know she's okay. Though he has communicated with her on several occasions she never has given him that word they agreed on. I'm not sure if that's changed by now or not, but I always thought that was interesting.

I'd be very curious to know how many deceased spirits actually hang around the earthly plain for a while before they cross over. Do most souls stick around at least long enough to attend their own funerals, or do most cross over right away? I suppose there's no way to really know that statistic unfortunately. I'm sure it also depends on the person's age, state of mind at the time of death, the circumstances of the death, and the person's individual beliefs about the afterlife.

I attended a funeral about a week ago and found myself just fascinated by the possibility of the deceased person being present in spirit form with no one there knowing it. I spoke to the person in my mind as if she was present, sending her love and support and reminding her to call on her angels to help with her next step. It felt good!

[supertom]

so erin how many hours a week do you dedicate to "psychic development" or perhaps keeping your skills sharp.

[Erin Pavlina]

Since I do this work professionally I'm usually honing and sharpening daily. For someone who isn't doing this work professionally I'd say 30 minutes a day doing something that increases your intuition and connection would be satisfactory.

[Errantes]

Hello Erin, very interesting entry you made here.

(just a quick presentation) I'm a person who made a quick contribution to this message bard a few years ago, under a less than positive login name and in less than positive circumstances. So I switched and it's a new one. However I never stopped reading your new blog entries for the last 2 years, just quietly reading and never opening my mouth.

Today I meant to ask you a question since you came up with the idea in this blog entry. You talk about quantum physics and its relationships with your... shall we say... area of expertise.

Will you ask [whoever it may concern ] more about wuantum physics and how this new science integrates into spiritual teachings so far? I personally have a feeling that quantum physics will be the bridge between science and spirituality, and fill up a lot of question marks.

But it'd be good to have your intuitions on that.

Keep up the good work!

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Since I do this work professionally I'm usually honing and sharpening daily. For someone who isn't doing this work professionally I'd say 30 minutes a day doing something that increases your intuition and connection would be satisfactory.

Thanks, I will be a professional so I need to practice more.

[wuzzy]

I have seen old radios that has been modified and using static stations to give the spirit a way to communicate. To the point where the family could hear the voice of the spirit through the radio (even though it was not the actual voice of the person since the radio became like a new vocal chords for the spirit) Not sure of the specific details on how to accomplish this. But when the family was on tv they were telling everybody how to do this with a typical radio. I am sure if you research you will get the instructions

[Angela]

“Hey Erin, my name is Joe Smith and I’m happy to be talking with you today from the other side. Could you please tell my son that the will is in the top left drawer of my study and the password for my computer is Ulysses.”

It's funny that you say this. A couple of days after my mom died, I was laying on her bed (where she had died in my arms), with a terrible headache. I heard words in my head (I was pretty auditory back then, as opposed to visual), instructing me to dig deep down into the back of her closet, a place I had not gone into because smelling her clothes overwhelmed me with missing her, and I didn't want to do it because my head hurt so badly. But the "voice" was insistent, so I went crawling in there and found a little cardboard chest of drawers, and inside it was a huge stash of Vicodin.

Well, I took one, and felt a LOT better! and then I thought, okay, well, is there anything else you want me to know about? And I "heard" her direct me to her safe, which I HAD gone through, and this time to look BEHIND the safe, which I hadn't done --why would I? That thing weighed a ton, and it took some wrestling to move it (good thing the Vicodin had kicked in). And I found there an address book with a page marked -- with one name and phone number in Canada. Hmmm. I called that person and told him that my mom had died, and he started crying, and thanked me over and over again. He said he had been really worried because he hadn't heard from her (since she had gotten very ill), and he felt terrible because he knew there was no way he would ever get word if she died -- no one in the world would know to call and tell him. He was resigned about being in the dark, but it felt awful. He said that getting my call was one of the great blessings of his life.

I did not ask. I just felt like I had resolved something important for her, and let it go.

It was just a win/win situation, all around.

[Erin Pavlina]

cool!

[NDavid]

Hi Erin, just curious but what about in the astral or in a lucid dream? Could your spirit guides or a deceased relative communicate with you clearly and directly as though they were talking to you in the physical?

[Anna Conlan]

Originally Posted by Angela

It's funny that you say this. A couple of days after my mom died, I was laying on her bed (where she had died in my arms), with a terrible headache. I heard words in my head (I was pretty auditory back then, as opposed to visual), instructing me to dig deep down into the back of her closet, a place I had not gone into because smelling her clothes overwhelmed me with missing her, and I didn't want to do it because my head hurt so badly. But the "voice" was insistent, so I went crawling in there and found a little cardboard chest of drawers, and inside it was a huge stash of Vicodin.

Well, I took one, and felt a LOT better! and then I thought, okay, well, is there anything else you want me to know about? And I "heard" her direct me to her safe, which I HAD gone through, and this time to look BEHIND the safe, which I hadn't done --why would I? That thing weighed a ton, and it took some wrestling to move it (good thing the Vicodin had kicked in). And I found there an address book with a page marked -- with one name and phone number in Canada. Hmmm. I called that person and told him that my mom had died, and he started crying, and thanked me over and over again. He said he had been really worried because he hadn't heard from her (since she had gotten very ill), and he felt terrible because he knew there was no way he would ever get word if she died -- no one in the world would know to call and tell him. He was resigned about being in the dark, but it felt awful. He said that getting my call was one of the great blessings of his life.

I did not ask. I just felt like I had resolved something important for her, and let it go.

It was just a win/win situation, all around.

What a lovely story!

[Erin Pavlina]

Originally Posted by NDavid

Hi Erin, just curious but what about in the astral or in a lucid dream? Could your spirit guides or a deceased relative communicate with you clearly and directly as though they were talking to you in the physical?

I've had great success communicating with deceased people in lucid dreams so yeah potentially they could pass me a word and I would hear it clearly. On the astral plane would be vastly tougher as then even I don't have vocal cords.

[NDavid]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

I've had great success communicating with deceased people in lucid dreams so yeah potentially they could pass me a word and I would hear it clearly. On the astral plane would be vastly tougher as then even I don't have vocal cords.

Really? No vocal cords in the astral? But then, how do ppl communicate on the astral plane? If it's all energy then wouldn't it be just as tough to understand each othe there as trying to interpret energy from the astral to the earth plane? I thought other ppl like Robert Munroe etc have had conversations with other beings in the astral? Also, what about all the instances throughout the bible and other religious doctrines where ppl met and spoke to Angels and were shown things (I'm just assuming it was in the astral due to the way they discribed the experience).

Sorry about all the questions :-)

[supertom]

Originally Posted by NDavid

Really? No vocal cords in the astral? But then, how do ppl communicate on the astral plane? If it's all energy then wouldn't it be just as tough to understand each othe there as trying to interpret energy from the astral to the earth plane? I thought other ppl like Robert Munroe etc have had conversations with other beings in the astral? Also, what about all the instances throughout the bible and other religious doctrines where ppl met and spoke to Angels and were shown things (I'm just assuming it was in the astral due to the way they discribed the experience).

Sorry about all the questions :-)

Meeting angels stories were probably clairaudience and clairvoyance, unless is was a full apparition.

[Erin Pavlina]

There are no vocal cords on the astral plane because those are in the body, not the soul.

You communicate on the astral using the same mechanism you'd use in a dream. In a dream, you're not using your real eyes, ears or vocal cords either. Yet you are able to communicate as if you are. Think about it.

[Federer]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

There are no vocal cords on the astral plane because those are in the body, not the soul.

You communicate on the astral using the same mechanism you'd use in a dream. In a dream, you're not using your real eyes, ears or vocal cords either. Yet you are able to communicate as if you are. Think about it.

If there are no words, then communication is done by images. Because you can't hear, not using eyes, just you're using visualization. Right?

[Erin Pavlina]

Or telepathy.

[NDavid]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

There are no vocal cords on the astral plane because those are in the body, not the soul.

You communicate on the astral using the same mechanism you'd use in a dream. In a dream, you're not using your real eyes, ears or vocal cords either. Yet you are able to communicate as if you are. Think about it.

But in a dream, I have talked and the thoughts I have are expressed verbally in my dream come out exactly as they would when I speak them (hope that made sense). If thats the same case in the astral, then technically you would be able to communicate a code word right?

[Erin Pavlina]

Deceased people do not reside on the astral plane.

In a dream you are using the vocal cords and voice of your dream character/construct.

[NDavid]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Deceased people do not reside on the astral plane.

In a dream you are using the vocal cords and voice of your dream character/construct.

really? I thought that after they die, dead ppl go to the ether and I thought the ether and the astral plane were the same thing? What's the difference between the two? If they can't appear in the astral, then how do they appear in dreams? btw, this is really interesting stuff! :-)

[Erin Pavlina]

the astral plane is different than the ether. The ether is more like another dimension, let's call it the 4th dimension. I see the astral plane as a dimension between here and there. Sort of a highway connecting the two.

[NDavid]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

the astral plane is different than the ether. The ether is more like another dimension, let's call it the 4th dimension. I see the astral plane as a dimension between here and there. Sort of a highway connecting the two.

Interesting, are the ether and astral plane similar in their physics and energy? By the way, how come alot of ppl consider dreams as happening in the astral? As I understand it, dreams and even lucid dreams to them are just projections of your mind on the astral plane. Am I right in saying that the astral plane has a different energy to it, much more clear than a lucid dream right?