In this post I wanted to touch on a sensitive subject. One about the passing on when we get older. To some this may be a sensitive issue so please only read if you are ready to hear my theories on the subject. The topic is in relation to the developing a better psychic connection before dying, allowing spirits to communicate more freely. This is turn creates a easier transition for many and allows us to let go better in this time of leave.. Part of the post is inspired by many testimonies and also from word from my grandad before passing..
Theories on Passing On.. And Dying..
Okay so let me begin.. One of the many popular theories on passing on in old age is as we get older the bone on the top of our head gets thinner, in a way very similar to how it was when we are a small baby and infant. (In reference to this the bone gets harder as we get older and for most of peoples lives it covers our head.) While many believe this has little relevance to anything, in the spiritual community it is often referred to our spiritual crown.. When it is more exposed it is believed a deeper connection is experienced. While unlocking psychic experience is still available to all this exposure in this area is believed to be a forced connection. Allowing us a deeper spiritual connection before death and also to communicate to the other side as well. A common one is seeing old relatives or random people who have just passed away..
Umm, Is Seeing Spirits Medical or NOT??
While to many this theory is quite controversial many studies have been done and many explanations by the medical industry have tried to hide it with a myriad of explanations. Some claiming reactions to medication causing mass hallucinations even where medications have no known hallucinatory factors. Another is the fuddy duddy explanation, saying well they are old so them seeing something is just one of those things. And the last one is they are old so there must be something we cannot see happening to the person (medically)..
Why so many go to so many lengths to hide the concept of a connection to the other side as the last option is beyond me.. It’s like as if that concept is put forth it is too much to handle or too much for the mind to grasp.. How much easier is it to just put it in that “oh i do not know what that is so let’s put it in the let’s not go there category..”
The Spiritual View on Death..
Okay so back to what is happening in a spiritual aspect, all around the world references to a spirit world being more visible before death is common.. Is it all a hallucination or is it what is happening you must ask..? Why could it not be a spiritual connection is more the answer we all should be looking at..
One such experience was with my grandad a few days before passing, he described flying around the hospital room. Seeing other people and even talking to them. When asked if this was a scary experience he quickly replied not at all.. He also appeared more happy when it did happen as well.. He was on no medication, had many tests all coming back as good, so is a hallucination likely..? Hmm i will let you decide there.. But i tend to believe this is a spiritual process to help the passing for a individual.
Recently i received an email from a reader saying a similar experience recently with her mum passing .. It is such a common aspect of life i believe. The list goes on and on.. What do you think, has something similar happened to someone you know who passed away?
I experienced this with my grandmother a few months before she passed away. She was sitting at her dining room table. She was unable to get around on her own, and before I sat down I asked her if she would like me to sit closer in a different chair. She was very hard of hearing. Anyway, she said no, Stanley is sitting there. Stanley was her husband that had died years prior. The chair was pulled out, and I had the feeling that someone else WAS there. When she said it, she looked over at the chair as if someone was in it.
Hey Crystal,
It’s always very comforting these sort of experiences as well as it helps them pass on at that age better. Thanks for sharing Crystal..!
hi timon,
i have started to keep a dream diary as of lately, as your dreams are meant to have significant meanings or so i have heard.
a really close friend of mine died last year from cancer, i was heartbroken when he died he was near the same age as me (20) and we and our families were close.
when i herd he died i was shattered physically and emotionally.
a few weeks ago i had a dream, i never expierenced anything like it.
my friend who passed away his name was francis.
in my dream my sister and I were attending a wedding.
however we were late to the wedding so we ran up the aisle and nearlly skidded past the alter.
so we slid into a seat and i endued up sitting beside my cousin.
my cousin trish who never knew francis.
in my dream francis and trish were getting married, but francis died prior to the wedding so instead they had a couple playing their roles at the wedding ceremony.
in my dream my cusin trish then looked at me and said ”do you like my shoes,they match my socks”
then i suddenly woke up and i got a breeze almost like someone was breathing heavily on me which travelled very slowly from my toes to my face.
i was shocked i lay still in shock.
i didnt move for a moment and just stayed still, the breath or breeze was so strong.
i then got up to see if my windows were up and they were all closed.
i had pjamas on and was under my duvet so i definatly was not cold.
my mother believes it may have been fran letting me know he was okay as he is nearlly a year dead now.
have you any further suggestions???
hey Jennifer,
Yeah i agree with your mum, dreams can create connections between people that have passed on. If it happens again try to ask a question, you may get a response. Francis passed away so young, maybe he wished to tell you something before he leaved. One thing to note is time is theorised to be different in the after life. A year can be nothing or even many years can seem like a short time to a spirit..
I hope that helps.. What do you think..?
hey Timon i have a special gift it has been passed down to me from my mother i see earth bound spirts some times they are friendly and some times they are dark. my adopted sister and i spend a lot of time together we go every place together there is a road that we use to go down as of lately we have had to find another route when we go down that road my stomich knots up and i get a bad headache most of the time i see a pair of red eyes following me on that road. what ever it is it is trapped on that road i have heard stories about witches using dark magic down there i truely believe that they opened a dark door to which they are not able to close just wondering what your feelings are about that.
my grandmother passed away 1 week ago. she was only 60 and had a heart attack. she was mobile. on the day she died she was fine, she travelled on the bus to 2 of her childrens’ homes and then decided to go into town too. As she left her daughters house she said ‘look how late u’v made me, there are so many people here and at the bus stop, i’ll never get a seat’ When my aunt looked out the doorway to see how many people there were there was 1 old lady standing at the bus stop, no one else was to b seen. she just laughed n thought her mum was being silly or something. few hours later gran passed away.
My mother passed last year and was sick for about a year before her passing. The last 6-7 months or so of her illness completely took away her independence. It was hard and painful and how she went was one of the worst kind of ways: the kind where the body just completely fails and shuts down over time. I was living with her while going to a local university and by default became her primary caretaker and witnessed the full extent of her suffering. Before the doctors even started talking about “end of life preperations” I knew she was going to die. I knew it because a few months before she died she started to see my father (he had passed two years prior) and her parents. She called me into her room one night and said “Don’t be scared, but do you see your father sitting in the corner?” and I did not. I should say this, my family has a history of psychic abilities, not enough to open a shop or anything but enough to know that there are somethings that rational logic can not even come close to explaining and shouldn’t. So when she said this I knew, with a down-to-my-bones certainty, that she wasn’t going to make it. She was bed-ridden at that time and told me he would always appear by her side either sitting on the floor or on the bed and sometimes he would talk to her and on one occassion said “You have to come with me”. I do agree that this could be a transitionary phenomena because prior to my mother seeing my father she was agitated and fearful but after seeing her passed loved ones she became more calm and at peace. Now some might say she was conjuring them up in her mind in order to deal with her own death but I am hesitant to agree. The last month of her life was spent in a hospital and she started seeing other spirits. She kept telling me of conversations she had with her roommate but she had a room to herself for nearly two weeks and she kept seeing patients wandering the hall that no one could see. That’s the experience I’ve had with this subject, thanks for writing on the it.
Hey Alicia,
I agree that is a transitional spiritual experience and not in the mind. Spirits from the other side help the transition easier is my belief. Unfortunately medically this subject will always be a debate unless of course you have experienced it or close to experience it like in your experience. Thanks for sharing.
Nice share Molly,
Sounds exactly like she was mentioning spirits, coming to aid her transition.
Hey Robbie,
Nice share, sounds like what you are referring to is a powerful spirit. Maybe even it is being used by a sorcery or witch to protect a place and in this case possibly a road. By you getting sick from it indicates you are spiritually sensitive which is a gift however needs to be enhanced as well. What i would do is work on your protection energy that way if and when it happens you can cope better.
With seeing the Red Eyes often a spirit or energy will take the form of what you will fear more or what you feel more comfortable with in a positive situation. In the negative side it takes on what you fear. Let me know what you think here..?
If you do decide to take that route again try a positive meditative protection over the car and yourself to see if it helps..
It is 4:30 a.m. and I am about 300 or so miles away from my grandmother who is 94 and currently what I believe to be dying. My cousin has been staying with her over the last year as my grandmother’s health has been declining. She has called me this evening very afraid as she is alone with her and my grandmother has spent the entire evening carrying on conversations with people that my cousin cannot see. At this point and time it is not anyone that we are familiar with. The unusual thing is that my grandmothers dog who is about 13 years old appears to be dying tonight as well. My cousin has observed my grandmother reaching into the air and petting something. Is it possible that both my grandmother and her dog and moving in and out of the spirit world? Would a dog sense it’s owner’s impeeding death and prepare to die too?
Hey Jackie,
Yes I believe animals such as dogs are more tuned to this than humans. Most humans are blocked in many ways by the power of the mind. It sounds to me like maybe the dog is experiencing the same as well, like a connection. It is not unusual in spiritual cultures, animals have high connection to us as well and can tune into our spiritual experiences. Especially considering it is her dog.
I work in an assisted living facility, midnight shift by myself (only staff on the floor). I’ve always been very sensitive and believe in spirits that are left here after death. Working midnight shift by myself in an assisted living facility has always scared me, its always on my mind that when i turn my head a spirit or ghost will be standing there, its a constant worry of mine. I’ve worked there since Feb of 2009 and over the past two weeks i’ve caught empty hangers moving on the laundry carts but thought nothing of it. Then this past Saturday night, I was sitting at the desk doing paperwork and I had a load of laundry hung up on the laundry cart about 20 ft from where I was sitting. I caught it moving out of the corner of my eye, I had heavy laundry hung up on these hangers…sweat shirts, pants ext and they were moving back and forth all at the same time a good 2″ ..it could not have been the wind. So i looked at the cart for a good two minutes straight…then heard a voice in my ear say “what”…it was a female voice and i know what i heard. I jumped up right then and ran over to the nursing home side of the building and stood over there for several minutes trying to catch my bearings. Came back over to my assisted living section where i worked and was very on edge all night, finally one of the other residents who was more alert (most of our assisted living residents are more nursing home type people..) came out and sat in the hallway with me which made me feel better. That morning i went in at 7am to wake up one of our residents who just came back from the nursing home about two weeks ago. He is normally not alert at all, he came back hospice care and we all knew he did not have long left. He was awake and alert staring at the ceiling which creaped me out. Asked him what he was staring at and he said “the lady”…i ran out and got the morning lady who comes in at 6am and brought her in to just confirm i wasnt crazy and she asked him what he was staring at agian he said “the lady”.
Last night he passed away, i was driving by the facility around 8pm and seen the cop and ambulance there, i txt the girl that was working and asked her what was going on..she said he had passed away.
hello. i am 14 years old.. and i have seen spirits since i have woken up this morning. i was looking at it on the internet and decided to do research. i can see them.. hear them.. feel them. they dont harm me. i need help, i dont know what to do. i dont know if this is normal..
My mother had complications due to diabetes and died of cardiac arrest. Seconds before that, she looked at me and said words I didn’t understand. It was two long sentences. It kinda like what that dying old lady said to Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black. Was she hallucinating?
Hey Eu,
The mind can do many things before dying, but is up to you what you believe. Personally i believe commonly any form of passing on is spiritual so it sounds like a spiritual experience.
hey Timon i’m only 13 and i keep on having hallucinations of black figures or faces varying from looking at me to minding there own bisness at first i thought they were just my mind but i have a mate who sometimes sees the exact same thing as me at the exact same time. whatever i see also sometimes hear, (they somtimes tell me stuff but in diffrent languages) i have lots of scary stuff stuff hapen to me like hear breathing, or see coulors ( i wonder if there ouras sometimes) i don’t know what to make of it and its been getting worse over the last year or so, i was wondering you had any comment cause i cant even sleep in the dark anymore.
I am talking to my mother she takes care of her husbands mother and today she called me freaking out because she said she saw a man sitting at the end of this terminal ladies bed. And she said that when she was visiting me and her husband was the only one home with his mother he heard his mother talking in her sleep and swore that he heard a man reply. She also claims to hear my mom singing all the time even when she was here. And once she said she saw my mom and her sons x wife at the end of her bed and it made her happy. She has a brain tumor but won’t take most of the medication. I don’t know if she is hallucinating but its what they see as well that freaks them out. I don’t understand and if you could email me to let me know that would be wonderful. Thank You my email is ashleyandchinopreciado@yahoo.com if anyone has any answers.
Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for your comment. Try not to fear these occurances, it could be the mind manifesting it based on fear. Instead record down when it happens in a journal and try to see patterns to when it happens.. If you really do think it is a haunting then maybe contact a psychic and get there opinion on it.. As a tip ask it to move to the light next time it happens as sometimes this helps spirits move on.. I hope this helps..
Timon:
What you have written is quite fascinating to me. I was on the web searching for this phenomenon and crossed your article. My husbands folks passed away when he was 11. My husband now takes care of the gentleman that helped raise him and he is 89. Recently, there have been times out of the corner of my eyes that I have seen him walking to another part of the house fully knowing that the gentleman is in his room.
Have you heard of this happening. I am very perplexed by it.
Hi Deanna,
Yes this is a common occurrance from many testimonies as a similar case. Spirits from studies into paranormal, are shown to be more commonly seen by those at that age..
what does it mean if you see a black dog when you are dying is this bad?
I have a family member that is very sick in the hospital, and the last few days he has been saying that he sees people and kids that he doesn’t know. Is it possible that these are angels watching over him, or is it possible that he is having psychic connections before he passes on.
Hey Katie,
I am unsure what that means exactly..
My boyfriend’s grandmother recently died, she had Alzheimer’s and had been sick for about a year and a half. His grandfather had a hard time with it for reasons we all understood, they were high school sweethearts and married for about 50 years. His grandfather is now struggling with cancer, yesterday he had a doctors’ appointment and there is nothing they can do for him. He is too weak for Kemo and he is ready to go. This morning he told my boyfriend’s uncle that he had a visitor, and then pointed to a picture of his wife. His grandfather told his uncle that today was the day. I think he will be around for a little longer but as soon as I heard this I had to research on it. From reading this, I now believe that it is possible for the dead to try to make a comfortable passing for the dying. Thanks (: