When Cierra, a young girl from New Mexico was only three months old, her mother noticed she was unlike her two older children. The young baby seemed to see things that other members of the family did not. Cierra appeared to laugh and react to something that wasn’t there. Her mother used these moments to take photographs which revealed white and green mists and strange lights in the area where the baby was looking. Later she would say things like, “yes, I see you”, to the person unseen by other family members.
From the moment she could speak, Cierra began passing on messages from these unseen spirits. Sometimes messages were from spirit strangers and at other times the messages were from family and friends.
Melody, Cierra’s mother told me about the day that ‘Jane’ first made an appearance when Cierra was 15 months old. “Jane came to us one day during a thunderstorm. I was fixing dinner and Cerra was about 15 months old and playing at my feet with some blocks. She stood up and looked into our laundry room adjacent to our kitchen and said, ‘don’t be scared, it is just a storm.’ Then she said, ‘I know it is scary but my Mummy is here and she will protect us’. At this point I realised that she was talking to another one of her friends, and I said, ‘That’s right, I won’t let anything hurt you,’ to both Cierra and her spirit friend. Then I felt the most wonderful feeling, as if being hugged. And from that day on “Jane” has stayed.”
family presences
Melody explained how this is just one of many spirit visitors to the household. Family and friends who have ‘passed over’ regularly bring messages through the young Cierra, who is still only two years old. Cierra is one of four children and the family take the experiences very much in their stride – although Melody admits, that some friends find the spirit communication a little alarming! The older children are used to Cierra’s ‘friends’. Apparently, games of catch, where the unseen spirit returns the ball to the children, is not uncommon.
Brooding over the death of her parents, Melody told me about the day she was feeling sorry for herself. “Cierra brought through my mother, my father and my grandparents to prove to me that yes, there is life after death and that the spirits do not forget all about you. We were having money problems and I always went to my parents for help - they were always there for me. And I was thinking there is nobody there for me. Even if I just wanted to talk to someone I could go to them but now there is no one. First Cierra brought my mom to me. I found a piece of my mother’s jewellery sitting on top of a can of pop in the refrigerator. There is NO way anyone could have gone into my bedroom, collected that piece of jewellery out of the box , and then placed it there without me knowing it. Then she brought my dad to me. I smelt cigar smoke - nobody smokes cigars that I know. And that is also when she said ‘I see you Grandpa…you funny.’ And finally she brought my grandparents through. My grandpa dropped potatoes all over the floor when I was trying to decide what to make for dinner. He loved fried potatoes. And my grandma was always after him for not eating right so when I was picking up the potatoes the rice bag fell out of the cupboard. All within sight of me, and nothing or nobody else was around when the things fell.”
specific messages
Cierra picks up the messages easily and naturally. Melody told me, “When she gets a message she will ONLY tell the person that it is meant for. For example when my mother-in-law’s sister died Cierra insisted up and down that her daddy call Grandma. When he did, she wanted to talk to Grandma but Daddy had to go away while she did it. Then she told Grandma that “Shirwee (her sister Shirley) says it’s not your time Ayzel (Grandma’s name was Hazel)”.
And when my nephew Roger was expecting a baby with his wife, Cierra told me that she needed to talk to Glenys (Roger’s mother). I told her I didn’t have Glenys’ phone number. She said “Well then tell Grandma that man says that the baby is me. Name him Benjamin. Eat Beans!” Of course none of this made sense to me so I asked my husband. He said that Glenys’ husband Ben had died of a brain bleed. He used to make a big pot of hot beans at every family gathering but nobody could eat them because he made them too hot. So he passed on the information to his mom and she told Glenys.”
Younger brother Dakota appears to have also inherited the ability to communicate with spirits. At only four months old, he is already babbling away to unseen visitors as did his older sister at the same age. Already he is stringing words together, which appears to frighten the unwary! At a recent funeral, the young baby was being held by his Aunty, when she rather suddenly put the baby down. “Many people noticed and finally her sister asked her and I overheard her say that he must be possessed because babies do not talk. Later on when my husband was speaking with her on the phone she asked him if the baby was still talking. He said, ‘well, sort of, why?’ She said that when she was holding the baby he looked at her and said “Glenys you do it, Denise can’t”. It didn’t make sense to her then but after everything settled from the funeral it turned out Denise (their other sister) was supposed to do the financial things, pay all the bills and distribute what was left. And she told Glenys she couldn’t do the financial stuff and asked her to help.”
When our loved ones die, communication with them does not have to end. The traditional method of talking to our loved ones after death would involve a visit to a local psychic medium, someone with the ability of hearing, feeling, sensing or seeing spirit. Spirits nowadays have their own ideas and are finding more and more ways of letting us know they are ok! Although many young children appear to be born with the ability to communicate with our spirit friends, this skill can often be lost when children start school. ‘Logical learning’ can be the end of this natural ability, although spiritual skills can be nurtured and encouraged by the enlightened.
new ways of communicating
Modern spirits are keen to communicate with their loved ones in the most bizarre and amazing ways. Debbie’s husband made himself known in many different ways. “It was a day of clear blue sky with a few fluffy clouds over head. Our youngest son is in the US Navy, following my husband’s naval career. My husband’s funeral was supposed to be with full military honours for the 16 years he served our country. However, the local veteran’s group couldn’t pull it together. As we were at the grave side, my daughter looked up and interrupted the service. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The clouds were in the formation of an anchor, the symbol of our Navy!”
He made himself known many more times but Debbie loved the day he appeared on her computer screen. “…my favourite was the day I was researching what I call ‘comfort sites’ (on the internet) and suddenly he appeared on my computer monitor for a few seconds. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I had bought him a hat, a style he never wore but I thought would look quite charming on him, many years ago. I had a bet with a friend that I could get him to wear it. Well, he never did wear it. However, that day on the computer monitor, he was wearing the hat!”
Spirits will show themselves ‘in spirit’ if they can – but it can be a shock. Andrea’s sister popped over to the house one day - after she had died! She told me, “22 years ago when I was 17, my sister Susan who was 31 died in a tragic car accident. I worked with Susan and she was my best friend, we did everything together and when she died I felt like half of me had died too.
“Fourteen years later when I had gone through a break up in a relationship I was sent two dozen red roses from a very special friend. Both Susan and I loved red roses and on the anniversary of her death each year I buy them for her. I was just arranging the roses in vases when my friend rang. He asked how they looked, I explained to him that I was just taking them into my room where my friend was watching television. She turned to see who was on the phone and as I approached the room, a figure passed me and walked through my living room, I froze and my friend screamed out ‘my God what is that!’ I said “its ok, it’s Susan – she’s come to look at my lovely roses”.
Spirits take full advantage of modern technology, leaving messages on answer-phones, flickering lights and stopping watches.
watching over you
Mandy was amazed at how her friend manipulated his watch to get her attention! “The day after his passing, I had to go back to the hospice to pick up his death certificate and then from there to the solicitor who was acting for his estate. Whilst at the hospice, the nurses gave me an envelope with some of his personal effects in. I handed this to the solicitor, who opened it, and among the items was my friend’s watch. He asked me if I would like to keep it and I said I would. I took the watch and placed it in my bag without really looking at it, or if I did, I certainly did not register what I saw at the time.
“When I finally got on the bus to go home, I took the opportunity to take his watch out of my bag and really look at it. That was when I got the first shock. The watch had stopped at the exact moment of his passing! I have heard of such things before from other people, but when it happens to you, it is a different ball game all together! The second thing I noticed, was that the ‘second hand’ was going round. I didn’t attach too much importance to this at the time, as I wasn’t sure whether the solicitor had wound the watch up before giving it to me.
Ticking message
Later that evening after I got home, I was preparing to go and see my neighbour to let her know of his passing and also to pass on my surprise at the time the watch had stopped. I was astonished to find that the moment I picked up the watch, the ‘second hand’ once more started going round. That took some getting over. I was even more astonished, when I got back in, that the moment I put the watch down it stopped. From that moment, I realised what was happening, it was my friend’s way of telling me that everything was alright.
I am a deeply spiritual person myself and have always believed in the existence of Spirit, but most of my earliest spiritual experiences had been truly terrifying for me. So although it scared me, I also got a tremendous comfort out of it at the same time. This business with the watch continued for a few months although towards the end, the minute hand moved much more slowly and didn’t always start immediately. In addition to the watch, for the first couple of weeks after his passing, I felt my friend’s presence with me very strongly indeed. That did not frighten me and again I received an enormous amount of comfort from it.”
Our loved ones leave us in no doubt that they are still around after death. I believe that spirits have always communicated in this way but the influx of spirit communication from our loved ones after death has reached a new time high. Spirits saying ‘goodbye’ in dreams is almost common-place with as many as 50% of spouses receiving some sort of communication after death.
The spirit realms are merging with our own – so they say. Proof is all around us…if we want to acknowledge it. Our loved ones are very much still a part of our lives, and appear alive and well, just taking on another form. Are we all just spirits taking on a temporary home in a human body? The proof of life after physical ‘death’ has never been closer. |
