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Lisa told me about a dream she had involving her mother who had passed away just two months before.

“In my dream I was joking with her as I always did. She was directing me to do something as she always did. Anyway, my comeback to her telling me what to do in my dream was, ‘Mom, I might listen to you . . . if someone didn’t go and die.’”

What she said back to me was serious, but she seemed to be quite confused at the same time. “You’re right, but I’m not dead . . .” Then she shook her head and said, “Well, I am dead . . .” then quickly added, “. . . I can’t explain it.”

Death comes for us all sooner or later. According to the U.S. Census Bureau someone dies in the United States every twelve seconds. Or do they?

Before I came to grips with my ability as a medium, or even knew what one was, I wore a T-shirt that said, “It’s not that life is so short, it’s just that death is so long!” Now I know better. According to the souls I’ve heard from over the years that I’ve been doing this work, the journey from this world to the next is as easy as walking from one room into another. Many of them have said that the transition is so subtle that it was hardly noticeable at all!

Others, whose passing came without warning, have talked about their passing being so low-key that it didn’t occur to them that they were in the hereafter. I did a session in which a young man who had died in a car accident came through to talk to his parents. He said his first thought when he crashed the car was, “Mom is going to be pissed. She’s going to kill me!” When I relayed that to his parents, his mother told me that he had totaled his car just the week before. She loaned him her car to go to work and told him, “You’d better not wreck my car if you know what’s good for you!”

I’ve also heard from souls who said that, because of what they had been taught about what happens after we die, they thought the transition would be more obvious than it was. They were expecting a blinding light, angels, and saints heralding their arrival or demons pulling at their souls; but it wasn’t like that at all. They were surprised to find out that they had “died” and that it didn’t occur to them what had happened until after they saw loved ones, friends, and even pets, waiting to greet and welcome them back home. They talk about this happy “reunion” with a great deal of joy, seeing their loved ones that they thought they had “lost” to death.

And there are those souls who weren’t surprised at their passing. They even welcomed it. My mother Rosalia, who passed a year and a half after my father and wanted more than anything to be with him again, came to me shortly after she drew her last breath and compared her transition to taking wet, heavy clothing off. She talked about the relief that came with the transition and the joy of being reunited with my father.

Others, like my father, are comforted by a glimpse of their life to come in the hereafter and the souls of their loved ones who had gone before them, before they actually leave the earth. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Dianne Arcangel, among others, have researched these “deathbed apparitions.” Carla Wills-Brandon calls these visions “heavenly hugs.”