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It doesn’t need to be a blood relative who becomes your guardian angel. Children who were adopted with love may be looked after by their adoptive parent after death. Even if you fell out in later life, the love your parents or relatives had for you as a baby is the important thing. Brothers and sisters, close friends and partners can also become your guardian angel after their death and they will remain so for as long as you need them. The people who care for you in the spirit world will never move on to another life as long as you are still on earth and possibly needing their support. That is their choice, not yours.

After a bereavement, I have often heard of people being told that they have to ‘let go’ and ‘move on’, but this is wrong, because it’s not them holding on. The person who has passed over decides to be with us, in order to help us in our time of need, and they will choose when it is the right time to move on.

There’s a man called Kurt, an actor based in New York and LA, who always comes to me for readings whenever I’m in either of those cities. He told me the following story:

I was in my trailer one morning just waiting to be called on set. I was feeling nervous because it was the first day of filming and no matter how many movies you’ve done, the first day is always nerve-racking. What’s more, I had agreed to do a couple of my own stunts in this movie, and that morning I had to jump from one building to another attached to a safety wire. My makeup had been done, and I didn’t have many lines to remember, but I kept going over the sequence of the action in my head, trying to make it second nature so that the director could capture the scene in as few takes as possible.

All of a sudden, I heard my brother’s voice in my head—a child’s voice. He had died of meningitis when he was six years old and I was only four but I had very clear memories of him. That morning in the unit I hadn’t been thinking about him at all, but suddenly there he was in my head, and he was saying the words ‘Electrics’ and ‘Careful’. I got the spookiest feeling and my skin felt sensitised, as if something was brushing against it. Somehow I just knew I had to take this seriously.

I found the assistant director and asked him if he could please check all the electrics for me.

‘It’s all checked,’ he said cheerfully. ‘It’s OK. It’s fine.’

‘I don’t want to be a pain in the ass,’ I said, ‘but please could you check again? I just have a strong feeling something is wrong with the electrics.’

I didn’t tell them about my brother because I didn’t want to get a reputation as a complete lunatic. As it was, I was taking a risk by making them recheck everything because time is money on a film set and there are always other actors out there who are hungry for your job. The assistant director called over the stunt co-ordinator and he agreed that he would have another look through everything for me.

‘Oh my God!’ Suddenly a shout went up from the top of the building I was supposed to be jumping off.

‘What is it?’ The stunt co-ordinator ran up to find out, with me following close behind.

‘A lamp has fallen over onto the safety wire. It can’t have been sandbagged properly.’ Everyone looked at each other, ashen-faced, then turned to me.

‘What would have happened if it hadn’t been spotted?’ I asked, trying to keep my voice from shaking.

‘The safety wire wouldn’t have worked when you jumped, and on top of that you ran a risk of being electrocuted.’

I would have died, in other words.

Kurt came to ask me to explain to him how his brother, who died at the age of six, could have known about safety trip wires. I told him that once he died, his brother was not a child any more but a pure soul. He could see where things were going to go wrong and he saved Kurt, because he was meant to be saved at that point. Since then, his brother has been in contact with him several times during readings, and Kurt follows his advice on all kinds of matters. Well, you would after such a narrow escape, wouldn’t you?