Otherworldly agendas - myth or self-deception?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In our life, we often hear about cases when ordinary people worry that they receive "letters" from the afterlife. How much can you trust these stories, and what kind of support can self-hypnosis carry for a person?

In November 1994, Jennifer Hill accompanied her grandmother home after her grandfather's funeral. Near the house, a woman noticed a lone gardenia flower and noted to herself that now is not the right time for flowering.

Gardenia is Grandma's favorite flower. Was it just a coincidence? Seeing the flower at an unusual time for him, the grandmother burst into tears of grief. In the appearance of a flower, she saw a sign from her departed husband. Gardenia was the flower symbol of their 40-year marriage.

In January 2005, Hill again faced a strange coincidence on her daughter's annual mourning day. Hill woke up the bell, but no one answered on the other end. On the same day, Sister Hill gave birth to a healthy child.

Following this incident, Hill conducted a survey of people who have recently experienced the loss of loved ones about messages from the other world or unusual coincidences.

Based on the survey, she wrote her Ph. D. thesis on the significance of coincidences during bereavement and the impact of these coincidences on bereaved.

In her opinion, people often take coincidences for signals from the other world, and this helps them to survive severe grief.

During the funeral in the cemetery, the names of the victims were listed. At this time, a flock of birds flew over the head of the mourners, which was recorded by the photographer. She numbered exactly 49 birds.

The relatives of the deceased noted that this fact brought them relief, as if the souls of the dead in the form of birds had come to say goodbye to them.

Bernard Bateman, a psychiatrist and doctor at Yale University, is studying the coincidences linking deceased people to birds.

As an example, the doctor cited the story of a man who fed ducks for 30 years by a lake located near his home. When he was sick and did not get out of bed, he asked his wife to fulfill this mission.

The man soon died. When the funeral procession passed by the lake, it was forced to stop. The road was blocked by a solemn procession of ducks, lined up in rows.

How they escaped from the fence that surrounded the lake remains unclear. For several decades, they left their territory for the first time, while the fence remained intact. Was it a coincidence that ducks appeared on the road at this time?

The wife of the deceased took the procession of ducks as a sign that they had come out to pay their respects to the deceased.

Another case involves 61-year-old Patricia. She sold the house where she lived with her husband Jim for a long time. Here they raised their son Jacob. My husband died six months ago. When Patricia visited the house for the last time, a bird flew in through the open door and walked along the stairs to Jacob's room.

Patricia, shedding tears, said, "I know it was Jim." It was in his son's room that Jim felt like the happiest father. Together they lay on the carpet on the floor, reading books or playing.

According to Hill, "Patricia viewed the bird's visit as a sign from her deceased husband." As if he wanted Patricia to be happy again.

This incident helps Patricia to feel that her husband has been around for several years. She continues to follow the behavior of birds in significant moments of life, and their images decorate her home.

News as help

Similar coincidences are used by psychiatrists to help patients. An esoteric approach to coincidences in the death of loved ones helps relatives cope with the loss. People feel a connection with the dead that eases their grief.

Dr. Wiedett Todaro-Franceschi of the City University of New York gave group sessions with bereaved people who "received news from the afterlife." She noted that this helped them to quickly come to terms with the death of loved ones.