life. He’ll see all of his errors and all the pain he caused and it will take him a while to get over this.
At one of my big shows I did a reading for a woman who wanted to know whether her ex-husband had even made it to the Other Side. Clearly she thought he might have been relegated to some “other” place. He did come through—she was pretty surprised when I told her that, in fact, he actually was there—and he was apologizing like crazy, saying that she had been right. I didn’t know what he was talking about (although she said that she did); I had the sense that maybe he took bad advice from someone he trusted, it seemed like a family thing. But the understanding I got was that he had treated her very badly, really put her through hell. Over there, he realized the error of what he had done and wanted her to know how sorry he was.
Are our pets waiting for us on the Other Side?
Of course they are. Animals are gifts from God. They give us comfort and joy, they sustain us. In all honesty, our pets give us the nearest thing to unconditional love we can know on this side. We need to treat them with respect, and never take them for granted. Just like the people who have passed on who are near to us, you can hear from them. Often when I’m doing a reading someone on the Other Side will tell me to tell my client, “Your dog is here.”
Sometimes a pet doesn’t even wait for you to cross, they come back and visit you on this side. I’ve heard numerous stories of pets who have been seen in ghost form, or heard barking, or even felt. My friend Ginger and her partner Wendy were sleeping one night and Ginger was wakened by this feeling of her dog Nino Guiseppe jumping all over her and licking her face, just like he used to do when he was a puppy. She knew realistically it couldn’t be, so the next morning she said to Wendy, “I had this dream last night that Nino was in the bed and jumping all over me and licking my face,” and Wendy said, “I don’t think that was a dream, because I felt him too!”
Are pets the only animals on the Other Side, or do all animal souls go there too?
I don’t have all the answers. I’m not sure how all this works. But any living creation is the energy of God, that God created and that goes back to God. How it goes back and where I’m not sure. If you have a wild turkey or a fox and it dies, it goes back to the Light, to the universe that is God. I’m not sure in what form. Does it go back as a fox? I’m not sure, but I do know that it goes back.
Are there spirits from other planets among the dead on the Other Side?
I really don’t know. The universe is a big place, so it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if there were, but I wouldn’t know. I know only about those I have access to, and I have access only to those with a connection to the person I’m doing a reading for. I touch the person, ask permission to listen, and ask them who they are looking for. As far as I know, I’ve never done a reading for an alien so I’ve never been in contact with an alien spirit over there. But you never know who might make an appointment next—let me get back to you on that one.
On the Other Side, can we communicate with animals, too, as we do with people here?
Even on this side we can have a deep connection and communication with animals, especially our pets. Our pets are also our protectors, just like our guardian angels. My friend Craig told me about his Jack Russell terrier, Earl, who saved his life. Craig was working out in his yard and he didn’t see that there was a poisonous snake in front of him. In complete oblivion, Craig was headed right toward the snake. Earl launched himself between Craig and the snake and the snake bit him. Fortunately, Earl didn’t die, but that dog was completely selfless—if either he or Craig was going to be bitten, he wanted to make sure it was him.
On the Other Side I believe our ability to communicate with animals is enhanced, but
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