At Heaven's Door by William J. Peters

Author:William J. Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2022-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

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We have discussed the appearance of energy and the sensation of heightened energy around the SDE for the experiencer. In some ways, Lula’s sensations—the coughing she experienced with her mother-in-law’s passing and the feeling of her daughter’s touch, waking her up not long after the funeral—can be seen as forms of energetic connection. These moments are also reminders that an SDE need not have many grand features to be profoundly meaningful and life changing to the experiencer. Finally, Lula’s experience contains another element that we touched upon briefly in the case of Adela B., and will encounter again in several other cases: post-death visitation. How connected do we remain, and in what form, to our loved ones after they have passed?

For our next case, we encounter both a post-death visitation and physical sensations on an entirely different continent and in a different context: Javier was born in Spain and raised in a religious, Catholic family, although he adds that, from a recent DNA test, he discovered that he has a lot of Jewish background on his father’s side. Most likely what happened, he believes, was that part of his family converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition. “I am a translator,” he explains. “I have studied languages and linguistics. At the moment I work as a narrator for TV commercials in Spain and a voice actor as well. I was featured in several films too.”

His first experience occurred after the death of his younger brother. While it is not a traditional SDE and, as an experience, it falls more into the category of a post-death visitation, for Javier, it did have a similar impact to an SDE. “My brother died in 1989 at age twenty-seven. I was very attached to him because I was one year older. For several years, I was thinking a lot about him, and I was missing him a lot, and I was very sad about that.

“I am gay, and I was living in London in an apartment with my boyfriend at the time, Paul. We’re still in touch, and we always comment on that episode. The spirit of my brother came into the building, and we started to communicate. I was not fast asleep; I was semiconscious, and I was hugging my brother. We were talking, and he was communicating. He basically told me that he was okay, that I shouldn’t be worried about him. I was crying, crying in my dream without tears, but really feeling like I was crying, and told him that I loved him very, very much. He said, ‘Now I need to leave.’ I said, ‘Don’t.’ He said, ‘Yes, I need to leave.’ He said goodbye. He left.”

After Javier’s brother’s spirit departed, Paul awoke. He was disoriented, but he was acutely aware that there had been another presence in the room. Javier recalls, “Paul said to me, ‘Yes, I could feel it. I could feel something strange that I was not by myself.’ ” Time has not diminished the strength of the experience, either for Javier or Paul.

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