Psychiatrist Raymond Moody ends his book Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones with the following testimony of communicating with a dead loved one.
A woman who came for a visionary reunion with her son sums it up better than I can. Her son had died two years before of cancer, which he had been fighting for several years. His battle against this disease had been typical of the many who fight it. The cancer would go into remission, and just as they thought that it had been beaten, it would come raging back again. Finally, after several relapses, he simply gave up.
The woman missed her son terribly. She came in hopes of seeing if the pain was gone.
We prepared all day for the encounter, and then I had her go into the apparition booth. The experience she had was satisfying. She saw a number of “memory visions,” vivid snippets from his childhood. She also reported a strong sense that her son had been present with her in the booth. “He was sitting there with me,” she said when she came out. “We sat there together and watched events from our life together.”
A few days later I received an incredible call from her. A few days after her visit to my clinic, she awoke from a deep sleep. She didn’t simply wake up, she became “hyper-awake. Far more awake than normal.”
There, standing in her room, was her son. As she sat up in bed to look at him, she could see that the ravages of cancer were gone. He now looked vibrant and happy as he had before his disease.
The woman was in a state of ecstasy. She stood up and faced her son and began carrying on a conversation. She estimates that they spoke for several minutes, time enough for her to find that he was now pain-free and happy.
They talked about a number of things, including the remodeling that the woman had done to the house after the son had died. She even took him on a tour of some of the rooms where changes had been made to show him what had been done.
Finally it dawned on her what was happening. She was talking to an apparition of her late son. “I couldn’t believe it was him,” she said to me. “So I asked if I could touch him.”
Without a moment’s hesitation this apparition of her son stepped forward and hugged her. Then, the woman said, he lifted her right off the ground. . . .
“What happened was as real as if he had been standing right there,” the woman told me. “I now feel as though I can put my son’s death behind me and get on fully with my life.”
Raymond A. Moody, Jr. with Paul Perry. Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones (New York: Villard Books, 1993).
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