An individual's account of the experience between dying and coming back

An individual's account of the experience between dying and coming back.
by Edward Shanahan

On Facebook I posted a response to someone's question about the subject of Spirits being stuck or not knowing their dead and the postings went back and forth a bit and finally ending with me suggesting the individual to go look up on the Internet, the documents written by those who have died and come back, all knew they were dead and were crossing over or did cross over.
 
Later that night I received a private message from an individual who is a reader of what I have written the last few years and is a friend on Facebook. She read what I wrote in the posting I mentioned above. You can read the letter and her experience at:

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Edward Shanahan is a Paranormal Spiritual Observer, Entertaining Psychic Reader and Medium in the Chicago land area. He has been written about in four paranormal books and is the author of many articles on the subject of the Paranormal and Spiritual. He provides both private and public Chicago Paranormal Nights, were every night ends with a Seance.

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The Unexplained World web site of the Paranormal and Supernatural

The Unexplained World

Since 2003 this site has been for those who have experienced or believe in "The Unexplained World" of the paranormal and supernatural. You will see some attempting to use the name in different ways, but there is only one 'TheUnexplainedWorld.com' and the only blog by the name of The Unexplained World on Google blogs.

The web site is a location covering ghosts, spirits, haunting's, Psychic abilities and more in the Chicago land area and has expanded to a world wide audience, as now the web site has been talked about in four published Paranormal books.

Plus view Edward Shanahan's free video Cyber tours of Historic Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Archer Wood's Cemetery, Haunted Archer Avenue and more. A photo collection of haunted locations in the Chicago land area and descriptions of the haunted locations, plus a collection of articles directed toward the Supernatural.

You will find links to a whole Unexplained World,
where the border between the natural and the
supernatural will be nothing any more but fuzzy.

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Spirits of Holidays and Christmas Past

Spirits of Holidays and Christmas Past
by edward shanahan

One will always miss the loved ones of theirs who have passed away. The holidays can be emotional, as for some it is a time that many families gather together and yet there is that emotional feeling of the loved ones who have passed away not being there.

During the readings I do, along with my discussions that have to do with the Spiritual World, I talk about the Spirit of the loved ones who have passed away and the Spirit also missing not being involved or partaking in the family gatherings that at one time they did participate in.

Just because the love one is no longer in the living world, that does not mean their love for their living loved ones and family gatherings are gone. Usually it is stronger as the Spirit cannot be here in the living and are missing those still in the living world.

What I suggest to those who miss their love one who has passed away, is something that would be for both the Spirit and the living. First, I ask the person if they still have a photo of their loved one. Majority of the time the answer is yes, and usually the person says that they have a photo hanging up in their house.

It is great that the person has a photo of the loved one who passed away in their house. However, like the family gatherings and holidays, something a little special could be done, something that will show the Spirit of the loved one that they are still part of the holidays and family gatherings as in the past.

I suggest that the person takes the photo of their love one into the main room that the family gathers in during the holiday. Some individuals tell me that they have a photo of their love one already in that room. If that is the case, I tell them that is fine, but to take the photo and move it to another area in the room.

When the person either brings a photo into the room of the family gathering or moves the photo to another area in the room, it actually is a way of focusing on the loved one who passed away and this is a way of connecting to the Spirit.

It also is a way for the Spirit to know that they are still part of the holiday family gatherings. The Spirit of holidays past is still part of the present and the love is shown to the Spirit and in return, felt by the living.

Edward Shanahan

http://edwardshanahan.com

Spirits of Loved Ones discussed on broadcast

Tuesday Oct. 24th - 8pm central time
The Unexplained World - Internet radio broadcast.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tuw

Edward Shanahan will discuss what to do for your
Spirits of Loved ones from Holidays Past.

Join Annette and Edward Shanahan on this 'Not On Sunday Night'
broadcast of The Unexplained World. Open Lines, Open Minds
and Open Mouths as the listeners become the guests.

Annette and Edward are a more open and much more on this
Not On Sunday Night, broadcast of the Paranormal and Supernatural
and who knows what else or who we may have call in?

Spirits - are they testing us?

Below you will find what I posted for the 1st time
in 2004, and I still fell as strong about it today
as I did then.

By Edward Shanahan
*********

Hello Friends,

I want to share a thought, maybe even consider
it a message I received. You have free will to
decide what it is.

The spirits or the spirit world. Many are claiming
to see them. There are those who believe some
spirits do not know to cross over, as in either
not knowing their dead, or they are lost. Some
claim that there are evil spirits.

You also have those who use tools to 'prove',
it's a spirit, a ghost or the paranormal, all
words meaning the same.

Now that is all fine and dandy, but here is
something to think about.

What if it is a test? I know your thinking
'A Test?'

Yep - a test.. You see as far as my ' feelings'
and thoughts that have always gone along with
our Amy's internal ' feeling' and knowledge.

I have named Amy our Psychic Feeler do to her
gifted abilities and spiritual background that
have come about do to her knowledge that she
experienced as a child.

The feeling and thoughts are that Ghosts, Spirits,
the Paranormal is a spiritual gift your being
allowed to view and that they are making contact
with you, and you decide and show them by your
actions, what you truly believe by how you handle
it.

But maybe it is a test by the spiritual world of
spirits. Some may call it the Summer land, others
may call it Heaven or other names depending on
their faith and beliefs.

What if it was a test? A test to see how spiritual
we really are here on earth, are we ready to share
a spiritual life after death?

Maybe the spirit world today is testing to see
how far away people have fallen from the actual
spiritual beliefs of such, when the individuals
claim to have a belief.

Let's say:

They show themselves as a test, and you have
people seeking to prove that it was a spirit
with tools other then their internal feelings
and knowledge. So there is a showing of doubt
unless one can prove it with a tool.

They show themselves as a test, and you have
individuals trying to chase them away, thus
showing that the spirit is not welcomed and
also more or less telling the Spirit World
that as a human being, the human is more
powerful then the Spirit World.

They show them selves as a test, and some
people believe they are lost or don't know
their dead (that thought has always baffled
me when I hear it), thus showing the spirit
that one doubts the the spirit of the soul's
knowledge, and so how could one believe
in their own internal soul of knowledge?

They show them selves as a test, one individual
sees the spirit and others will not believe until
they can get tools in there to prove the existence
of such a thing.

Strange as it may be, some have been gifted
the gift of seeing, feeling and actually being
touched by the spirits of the spirit world.

These people do not need any proof as they
feel it in their own soul, a soul like the
soul of the spirit there with them.

The test's will go on, as it is strange some
need the proof and these test are to see who
they are, as many claim to believe in the spiritual,
but yet need the proof of it when it does show
it's self.

And other's have the internal knowledge of
the proof and for them no doubt is given by
the spirit world of their spiritual gifted
internal knowledge. An internal knowledge
gifted to them by the spiritual as we all
have been part of the spirit world as we
have souls.

Strange that the answers have been there for
years, yet more doubt is shown today in the
need to prove then to believe in.

Just something to think about from me.

Edward Shanahan
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web site.

(c)2004-2009 Edward L. Shanahan

Spend a Spiritual Night in N.W. Indiana with Annette and Ed Shanahan

Opening Up with A Walk On The Spiritual Side.
A very special night at a very Spiritual Location.

Saturday - May 9th / 8pm - ???
A Full Moon Night

With
Annette, a High Priestess
&
Ed Shanahan, a Spiritual Feeler.

This will be a night at the Indiana Dunes area (20 minutes from IL
border), that Annette and I will assist individuals in opening up their
ability to feel and sense Spirits, while walking through a wooded area
known for it's spiritual side.

We will be walking through the historic woods along the Ft. Dearborn
Trail in NW Indiana. Along our path we'll visit the site of the first
trading post established in the area where the local Native American
tribes dealt peacefully with the settlers.

We'll see the actual home and outbuildings of that trader's family as
well as their elevated private cemetery featuring an over 20' cross at
it's center. This cemetery is believed to have originally been a Native
American burial ground to which the family was invited to lay their dead.

Come learn the history of these early residents and become entwined
in their spirit as we open ourselves to them and their lands.

This area Annette knows very well, as it is in the area that she
lives in and is no stranger to the location or it's history.

Those who sign up for this May 9th night, will receive directions
to Annette's home as that is the location that we will meet and more
information on this special location. Also Michelle may be joining us
on this night.

This night is reserved for only 12 individuals,
and some have already signed up. We will set
another date once this one is full.

The fee is only $25 per person

For more details - visit:
http://www.edwardshanahan.com/Chicago_Paranormal_Supernatural_events.html

The Shadows Know

Deep in the darkness of the mind, a depth un-reachable by science and the medical field, lurking in the shadows that are beyond common and acceptable thought, is an area that is unknown by many and yet many live with.

In the depths of our own human self who attempt to live and walk on the white or light side of the road, there is the shadow that follows behind or along on the path walked.

In the paranormal world of study and experience, many talk of what is waiting in the shadows, just waiting to be invited into our living world.

Individuals are at times are warned about going beyond the veil, into the world that many perceive as being a world of darkness. As lurking in the shadows they say are Demons, Evil Spirits, and a dark side of psychological wrath.

To warn against it, one would have to say then, it would have to have been experienced, yet the majority who talk against going beyond the veil, do so without having experienced what it is actually that they are warning against doing.

I believe that it is more their fear of knowing and tapping into the reality, of the reality that lingers in the shadows of the un-known that is within the reach of those who seek it.

An example could be as simple as one taking a prescribed medicine that has a side effect of taking one's mind to a world that they hope to never experience again. One that opens the closet of skeletons that seemed like they were just waiting in the shadows, to remind one's mind of the past. Is this something to fear? Depends on the person, but consider it a light focusing on the past, to structure one's future, then no it is not something to fear.

With myself being one who has experienced Spirits and the Spirit World and being one who brings this knowledge of experience to others with my attempt of connecting with the Spirits of their loved ones who have passed away. Also providing groups of individuals to experience the Spirits that visit and remain at locations, I have a different thought, one that is gifted to me and not my own, as this is written with a knowledge that is beyond my human knowledge, as I'm being guided with what is being written here.

The fear of what could be beyond the veil, the warnings about going in to the dark evil shadows of Demons, Evil Spirits, not to open that closet. Is a mask against the reality and an attempt to take away your free will and experience of the true knowledge that awaits one who does do what others have not experienced, has warned against doing.

By who and why? You may ask.

By what I call the 'The Real Dark Side', is the side that is always there and is in the shadows of all of us. Whatever the title is one desire to give it, the majority of the living has their own title or description for it. The source plants the seeds of thought pertaining to the evil that is in the shadows waiting to be invited in. It attempts to take the free will away from individuals to go beyond the veil that takes one into the reality of the Spirit World and Spiritual Side that has no Evil Spirits, Demons, or any wrath that may be waiting in the shadows.

Then there is also the consideration of the inexperienced individuals that I describe as new or young souls, those who are new souls and inexperienced to the Spiritual World do to their own freshness from being within it. During my personal readings for individuals, when the person turns their palms facing up to be read by me, I first look to see if they are a young or old soul. What I have learned with the conversations I have with the old souls, is that like me, they do not fear Spirits or the Spiritual World, nor see any evil present within it, because of their many experiences of being within it.

Spirits, Ghosts, the Paranormal or whatever name one may give them, are showing and being experienced more then ever and to all walks of life. A kind of coming out of the shadows or closet, I would say.

The majority of people know they exist and believe in Spirits and the Spirit World. However, there still are those who need to prove or disprove it. There are those individuals who are searching for proof using tools not yet truly proven and a tool may never come along that will prove a Spirit is present, when proof has been knocking them on the head and for many they internally know it. One has to remember no tool can measure the love one has for another, yet one knows it without the use of any tools.

Individuals have to just research what has been documented by so many who have died and comeback, those who have truly experienced the Spiritual World and come back to share that experience for reasons known to them.

The proof is out there to be experienced in a living state, but many warn us not to go there. Not to go beyond the veil with mind and soul to experience what is there in the shadows waiting and wanting in this fragment of time we live in, for us to experience what we once were and what we will be again, a Spirit of the Spiritual World, something we already know.

The spiritual side attempts to get our attention, many call it a haunting or ghosts, and if you experience this in your home, then you are told that you need someone to somehow get rid of the paranormal activities. What are you really getting rid of? May it be a Spirit as you your self once were? In addition, you will be again part of the Spiritual World that the Spirit you are experiencing came from.

Consider that thought and also consider the reality of the fact that no living person is more powerful then the spiritual world when you read about those who claim to be and claim to have control over spirits. One with internal knowledge can bring calmness to a paranormal situation with the knowledge from within of being an old soul, but the living controlling a spiritual power will never be allowed by the Spirit World, nor will those with internal knowledge of being an old soul attempt it.

I have personally gone deep and will go deeper in my experiences and with what I do and how I do it with Spirits and the Spiritual World. To do so is to give those who participate with me, the experience of the true Spirit World that is at a location. The plans have been made for the very near future to take others and my self to locations that the fear of what may be present at the location waiting in the shadows beyond the veil, rests in the closet of the mind.

As in the past when we placed an Ouija board in my Circle of Energy to see if, the spirit world would interact with it with no assistance of an individual. What is documented on video and posted on our web site, is what appears to be a Spirit or Shadow Person walking within the area of the Ouija board. The Spirit did not interact with the board, but did with those individuals who were present; as did other spirits and those, who participated in my Circle of Energy can be heard talking about the activities as they happened.

With the location planned in the future that we bring groups to, I plan to bring a ghost box with us, to place in my Circle of Energy in an attempt to see if the Spirits at the location will interact with it, as they do with the individuals that participate in my Circle of Energy.

One day I may experience what others warn that is out there waiting in the shadows. The last few years I have yet to encounter what is warned about. However, I have met it in the living with one who worships with rituals based and directed to the powers of evil. It was a meeting meant to happen, to show me were evil resides, the power of it is within the living, and that there is the free will to walk either side that one should decide on.

I had his ability proven to me personally with my own blood that ran free from the palm of my right hand that required stitches to stop the bleeding. The ability shown to me was a sign of respect for me and a gift of the knowledge given to me of were evil resides, a knowledge that could only come from the experience that would show me were the reality of the source evil comes from.

With that experience I nodded yes, as I knew that he knew my internal knowledge of the Spiritual World, that he was aware of my own abilities and that there is mutual respect and knowledge of both sides of the gray line we all walk.

You as the reader of this, have the free will to take from this what ever you desire and take it any way you want. The knowledge written here and that I have personally experienced is gifted to me, to pass on to you, to open the door within yourself, to shed some light on what the internal knowledge of what the shadows within you already know.

Blessings,

Edward Shanahan
http://edwardshanahan.com

(c) 2008 Edward L. Shanahan

Haunted Humphrey House and more ...

Hello Friends,

Haunted Senator Humphrey House is coming
in a week, Saturday July 26th. This is a
Beyond the Veil night / location with Ursula
Bielski and my self and the location is located
in Orland Pk, IL. Start time will be 6pm. I will
also do some readings with the items of loved
ones who have passed away, so bring yours
and maybe yours will be read.

Just go to our web page of events and Beyond
the Veil dates / listings at
http://theunexplainedworld.com/Chicago_Supernatural_events.htm

You then can click on the link for:
Beyond the Veil - Location Information
to see more information and register.

I'm still waiting to hear from Ursula about other
possible Beyond the Veil dates, but for now - our
next one is The Humphrey House in a weeks time.
She has informed me that the Mansfield date fell
through, it will not be happening.

My - The Unexplained World paranormal dates,
have some that are already listed for September
and October.

September will be very interesting and include
transportation, limited to amount of people
involved also.

October is a unique location, as it is a haunted
building we will be visiting, and like the Humphrey
House, I will be the 1st to make it known to the
general public. It is a location many men do not
like being in at night, and that is what we will
be doing, being there at night. LAPS Investigation
Team will be joining us also. As we may have
our Amy and Jay. Also see what our Annette
(past lives readings), will be doing with me and
Ronda on this night in Oct.

Plus a conference at a Unique town and haunted
location in WI, on Halloween weekend, that I will
be participating at is also listed.

November is a different combination of locations
and December I will go totally on the Spiritual
side as it is a month that special thought forever
remembered are made of.

For these new dates and locations, I have teamed
up with the Worth Historical Museum, Historical
Societies and Historical sites, as they are special
locations and I want to bring you something special
and I have spent my lifetime within minutes of many
of the most haunted locations in the area and they
are on the S.W. Suburbs of the Chicagoland area.
See the descriptions of the locations at the
'new' web site.

The New dates / locations and descriptions can be
found at:
http://hauntedhistoriclocations.com

Also you can reserve on line or by calling.

Also let me suggest that you sign up for our free
newsletter there, as that way you will be informed
first of new dates and locations of Haunted Historic
Locations.

Remember in a week - it's Beyond the Veil..

Happy Hauntings,

Ed Shanahan
http://theunexplainedworld.com

You all are special to someone.

I wanted to bring this to you all (read all the way through it), and I try to do so around the Holidays, as there are some people who need to know this around the holidays.

We all have lost someone who has passed away, someone we have loved and have loved us, but for some people that is all they had or all that remained in their long life and sadly many feel they now have no one who loves them.

PLEASE remember you will always be loved by the ones who have passed away and loved you, they still do and will always do so. Also remember they are the ones you can still go to with your thoughts and problems, and in reality they may be able to help you even more being in the Spiritual World, then they could of here in the living world.

They all cross over, there is more information documented on that, then there are about 'not knowing their dead - being lost - not crossing over - etc..' No one will ever get me to believe they do not cross over or are lost or some spirits do not know their dead. It is beyond what any higher power would allow.

So never think they have not. Many I have done my readings for, with an item of their love one who has passed away... Usually always see a smile come up on my face during the reading with the item. It's because I pick up on the happiness and knowledge that the living loved one is being well watched over by the one who loved them and has passed.

For your own fact finding about 'That They Cross Over ', just do an Internet search on - Near Death Experiences, you might as well get it from the source, being those who experienced it.

I had the wonderful gift allowed for me, to actually have a chance to talk to a young man of 38 who died, and was brought back. It is a beautiful thing to see what came across his face as he discussed it, and what I felt by way of the energy coming off of him. No experience before, nor after (as of now), has come close to it.

But for many, remember your loved and will always be loved. This is a time of year that is hard for some of you and I totally understand. But your blessed, blessed with the fact that you will always be special to someone and also loved for ever.

* For those who it is not as hard for, because your surrounded by those who love you, don't forget those WHO HAVE passed away and you loved, it is somewhat easy to do so during the hustle of the Holiday.

Bring the loved one(s) up during the Holiday conversations when your other family members are together. So the one(s), who passed away will know during this time of the year, that they are still part of the Holiday gathering, as in the past.

Blessings to you all,

Edward Shanahan
http://edwardshanahan.com

The Unexplained World
http://theunexplainedworld.com

(c) 2007 Edward Shanahan