There I s an ancient form of magic known as candle magic. This form of magic (I find)  often a useful prelude to what many call afterlife communication.

It usually involves staring at a candle flame or fire.  This usually has the effect of focusing the attention which often facilitates “communication”.

When doing this, the most important thing is PAY ATTENTION!

What    you describe is not unusual, s don’t worry about going crazy.  But even “crazy” isn’t a terrible thing.  Many of us here are “crazy”; it makes things more interesting.

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did you check to see if your window was open?

I've had contact with Maitreya who is an Ascended Master and my Twin Ray focusing on a candle. Instead of afterlife contact, I'd call it 'other dimension' contact.

Love, Mairlyn

Yes, I checked the doors, the windows everything.  What made me notice it in the first place was I had multiple candles out.  Only one of the candles was doing this.

I agree we have to check for other reason before we believe.

EileenY

Hi everyone.  This thread brought to mind an incident which happened a few years back.  I can verify this because I was there.  I was staying with a relative temporarily as I was in the process of leaving the state.  She had no metaphysical knowledge at all but she had this guide that she could communicate with.  He would occasionally make himself visable to her and she has quite a gift of being able to see pictures of events while simply being relaxed.  Anyway, we decided to dim the lights and light a candle and just relax and see if her guide would talk to us.  He did and while we were talking, the candle went out.  We had the dimmed light on and would have to get out of relaxed position to relight the candle.  The guide offered to relight it for us and he did!!  .  We were startled but very happy that this happened.

I often look at a candle flame just to relax.  It is almost like you are communicating with it.  Maybe someday it will tell me its secrets.   

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i could have fun with this one.  I can think of all sorts of experiments to do with a quirky candle flame.  you could isolate it with an enclosure to see if it continues.  you could swap it out with one of the other candles to see if it's the location or the candle.  you could talk to the candle flame and pose some questions - of course bearing in mind very little breath will make the candle bounce - maybe better to ask questions when it's enclosed.  You could try it on different nights in different locations.  Open windows aren't the only source of drafts though.  Houses have many air currents in them - heating systems, natural air movement, appliance venting, kitchen venting, that sort of thing.

I had a ladder leaning up against the house when I was painting.  Overnight I tied a rope to the top and pulled the ladder away from the house and tied it to a stack of lumber so the paint could dry without leaving two ladder marks where it was resting on it.  (this ladder was a huge industrial 40' heavy duty and I didn't want to take it down and put it back up).  The next morning I came out and noticed the rope holding the ladder kept quivering at a rate between 69 and 72 movements per minute. yes, I timed it.  I stopped it several times, but it would start immediately and settle into 69 to 72 per minute.  I thought it was spooky - my ladder has a normal human heartbeat!  I watched it off and on all morning, till, whadya know, mid morning it stopped all together and was still as can be.  My conclusion: the ladder was made of aluminum and began it's quivering when the morning sun hit it and began warming it.  As the aluminum expanded, it made the upper section (in sun) of the ladder grow in consistent jerks against the lower section (not in sun) that were too small to see, but large enough to make 60 feet of rope quiver in a resonant manner.  The rope was just a visual amplifier allowing the movement to be detected.  I'm waiting for my ladder to begin shedding tears of blood, and will investigate that as well....sorry, a virgin mary joke.

I like to do experiments with this sort of thing.  Most things have an explanation.  Some don't.  But even the ones that do should not be written off as mere coincidence just because they could have happened anyway.  This goes back to what Vicky said.  It's more important what it means to you at the time and that you put it in that context.  I can explain away things like a heartbeat in my extension ladder, but when a redtail hawk flys directly across my path, I feel blessed for the rest of the day.   Sure, he might have done it anyway, but that wasn't how I took it.  I don't try to read any message or something complicated into it, more of just a generally good thing in a world where too often good stuff isn't as recognizable as bad stuff.   Don't write off stuff just because you're hungry for signs.  Maybe this hunger could be you projecting your love, which would indeed be a way to invite more "explainable coincidences" into your life.  Now if a person has half a dozen "explainable conincidences" in a week or a day, are they still coincidences as a group?  One must decide all these things for herself.  

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It was him. He is always available to you, but won't want to scare you.

However, I wouldn't start using Quiji boards and stuff like that, or even keep looking to candles to give you his essence or show his presence. That can become a substitute for the love that made and continues to make your relationship with him wonderful and special. Relationships change, but they never end for we never die.

Try to just know he is with you always, and you may stop feeling like you are going crazy. And please accept my sympathy for what you are going through. I understand somewhat, for I lost my mother when I was 16 and am losing my husband now, at 50-something. But we go on and continue this journey, as we should and as they would want us to. The world still needs us, so hang in there.

Hugs,

Laurie