Hi

Firstly I just wanted to say thank you to Bruce for some excellent books.  I lost both my parents recently and they give me hope that they might still be around.  And I’m sure many other people have benefitted from your work in that way too.

I wondered if I could please ask a question.  In the second book – Voyage Beyond Doubt – on page 248 it reads, “Thanking Ribby for his explanation, I decided to look in on Mai.  I found her easily and escorted her to the village…”  As Mai was the physical person who contacted Bruce from the advert in the Nic-Nac-Nook, I am wondering whether Bruce found Mai non-physically in this story?  If so, would she have been physically awake or asleep at the time?  Did she have any recollection of meeting Bruce non-physically?  In the next chapter, the Hounds of Hell, the same thing happens with Lesley who contacted Bruce asking for help.

Secondly, I am wondering whether these days there is a community or a website to pay for someone to try and connect with those who have passed away, and help them if need be?

I am going to buy the Afterlife Knowledge guidebook, it sounds amazing!

Thank you,
Douglas

Douglas wrote on Oct 31^st, 2017 at 4:15pm:


Hi Douglas, and welcome to the Conversation Board 

First, I moved your thread here to the Book Forums so that it doesn't get lost in the main forum.  It's nice to keep topics in their places so others can easily find them.

Second, I'd like to take a stab at your questions.  Perhaps Bruce will chime in as well. 

You're asking the exact same kind of questions that I asked Bruce when I first met him (and probably many times thereafter).  I too was always perplexed by the nonphysical aspect of things and how it worked and it took me a long time to let it all sink in.  And in fact I asked Bruce about this same story.  I believe that Bruce contacted Mai's nonphysical self.  I don't know if he said or did anything to her physical self, but it seems in this instance when he says he "looked in on Mai" and found her he means a nonphysical aspect of Mai.  It would not matter if Mai was physically awake or asleep while this happened. 

I think that people typically do not have recollection of something like this, not that it's not possible but just that it's not typically the case.  I've had many nonphysical experiences with Bruce where he doesn't remember the experience.  He's also had experiences with me where I don't remember it.  For me there's so much proof that these visits are real that I just trust that they are real, and so does Bruce.  In fact he's told me stories of lots of other people who have had nonphysical visits with him and he doesn't typically have recollection of it.   

I remember years ago when Bruce was helping me to contact my dad after his death.  We were trying to meet up nonphysically with my dad.  Being less experienced, I had trouble getting a strong connection and staying focused in the visit and Bruce said he saw me fading in and out.  What really proved to me that this was all real was that Bruce was able to describe my dad, my dad's physical ailment that led to his death, he described my dad's family room and where he sat in his favorite chair, and he also saw my grandmother.  The list goes on.  There's no doubt in my mind that Bruce was really in contact with my dad because I know that he had no knowledge of those facts. 

About your second question, I'm sure there are people you could pay to connect with someone who has passed on and to help them, but you yourself can learn to do this and you really should try.  I say that because it's not only good for the person you want to reach, it's good for your own spiritual learning. 

I'm glad you're going to buy Bruce's Guidebook!  I suggest that you also go ahead and buy the MP3 or the CD set that goes along with the book.  You will not regret it, trust me.  It's such an amazing book with so much information, and Bruce does an excellent job explaining things. 

Vicky

Douglas wrote on Oct 31^st, 2017 at 6:14pm:


Oh wow, thank you for buying my book.  I hope you enjoy it!  Some people say it's kind of heavy on the details and info, but I do get very good reviews and feedback of it.  I'm still writing, so hopefully my writing style will improve    Since that first book was memoir style, I want to focus on teaching, specifically about OBEs and psychic development.

Also-- Yes, Bruce's friend "Rebecca" was quite incredible in her abilities and experience. 

I'm so grateful to Bruce and for knowing him and all that I've learned.  It's why I'm so passionate about helping to pass it on!

Douglas wrote on Mar 6^th, 2018 at 6:40pm:


Thank you so very much for your compliments!  I'm happy that you learned and got a lot from it.  I have two other books that I've written but were put on hold due to my cancer and treatment, and then further kept on hold since I was taking care of my mom through her cancer for the past year and her recent passing in January this year.  The good news about putting writing on hold is that when you revisit it you want to freshen it up with new and more ideas.  And I've been still doing more writings, journaling, and always keeping notes of my experiences so there's a lot more material to add.  And I have some new ideas for restyling these two books that I'm really excited to try out.  Thanks for asking!

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I'm still so very saddened about Bruce's death, and just writing this sentence write now has me in tears.  I've been crying every time I think about him lately.  Everyone deals with death, grief, and their emotions and the way they process it all in their own way.  What I noticed for me was that I have been so overwhelmed, busy, and consumed emotionally by having been taking care of my mother for the past year, that when Bruce passed away I really did not have the time or ability to grieve in the way that I really needed to.  A good friend pointed that out to me recently, by telling me that I still need to grieve despite my very good belief system, experience, and understanding about life and death and the afterlife.  It's as if I have been handling it too well.  So I took her advice and have been really, really allowing myself to go through the grieving process and just allow my feelings to surface, allow myself to feel them, allow myself to cry no matter where I'm at!  So if I'm at the grocery store and feel sadness and tears arise, I'm not holding them back, I just let it flow.  It's been wonderful because I'm finally feeling so normal, alive, real, and full.  I think I had lost myself in giving, doing, and being so much for my mother and the stress I was under.  I lost sight of my ability to really feel connected to my feelings and emotions because I was in work-mode all the time! 

Yes I completely agree that the physical process of grief and those emotions is difficult even for those of us who have had spiritual experiences to bring us so much comfort and understanding about what happens after we die.  For me, I'm thankful for finally having the chance to feel and go through the process. 

I talk to Bruce daily and by that I mean I'm always intending and sending thoughts to him when I think of him.  It helps me cope.  And I completely believe he gets my messages and feels my emotion and intention.  There are some times when I really do feel I'm receiving a message or feelings in return from him.  I'm expecting I will feel more of that the more that I allow myself to shift into altered states as I open up to my own grieving process.  Bruce and I were such good friends and we talked often, usually a video chat, and it's that regular contact that I miss so much.  I miss connecting like that, sharing events in our lives, making each other laugh, getting his advice and encouragement.  I can't wait to the time comes when I get to be with him again.    

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I think that's awesome that you got it and that you feel that way.  That's special.  Have you read through the Guidebook yet?  Have you done the exercises, and do you have his recordings that come with it? 

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