<<I was wondering if you know if people in the afterlife have knowledge of future events?>>

This was a question that someone asked me, someone who had reached out to me through my blog and after a couple email exchanges asked this great question!  (I don't know if they are a member here or not...hopefully either way they will come join us here!) 

"Coincidentally" that very question has actually been on my mind for quite a while and I happened to ask Bruce this very thing just the other day.  Bruce is in the afterlife and I did an imagination visit with him, asked him a few of my burning questions, and I've been thinking of posting all of that here.  I was asked this question before I could do that.  (I can share the rest of that visit in a different thread).  For now, I thought that this was such a great question and I would love to open it up for conversation here. 

Bruce's response fueled my response, which was this:

That's a great question.  I am always wondering the same thing, if people in the afterlife know what's going to happen to us.  I actually asked that of Bruce in an imagination visit I had with him the other day.  From what I received in that visit the answer is that they do if they are specifically tuned into being aware of a specific person for a specific reason, but I don't think that in general they just "walk around" spending their time being aware of anything and everything. 

For example, if I were going on a road trip and was reminiscing about my dad and how he and I used to go on road trips together, and it made me send the thought to him, "Dad, I wish you were here with me.  Will you be here in spirit with me and help me get to my destination safely?"  I think that at any time we "call upon" a loved one, they will automatically "be there" in the sense that they hear us, feel us, and their awareness is automatically drawn to us.  Now, whether or not they choose to spend more time with us than that, I don't know.  I would think that's entirely up to them. 

So, Dad would get my message and at least for that moment he would "be" with me, but if he wanted to focus more attention on me than that moment, if he wanted to focus his awareness on me for my entire car trip...that's up to him I believe.  It could very well be that because time in our dimension is so different than time in Dad's dimension, that it's not literally necessary for Dad to be with me all the time.  It may be that Dad could quickly come to my aid should the need arise, maybe making me aware to slow down because there's going to be a car accident up ahead in a few minutes.  Maybe in that way, that's the way Dad is aware of future events. 

But just in general, I don't think my Dad is constantly being bombarded with awareness of things in my future, or for mankind in general. If he wanted to be, then I believe he very well could be!  Why not?  It's my personal belief and experience that whatever you desire and decide to focus your awareness on, you will be there and be experiencing whatever is there for you to have knowledge and awareness of. 

Now, if I happen to think of Dad while I'm taking a shower for instance?  Ha ha.  I don't think that makes him automatically able to see me in the shower!  I think his line of sight so to speak is so much more complex from his perspective, that in an instant he would be able to know now's not the best time to strike up a conversation with me.  It would be awkward for me!

Same with me talking to Dad in the car.  I'm sure Dad wouldn't just suddenly make some grand gesture to get my attention while I'm driving because it could cause me to react and distract my driving.  In this sense, I do think that those in the afterlife have a general sense of "future events".  It may be something as simple as Dad becoming aware I'm thinking of him, and then he decides when in MY future is a good time for him to respond to me.

The way my "Guidance" works for me is that I just feel my guidance in general.  I don't have specific instances where say, my grandma warns me about something.  But it's my personal believe that our loved ones do become part of our Guidance system, especially if we hold them close in our thoughts and emotions.

So what do you think, do those in the afterlife have knowledge of future events?

Vicky

Hi, Vickie,

What a great topic.  I've never asked the question because since I was a very young child, I assumed that in the afterlife we can go backward and forward in time as we please.  We are always in the "now".  And once I became a soul retriever that idea was reinforced.  I travel to the time I'm needed.  I needed my helpers at first and still prefer to have them with me, but now know I can travel without them.  (I have never used the afterlife travel for myself.)  I learned even more when a client asked me to contact his brother in the afterlife to help with his mother in this.  I didn't even know if it would work.  Before I tried, I planned out exactly what I would say to the brother.  It all centered around love and feelings and knowing they have it.  Many problems in this life come about because of doubt about love.  The next problem was timing.  Part of my intention was that both would receive the messages  when they could most use them.  A few days later I got a call from my client saying it worked.  Attitudes changed and love was shared between mother and son.  It was the first and last time I did something like that.  I don't like imposing on another's life even a little bit, but this time it brought happiness.  I also learned how to do several more things if needed.  I think it worked because I was working with love.  I don't think I would want it to work for any other reason.  Back to your topic.  Yes, I think our loved ones on the other side can travel in time, same for angels and guides.  How else could they be so good at guiding us?  I think it all has to do with intention.  This is just my personal views, but they suit me very well with the things I know about this world.
Sending love and hugs,
T'ressa

I know about the knowing.  As a young person, I didn't want to believe it.  It was my husband who had faith in it and started to ask me to use it.  How are you with weather?  My husband again told me to use my talents  with the weather.  I thought he was just flattering me until I practiced a bit on a small rain shower.  About the time I was feeling pride in my work, I spoke to a very wise woman who told me anyone could do what I was doing.  But I should always remember to undo what I did and say Thankyou.

I did learn that combining the two , the knowing and the control of the weather led to predicting the weather.  I don't know where the 'knowing' comes from.  All I know is I ask a question and my body reacts.  Someone or something must 'see', 'hear' or 'feel' the future event and works with me. 

I am grateful to have a talent I can use to help others.  I really don't have to know how it works even if I would like to know.  The mystery of our talents even to ourselves.   I wish we had schools with wise professors to pass on knowledge to those who want to know.  I guess this board that does such a great job of educating will have to do for now.
Thanks,
T'ressa

I too have had many experiences throughout my life where I have had a "knowing" about a future event and then it actually does happen exactly as I was shown. 

I'm still not sure how or why these happen, and I certainly don't get them whenever I want.  Although I've learned a lot about how it works, it still seems that these instances are for a purpose that's greater than what I'm able to be aware.  I also believe that at least one of the ways in which I received information about things I can't possibly know is that it comes from one of my spirit guides.  I assume we all have guides and that we have many of them. 

I like to believe that our deceased loved ones also become spirit guides for us, whether we are aware of them or not.  I also assume that "they" all do quite a lot for us that we're never aware of.  A lot of behind the scenes stuff!  I'm just so curious, though, and would LOVE to know in what ways and during which times I was helped and guided or protected and had no idea!

I was watching a You Tube clip about how Bill Guggenheim (who later wrote a book with his wife about after-death communication accounts from around the world) heard his  dad's voice (who was deceased) say "Go check the swimming pool".  Bill listened, and he found their toddler son in the pool under the water.  He rescued him and the child was fine. 

So yes I do believe our loved ones who have passed can help us and can know things we can't know, and they can know what's about to happen in our present time.

T'ressa,

I see that you have a lot of fascinating experiences with this just like I do.  I spent a great portion of my life wishing I knew "who" was giving me my psychic information.  Then there came a time when I stopped wondering, stopped caring, and I just accepted it, trusted it, and learned how it worked. 

A lot of what you read out there says we all have guides, several, and they can come and go in our lives.  I wonder why they would come and go? 

So yes, I definitely believe our guides can see and know our future, but I still wonder how much our dead loved ones know, or if they are too busy doing other things to watch what's going on here.  Maybe they get psychic nudges!  Then maybe they choose to step in and help, just like our guides.  I'm just thinking our loud here.

Anyway, your experience about the tornado came to you in the same sort of way mine usually do, when it's something bad.  The way I have learned how to respond is by feeling what feels right or what feels wrong.  Here's an example and I'll try to make it short since I blad so much.

Many years ago when my kids were in high school, my daughter Abby was at a friend's house.  She had planned on coming home around 7 or 8-ish that evening.  It was around 5-ish, I was making dinner, and suddenly I had a bad feeling that told me I wanted Abby home right now!  I had no thought with it, just the pure feeling of that want.  When I tried to explore the feeling or the meaning of it, it felt like she was not safe, and so I needed her home.  I called her immediately and told her, "I have a feeling like I need you home right now.  I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt your time with Jocelyn, but I just feel like I need to come get you." 

Abby said, "Well mom, I'm used to your feelings.  If that's what you feel then just come get me."  I love how calm and cool and smart she is and that she just knows and trusts my intuition.  So I jumped in the car and raced over in less than a minute.  There were police cars surrounding the area and cops on foot.  I had no idea what was going on.  I pulled up and Abby ran out the front door.  An officer yelled at her, "Get back in the house!  Now!"  Abby froze.  She said, "But my mom is here."  He yelled at her to get back in the house, but instead she ran toward my car.  She jumped in and she said, "Just drive!"  I stepped on it!  I didn't know what else to do!

I was like, "What's going on?!" and she said "I don't know but just drive!"  I went out of that neighborhood and onto the main road and turned back toward our house and was stopped by a police road block.  There was a car in front of me.  He suddenly just stepped on it and drove through, so I did the same thing!  I felt like I was gonna be in so much trouble, but the police didn't follow us. 

Later that evening we found out that a man in the house across the street from Abby's friend's house had gotten broken into by his ex-girlfriend with a gun.  He took off in his car, and she took off on foot.  There had been gunshots fired earlier, just before I called Abby.  The girls had heard it but thought it was firecrackers. 

So...that totally explained why I was suddenly feeling I want my daughter home now!  I just had had no idea what was going on.  I don't think I actually needed her home.  She would have been safe at her friend's house.  In fact, me going to get her and making her come outside was worse.  But it all worked out obviously.  I think the feeling I was getting was just one of warning me, and me wanting her home was just my gut reaction to that. 

Man that was a fun night.  It was so crazy.  Obviously I was happy Abby was safe, but looking back it was like a scene from a movie and so exciting! 

Bruce and I always talked about my psychic experiences and he would give me his insights.  He always taught me that no matter what I get, that I should just respond to it with whatever comes to my mind.  If more information is needed after that, he believed it would come.  But in order to receive more, it's necessary to first respond to what you're given. 

I like the way you said that, Soulmael.