Pets seen during NDEs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

"The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences: The Ultimate Guide to What Happens When We Die" is now readily available through any bookstore source. Easy to read, despite its many pages, the book is proving to be the most up-to-date source of information not only about the near-death phenomenon but about major changes in the field and new views that are quite surprising. The field has really come of age and is now the number one choice of scientists worldwide to study consciousness itself. Over 100 medical schools and universities now teach classes about the subject.

The DVD entitled "The Near-Death Experience: A Major Shift in What We Know About the Phenomenon" is a filmed version of a talk I gave 10-17-07 when The Big Book debuted. In capsule form, it covers what has happened in the field. So far, the DVD is only available from the Online Bookstore on my website at www.pmhatwater.com.

Please, please, please, get this book (and the DVD as well) in the hands of as many people as you can, especially in hospitals, clincs, doctors offices, schools, universities, parents, teachers, experiencers, people of all sorts - including the media. Near-death research has matured; the field is now more exciting than ever before....and far more challenging!!!

QUESTION:

"I lost a pet yesterday...my beloved cat Maurice. He had cancer, but died of toxoplasm, from some raw rabbit food...I basically killed him unknowingly, but never the less...he had diarrea for three months. The vets were sure he had cancer and gave him clavomax which killed his immune system and let his toxicity take over. In the end he was skin and bones and in aching pain. I had no choice but to say goodbye yesterday...my nine-year-old cat...I'm in so much pain I can't breathe.

"Have you spoken to near-death experience people about pets? Do you think we'll see them in the next realm? I can't remember if I did see animals or not, and I don't know my own name right now." MK

ANSWER:

I am so sorry for your pain, MK. Please accept my condolences for the death of your beloved friend, Maurice the cat.

It should be heartening for you to know that animals are often seen during near-death episodes, either as part of the scenario or as that initial greeter or guide. Children talk a lot about the animals they see, and sometimes mention an 'animal heaven' they must visit before they can go to the heaven where people are. It's as if the animals in near-death states can speak as people do; they converse and are understood by the experiencer. The love bond between pets and their "owners" appears to be as strong as the love bond between the various members of any given human family. Love is love, and it transcends whatever seems to limit or lessen it. When our poets say that love is unending, the near-death phenomenon affirms this.

I would like to add that deceased pets, just like deceased humankind, often return in spirit form as if to guide, guard, or assist those they left behind, and to somehow 'communicate' that they are okay and not to worry about them. After-death communication that is featured in the book, "Hello From Heaven," can be between pets and pet owners as well as between people. You might get my book "We Live Forever," as it may be helpful to you about this and how common it is.

One of the things I have learned about animals - is that they almost always know they are going to die long before they do, and long before their human family knows - even if a "last-minute mistake" was made in their treatment, and even if a sudden accident occurs that takes their life. They are incredibly forgiving about this, as if they can see or know the broader picture to what was really going on, or were somehow aware of their fate and its meaning. I've also noticed that many animals, especially treasured pets, seem to be aware of why they are on earth and what is expected of them and what their purpose is. They seem to be 'tuned in.' You might read the article I wrote about "DeeDee, the Educated Rat" on my website in the Article Section (www.pmhatwater.com). The story is true.

This much I know, there is no need for guilt or shame in what happened to your beloved friend. Forgive all concerned, including yourself, and surrender the situation to God in prayer and knowingness, absolute knowing, that love goes on and your friend is now fine. Perhaps someday Maurice may return to you - in another body. Love will heal your wound. Allow this to happen. Many blessings, PMH

Pets in the Afterlife

ANNOUNCEMENT:

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Thanksgiving is soon upon us followed by Christmas and New Year's Eve. These celebrations are holy and sacred to most of us, and bring us together in special ways. Perhaps the tight money markets and challenging financial picture we are now faced with is a good thing. I mean that in the sense that this year few will have the funds to buy as before. Small gifts will have more meaning. We will all have to cut back some, many of us quite a bit. The days of deficit spending are coming to a close. What we are experiencing this fall is only a taste of what may be headed our way by next November, 2008. The good part is we can at last spend more time with each other, visit, play, cuddle up as we remember good memories and share precious moments. When was the last time you spoke of your own spiritual path or the concerns of your heart with friends and family? How about lively discussions as per certain videos or books or DVDs that offer us a new and better view, solutions instead of serial murders and mayhem. I don't know about you, but I've found a derth of good movies in 2007. Too much violence, even on television. I won't go to such movies, nor will I view them in my living room. An exception was the movie "Amazing Grace." If you missed it, hunt around. The movie is a true story that is unusually uplifting and may spark a lot of conversation and comments.

I am as busy as most of us are. So I am taking this moment in time to send you all good wishes and many blessings for the coming tide of wonder. When I remember my 70th birthday spent high in the sky aboard a hot-air balloon, I am filled with joy - the joy of living each moment as fully as I can. It is this joy I send you for the holidays. I know it will bring a smile to your face and lighten your steps. Happy Holidays! PMH


QUESTION:

"I am so confused. I really feel that I have all the signs that the afterlife is real; I feel that I was becoming very close to my true beliefs. Then my mother tells me, because I believe in Christ, that I should know that talking with the dead, and any other beliefs other than what is written in the Bible is not going to get me to heaven.

"She feels that articles and books of the spiritual realm and veil, are the devil's way of enticing me away from God and into evil.

"I have other friends tell me that I am looney, and need psychiatric help. Other friends tell me that I am believing in a fantasy, that thinking that we can travel through space and reach other dimensions and we will see the people we loved who have died, is just nonsense - that they thought I was smarter than that. They say that I am letting my imagination run away from me. I think my mother feels that I am doomed to hell. My friends say that faith is just for people to believe in something when someone they love dies, to give them hope. Nothing else. When we die, we are ashes to the wind.

"I am starting to question my own believing. They think because I want to see my dog Isabelle when I die that I am going nuts. I hired an animal communicator, and they had a big laugh over that, and said she was talking to me.

"Do you think animal communicators are real? Will I see my lost pets in the afterlife? I worry about them, especially Isabelle whom I miss horribly, and cry over every day. I wish she was with me at night, come and visit me. It was so unfair for her to die, and unfair that I prayed and prayed, and God didn't answer my prayers and took Isabelle from me. I feel that I am being punished.

"Please help."....Carolyn.

ANSWER:

No one can say for certain that you will see your pets after you die. Research on near-death states, however, suggests that you will because so many reports claim such to be true.

And, no one can tell you that one way of believing is better than another. Over 250 Christian sects exist - thus there is no single authority on what constitutes the Christian message, not even the Bible with its multiple translations, as some of them are still subject to question because of the Dead Sea Scrolls and additional Gospels now coming to light. The only true Christianity is the experience of God in your own heart and the reality of faith offered by the model our brother Jesus gave with the teachings of his life and how he lived it. You and you alone can decide what is right for you. There are wonderful books and CDs available now that will assist you in growing in faith and finding God within. Do not rely on others to do your work for you. Faith is an inside job.

If you have questions, pull out your M.A.P. --

• M - meditation
• A - affirmations
• P - prayer

If you have a problem, are troubled or confused, use your M.A.P. The guidance you receive may amaze you.

God is as close as your next breath. Visit various churches. Study different creeds and traditions. A powerful truth runs through all of them - the power of love, and of forgiveness and joy and grace and gratitude. God doesn't limit us. Why would you believe others who do?

Blessings always, PMH