One night in 1997 Richard Schoeller thought he was dying because he found himself surrounded by both sets of deceased grandparents. They reassured him that it wasn’t his time to join them in the afterlife and that their visit was to help him understand that he could now "see them." Who could ignore a visit like that? Richard had to learn more about what had just happened, so he began taking classes and researching the ability to communicate with those who have passed into spirit. Richard is now an ordained Spiritualist minister, Certified Medium, Commissioned Spiritualist Healer. Aside from being a member of the Lily Dale Assembly, he served on the Board of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) for six years, and he is currently the Vice President of the International Spiritualist Federation and a Director and Teacher with the Inner Spiritual Center in Wayne, New Jersey. Richard has taught classes and demonstrated mediumship in England, Holland, Scotland, Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as served a number of Spiritualist churches and centers throughout the United States. It gives him great pleasure to be of service and to provide information to his clients that help them to come to and understanding that life and love continue after the change known as death. Website: sacredmessages.com Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group Transcript of this interview Interview conducted February 4, 2018. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Conversations with Spiritually Awakening People 00:03:47 - Helping Others Find Understanding 00:07:09 - A Family Secret Revealed 00:10:25 - A Visit from the Spirit Realm 00:13:37 - The Awakening of Psychic Abilities 00:16:33 - Communication with the Other Side 00:20:27 - Healing and Reconciliation in Relationships 00:23:15 - Our True Nature and Evolution of Being 00:26:51 - Exploring Reincarnation 00:29:41 - A Funeral Director's Experience 00:32:31 - Emotional Connections at Funerals 00:35:49 - Communicating with Departed Loved Ones 00:38:46 - The Higher Rate of Vibration in the Spiritual Realm 00:42:03 - Reasons for the absence of communication from deceased loved ones 00:45:09 - Reincarnation and the Soul 00:48:35 - Gaining a Wider Perspective in the Spiritual Realm 00:51:47 - Souls hanging around the cemetery 00:55:27 - Relating to automatic functions and serving a useful purpose 00:58:37 - Children's Sensitivity to the Spiritual Realm 01:01:56 - Awakening Children's Abilities 01:05:15 - Everyone's Ability to Connect with Spirit 01:08:50 - Communicating with Departed Loved Ones 01:12:08 - Dying experiences based on belief and circumstance 01:15:32 - Conscious Dying and the Departure from Life 01:18:57 - Meeting the Beatles 01:22:07.000 - Personal Work and Mediumistic Growth 01:25:05 - Channeling and Spiritual Teachers 01:28:48 - Physical Mediumship Phenomena 01:32:14 - Communication from the Spiritual Realm 01:35:10 - Psychic Readings and Testimonials 01:37:53 - Interruption and Technical Difficulties