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Our Paranormal Afterlife : Finding Proof of Life After Death

Paranormal Stories Ep97

Our Paranormal Afterlife : Finding Proof of Life After Death

Simon Bown

Supernatural, Documentary, Alternative Health, Paranormal, Spiritual, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Afterlife, Reincarnation

4.8544 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I am reading from Elizabeth Bodien's book 'Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and Afterlife'.When Pete was asleep, Elizabeth was in hypnotic trance, communicating through a psychic practice known as automatic writing. Bigger Pete is Elizabeth Bodien’s parapsychological memoir about communicating with her brother over the last eight years of his life—and into the afterlife.Families and friends of people with Down syndrome will relish the loving communication between Pete, who had Down syndrome, and his sister Elizabeth. Caregivers of people with late-stage Alzheimer’s will also recognize their own struggles in this personal story. Others in conversation with Elizabeth include Pete's deceased parents and Pete's higher self, identified as Bigger Pete.How can you communicate with someone who has passed on? In Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and Afterlife, Bodien addresses the question by writing from her personal experience and aiding those dealing with the loss of a loved one.Are you curious about what happens when people die and what happens next? Bigger Pete might not have the only answer, but it does have at least one answer.BioElizabeth Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours and one non-fiction work: Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives, a collection of her past lives experienced while in hypnotic trance. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crannóg, and Parabola, among other publications in the USA, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and India. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology, consciousness studies, religions, and poetry, and has worked as an English instructor in Japan, an organic farmer in the Oregon mountains, a childbirth instructor in West Africa, a Montessori teacher, and as a professor of cultural anthropology. Bodien, who grew up in the “burned over” district of western New York, now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, USA.Amazon link https://tinyurl.com/3xn4bmsnhttps://elizabethbodien.com/https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlifeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/our-paranormal-afterlife-finding-proof-of-life-after-death--5220623/support.

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0:00.0

This is Episode 97 of Paranormal Stories. In this episode I'm reading from Elizabeth Bodian's book, Bigger Pete, Conversations between Life and Afterlife.

0:19.5

When I have guests on my podcast, I read their books to work out questions for the episode.

0:23.6

When reading these books, I always find such fascinating information that never makes it into the podcast,

0:28.6

and here I get a chance to give you a peek into the book.

0:31.6

I put a link to the book in the show notes, and I did seek permission to record this extract from the author,

0:36.6

and they kindly said yes. And this extract from the author, and they

0:37.7

kindly said yes.

0:39.5

And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review and be sure to subscribe.

0:43.6

So I'm going to start by reading from a section that's titled How I Began Automatic

0:48.2

Writing, and this is what Elizabeth has written.

0:52.0

When I started, I used recordings that provided inductions into

0:56.1

hypnotic trance. Later, without the benefit of a recording, I could put myself into a trance.

1:03.0

I would begin writing sessions with a prayer or invocation and allow myself to enter a hypnotic

1:08.9

trance state. With a pencil in hand and a pad of yellow

1:12.9

legal paper, I would focus on my breathing and let my right arm write on its own. At first, my purpose

1:20.5

for this process was to generate poems. I did not stop to question the words that showed up on

1:26.1

the paper, no matter how nonsensical

1:28.5

they might seem to me. I wasn't exactly hearing the words, but my hand was writing them,

1:34.6

and while writing, I was sometimes aware of the sound of the words in my mind.

1:40.2

Once I was past my initial invocation and my stating any particular concerns, I made no conscious effort to influence what showed up on the paper.

1:50.2

The words appeared spontaneously.

1:53.0

It took years to establish a productive routine for these automatic writing sessions.

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