Ghosts. Spirits. Who is going "I don't believe in those" or "LaLaLaLaLaLa, scares me, don't want to know!"

The spirits around us generally leave us be. They have better things to do than rattle chains, tip over chairs, and make spooky noises that have the hair on the back of our necks standing up straight.

However....sometimes they have been part of a family for a long time, and want to let their loved ones know they're okay.

A friend of mine, Leslie, and her husband lost one of their dogs not too long ago. Zena had been with them for years. She was Scott's dog, mostly.

She got sick, very sick. Their other dog, Maisie, considerably younger, took to creeping around the house. She didn't want to disturb her ill and aged sister too much.

Maisie (grey) taking care of sister Zena

As Zena's time to pass came closer, the family drew in. They loved Zena, told her what a good dog she was, how important she was to the family. It wasn't anything she hadn't heard before, but it was especia...

There's a lot of fear in the good old US of A around death and dying. Then we put it on our animal friends, all that fear. What we need to do is take a lesson from them. 

They are plugged in not only to this physical world but wherever it is we go when our 3-D body stops breathing. They have no fear of death; to them it's a passage to "the next place."

If they look fearful or act fearful, it's because they feel those things from us, and they want to comfort us by hanging around. We do them a great disservice.

What we need to do is listen. Closely. Anyone can do this, but it takes a lot of presence of our own mind, to let go of our learnings and ideas and all that deep-seated stuff about life and death that we drag around with us. 

Before I got seriously into animal communication work, I was always afraid when my animals died. I would never see them again! When my cat Harvey disappeared I cried for two weeks and searched for her for a year.

She eventually came back, but not as Harv...