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Can a PI Prove There is Life After Death? - Diary of a Private Investigator

August 15, 2015, I began writing about my research on life after death. Needless to say, I am extremely curious about life after death and have been exploring this possibility for a long time.  I was born with the mind to solve problems. It full fills my desire and this is why I love my job so much.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Can A Private Investigator Prove Life After Death?

"As a skeptic by nature, I believe what I see and question what I can't and this is why, along with my problem-solving skills, my calling in life, at least the first half of my life, was to be an investigator.  I have to believe it because that is where I ended up.  With 30 years behind me, I have accomplished more than most in my field.  I am proud of the success I have had in my career and is the reason I write this blog.  First and foremost my primary goal as an advocate and experienced adventurer is to write about experiences that will help another person.  With that said someone who knows me well brought a book to my attention and thought that I would be interested in reading it.  It's called Answers About The Afterlife written by Bob Olson who is the host of afterlifetv.com and a Private Investigator who for 15 years investigated the possibility of there being a life after death.  My eyebrows raised and curiosity got the best of me.

Now, as a spiritual person who has wind chimes hanging off of her patio roof and a library full of read books about life after death and near-death experiences, including Life Before Life by Jim B. Tucker, Return To Life  also written by Jim B. Tucker, Proof Of Heaven written by a neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander M.D. about his near-death experience, To Heaven And Back by Dr. Mary C. Neal, MD about her near death experience,  Journey Of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton, PhD, and Destiny Of Souls also by Dr, Michael Newton, PhD who is a regression therapist and documented hundreds of his patient sessions and compiled common experiences into these books. I was fascinated with all of these books and those I have not yet mentioned. I read books written by medical doctors because like an Investigator they require their diagnosis to be seen under a microscope and not merely by suggestion or instinct. I would have a better understanding of our common skepticism by not believing something without some type of proof. Speaking of proof, I am also a huge fan of the miniseries Proof that can be seen on TNT about a medical doctor who had a near death experience and has been hired by a man with a terminal disease to find proof of life after death.  I have also seen all of the episodes of The Ghost Within My Child that tells the true stories of families who have experienced their very young children claiming to have lived before providing detailed information including names, addresses, and dates from their previous lives. Dr. Jim B. Tucker along with Dr. Ian Stevenson would take similar stories and conduct very in-depth investigations in order to rule the claim of the child to be true or false.  This also includes the story and movie seen in theaters Heaven Is For Real about a four-year-old boy from a small town in Nebraska who allegedly died momentarily while suffering from a ruptured appendix. The movie was based on the book written by his Pastor father Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. I have also watched Theresa Caputo of the Long Island Medium and Rosie Cepero from Angels Among Us both shows on television that demonstrate their claimed abilities to connect with loved ones who have crossed over. I have been to mediums, psychics, and a channeler who have all claimed to be the real deal.  Some were clearly not and some were convincing enough to be considered the real deal. It is not my job to decide who is real and who is not nor do I care to spend the time to do so. I do enjoy sitting back and letting everyone else do the hard work while I can simply pick up a book of a person whom I consider realistic with skepticism and learn from them."

Movies, tv series and books do not prove life after death, however, the investigations behind these stories have merit but, not as much as the people behind the investigations. Who are they and what do they base their theory on?

To be continued.............

Everything written in this blog is based on my investigation of life after death. It is based on research of both written material and physical experiences of others. It also includes personal experiences on different levels of meditation, past life regression, and mediums of various kinds. My resources will be listed on a future posting.-Thank you for reading. Please share this with your friends.

Where Is Heaven? - Diary of a Private Investigator

           Where is Heaven?

As children, we often look up and imagine heaven is somewhere over our heads and that is where our pets and grandparents go to when they die. They say that children are very intuitive when it comes to death.

Assuming there is a heaven, it is not a place, so to speak. Heaven is a transparent spiritual plane. Meaning, when a soul leaves its body, it returns back into its spiritual form and resides in the spirit realm. This also insinuates that we live multiple lives on earth.

There are heaven and earth. Earth is where the human body lives. Our soul or spirit lives inside the body. Earth is a physical place composed of matter that are things you can touch and feel thanks to our senses. In heaven, it's very different. In heaven, a spirit doesn't communicate with sound or feel with the body. Instead, a spirit can read the mind of another spirit and that is how the spirits communicate in the form of mental telepathy. They touch the same way they communicate. They read each other's feelings and embrace telepathically.

When someone dies and the soul leaves the body, they typically linger by the body. This is common and the most opportune time for us to see the spirit of the deceased in the form of a "ghost".

The day my father died I swore that I saw him walking in the hallway at his house. It was a glimpse of him that caught my eye. Later that day, a door flung open and at a different time a light went on in his bedroom. This was years before I began my research on the topic. Now, I firmly believe that what I thought I saw was my father. My rabbi agreed.

So, why are children so intuitive when it comes to death? Maybe because they more recently died in a previous life and are close to the spirit world.

Did you know that there is no such thing as time in heaven? To our loved ones who just left us, they will be seeing us shortly (in their time), even if it takes us 50 more earth years to get there.

To be continued.............

Everything written in this blog is based on my investigation of life after death. It is based on research of both written material and physical experiences of others. It also includes personal experiences on different levels of meditation, past life regression, and mediums of various kinds. My resources will be listed on a future posting.-Thank you for reading. Please share this with your friends.

My Journey of The In-Between -Diary of a Private Investigator

First, let's call it what it is. Heaven is Heaven. It's what I call the "in-between" place souls go to when they leave the body.

Second, the soul is your inner being. Your soul is you. You are consciousness.

Your body is a shell that houses your soul. When the body dies, the soul survives.

When the soul leaves the body, there is no feeling of transition. It will not feel any different than the way it felt with the body. There is no feeling of death. Sometimes people don't know they have died and carry on as if they were still alive.

In Heaven, there is no such thing as religion. We are all created equal and diversity does not exist. Hell does not exist though souls that lead a life of crime on earth will experience a less than desirable entrance into Heaven much like where they will end up in the beginning.

The soul is pure love. Human's are people with a soul combined with earthly elements. Earthly elements cause us to experience emotions that can lead to hatred, prejudice, or drug addiction. It can also lead to happiness, goodness, or anxiety. It can lead to any issues that humans are stuck dealing with on a daily basis.

There are angels that walk among us.

Were Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe Robin Williams and any celebrities who were born with amazing talents only meant to be on earth a short time regardless of how their lives ended?

To be continued.....................

Everything written in this blog is based on my investigation of life after death. It is based on research of both written material and physical experiences of others. It also includes personal experiences on different levels of meditation, past life regression, and mediums of various kinds. My resources will be listed on a future posting.-Thank you for reading. Please share this with your friends.

Investigation - Life After Death - My Report

Death Is Nothing At All

Death is nothing at all. 
It does not count. 
I have only slipped way into the next room. 
Nothing has happened. 

Everything remains exactly as it was. 
I am I, and you are you, 
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. 
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. 

Call me by the old familiar name. 
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used to. 
Put no difference into your tone. 
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. 

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. 
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. 
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. 
Let it be spoken without any effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. 

Life means all that it ever meant. 
It is the same as it ever was. 
There is absolute and unbroken continuity. 
What is death but a negligible accident? 

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? 
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, 
somewhere very near, 
just round the corner. 
All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

IRS and Tax Scam

This has recently surfaced.

Have you received a text like this?

"Let me resolve your tax problems the right way. Contact me- 207-494-5888"

OR

"There is an update about your IRS tax case. Please call me, 916-239-4663."

THESE ARE SCAMS. Please share

Microsoft 800-642-7676 Real or Fake?

Microsoft

800-642-7676

Is this a real telephone number for Microsoft? 

I called it, got the help I needed, and received a case reference number for my issue. I hung up. Next, I went to the Microsoft website, microsoft.com, and used the virtual Contact Microsoft Support. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/ I requested they call me back. They called back minutes later from 425-635-2970, another number being reported as a scam. But, they were able to locate the case reference number that I had acquired from the first technician I spoke with.

It was a simple investigation that may have confirmed this telephone number as a legit number. 

During my investigation, I found hundreds of postings from computer users reporting these numbers as scams claiming to have received phone calls from these number being identified by the caller as a Microsoft technician. 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/support-scams

The caller would claim that the recipient was experiencing problems with their computer. They would claim to have the answer to all of your problems. They would try to sell you software that would clean your computer and all the bugs would go away. Wait, but first, you have to give them remote access to your computer. WARNING, WARNING, WARNING.

Maybe not.

Microsoft technicians also ask to have remote access to your computer in order to quickly fix the problem. You can see what they are doing as they are doing it the entire time. What they will not do is go into your personal files like the scammers do. You will see them only utilize the Microsoft website for the proper software that will fix your computer FOR FREE.

After, you will receive an email from Microsoft confirming your communication with them. The scammers do not do this. 

So, why does a legitimate phone number for Microsoft show up on your caller id when it's really a scam? The scammers can program any number they want to show up on your caller id screen. They are ready for the challenging question of, "are you really with Microsoft?" In their perhaps best American English accent and with confidence, they reply, "why yes ma'am. I am calling from Microsoft. You can call it if you like. You will see it is a Microsoft number I am calling from." Most people don't second guess and will move on with the call but, more and more people these days will hang up and call the number to find out the call was a scam. Better yet, they will look it up online to check for other complaints. But, what can you believe these days? 

Based on my findings, these numbers are legit when you call them yourself. 

To protect yourself, first, go to your settings and look for Microsoft updates. Go to the website, microsoft.com, and look for the support you need. Do not google Microsoft in order to get a telephone number. This is where most peoples' problems begin.

A private investigator walks into a phlebotomy class....

A private investigator walks into a phlebotomy class... It sounds like the beginning of a good joke, doesn't it? These two words don't go together, investigator and phlebotomy, unless someone at the school or the school itself was being investigated. Or, there is a very good explanation that involves the investigator herself, yours truly.

After almost 30 years of putting puzzles together as the investigator, I decided to use my skills in the healthcare field and under the microscope. My reason is very personal along with the desire to work in the healthcare industry. Phlebotomy is the first step to go to where I want to be.

Phlebotomists are people who draw blood and they make their jobs look easy but, until you have been behind the scenes as I have, it is anything but easy. I have a new respect for phlebotomists who have the responsibility for the well being of the patient whom they stick. They have to know where to stick, how to stick, and everything there is to do after the stick. They must know precisely how to get the best batch of blood in the right tubes in the right order because every tube has a different purpose most containing additives. The tubes must be inverted a certain amount of times in order for the blood to be at its best when the lab technicians run their tests.

In order to become a state certified phlebotomist, one must understand how the body functions including where blood comes from, the different kinds of blood and their function, as well as all about the circulatory system, internal organs, and HIPAA. 

I give credit to my fellow classmates whom I had the pleasure of sharing a wonderful six weeks with. We learned together, experimented on, and learned from one another. Hats off to Keisha Randle who was an extraordinary instructor with the patience to get us through the program.

CONGRATS PHLEBOTOMY CLASS OF 2018!!!

Madman in the Library

It was mid October and the kids were elsewhere as I was running my Saturday errands.  It was a good time to pick up the books that my friendly librarian held for me.  I had no idea what I would find in the cluster of books that she recommended I read in pursuant of the research for my non fiction book proposal.  It's a tedious job but had to be done.
As I examined the books including "I Will Find You" by Joanna Connors and The "Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating" by Steven Kerry Brown, there was a sudden sound you would never expect to hear in a public library where children are taught to keep their voices down and people go to get away from the many annoying sounds of society.  It was a man’s voice that propagated throughout.  He was clearly mad.  Was he a madman? 
I stood up to see what the commotion was.  At the checkout desk where the librarians congregate to help consumers there stood an older man, balding with grey hair, I am guessing in his early to mid 70’s, wearing a heavy winter coat yelling callously at the cluster of women librarians. “How can I read this paper if there is a staple in it!”  And, “You need to get this straightened out.  You people don’t know what you’re doing!”  But, it didn’t stop there.   He was clearly very angry.  He was angry enough to cause himself a great deal of embarrassment.  But, did he care about embarrassing himself?  Did he care what the patrons around him may have been feeling especially after the recent Las Vegas shooting on October 1^st?  He continued to antagonize the innocent ladies behind the counter who appeared to not know what to do or how to handle this situation.
 
I grew angry for the verbal abuse and concerned for innocent bystanders, many of them males, who didn’t budge but sat in their chairs and kept their faces in their books and newspapers.  The managing librarian asked the old man to step out to the lobby.  He obliged but continued to yell with conviction.  He grew louder and louder.  He repeated himself many times about how upset he was that there was a staple in the newspaper he wanted to read.  I asked myself, “is it really all over a staple or is it something bigger than that?”  I approached the front desk and asked one of the ladies if they had called the Police.  She said “no”.  I requested they call the Police immediately.  She responded with “he is a regular but we have never seen him like this.  He is hard of hearing and is a loud talker.  But, he has never displayed anger towards us.”  I insisted she call the Police, but she didn’t budge.   I placed my books in front of her and kindly asked her if she would watch my books and then self-assuredly told her “I am going to take care of this myself.” 

I stepped away from the counter and into what could have been the line of fire.  Someone had to step in and help these gentle ladies including the manager who insisted that she could handle the situation without calling the Police, I believe, to keep the occurance on the down low and not bring attention to this public place.  Nobody was taking a firm hand with this old man.  He continued to belittle the managing librarian and anybody else who tried to calm him down.  The librarians used their inside voices asking him to stop yelling.  They asked him to leave with sweet sparkles of sugar in their voices.  He was not going to calm down.  He was growing more confrontational and provoking.  He started throwing his arms around and hit one of the librarians with the newspaper he was holding in his hand, the one he was complaining had a staple in it.

“Please leave now”, I firmly said as I held my hand out pointing to the door that was only a few steps away.  He got in my face and said, “I don’t care what you want me to do.”  I continued to tell him to leave.  He threw words in my face daring me to touch him.  I made a remark about how he will find himself behind bars if he does not do as he is told at this very moment and that he didn’t have a choice.  The choice would be made for him.  He continued to throw words in my face that I eventually ignored.  I did what I was trained to do in situations like this.  Despite feeling uneasy I stood my ground and remained poised.  I continued to use my somewhat large stature as a shield between the old man and the librarians and sort of guided him towards the door without touching him.  I continued to speak over him telling him to “please leave” shuffling him out the door.  He could have had a weapon in his pocket despite the sign NO GUNS ALLOWED posted on the front door. 

Everybody was safe.  The old man left and everybody returned to their original spaces.  The managing librarian called the Police and banned the old man from returning to the library.  They thanked me for my patronage but I didn’t know what to say.  I was more disappointed in the men who just sat back in their chairs acting as if they were minding their own business.  There was a scene, clearly.  We were loud and demanding.  Everybody in the library saw what was occurring.  It would have been nice if there was an off duty cop or military person or a man in the building rather than a mom of two young children stepping in to overrule a madman. 

I asked myself, was I was at the right place at the right time?  What would have happened had I not stepped in?  His anger was escalating with every syllable that came out of the managing librarians’ mouth.  He was clearly agitated, but over a staple?  I don’t think so.

What would you have done in this situation?  Despite my training I would have done the same thing because I witnessed my grandfather in a similar situation.  He took me and my siblings out for ice cream where there was a man violently holding a woman by her collar from across the ice cream counter.  My grandfather stepped in and saved the woman from whatever was to come. 

I felt I did the right thing.  I left the library feeling shaken and went on with my day. 

What would you do if......

If you were the manager of a business that serviced a local community whether a restaurant or gift shop, would you consider hiring an ex-convict? 

Would you hire an ex-convict who was incarcerated for murder? 
 For theft? 
For a drug-related crime?  (most drug-related offenses get a longer sentence than murderers.)

You Never Know Who May Be Listening

Happy Halloween! 

 I thought it was a good day to go for a pumpkin spice latte at my local Starbucks and while there I would get some work done.  I found a small table near the few comfy chairs and love seat in a corner of the café.  As I was doing research for my nonfiction book proposal entailing my infidelity case log I couldn’t help but overhear a meeting that was taking place behind me. The woman, seated in a comfy chair, sounded as if she was on an interview as the man she was with, seated on the love seat, sat and listened.  She was talking about her history as an Investigator on infidelity cases and the various attorneys she has worked for.  What would she have thought if she knew there was an Investigator eavesdropping in on her conversation?  She moved on to describing her job as a Process Server and how the spouses almost never expected to be served with divorce papers.  She mentioned the name of one attorney who I happen to know and then proceeded to complain about his high fees, in the thousands, to his clients demanding payment in advance of his services, and how he would not always pay for her services, what little she received, until services were rendered.  She was loud enough for me to hear her in the busy café and only an earshot away I couldn’t help but listen to her as I kept my face in the book I was reading, Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write by Elizabeth Lyon.  

I was intrigued with what she was telling her possible potential employer.  I almost got up and handed her my card.  The thoughts as to what I would say to her, in front of the man she was allegedly interviewing for, was, here, give me a call sometime.  Or, be careful who you talk about in public places.  I know (so and so), and to not give her my card.  

In the end I decided the best move would be to do nothing. To mind my own business. I didn’t want to embarrass her but, handing her my card and asking her to contact me, in front of a potential employer, could have made her look good.  Perhaps I was a potential employer who was interested in hiring her.  I would have clearly posed as a mild threat, as a competitor, to the alleged interviewer she was with. 

Be careful what you say in a public places.  You never know who may be sitting an earshot away. 

Have a safe Halloween!

Las Vegas Caught In Hurricane

Everybody thinks about the recent tragedy when "Las Vegas" is heard.  The question we all have is "Why?". 

No matter by water or bullet Americans are being hit everywhere Las Vegas, in the middle of the desert, being no exception.  But, why?  There is a whole lot of bad happening to us.        

While the media dissects details about the perpetrator to learn the answers to why it happened the rest of us are questioning our own next moves.  We all know it can happen anywhere, at anytime, and to anybody.  In fact, I recall hearing one victim say "This only happens to other people.  I never imagined it would happen to us!"  Unfortunately, this could only be said after the fact.

I was in Las Vegas over the Labor Weekend and being shot was the last thing on my mind.  I could count on two hands the amount of times I have been to Vegas and never in the history of my travels have I heard of anything remotely close to this having had occurred in Vegas.  After the fact I realized this could have happened to us in our travels over the Labor Day weekend as the gunman was allegedly planning a more recent attack.  We would have been no exception.

The point is that it could happen to anybody at anytime. You are not the exception. 

The airports only take further security measures after an incident has occurred.  It's too late!
The concert and sports venues only take further security measures after an incident has occurred at a similar venue somewhere else in the country. The same with schools. 
Malls only add security after an incident has occurred only at that particular mall. 
You get the point.

Today we live in a society that requires our intuition/sixth sense/gut feeling be at the forefront.  We cannot rely on other people to alert us of such dangers ahead of time otherwise terrorism wouldn't exist and the concern in Vegas would have been canceled.  Now would be a good time for self proclaimed psychics to use their alleged powers.

What we can do to help ourselves:

• ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings including exit doors, windows, balconies, etc.  
• Be aware of the people around you.  Is someone's behavior unusual?  In other words, is someone active nervous in an environment that does not warrant such behavior?  Are they carrying an oversized bag that is not fitting for the venue they are attending?  Are there unusual bulges?
• If you feel someone is acting suspicious then alert a staff member who should alert security.  Let the professionals make the final determination.  Do what you feel is necessary to protect yourself
•  Take a self defense class.  These days they also teach you what to do if faced with danger in today's world.  
• Let your instinct be your guide.  It's the feeling you get that something doesn't feel right.  in 9 out of 10 cases it's right on target.
• Always listen to your instincts because it's the first thing that will alert you to danger if there are no external resources. 

Do not let the color of someone's skin deter you.  There are bad people in all skin colors, sizes, shapes and genders. I can only imagine what the terrorist organizations are thinking as we turn on ourselves.  Americans should be united not divided including the supremacists. 

What say you Donald Trump aka President Trump?