I'd like to share a personal experience I had on the day my step mum ( will be 5 years this year) passed away and the week prior to her death. So a week before she died, my dad had asked me to come and talk to her ( She was like a best friend to me) as she was really upset. When I arrived at their house I found her outside having a smoke. I had asked what was going on and if she was okay. She was really anxious and had started to tear up and then I followed her to the bedroom where she pulled out her pendulum. She started to explain that she had a feeling she was going to die and had asked her pendulum if this was true. She explained that it kept answering yes and that it was always right. She told me that the pendulum then ended up breaking. She asked me to do a reading. I had said to her I don’t think you are going to die but asked if she would like me to get my angel tarot deck (I am not a pro tarot reader, I use the cards every now and then for personal use ) and I can see what that says. She agreed, I recall the reading being positive and she seemed to be very relieved after it. Anyway, one week exactly she passed away. When I went to see her in her bedroom as I was walking in I swore I heard her say to me It’s okay Nate, I’m okay and that I didn’t have to worry. I can understand that people may not believe that this actually happened or that I was in a state of shock/ disbelief. But for me, I truly believe that was her speaking to me, because it came into my head unprompted. And I felt a genuine calm. I also felt like she stayed in the room for a short time longer with her friend that had passed away about 6 months prior while my other siblings also were saying goodbye to her.

Hi All, I'm Nate, I just wanted to introduce myself as I am new here. :)

If you spend any time around spiritual spaces, you’ll notice something quickly. Everyone wants to know what it was. Was that intuition? Was it spirit? Was it a gift? Or was it just me making it up? Underneath that question is usually something much more vulnerable: Am I special… or am I foolish? And that’s why this conversation needs to be handled gently. Here’s the truth — imagination is not the villain people think it is and certainty is not the badge of honour people assume it is. Most of us were raised to treat imagination as childish. Something you grow out of. If you imagined something as a child, an adult would say, “It’s just your imagination,” and that was meant to shut the door on it completely. But imagination is not fake. It’s a function of the mind. It’s the same mechanism you use to plan your future, replay conversations, solve problems, and remember your childhood home. You cannot remove imagination from the human experience without removing creativity, empathy, and memory itself. So when someone says, “What if I’m just imagining it?” my first thought isn’t to dismiss them. It’s to slow them down. Imagination is the language the mind uses to process information. Even when the information is real. If someone calls your name from another room, your brain converts sound waves into meaning. You don’t see the sound — you interpret it. The brain is always translating. (This is great to remember when you happen to be using spirit boxes during communication experiments too). When people experience intuition or something that feels like spirit contact, the brain still has to translate it into thoughts, images, or feelings. That translation happens through the same system we use for imagination. That’s why the two can feel similar. Not because one is fake. But because the mind has only so many ways to display information. This is where people get tangled. They think if it feels like imagination, it must be imagination. But the mind doesn’t have a separate cinema screen labelled “spirit” and another labelled “made up.” It runs through the same projector.