Reincarnation, Echoes of our Past Lives, and Imaginary Friends
Download MP3Hi there, and welcome back to the Woo Woo Channeling Crew. I am Denise.
Missy:And I'm Missy.
Denise:And I just hit record by accident. We decided let's just keep it rolling. Today, we are going to talk about reincarnation. It's a very polarizing topic universally, like not for a certain religion or a certain sector, but universally. And we thought it'd be a good topic to talk about.
Denise:So I was very torn about reincarnation for a very long time. And for those of you who have been listening and know my story, I grew up very staunch Christian household. Reincarnation is not in the Bible, Pentecostal, Baptist. A lot of the Christian religions don't really embrace reincarnation. And so I never did.
Denise:Met a friend in college, her name was Tammy. And I remember her saying to me, if you put all the religions of the world into a sieve, the only thing left would be love. And those words completely changed my life. I remember getting Doctor. Brian Weiss's book, Love Messages, or I'm totally screwing up the title.
Denise:It was the second book I read from him. And in the back of it, it showed verses from Jesus and things that Buddha said. And when you put them together, they all aligned. And so when I think about Tammy saying, if you put all the religions of the world and put it in a sieve, the only thing left would be love. And that really opened up my heart, my mind, and I was really exploring.
Denise:I always found it so hard to trust reincarnation. There was a stubbornness that I had towards it. And I remember as I was trying to explore Hinduism, Buddhism, looking at the comparisons, a lot of things were really hard for me to swallow. But for some reason, reincarnation always felt real to some degree. I started to buy books to educate myself.
Denise:And I remember reading one book. I remember going to Barnes and Nobles and finding this book, which by the way, haven't been to a Barnes and Nobles in so long. And I love Barnes and Nobles.
Missy:That's my mother's favorite place in the whole wide world.
Denise:I'm telling you the little sections where you have like 50% off, 60% off. I remember when my daughter was a kid and she'd go play in the little section area with the kids section and I would sit and read for hours. But anyways, I digress. I got a book and it was not cutting it for me. They were trying to take me back way back to Constantinople and my brain couldn't process that.
Denise:And then I took the book away and then I'd come back a year later and I'd run into the book and then I'd try it again. And I found Hay House Radio. That's how I found out about Dr. Brian Weiss. I bought Many Lives, Many Masters.
Denise:And even after I read that book, I still had doubt. And I remember saying to spirit, okay, no more books, show me. It's all I said, no more books, show me. And my daughter was about 18 old. My daughter, she was a little bit of a freak of nature.
Denise:She did everything early, except teeth, which made her extremely creepy. So she walked at like nine months. I'm not even kidding. She walked at nine months. She was saying full sentences by like 12, 13 months.
Denise:So you can imagine like this little thing running around the house with no teeth. We used to think she was so creepy. But I was in my closet putting clothes away and she was on the bed lying down on her back and she was playing with the hangers and she was kind of putting her feet through the hangers and she was singing her ABCs. And while I was in the closet, I heard her stop singing abruptly. And I look out the closet, and I look at her, and she's staring at me while she's still on her back holding the hanger.
Denise:And I said, are you okay? And she just looked at me like she was angry. So I thought maybe she kinda nicked herself or she hurt herself. So I get up on the bed and I said, honey, are you okay? And she looked at me and she said, you died me.
Denise:Remember mama? And I said, what? And she said, you died me. You cut my legs. You went to jail.
Denise:You died me. Remember, mama? And I instantly remembered a section in many lives, many masters on how to deal with children who remember a past life. I knew that this wasn't normal. My daughter was not even watching television at that time.
Denise:Her vocabulary was so limited, that she couldn't get the word killed. You killed me. Yeah. But she said, I died me. What does she know about death?
Denise:What does she know about jail? There's nobody talking about jail and dying, right? And all of this is hitting me all at once as I'm standing there in complete awe. And in the book, Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss said, give them confidence that where they are now, they're okay. So I said to her, that was a long time ago.
Denise:Mommy did some terrible things, but I want you to know that in this life, I will never ever do anything to harm you. I love you too much. And she looked at me with her eyebrows and a scowl on her face. And then she just lightened up. And she said, okay, mama.
Denise:And she gave me the biggest smile. And Missy, she gave me the biggest hug and she held me so tight. And I remember at one point after like ten seconds, tried to pull back, she wouldn't. And so I allowed that embrace to happen. I allowed her to squeeze as tight and I just let her feel, let her release whatever was going on, whatever was triggered.
Denise:Right? Interesting that she said, you cut my legs. When she was on her back, she was pulling her legs through the hangers.
Missy:Right.
Denise:Right? And it triggered something within her. And then after we sat there hugging for what felt like forever, she pulled back, smiled at me, went right back on the bed and started singing our ABCs again. And that was the day, undisputed experience, I knew reincarnation existed. There was no one that could ever tell me it didn't.
Missy:Yeah. Wayne Dyer, obviously a very spiritual gentleman. He's since crossed over. But he would say, that's not imagination. That's a past life memory peeking through.
Denise:Yep.
Missy:And we know that children are very open spiritually, right?
Denise:Yes.
Missy:And so that to me was some sort of past soul contract that the two of you had. That's really her also saying that I've been here before. You've been here before. What happened to us before.
Denise:And not only that, you were a jerk. You killed me. You were this is
Missy:that New York City gangster that you
Denise:Business that in New York City. And the and that's and that's funny that you say that because I think we've talked about this, but I don't know if I've talked about it on the podcast.
Missy:Yeah. If you're gonna talk about like when you had that woman held down and you had some sort of it was a prophetic dream you had.
Denise:Well, was when the serpentine, that was our crystals Yes.
Missy:Right? When we were talking about the serpentine crystal and that you had gone, like, either put it in your bed or had it near your bed, and then you have that dream, And these men weren't doing it fast enough, so you took the machete. And, like, I don't know what it is with you always cutting people's, like, their legs off, their feet
Denise:Right. But isn't that crazy? By the way, this memory just came to me now. I was a very sickly child and I would always have like a really high fever. And I remember whenever my temperature was super high, I would have this visual.
Denise:It was definitely a vision, not a dream. Cause when I was younger, thought it was a dream. And I feel horrible. I can't get up. I feel confined.
Denise:I'm on my stomach. I am like outdoors. And then I see a light coming towards me and it's either a train or a car and I can't move and I feel horrible. And I hear the sensation of the train or the car coming and it's getting louder and louder and louder and louder. And then boom, just when it gets to me, I jumped out of my sleep.
Denise:And I remember that was like a good maybe three, four years of my life where I was always sick. And then when I was 17, for the first time in over a decade, I got sick and my fever was high. Same vision came to me. What is my body remembering? Was I sick?
Denise:Listen, the gangster life that it seems like I lived, Did what? Did somebody tie me up? Did they put me on the train tracks and the train is coming towards me? But all I know is I felt horrible. I know I have the fever, the chills, and I am incapable of getting up because I am so exhausted, tired, and sick.
Missy:Have you ever done a past life regression, actually had somebody like, you know, you go into the meditation. I've done it once since when I lived in Salt Lake City. But have you ever had that done that might
Denise:Yes. Yes, I have. It was not about the gangsters. It was a completely different life. There is kind of a jacked up theme though.
Denise:Have, there's always some level of abuse. I was living on a farm and I had two kids. My daughter was older, my son was young, and I was in an abusive relationship. And I took the carriage to go into town to get some items. And when I get back, my son runs out of the farm house and he's screaming that daddy hurt.
Denise:And I don't remember the name of who my daughter was. And I run in and my daughter has, she was whipped like a slave on her back, like welds and bleeding all over her body. And I remember clearly saying this is it like I've had enough. And I wrap her up. And I grabbed like a bag and I tell my son to grab a bag and I'm walking, I'm putting it in the carriage.
Denise:And he comes outside and he yells at me and he says something like, know, you don't you can go and I remember turning to look at him and seeing him so clearly. And I didn't recognize his face. But I recognized his soul. I knew who he was in this lifetime for me. And then I woke up.
Denise:And I remember I have Brian Weiss and Doreen Virtue made a past life deck years ago. And I was telling my daughter about it and she said, why don't you go get that deck? And then I shuffled and I said, spirit, is there any truth to this past life regression? Was this a past life regression dream? And the card I pulled said farm.
Missy:Oh, interesting.
Denise:Yeah. And so something that I left out, was Mina Kelly, m I n a Kelly. She had like this past life regression that I did. It's like forty minutes. And I just pressed play and went to sleep because I'm not good at meditating.
Denise:I go under far better when I'm tired. So I put it on right before I went to sleep. So I had like a full on eight hours of living this life on a farm. Yeah. And then right when I was ready to go, I opened up my eyes.
Denise:So yeah, there's a little bit of a theme of like abuse. But the things that are so vivid to me, what my daughter validated for me was the ruthlessness. There's a ruthlessness. So I've done a lot of talking here, but I wanted to ask you, have you had any experiences that felt like, my God, this has to be attached to reincarnation?
Missy:You know, I sort of look at reincarnation as Well, I look at the soul as not really having an ending, right? It just changes form. So I believe that a soul chooses incarnations for expansion, not out of obligation, right? So, reincarnation for me feels more like it's voluntary, so it's far less about kind of coming back again and more about how consciousness evolves, expresses, and then explores itself across multiple lifetimes. So a lot of people sometimes will use the words deja vu, like I feel like I've been here before, or I feel like I've experienced this, or there may be something that someone triggers in you, or you meet someone and you feel like, Gosh, I know you from somewhere, or there's a connection.
Missy:So that's what I mean by, I know the soul continues after death, not in a dramatic or fear based way, but as a simple transition into another phase of existence. If I'm coming back and I'm living another lifetime, I think that there can be similarities in what I've already lived and what I'm living now. I think that there are certain themes that can continue to pop up, right? So now maybe I've decided to reincarnate and live another lifetime where I'm looking at a deeper layer of something, or maybe in one life I've chosen wealth and now maybe I'm choosing poverty. Note to self, next time I come back, choose wealth.
Denise:Exactly. And then when I think about this whole gangster ruthless thing I've got going on in my past. And then I go from that to like, I'm going to be a spiritual, psychic intuitive medium, like, right. It's like what a drastic shift. I'm sure when I realized I had this gift, I remember getting a reading and I said to this, the intuitive, I'm praying this is my last lifetime.
Denise:And she started laughing. She started laughing. She's like, you have so many more lives to go. And I was like, Oh, you gotta be kidding me. And I'm like, I feel like I'm almost there.
Denise:She's like, you are nowhere near where you need to be. But one thing is my nephew, he's eight years older than my daughter. And so when my daughter was about one years old, I remember he met her for the first time and he walked through the front door and my daughter looked over at him and she squealed at the top of her lungs and she ran to him and she held onto his leg and hugged him. And I remember my mom who is the Christian that doesn't believe in reincarnation, her response was my God, her soul remembers his. Yeah.
Denise:And when I had a reading in the past where they said, you know, you had a son that drowned. I get that a lot. You had a son in your past life that drowned. And I think about my daughter's bond with my nephew and I think about how my nephew does not like water. We could not get him to take a bath.
Denise:He would cry, he would squeal. We had to give him showers and when he was like two, three, four, five, six years old, like to wash his hair was a fight. So I look back and I think, you know, my nephew had to have been like a son of mine. Right? And so maybe you can talk a little bit about that.
Denise:Like, I want people to understand you can come back as a woman, a man, a child. I mean, I've heard stories of kids looking at a picture of grandma, and they're like, Hey, I used to be her mom.
Missy:Yep, yep. No, that's very true. The souls incarnate where the lesson matches the frequency. I have had experiences where I have done a past life regression. I'll talk about that maybe in a little bit, but I've had experiences, and so for me, I always feel like there's this past life, present life, future life going on.
Missy:There's like multiple timelines, right? It's not about life one, life two, life three. It doesn't feel like that. But what resonates with me is when I meet someone and there's a familiarity.
Denise:Do like- That's really cool. You think that there's like, we're having all of our lifetimes at one time, simultaneous?
Missy:Parallel timelines. If I meet someone and I feel like I've known them from somewhere or their face feels familiar or their energy puts me at ease, that's telling me that in the present moment, there's something about them that I may have previously experienced. So, you know, if you've ever had somebody say to you, You look familiar to me. I feel like I know you from somewhere. To me, that may be a past life soul contract that we had.
Missy:It's very possible that that could have happened, or maybe somebody triggers something in me and I'm thinking, where is this coming from?
Denise:Yeah. When I used to have those moments, I used to think that it was the blueprint that we're looking at before we got here, but I could totally see that also being a recognition through reincarnation. Like when my mom said, when my daughter squealed and grabbed my nephew, her soul remembers his, right? Per Christian mind, it was the blueprint. They remember from their soul contract versus reincarnation.
Denise:But I agree. I think that it falls under both categories.
Missy:And I don't wanna say that their energy is really familiar to me or that their face is real. There's just something. It's almost like a feeling inside that there's an emotional feeling that we connect. Connect on some sort of deeper level at that moment. So, here I am in the present life, and I'm connecting with this person on a deeper level.
Missy:To me, that speaks a little bit about a previous lifetime. So a reincarnation of something where I'm connected with that person that's deeply relational for me, that's also deeply emotional.
Denise:It's usually like a loving feeling. Like I try to think, like think of the villains in your life, right? Did you ever like meet the villains of your life and thought, Oh, this must be a past life something. It's usually something so loving. I remember auditioning for this movie when I was in college and I walked in and I saw the director and Missy, there was no I was like, I know you from like, how do you from New York?
Denise:He's like, no. I'm look so familiar. Do you know so and so? I'm like, no. And he's like, but did you go to this school?
Denise:And we sat doing that for a good thirty seconds trying to figure it out. And she became so important to me in my life at that time. And it was like a really intense two years of bonding connection, soul lessons. And then we kind of parted. But yeah, it's those moments where I don't think anybody that's in our lifetime now is brand new in our lifetime.
Denise:I feel like they've been there from the jump, the seven, ten lifetimes we had before this one or more. They're in your lives at a different capacity, whether you're my daughter, you're my husband, you're my ex, you're my sibling. Right. Right? But yeah, I love those moments where it's undeniable. You have to be a part of my past.
Missy:Yeah. I like how you said that we sat for like a half hour and we tried to figure it out.
Denise:Thirty seconds.
Missy:Yeah. Really worked with each other to try to find the recognition, Because that's what souls do. They look for the recognition in the other, and they try to find the connection.
Missy:We even do that just in our normal everyday life. When I'm doing readings here at the Center for the New Age, when I first meet somebody, I say, Where are you from? Are you visiting the area? Oh, I'm from Columbus, Ohio. Oh, I used to live in Columbus, Ohio.
Missy:Yeah, and I worked for Capital University way back when, and then we get talking. So I think our souls naturally look for recognition in other people, and I don't think that's a mistake. Yeah. When I was said before, it's not life one, life two, life three, life four, it doesn't follow linear. It's a web, right?
Denise:I find that fascinating when you brought that up. Can you talk a little bit more about that, your views on Yeah,
Missy:I don't feel like I go from one life and then I decide I'm gonna go live another life, and then I decide I'm gonna go live another life, I believe that it's all woven together. So the first life may be that I'm here to learn certain things, and then the next reincarnation is now I want to experience maybe those lessons on a deeper level, or I want to go into a different layer of what's going on. That's what I mean, and then the Not
Denise:a different life. You look at it as a different layer, so you don't Okay.
Missy:It's kind of like a different layer. Like I'm getting kind of deeper and deeper and deeper with each reincarnation. And remember, I also mentioned something about what I'm choosing to come here to do. Am I choosing abandonment versus being a part of something, being a part of a loving, guiding family, or am I reincarnating to now look at it on a different layer of, now what does it feel like to experience abandonment? Am I going to experience wealth where I have everything I need, or am I going to look at it from a different challenging view?
Missy:Now I want a life where I struggle more.
Denise:Got it.
Missy:I just look at it as not a continuation, one continuation, but just I'm adding layers to each reincarnation that I experience.
Denise:That's interesting.
Missy:Like, I don't want you to think I'm saying that it's separate. What I was trying to describe was that it's not linear. My feeling, my perspective is it doesn't feel linear, like one to the next to the next to the next. It feels like it's woven. It's a web, and it's just this continuation, but looking at each reincarnation from what do I want to be challenged?
Missy:How do I want to be challenged? You know, what other lessons do I wanna learn? How do I wanna layer this with something else?
Denise:Yeah, but I also feel like, you know, when you cross over, and I've had this through experience through mediumship, when people cross and they're like, yeah, I got work to do. Right? And they're over there and they're doing the work. I feel like there's a reprieve between incarnations.
Missy:Right.
Denise:And yeah, some people call it, you know, layers. Some people call it past lives.
Missy:Yeah. An easier way to say that is that I don't view reincarnation as a recycling program. Right? You're not recycling the same life.
Denise:No. Absolutely not
Missy:You're choosing, it's like consciousness choosing the new angles of experience. Maybe that's-
Denise:Yeah, but you're elevating every time. So there's that thing. There is something very unique and I still don't even really know how to explain it. So I've always had a recurring dream as a child where I am sitting on the top of like, not a dresser, maybe an armoire. It's a very weird thing.
Denise:And someone comes into a home and I'm like by the front door. And these people walk in and I don't know who they are. They have their bags and I'm observing them. I'm watching them. And to the left of the front door is this beautiful grand room and it's all white.
Denise:I even remember at one point the mom yelled at one of the kids get out of the white room. Right? And I'm and I'm watching them like have this experience in the home. And then I would jump down from the armour. And I would just follow them to the right.
Denise:I can see it very clearly to the right we go down there's this massive it's a very large home and you have to walk down these stairs. And then there's like the massive foyer and then you have to walk on the other side of the stairs to get to the other side. And I'm watching them like put their bags down and unpack. There is even one recurring episode where the husband or the dad, grandfather he's on in the bathroom and he falls. And he's like, Hey, I need help.
Denise:And I'm staring at him just looking at him from the bathroom door. And then I'll just like, wake up. This has been a recurring dream my whole life. I had it a lot when I was a kid. And I had it a couple years ago, not recently, a couple years ago. And I realized when I woke up that I am not jumping down. I'm actually floating down.
Missy:That's interesting.
Denise:And so I was like, wait a minute. Am I a ghost? They can't see me, but I can see them.
Denise:They're living their lives and I'm just walking around the house watching them. And I'm wondering why you're in my house. I was clearly a friendly ghost because I didn't mess with them, but I find that fascinating. So when I think about like reincarnation, I thought of that memory and what that means. Like when the spirit decides to be earthbound, we talked about, you know, earthbound spirits in our episode of spirits, ghosts, and heavenly helpers.
Denise:It just feels like I am remembering a past life as a ghost. For more of that sounds kind of crazy.
Missy:I don't think it does because I don't know if we mentioned it earlier, but what if we choose not to reincarnate? We could choose to not reincarnate and stay on the other side and we can become a guide, but aren't we in spirit form at that point, Right?
Denise:Yes. But a ghost is earthbound and I'm curious, I see.
Missy:Okay.
Denise:And I'm curious to know if rewatching them, like at one point does the ghost like, do I wake up one day and I'm like, you know what? I think I'm a freaking ghost, but most people can't hear me.
Denise:They can't see me. I'm not engaging them. They're not engaging me. It's like a recurring movie. And then maybe I say, you know what?
Denise:How do I get out of this? Where's the light? Right? I don't think that that was all in my head. Like I look back at, you know, they always say children are the most sensitive.
Denise:It's amazing that I had all these things happening under the age of 10. These dreams, these visions, the fever. Go ahead. You were gonna say something.
Missy:Every time you say fever, when I had a very high fever as a child, I remember my bed being up against the wall and laying on my right side and looking at the wall. I remember seeing charging elephants on my wall. Like they were coming along the wall, like at me and they were kicking up the dust. And I'd love to figure out kind of what that was.
Denise:And I like how it just, it hit you right now. Like we have these fleeting things. It's kind of like when someone's like, Oh, I don't know if it was a dream or a vision. Right. I remember moving into my home when I lived in Westchester second home and I never second home.
Denise:I'm just mean like that. I was in one home and then my parents moved and we moved into a new home. And I remember if my closet door was cracked open, I always had an uneasy feeling, always had an easy feeling. And I remember one night it was so bad. And I remember thinking, God, I can't believe I forgot to close my door.
Denise:And I now watch this. I thought at nine years old that I was envisioning a wolf at my bedroom door. Oh, wow. And this wolf was growling and showing its teeth staring at the closet. And I remember feeling like in my head as a child, like I'm envisioning this, this wolf, and he's protecting me.
Denise:And then I fell asleep.
Missy:Yeah.
Denise:So I can look back now as you get older and you start to understand spirit animals and things of that sort. I remember going to a class that, what's his name? Doctor. David Farmer, he's the spirit animal guy. He created decks and books and stuff like And I remember we had a partner, and we had to tell our partner what we saw as their spirit animal.
Denise:And the partner that I had said she saw a wolf.
Missy:Oh, wow.
Denise:It was her saying that that triggered that memory Yeah. Of this wolf protecting me when the energy was weird in the room. It's all how did we survive, Missy, all these years? Like, as children with this gift and not knowing it's a gift.
Missy:Yeah. I think that you were more aware of yours as a child. I didn't really have those experiences as a child, at least that I don't remember right now. The only memory I have is that I used to have a little imaginary friend, right? I wanted to learn how to play backgammon.
Missy:I love board games, and I wanted to learn how to play backgammon, but any time I wanted to play a board game and there was nobody around to play with, I would set up the board game and play both sides.
Denise:So Okay.
Missy:throw the Dice, and I all but I always felt that there was a presence there.
Denise:Mhmm.
Missy:You know?
Denise:I know a lot of kids that have imaginary friends, they can look back down, they're like, Yeah, nope, that wasn't imaginary.
Missy:Yeah, it really never felt imaginary for me. When I look back on it now, I can remember feeling the energy of what was there, and it was always kind. It would laugh. We would play. I my imaginary friend having a name, but I do remember it being a boy, and I think that's because I grew up in a family with older brothers.
Missy:I was the only girl. Growing up, I always had boys as my best friends. That falls in line because my brothers meant and still mean so much to me, but I look back on that now and I think a lot about how that made me feel. And so there was something very familiar to how I felt playing with Imaginary Friend. There was a lot of solidarity.
Missy:There was a lot of isolation. There was a lot of kind of being on the outside looking in, and I look back on it now, I know that that's coming from previous lifetimes, and that's coming from incarnations. When I did my past life regression, I was a young woman. One of the visions that I had through the meditation, through the hypnosis, was as a young woman, I got pregnant out of wedlock, and I wasn't allowed to even stay with my family in the town. It was a very, very small town.
Missy:Everybody knew each other, and I'm talking early 1800s, so I was sent away to kind of a It felt very much like a church, but it turned out to be an orphanage, and so I was taken in by this nun who took me through the birthing process, had my own child, and then raised that child as a part of the orphanage.
Denise:Wow.
Missy:But what my special skill was is that I had amazing healing abilities, and I was able to put together all kinds of elixirs, like mix this lavender with this rosemary with this oil, and create a salve to heal people. I was known as kind of this medicine woman, so I found a place where I could belong even though I felt isolated, but even as the medicine woman or this person that everyone would come to when they needed healing, I still felt very isolated or singled out. So I spend a lot of time by myself now, and not because I'm a loner, but it's sort of by choice. And so I feel comfortable in my aloneness.
Denise:I was gonna say that, like, maybe that's why you have a comfortability with that is because you're bringing that back from your past life.
Missy:Yeah, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that that past life of being moved from one place to the next, not really being accepted because of me getting pregnant, and then being a part of this orphanage where the nun took me in, and trying to feel a part of something but still not feeling a part of something, and then having this kind of special ability to heal people but still feeling isolated. Do I experience loneliness from time to time? Sure. Who doesn't? Who doesn't miss companionship and whatnot, but I'm okay when I have my alone time.
Missy:I like the quietness of it. I like the solitude of it, so no doubt in my mind that is a reincarnation. It's a past life of mine,
Denise:for sure. I love that. And I think that you will always see a little piece of a trait from a past life that comes in, right? I'm embarrassed to share this, but when I was 17 years old, my boyfriend in high school, I found out he cheated on me. And when I called him to confront him, he admitted it.
Denise:And then I hung up and I remember the first thing I thought of was like, how can I hurt him? And I meant physically, like not emotionally, not go date his friend. Right. And I remember Missy thinking, why am I thinking like this?
Missy:Yeah. Yeah.
Denise:I knew that that thought was crazy, but in my head, I was like, why would I even think that? I couldn't make sense of that. And I can look back, thanks to my daughter, letting me know that was a gangster. It came over from that. That
Missy:that the ruthlessness that you described earlier, it's not, How can I just get back at him and hurt his feelings? It's like, How can I physically hurt him?
Denise:How do I get rid of him?
Missy:It'll get really, really cold. No. I'm just kidding.
Denise:That's right. I'm gonna get me a weight and get a boat. Get a boat
Missy:and anchor.
Denise:Yeah. So I know we're talking about reincarnation, but I wanted to jump on that imaginary friend thing. My cousin had an imaginary friend when he was little and he would go to my aunt and say, when I get a cookie, Peter needs a cookie. And so she thought he was just being greedy. And so you get him and then she said, do you want a juice box?
Denise:And he's like, yes, but Peter wants a juice box too. So she'd give him a juice box. And then she said, and one day she realized that he stopped talking about Peter. She said, what happened to Peter? How come you don't talk about Peter?
Denise:You don't play with Peter anymore. And he said, Peter said he has to go. So he went back up into the sky.
Missy:Yeah.
Denise:I love these stories. I love Imaginary Friends stories because in my opinion, I think seven out of 10 of them aren't your imagination. I don't think so.
Missy:No. And I think the soul chooses experiences because it wants to expand. Yes. You know?
Denise:I agree.
Missy:It's like the soul is the student who keeps enrolling because it genuinely wants to grow. You know, as a medium, one of the things that I've recognized in doing mediumship readings is that as the soul makes its transition, the personality stays intact. They keep their quirks. They keep their sense of humor, right? That is who he is in that lifetime.
Denise:Yes. Yeah.
Missy:So I love that because that gets affirmed for me when I'm doing mediumship readings and I'm bringing through a grandmother who says, Yep, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink, and then they respond by going, That is exactly what she used to say. Or I'm sharing that your father is coming through, but as he comes through for me, he keeps kind of pulling on my earlobe. He keeps trying to trick me, and he's tapping on my one shoulder to get me look that way and he's over on the other shoulder, and then I find out that he was a prankster or that he was a trickster. That stays intact in the spirit world. I also have had experiences when I'm doing readings and I brought forward a pet that someone has lost, and then it'll quickly shift to maybe that pet talking about the new pet that they brought into the house.
Missy:What I've noticed sometimes is that there are similarities, especially with pets, where they have the same habits, they like the same food, they beg the same, and a lot of that, from what I've experienced, is that that animal enjoyed its relationship so much with their human that they wanted to continue that through another reincarnation as a different dog, so I've experienced that.
Missy:I'm not going to say that's going to happen for everybody, but that's just something I've experienced based on the mediumship readings that I've done when I've brought through pets, I'm like, Well, Tony, this dog Tony that came forward, he does this, this, this, and this, and he's showing me this on the other side, and then they'll say, Oh my God, my dog now is doing the exact same thing. So it gives people hope, but that's just something that I've experienced through mediumship, so that's one of the things I love about mediumship. It gives me different glimpses into the possibilities for reincarnation.
Denise:Yeah.
Missy:And I love that, and it's just a beautiful reminder through mediumship.
Denise:I love that. Anything else you want to share?
Missy:I think that it's a deep subject, right? Reincarnation is a very deep subject, I think that it was just important for us to share what our experiences were, and maybe some of those kind of turned the light bulb on for other people. I think the stories really help.
Denise:Yeah, and if you're interested in it, I mentioned Many Lives, Many Masters by Doctor. Brian Weiss. I can't remember. There's another book. I can only remember off the top of my head. Do you have any suggestions?
Missy:There's a book by Wayne Dyer, and it's called Memories of Heaven, and it's basically a love letter to reincarnation. So I think that's a really great source as well.
Denise:Yeah, that's a great one. All right, guys. Thank you so much for joining us. So before we wrap up, I'm going to just pull a card for the collective. I'm just gonna surround you guys with the white light of the Holy Spirit as we begin to do this poll.
Denise:What is it that we wanna share? I got the card that says communicate with your angels. Do not forget that heavenly beings are surrounding you. They are reaching out to you. They are communicating with you.
Denise:A lot of times they are talking and we don't realize it because we're so caught up in fear and worry. I remember very clearly when I thought spirit was only coming to me at nighttime and I told them it was creepy and I didn't like it. Why did they keep doing that? Their response to me was we are always here. You're just now finally shutting down your mind.
Denise:So I want you to keep that in mind. If you have to meditate, ground yourself, whatever it is that gets you in a sound mind and a place to listen, bring yourself there. Whether it's listening to music, whether it's meditating, whether it's cleaning up, tightening up in the house, you'd be surprised what it takes to shut your mind down so that you can hear the clear voice of spirit. Would you like to add to that, Missy?
Missy:Sometimes when spirit is communicating with you, it doesn't come like you're driving down the highway and you see the billboard that says, Hey, Denise, listen, we're trying to get your attention. Spirit will sometimes come through in very subtle ways. So don't always look for the grandiose signs, but when you're open, and Denise mentions being grounded, when you're grounded, then you can be more open, and then you're more likely to hear what you need to hear, feel what you need to feel, see what you need to see and know what you need to know. So don't look for the big signs, just be open to the subtleness and the way that spirits trying to communicate with you.
Denise:So I have a perfect example of that. It actually happened today. My daughter is supposed to be going on a date with a guy today, and I didn't get a good feeling about him. I actually got horrible feelings. I got feelings of someone being inappropriate, deceptive.
Denise:Even showed me he's capable of hurting her. And I remember saying, I'll call her in the morning. And when I woke up, I was thinking about it. And I sleep with, like, the TV on. And I said to Spirit, is it safe for her to go on this date?
Denise:And the person on the television said right after I had that thought, she's in danger. And I was like, that's it. That's all I need. I'm not gonna overthink it. I'm not gonna overanalyze it.
Denise:Right? Communicate. Ask the question. Don't expect how the answer's gonna come. Just ask the question.
Missy:That's good advice. We so appreciate you being here, and if you haven't given us a like, a follow, a share, we would really appreciate that. Also, any comments, we do have comments available for each of our episodes, so we'd love to hear from you. And if any of you are looking to connect and want to have a private reading, please feel free to reach out to me through my website, 3rd-eye-open.com. I do phone and Zoom.
Missy:Or if you are in the beautiful area of Sedona, Arizona, I do readings at the Center for the New Age.
Denise:And I am at divineguidance944.com. I do readings over the phone and Zoom. Alright, guys. Thanks again for joining us.
Missy:Until next time, guys. We love you.
Denise:Bye bye.
