Life with the Afterlife Quotes

“The idea of crossing someone over or telling a person to “go into the light” has always seemed dismissive to me. We’re not listening to them, we’re not trying to help them, we’re just walking in and telling them what to do. Why do we have the right or the power to decide that for someone else?”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“We also had a spirit box running, which is a modified radio that amplifies paranormal voices.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“Like me, Sarah believes that sifting through what isn’t supernatural makes finding that 1 percent where it truly is beyond the veil all the more meaningful.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“I also think it might be possible that we’re causing this activity to spike because of the pervasive fear and anxiety we are experiencing during the coronavirus crisis. To me, what’s happening right now is almost like one massive intention experiment. There are billions of people right now in a perpetual state of anxiety and stress, and all of that energy adds up. People have died alone. People have lost loved ones and not been able to gather with family to say goodbye. The elderly, isolated in nursing homes and care facilities, have not been able to see their families in what could be the last months of their lives. Others, working on the front lines, have gone into work every day knowing they are putting themselves and their families at risk, but they have no choice but to go.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“Every voice is as valid as the next in this conversation about the afterlife. It started long before us, and it will go on long after we’re gone.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“So when a scientist tells you it’s just a coincidence, the scientist is literally telling you, ‘I have no idea why that happens.’ It’s not an explanation. It’s their way of saying we don’t know.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“People tend to hold on to items like their family rosary beads, he believes, because of the energy and intention their owners infused in them. “They are constantly putting energy into that piece of jewelry: wishing for things, praying for things, focusing on things. They hold a lot of energy, and when they are passed down to generations, that’s why people keep them.” “My granny’s Bible,” Adam said. “I know she spent time and energy reading it, writing in it, and holding it. If you could go and pick that Bible up and sit long enough, I believe that you could feel it. They’re there with you.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“Our speculation is that Terry came to the school because it had been investigated more since the new owners purchased the building. Adam and I have a theory that when people investigate a spot frequently, it attracts more ghosts, because that spot becomes like a beacon for them. Terry may have been one of those drawn in.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“Chip Coffey makes a specific distinction between spirits and ghosts. In his view, spirits are entities who have moved on to whatever is next, and who choose to come back from time to time for their own reasons, whether that’s to visit loved ones or take care of something they feel isn’t totally resolved. “The essence of who we are is our soul,” he said, “and our soul at time of death leaves the body. That energy is released. And because free will isn’t completely eradicated at time of death, you have a choice to make. Do you, for whatever reason, choose to not complete your transition to spirit or do you make that transition into spirit?” Those that don’t make that transition are what he calls ghosts.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“(You could also be dealing not with the conscious spirit of a person, but with residual energy that doesn’t have consciousness anymore. John calls that “a recording of a person.” In that instance, no amount of talking will help because the entity can’t understand you.)”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“I’d recommend titles like ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Parapsychologist’s Handbook by Loyd Auerbach and Communicating with the Dead: Reach Beyond the Grave by Jeff Belanger”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“almost every instance, the ghosts there aren’t trying to frighten you. They are people trying to communicate the best way they know how, using the limited resources they have.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“When it comes to talking to spirits, “I think the word is ‘acknowledgment.’ Maybe they’re imparting information that no one has ever acknowledged from them, or a message they haven’t been able to get across.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“I believe it’s all about energy and intention.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“Those restless spirits want to be heard. They need to be heard. And those of us who are lucky enough to get to talk to them have a responsibility to listen, really listen, and not just try to treat them like an evening’s entertainment.”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

“was raised to be receptive to the idea that there are things in the universe we can’t easily understand, and I was never told I should be wary of them. This paved a path of weird and wonderful possibilities”
― Amy Bruni, Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts