20 Significant Signs of Spirit Communication
Medium and Author
CHRISTINE MARIE DUMINIAK
Author of "God's Gift of Love: After-Death Communications"
Back in 1998 I had just read my first book by a medium. It was James Van Praagh's ‘Talking to Heaven�?
I mentioned his fascinating book to a friend and said I was open the subject. BINGO!!
I said the magic words, for that very night is when my in-laws-in-spirit showed up in my bedroom, and stayed for an hour!! Wowee!!!
This eventually led me to establish a grief support board where others could come and discuss their after-death-communication experiences and to ask for prayers to receive one too!
What I have found over the years is, that prayers really do make a difference in getting an ADC (after-death communication). Our prayer group was getting a lot of ADC's and sharing them that I was led to write a book about their experiences.
Over time it became apparent that there were 20 significant ways, at least, that our loved ones can communicate with us.
By the way, an ADC, as defined by researchers Judith and Bill Guggenheim, is a spiritual experience, which occurs when you are contacted directly, and spontaneously, by a deceased family member or friend, without the use of psychics, mediums, rituals, or devices....
Most ADC's are subtle, so it is very helpful to know what the different signs are, in order to be able to recognize any sign that you may be receiving. And it is OK to ask for a specific sign in order to be able to recognize the sign as being an ADC when you get it.
HINT: If your first thought is, I just received an ADC, then go with it, and claim the ADC. Don't analyze it. Just enjoy it. For our loved ones will put the thought into our heads, that the sign was from them!!!
Why do they visit?
They visit to reassure us that they are OK; that they really do live on after they leave their physical body; that they can still see and hear us; that they watch over us and love us; that they are very happy being back at Home again with God; and that they want us to feel comfort and joy in our hearts when we receive an ADC from them.
Now here are some of the significant types of ADC's:
Dreams, visions, through pets, audio and music, telepathic thoughts, scents, touches, a presence, electrical manipulations, computers, phone calls, caller ID's, answering machines, objects being moved, gifts, coins, photos & pictures, butterflies, dragonflies, insects, birds, animals, rainbows, numbers, candles, God-incidences...
I will now go into more detail in explaining these.
1. DREAM VISITS: That are vivid and comforting. You will ‘feel�?you are actually talking to, or seeing, your loved one or pet.
If you are grieving, and the dream made you feel upset, sad, or ignored, this would not be an ADC from your loved one, even if it looks like them.
(God sends ADC's to comfort us.)
Ask for God's protection before you go to sleep every night, and you will see a more positive shift in those dreams. I personally ask for Jesus' protection, and this works very well for me.
If you do desire a dream visit, ask God each night to help you achieve it. Keep a pen and pad nearby to record your dream visit as soon as you start to wake up, so that you won't forget it when you are completely awake.
If you pray and mediate to God, this will put you in that ‘twilight�?state and gives God a chance to ‘talk�?to you. Your loved one may even come through in your mind's eye during this prayerful meditation.
So again, it is important to ask for God's protection before you start to pray and meditate, because this twilight state opens us up for different types of spirits to visit us. And it is important to do this during intervals of meditation too.
2.VISIONS: Seeing a loved one or pet in the room, or in your mind's eye. They may look transparent, semi-transparent, whitish or in full color. They may look like a photograph or a movie clip.You may see blinking white lights in your room, or cloud-like substances or silhouette shapes of people too.
You may see a loved one in the mirror, a window, or even briefly superimposed on another person's face!!! Seeing someone who looks like your loved one when you have been thinking about them, and needed to see them, is an ADC. You may even see a face in the clouds of your loved one, or others--like angels or a dove, etc.
3. PETS: Pets looking or staring, barking or meowing at something in the room that only he/she can see. Hearing your deceased pet's bark or meow, or a sound that is specific to them.
4. AUDIO & MUSIC: Hearing your loved one's voice…Hearing someone call your name "internally" inside of your head or "externally". Hearing a voice warn you of something.
A meaningful song being played in your head and you may even find yourself humming it for no particular reason. Songs suddenly being played on the radio, or by a DJ that are very meaningful to you.
A Morse code type of sound being tapped in your ear--yet you don't have a hearing problem! LOL!
5. GOD-INCIDENCES: ‘Lucky and amazing coincidences�?are really what I refer to as God-incidence, meaning that the coincidences or synchronicities are really special blessings from God in answer to your prayers and/or your loved ones prayers for you.
Your loved one may have helped in setting up the God-incidence for you.
6. TELEPATHIC THOUGHTS: Hearing your own voice speaking in your mind, but it is not your own thoughts. These thoughts will be strong and may be repeated for emphasis.
7. SCENTS: Unexplained scents or aroma of your loved one or flowers around you.
8. TOUCHES: Ticklish or a pressure type of feelings on your face or body. Your head being massaged or patted, or your hair being stroked (By the way, you can ask a specific loved one to touch the left side of your face, for instance, to let you know that it is them when you are feeling this).
9. PRESENCE: Sensing a strong or heavy energy presence in the room. Your ears may close up when you feel this presence. Feeling a breeze going by you, or a ‘cool-ness�?around you. Feeling a strong and sustaining chill going through you. Feeling a sensation of love and peace or electricity go through you. Sensing a sudden weight on your bed. Waking up at the exact time that your loved one has passed.
10. ELECTRICAL MANIPULATIONS: Lights, touch lamps, street lamps, garage doors, TV's and radios going on and off by themselves. The TV automatically channel surfing.
A clock, or watch, that has stopped at a significant hour.
11. COMPUTERS: Music and pictures being downloaded on your computer by itself.
E-mails showing to be sent by you, but you did NOT send them. Computer programs turning on, and running by themselves. Screen name of your loved one mysteriously showing up on your computer.
12. PHONE: Phone calls or messages left on the answering machine by your loved one.
Static on the phone, or answering machine instead of a voice. Numbers left on the caller ID connected to your loved one.
13. PHOTOS: Framed pictures on the wall of your loved one, falling off of the wall, becoming crooked, or if the picture is standing on a table, falling down flat, or a photo of them just showing up! White misty forms appearing in photos.
14. OBJECTS: Objects being moved, disappearing and reappearing. Objects you find that connect you to your loved one. Or the object is something that you have been seeking and you suddenly find.
15. GIFTS: Receiving an unexpected gift that the giver had no idea has special meaning to you! A gift may arrive on a special date to show you that your loved one remember you, even from Heaven.
16. COINS: Materializing out of nowhere. The coin ADC will get repeated. Sometimes it will have a significant year on it.
17. BUTTERFLIES, DRAGONFLIES, ANIMALS, BIRDS, INSECTS: who seem like they know you, or belong to you. It can be one or hundreds of them when they are around you.
18. RAINBOWS: that appear after you have asked for a sign from your loved one, or on a significant date.
19. NUMBERS: that have significance to you, that show up on license plates, sales receipts, food checks, etc. It may be your loved one's birth date, anniversary or date of passing that appears on these things.
20. CANDLES: flickering wildly when there is no breeze in the room, as if someone were trying to wave ‘hi�?to you. Candles being lit by themselves even!!!
Every time you talk to your loved one or even think about them, they ‘gets it�?instantly. So you can just keep on talking to them and they will love hearing from you this way. You can even write them too! they will get your message instantly as you write it.
You see our loved ones are still a huge part of our lives, even when they are back Home with God. This is a blessing from God that they watch over us and try to help us in our lives. They even pray for us too. So just keep right on talking to Them.
Can our loved ones hear our thoughts or should we talk to them out loud?
They can hear our thoughts, even, however, if they are busy doing a special job for God, it is helpful for them to speak their name out loud to get their attention.
Sometimes God sends them on important missions, and during that period of time, they may be using their full attention, and may not ADC us until their mission is finished. That is why sometimes we get a lot of ADC's, and other times it seems like a dry spell.
Why is it that some spirits are able/willing to manifest themselves physically (such as your ADC), while others communicate more subtly through telepathy or feeling?
It takes a lot of energy for the spirits to show themselves so visibly. So it just may be a lot easier for them to use some of the other ways that don't take so much energy. However, not everyone is gifted to see spirits this way.
The night that my in-laws showed up, I woke my hubby up and pointed to them, but he could not see them. Only I could. So it is a combination of factors, you see. Most ADC's will come in the dream state, because it is easier for the spirits to manifest themselves this way, and for us to see and hear them too, no matter if you have a gift or not.
Are our loved ones always listening for us to talk to them, do they know we have forgiven them for things that have been done?
Yes, they surely know that we have forgiven them. They can read our hearts, Hon. They very much appreciate it when we do forgive them. And this pleases God tremendously when we do forgive. As well as freeing you up from such negative feelings and emotions. If you have forgiven someone, that is wonderful and they do know this.
My heart is heavy as I now realize how many times I have had ADC and did not know it, but suspected. Does this mean my loved ones will give up on trying?
No way!!!! They are delighted that you now get it, They must be dancing for joy tonight!!! Hooray and alleluia!!! Look for them to repeat certain types of ADC's……they do this so you will ‘get it�?and then they branch out into other types of ADC's!!!
I worry to be calling loved ones away from their heavenly journey and entrapping them to this realm? Is that possible?
No, they follow God's direction, not ours. So keep on talking to your loved ones. They can be doing 2 things or more at the same time. This is part of the fun of being a spirit in the Heaven-lies!!! Keep on talking to them, for they love the communication.
How can you really tell it is contact, and not just your imagination?
Well, you will usually get a thought "I think this may be an ADC!"
You get that thought because they give you that thought, so you will recognize your ADC. Don't bother to analyze it, just enjoy it in your heart!!!!
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In 1998 Christine's deceased in-laws spontaneously visited her in her bedroom and stayed for an hour. They kept returning, as well as her father. These spiritual events led her to eventually write her afterlife book ‘God's Gift of Love: After-Death Communications.�?BR>
Christine has also established an Internet grief support and prayer website known as Prayer Wave For After-Death Communication. I have visited her site and I highly recommend it to you. What a wonderful place of comfort it is.
For more information on Christine Marie Duminiak and her work, visit her web site at http://www.geocities.com/adcfriends 
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