Familiar Scents of Our Departed

Our departed loved ones often use familiar scents as a way to communicate their presence in after-death communications. The difference it makes can be huge.
Joyce wrote:
“Last night while I was at work, I was doing walking rounds every 30 minutes in the facility. My administrator had explained extra rounds needed to be made due to some technical issues and I said, “Sure, no problem.”
“Well, I have always been a little uneasy with “Green Mile” the nursing wing that is not being used. That was the area I was walking around my whole shift.”
“Around 2am the CNA (Certified Nurse Assistant), who was willing to tag-a-long with me said, “Do you smell that? It smells like soap!” To which I replied, “That smells like Irish Spring soap, doesn’t it?! She then asked me, “How do you instantly know what that smell is?
“Because Gordon’s favorite soap was Irish Spring!” “He’s still here. He’s around you, Joyce. He knows you’re sad and miserable. He’s sticking around because he’s worried about you.” “I’m telling you, that smell of Irish spring almost brought me to my knees.”
The smell of roses

The smell of roses Photo credit: Iffany/Pixabey

Commentary- The sudden smell of roses is said to indicate the presence of angels. Whereas, some claim there is a particularly bad smell associated with dark spirits. True or not, when we notice a scent that is unusual in the moment and/or there is no explanation as to its origin, it truly does make one wonder.

Joyce’s case is pretty clear cut. For instance, if a departed loved one wants to get our attention, they will do something that will get our attention. Joyce was asked to walk rounds in the unused medical wing. Now being unused, it would be very quiet with almost no distractions. That’s a great place to get someone’s attention.
Next, Joyce was joined by a medical assistant on her rounds. Now, this not only increased the chance that Joyce’s anomaly doesn’t go unnoticed, but serves as a witness to the strong scent that was difficult to miss.  
When the assistant noticed the scent, immediately it was registered in her awareness of something that did not make sense, given that they were there, alone. While we are busy at work, thinking, doing tasks, we might vaguely notice something low on our radar, but because we are preoccupied, our brains drop the issue as unimportant, out of the necessity of priority.
However, on this occasion, it was early in the morning and in those vacant halls, while their guard was down, it was easier to detect the anomaly. Joyce’s beloved, used this moment to get her attention. The assistant was there to make sure it was recognized and validated as the shout out that it was.
It is also common that the scent is something that relates directly to the one who is sending it. It could have been the smell of a cigar, grandma’s face cream or the scent of a favorite dish mother used to make.
Irish Spring was a dead give-a-way as Gordon’s scent because it was thoroughly associated with his favorite soap. And yes. Absolutely, he was successful in getting her attention. But not only that. He wanted to share his love and concern for her by revealing that he is still with her. 

My Telepathic Orb Experience With Mum

In this after-death communication, Jon receives a visitation from his mum, in a telepathic orb appearing to give him an important message from the afterlife.

Jon writes:
“Sadly, Mum, Valerie, passed away on a Tuesday night, the 7th of Nov 2023. The next day, my sister contacted a funeral company. Early Thursday morning, on the 9th, Mum contacted me.
Yes, that’s right, just over 36 hours after she passed away!”

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Are You Still Here?

In this after-death communication, Bill hears his departed wife’s favorite song repeatedly as a reminder that she has not really departed after all.

Bill writes-
“My wife loved music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. One of her favorite groups was ABBA. She especially loved the song, Dancing Queen. On several occasions, when feeling depressed and missing my wife, I would think about her and suddenly the song, Dancing Queen would play. Here are a few examples of such occasions that come to mind.”

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Seeing Our Departed Loved Ones

Of all the desired after-death communications one could receive, seeing a departed loved one in the physical realm again, is desired above all.

Since her beloved husband, Art, passed, Sally has been no stranger to after-death communications from him. Each one delighted her in ways that only a visit from Heaven can. What Sally really wanted more than anything though, was to see Art again in her physical world. A tall order for most of us, as well as our departed to achieve.

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Music From the Afterlife

With songs from beyond, Don has begun singing daily to his sweetheart, Judy, of 61 years past, when their upcoming date was interrupted by his death.

Judy writes:
“Don, the man I was falling in love with goes back over 61 years. He last phoned me, and said, “Judy, I love you.”  We made plans for a date that same night. Tragically, he was killed before we could keep our date.”

“All these years later, I hear music that I believe he is sending to me. Sometimes I am with other people, and I am the only one who can hear the music. Usually, “Judy, I Love you” is part of the music, although the tunes can be different, sometimes very fast and sometimes slow.” Continue reading

Sensing a Spiritual Visitation

In this after-death communication, Bill shares some examples of being alerted to a spiritual visitation, through sight, sound and smell.

Bill writes:
“I found your site in my own quest for answers to my grieving, having
recently lost my wife of 34 years.”

“My wife lost her father at a young age. She would always tell me about
the day after her father passed. When she was laying asleep in her bed,
suddenly, she was awakened by the smell of pipe tobacco. She looked
up, and standing in the doorway to her bedroom, was her father. Her
father smoked a pipe. She told me, that he said to her, “Everything
will be alright. I’m okay.” Then, he vanished.” Continue reading

Loneliness After Loss

Among all the stages of grief, probably the hardest part is the loneliness. The vast missing of a beloved seems to extend forever in all directions for a time.

Art and Sally

Art and Sally were married for 54 years. When Art, suddenly passed away just over a year ago, It broke Sally’s heart. Since then, Sally has been grieving and missing her husband terribly.

Throughout their marriage, Art loved to take care of things for Sally, inside the house… and out. He was very handy, capable and could fix just about anything.

In the warmer months, you could see Art outside, wearing his sun hat, either on his tractor or physically working in the yard around the family house they built for themselves. In fact, he liked hats so much that when they would go on any adventure, he would buy a baseball hat as a souvenir. Continue reading

Knock Knock. He’s there!

In this After-death Communication, Marie is visited by her beloved husband, with a series of knocks on her window, on two separate occasions.

Marie writes to me:
“In April of 2023, my dear husband of 45 years, passed away suddenly from a fall in our garage. I found him, and was so sad I wasn’t there to help. He wasn’t sick. He had a vibrant life. He loved flying and was training for an aerobatics competition, and still had a beautiful head of blonde hair!”

“The day he died, there was a large white egret (water bird) in our tree. We live in the desert.”

First occurrence,
“A few months later in June, I was sitting in the family room with our dog. I was still very sad. There were two gentle knocks on my window. I thought I was hearing things. Then, there were three knocks on my window. Puzzled, my dog heard those, he got up ran toward the window and stopped.” Continue reading

Perfect and Whole in Heaven

In this after-death communication, Lisa’s parents come for an interesting visit that leaves no doubt of their spiritual visitation into her realm.

Lisa writes:
“I’d love to share a wonderful visitation dream I had back in June of 2022. It was extra special because this time, both my mom and dad visited me in my dream. The dream took place in our country home where we once lived together. We hugged and kissed one another. The love was such a comfort to me. I was so happy to see them both together.”

“Lately, I had been cleaning out a storage unit in which I kept the contents of my parents’ home. In the visitation, they both knew this and actually told me that they knew I’d been sorting through things to sell at a yard sale. My mother was thrilled about this. She had always told me not to keep everything.” Continue reading

When Heaven Comes to Us

In the last nine days of her brother, Joseph’s life, Marijo and her mother experience a preview of the heaven that awaited their loved one.

Marijo writes:
I was very blessed to experience a beautiful shared-death experience with my younger brother in July of 2021.

Just 8 days prior, he made the decision to pass peacefully in a hospice facility. His body had completely been wrecked by his progressive auto-immune disease and a pathogen found in his lungs after a bout of Covid. His physical body was in failure and he was working with a body that could no longer fight.

For nine days, my mother, Toni, and I sat with him. My mother’s worst fear was he would die alone. My fear was she would be alone to watch him pass. As other family came in and out, we left the room for brief periods to eat, rest, shower, and pray. Continue reading

Communication with our Departed

When Carol wonders if the conversations she is having in her head with her departed son, Kyle, are real… she puts it to the test.

Carol writes:
My son, Kyle, passed in May of 2020 at the age of 40 from an accidental overdose. I began having “conversations” in my mind with him a few months later. I was skeptical though, and wondered if it weren’t just my wishful thinking.

So one night I said to him: “Kyle, if it’s really you, send me a different sign right now – that will make me laugh and will be unmistakably you!” No more than a second later, my phone dinged – it was a text from the next door neighbor.

Now, first of all, I never get texts from her – let alone at 10PM! Second, she had been a very nasty neighbor. Kyle, his dad, and I used to joke about misfortune befalling her, e.g. “I hope her tree blows down”, I hope her roof leaks” etc. We would never actually do anything but we did joke about it a lot. Continue reading

You’ll Never Walk Alone

As Linda’s perception shifts, so does her pain level. Scarcity thinking is so common in humans that we barely even notice. Notice though. It makes a difference.

Linda writes:
I have been very blessed to have received several after-death communications of various kinds from my beloved soulmate, Thellis, since he transitioned 2 years ago on this very day.

Three of these after-death communications have been documented on Jade’s website.
Visitations Through the Portal, The Power of Sheer Will and The Medicine that is Hope.

In The Medicine that is Hope, I experienced the appearance of a flock of mourning doves in the dead of winter on a snowy morning. It came at a point in which I was so profoundly despondent. I thought that I surely could not survive his being gone and had asked that he please give me a sign of his presence. I had specifically been asking to see a mourning dove, his favorite bird. I also knew this was ridiculous request to be making in middle of winter in Vermont. Continue reading

“Shedding Light on Trauma”

A Tribute to Beloved Christian, new personal challenges on the horizon and the “Shedding Light on Trauma” modality, all tied together in one post
Our Beloved Christian

It was on March 31, 2010, that Christian suddenly left this plane. When I think back now, I remember the severe pain and trauma created from his death and what it brought up for me.

At one point, the pain was too deep to describe. My grief had no language yet, to express what I had suddenly been bombarded with. This is a thing, for sure. With so much bombardment, the brain gets scrambled in many different directions. These are some very challenging times without the words. But eventually we do find them again. Continue reading

A Heartfelt Plea for Unity

Lisa’s beloved mother, Mimi, once visited her daughter in a mind-blowing after-death communication. Then came, Mimi’s next visit.

Lisa wrote:
“Years ago after my mother passed, you posted the extraordinary after-death communication I had with my mother, called, Mimi’s Heaven. It really rocked my world back then. Well, recently, my mother came back to me in a visitation dream that was even more profound. I’m excited to share it.”

“As with my last experience with my mother, again, she took me through time and space, stopping briefly at nebulas and star clusters to view their glory. This time she reaffirmed to me that God had created all living things, all creatures big and small.” Continue reading

The Power of Sheer Will

The power of sheer will is a real one. As a Hospice Nurse, Linda realizes this when she prevents her patient from dying on the toilet.

Linda’s experience as a new hospice nurse

It was in 1995 when Linda began working as a new hospice nurse. One of her first home visits was to take care of a man who was dying from cancer.

In his younger days, he was a handsome, well-educated bank executive who was fastidiously groomed and very sophisticated. When he was up and around his home, he was impeccably dressed. Although he was terminally ill, representing himself well in public was still important to him. Continue reading