Exploring the Afterlife: Your Questions Answered
In this discourse, we delve into the profound and multifaceted inquiries surrounding the afterlife, extending an earnest invitation for our audience to engage with their most pressing questions, regardless of their perceived simplicity. The essence of our conversation hinges upon the acknowledgement of grief as an inherent aspect of the human experience, a truth we all confront at various junctures in our lives. By cultivating an awareness of our emotional responses during the grieving process, we aspire to facilitate a journey towards acceptance and healing, wherein we honor the memories of our departed loved ones while grappling with our own pain. Throughout this series, we shall explore the foundational principles that govern our understanding of grief, enriched by insights gleaned from both personal experiences and the narratives of others who have traversed similar paths. As we embark on this reflective journey together, I encourage you to submit your questions, as they will guide our exploration of the intricate relationship between grief and the afterlife.
As the episode unfolds, the speakers extend an invitation to the audience, highlighting the importance of community engagement in confronting the complexities of grief. They introduce a new series aimed at addressing questions related to the afterlife and the emotional turmoil that often accompanies loss. With a backdrop of personal anecdotes and professional experiences, the speakers articulate their intention to answer the pressing inquiries that individuals have regarding the afterlife, thus fostering a space for open dialogue around existential questions. This initiative not only aims to provide clarity but also seeks to create a supportive environment where individuals can share their experiences and seek guidance. The conversation underscores the necessity of addressing such profound queries, particularly in times of grief, thereby encouraging listeners to participate actively and voice their concerns.
Takeaways:
- The exploration of grief is essential for understanding the spectrum of human emotions, particularly during loss.
- Engaging with questions about the afterlife can provide comfort and clarity to those grieving.
- The process of acceptance in grief allows individuals to find meaning and celebrate the lives of lost loved ones.
- By joining our community, listeners can submit their questions and receive insights into the nature of existence and the afterlife.
- We are committed to addressing deep philosophical questions surrounding grief and the afterlife in our upcoming episodes.
- This podcast series will share insights from years of research and personal experience regarding grief and spiritual matters.
Transcript
If you've got questions on the afterlife, even if it's a question you think is stupid, then please connect with me and ask me those questions.
Speaker A:You'll be able to go to my site and send that in as well, or alternatively wait and see if I cover them or go into my community and do that.
Speaker A:That's my invitation.
Speaker B:Grief is a natural part of life and we all experience it at some point.
Speaker B:By becoming aware of our emotions in the process of grief, we can begin to accept and move through our pain.
Speaker B:Acceptance doesn't mean that we forget or stop feeling the loss, but it allows us to come to terms with it.
Speaker B:And finally, we can choose to honor our loved ones by celebrating their life and finding meaning in our grief.
Speaker B:Join me as we explore these Pillars of Grief and how they can help us navigate the journey of grief.
Speaker B:We will explore this journey together and you will hear from experiencers, experts and researchers.
Speaker B:I'm Joc Brokis and this is the Pillars of Grief.
Speaker A:And friends, this is Jock here from the Pillars of Grief.
Speaker A:And this is not, as you know, I'm not going to go straight into a little snippet and then into the main conversation.
Speaker A:I'm just going to jump right into it because this is an invitation.
Speaker A:It's an invitation to you guys who are listening out there to join me in some regular, an up and coming series, regular up and coming series that's going to happen every kind of two weeks.
Speaker A:And the reason I'm doing this is because of the amount of questions that I have had.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And if you wait until the end of this, there will be another invitation for you to come and join me privately to steer this by from your own thoughts and your own questions.
Speaker A:So I, in my life of, you know, working as a medium has been over two decades and my spiritual development has been more like, wow.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm 54 now, so it's been a lot of years since my young formative years spending time in the monastery with monks and priests and people on retreat and my uncle who was a monk.
Speaker A:So I've always had that kind of spiritual ground.
Speaker A:And I've always had big questions about the universe.
Speaker A:I've always had big questions about other things, you know, mysterious things.
Speaker A:And my experiences led me to go head to head sometimes with religion where I would be getting warned off or I would be getting told off for what I was doing.
Speaker A:And my experiences weren't supposed to be the experiences that a young boy should have.
Speaker A:But then I find my questions later in life never changed.
Speaker A:I Wanted to know what psychic ability was all about.
Speaker A:I wanted to know when these things were labeled later on in life.
Speaker A:I wanted to know what's the other side.
Speaker A:That was life.
Speaker A:When people were dying in my family, when friends were dying, and then when I grew up and lost friends from the military and people that were close to me and from all the losses that I've had, I've had these same existential crisis or these existential questions about the reality of existence and the reality of the afterlife.
Speaker A:And I have these questions that get sent to me on a regular basis.
Speaker A:People who watch my YouTube videos that then connect with me in my community or my group, who then maybe connect with me on Instagram and send me a message or connect with me from something.
Speaker A:They've.
Speaker A:If I've been a guest on another show, they've connected with me and they've asked me questions or they've just sent me an email, they've joined my newsletter, which I very rarely actually ever send out.
Speaker A:And it's something I really got to do and that's maybe something I'll talk about in the end.
Speaker A:They've always asked me questions about, is the afterlife real?
Speaker A:What is the afterlife like?
Speaker A:What happens when we die?
Speaker A:Can I eat in the afterlife?
Speaker A:My wife always last week and we laughed together because she loves.
Speaker A:There's a place in South Wales that we used to.
Speaker A:We were serving churches or anything in Wales.
Speaker A:We would then go to a place called Verdes.
Speaker A:And if Verdes is listening to this podcast at all, then big shout out to everybody in Verdes in Swansea, South Wales, because that's a place that me and Joanne used to go all the time.
Speaker A:We'd finish maybe in the church in the evening where we'd be taking a divine service, or we'd be serving when we were visiting from Scotland, and then we'd go straight down to Verdes.
Speaker A:And Verdes became very much a community place that family would go to.
Speaker A:And it's a phenomenal place.
Speaker A:And so the other thing is, because we loved this so much and my wife loved this so much, she would always say, you know, when we cross over to the other side, I'm going to go to the Athletic Verdes.
Speaker A:Because she wanted to still have her coffee on the other side and she wanted to still have her Verdisaze female tarot to form, although I don't think they do that anymore.
Speaker A:And that brings a certain level of comfort when you can imagine, wow, what might it be like when I say, can I actually do that?
Speaker A:And so I've been very lucky where you know, the many, many thousands of readings I've done for people over the years.
Speaker A:I've been lucky to be party to information from the other side that has kind of qualified and given evidence of what the other side is like.
Speaker A: m way back in the days in the: Speaker A:These insights that come through and the evidence that comes through from the other side of life telling us what it's like and experiences I've had with my.
Speaker A:Which a lot of you probably don't actually realize that I had a near death experience in a car accident.
Speaker A:Both my wife and I, we had a terrible car accident in north of Scotland where we should have passed and crossed over.
Speaker A:Cause it was a really serious one and our car was totally wiped off.
Speaker A:It was the big.
Speaker A:I mean I should go into a story about that at some other time.
Speaker A:It was actually reported in a magazine article and a spiritual magazine many, many, many years ago just after it.
Speaker A:I can't remember how it came about that way.
Speaker A:But you know, suffice to say, as you can see, if you're hearing me, then I'm still here.
Speaker A:I'm not coming from beyond and obviously you can see it.
Speaker A:So we survived that.
Speaker A:But I had a near death experience through that time and that gave me insight into the other side.
Speaker A:But there's obviously as well a negative aspect of it because you try to kind of.
Speaker A:I've said this to many of my colleague researchers, you try to hold on to that all the time.
Speaker A:And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to cover some of the greatest questions that exist on the reality of the afterlife and what it's like.
Speaker A:But I'm not just going to go into just simple questions like do we exist?
Speaker A:That kind of thing.
Speaker A:I'm going to go into really even more deeper philosophical questions, even spiritual questions based on the karma.
Speaker A:Everything that I've learned through my connection with the other side and through my readings, when it's come through, when I've actually sat with clients and evidence has come through that has been corroborated in some way for that individual.
Speaker A:And so what I want to do is to share these insights that I've had over the many, many years of me Developing and also working professionally and researching and the amount of research that I've done and continue to do, because I see that I still get the same questions.
Speaker A:I still get people contacting me every week asking me these questions.
Speaker A:And especially when it comes to things like suicide and what happen when someone commits suicide and so many loved ones.
Speaker A:And there's so much ignorance around that subject matter.
Speaker A:There's so much negativity based on dogma.
Speaker A:And I have many people that come to me that are suffering through that loss and their upbringing or their religious beliefs, which get challenged.
Speaker A:So it's kind of when they have an experience, they kind of go into what's called an ontological shock.
Speaker A:Their whole ontology, the change of the nature of reality changes and it kind of throws them off like a spiritual crisis.
Speaker A:So I have people that come at me that ask me loads of these questions all the time.
Speaker A:And so I think it's time now that I brought this into the pillars of grief.
Speaker A:So there's going to be lots of questions answered every two weeks.
Speaker A:I'm not going to say every week because I don't want to promise it every week.
Speaker A:If I can do every week, I will, but every two weeks I'm going to answer the question.
Speaker A:Now, this is your invitation because I would love you to join me and send me in the questions.
Speaker A:And if you're grieving and you're suffering through loss, you can join my private community.
Speaker A:There'll be a link somewhere where you can come in, join the private community and ask me questions directly in there, or list your questions in there.
Speaker A:Or alternatively, you can connect with me on Instagram.
Speaker A:Connect with me.
Speaker A:If you're watching this on YouTube, then obviously you can find out my website and you can connect me that way and answer these questions.
Speaker A:I'm also going to put a little survey form up on my website, chalkbrokers.com where you can ask the questions on this series.
Speaker A:And I'm then going to answer these questions as much as I possibly can with as much information as I can based on my experiences, based on my knowledge and research over the years, so that it helps you to make an informed decision.
Speaker A:I don't want you to come to it and think, well, he's right and he's only right, and that's it.
Speaker A:No, just you make an informed decision.
Speaker A:I've got a lot of experience and I want to kind of share it with you.
Speaker A:I have got already listed probably well over a hundred odd questions.
Speaker A:I'm not going to because it would take maybe actually probably even more is gonna be broken down into sections.
Speaker A:Now, there will be some of these will probably go into a little mini course or something that I'll have within my community where people can come and go more in depth into that.
Speaker A:But for the most part, a lot of these questions I'm gonna answer in each section.
Speaker A:In a philosophical section, a spiritual section, afterlife, a self, you know, section about the self.
Speaker A:I'm gonna go through all of these things and answer.
Speaker A:And there may be questions that you have that I haven't covered.
Speaker A:Now, even if I haven't covered it in my community, then there's a chance that you may have a deep burning question that's not covered then.
Speaker A:And maybe it's a combination of different things that you want to know so you can ask.
Speaker A:And then I will answer it.
Speaker A:And I'm going to answer it on the Pillars of Grief podcast, on audio, and obviously on video so that you can see and you can hear, you can get involved and you can get engaged with me.
Speaker A:So that's what I wanted to jump on today to announce.
Speaker A:Not a discussion about anything else or, you know, or any interviews.
Speaker A:I may even bring in some guests and we'll have a conversation around this.
Speaker A:I'm also going to share some of the private.
Speaker A:No, I'm not going to share private sentence, because I wouldn't do that, but I'm going to share the essence of what was learned and how the evidence came around so that you can learn that for yourselves and you can make a judgment.
Speaker A:So if you've got questions on the afterlife, even if it's a question you think is stupid, then please connect with me and ask me those questions.
Speaker A:You'll be able to go to my site and send that in as well.
Speaker A:Or alternatively, wait and see if I cover them or go into my community and do that.
Speaker A:That's my invitation.
Speaker A:If you want to come and join my private community, then you can do that.
Speaker A:That's where you can.
Speaker A:You can get access to me even more and you can ask those questions and I can bring them out.
Speaker A:I have got so, so many of them.
Speaker A:So much.
Speaker A:And I know that there's even more.
Speaker A:There's a lot more.
Speaker A:And even if you want to ask a question that's based on my book, Deadly Departed, about the dangers of the afterlife, and because, let's face it, ladies and gentlemen, you can't just think everything in the garden's rosy.
Speaker A:It's not all flowers and rainbows.
Speaker A:But we only know good because evil exists.
Speaker A:And we know the evil's there because we have an understanding of opposites and it's flu that you think that everything when you cross over is safe and I'm probably not well like that, but there is that potential.
Speaker A:So if you really want to learn about it and you really want to ask the questions that nobody's going to share with you, then do it.
Speaker A:I'm not going to hold back.
Speaker A:I'm going to share with you.
Speaker A:So hopefully that'll give you some great insight.
Speaker A:So I'm excited about this because this series is as well as other episodes and other things we're going to be doing, this series is going to run for probably the next six months to a year.
Speaker A:That's how much information I've got and how many questions I've already been asked that people are waiting for answers to.
Speaker A:So hopefully come and join me.
Speaker A:Starting from next week or maybe even this week, I'll bring the first question out and then every two weeks I'm going to answer.
Speaker A:I promise every two weeks I'm going to bring out one of these answers.
Speaker A:I'm going to answer them.
Speaker A:If I can bring it out every week.
Speaker A:I'm not promising, but I will to keep the momentum going.
Speaker A:So keep these questions coming in.
Speaker A:Guys.
Speaker A:Thank you for joining me today on Pillars of Grief.
Speaker A:I'm excited about this new edition that is coming up and also there's gonna be an episode coming up where it's about my up and coming research and I want you to join me there.
Speaker A:So if you're a person who has dabbled in psychedelics and has dabbled with that because of your grief, then I want to connect with you.
Speaker A:Wait until my next episode comes up and also hopefully I'll be having a chat with my colleague Dr. Pascal Michael where we will dive into this a little bit more and you can join us for some research.
Speaker A:So God bless, ladies and gentlemen, I really look forward to this new series and I hope that you do.
Speaker A:God Bless.
Speaker B:Thank you for tuning in to the Pillars of Grief with me.
Speaker B:If you found this podcast helpful, please consider subscribing so that you never miss an episode.
Speaker B:Also, leaving a review can help others find the show and receive the guidance they need on their journey through grief.
Speaker B:I appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing from you all.
Speaker B:Join my free online support community for those grieving and connect with others who.
Speaker A:Understand what you're to going going through.
Speaker B:I offer you a spiritual blessing and hope you will join me on the next episode.
Speaker B:Till then, open your mind and allow the power of the divine to transform your grief to spiritual realization.
Speaker A:God bless.
