Kristy Robinett - Journey to the Afterlife: Comforting Messages & Lessons from Loved Ones in Spirit

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Journey to the Afterlife: Comforting Messages & Lessons from Loved Ones in Spirit 2018 by Kristy Robinett.

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First e-book edition 2018

E-book ISBN: 9780738755472

Cover design by Shira Atakpu

Editing by Brian R. Erdrich

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Robinett, Kristy, author.

Title: Journey to the afterlife : comforting messages & lessons from loved

ones in spirit / Kristy Robinett.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications,

2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018014969 (print) | LCCN 2018022406 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738755472 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738752693 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Future life. | Spiritualism.

Classification: LCC BF1311.F8 (ebook) | LCC BF1311.F8 R6325 2018 (print) |

DDC 133.9dc23

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Dedication

To all of those on the other side who trusted in me to share their experiences in heaven, hell, and in between.

Contents

: Heaven

: Children and the Afterlife

: Terminated Souls

: The Ache of the Past

: On Heavens Timeline

: Believing

: Together Well Find Heaven

: Heaven Here, Heaven There, Heaven Everywhere

: Old Souls and New Souls

: Hell

: Theyll Find You

: No Visiting Hours

: What the Hell

: In Between

: Suicide and the Other Side

: A Ghost of a Reading

: The Surrender

: With Heavens Help

: A Vintage Find

: Ways to Cleanse the Energy

Acknowledgments

Since I could first start reading, books were my best friend, my escape, my excuse to cry, my outlet to laugh, love, and find adventure. I picked up a pen early on and began writing poetry and short stories, hardly sharing them except for a few assignments in English class. I have a learning disability similar to dyslexia. Instead of flipping letters around, I flip sentence syntax. In my mind I see it in the correct manner, but on paper or screen it reads like Yoda. It wasnt classified as a learning disability until I was in college. When teachers would ask or assign a paper on what I wanted to be when I grew up, I rarely hesitated to tell them I wanted to be an author. It was often met with criticism and an offer of another career direction. I was, however, determined to write no matter what, and so I wrote. I wrote for magazines and blogs and became a content writer for webpages. My gratitude goes out to Llewellyn for taking a chance on me, and Amy Glaser, who inspires me daily to reach for my dreams and who believes in me even after I have read, reread, and then read what I wrote out loud, only for it to still be Yoda-like and need to be corrected . And also to Brian R. Erdrich for helping to catch my mistakes, suggesting edits, and making me feel like a real author.

To the continued support and unconditional love of my husband, Chuck Robinett, and my children, Micaela Even Kempf, Connor Even, Cora Kutnick, and Molly Robinett.

To my dad, Ron Schiller, who keeps me laughing even whenfrustrated, and my mom-in-law, Mary Lou, who always has a story to tell and wisdom to give.

Love to my brother, Duane Schiller, and my sister, Cheri Ford, for dad-sitting when I have to go out of town.

Several years back a couple came to a library event I was presenting in. My husband and I met up with them afterward and theyve been our best friends since. Mikey and Marjanna McClain, our travel buddies, who so lovingly help us with events, late-night laughs, and constant adventuresI can only hope we have decades of more fun.

To Mary Byberg, my assistant and friend whos so patient with my clients and most of all with me.

To my best friends and confidantes: Gayle Buchan, Donna Shorkey, and Jenni Licata. Thank you to Colleen Kwiecinski and her mad Cooper sitting skills. Courtney Sieira for being the best hair counselor around. To Jan Tomes, Kathy Curatolo, and Ryan Sparks for their friendship and help with events. SUP.

And finally, I thank the thousands of clients and their loved ones on the other side who have touched my life more than I could ever eloquently communicate. For their stories and the connections that never get old. Everyday Im grateful and feel blessed.

Disclaimer

Although the stories are real-life occurrences, some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.

Introduction

Since I was three years old Ive had spirits visiting me, telling me their life and death stories, woes and celebrations. As much as I tried to shut down the afterlife lines, the connection was never broken. Now that Im in my, well, lets just say forty-somethings, that line of spirits continues. When I was younger I would throw the blankets over my head and wish them away, but today I listen to them. The line resembles the DMV on most nights, and there are times Im overwhelmed and overly exhausted with life, then come home and have to deal with the afterlife too. After resisting my calling for years, I embraced it and became a spiritual counselor to the living, along with the dead. To be honest, there are times I find the dead more fascinating.

I dont have the ability to channel like Whoopi Goldberg from the movie Ghost . To me thats just creepy, plus Im too much of a control freak to allow a spirit snatcher to do a takeover. I actually see spirits as if they are flesh and blood, standing right in front of me, the way they were before their physical body died. I communicate with spirits, typically telepathically, and I feel their emotions and the physical pain they felt in life. For the longest time I felt cursed being able to see, hear, and feel that which was beyond my own senses.

Fifteen years ago I decided to stop drinking the negativity and considered the connections as a blessing instead. I like to take a glass-half-full approach, and I am thankful that I didnt get the blessing where my face distorts and I start to talk in tongues. Im comfortable with admitting Im a scaredy-cat. If the spirits looked like anything Hollywood depicts as ghosts or spirits, I would more than likely not have embraced my gift at all. Seriously, Im the girl who has to keep a nightlight on in her bedroom, to the dismay of my husband, and although I lead paranormal investigations in the scariest of places, I have my flashlight and sage ready in case anyone jumps out at me. Just a side note on that: Im sensible and I know that neither the flashlight nor the sage will help me, but its my security blanket anyhow.