After blogging last week on James Van Praagh’s views of the afterlife, I was asked by reader Azmina how she might contact her deceased husband. I have my own ideas, but on this I decided to consult my pal Sarvananda Bluestone, an author and psychic with considerable experience.

Bluestone says Azmina could locate a small object that still contains, even symbolically, some of the deceased person’s energy. Then she could ask for dreams about her husband while going to sleep with the object under her pillow. “Psychometry with just an article itself might also work,” Bluestone adds. “For example, take a ring and hold it, then close your eyes and see what comes. It’s one of those cases where the person needs to be as creative as possible.”

“All I can do is speak from my own experience,” Bluestone says. “A few years ago, I was in the midst of directing two plays with the Woodstock Youth Theater. I had bit off more than I could chew and was miserable. It was one of those times that I really could have benefited from a talk with my mom, who was one of the most incredible teachers. She had died seven years earlier and I was going up to her house on the anniversary of her death. On the way there I simply said to her in the car ‘what suggestions do you have?’ Instantly, two wonderful suggestions popped into my head. Were they from her? In one sense, absolutely. In another sense, who knows? I’m not exactly saying ‘ask and you shall receive,’ I’m saying ‘as the kingdom of God is within you so are those who have been with you and are no longer in their bodies.'”

Addendum: Since Chattering Mind’s mom died three and a half years ago, I’ve only “spoken” to her once. All I did was tune into the idea of speaking to her, and her voice came quite quickly to me. And do you know what she said? She blurted, “You wouldn’t believe how hard they’ve got us working here.”

But I do believe it. And I haven’t heard from her since.