(A Hospice Patient’s End-of-life Dreams and Visions)

End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) have been studied in hopes to better understand the soul’s transition at death. Generally more prevalent as the patient near’s death, the above are regarded as universal psychic phenomena providing a greater sense of peace and understanding for the dying and their loved ones.

Able to now better discern my own ELDVs, they’ve provided a more acute comprehension of death as a natural progression in the greater scheme of things. Even before my diagnosis and surgery, I dreamt of conversing with my younger son. Preparing to leave the discussion, I felt a portion of his energy — like flexible strands of gold or, perhaps, rubber bands, go with me. I knew, then, that all of us really are spiritually connected.

In March 2021, I was admitted to the local hospital for emergency colon resection surgery. So it was that I dreamed, almost immediately following my surgery, that I was walking from the Pacific Avenue downtown area of Santa Cruz onto what seemed like the Soquel Bridge crossing over the San Lorenzo River. Or, was it actually some ethereal bridge crossing some dream-inspired river? As I recall the details more clearly, I’m not certain.

To my amazement, other people on the bridge; each accompanied by a male lion, walked behind and in front of me. Mesmerized by the beauty of the lions’ manes flowing in the sea breeze and yet, at the same time, startled by their formidable presence, I eventually decided they posed no immediate threat to me crossing the bridge.

Just then, one sauntered up to me; flanking my left side and walking in lockstep. Eventually I realized its purpose — that it was a Psycho-pomp: an escort for those who’ve recently passed over. With each step I was becoming increasingly anxious as I questioned my actual purpose being there. Then, I saw a translucent image: the soul of someone who’d been walking ahead of me, suddenly rise up and disappear into the night mist. Realizing that this apparent span of death — this bridge over the River Styx, meant a true transition; that reaching the other side was a crossing from this world to the next, I turned and ran off the bridge. Screaming all the way. I remember being so frightened that my soul would also be taken.”

“It wasn’t your time! That’s all! The dream seemed to be describing a near death experience. You never reaching the other side of the bridge is symbolic for your successful recovery from your heart surgery, my darling!” comforted hubby, Kip.

Throughout the next few months, I spent the warm and sunny summer days fairly symptom free. Around Thanksgiving, though, I began experiencing severe abdominal pain. Increasingly reliant on more strong pain medication, I’d received the medical report showing the cancer had metastasized to my chest, pelvic and abdominal areas. Throughout all of this, the family had been preparing emotionally for the worst.

After visiting with me one Saturday afternoon, my son, his wife and their children returned to their home in the San Jose area. That evening I experience a powerful dream. It showed a fire burning near my childhood home in Southern California. Just to the right of this daunting scene, I saw my grandson holding me — blessing me and mourning the fact that I would soon be transitioning from this plane of existence.

That energy of concern and loving-kindness then burgeoned into a love with seemingly no beginning or end. Enveloped by this Universal ALL-LOVE, my fear of death completely vanished. I truly was, as Kuan Yin explains, in “Oneness and Bliss”.

Later, I recalled another dream I’d had about two months earlier. I seemed to be in what might be called the City of Marble and Gold. There, I traversed through doors of gold to palatial rooms where the floors and columns were crafted from the finest of marble.

Rushing towards the buildings’ exit; like a child ecstatic with joy and anticipation, I seemed to be following some urgent and mysterious instinct that would eventually lead to some unknown rendezvous.

Discovering myself in the outside parking lot, I wandered about for awhile. Noticing that it was filled with people dressed in their finest for some kind of celebration, I searched for someone to take me home.

Encountering two children, I realized these were my grandsons as they appeared when very young. Thus, this was a realm where space/time behaved quite differently. It was then I realized this impressive gathering was actually a celebration for my soul calling me home; my passing from this life to the next!

“Being human is the most important thing in your existence. Your existence is eternal. This phase of your soul is so important because you learn so much in human form. This is where the individual’s ‘spark’ of existence can expand into bigger, more powerful energies…Some energies are not as potent. The only way to develop a potent energy is to spend an existence on the earth. There, one can develop a compassionate nature so that when passing onto other dimensions, one can be of help. When one leaves one’s earth body one will need to fully understand compassion to be helpful, effective. On earth, you are encapsulated in flesh. No soul is forced into an assignment upon the earth. Instead they go to their ‘rightful space’. When you leave here you have a lot more power. It won’t be ego-based power. Rather it will be beyond ego, beyond ‘good and evil’. In fact, ‘evil’ is just a label as everything is intermixed. The pendulum just appears to swing back and forth.” ~ Kuan Yin

From the book: Birth and Rebirth by Hope Bradford

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q1MPC8V

Explaining the sequence of how one’s expansive or limiting thought-forms can gain enough mass to create distortion’s in one’s three-dimensional reality is the following dream story told by a hypnosis client:

Feeling the substantial weight; hearing the loud thud of some tightly coiled nightmare serpent as it had seemingly landed squarely upon her shoulders, this woman was instantly awakened. Her intense discomfort concerning the shouldering of some ideological and/or emotional burden had solidified enough to transition from her Theta (dream) Periodicity into her Beta, (waking) reality.

An example of how human consciousness is inextricably intertwined with the universe, having heard the moaning of a foghorn just prior to an actual earthquake, a former client, Dory, who’d lived nowhere near a lighthouse at the time, correctly interpreted this alarming sound as a warning from her subconscious. After all the commotion of the earthquake had subsided, she assumed her epiphany was a one-time event and quickly forgot about it.

Only after hearing a series of unusual sounds corresponding to otherwise unknowable events, however, did she realize that some (as yet unidentified) aspect of herself possessed an uncanny ability to consistently warn her of impending danger.

Three days before the infamous Loma-Prieta Earthquake, my husband and I were driving towards our home in Santa Cruz County when a deer, from out of nowhere, ran directly into our Volkswagen Bus. As fast as it appeared, the deer ran off towards the creek area that meandered through the area near our house. Immediately pulling over to the side of the road, my husband got out and inspected the vehicle. On the passenger side was a dent with a small spot of blood on the car. As this event occurred quite close to a freeway on-ramp, it was very unusual for a deer to come this close to the freeway and also during daylight.

Approximately a year before the Loma Prieta Earthquake had actually occurred, I had an interesting dream. I was sitting in what I knew was a Shamanic Circle around a camp fire. It appeared to be some kind of spiritual training group, as each soul practiced directing the energy of their intentions. In this particular example, they were zapping green blobs of apparently malicious energy.

(Oftentimes, psychics can detect these blobs as in the following account by Lena Lees: “I’m experiencing a thick and heavy karmic fog, globs of hate, revenge and murder. Kuan Yin is demonstrating how powerful loving kindness can be: that it can disintegrate even this, the darkest of energies.” Thus, someone’s seemingly justified anger can gather (as like attracts like) with other similar sentiments, forming and perpetuating these negative energy globs — energies that can only be healed by loving-kindness.)

In my waking life, my left shoulder had been bothering me for several weeks. Somehow aware of my discomfort, the leader of the group suggested that I send (with my focused intention) healing energy down through that shoulder and then down my left arm. Feeling the new, transformative energy traveling throughout that part of my body, I then realized the pain had changed into raindrops that were now dripping onto the earth from the tips of my fingers. Fascinated by my ability to transform the discomfort into raindrops, I suddenly heard and felt (from within my dream), the violent shaking and rattling of my bedroom window. Alarmed and awake, I had the reaction of someone living in earthquake country. Calling to my husband in the kitchen, I said: “Did we just have an earthquake?”

Hearing him answer “No!”, I instantly knew that my dream event was precognitive — a precursor to an actual earthquake; that the threatening green-blob thought/energy forms had gained enough mass; having the potential to form into an actual earthquake. Additionally, I believed that while sitting in that the Shamanic Circle, I’d met formerly unknown members of my Celestial Family who would further advise me on the impending catastrophe.

The actual event of the Loma Prienta Earthquake, occurred a year later, almost to the day. I remember the intense shaking; how the leaves fell like snow from the trees. I also recall my fear (and somehow exhilaration) as I felt the earth shift beneath my feet. It was if I was being reminded of some intense personal shift!

From the book: Birth and Rebirth

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The inspirational, though challenging, process of chronicling Kuan Yin’s teachings and pastimes for the book Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin now complete, I knew the Kuan Yin spiritual teachings could now be released to the world.

At some point during the ongoing Kuan Yin spiritual visitations, it was revealed that my encounter, and hence relationship, with Lena Lees was integral to the Kuan Yin trance-channeled material: “Hope, Kuan Yin sends you bands of energy. The bands look almost like the Milky Way, where nebulae are constantly born. She sends these bands through you so that the wisdom can be spoken by me,” explained Lena. “We’re a team. I can’t do this without you!”

“People want to know why I chose Lena and Hope to bring forth my message of loving-kindness to the world. It’s alchemy! Lena and Hope’s combined energy creates an open channel that I can manifest through. It is very rare in the world. It doesn’t matter what nationality a person is. I can go wherever I want. I come to them because they are receptive.”~ Kuan Yin

Having once again achieved her trance state, Ms. Lees went on to describe a most exquisite Gateway to Truth: “It’s very interesting how Kuan Yin will manifest gifts for me. She has created a beautiful marble entrance-way that sits on a beach that I now can go through. Peering through this magical portal, I see Kuan Yin riding on a dragon. She is having such a good time! I hear Kuan Yin say, ‘Come sit with this energy for awhile. It is an All-Knowing energy. There’s so much beyond an earthly existence; when we leave our bodies. There is much work to do in these realms. There are so many souls that need help. I’m just asking you to send my message about this All-Knowing, limitless energy. Most people don’t have the opportunity to experience this energy while still in a human body. Don’t you know Lena that you can come here anytime?’”

Highly-venerated deity of the Chinese Pantheon and known by perhaps millions, throughout the ages, Kuan Yin has periodically appeared and spoken to villagers throughout Asia. Spreading comfort and wisdom, She is the embodiment of compassion and mercy. Consecrated ground, Kuan Yin’s sacred sites are considered her abodes. Because of their purity, these locations are also designated as Her pilgrimage sites and places of worship.

Also known as Avalokiteshvara, Padmapani, Chenrigzi, Shadakshari, Water, Moon Goddess, and Deity with a Thousand Eyes, Kuan Yin has been worshiped at temples, pagodas and shrines throughout the world as both a male and female deity.

Well into the transcribing of the Kuan Yin material, a curious event occurred at my house. Inviting a close friend, Susan, over to see my remodeled dining room, I was delighted to visit with her once again. Showing her a Kuan Yin painting I’d just completed, we sat on the couch, having tea and visiting together. It had been a while since we’d seen each other, so we had a lot of catching up to do.

Preparing to leave, Susan pointed excitedly towards the dining-room window, exclaiming: “Look! Just beyond the window! I see Kuan Yin! She’s telling me you’re to construct a grotto with a painting of Her inside, right out there in the garden.”

Then regarding me intently, Susan asked, “Are there really such things? I mean stone grotto's containing paintings or sculptures of Kuan Yin?”

“Oh yes,” I replied. “They’re quite common in the East. There are roadside grotto's where people come to worship and pray to the Goddess.”

“I know it’s really Kuan Yin because I see Her many arms,” relayed Susan, excitedly. “Can’t you see the hair standing up on my arms? That’s how I know this is happening to me; that what I’m witnessing is really true!”

Some might question the concept of Kuan Yin as a “Living Essence” or the authenticity of the Kuan Yin teachings— that She Who Hears the Cries of the World is otherwise mute. They might regard this ancient Buddhist deity as non-sentient — only a stationary symbol of an ideal way of life. During the following manuscript excerpt, the Bodhisattva would beg to differ:

“My whole existence is based upon love and compassion. I will be sending my message of love and compassion long after you, Lena, leave your body. I am eternal. Eternal! It is humorous that people regard me as only a statue. Why would I come to earth as only a statue? My statue is there to remind people of my Living Essence! If you pray to me, I will come! I won’t pressure anyone to love or worship me. They have Free Will…

Make your home beautiful and decorate it with crystals. That is the way I can come into your lives even if you are not aware of me as a deity. It is a way for me to dance a little; to be playful. I love to be playful. There are rainbow prisms that emerge from crystals hanging in a window. I am the rainbow prisms dancing around the room. It’s my favorite way to appear in the material world. Decorate your windows with crystals and you will see my living, moving manifestation.” ~ Kuan Yin

From: Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KF2FBGW

https://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Compassion-Living-Word-Buddhism/dp/B09KDYMG77/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

“Kuan Yin Buddhism: The Kuan Yin Parables, Visitations and Teachings” ©2019 Hope Bradford
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What if you had, at your full disposal, a vast resource of possibilities? Well, if you believe my following story, you’ll realize that your Inner-Self is a kind of Super-Self offering an infinite repository of self-created probable realities

Were it not for its capacity to dream — to automatically access Psychological Reality Framework Two (the subconscious mind), though, humanity would never be introduced to quality, alternate memories locked within the vault of All-That-Is. My series of Chalice dreams, for example, were metaphors showing that what one chooses to remember, forms their reality. Similarly, the mala bead, diamond and pearl necklace retrieved from my dream vault was a metaphor for expansive memories to be retrieved from one’s All-That-Is. Conversely, my dream, wherein I was able to magically penetrate my hand through a glass pane, showed that the second I doubted my ability to access the treasure trove of All-That-Is, the glass solidified and I was no longer allowed entrance.

Messengers of quality memories dwelling in the Super-Self, dreams offer an alternate, positive story to replace one’s perhaps non-beneficial waking story. For instance, someone has been, for awhile, experiencing a dismal period in their waking reality. In dreams, they may discover themselves as living a fulfilling and joyful life. Giving validation to such a positive story and then affirming it during waking reality, the person is utilizing consciousness’s built-in buffer against any perceived chaos. Thus, the Inner-Self’s Reality Framework-Two is specifically designed to provide expansive, alternate memories for Reality Framework One to affirm and ultimately attract.

Within the Mind Probabilities/Frequencies/Manifestation System, each Evolutionary Energy Level of Learning and its holographic imprints, will attract equally-enlightened knowledge and experiences. Dramatic elevations of one’s parallel reality value climates will simultaneously influence dreams and one’s entire gestalt of consciousness. Individuals vibrating within the higher levels of learning frequency ranges will attract matching higher frequency-levels of learning through dreams and during waking reality.

When dreaming, therefore, you have the potential to realize the infinite scope of your being. However, as the species pursuit of effective manipulation of matter would require the development of discrimination, Outer-Ego’s simple and complex differentiating processes cause it to continually strive to categorize external and internal data within its relatively narrow linear, perceptual bandwidth. In visions, as well, one may discover other parallel perhaps more elevated sources of information: The brain expands with reading the sacred. Knowledge from the brain imprints the veils of consciousness and will help you accept/access more knowledge from the other realms.

From: REALMS OF LIGHT: Infinite Lifetimes! Infinite Worlds! Infinite Love and Joy!

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M5KY9F6

Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M547S64/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Through teaching the deeper aspects of consciousness, this manuscript strives to help you understand your critical role in the creation of the universe through affirming your true identity as a creator. Your dreams offer myriad doorways to be opened while traveling your path of becoming. In fact, you have the power to initiate your own life changes through understanding the dynamic relationship occurring between your conscious and sub-conscious minds.
Indeed, to understand the nature of one’s consciousness is to understand one’s death and to understand one’s death is to understand one’s life. In the myriad Evolutionary Potentials of the Soul, for example, there is no one given lifetime preceding a single death, but rather multidimensional soul transitions into self-constructed forms and realities.

At the close of 2010, scientists monitoring the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) pattern perceived at least four concentric rings of lower temperature variation. This would indicate that even before the so-called “Big Bang” at least one other universe has buffeted ours, suggesting parallel universes — parallel realities. Indeed, many cosmologists have previously, through other evidence, hypothesized multiple universes: in other words, a Multiverse. Some of the cosmologists, who’d previously advocated this Multiverse, had also theorized that universes are perpetually ‘budding-off’ from a central core area. A crucial aspect of the Multiverse theory is its ramifications for concepts of immortality and time.

Stating “You’ve already lived any future lives; all of your lives,” spirit deity, Kuan Yin, decrees: “There’s no such thing as time!” How should we utilize the new and ancient knowledge to optimize our lives? Quantum consciousness means that every minute of every day, we have an opportunity to choose our next step from infinite option in our journey of becoming. So everything from the miraculous to complete disaster is on the table. Indeed, you have the power to choose your next step through monitoring and evaluating your Outer and Inner Ego thought relationships.

As a hypnotherapist and dream expert, interpreting the symbolic language innate to the nonlinear quantum fluctuations of Psychological Reality Framework Two (the subconscious/Super-Self) is part and parcel of my profession. I realized, when dreaming of a magical, living Book of Light (for it seemed to radiate its own powerful vitality) that humans, through their perceptions, are the builders of worlds. Over the next few months, I experienced several more amazing dreams and communications from the entities who’d originally revealed the Book of Light: once floating peacefully within a swirling galaxy: once dreaming of a brilliant light radiating from behind the door of my office. I knew I was being informed that my writing in the coming years would involve profound, life-altering concepts.

Having authored many Self-Help/Spiritual manuscripts, I’ve enjoyed learning empowering spiritual concepts through my intimate connection with the The Book of Light and spirit-deity, Kuan Yin. Indeed, once I heard: “You’ve reached out to the Words and now the Words will reach out to you!” Upon awakening one morning, I was asked by spirit: “Why are you love?” Another dawn brought the following command: “Luxuriate in life!”

Expounding on the nature of the realms, spirit deity, Kuan Yin, once explained: “There are millions of universes; too many to count. The realms are infinite. There are no limitations. The body which is part of the Universal Body can split (when first in the human form) into different levels. The fourth level represents the higher emotions, more senses. Additionally, the human five senses are very limited. Higher beings (even simple higher beings) have many more senses than humans. Five senses are not very many. This is why most humans can’t quite access all universal knowledge or memory of past lives. It is therefore the physical brain of the human after each birth which leaves impressions in the Intellect (or Fourth Level).

People are attracted to specific Energy Fields of Consciousness reflecting their personal values; that it is the Law of Attraction! Many spirit energies are coming into the earth level of consciousness all the time. Soul evolution is sequential for some, non-linear for others. Some jump around experiencing a variety of lifetimes. It’s a way for the soul to develop compassion. They evolve from a different angle: down to up, with not much of a past. Others have more experience. There are the newer energies; smaller orbs of consciousness which are like cells when starting out…There is the clean and clear wealth of higher consciousness. It is devoid of the depraved energy that can be attached to money. This is the pure wealth — the wealth of higher consciousness. There is a dimension (plane of consciousness) where that pure wealth of consciousness is a reality. It is reality where everyone is loved, where everyone is fed and healthy.” ~ Kuan Yin

Through understanding the deeper aspects of consciousness, you can begin to develop your critical role in the creation of the Realms of Light through affirming your true identity as a creator. Your dreams offer myriad doorways to be opened while traveling your path of becoming. In fact, you have the power to initiate your own life changes through understanding the dynamic relationship occurring between your conscious and sub-conscious minds. Indeed, to understand the nature of one’s consciousness is to fully understand one’s death, and to understand one’s death is to fully understand one’s life. In the myriad Evolutionary Potentials of the Soul, for example, there is no one given lifetime preceding a single death, but rather simultaneous, multidimensional soul transitions into an infinity of self-constructed forms and realities.

From the book: REALMS OF LIGHT: Infinite Lifetimes! Infinite Worlds! Infinite Love and Joy!

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M5KY9F6

Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M547S64/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Transcribing the spiritually-inspired phrases for the book: Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin — A Kuan Yin Buddhism Book, I heard the following informative words:

“You can have a hope. However, to agonize over the future is not very skillful,” Kuan Yin relays.

“Kuan Yin is showing me a picture of a windsurfer skimming effortlessly along the ocean’s surface,” describes Lena.

“While quite skilled, he’s nevertheless very focused on the elements around him. The windsurfer is focused upon how to turn the sail. His question must always be, ‘What am I going to do with the wind that is blowing right now?’” instructs Kuan Yin.

“There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen: karma and free will. The question is, ‘How are you going to handle what you have?’ You are riding the karmic wave underneath and the wind can shift. Everyone must take what they see and deal with that which is unseen!”

Commentary: The Meaning of Kuan Yin’s Wind and Wave Metaphor: What You Focus On, You Create!

Throughout this manuscript, Kuan Yin had emphasized the power of focused-intent — that what one focuses on, one will create. Departing from traditional, linear/sequential-based cause and effect karmic doctrine, Kuan Yin maintains that it is focused-upon expansive or limiting beliefs and their emotions creating “made-up stories” about oneself and, thus, reality. Kuan Yin’s term: karmic-wave, then, refers to expansive or limiting personal and mass realities resulting from beliefs. The wind, on the other hand, is one’s free will to alter their reality through changing their beliefs. (This includes overriding former cause and effect karmic beliefs, by changing one’s definition of karma.)

Because of the linearly-sequenced appearance of objects and events occurring on earth, all who incarnate here have the opportunity to master the skill of extracting from raw events, a positive perception to be expressed through one’s unique creative mode. Gathering strength and ingenuity through understanding and utilizing the like-attracts-like principle to one’s advantage, one can then become skilled in the manipulation of matter:

“The windsurfer’s question must always be, ‘What am I going to do with the wind that is blowing right now?’” is Kuan Yin’s metaphor emphasizing that humans are meant to utilize their focusing capabilities (one’s attention and intention), to best navigate the free will opportunities available in their waking and non-waking states of mind.

What does Kuan Yin mean when She states: “Everyone must take what they see and deal with that which is unseen.”

As consciousness has no boundaries, all phases of consciousness/reality (unseen aspects of Self) exist simultaneously within you. Once you’ve seen your own and others’ inner light, as have I, you’ll realize there’s no need for rituals promising salvation, for you’ll know we’re all already in a state of grace; we’re already, at this very moment, liberated!

You might ask: How can this possibly be? The answer is that we are multidimensional beings! Indeed, all personal evolution’s, including divine grace and divinity, are within us, NOW! As all personal evolution's are simultaneous, one always has the opportunity to focus on and nurture their most positive beliefs and feelings, thereby attracting the same.

Therefore, there’s no need for elaborate rituals or ceremonies to release one from supposed myriad lifetimes of karmic debt. However, because we create what we believe; it’s likely important NOT to believe in any precept professing punishing lifetimes, as this belief alone has the potential to create limiting realities.

People need to know they’re already the Light — that they’re presently liberated and that they always have the choice to live according to their Core Integrity: that which can never be corrupted by any outside influence. True redemption, then, is the realization of one’s own divinity/inner light. Having this self-awareness, one could abandon any belief in lack, no longer attracting oppressive realities.

You have the potential to transform your life right now. If you can stay optimistic, any limiting life circumstance can be transformed. You always have the choice to connect with your Inner (Higher) Self — something greater than you may presently believe yourself to be.

From: Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin — A Kuan Yin Buddhism Book

Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin: A Kuan Yin Buddhism Book

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Also see: Kuan Yin Buddhism: The Kuan Yin Parables, Visitations and Teachings ©2019 Hope Bradford
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695491300

My son had mentioned that he and some friends were planning a camping trip in the area of Crescent City, California. Hearing him ask if he could bring back anything from his venture, I replied, “Well, if you happen to go to the beach and see a stone with a hole in the middle, I don’t have one of those. You know how the surf can, over the centuries, erode a stone?”

“Sure! Okay mom, but why?”

“Do you know about the Dolmen — those stone structures in the northern part of the British Isles and other parts of Europe — two megaliths with a flat stone (called a Capstone) on top? Actually, they’re also supposedly found here in the United States, in parts of upstate New York.”

“Never heard of them!”

“Well, Celtic legend often refers to them as Time Portals.”

“It’s good to always have a Plan B!” he replied.

Plan B, indeed! Once upon a time in my novel: Escape of the Swan Maiden: the Truth of the Stones there dwelled in the Otherworld, a princess, who upon being transformed into a swan by a most troublesome spell, was destined to roam the earth until called home by her true name. And like ripples in a pond, her fate would be intertwined with those of her royal lineage living in the waking world:

There’s many a legend, I dare say,

of Celtic origin, to this very day!

Mystery and beauty haunt these tales,

from the shores of Mersey to that of Wales!

And yet, one alone shall not be dismissed!

The fairy-tale of the Swan Princess!

A spell was cast for all of time,

that she be changed into a swan.

To roam the earth, evermore,

unless true love hath called her forth!

Anything less would surely fail.

Other attempts, to no avail!

Caught between the worlds, she roams,

yearning always for hearth and home!

One of those people belonging to the Swan Princess’s lineage was a woman named Aishe. Herein her servant, Rosemary, explains to Aishe’s daughter, Della, why her mother was forced to leave the manor — and that Della should not believe she was deliberately abandoned:

“Through the years, I received many a letter tellin’ of Aishe’s time with the gypsies, but sorrowful all the while. She always spoke of you, Della. She thought if ye learned the mandolin, it would bring ye some peace. Though her people have held fast to certain traditions and beliefs and their kind often driven out, one way they maintained their heritage and society was through music. So you see,” consoled Rosemary, “Ye mum’s love fer ye was unending. Ye were always in her heart! Please Della! Read the letters I’ve saved fer ye, that they may provide some comfort!”

“But why was she sent away? Why were my mother’s writings so threatening to my aunt and uncle…and to my father?”

“Then — when your mother lived in the manor, and still nowadays, the ancient stories of Gods and Goddesses; fairies and elves have been forgotten; intentionally destroyed, one by one. Those, who still remember; who carry the stories from one generation to the next, have a great resolve — for the stories had always been thought to form the fabric of their very being. Yer mother is one of them and was silenced for that reason alone. Once, I even heard tell she be related to Tuatha Dé Danann — those from the Northlands. So ye, too, are part of that matriarchal lineage, having other, perhaps, more important loyalties than to those of yer family here! ”

“This is all so new to me!”

“Ye do know the story of the Tuatha Dé Danann, do ye not, my dear?”

“No, I was never told…”

“First, it be of great importance that ye understand the ancient legends of our land — the stories that have forever stayed locked deep within my heart. The people of the North-land tribe known as Tuatha Dé Danann— the Children of Danu — Mother Goddess of the Royal Female Lineage, as legend will tell ye, are known as the Shining Ones riding upon dark clouds in the sky. Aye! A bonnie tribe, indeed! Eventually descending to earth, they’re said to have landed on the mountains of the Conmaicne Rein in Connacht, bringing to the earth, their mystery and magic.

Many don’t know that during the ancient times, the Scots refused to grant the Picts’ wives unless they agreed to choose their king from the female royal lineage; the Sovereignty Goddess — She who personifies a territory.

That tradition was kept for a long time, but it be true that things are now changed. Oh! How I cherish those stories my mother told, that had been handed down through the ages! Nowadays, young ones comin’ up in the world barely know of them. They don’t know, you see, of the Speakin’ Stone or Stone of Fal. Meanin’ stone of destiny, this block of red sandstone was known to scream and make a fuss whenever a king of the true Scotch or Irish race would place his foot or sit thereupon! Nor, do they understand that any stone with a natural hole offers a portal to the Fae! ‘Tis a true pity! Even then, there were those who spoke to the stones. Aye! The truth of the stones — messages from the heavens!”

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There you are, mesmerized as you watch crystalline raindrops fall outside your living-room window. Nothing on the T.V. interests you. It’s quite chilly, so you turn up the thermostat and snuggle up in a cozy blanket on the couch. What could be better than an engaging Historical Fiction Romance to satisfy your rainy-day reading desires?

My first novel: Premonition: the Loma Prieta Earthquake Incident initially takes place in the city of Santa Cruz, California, where on October 17th, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time, the entire city; indeed the entire Bay Area, was shaken by the powerful Loma Prieta Earthquake. Its epicenter just east of Santa Cruz, the 6.9 quake was felt as far south as San Diego and east to western areas of Nevada. Ultimately, there would be an enormous price to pay with 63 lives lost, 3,757 injuries, and about $6 billion in damages.

In this paranormal saga based on historical events, a woman’s obsession with one of California’s most tumultuous eras, ultimately transforms her life. Indeed, after receiving her new heart, portrait artist, Claire Stein, experiences a form of heart transplant post-surgery personality-change. Often altering the heart-recipient’s original personality, post-surgical personality-changes have long intrigued the medical world.

Even prior to the surgery, Claire had demonstrated a strong intuitive ability. Now, however, she was seeing and speaking to ghosts! Driven by what had been her heart donor’s life quest; imagining herself living in the farming community of Watsonville, California, Claire becomes increasingly immersed in the memory of the Pajaro River Bridge race-riots of January,1930.

While you might believe sunny California was exempt from the heartache and misery of the Depression, it was experiencing serious problems of its own. Indeed, up and down the California Coast, the sting of grueling poverty was stoking race riots; causing strife and division among such communities as Sacramento, Exeter and the small farming town of Watsonville.

Eventually causing her to stray from home and husband, Claire’s obsession with her heart-donor’s past threatens to end her career, marriage and perhaps even her life!

Spanning the ancient and modern worlds, my second Historical Fiction Romance novel, Escape of the Swan Maiden: A Retelling of the Swan Princess, The Truth of the Stones takes place in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The ancient Celtic legends; the stories having been passed from one generation to the next, tell of a North-land tribe known as Tuathe De Danann — the Children of Danu — Mother Goddess of the Royal Female Lineage! As the saga goes, these beings were known as the Shining Ones who upon arriving here, were riding upon dark clouds in the sky. Eventually descending to earth, they’re said to have landed on the mountains of the Conmaicne Rein in Connacht, bringing to our world, their mystery and magic.

Indeed, once upon a time there dwelled in the Otherworld, a princess, who upon being transformed into a swan by a most troublesome spell, was destined to roam the earth until called home by her true name. And like ripples in a pond, her fate would be intertwined with those of her royal lineage living in the waking world:

There’s many a legend, I dare say,

of Celtic origin, to this very day!

Mystery and beauty haunt these tales,

from the shores of Mersey to that of Wales!

And yet, one alone shall not be dismissed!

The fairy-tale of the Swan Princess!

A spell was cast for all of time,

that she be changed into a swan.

To roam the earth, evermore,

unless true love hath called her forth!

Anything less would surely fail.

Other attempts, to no avail!

Caught between the worlds, she roams,

yearning always for hearth and home!

What shall bring her back again?

Impassioned calls of love without end!

According to my sources: the spirit guides, the brain “expands with reading and receiving the sacred wisdom. Knowledge from the brain imprints upon the veils of consciousness and can therefore help a person accept/access ever more knowledge from the higher realms.” The degree of someone’s earthly involvement in spiritual and intellectual pursuits therefore enhances their ability to receive this Cosmic Mind wisdom. Such a process can assist someone in understanding their primary role in the creation of personal and mass reality.

This reality — the one we inhabit during our waking hours, is just one of many realms— a façade which, because of its, at least sometimes, predictability, can be quite soothing to the ego. Such predictability, however, can soon become a trap — holding one back from understanding the true nature of consciousness. For, beyond this is one’s Inner World of myriad reality-frameworks— too numerous to fathom; wherein consciousness spontaneously creates new realities!

A realm where all Levels of Consciousness are made manifest, earth is at Level-Zero. Above the earth’s Level Zero are the ascending, ever more concentrated and expansive Energy Layers of Consciousness. Below Level Zero are the descending, ever more concentrated and limiting Levels of Consciousness.

The human physical body — which is part of the Universal Body, can simultaneously split into the different levels — the multidimensional planes of consciousness while still remaining as a singular entity. Mastering cosmic traveling to the alternate levels of consciousness, one can experience other, just as valid, realities. You slip into the universe, while living in this dream, this present. Your escape hatch is right here!

Over the centuries there have been ongoing, vital, spiritual communications; a crucial accessing of one’s Celestial Families scattered throughout the universe. However, modern society has mostly forgotten the ancient modalities having once facilitated this spiritual compatibility as well as providing essential information for cultural survival and development. And while they’ve been largely abandoned throughout the ages, there is nevertheless, during these challenging times, a resurgence; an acceleration of consciousness influencing all aspects of life.

What is perceived and built upon during waking reality is integral to the learning process that will ultimately lead to one’s mastering the manipulation of matter. Indeed, the higher thought realms are more accelerated; in a sense more alive then what is generally experienced in one’s waking reality. Yet, if one takes time to marvel; to really focus upon, for example, the intricate wings of a butterfly or dewdrops shimmering upon a leaf — they discover this very vitality exemplifying the Higher Realms within and surrounding them.

In a rather disconcerting, however amusing, dream demonstrating the power of limiting thoughts to attract disaster, I witnessed a plastic water bottle arbitrarily floating just beneath my bedroom ceiling. Initially believing I’d no control over its movement or direction; towards the end of the dream I finally remembered to summon the correct thoughts in order to control its unwieldiness. Still unpredictable; moving sporadically from side to side, it finally dumped its entire contents upon my head!

Naturally, one’s initial attempt at “the art of juggling the dream and the world of dreams” will produce blunders such as demonstrated in the preceding dream.

In my dream on July 3rd 2014, I discovered myself riding an elevator; zooming ever upward until stopping at Level Fifteen. Seeing the elevator door open onto a hallway, I strolled out onto the balcony. Relishing my bird’s eye view of the modern city below; nearly simultaneously, I found myself back at ground level. Lovingly embracing my son who was (in the dream scenario and I presume in waking reality), peacefully asleep in his college dorm, I understood the profound sweetness of living an earthly existence.

Eventually, I realized that Level Fifteen was a level of consciousness wherein one can instantly manifest matter. Vastly differing from the earthly realm, wherein thoughts will initiate a gradual, albeit steady, change in the physical structure of matter, Level Fifteen is a molecular frequency medium wherein there is instantaneous manifestation of each minute thought and its corresponding emotion. Incorporating degrees of nonlinear knowledge found in the Higher Realms creates a level of accelerated Intellect/Emotionalism necessary for accessing the unknown realms.

Between waking and sleeping during November, 2017, I once again traveled to Level Fifteen. Reaching out with one hand; my thumb and index fingers following my thought direction, they compressed a six inch separation wall; narrowing it significantly. Now, only about two inches in width, the wall would have appeared to someone not knowing better, to have been altered by a powerful compression device.

In yet a later dream, I initially saw a yellow/orange spool; pierced by a simple wooden axle with no apparent electrical wiring attached to the structure. From the corner of my I, I could see my waking-life, youngest son sitting in the corner; watching intently.

Wondering if was he an instructor or student, I didn’t, at the time, regard the entire event as a serious matter. Everything just seemed very routine. Staring at the spool, which was by now, turning just a bit, I muttered the words, It’s turning too slowly!

Instantly, as if hearing my words and sensing my dissatisfaction, the spool began spinning faster and faster. At the same time, I felt my heart/breath pulse also accelerate to match the turning of the spool. Or was it the other way around? How was this inanimate object able to immediately respond to my whims? And why did it seem that certain bodily functions were influenced by each rotation?

Each individual will possess a unique set of frequencies creating their own interactions with observed animate and inanimate objects and events. In mind-to-matter processes there must exist a similarity between the thought/emotion frequency and the frequency of its corresponding object or event. Indeed, Eastern/Hindu philosophy proposes that the prāṇa (the Sanskrit word for breath, life force, or vital principal) permeates reality on all levels including both animate and inanimate objects. Because of certain dream experiences wherein I witnessed first-hand the immediate response of an inanimate object to my mind’s direction while simultaneously feeling my heart/breath (prāṇa) energy fully-connected with the object, I’m particularly intrigued that prāṇa (in certain Hindu literature), is described as originating from the Sun and connecting the elements.

In yet another manipulation-of-matter dream, I saw several, perhaps ten, vortices (like spinning arms) protruding from my body. Rotating in a unison, counter-clockwise fashion, they would all, in simultaneous rhythm with my Prāṇa pulse, change direction. Immediately, I understood that these projections from my combined thought and energy processes would reverse themselves accordingly, thereby redirecting the effulgence/vibration field surrounding and radiating out from me. Another dream showed the Creative Energy of the universe surging into and through my crown area and then following down through my entire body until emerging as some form of matter. It too, seemed to involve the Prāṇa: that harnessing one’s divine heart energy is the ultimate manipulator of matter.

From: The Empath Chronicles: On Connecting With Your Divine Source Energy and Celestial Family in the Age of the Great Expansion of Consciousness ©2020 Hope Bradford CHt: www.amazon.com/author/hopebradford and www.amazon.com/author/hmbradford

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J56ZWQ8

Kindle:: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J19X93H/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+empath+chronicles&qid=1600130474&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

And, see my latest novella: Urban Shaman at: https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Shaman-HM-Bradford-ebook/dp/B09DV6NND2/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=Urban+Shaman&qid=1630266866&s=books&sr=1-8

On July 4, 2019, I dreamed of riding a bus overflowing with ancestors tracing back to Europe and beyond. My more immediate relatives: Grandma Florence Mott Bradford, Uncle Mayhew Mott and others sat at the front of the bus. While not able to clearly define all of their countenances, I sensed the presence of infinite generations — relatives I’d never personally known such as Transcendentalists: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry David Thoreau, Helen Pitts Douglass (wife of Abolitionist Frederick Douglass), Revolutionary War hero, Debra Sampson as well as other prominent historical figures — that this magical ‘bus’ had no beginning or end.

Having the intention of helping people connect with their Divine Source Energy and Celestial Family, I am a bridge between the spiritual and the physical world. Reviewing my notes, one evening, I contemplated my years of researching humanity’s innate connection with the spirit world. Just the other evening, in fact, I’d recorded a spirit message from another ancestor, Seth Jones — a minister who, after praying for rain during a devastating drought in upstate New York, caused a “glorious” rain to fall. As psychic and descendant of American psychic/spiritualist Amanda Theodosia Jones, I herein disclose what she wrote about her relative Seth Jones:

“My great grand-father, Isaac Jones, who inherited the upland farm taken up by the Jones family about 1670, left home to serve two years in the Revolutionary Army. Among his seven mature sons (summed up him as “forty-two feet of boys”) was one Seth, who — first being ordained as a Baptist minister — puzzled his lone way, by much Biblical reading, into Universalism — then looked upon by most with feelings akin to horror.

He drew after him several brothers and sixty of his one hundred and eighty church members — “a third part of the stars of heaven”, my grandfather, Isaac, used to say. And, indeed, his biographer, the loved Stephen R. Smith, states that “so great was his fervor and natural eloquence, Calvinists flocked to hear him, while in sermons of almost interminable length, but never wearisome, he won many over to the doctrine of “Free Grace”.

Especially did his intense belief in the efficacy of the “Prayer of Faith” produce a deep impression — partly due to this unquestioned fact:

During a distressing drought (I think near Sackett’s Harbor, N.Y.) an assemblage of farmers in open field expressed in his presence utter hopelessness with regard to rain, saying that a single day more would ruin every crop. “If you would pray for rain with Faith it would come,” he said.

“But we have no faith! Will not you exercise it for us?”

Whereupon he knelt down upon a stump and prayed mightily for three hours, while (it was related) copious showers fell from the eyes of his hearers. When he descended, the first great drops of a “glorious rain” were dashing down. At eighty-three he presided over a Universalist convention…”

On 7/23/19, nearly three weeks after my Celestial Family reunion dream, I dreamed my son, (who although now a grown man was, in the dream, about four years old) and I were waiting in a parlor for someone to arrive. Startled by a bee zigzagging across the room, I stood up in utter dismay. Whirling into the room, a woman wearing an ankle-length tan skirt and tan ruffled blouse (late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century garb); her hair cut short or pulled back in a bun, suddenly threw a blanket over my son to apparently protect him from the wayward insect. Her extreme concern for his health and safety indicated to me that they had a special bond.

Clothing, furnishings and/or architecture in a dream can be clues identifying the era of the dream. While having had only a brief encounter, I was quite certain this personage was the spirit of Amanda T Jones; that my youngest son and I have enjoyed an enduring relationship with her throughout the ages.

Over the centuries there have been ongoing, vital, spiritual communications; a crucial accessing of one’s Divine Source Energy and Celestial Families scattered throughout the universe. However, modern society has mostly forgotten the ancient modalities having once facilitated this spiritual compatibility as well as providing essential information for cultural survival and development. And while they’ve been largely abandoned throughout the ages, there is nevertheless, during these challenging times, a resurgence; an acceleration of consciousness influencing all aspects of life. As personal and mass population disruptions have proven to be historic catalysts for spiritual growth, it becomes increasingly probable that someone will, during their lifetime, experience a connection with their Divine Source Energy as well as a decided acceleration of consciousness.

From: The Empath Chronicles: On Connecting With Your Divine Source Energy and Celestial Family in the Age of the Great Expansion of Consciousness ©2020 Hope Bradford CHt: www.amazon.com/author/hopebradford and www.amazon.com/author/hmbradford

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J56ZWQ8

Kindle:: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J19X93H/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+empath+chronicles&qid=1600130474&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

And, see my latest novella: Urban Shaman at: https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Shaman-HM-Bradford-ebook/dp/B09DV6NND2/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=Urban+Shaman&qid=1630266866&s=books&sr=1-8