Thank you for your kind thoughts and for sharing your experience with your family. I have been blessed to be able to understand the death process and the part I can play in that. Life is not always easy. I lost my wife 2 years ago, but that vacuum in my life has been my opportunity to become more in tune with the many ways that we connect with the spirit world. If we allow our heart to remain open we can be connected all the time with departed ones and guides. My early training in the Mormon church gave some help, but I wanted more. It has been my spiritual quest over the past 20 years to find out how I can connect and receive personal instruction and revelation. My departed wife is still very much a part of my life although I had to learn to recognize the subtle ways that she inspires me. That sad, achey, hurting, loss kind of feeling that comes when the veil is open had to be redefined for me to use this opening to bless my life. It took some time and still requires my attention to shift my perception from sad to joy. I knew deep down that I needed to keep my heart open for this process to work and allow the heavens to bless me. Give thanks and gratitude when this occurs and focus on how you feel and notice that each guide has a slightly different feeling. Acknowledge them and ask for their help. You will begin to feel the connection grow stronger with each experience. Stay in that feeling as long as possible and use the open door to communicate with your spiritual family. You can connect with anyone you choose. They are always in close proximity with you, it is our own disconnect that makes us feel alone. We are never alone. Our family relationships were purposefully chosen by each of us. We agreed to become a part of the whole so that we could use our unique skills and traits to help one another. Your influence is far greater than you realize. That is why it is so important to stay in the positive flow of energy working with the heavens. Do what feels good to you and stay strong in your personal revelation, no matter what those around you do or say. The outside world does all it can to disconnect us from our spiritual family. The water and food are poisoned with chemicals to shut down our spiritual functions and electronic waves bombarde us continuously with harmful frequencies. We can cancel those effects by surrounding our sacred spaces with positive thoughts, prayers and spiritual light from our spiritual families. When we keep that door open the light is added to our own magnificence and we can overcome any darkness that attempts to destroy our peace. Blessings always, Gary