Diana Rankin

What’s it like to connect with Spirit World, to see and communicate with people who have crossed over? Mystics and psychics know. Anyone who has had a near death experience knows. Everyone who has had a visit from a loved one knows. I know.

As a child barely old enough to walk, my grandfather held my hand and talked to me, while his body lay in the nearby casket. As I grew older my two best friends were twins, a sister and brother, who were not of this world. Although no one else could see them, they were quite real to me.

These experiences are fairly common in early childhood. By the time we reach school age, most of us have left behind their “imaginary” friends and guardian angels who walk with us.

Sadly, the world often demands this of us, to leave behind those in Spirit World as we move into teenage years and then adulthood. I tried. I even thought I had succeeded.

It wasn’t until I was well into adulthood that I realized I really hadn’t left behind my spirit friends after all. They were there all the time just waiting for me to allow them their voice. The twins were gone; they were still youngsters in Spirit World, of less assistance to my adult life. Still, I felt their laughter as I began working with Phillip, my main spirit guide, the communicator.

We have multiple spirits around us, each having a different purpose. Some are with us our whole human life while others move in and out of our life as needed. Once I was comfortable working with Phillip, I began meeting others who work with me. They came to me as I needed to know them and when I was open to learning about them. For example, Isadora the healer worked with me as I healed from a motorcycle spill. Michael the protector showed up anytime I felt fear when confronted with an uncomfortable situation.

I also learned to communicate with people and animals I loved who had crossed over. It began in grief when I asked my friend Anne who had died to give me a sign. As I did, I felt a lifting of my grief, a smile came, and I felt lighter. Time had no meaning as I felt her laughter within me. And I knew, just knew Anne was communicating with me, letting me know she was okay.

After my mother’s death, I was still in a state of shock from the car accident that took her life when I asked her for a sign to let me know she was okay. I walked around the corner from one room to another. As I looked ahead toward the wall into the next room, I felt a breeze flow through me. It was then I noticed the painting on the wall moving, tilting. I moved closer to straighten the painting when I felt a presence. It was then I knew that it was Anne titling the painting. After all, she was the painter.

“Thank you, Anne,” I said quietly. “Thank you for letting me know Mother’s okay, that you and others are with her, helping her make her transition.

Over the years, I’ve received many a communication from Mother and Anne, and other loved ones who are in Spirit World including people I’ve never met. My meaningful messages from those I love pushed me into helping others who needed contact with their loved ones who have passed over.

Doing so came easy for me, to receive messages and pass them along to clients who ask for such messages. I don’t always see the loved one in Spirit World, and yet I feel them in such a way I know what they look like, and what their personalities were like when they lived in the third dimension.

Almost always, they will show me what they are doing. Some are in school; some have jobs; some are enjoying leisure, some are still transitioning, and unfortunately some are not aware they are in Spirit World.

Moving into this world of spirit even helped me with one of my books, The Found Child. In the story, Phillip takes Diana, the main character, through different dimensions of Spirit World. When I was writing this book I felt the same I do when doing a reading with a client who requests a message from a loved one in Spirit World.

I am alert and wide awake while at the same time experiencing the energy I liken to a deep meditation. I’m in more than one dimension, fully aware of this parallel world while also being fully present in this third dimensional world. And it all feels normal to me.

Over the years Phillip has become my guide, my teacher, and in many ways my best friend. An old Druid, he was my teacher many lifetimes ago. He stands over my left shoulder when I’m with a client, standing in front of an audience, when I’m writing, and even when I’m watching the brilliance of the sunset or walking in nature.

“Look Phillip. Do you see that hawk flying overhead?” I ask. It is then I feel his energy move over me, and I smile. My heart is warmed.

Moving into Spirit World can be dangerous for some. I’ve been blessed to have Phillip and others to hold me as I say my prayer of protection that only love may come to me. I’m blessed to so easily communicate with those in Spirit World, to have teachers to help me grow, protectors to keep me safe, and of course, to have Phillip, the one who guides me and helps me guide others.