After-Death Contacts
"Seeing Is Believing”

      by Dr. Mark Pitstick

After-death contacts—ADCs—have been reported across recorded time and in many cultures.  Famous people like President Abraham Lincoln, author Charles Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had personal experiences that convinced them of the reality of the spirit world.  General George Patton strongly believed in ghosts and claims to have received visits by departed loved ones such as his father. 

As he told his nephew, Fred Ayer, Jr., who wrote Patton’s memoirs Before the Colors Fade: “Father used to come to me in the evenings in my tent and sit down to talk and assure me that I would do all right and act bravely in the battle coming the next day.  He was just as real as in his study at home at Lake Vineyard.”

The phenomenon of After Death Contacts is a fascinating category of evidence that humans survive bodily death.  The term ADC describes contact with a “deceased” person who is in a nonphysical dimension.  Such reports used to be considered weird and most people did not share them for fear of being considered crazy.  Now more people are openly sharing these surprisingly common experiences.  After-death contacts have been reported by 25% of Americans, 66% of widows, and 75% of parents whose children have passed over.

Respected views from science and religion support the possibility of communication from beyond the grave.  For example, Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, who earned world-wide respect for his sensible and practical application of religious principles, stated, “I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life.  They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.”   

I first became aware of ADCs when I worked in hospitals as a respiratory therapist.  Several older but completely lucid patients reservedly told me, “Last night I was visited by my late husband.  He stood right there by the foot of the bed, smiled, and told me I would see him again.”  Each time, these patients passed on within forty-eight hours.  Reports of this type involved a visit by their departed spouse or parent. These patients were totally coherent and very excited about their experience but hesitant to tell others for fear of being thought they were crazy.

ADCs often occur during dreams, probably because the receiving party is deeply relaxed and the usual brain activity is dampened.  These dreams often are more vibrant and realistic than usual and the dreamer awakens with a strong sense that actual contact was made with a departed loved one.  Some contain evidence that suggest it was more than just a dream.  The eminent psychiatrist Carl Jung related a personal dream ADC: “Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream. . . It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.”  

Many fascinating stories and more information about After-Death Contacts are in my book Soul Proof.