Show Notes
Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg
Personal Experiences
A Teacher in Meditation, Spirit at Mount Shasta, and a Caller's Haunting After Her Son's Drowning
On this Personal Experiences hour of Signs of Life, hosts Kimberly Saavedra, Betty Kovacs, and Janet Mayer trade their own afterlife stories, from a meditation vision of a teacher to ashes scattered at Mount Shasta, before a caller named Crystal describes a haunting that followed her toddler son's drowning.
Opening the Call-In Hour Kimberly Saavedra opens this Personal Experiences hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation by explaining that, unlike weeks built around a medium, tonight centers on listeners' own direct encounters with the afterlife. She reads the toll-free call-in numbers for inside and outside North America and reminds listeners that the show cannot promote anyone's books or services, even as it celebrates the people doing that work. Saavedra introduces her co-hosts for the evening, describing herself as Director of the Kamlak Center in Claremont, California, Janet Mayer as a Forever Family Foundation Certified Medium and author of Spirits, They Are Present, and Betty Kovacs as the author of The Miracle of Death and Merchants of Light. The three exchange warm greetings, with Saavedra welcoming Mayer back after a month away on vacation, before settling in to see what each has brought to discuss for the hour.
A Teacher Comes Through in Meditation Janet Mayer describes a vision from that morning's meditation in which she sensed the presence of a teacher and first wondered whether a caller might turn out to be one. She says the feeling resolved into a broader message, that everyone has a teacher and the task is simply to stay open and listen, because loved ones and guides send messages that go unnoticed when attention lapses. Mayer ties this to her belief that culture trains people away from their natural spiritual sensitivity, urging listeners to sit in silence, whether at home, in a car, or at a park, and notice what surfaces. She distinguishes clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience as different channels through which people receive, and stresses that spirits never waste a message, delivering only what matters in whatever brief window of openness they are given.
The Heart's Energy and Interconnection Betty Kovacs builds on Mayer's point, arguing that every person functions as a teacher whether aware of it or not, since quantum physics now suggests thought, word, and gesture register in a universal field and affect everything around them. She describes being embedded from the atomic to the cosmic scale, and cites researchers at HeartMath who have measured the heart's electromagnetic field extending ten to twelve feet outward in the shape of a torus, which she says explains why a person senses a stranger's mood nearby or feels a room's energy shift when someone enters. Kovacs recalls a physicist making a similar point about every atom being connected to every other. Mayer adds that paying attention to subtle discomfort, such as sitting near a stressed stranger in an airport, is really the sixth sense at work, and that honoring those nuances helps people connect more clearly with loved ones on the other side.
Spirit and Matter Are One at Mount Shasta With no calls yet on the line, Kovacs shares the story of scattering her son's ashes at Mount Shasta after his death, honoring his wish to have his remains taken to sacred ground. Neither she, her husband, nor her son's girlfriend Jenny knew the mountain, but a clerk at a Native American store directed them to Panther Meadows, a name that resonated because her son's power animal, tattooed on his arm, had been a black panther. Jenny located the exact spot Kovacs had already seen in a dream before the trip. Standing in a circle facing the four directions, each of them sensed their son's presence pass to them with the same message: spirit and matter are one. Kovacs says she has