Dear Reverend,
A good friend of mine died last year, and I miss her terribly. I’ve been considering consulting a medium, but I have my doubts about their abilities. Can some people really communicate with the dead?
Claire Voyant (Woman, 56)
Dear Claire Voyant,
Some years ago, a friend’s mother came to town, and a group of us got together to meet her. We were mixing and mingling at a bar, and the mom came up to me and said: “This might seem weird, but I have a message for you.” She proceeded to tell me that she was a bit of a medium and that she saw a man with crazy hair, with his hands on his head, who wanted to tell me to “keep doing the thing with the music.”
I didn’t think it was strange at all because I knew exactly who she was talking about. It was my brother Michael, who had died a few years prior.
One of my favorite photos of Michael was taken on a Christmas morning sometime in the ’70s. In it, he has his hands on his head like he’s just woken up. You can’t really see his hair, but in the eulogy I gave at his funeral, I referred to him as “the guy with the crazy hair.” I never told anybody, but I had always been sad that he had never gotten to see one of my bands perform.
This woman didn’t know me from Adam, and there was no reason for her to be making up such a thing. So yes, I believe that some people really do get messages from the other side. However, I’m leery about paying money to receive those messages. If you decide to see a medium, be sure to do a lot of research before choosing one.
In the meantime, I suggest that you try communicating with your friend yourself. I know a lot of dead people, and I talk to them all the time. Most often, it’s a one-sided conversation, but I find that acknowledging their presence helps keep their memory alive.
Good luck and God bless,
The Reverend
This article appears in The Tech Issue 2024.
