The Afterlife and the Regrets of the Deceased
A psychic who claims she has communicated with the dead since childhood shared some profound insights about the regrets that many spirits express in the afterlife. According to Jill M Jackson, a medium from Mississippi, these spirits often reflect on their lives with a sense of longing for a more open-minded approach to spirituality and life itself.
Jackson told the Daily Mail that those in the spirit world frequently share their remorse over following strict interpretations of religious teachings during their lifetime. She explained that these spirits, now existing on a higher dimensional plane, feel that modern religion limited their worldview and caused them to judge others of different faiths.
“They wish they had taken the positive parts of that message in understanding that, yes, there is a Creator God, yes, that there is a higher consciousness, but it’s not about control – that it is not fear-based,” Jackson revealed.
She also claimed that spirits have sent her telepathic messages of regret for taking life too seriously before their deaths. A common theme, according to Jackson, is that humans need to play more often. When they look back on their life review, they notice that they were so serious and had so many opportunities to just have fun, laugh, and play.
Energy Levels and Vibrational Frequencies
The psychic explained that all living beings, and even entire realms like the afterlife, operate at different energy levels, which she described as giving off a “vibration” or “vibrational frequency.” Jackson noted that the “childlike wonder” of youth was closer to the frequency spirits attain in the afterlife, while feelings of anger, negativity, and fear caused the human consciousness to move farther away from this spiritual realm of enlightenment.
“It’s very different than what Hollywood portrays it to be,” Jackson explained. “We have been programmed to think about heaven being up in the sky, way away from us. But in reality, our loved ones are [just] in a higher dimension than where we are. It’s truly inches away from where we are, and that’s why mediums are able to tap into that realm at various times, because the veil has thinned in that moment.”
Training and Communication with Spirits
Jackson added that psychic mediums train how to raise their consciousness level— their personal vibrational frequency—by quieting their minds and clearing personal thoughts to reach the state of peace and enlightenment where the spirits of the deceased now reside. This allows them to see their loved ones and other people’s loved ones.
As for the messages these loved ones are looking to pass on, Jackson said each encounter is different. Some spirits only send vague images or impressions, while others provide more detail of their intentions. She recalled conducting an audience reading where she envisioned the spirit of an audience member’s grandfather. The spirit would not speak to her, even though she had been telepathically asking him to send a message for their grandson.
Messages from the Afterlife
However, when the psychic said a spirit was looking to be very “chatty,” the conversation would eventually drift toward specific regrets the individual was hoping their loved ones would avoid. A lot of times, if they were highly, highly religious in that way, their message when they’re talking to their loved ones is about learning to be non-judgmental and learning that we can have a connection to Creator, a higher consciousness, God, Goddess, whatever your term is, without feeling the need of this control dynamic that is rooted in the energy of division and fear.
Jackson was recognized by the group Best American Psychics in both 2015 and 2016 as the “Psychic of the Year” based on their review of her “integrity, accuracy, and meaningful service within the psychic and spiritual community.”
Personal Experiences and Intuition
The psychic medium explained to the Daily Mail that her encounters are often random. She might be talking with someone when a spirit related to that person appears in her mind’s eye, often trying to get Jackson’s attention to deliver a message to their loved one. Jackson compared her experiences to those of well-known mediums such as John Edward and Theresa Caputo, saying she does the same thing—connecting with loved ones to pass on insights from another plane of existence.
She told the Daily Mail she began seeing spirits in this realm as a young child, but she could not hear or understand them until she was 12 years old. That was when her deceased grandmother appeared, floating above her bed in a healthy and full form, reassuring Jackson that she was free from pain in the afterlife.
Everyday Psychic Abilities
Throughout her entire life, Jackson would see random people walking around, and she would even be out in public, and she would see them. They look like shadow figures, they’re a little bit translucent, but she can still see exactly what they look like. And then she would also start seeing them in her mind’s eye, which is considered the third eye.
Jackson noted that while psychic mediums often go through special training in order to control their abilities and manage when they do and do not tap into this higher spiritual realm, everyone has some level of psychic ability hidden inside. Calling it a form of intuition or a “sixth sense,” she said examples of everyday psychic powers include suddenly thinking of someone who then calls, having prophetic dreams, or being able to sense positive or negative energy in a room.
The Afterlife Beyond Heaven and Hell
Jackson also mentioned that children’s energy levels from their joyful wonder make it more common for them to see and communicate with souls in the afterlife. Further, the psychic noted that the realm where these spirits travel to after death is not split into what we know as heaven and hell. In fact, Jackson—along with some people who have had near-death experiences—believe there is no painful dimension like hell at all.
They have described the afterlife as a vast, loving field of light they enter after reviewing and learning from all the experiences of their time on Earth. And it just may be that their trip down memory lane is what solidifies their greatest joys and those regrets Jackson claims they want others to so desperately avoid.
