Hi Bernie,

You wrote,
its well documented that if you wish to communicate with anybody in the afterlife all you have to do is simply concentrate on that person and then talk away till your hearts content!"

Yes, that’s right. It’s unfortunate that our society doesn’t understand eternal life and the transition called death. We’re of two minds. On the one hand, we talk about Aunt Martha looking down on us and being with us at Thanksgiving, but on the other hand, we grieve and mourn as though she were gone forever, and we go to the cemetery to “show our respects,” as though she were the body buried there. Because people have a weak belief that the person is really alive and present, people don’t talk to their loved ones as much as they could. They’re only a thought away. And when we think of them or talk to them, they receive those thoughts, whatever they’re involved in at the time.

When we speak to them openly, they receive our messages. And the very act of being open to speak to them gives us the confidence that will allow our minds to receive their messages, in feelings we have and senses about them, but also at times in messages and even rarely words.

We should speak to them often in the period after their death, with confidence they’re listening and available.

You asked,
But can you communicate with the afterlife simply by thinking and thoughts alone and not talking at all after the initial concentration on who ever you wish to talk to ?

Yes. Even when you speak to them aloud, it’s your thoughts that register with them. When people speak with those in the afterlife directly, through direct-voice mediums, they say they anticipate what their loved one is about to say, because they’re registering the thought before it’s spoken. Speaking aloud is more for our benefit than theirs. On this side of life, we communicate with someone by speaking aloud. It gives us a feeling of communicating with those on the next plane of life when we speak aloud as well. But they don’t need the spoken word. So we can communicate either in spoken words or thought.

But we do need to communicate! We must speak openly and frequently to them. And we must then quiet ourselves and be open to the emotions, senses, and messages we receive, in confidence that what we receive is them.

Love and peace, Craig