Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes references to the death of a child, pregnancy loss and termination, graphic violence, addiction, death by suicide, substance use, and themes of grief and loss.

Jackson describes her experience at a Family Foundation event. The families of 10 children who’d died were in attendance. After opening herself to the Other Side, she felt drawn to “a big, burly mustached man in his fifties” (165). She approached him and received dark messages from his late daughter. Jackson divined that his daughter had been murdered by her boyfriend and that her father had tried to kill him to avenge his daughter. (Her boyfriend hadn’t been tried or convicted for his crime.) His daughter wanted him to know she was glad he hadn’t killed her boyfriend because she hadn’t wanted him to. It was her presence who’d stopped him. Through Jackson, the daughter reminded her father she wanted him to live a good life.

Jackson reflects on this experience. She argues that the man’s daughter guided him towards light and life. He experienced clairaudience, or a sense from the Other Side, that he shouldn’t hurt his daughter’s boyfriend. Everyone, Jackson holds, can experience clairaudience if they open themselves to gut feelings, voices, and senses from the beyond.