MY  IPAD EXPERIENCE OF AFTER-DEATH ENCOUNTER

WITH MY BELOVED WIFE

My wife Mary, after 47 years of marriage to me, suffered a stroke due to CVA (cerebrovascular accident) in 2012.  Paralyzed on the left side with constant pain 24/7, she was admitted for long term care at Westminster Towers in Orlando. Throughout the years of her stay there, I attended to her medical appointments and whatever procedures she needed, as I was her Medical advocate. With the help of family and friends,  we were able to acquire a handicapped van  in July 2016  for her transportation needs.  Complications of renal failure plus her stroke condition finally took her life on Feb 28/2019.  Fast forward to Mar 12/2019, I brought home her ashes after the cremation and retired  in my room at about 8:30 p.m.  I went and sat at my bed with my back against the headboard and laid the iPad on top of my legs.  Reading the emailed prayers from her sisters thru the IPad, I began to pray. Halfway through my prayers, I was interrupted by SIRI  on my iPad screen.  I thought it was probably caused by electronic interference.  So to get rid of SIRI, I touched the home screen button and made it disappear.  These interruptions happened twice again. I told myself that if SIRI interrupted me again, I would have my finger ready to press the home button. But before I could do that on the last interruption, the screen changed to a black screen with this message 'I AM MARY GILDORE.'  Shocked and surprised, I screamed so loud that my 11 yr old grandson, Jesu, who was upstairs playing video games, came running down asking me, what had happened.  I told him, his grandma Mary had communicated thru the iPad.  Right then and there, he asked SIRI if there was any message from MARY GILDORE.  SIRI responded that MARY GILDORE was not in my contact list; which is true, my wife’s contact list name was 'MOM' on my devices.  I could not contain my happiness of this incident, that I called her brothers and sisters.   Not fully convinced of the encounter,   I then called Jun, a close friend of ours and retold the story.  He believed me as he had similar experience with his deceased mom years past.  Three days after, on March 15, 2019, I was praying again  using my iPad about the same time when SIRI’s black screen appeared with the following message being typed 'live' in yellow cursive handwriting 'ALWAYS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL, AS YOU WERE SAYING' and then disappeared.  Same scenario, I screamed and grandson came running down from upstairs.  I repeated to him the message .  He asked SIRI about the message and SIRI responded that it did not understand what he was talking about.  I could not remember the exact wordings of the message that I had to have Jesu repeat the message I had told him,  and I wrote it on a piece of paper.  I called his brothers and sisters and was told not to tell people about it as they might think I am crazy.  Then I followed up my call to Jun in which he told me that the first and second messages were connected.  This makes sense -'I AM MARY GILDORE,  ALWAYS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL,  AS YOU WERE SAYING.' With these communications, I remembered her last hours on her deathbed at the hospice on Feb 28, 2019, after the intubated plug was pulled out.  She breathed for another 2 and half hours on her own, before she expired.  During this period of waiting, her brothers and sisters said their final goodbyes  in her ears.  I whispered to her how much I loved her and would truly miss her, but I had to let her go, because she had suffered so much in the almost past 7 years.  I asked that when she goes to the next level of life, in wherever it is..... to 'please be my guardian angel.'

Second request was to please try to contact me thru any of the following means- email, text, smartphone, iPad, or whatever devices.  To accomplish this, I told her that she would need to contact techie guys in the next life, like Steve Jobs, and help her connect with a WiFi from there to our earthly life.  She had successfully fulfilled those requests...About a month after the Ipad incident,  I was going thru her medical billing folder when a piece of yellow post-it paper fell out of it.  My wife had always loved leaving notes all over - mostly expressing love and prayers and sometimes thoughts and phrases which caught her fancy.  This time this note shocked me because it confirmed the first request.  In her own writing, she had copied excerpts titled-'BE MY ANGEL'-'WHEN YOU LOSE A LOVED ONE ON THIS EARTH, YOU CAN GAIN AN ANGEL OF LOVE & LIGHT IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE' by OPRAH WINFREY.  Is this a coincidence or a confirmation of her being my guardian angel?

By Joe

Nov 18, 2019

Background Information:

Was this experience difficult to express in words?     No

Did you ONLY sense an awareness of presence of the deceased without actually seeing, hearing, feeling or smelling them?      Uncertain

Did you hear the deceased or hear something associated with the deceased?          No

Did you feel a touch or experience any physical contact from the deceased?         No

Did you see the deceased?       No

Did you smell a distinct smell, scent, fragrance or odor associated with the deceased? No

How long did the experience last?      1-2 minutes in each instance

Was the beginning and end of the experience gradual or more sudden?       Sudden

How do you currently view the reality of your experience?          Experience was definitely real

          Please explain why you view the reality of your experience as real or not real:   Because circumstances before and after the experiences support it

          Was the experience dream like in any way?  No 

Describe in detail your feelings/emotions during the experience:  Very happy that my wife fulfilled my requests

Was there any emotional healing in any way following the experience? Yes

I am at peace when she communicated what I had requested her.

What was the best and worst part of your experience?          Best part was, she was able to reach me using the medium that I had requested.  Worst part was, I have been expecting future encounters with hi tech devices and it has not happened.

Did the experience give you any spiritual understandings such as life, death, afterlife, God, etc.?          Yes    That there is God and afterlife

Death Compacts are when two or more living people promise among themselves that whoever dies first will try to contact the other(s).  Have you ever made such a compact?    Uncertain

What emotions did you feel during the experience?          Like I said happy

Was the experience witnessed or experienced by others?          No

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?  No

Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?         No

Did you become aware of future events?      No

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?      No

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?   No

Did you meet or see any other beings other than the deceased?   No

Did you see a light?        No

Did any part of your experience seem to occur in a place other than the location described above?     No

Have you shared this experience with others?       Yes    Majority were skeptical.

Have you shared this experience formally or informally with any other researcher or web site?         No

Were there any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?          No

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?       No 

Did you ever in your life have a near-death experience, out of body experience or other spiritual event? No 

Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?           Yes

Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.       Any similar experience of using hi tech devices ?