Author's Note

I have been given an incredible gift, I haven’t known how to use it. I tried sharing it. I tried hiding it. I tried forgetting about it. But nothing changed its presence or influence on my life. At first I didn’t see it as a gift. Partly because I didn’t believe it was true. Partly because when he died I was heartbroken. But I came around on both accounts and you’ll see why.

After all is said and done, a collection will be published for the rest of the world to see and know what a spiritual master John Denver was as well as a musical one.

When someone you love passes, it’s one thing to believe in life after death and know they are OK, but it’s quite another to be shown that your “real” relationship with that person has actually just begun and that you have work to do together! It’s not your everyday arrangement, after all, and one that most people feel uncomfortable discussing. Especially if it’s with a well-known person and someone you have not known personally during their lifetime. But when that person presses on and on from the other side, you have no choice but to pay attention and honor your agreement to do what you came to this planet to do. People who don’t understand will think you’re crazy. People will be jealous that it’s you and not them (even though it could be them, but they chose not to enter into such an agreement - they have their own). Your family may accuse you of abandoning them as they are unable to see the bigger picture. You learn a new definition of “normal”.

When John “died”, part of my earthly bonds were released. I reached above the illusion and touched forever. This book began as a project in 1997 in collaboration with him. I didn’t realize that at first; I was just writing down my experiences so I could look at them more objectively at a later date in order to determine whether or not I was crazy.

That began what has resulted in a book of experiences over the past 18+ years, that will be published when it is completed. Not just my own experiences, but those of many others in our soul group. And for just as many as are told, there are myriads of tales and tellers that are not known, or may ever be known. And there are new stories to tell every day.

But several years later, this is what he told me:

“Let’s get down to business! You can write a letter explaining our project, its purpose, how we are laying it out, etc. Like this:

“This is our after-death study to prove that life continues on, merely in another realm. We are aware of you, but it is much harder for you to perceive us over here. When you are here [on the other side] observing humanity, it is as a parent observing their sleeping child. The parent realizes the child is there, but the child is unaware.

“Death is simply the other side of life. There is already a system set in place in order for us on the other side to communicate with you. It is a system set outside of time and space, yet is designed to work within the 'lower' dimensions in an organized and orderly fashion. I am working with some of you on this, and I am happy with what we are doing along those lines. I’m sure I don’t just speak for myself when I say—celebrate my life, do not mourn my death, because I still live…more so now without the limitations of a physical body. Death is an illusion, my friends… You’ll see and laugh one day, as I do now. And believe me, you WILL laugh—at yourself, for forgetting this truth!

“All human conditions are temporary. We take them on as part of our skill development. They are apparatuses that come with the job, so-to-speak. But they are also opportunities to hone our own creative abilities, as our Creator wants us to do. When we plan our lives, we also work these conditions into our agenda. But since there really is no time, we are free to change this agenda whenever we feel it is no longer serving our purpose! That is one of the key points to remember: that sometimes when it seems there is no way out...there is...we mustn’t give up. We must only GIVE.”

So he would like it to be a “study” about how our loved ones communicate with us (or attempt to get our attention), from the other side. A study about things like feathers, flowers, stars, clouds, birds, rainbows, songs, dreams, synchronicity, telepathy and the many other ways they try and reach out to us. A study, rather than an account, leaves room for error and interpretation.

This work is the culmination (but not the final result) of the past 19 years of that project.