Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg

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Signs of Life Radio Show is a unique radio show dedicated to the exploration of Life After Death! Call In or just listen to top Scientists, Mediums, and Researchers discuss their personal work in the field and answer your most perplexing questions. Topics will include: Mediumship, Near Death Experiences, Death Bed Visions, Reincarnation, Apparitions and Poltergeists, After Death Communication, ESP and Telepathy, Survival of Consciousness, and the list is endless! Programming Schedule for Signs of Life, a Forever Family Foundation production - First Thursday of each month: The Gathering with Bob Ginsberg, Tom and Melissa Gould, and Marta Kane - Second Thursday of each month: Medium Insights with Roman Karpishka interviewing a FFF Certified Medium - Third Thursday of each month: Mediums and Messages with Joe Perreta with a Psychic-Medium (giving readings) - Fourth Thursday of each month: Personal Experiences with Dr. Betty Kovacs, Janet Mayer and Kimberly Saavedra - Fifth Thursday of each month: Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg and guest (when there is 5 weeks to the month) Signs of Life Radio Show is a unique radio show dedicated to the exploration of Life After Death! Call In or just listen to top Scientists, Mediums, and Researchers discuss their personal work in the field and answer your most perplexing questions. Topics will include: Mediumship, Near Death Experiences, Death Bed Visions, Reincarnation, Apparitions and Poltergeists, After Death Communication, ESP and Telepathy, Survival of Consciousness, and the list is endless!

  1. Oct 31

    Signs of Life, October 30, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg Shared Death Experiences, Life Reviews, and Terminal Lucidity with William Peters Host Bob Ginsberg talks with researcher and grief therapist William Peters, founder of the Shared Crossing Project and author of At Heaven's Door, about shared death experiences, in which caregivers, loved ones, or bystanders witness a dying person's passage into the afterlife alongside them. Introducing the Shared Death Experience Bob Ginsberg opens Signs of Life by welcoming William Peters, founder of the Shared Crossing Project and author of At Heaven's Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach Us About Dying Well and Living Better. Ginsberg recalls polling a recent conference audience and finding most attendees knew about near-death experiences while almost none had heard of shared death experiences, and asks Peters to define the phenomenon. Peters explains that a shared death experience mirrors a near-death experience but from the perspective of a caregiver, loved one, or even a bystander present at someone's transition, who is drawn into witnessing the early stages of the afterlife alongside the dying person. He describes seeing deceased relatives form a greeting party, encountering elevated beings called conductors who guide the soul out of the body, glimpsing luminous landscapes, and sensing an ascent toward light, framing the shared death experience as fundamentally a journey or travel narrative shared between the living and the dying. Three Types of Life Review Ginsberg asks whether someone sitting with a dying loved one can witness that person's life review, and Peters outlines three categories drawn from the project's research. The most common shows the experiencer and the dying person's shared history together, often highlighting love and growth even in strained relationships; Peters shares his own case, recalling a distant bond with his businessman father that the review reframed around moments of joy. The second type reveals only the dying person's own life review, which Peters illustrates through a client estranged from her dying mother who, after witnessing her mother's abusive childhood, found compassion and forgiveness. The rarest, occurring in roughly three percent of cases, delivers the experiencer's own life review unrelated to the dying person, often arriving as a pointed message about living with greater integrity. Peters says each type serves a distinct healing purpose, whether repairing a relationship, explaining a loved one's behavior, or prompting personal change. Remote Experiences and the Shared Crossing Project Ginsberg notes his surprise at learning how often shared death experiences happen without physical proximity, and Peters confirms that in the project's original study of one hundred sixty-two cases, sixty-four percent occurred remotely, with experiencers sensing a loved one's death down the hall, across town, or across the globe, often through waking visions rather than dreams. Peters traces the Shared Crossing Project back to 2012, explaining that it began as an effort to teach people methods for inducing the experience but shifted toward rigorous documentation once it became clear skeptics doubted the phenomenon itself rather than resisting the techniques. Drawing on his years as a hospice worker and his own shared death experiences, Peters describes building what he calls the world's largest collection of documented cases, publishing in academic and medical journals, and running a free twice-monthly sharing group that regularly draws fifty to one hundred participants eager to discuss their own encounters with the dying process. Terminal Lucidity and a Personal Out-of-Body Vision Ginsberg describes watching his comatose mother-in-law suddenly regain full lucidity for twenty-four hours before her death, a pattern doctors could never explain, and Peters confirms witnessing the phenomenon, called terminal lucidity, many times during his years at a San Francisco public hospital's open hospice ward, where unresponsive patients would abruptly sit up, speak clearly, and ask for belongings before returning to decline within days. Peters calls it a last expression of vitality as consciousness loosens its ties to a failing brain, consistent with his rejection of scientific materialism in favor of what he calls a filter theory of consciousness. He then shares his own shared death experience with a hospice patient named Ron, recalling how he was reading aloud from Jack London's Call of the Wild when he suddenly found himself hovering above both their bodies, watching Ron's smiling face show him, as Peters puts it, where I hang out every now and then. Conductors, Spirit Beings, and Shared Witnesses Peters details the varied beings experiencers describe meeting during a transition, from a role he calls the conductor, who guides the soul and can appear as a regal woman, a shadowy tall figure, or occasionally a cloaked, hooded presence, to rarer appearances attributed to Jesus or to councils of elder-like spirits offering assessment rather than judgment. He tells Ginsberg that fathers dying alongside daughters account for roughly twenty-seven percent of cases, with mothers and children, spouses, and friends making up much of the rest. Peters also discusses multi-person shared death experiences, found in about eleven percent of documented cases but likely closer to twenty or thirty percent in reality, since many family members who witness something together decline to come forward out of fear of being labeled, which Ginsberg compares to the broader stigma that keeps both the public and researchers quiet about such encounters even as near-death experiences gain mainstream acceptance. Sympathetic Experiences and Lasting Aftereffects Peters describes sympathetic shared death experiences, in which a person far from a dying loved one suddenly feels chest pressure, dizziness, or sweating, only to learn minutes later that the person died at that exact moment, a pattern he says also appears painfully among mothers sensing a child's opioid overdose. Ginsberg asks about loved ones verbally giving a dying person permission to let go, and Peters ties this to an energetic shift as the soul sheds the weight of the body and rises in frequency, pulling attuned witnesses into the threshold experience. Peters closes by detailing aftereffects shared with near-death experiencers, including a roughly eighty-nine percent drop in fear of death, strong belief in continued consciousness, eased grief from knowing a loved one is okay, and new psychic or mediumistic sensitivities, including a current client approached by a hundred deceased people. Ginsberg thanks Peters and points listeners to sharedcrossing.com.

  2. Oct 23

    Signs of Life - Personal Experiences, October 22, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg Personal Experiences A Teacher in Meditation, Spirit at Mount Shasta, and a Caller's Haunting After Her Son's Drowning On this Personal Experiences hour of Signs of Life, hosts Kimberly Saavedra, Betty Kovacs, and Janet Mayer trade their own afterlife stories, from a meditation vision of a teacher to ashes scattered at Mount Shasta, before a caller named Crystal describes a haunting that followed her toddler son's drowning. Opening the Call-In Hour Kimberly Saavedra opens this Personal Experiences hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation by explaining that, unlike weeks built around a medium, tonight centers on listeners' own direct encounters with the afterlife. She reads the toll-free call-in numbers for inside and outside North America and reminds listeners that the show cannot promote anyone's books or services, even as it celebrates the people doing that work. Saavedra introduces her co-hosts for the evening, describing herself as Director of the Kamlak Center in Claremont, California, Janet Mayer as a Forever Family Foundation Certified Medium and author of Spirits, They Are Present, and Betty Kovacs as the author of The Miracle of Death and Merchants of Light. The three exchange warm greetings, with Saavedra welcoming Mayer back after a month away on vacation, before settling in to see what each has brought to discuss for the hour. A Teacher Comes Through in Meditation Janet Mayer describes a vision from that morning's meditation in which she sensed the presence of a teacher and first wondered whether a caller might turn out to be one. She says the feeling resolved into a broader message, that everyone has a teacher and the task is simply to stay open and listen, because loved ones and guides send messages that go unnoticed when attention lapses. Mayer ties this to her belief that culture trains people away from their natural spiritual sensitivity, urging listeners to sit in silence, whether at home, in a car, or at a park, and notice what surfaces. She distinguishes clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience as different channels through which people receive, and stresses that spirits never waste a message, delivering only what matters in whatever brief window of openness they are given. The Heart's Energy and Interconnection Betty Kovacs builds on Mayer's point, arguing that every person functions as a teacher whether aware of it or not, since quantum physics now suggests thought, word, and gesture register in a universal field and affect everything around them. She describes being embedded from the atomic to the cosmic scale, and cites researchers at HeartMath who have measured the heart's electromagnetic field extending ten to twelve feet outward in the shape of a torus, which she says explains why a person senses a stranger's mood nearby or feels a room's energy shift when someone enters. Kovacs recalls a physicist making a similar point about every atom being connected to every other. Mayer adds that paying attention to subtle discomfort, such as sitting near a stressed stranger in an airport, is really the sixth sense at work, and that honoring those nuances helps people connect more clearly with loved ones on the other side. Spirit and Matter Are One at Mount Shasta With no calls yet on the line, Kovacs shares the story of scattering her son's ashes at Mount Shasta after his death, honoring his wish to have his remains taken to sacred ground. Neither she, her husband, nor her son's girlfriend Jenny knew the mountain, but a clerk at a Native American store directed them to Panther Meadows, a name that resonated because her son's power animal, tattooed on his arm, had been a black panther. Jenny located the exact spot Kovacs had already seen in a dream before the trip. Standing in a circle facing the four directions, each of them sensed their son's presence pass to them with the same message: spirit and matter are one. Kovacs says she has never forgotten the phrase, and Saavedra and Mayer both reflect on how the shared dream and the clerk's unprompted direction reinforced one another. Dream Warnings and a Vision of a Healing Earth Saavedra reads two cases from Diane Arcangel's book Afterlife Encounters: a young widower named Gary who sees his late wife appear while washing a new car, telling him not to bother because he will be with her soon, hours before he dies in a crash, and a man named Ronald whose late brother visits in a dream to warn that his brother's wife is forging his signature and post-dating checks to drain the family business, a tip that proves true. Kovacs calls the specificity of such warnings remarkable. The talk turns darker as Kovacs recalls a 2018 shamanic experience in which a feminine voice told her that souls are being born in waves through portals the earth opens as it releases its darkest shadow to heal, preparing the way for children already connected to spirit. The voice insisted the process is organized and cooperative, and that healing, though slow, is certain. Crystal's Call: A Son Lost to Drowning A caller named Crystal describes losing her son, not yet four, in a drowning accident in 2023, and a frightening haunting that followed weeks later in her apartment, documented in photographs and videos she says show clear faces. Mayer suggests the intensity reflects grief's raw energy colliding with her son's attempts to reach her rather than anything negative, while Kovacs, recalling her own son's fatal accident, notes that Crystal's sudden, unwarned loss likely made the surrounding energy feel more chaotic. Crystal mentions a recent miscarriage falling near her son's due date and says she no longer believes in coincidence, and the hosts encourage her to focus her energy and simply ask what the presences want her to know. Mayer closes by comparing unsettling signs, including electronic voice phenomena she has recorded herself, to messages that sound strange but carry loving intent. Saavedra confirms this is the year's final Personal Experiences broadcast before January, and Mayer leads the closing prayer.

  3. Oct 16

    Signs of Life - Mediums & Messages, October 15, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg Tattoos, Terrier-Faced Sons, and Dimes From Heaven: Mediums & Messages with Sirry Berndsen On this Mediums & Messages hour of Signs of Life, host Joe Perreta welcomes certified medium Sirry Berndsen back to talk about scientific testing of mediumship before turning the phone lines over to three callers hoping to hear from fathers, husbands, and a lost son. A Retreat Announcement and a Returning Medium Joe Perreta opens Mediums & Messages on Signs of Life Radio for the Forever Family Foundation, inviting listeners to call in live at the show's toll-free number and suggesting a landline for the clearest reception. He thanks sponsor Hugs from Heaven, which turns loved ones' clothing into keepsakes, and previews the foundation's Winter Grief Transformation Retreat running January fifteenth through seventeenth, an all-inclusive weekend he notes was featured on the Netflix series Surviving Death. Before opening the phones, Perreta introduces tonight's guest medium, Sirry Berndsen, describing her as a certified Forever Family Foundation medium, grief recovery specialist, Reiki master, and multilingual visual artist originally from Iceland who has traveled widely. The two trade warm, teasing banter about social media oddly surfacing Perreta's posts on Berndsen's feed, and about the habit of posting lighter content to draw people toward more serious work, setting a familiar, easy tone between old friends before the evening's readings begin. Inside the University of Virginia Lab Perreta and Berndsen revisit their shared experience being tested at the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, a quadruple-blinded study delayed by the pandemic that Berndsen completed in February of 2020, just before shutdowns began. Both recall being sealed inside a soundproof, vault-like room wired with roughly sixty electrodes to monitor brainwaves, forbidden to move for fear of creating recording artifacts, and given no feedback on accuracy the way a normal reading allows. Berndsen laughs about the gel cap tangling her thick hair and about being told to receive and stop receiving on command, unlike her natural flow. She recalls an MRI scan afterward and hearing researchers say mediums' brains light up differently, while Perreta jokes that he still keeps his own MRI disc in a drawer at home. Both call the Forever Family Foundation's own certification test the hardest they have faced, though Berndsen says she passed on her first try. A Guarded Question About Star Beings Berndsen shifts to a recent research request from an unnamed organization asking mediums about non-human intelligence, which she says touched on what she calls star beings, describing having had several back-and-forth encounters she once feared made her sound crazy until other people validated similar experiences. She declines to give details, saying it is not her place to share what was asked, though she notes the reporting period has just closed. Perreta says he also contributed a different, unrelated validating story to the same inquiry without elaborating. Both agree the broader science of consciousness and survival research continues quietly behind the scenes even when the public hears little about it, and that such work extends well beyond spirit communication alone. Perreta then reintroduces Berndsen by her full name and website, spiritoflight.com, joking about mangling her Icelandic surname, before the two finally turn to the night's three waiting callers. Kathy and a Father Taken by Lung Cancer Kathy from Pennsylvania asks for a connection, and Berndsen brings through a man she places as Kathy's husband, a father of two who died from lung cancer that spread to his brain, affecting his speech in his final two months. Kathy confirms he passed three days before Thanksgiving, after nearly fourteen years. Berndsen describes a grandson born in 2023, a daughter who lives near farmland and recently miscarried, and a coming pregnancy she says he will help guide to term around a February tied to his brother's birthday. She also names found dimes, which Kathy says happen constantly, and mixed-up family names shared between relatives. Kathy confirms detail after detail, including the brain-related illness and a prior reading with another medium that first brought him through, before Berndsen closes by promising the grieving heart will feel joy again near the holidays. Susan, a Sudden Loss, and Joe's Own Family Susan from New York asks for a connection, and as Berndsen describes a man who died suddenly away from home with a chest-related cause, Perreta interrupts, startled that the details match his own late grandfather, who suffered a heart attack while driving and whose death his mother did not learn of until later. Berndsen, visibly unsettled that the message crossed over to the host, briefly reads for Perreta before apologizing to Susan and resetting. She then confirms Susan lost a son, a young man whose T-shirts remain boxed in a closet, who struggled with substance use and mental health from his mid-teens, and who died of what Berndsen describes as an accidental overdose. Susan confirms the son had a patchy, terrier-like beard and that she and his father once quietly worried how long he would live. Berndsen closes by saying the song My Way by Frank Sinatra represents his peace with how his life unfolded. Peggy's Husband and a Call to Bring Back Laughter Peggy from Pennsylvania asks for her husband, and Berndsen describes a man with a chin dimple like actor Kirk Douglas, a lover of elaborate Christmas lights and impressions in the style of Saturday Night Live performers, who was not a dancer, which Peggy confirms by saying he simply never liked to dance. Peggy mentions a pond in front of her house, which Berndsen had sensed, and confirms three daughters who no longer speak to each other since his passing, though one checks on her occasionally. Berndsen says his message centers on restoring laughter and joy to a family that has grown quiet in grief, especially around the holidays. Peggy asks whether he is sending someone else into her life, and Berndsen says she cannot confirm that, only his wish for joy to return. Perreta thanks Berndsen, who says her calendar is booked into January, and closes the broadcast reminding listeners their loved ones are a heartbeat away.

  4. Oct 10

    Signs of Life - Medium Insights, October 9, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg - Medium Insights with host Roman Karpishka and guest Certified FFF Medium Renee Buck Ancestral Spirits, Fraud In Mediumship, and the Telepathy Tapes Boom with Renee Buck On this Medium Insights hour of Signs of Life, host Roman Karpishka welcomes Minnesota medium Renee Buck back for a sixth visit to talk ancestor spirits, fading mediums who lose their gift, a funny message from her own late sister, and how the Telepathy Tapes podcast is bringing skeptics to her door. A Sixth Visit for Renee Buck Roman Karpishka opens the monthly Medium Insights hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation by welcoming back certified medium Renee Buck, whom he calculates is making her sixth appearance, tracked in saved files of listener questions he keeps between visits. He recaps her story: a Minnesota medium who had out-of-body experiences and prophetic dreams as a child, who did not consciously begin developing her gift until her forties through visits to spiritualist churches, and who now runs a thriving practice called Whispers From The Light. Karpishka reads the show's commercial-free call-in number and reminds listeners that tonight's questions concern mediumship itself rather than personal readings. The two trade easy small talk about unseasonably warm Minnesota weather, hockey loyalties including Karpishka's own Montreal Canadiens, and gentle teasing over Wisconsin versus Minnesota cheeseheads before settling into the evening's prepared questions. Generations of Spirits and Family History Karpishka reads a listener's question asking whether spirits who died half a century or more earlier ever come through, and how spirit feels about messages families cannot act on. Renee Buck says older relatives surface often, even when the sitter never met them personally, because families carry photos and stories that supply usable evidence. She notes that particular careers, talents, or themes tend to thread through generations, and spirits may reveal how long ago they lived, where they immigrated from, or what culture they carried, though confirming very distant ancestors is harder without documented evidence to draw on. Buck adds that loved ones in spirit care deeply about families knowing their own heritage, and she encourages listeners who have never researched family history to begin, since naming and knowing ancestors can draw them closer. Karpishka notes that without a sitter who recognizes the names or vernacular involved, a spirit may have little reason to come through at all. When Mediumship Goes Wrong The conversation turns to mediums who lose their way. Renee Buck says she has watched developing mediums with real ability fade once greed, ego, or a wish to manipulate sitters crept into their work, recalling one unnamed medium who used readings to steer people toward her own self-interest. Buck frames the gift as a kind of promise to spirit and to Source, one that must serve others rather than the medium herself. Karpishka raises the familiar pattern of well-known mediums whose published books later turned out to be ghostwritten, though neither names anyone directly. Buck then answers a question about timing after a loss, describing an early window when the newly passed linger to comfort the living, followed by what she calls a whiteout period of roughly two weeks to three months when the spirit is reintegrating and readings grow murky. She generally advises waiting about five months, so the connection clarifies and the sitter's own grief has calmed enough to meet spirit halfway. A Sister's Message About the Laundry Renee Buck shares a story from her mediumship class the previous night, in which a newer student brought through one of Buck's own late sisters, offering evidence about knitting, close friendships, and a homecoming chariot before blurting out the message put away the clothes, which Buck laughs is exactly the unfinished closet swap sitting in her bedroom and exactly her sister's old habit of nagging her to tidy up. The two then discuss split links, the spiritualist term for two spirits speaking through one channel at once, and why Buck rarely does group readings anymore, since multiple sitters on a call tend to throw out information all at once as they test what she can perceive, unlike platform work where she feels physically drawn toward one person at a time. Asked about alcohol and spirit communication, Buck says she only opens up during a reading or class, warning that drinking lowers vibration and makes it unclear who one is actually connecting with. Death's Manner, Reincarnation, and a Grieving Father Karpishka asks whether the manner of death shapes a reading, and Buck says it shapes what spirit wants to discuss first: overdoses, suicides, and sudden accidents often surface early because sitters carry questions about intent or regret, though every reading eventually turns toward peace and the spirit's ongoing growth. Karpishka shares that after his own son crossed over, strong signs arrived within a couple of months and continued for roughly a year afterward. He then reads a listener's letter from a grieving parent who fears a son's reincarnation might prevent a future reunion in spirit. Buck recommends Dr. Michael Newton's Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, explaining Newton's regression-based idea that a portion of every soul remains on the other side to greet loved ones even while other portions of that same soul energy may be living overlapping lifetimes on Earth. She calls the books ones she rereads annually before teaching her own retreats. Retreats, Workload, and the Telepathy Tapes Effect Karpishka asks how Buck trains new mediums, and she describes a five-day in-person retreat progression that begins with the energy body and chakras, moves into psychic exercises like telepathy before distinguishing psychic ability from mediumship, then introduces psychometry with objects and photographs before students work without any props at all. She says she never takes more than five two-to-three-hour readings a week and now does them entirely by phone rather than video, trusting her clairvoyant and clairsentient senses more with her eyes closed, a habit the pandemic made permanent. Buck credits the Telepathy Tapes podcast and Liz Entin's WTF Just Happened for bringing in skeptical, science-minded first-time clients, and Karpishka praises researcher Julie Beischel's mediumship studies. Before signing off, Buck plugs Whispers From The Light, says bookings run four to five months out, and mentions she is still finalizing dates for next spring's Minnesota retreat as Karpishka closes the hour.

  5. Oct 2

    Signs of Life - The Gathering, October 1, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg Signs After a Son's Death, Shared Death Experiences, and Trillions of Souls Bob Ginsberg and co-hosts Tom and Melissa Gould open The Gathering with a grieving mother's letter about her son's death, then take calls about a husband's final night, the purpose of suffering, and whether other worlds hold souls too. Opening Announcements and Allie's Letter Bob Ginsberg opens The Gathering on Signs of Life with co-hosts Tom and Melissa Gould, noting that Marta Kane could not join them, so the three will improvise the hour. Bob mentions a California mediumship and psychic development convention with only four or five seats left, and a January grief retreat in Fort Myers, Florida, that he believes runs January 15 through 17. Before opening the phone lines, he reads an email from a mother named Allie, whose son died unexpectedly on September 4, 2026. Today would have been his twentieth birthday. Allie writes that she keeps asking for signs, wonders whether her son needs time to learn how to reach them, and feels the Western world does not honor grief as much as it celebrates birth. She also notes that she has only three days of bereavement leave and is already rushed back to work. Bob agrees that three days is far too little. Signs, Subtle Messages, and a Group Dinner Bob answers Allie's question about an adjustment period by saying that for some people there may be one, especially those who did not believe in survival. He notes that many people communicate at or soon after death, and that some souls have a stronger resonance than others. Tom Gould advises Allie to stop pushing, because pressure and concentration can act as a block. He suggests meditation to clear the everyday mind and reminds her that most signs are subtle, such as a favorite song on the radio, a bird on the windowsill, or a coin on the ground. Tom then says grief must be felt fully, quoting a Forever Family Foundation facilitator: feel it until you don't feel it anymore. Melissa Gould adds that a recent group dinner of about twenty-five people, led by certified medium Gina Simone, unexpectedly brought through two newly passed spirits, which Simone found surprising. Fabi Recalls Her Husband's Final Night Fabi calls in on what she says is her late husband's birthday, and she recounts how he was attacked and killed abruptly at a property the couple owned while she was somewhere else. That evening she felt a presence holding her in place, and she had a horrible dream she still remembers clearly. Neighbors saw his car in the driveway, door open and engine running, and a shelf seemed to drop without falling. Fabi says he was found alive but was already in a transitioning state, and she had the same dream again on later nights while he was on life support. Bob Ginsberg says the dreams were communication frightening to her, not simply nightmares, and that the mind and soul continue when the body is failing. He mentions shared death experiences and says the evidence is mounting. Fabi says she had never heard of them but now sees that he was trying to reach her. She recalls growing up across the street from him. Melissa asks his name; Fabi says it was Tony. Alissa Asks Why Suffering Exists Alissa calls in, saying her mother's painful death led her to this work, and she describes years in global humanitarian development in places where people endure intense suffering. She asks whether anyone who connects with the other side has learned why such horrors happen, and whether people choose their hardships before birth. Bob Ginsberg calls it an age-old question, one his own family asks about relatives lost in the Holocaust. He says there are no definitive answers, that events may happen for a reason we see only from the other side, and that free will plays a role. Tom Gould describes what the Goulds have heard about a soul contract, and says that the joy and love found on the other side make hardship on this plane a kind of training ground, where compassion is learned. Melissa Gould adds that these events may be part of growth that elevates souls. Alissa says the words help her see that human history holds similar cruelty, and she notes that suffering is relative. Birth, Death, and Tim's Trillion Galaxies Bob Ginsberg poses a question about how birth and death are alike, both moving from the known into the unknown. He recalls that he once thought birth was the mystical moment, but after years of being present at deaths he now finds dying just as sacred, and both are surrounded by love. Tom Gould says both are transitions between realms, and Melissa Gould recalls The Testimony of Light, which describes the newly passed waking into a loving world the way a newborn wakes among family. Tim calls next, saying the scientists now count some two trillion galaxies and offering a comparison with dollar bills laid side by side. He asks where all the potential other afterlives might be and whether other intelligent beings have them too. Bob jokes that Tim always asks the easiest questions, then suggests each galaxy or constellation may have its own next sphere, while Tom Gould points to quantum physics and the space between particles, where energy resides and room for trillions may exist. Spirit Sight, Bigelow Research, and a Last Call Tom Gould mentions the Seth Speaks writings, in which the entity Seth says he could describe the afterlife fully but a human brain could not handle it. Bob Ginsberg names a certified medium, Sirry Berndsen, who he says communicates with non-human entities and took part in his Bigelow Institute research study, though he admits nothing of that can be corroborated. Tim recalls the Bigelow essay contest, saying the thousands of pages he read rarely addressed the larger question of other worlds. Bob reads a question about whether loved ones can see the living. He recalls a dream visit from his late wife, Fran, who told him she could see only colors and shapes, and Melissa Gould suggests spiritual sight may develop over time, as it does for newborns. With four minutes left, Bob invites a quick question, and a Chicago listener who learned about the foundation from The Telepathy Tapes asks whether the hosts are mediums. The broadcast closes with the Global Peace Prayer and Melissa Gould's reminder that loved ones are only a heartbeat away.

  6. Sep 25

    Signs of Life - Personal Experiences, September 24, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg. Personal Experiences hosts Kimberly Saavedra and Dr. Betty Kovacs Pennies, Radio Songs, and a Slamming Exercise Band: Callers Share After-Death Signs and Near-Death Visions On this Personal Experiences edition of Signs of Life, hosts Kimberly Saavedra and Dr. Betty Kovacs read after-death encounter stories from Diane Arcangel and Melvin Morse and take calls from Melanie in Nevada and Marlene in Massachusetts, who describe pennies, a radio song, and other unmistakable signs from parents and partners who have died. A Personal Experiences Evening Without Janet Mayer Kimberly Saavedra opens this Personal Experiences hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation, explaining that unlike the show's medium-focused episodes, tonight centers on listeners' own encounters with the afterlife, no medium required. She reads the call-in numbers for North America and international callers and thanks everyone who has shared stories in the past, saying it means more than they may realize. She introduces her co-host, Dr. Betty Kovacs, author of The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life and Merchants of Light, and notes that Janet Mayer is absent this evening but will return next month. The two settle into an easy exchange about the courage it takes to call in, agreeing that anonymity helps callers open up, and that listeners who stay quiet often reach out afterward to say how much the stories meant to them, even when the phone lines stay silent during the broadcast itself. Betty Kovacs On Awakening And The Biofield Dr. Betty Kovacs reflects on living in what she calls a suppressed and repressed world, one that inherited a centuries-old belief that death ends everything, a worldview she says causes needless suffering. She reads from Victor and Wendy Zammit's Friday Afterlife Report a channeled passage urging people not to give in to darkness but to keep sending light, calling the present moment a great awakening organized like a trauma center on the other side. She describes the biofield, the shared energetic space she says every experience of spirit ripples through, magnifying whatever is shared rather than staying contained to one person. Kimberly Saavedra likens grief to a journey through that same trauma center, and Kovacs recalls her late husband's vision of their son Pisti on a mountain in Peru, telling him that even the horizon is not the limit, a memory she says took her years to fully understand. Melanie's Penny And A Text Thread From Mom Melanie calls from Nevada, a regular listener nearing the six-year anniversary of her daughter Quincy's crossing and the first anniversary of her mother's death on August 30. She explains that her mother, married 76 years before her father died, was never a subtle communicator, so Melanie was surprised by what came through after a long-delayed driveway renovation, paid for partly with her inheritance, finally finished just days before the anniversary. Standing on the new porch, she finds a penny on the step, which she credits to her daughter. Sending a celebratory group text to her siblings, she later learns, to her shock, that it landed on the one dormant thread the family used a year earlier to announce their mother's hospitalization and stroke. Melanie calls it her mother's clumsy but unmistakable way of saying she is present, and a photo of her parents together that surfaces unbidden on her phone that same night. Marlene's Signs From Her Soul Partner Marlene calls from Massachusetts to describe the wave of signs that followed the death of her partner, a heavy metal musician she calls the love of her life. The day he died, she opens the console of his car and finds a dental floss package with the word Hi printed on the back. Renting a car soon after, a song he wrote for her plays unprompted on the radio. Walking laps around a nearby pond in her grief, she keeps finding stones painted with messages like I love you. The most striking sign comes when a resistance band looped over her doorknob lifts on its own and slaps against the door before falling still, a moment she says ends with her feeling slammed back into her own body. She adds that after being resuscitated during his hospitalization, her partner told her he saw a white light, and that a medium at a Forever Family Foundation grief retreat later told her he had struggled to let go because he did not want to leave her. Hidden Money And A Verified Red Shoe Kimberly Saavedra turns to Diane Arcangel's book Afterlife Encounters, reading the story of Houston businessman Charles Vance, visited in a dream by Murphy, a modest former vacuum cleaner store owner who tells him where he hid a large sum of money inside a wall, near a light socket, and asks that the message reach his widow, Lorraine. A year later, Lorraine confirms she found the money exactly where the dream described, just before a remodeling project would have exposed the hidden cash to demolition, and her daughter in Florida reports an identical dream with the same vivid, three-dimensional imagery. Betty Kovacs answers with a story from Dr. Melvin Morse about a heart transplant patient whose son-in-law, alone at home, wakes to see her standing at the foot of his bed telling him she will be fine, at the exact moment her heart stopped on the operating table. Kovacs follows with Morse's famous account of a man who left his body during surgery and correctly described a red tennis shoe sitting on a sixth-floor windowsill, later verified by hospital staff. Closing Stories Of Comfort And Recognition Betty Kovacs shares more accounts from Morse's Parting Visions, including two young cancer patients, Sandra and Chrissy, who never meet in life but reunite in a vision that erases Sandra's fear of death, and a woman who watches her room fill with light and hears a gentle voice say I'm taking him with me the night her father dies. Kimberly Saavedra reads two entries from Arcangel's collection: a stepfather's dream visit asking his stepdaughter, nicknamed Debba, to reassure his grieving wife, and an Argentine grandmother, Maria Elena, so skeptical of an afterlife that she hides under the covers rather than face her late grandson Pablo's luminous apparition at her bedroom door. Kovacs then recalls her own vision of translucent spirit beings at Lake Titicaca, long before any family loss, and closes with a shared vision she and her brother-in-law describe involving her son Pisti and the highway accident in Hungary that killed her husband, a passage that grows tangled in the source transcript. Saavedra thanks Melanie and Marlene for calling as the broadcast ends.

  7. Sep 18

    Signs of Life - Mediums and Messages, September 17, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg Research-Tested Mediumship and Live Caller Readings with Joanne Gerber Mediums and Messages host Joe Perreta welcomes lab-tested, Forever Family Foundation certified medium Joanne Gerber for an evening of live call-in readings connecting four callers with mothers, a son, a father and brother, and a grandmother in spirit. Announcements And Introducing Joanne Gerber Joe Perreta opens this Mediums and Messages hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation, reminding listeners to call in on a landline for the best reception and thanking sponsor Hugs from Heaven, which turns clothing into keepsakes. He previews two upcoming events: an October 24 and 25 psychic and mediumship development convention with an optional Friday dinner featuring Laura Lynne Jackson and Travis Holp, and a January 15 through 17 winter grief transformation retreat held at an intimate, bucolic center, which he notes was featured in the Netflix series Surviving Death. Perreta then introduces tonight's guest medium, Joanne Gerber, describing her as a Forever Family Foundation certified medium and a certified research medium with the Windbridge Institute, holder of a business administration and marketing degree, Reiki certified, certified in clinical and metaphysical hypnotherapy, lab certified through the University of Arizona's VERITAS Research Program, and an ordained spiritual minister. Inside The World Of Tested Mediums Perreta and Gerber compare notes on being research-tested mediums, a topic they realize they have never discussed on air. Gerber explains she was certified through the University of Arizona in 2007, before the Windbridge Institute existed, undergoing triple-blind readings given by phone with no feedback from anyone on the line, an experience she compares to doing radio into dead air. She recalls people around her reacting with alarm when she left her business to pursue mediumship, and now those same people ask her to read for friends. The two discuss why certification matters, since many self-styled mediums claim credentials without any real testing process, and they distinguish between an accurate reading and one that is both accurate and specific, using a joking example about hair color. Gerber calls herself a healthy skeptic who wanted proof her work was genuine connection rather than simple psychic guessing. She also plugs a demonstration this weekend with Reverend Kathleen Hoffman at the First Spiritualist Church of Onset, Massachusetts, tickets available through her website. Sandy Connects With Her Mother The phone lines open with Sandy from New York, who asks for a mini reading. Gerber connects with a maternal energy and describes a mother who was strong-minded and held on despite a difficult final illness, a homebody who preferred family closeness over travel and disliked flying. Sandy confirms her mother suffered end-stage Alzheimer's, developed pneumonia, and went septic, and that her father, still living when her mother passed, has since died as well and now stands beside her in spirit. Gerber's impressions about Sandy's mother running the household and playing matchmaker draw gentle pushback, though Sandy agrees her mother was deeply opinionated about her relationships. Gerber describes a woman who entrusted Sandy with family matters and who, from the other side, expresses regret for not always showing appreciation while alive. She mentions an unidentified J-name and a coming celebration, perhaps a wedding or engagement, that Sandy cannot yet place. The reading closes with Sandy's father adding, through Gerber, that her mother wants more conversation than he does. Susan Hears From Her Son Michael Susan from New York calls next, and Gerber first senses a mother's energy with a strong sense of humor before a younger male presence comes through more urgently. Susan confirms the connection is her son, whose sudden, accidental passing Gerber describes as unexpected rather than self-inflicted, a detail Susan validates. Gerber picks up specific details: Susan keeps his wallet, sits near his photograph, and feels his presence riding along in her car. She identifies the M initial as Michael and names his brother Matthew, prompting Susan's emotional confirmation. Gerber describes Michael as independent-minded, unafraid of peer pressure, fond of the outdoors, and connected to a dog, which Susan clarifies belonged to people he lived with for a time rather than to him directly. Gerber notes a fondness for T-shirts that Susan confirms she still keeps, and closes by naming a March 30 birthday, which Susan confirms exactly. Susan thanks Gerber, calling the reading very helpful as the segment ends. Michelle's Father And Brother Come Through Michelle from Massachusetts requests a reading, and Gerber describes an older father figure who kept health worries private to avoid burdening his family, a trait Michelle recognizes. Gerber senses Michelle is one of two children and describes a sharp, well-read father who followed current events and markets closely, which Michelle confirms. A second male presence follows, and Michelle reveals her brother is also in spirit, killed instantly in a car accident with no known prior health issue, a passing Michelle says she still questions. Gerber offers several impressions, including foreign coins found in the family house, a Winnebago motorhome her father drove on family trips, and an occasional after-dinner cigarette her brother sometimes smoked, all of which Michelle confirms to varying degrees. Names like Benny, Pat, and Bill draw no recognition. Gerber senses Michelle is weighed down by sorting sentimental belongings left behind, which Michelle confirms she is doing in her basement, and passes along her father's encouragement to ask for help rather than carry the task alone. Ariel's Grandmother Sends Signs From Spirit The final call comes from Ariel in New Mexico, and Gerber connects with a maternal-side grandmother rather than Ariel's still-living mother. She describes a beautiful, simple-living woman who painted, especially flowers, kept a garden, and wrote personal notes inside cards she exchanged with Ariel, all of which Ariel confirms. Gerber mentions a California connection to living relatives and a great-uncle nearing the end of his life, details Ariel verifies. An image of a towering tree leads Gerber to say the word Sequoia, and Ariel confirms she has visited Sequoia National Park. Gerber notes Ariel wears her grandmother's ring and describes a maiden name starting with M, both validated. She adds that Ariel has recently felt a touch on her head, which Ariel says she and her mother already recognize as a sign from her grandmother. Perreta then thanks Joanne Gerber, directs listeners to joannegerber.com and the Forever Family Foundation's medium list, and closes the broadcast reminding listeners that loved ones remain, as he puts it, a heartbeat away.

  8. Sep 11

    Signs of Life, September 10, 2026

    Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg Negative Energy, Grief Counseling, and the Ethics of Delivering Messages with Dusten Lyvers Medium Insights host Roman Karpishka catches up with newly credentialed Dr. Dusten Lyvers, a Forever Family Foundation certified medium, about negative energy, Ouija boards, grief therapy, and the ethics of delivering difficult messages from spirit. A Reunion And A New Doctorate Roman Karpishka opens Signs of Life's Medium Insights hour by welcoming back certified Forever Family Foundation medium Dusten Lyvers, joking about the pronunciation of his last name and tracing it to an old family surname, Levers, recorded in an ancestry book dating to 1669. Lyvers shares that since his last appearance, around Christmas, he has finished a seven-year doctoral journey and can now be called Dr. Dusten. Karpishka congratulates him, and the two banter about hair, aging, and Theresa Caputo's line that 'the higher the hair, the closer to God.' The mood is warm and unhurried, setting up an hour built around open conversation rather than readings; Karpishka repeats his standing rule that the show never delivers messages on air. He reminds listeners they can call in with questions, and the two settle into catching up before turning to the heavier subject of the approaching anniversary of September 11. 9/11 And The Weight Of Loss With the anniversary of September 11 one day away, Karpishka asks whether the date feels different to a medium who works with grieving clients across the country. Lyvers says the heaviness is constant in his practice because most of his clients live in the United States and many have been touched by the day personally or know someone who was. He describes reading a few weeks earlier for a woman whose relative was near the city during the attacks, calling it a significant moment for her. Karpishka suggests the emotional weight builds like a bell curve around the date itself. The exchange is brief but sets a reflective tone, linking personal loss to the wider themes the show returns to throughout the hour: how spirit communication intersects with real grief, how mediums carry the emotional residue of their clients' histories, and how national tragedies leave traces that Lyvers says he can still sense years later in the people who come to him for readings. Negative Energy, Ouija Boards, And Real Exorcists Caller Tim from Pennsylvania, prompted by the coming anniversary, asks about evil and negative energy in the afterlife given conflicting claims from mediums, religions, and Ouija board warnings. Lyvers says he was the only medium in a Forever Family Foundation study for the Bigelow Institute of Consciousness Studies who described encountering negative manifestations of energy rather than only positive ones. He recalls investigating reportedly haunted locations with Michiana Paranormal Investigations and feeling watched and unwelcome, and argues most mediums simply block themselves off from that side. He advises that Ouija boards are tools requiring protection and intention rather than something to avoid outright. Talk turns to The Exorcist, with Karpishka calling it the scariest film ever made, and Lyvers describing real exorcists connected to Notre Dame University near his home in South Bend, Indiana, while stressing that genuine hauntings are rare compared with psychic imprints. Tim also recalls predicting, before the last election, that the outcome would go a certain way, a detail the hosts quickly steer away from politics. Delivering Hard Messages With Care Karpishka asks how a medium handles a painful message, and Lyvers explains that 'delivery' is a skill taught at the Arthur Findlay College in England, where softening a message does not mean withholding truth. He describes a recent reading in which a deceased baby validated a grieving father's small emotional progress without Lyvers passing along a harder note about the marriage. The conversation moves through gender identity on the other side, which Lyvers frames as energy rather than fixed biology, and briefly touches on continued intimacy in spirit form. He explains why sessions run a set length, comparing it to a therapist's boundaries and insisting spirits respect time just as the living do. Asked about sensory impressions, Lyvers says he experiences clairvoyance, clairsentience, and an unusually strong clairaudience that lets him hear accents and vocal qualities, joking that he can sometimes tell if a spirit sounds like Sylvia Browne, whose old videos, he notes, are now circulating again on social media years after her death. A Haunted Apartment And A Search For Answers Crystal calls from New Hampshire describing years of frightening activity in her apartment that began in September 2023, weeks after a sudden death in her life, including sightings of a nun on her balcony, a floating head, and photos that appeared to show movement. Lyvers tells her he doubts a portal was opened but says significant loss often becomes a doorway through which people suddenly begin sensing spirit, sometimes overnight, a pattern he says many mediums describe in their own histories. He recommends she keep protecting and cleansing her space, connect with a support community, and seek out a spiritually open therapist rather than face the experience alone, adding that her sensitivity may itself indicate mediumship ability. Karpishka points her toward Victor Zammit's online resources and Lyvers mentions Psychology Today's therapist directory, which lets users filter for practitioners open to spirituality. Crystal says the activity has eased since she stopped photographing it, and thanks the hosts before the call ends warmly. Grief, Growth, And Building A Practice Karpishka asks about connecting with people whose minds have been altered by Alzheimer's or dementia before death, and Lyvers explains that mediums sometimes sense such people are already partly crossed over, their souls beginning to detach before physical death occurs. He reflects on what sustains him in the work, describing the reward of watching grief soften into humor and peace, and contrasts it with his frustration at clients who book reading after reading without integrating any message into real change. Lyvers, trained as a licensed clinician, says he hopes to compile a national list of spiritually open therapists. He plugs his eight-week intuitive and mediumship development courses at Sacred Waters, his Linktree, and his website, Dustenlyvers.com, mentioning upcoming group readings in Ottawa and travel bookings roughly a week out. Karpishka thanks him for the hour, closes with Fran Ginsberg's line that loved ones are 'a heartbeat away,' and signs off until next month's Medium Insights.

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Signs of Life Radio Show is a unique radio show dedicated to the exploration of Life After Death! Call In or just listen to top Scientists, Mediums, and Researchers discuss their personal work in the field and answer your most perplexing questions. Topics will include: Mediumship, Near Death Experiences, Death Bed Visions, Reincarnation, Apparitions and Poltergeists, After Death Communication, ESP and Telepathy, Survival of Consciousness, and the list is endless! Programming Schedule for Signs of Life, a Forever Family Foundation production - First Thursday of each month: The Gathering with Bob Ginsberg, Tom and Melissa Gould, and Marta Kane - Second Thursday of each month: Medium Insights with Roman Karpishka interviewing a FFF Certified Medium - Third Thursday of each month: Mediums and Messages with Joe Perreta with a Psychic-Medium (giving readings) - Fourth Thursday of each month: Personal Experiences with Dr. Betty Kovacs, Janet Mayer and Kimberly Saavedra - Fifth Thursday of each month: Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg and guest (when there is 5 weeks to the month) Signs of Life Radio Show is a unique radio show dedicated to the exploration of Life After Death! Call In or just listen to top Scientists, Mediums, and Researchers discuss their personal work in the field and answer your most perplexing questions. Topics will include: Mediumship, Near Death Experiences, Death Bed Visions, Reincarnation, Apparitions and Poltergeists, After Death Communication, ESP and Telepathy, Survival of Consciousness, and the list is endless!

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