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Genealogy as a Tool to Reach Across the Veil

Even if you don’t desire to be a professional medium, perhaps you want a more robust relationship with your kin on the other side. Join me at the Shift Network’s Beyond the Veil Summit as I explain how—during this big awakening that humanity is collectively experiencing—we’re learning to walk with one foot in each world and our family across the veil can help.

Genealogy research is a fascinating and fulfilling way to reach our folks in spirit and begin real communication. My session airs on Thursday, November 2 .

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to call forward those who came before us by digging into their life stories;
  • Discover how to collaborate on creating an interpersonal language, a set of signs and symbols that make communication easier as you build relationships with your kin;
  • Explore the communication with your ancestors that can lead to discoveries about who you really are, explain your bubble of family influence, and how to get beyond dysfunctional familial habits.

I’ll also talk a bit about my newest book, based on actual events found in my family tree, Castle Gateand how it was written with the help of my ancestors, as strange as that may sound.

Castle Gate is the true and tragic saga of my Scottish ancestors whose dreams of finding their fortunes in the bountiful coal mines of Castle Gate, Utah, during the Prohibition era explode in one of the most devastating mine disasters in American history.

The big question is, is their presence there in Castle Gate just bad luck, or is it due to a generational curse dating back to their ancestors’ involvement in a grisly witchcraft trial in the 1600s?

Based on extensive genealogical research, Castle Gate tells the story of one family destroyed by a documented curse which has been wreaking havoc in countless lives, all over the world, for centuries. 

Listen in to the Shift Network’s Beyond the Veil Summit which airs free, online, during the week of October 30 through November 3, when the veil is thinnest.

I’m hosting, along with my guest-host Scott Taylor (who interviewed me and we had a great conversation!). Here is a small sample of who I got to talk with this year:

  • Anita Moorjani will reveal her near-death experiences in the other realm, and what it was that finally saved her life and brought her back from death’s door.
  • Bill McKenna and Liz Larson will offer a beginner’s approach to establishing clear and direct communication with the other side.
  • Dr. Cassandra Ricks will take you on a deep dive into the world of near-death experiences and mediumship, and their powerful potential for healing.
  • Eben Alexander, MD, and Karen Newell will impart how relationships do not end with physical death —  and how the binding force of love continues to connect us.
  • Sheila Vijeyarasa will describe the top 3 tools needed to channel your spirit guides, and how you can embody their wisdom.
  • James Van Praagh will talk about the basic mechanics and groundwork for creating a successful mediumship experience.
  • Suzanne Giesemann will reveal that you’re already home, already whole, and eternally connected to Spirit.
  • Dr. William Bloom will describe the characteristics and purpose of the various subtle beings — including fairies, nature spirits, angels, and archangels
  • Brian D. Smith will unveil how experiencing unimaginable tragedy can lead you to discovering your life’s true mission.
  • Helané Wahbeh, ND, will share 12 Noetic Signature characteristics that show how you receive and express information and energy beyond your five senses. 
  • Sherrie Dillard will explain how the earthly challenges and issues between you and your departed loved ones continue to benefit you.

Lots more conversations await. Check it out and watch for free (the only cost is if you choose to purchase the upgrade package to keep all the recordings and bonuses in your digital library).

Evidential mediumship: what qualifies as proof?

Why would anyone believe a psychic medium when they say they’re communicating with our dead loved ones? They better have some proof, right?


Right. Well, here’s some proof, with a bit of background first, so the “proof” makes sense.

I’m a program host at The Shift Network where I co-produce three annual summits (Ancestral Healing Summit, Intuitive Medicine Summit and Beyond the Veil Summit). I interview a lot of interesting people. One of them is Suzanne Giesemann, a well-know and highly respected evidential psychic medium.

Suzanne wasn’t always a medium. In fact, she’s a former U.S. Navy Commander who served as a commanding officer and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. In other words, she’s about as no-nonsense as it gets and she insists on evidence from the “other side” that they are who they say they are.

Last year, when Suzanne and I were in the pre-interview Zoom greenroom doing mic and lighting checks for the Beyond the Veil Summit 2020, one of the lights on my set flashed briefly. This is a well-made, sturdy lamp, which never shorts out, but here it was blinking while I was chatting with a psychic medium. I said to Suzanne, “Well, that’s odd. That lamp never flashes. I wonder if that’s a sign that someone is trying to connect.”

Suzanne cocked her head and said, after a moment, “I’m hearing ‘Mom’.”

Well, shut my mouth and call me corn pone. That lamp used to belong to Mom, before she died. There’s no way Suzanne would have known that.

The lamp behind me used to belong to my mom. After she died, it became a part of my Shift Network set.

She then delivered some uplifting massages from Mom that gave me goosebumps of recognition, messages so personal that I came “this close” to responding like those people you see on TV shows who burst into tears when a psychic medium hits upon a deep truth. I understand now that they react like that because the information literally resonates with them so powerfully that it makes them twang with emotion. No way the information is fake.

Suzanne added one final message from Mom: in order to prove that this was really a message from her, I should watch for owls over the next couple days. That’s my sign. Whenever I see an owl, it’s Mom’s reminder that the message Suzanne delivered came from her.

I live in an area where there aren’t any live owls, so I knew I’d have to be content with seeing coincidental photos, bumper stickers, ads … the usual inanimate signs. At first, I saw owls everywhere, especially online, and was pretty tickled by this until my doubting mind figured it’s gotta be algorithms — my device obviously heard us talking about owls and now I’m seeing them everywhere online. I needed non-digital proof.

I went for a walk in my neighborhood the next day. As I walked, I wondered, was it really Mom? She and I weren’t on the best of terms when she passed so it was hard to believe she’d deliver such a kind and encouraging message. Maybe Suzanne was just tapping into something I needed to hear, without knowing the context or why.

So I said, out loud, “Mom, if this is really you, show me an owl before I get home.” I knew it was a challenge and didn’t really expect to see an owl. Right then and there, I froze in my tracks when I “heard” a nudge to look at the roof of the house across the street from me. There I saw an owl perched next to a vent pipe (it was a decoy, installed to scare critters away from the pipe).

I burst out laughing and offered a round of applause, right there on the sidewalk, not caring if anyone wondered why I was laughing and clapping. What are the odds that I would just happen to look up at that time? Boy, talk about validation! Then I took out my camera and snapped a picture, like ya do. (Pictures, or it didn’t happen.)

If you watch my interview with Suzanne during this year’s summit (her session airs on Monday, October 11 at 10:00 AM Pacific time) you can hear us talking more in depth about this synchronistic owl sighting.

I told her what occurred last year and Suzanne explained that Mom didn’t just nudge me to look up when I happened to be walking by an owl. Mom first put the question in my head to ask her for a sign — as I “happened” to be walking by an owl — and then gave me the nudge to look up.

In fact, she probably nudged me to turn down that exact street where I would find an owl.

But wait! There’s more!

Just this morning, weeks after recording this year’s Summit interview with Suzanne, I went for another walk. On my way home, I was bummed to realize that I wasn’t walking down the same street as Mom’s owl and I wouldn’t see it today.

As I was in the middle of this thought, I got a nudge to look across the street at the roofs and saw this on a completely different house. Yes, it’s another decoy owl.

That’s not the only undeniable message Mom managed to get through to me during this summit (she’s really getting the hang of this after-life communication thing!). Next time I’ll tell you about my interview with Anne Pryor who created a “soul painting”, live, during our session and the amazing message that came through as she painted.

The Beyond the Veil Summit is a free online event that airs during the week of October 11-15. Each session repeats for 48 hours, so if you can’t watch it during its airtime, you can catch it for two more days. The only cost is if you choose to purchase the summit recordings (and extra bonuses) for your digital library.

See you there!


Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning, best-selling author whose “day job” is as a Program Host at The Shift Network, where she hosts summits on ancestral healing, life after death, and intuition and medicine.

Her current passion-project is a series of metaphysical comedy novels. The first is entitled The Poppet Master (previously published as Be Careful What You Witch For!, now revamped and with a new ending). The Poppet Master is a modern-day fairy tale about Lola Garnett, a bored housewife and office drone who wakes up with unexpected psychic abilities, and no instruction manual, and Twink, the reluctant, sarcastic faery assigned to assist and educate her. The Poppet Master is available wherever books are sold. Its sequel is in the works.

Lisa is also writing The Maxwell Curse, a fictionalized version of a story she found in her own ancestral lineage about a witch trial, a generational curse, and massive mine explosion, all of which left ripples of destruction in their wake, devastating one family’s tree.

http://www.lisabonnice.com