You're listening to the Paranormal UK Radio Network, the best in paranormal talk radio
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after death communication I've run across in my twenty five years of research into near
death and shared death experiences. Oh and by the way, welcome to the
Afterlife Files, where we investigate near death experiences, shared death experiences and how
they affect you. Unlike podcasts that are just stories, we will give you
a heads up and what's to look for in our conversation, and then after
the interviews stick around. We'll help you make sense of those accounts so you
can incorporate the insights into your life. I think you'll find that once having
your most profound questions answered, living life in the physical is filled with more
peace and joy. You'll see that coming up. Twenty three years ago,
when I first started working for South Central College in newam, Minnesota, I
shared an office with Rich Bauman. I was a small business management instructor and
Rich was a farm business management instructor specializing in dairy farms. We became friends
as well as colleagues, and and I shared dinner in each other's homes,
and we attended concerts together, so we got to know them pretty well.
This summer, Rich was visiting us in Virginia, and while having a glass
of wine on the porch, Rich hold us an amazing story of how he
met barbed and communicated with his wife in the hallway of their home six weeks
after she had made her transition. I've never heard anything like it, so
I knew that you'd want to hear this story. Two things you should know.
First, Rich is a man of few words, has a huge heart,
and we'll do anything for you. He's an assault of the earth kind
of guy. Second, he is a man of integrity. What you hear
in his voice is exactly who he is. So when he tells you his
story, listen to both the words he's speaking and the sincerity in his voice.
That will tell you all you need to know about his credibility. Here's
our interview with Rich Bauman and his extraordinary ADC after death communication with his wife,
Barbara. Hey, Rich, really glad to have you here on the
Afterlife Files. No, Scott, you are in southern Minnesota, am I
correct? Right outside a new All, Minnesota. All right? And I've
told people about who you are, and and the fact that we shared an
office together, and which it Please tell us a little bit about Barbe and
your relationship. Well, Barbara and I were married for just over fifty three
years. We met when we were nineteen, we got married when we were
twenty, and we had a very good life together for those fifty three years.
And you know it, it was a good life and an interesting life.
I guess she was something special. Yeah. What made her special?
Oh? Just um, she was such a caring person and excited about our
whole life together, I guess. I mean, you know, we we
both just had a tremendous life together. So what the two of you like
to do? Oh, we did a lot of traveling, and we liked
that we have a place in the country, and we both liked the gardening
and lawn care and and uh things of that. Family. Uh kids and
grandkids and hum a couple great grandkids and um, just life in jail general.
I guess you've described her to me as your your partner, your best
friend. Is that's still true? Oh? Yeah, yeah, very much.
I mean, you know, she was involved in my work whatever I
was doing my full life, so I mean, you know, she was
a partner that way two and uh, you know, we did almost everything
together our whole lives. So tell us about the morning of her transition.
It was November sixth of twenty twenty one, just about a year ago right
now. And Barbara was never seriously sick a day in her life, never
had any problems. She would get up a couple of times at night usually,
and if I woke up when she was coming back to bed, we
would give each other a kiss always. And I know that it was about
five o'clock that morning she was coming back to bed, and I did happen
to wake up, and so we did give each other a kiss. When
I got up just after seven, I thought she was sleeping, which was
unusual because she usually got up just a little bit before me, but once
in a while not. And so I went out to the kitchen for a
little bit and came back and shook her, tried to wake her up,
but she was dead. She was gone, just like that, just I
thought she was sleeping. Yeah, died in her sleep. What if you
get to choose, what a lovely way to go, the way we'd all
like to go. Well, yeah, it seemed way too soon, especially
since she had it, never had any health problems, and in fact,
I mean, you know, she went four or five days a week,
went to fitness classes in town and stuff. Was doing everything right to to
live a lot longer life than she did. So where did that leave you?
Rich Well, for quite a while, it really left me in a
bad kind of position, you know, I mean, my whole life.
Basically we had lived together, and all of a sudden I was all alone
and a lot of things just weren't right at all, and I wasn't sleeping
nights and a lot of things like that. Just I mean, you know,
life was just totally confused. I get that. To say that you
missed her terribly is probably an understatement. Yeah, I think that's right.
Yeah, and I still do. But you know, I mean I'm adjusting,
I guess. Yeah, So you were having a tough time. I
was. Yeah, for quite a while, I was having a pretty tough
time really about I don't remember just when, but about six weeks to two
months after she had died, I had this really unusual experience that really made
a difference in my adjustment. I got up out of bed and walked into
the hallway of our house, and at the other end of the hallway was
Barbara walking toward me, and I said to her, I said, boy,
am I glad to see you. I said, I've had this awful
dream that you died. And she said, no, she said I did
die, But she said I could see and they could see that you were
having a difficult time, and they sent me back here to tell you that
I'm okay and you're going to be okay too. And we gave each other
a hug, and she disappeared just like that right away. I mean I
started sleeping better. I felt that, you know, as she had said
that she was okay and I was going to be okay. You know,
it was just something that I needed to adjust to, and that experience really
did help me make that adjustment. So this happen happened in the middle of
the night, right, and so you physically got up out of bed.
This wasn't a dream of you walking down the hallway. I don't believe it
was a dream. I believe it was real. When you saw her at
the at the end of the hallway, she was like half far away,
probably, you know, fifteen feet more or less, more or less.
And do you remember what she was dressed in. Well, I remember that
she had on a red sweater, and she had a few red sweaters that
she really liked to wear her, And that's what she had on when I
saw her, and the two of you came together, I mean you walked
towards each other, right, And and so did she look real? Did
she look like a ghost? But you know, she looked like Barbara always
looked like, I mean, just gorgeous, right right, yeah, I
mean you know, I was just so happy to see her. And but
yeah, I mean just everything seemed normal again. And oh that's interesting.
It seemed normal again. Yeah. And she gave you a hug. Yeah,
And so it felt like a real person giving you a hug, yes,
yes, And I mean I hugged her back, so you could you
could feel her in your arms, right, yes, I'm just curious.
Did you give her a smooch? Didn't have a chance. She disappeared so
quickly. I mean it was just a quick hug and she was gone.
So like you're embracing her, and she like disappears right out of your arms,
right, yeah, just all of a sudden, was gone. Yes.
Wow. So she said that they saw you were having trouble and that
they wanted to have her come back and reassure you worried to that effect.
Yeah, who is they? Do you have a sense of that? Well,
I mean she didn't say specifically. I assume that it was God or
angels or somebody like that. I mean, you know, we're somebody in
authority, right, you know. I mean I would say we were fairly
religious, but not super religious. But I mean, as of that time,
I have no doubts in my mind that there is an afterlife after this
life, and that it's something better than than what we know here. So
your conversation was relatively brief. Was there was there anything any more interaction than
what you described? No, that was the full extent of it. Um.
Yeah, I mean, you know, it was very short, but
like I said, I mean it it really helped me to feel better and
tom start to get my life back on track. I think. So what
was it about that exchange that I got you at some place of peace?
Well, I think just hearing from her that everything was okay for her and
everything would be okay for me, you know, that was the main part
of it. That kind of reassurance must have come across in her voice and
with her expression, right, yeah, I mean you know she was very
confident in what she was saying. And oh, now that's like Barbara as
she was always was right, and you know, it just meant so much
to me. It did change a number of things in my life at that
time. You were blessed with the time together, and you were blessed by
having Barbara in your life. She was an extraordinary woman. And this is
what a terrific story. Thank you, Rich. I really appreciate you sharing
that with us today. Well, I, like I said, I think
I like to share that story with other people. I I think it's important
that as many people as possible know about it. Thank you, Thank you,
Scott. My jaw is still on the floor. Just to be clear,
what you're about to hear are my viewpoints. But that's why you watch
the Afterlife files to gain perspective by using more than one lens with which to
view this rich information. That was a little pun I hope you appreciate that.
Here's the important points that I gleaned from this interview. First, Rich
was awake and walking in his physical body down the hall. Second, he
heard Barb with his physical ears. Third, was the quality of her presence.
Barbe was walking down the hall. Now that's about to floating or gliding
that you sometimes hear about. She looked normal and was wearing her favorite sweater.
I'm hoping that it was to impress Rich. Barbe was physical and could
receive and give a hug. Fourth, they were watching over him, sawing
he was having trouble and intervened in his life to give him peace. This
reference is a reaffirmation that they are with us, always lending guidance and support
when needed. We are never alone. Fifth is Rich's reaffirmation that there is
and I quote no doubt in my mind, there's an afterlife after this life,
something better than what we know here. I do hope that videos such
as this can give you some insight and what near death and share death experiencers
discover about the afterlife, the nature of consciousness, and how to live your
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