Happy Birthday

[Mommy]

Dearest Michael,

Happy Birthday, Michael. Now you are forty-two. I have been thinking about you continuously the past few days and reliving our first days together. This began when you entered my consciousness during meditation.

I get up very early and spend time with the Lord, reading Jesus Calling, the Bible and meditating as I wait to feel the first rays of sun. As the light dawns upon me I feel you, your presence, the newness of the day, the warmth of love. Mostly I am curious if it is coming from where you are. 

There is something that happens to me when you are entering my mind, and it happened two days ago during meditation. I have talked to Katie and others about this and there is no explanation. Maybe you can help me understand this: I am thinking you, but the name Rex comes to me first. I know you know Rex is my little brother who died at age twenty-three, when I was twenty-eight. I wasn't particularly close to him, which I regret now. We lived very different lives. Here come the questions: Is he there with you? Is he you? Or more to the point, are you him? Reincarnation is not part of my faith, but I am open to any explanation. Please help me understand.

I love you, my dear son. And oh! Katie's Finley is obsessed with you. Well, maybe that is Grandma talking, but he talks about you a lot, knows a lot about you, of course because Katie loves you and misses you and shares. He wants your things, asked for your surfboard, which is gone, but I will see that he gets your little boy treasures.

Love,

Mommy

[Danny Seo]

Happy birthday Mikey 🙏🏼❤️

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[Troas Brownstein]

Thank you, Danny. I see you are up late, too.

Hope all is well with you.

Miss you.

Love,

Troas

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[Danny Seo]

I’m in Taiwan.  

Miss you Troas … Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤️🙏🏼

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[Sameer Gupta]

Love you, Troas and Danny. 

Love you too, Mikey. 

As someone who does believe in reincarnation, I may be well suited sharing my thoughts here. Or perhaps better said, sharing my beliefs.

We are all energy, represented in human form tied into this timeline as a reflecting of a higher power. This higher power creates and destroys, balancing the yin and yang, like waves in the ocean we know Mikey loved so much. Is the ocean good? Or bad? Did the wave ever exist, or was our experience of the wave what gave it meaning?

We humans, stuck riding time’s arrow like a lightning bolt, can experience only a brief glimpse of our higher power. I believe there is something more. Our human form is a chapter in the book of our spirit. Buddhists believe in Enlightenment, which suggests that there is a happily ever at the end of the book if we are compassionate, forgiving, and loving.

I am a Hindu by birth, and in so being, I have learned to appreciate all life and all time as part of the same book, the same story, the same energy that brought us into the world and one day will take us out of it to rejoin the cosmic force that binds us all.

We are all stardust and today I think of my brother Mikey who is riding the waves of cosmic stardust, smiling and laughing and loving as he always was and will be. He may be here, now, in another human form. He is like the wave: Here if we experience him. 

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Sameer Gupta

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[Rob Levin]

Hope you’re right, Sameer!

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[Judy Brown]

Thinking of Michael so much and always. He is so clear to me and when I saw him when I was in hospital I can hardly describe my feelings. I know, as do you, that we will see him again. What a joy he is his soul is so very direct and clear. Extraordinary Love there and I feel it all the time ❤️I love you, Troas, and I love you Mark, my brother in this life and forever.❤️

On Dec 25, 2022, at 2:38 AM, Mommy <tro...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dearest Michael,

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[Troas Brownstein]

Hi Sameer,

Thank you for sharing your beliefs. I have read and re-read what you wrote and I love the image of Mikey.

The energy that we are is exacted all around us at all times. We can call upon it at will if we are open to it, as simple as thinking about someone and the phone rings and there they are! Who hasn't taken credit by calling it ESP? I think thoughts and those things happen, like when for days before Michael's accident, I kept seeing death, a casket, a funeral, so real that I thought I needed to clean the floors because I saw many people in our home. I had no premonition that it was going to be Michael. I have learned to be careful what I think and feel.

I have had many connections with "the other side" during my life, the first when I was two and a half years old. It was like an out of body experience because my view is from behind us looking down. I see Mother and I standing in an empty house. A recent widow, she is looking to buy it. I am standing to the right of her and she is holding my hand. I am wearing a little coat and hat. The room is empty, no furniture, there are narrow hardwood floors running the length of the room and we are facing a doorway and a built-in china cabinet. I told Mother in our much later years and she said that yes it made sense but that "you couldn't possibly remember that." But I did and have my whole life.

When my brother, Rex, died I began looking for answers. I started with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and went on to read anything related to death. I searched for meaning and The Truth, went to the Sikhi Training Camp for Women in New Mexico, read the Koran and the Kabbalah, all the while staying grounded in my Christian beliefs. I don't have any education in Buddhist or Hindu religions except from a class in World Religions in college. Reincarnation is a concept that is alien to me but not one I would totally reject if it is The Truth. I have had many other connections with "the other side" besides the two examples above and my vision is now of a big sheet of Saran Wrap separating us from "them" as they watch over us. They can see us but we can't see them.

Today I told someone that Michael would give me the answer to why, when I think of him, the name Rex comes up first. Last night I got the answer: It isn't me. It is Michael putting that name in my head. Now I want to know why. Is he telling me something? Rex died forty-eight years ago and truthfully, I would go months and perhaps years without thinking about him, except in passing; whereas, I think about  Michael every day.That is why this is so startling to me. So maybe, are they one in the same? 

Thank you for your help, and to everyone who might read this. 

XO

Troas

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