“A movie was recommended that I see. All that I recall is a word – just one word: contact. Am I being instructed through a dream to see a movie? This seems to be the message.”
I finished writing in my journal and went to the kitchen and asked my wife: "Have you ever heard of a film with the name Contact?" She did not. After breakfast I searched my computer for the title named in my dream. I found several references to a movie with the title Contact. I stopped my search and assumed this was the end of the subject.
We lived in a small community near the New Mexico border. One day we went shopping in a nearby town. There was a used bookstore there that we often visit. While browsing, I hardly believed my eyes when I saw the title, Contact, on a VHS video. I purchased the video, but did not watch it. What happened is that a series of quick-moving events developed in our family and the video was tucked away unopened and not viewed. Our family relocated and the video was packed away in a box with other stuff.
March 3rd, one year later, I went on the Internet to a favorite forum. A discussion in process was about an off-the-wall topic. Usually I bypass this sort of banter, but this particular day I did not. I saw that the conversation was about alien visitations, and was startled awake when the movie, Contact, was mentioned. I had completely forgotten about my dream and the fact that I purchased a video of this film! I broke away and went in search of it, which was still packed away in one of many unpacked moving boxes. As we were in a big rush to move, most of the boxes were unmarked, and there were at least thirty piled high in the storage locker. The first box I opened contained the video – on top in plain sight!
I took the video home and watched Contact for the first time. I liked it. Nonetheless, I scratched my head wondering why I had a dream with the instruction to view this particular film. The feeling lingered that this is an ongoing saga and the story is not completely told (written March 3rd, 2001).
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Fast-forward fourteen years to 2015, and the month of July…the movie Contact resurrects again. It returned as the result of a word search. Here's the story of how this happened...
In May of 2015 I wrote self-published a book with the title “Family Reunion.” It is a book about making connection with eleven members of my birth family that had passed into the spirit-world. I've authored more than 40 books, and whenever I published a new one, I set the book in motion toward the public and then left it alone. This I did not do with “Family Reunion.” It remained the focus of my attention.
I showed this book to a friend who has more experience than me in designing book covers. She looked, paused and then suggested it required something more, some sort of eye-catching phrase or word. She said: “As a title, Family Reunion is good, but alone it is remains anemic."
And so back to the drawing board I went. After several dozen experiments, I hit on the subtitle Afterlife Contact, which became a headline in red letters on the front cover of my book.
When the word “contact” was selected, it clicked and I immediately remembered the dream of fifteen years ago. I wanted to see the movie again, but I could not find the old VHS copy. My wife found a DVD copy through our Public Library, and I watched it on Friday, July 17th. While viewing the movie I wondered whether I had really seen it before: it was that new and fresh for me. I watched it twice: once alone on a small laptop screen, and the second time with my family on a big screen TV.
After viewing the movie Contact twice, I finally began to understand why this movie first came to me in a dream. It is all part of a preparation for me to make contact with the afterlife. At one time I was much like the "religious characters" in the movie who resisted the idea of contact with aliens. Over the years I changed, and broke away from an orthodox ridged mind-set. When awareness of the movie Contact came, change arrived. The change in my life did not happen overnight. It was a slow and long process – fifteen years!
While writing the book, Family Reunion, my birth family came to me from the afterlife to write their stories. The first to come was my father, and when he did, I immediately shut him down. I was just a 16 year-old boy when he died and, truthfully, I did not like him. Over the years my feelings toward him changed, and therefore my initial reluctance to his presence was short-lived. The next day I invited him to return and write. He did. I now realize that if I had continued to resist his presence, the book would not have been written.
My situation was similar to Ellie (played by Jodi Foster) in the movie Contact: silence between me and the unknown world is broken. Contact is made ... a story is told.
For me, the story is the afterlife contact and a Family Reunion.
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The date, March 3rd, returned:
(1) My initial dream happened on March 3rd, 2000.
(2) I first saw the movie Contact on March 3rd, 2001.
(3) The first message from the afterlife came on March 3rd, 2014. It is a message received from Martin Luther. His subject: “Call for Mediums.” This subject is in Chapter One in the book (click on the title):
FAMILY REUNION Afterlife Contact
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