Hi Dylan,

What's important about messages like the ones they've received is their wonderful sense of the presence of their loved one. That's something we've lost in the world today. The Earth has become disenchanted--we've lost the enchantment.

The touch from someone on this side of life or someone in the afterlife, whether it's in butterflies or a familiar smell that suddenly enters a room or numbers on a cell phone, comes in the joy of those receiving the messsages, not in whatever generated the phenomena. We touch each other through our minds and hearts, not through a cell phone. The numbers are meaningless.

And yes, you touch people also when you laugh at their love and the feelings they have and when you call them dumb. The touch is harsh and venemous, more like a scrape or scratch than a touch. You can choose to give others love, compassion, and high regard--that's what's important in our lives together. And that returns to you is your own feeling of wellbeing at the joy you give others, and feeling their warmth and joy at receiving your love. Your world is what you make it, whether that's in knowing your loved one is alive after the funeral and enjoying their touch from any source, or living in a world you create that is filled with harsh words, separation, and disregard for others and their response in like anger, separation, and disregard for you.

You make your world enchanted and loving, and you let yourself feel joy at the touch from someone on this side of life or the afterlife. You just have to choose to do it and to reject the world of harsh words, separation, and disregard. Your life will be more wonderful and less frustrating if you do it.

Love and peace, Craig