ITA. On the other side of this physical world, time is spherical, not linear or chronological. Everything that ever happened and everything that ever will happen is happening right now.
SapphireSteel, you might really enjoy the books "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls", both by PHD Michael Newton. A scientist, psychotherapist and FORMER atheist.
There is also a difference between psychics and Mediums. Some people are both. Psychics get "impressions' from people, places and things. A Medium gets information strictly from the dead. Some mediums are clairvoyant (see the dead) some are clairaudient (hear the dead) some are clairsentient- (feel the presence of or feel impressions from the dead). Some are all three.
The first Medium I ever knew was as a young girl. She was the grandmother of a good friend. We called her Nonni (Italian for Grandmother). She was adopted as an infant and she always said she wasn't sure she was actually Italian, but she was just as annoying as my own Italian Grandma, so she might as well have been. She was a very gifted Medium- she told me things that took years to happen and she was NEVER wrong, not once. She had three Spirit Guides, one of which was an Indian Chief. My own daughter used to see him when she was a toddler. Lost the ability as she got older, or he just stopped coming to my house. I am part Native American myself, so maybe that was why he was interested in me.
Nonni used to say there were three things you should never take money for (or you lose your talent) - having sex, telling jokes and speaking to the dead. She never took a dime her whole life, for the hundreds of people who came to see her.
She lived in an apartment upstairs from her granddaughter (my friend) and her house was not a place everyone felt comfortable. For one, she always knew if you were doing something you weren't supposed to be doing and she'd call you out on it when she saw you. I was ALWAYS getting yelled at. Another thing is that things used to ....move around... in her apartment. Things that weren't supposed to. She'd always say "just ignore them, they're showing off". But it was hard to ignore.