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DEATH THE BEGINNING, By Tatiana Elmanovich. An archetypal story of rebuilding a shattered life into a journey of spiritual awakening. Emotionally challenged escape from the Soviet Union and survival struggles in the US lead to spirit communication. Now she can hear Spirit RETELLING her story and proving her responsible for her worst challenges. The acceptance of this shocking discovery puts meaning back in her life. See Event Schedule

WHAT IS SPIRIT COMMUNICATION?
Instead of writing a theoretical paper, Tanika (Tatyana Elmanovich) tells a true, life-changing story of spirit communication, that helped her to overcome her doubts regarding mediumship and channeling.

In 1998 I applied for U.S. citizenship, passed the test, and interview, and was told to go home and wait for the invitation to attend the swearing-in ceremony. At the same time, my unmarried son graduated as an architect. Ten days after graduation he got a new job and in the blink of an eye, he bought his first house, a fixer upper. We moved to that house. I asked the post office to forward my mail to my new address.

Soon, being consumed by daily duties, I wrote and published and marketed my first book in English, Death the Beginning, and helped to supervise the remodeling of my son's house. And needless to say, as a result of this pressure, I failed to notice that I hadn't heard from the Los Angeles Downtown Immigration and Naturalization Office for quite a while. One night, at 3 am, I heard a voice, "Get up and go downtown immediately -- check on the status of your citizenship application." I recognized the voice of my guide who had died at age 89 in Los Angeles. Let's call him J.C. The voice was strong and clear, and very persuasive. Literally, this voice did not let me fall asleep again. I resisted it in every possible way managing to doze off until 5 am. Then I took a quick shower and started toward downtown LA.

At 8 am I was at the door of the Immigration and Naturalization building in downtown Los Angeles. It was April 1, 1999. The officer said, "You are late. All the tickets are gone. Tomorrow morning be here at 5 o'clock sharp." While driving from downtown back home to Costa Mesa in Orange County, I muttered, "Look, it is April First, the Day of the Fools, and you made a fool out of me today. Thank you very much!" But as I drove home in an hour and a half, it gave me plenty of time to cool down and the entire story was forgotten and forgiven. But the next night, J.C.'s voice woke me up again. And again it was 3 am. The voice spoke to me. J.C. convinced me to drive to LA again -- this time immediately, and to put on something decent. Of course, I did not, and later had good reason to regret it...

Now I arrived downtown at 5 am. Let's skip the story about of how I dug deep into that line, kept my spot for hours, and advanced from that initial line to the next one, and then to another one. Finally, at 10 am, I was facing the official, an Asian lady and asked her to check on my application status. She typed my name into her computer, and her Asian eyes became rounder than mine! "What are you doing here!" she exclaimed. Now it was my turn to be surprised. Before I could find the proper words, she continued, "In two hours from now you are on! Where is your invitation? Today is your day to take the oath." It meant that the invitation had been lost in the mail. A new invitation was written in an instant, and I was sent on my way to the nearby Civic Center. It was crowded there. Everybody was dressed up but me. Of course, I had been told to put on something decent. Why didn't I follow J.C.'s advice? But the crowd continued to grow, and soon it really did not matter what I was wearing. It was important to be here in time… and not to allow my papers to slip off onto that giant assembly line that was pushing us toward the needed and wanted citizenship status. If I missed the ceremony, everything would be delayed for years because of the volume of cases.

There were five thousand of us… The speeches, the music, the film, the oath! And then we were told to pick up our citizenship certificates and later exchange them for real passports in designated offices that were scattered all over town. Under the big letter "E" sat a little lady with a high pile of golden certificates in front of her. I couldn't imagine that my certificate would be one of them. Approaching the official's table I could barely control the trembling in my hands. But I was asked to submit my "green card" in exchange for a new document of my citizenship. I did, almost sure that all that was happening was a dream and what was coming would be a rude awakening. I would be told that it was a mistake…

But it wasn't. A hand held out a calligraphic certificate. Golden letters proved that from this day, I, Tatyana Elmanovich would be a citizen of the United States! I wanted to thank J.C. but his voice was nowhere to be heard. I got my papers, and I believe -- he got his rest. I guess he had to use up an unusual amount of energy to make me believe and trust his obvious words. If we could only learn to reach our higher self with its wonderful connections to our guides, other entities and maybe even God himself! If we can only learn to listen and trust!

Every medium hopes that the facilitated by him or her spirit messages make sense. Every medium hopes that his spirit prophecies will be fulfilled. Every medium believes that facilitated evidences confirm the spirit communicator's identity, and speak about life eternal. And they definitely do. But spirit communication is a complex process and it is always a possibility that a message from the spirit world makes no sense at all, and the prophecy doesn't come true, and evidences may be shaky. It has divided us into two opposing groups -- believers and nonbelievers. The latter are also divided into two groups -- well-grounded and independent-minded folk who count on their common sense, and passionate skeptics who label Spiritualism as an unconscious self-deception or a fraud built to rake money.

What's new? Since the dawn of humanity, a believer and a nonbeliever walk hand-in-hand through the millenniums straight into our days. It has been a long journey, probably too long for taking sides and proving one side right and the other side wrong. Maybe, instead, it is time for a change. Maybe it is time to try to understand what really happens during spirit communication, and what it really does. Of course, we may reduce research to counting hits and misses in the process of communication, but the problem is that a particular number of hits and misses doesn't tell much. There will be always some hits and misses. Maybe the camp of believers has to change. For instance, instead of trying to prove that every 'transaction' with the other world is a success, commit to self-observation and value hits and misses equally, and learn from both. For instance, both spirit communicators Marlene Dietrich and Myrna Loy tell two different stories of their transition.

One explanation is that I was a poor facilitator at a receiving point. Another explanation is that there were things that both communicators prefer not to recall yet. Another explanation is that they are not aware what really happened, and they don't want to look into this. And maybe there are things that we are not ready to hear, accept or learn And there are more questions and contradictions. According to Myrna Loy, Elvis Presley will reincarnate in Russia, and "do fine in that country." According to Elvis Presley, next time he will come down to Italy and become the next Enrico Caruso. It is very easy to cross out what Myrna Loy was saying and stick with Presley's version. I was almost ready to erase an uncomfortable paragraph, and proceed, but something stopped me. Wait a minute…

Why are Elvis Presley's Russian counterpart, Vladimir Vissotski and Elvis Presley 'spending time together' on the other side according to one Elvis Presley's message that is still not posted to the site? Are they meeting on a cross road of the souls? Many advanced souls from the former Soviet Union and present Russia who managed to do their work under the ideological pressure and control of the Communist regime, or in present chaos, will be reincarnated "in the better climatic conditions;" and many advanced West souls with strength and stamina will come back in future Russia when the time will be right to resume life in that part of the world. What if both versions are right, and Elvis Presley's boundless soul will incarnate to Russia and Italy … at a time.

Why is Vladimir Vissotski calling him 'Shalyapin's illegitimate son?' [Feodor Shalyapin (1873-1938) was the Russian operatic bass; he left the Bolshevik's Russia for the West and became the best-known singer-actor of his time.] I was quite puzzled by this line in a Vissotski's channeled poem dedicated to Elvis Presley. But if there is a chance of the Russian incarnation, the saying "Shalyapin's illegitimate son" makes total sense. So, I found four or more different explanations for contradicting data, but I have no idea, which one is right? Now I have to choose which way to go? Do I have to clean The Bridge books from contradictions? Or do I have to keep the contradicting versions? You already know my answer. I will take my chances. Spiritualism and Shamanism Is Spiritualism the modern branch (and a very weak one) of 50,000 year old Shamanism, or not?

Shamanism left behind a healthy, beautiful planet. Judeo-Christian spirit lifted us to the unheard of heights of mental sophistication and technical progress, but in some meager 2,000 years we ruined our home, planet Earth! In other words, we doomed our planet Earth to death, but we don't want to die together with our planet. And we try to extract the best from our past experience and make it work for us in some modern and acceptable form. No doubt, Spiritualism is a find of that search. It seeks the lost integrity of the human soul, and as Shamanism, lends the strength from the other worlds -- underworld, the kingdom of the dead, the next world, the other side, heaven, paradise, the higher dimensions of existence. Does it make Spiritualism a grand-grand-grand-son of Shamanism? I don't know yet. But when I will be through with writing The Bridge, I hope I will know more about it.

Copyright @ 2000 by Tatyana Elmanovich

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