Psychic Development | Andrea Mai

THE SPIRIT SAID “GOD SPOKE TO ME” – EVP January 15, 2020

During the trip to Niagara Falls, we stayed at the Seneca Resort and Casino. Normally I would not choose to stay in a hotel that has a casino, but I was using loyalty points to pay for it, and it was a great deal. It turned out that they offered free buffet tickets to its hotel guests.

It was very noisy in the buffet a lunch time, but at the same time, I got some really loud and clear EVP. That’s the thing about EVP, it’s a bit tricky to predict how well an EVP will turn out, because just the right amount of noise will actually make the recordings better to hear. But too much will ruin it. I tested these clips on my laptop speakers, and many of these are excellent. They are repeated on loop.

In the elevator, right before the door opened, P said, “We go out”.

As I was getting food at the buffet, there was a man with a service dog with him. In my head, I kept hearing this joke, “Do dogs eat for free?”. You know, ’cause sometimes kids get to eat for free at these places. I wanted to say it out loud, because I thought it was funny, but I stayed quiet. It turns out that a spirit was saying it!

P also had his dog with him. someone commented, “That’s the doggie”. You can hear a bark in the background.

Wherever we go, there is always going to be spirits asking P about why he’s with me, and if he can talk to me. P will usually tell them about my psychic abilities, even though I chose not to engage in it much. I’m assuming someone was saying this to me, “Can you hear us”. As you can see in the above example with the dog joke, yes I can!

Here is someone saying, “Hungry”.

I think that because spirits are using their thoughts to speak, they tend to blurt out things that we would consider rude to say out loud. People were saying hi to P. This one said, “You’re tiny”. “Nice to meet you”.

Here is P saying, “Sit with me”, You can hear someone calling back, “Coming”.

Here is someone saying, “You want milk?”. “Sure”.

Someone commented, “Angels in there”.

I heard P ask them, “Why do you guys stay here?”. They said, “We don’t know”.

P told them, “Pray to God”.

Someone responded, “I’ll try it now”.

Then something cool must have happened over there. Someone said, “Now it’s raining”. “Look, Prince”. “Wow”. I wonder if the rain was purple…?

They aid, “Prince you were right”.

Someone said, “God spoke to me”.

It’s incredible. These spirits finally get to know God. And we got to witness it. What a blessing!

There are so many supposed mediums out there that will tell you that the spirits say the God doesn’t exist, or that God is just some “non-personal cosmic force in the universe”, or some similar type of ting. Then they offer all kinds of nonsense spiritual guidance. This goes to show you that we should not regard everything said by spirits equally. Either they lie, or they just don’t know about God. So be careful what you listen to.

God is just a prayer away.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on January 15, 202020.

Image above: “Pink Bar” by Andrea Mai

WE WATCHED A MOVIE HE DIDN’T GET TO SEE – EVP December 6, 2019

Some time ago, I saw some Jimi Hendrix movie, and P said he already saw it. Of course, he did. He loved Jimi. I was going through my own Jimi phase in discovering his music and fashion.

Last month, we watched Zootopia. I decided to record EVP at the beginning just to see what P’s reaction would be. It’s a cartoon movie by Disney.

I caught some clips of him commenting before the movie. I tested these on my laptop speakers, they are audible, but they are definitely clearer if you listen with headphones. They re repeated on loop.

Here he says, “Never seen this one. Just wanted to”. This was at the start when they show the Cinderella castle animation.

Then he sang along with the music, “When you wish upon a star”.

And right before the movie starts, a short animation of old fashioned Mickey Mouse on a boat appears. P said, “Mickey Mouse”,

Overall, I did enjoy the movie, but I noticed a lot of political messaging, which I did not appreciate. I wish they would stop trying to socially engineer the children with political correctness.

So, do spirits watch movies and enjoy entertainment from this side? Yes. There was one time where I heard a conversation between two spirits. One spirit mentioning to the other that he was going somewhere to listen to The Shadow. I think he was referring to the old time radio mystery drama.

I once heard some so-called medium claim that spirits don’t have eyes to see things here. That is just utter nonsense. I think she was making an excuse to cover up her inability. Which is what a lot of mediums do, and this is how a lot of dubious spiritual teachings get spread around. This is why I do my blog. I want to share genuine observations with you, not speculations or made up theories advertised as truth.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on December 6, 2019.

Image above: “Cosmic Eye” by Andrea Mai.

PROTECT YOURSELF WITH PRAYER – EVP August 17, 2019

Recently, I did a quick EVP recording before shutting down for the night. I meant to go pray right after that before going to sleep. I didn’t look at the recording until a week later.

These clips were recorded with white noise in the background. They are repeated on loop.

Reviewing the EVP, what I found was an intruder. The unwelcome entity said something evil, trying to pass it off as coming from Prince. But P immediately cut in, saying, “Andrea, that’s not me”. He sounded frantic, and seemed to be knocking on the table to get my attention.

P said to me, “Go Andrea, pray”. I had intended to record for longer than I did, but I felt him pulling me to just end it and go pray. I didn’t know what was going on.

Here, P said, “You have to go”. As you might know, if you follow my EVP posts regularly, the EVPs rarely sound exactly like the person as they were when they were “alive”. Usually they sound like a cartoon, as if they sucked on a helium balloon. I’m still not sure why it’s like that. I wonder if it has anything to do with how much energy they may be exerting when speaking. But occasionally, I do catch a clip that sounds exactly like him. I tested this clip both with and without headphones. It is a bit harder to hear it without. He is speaking in a lower tone. So put on the headphones if you don’t hear it.

I never would have believed that there were demons, and that they have such influence in the world. Not until I encountered them on EVP. There is just so much we don’t understand about the spirit world and its potential influence over humanity. And even though ancient texts like the Bible, has warned us of such things, a modern society like ours, that has adopted science as its doctrine, rejecting the idea of spirits.

I have discussed in older posts, how spirits can influence us without our knowledge or suspicion. They can operate seamlessly, causing us to think we are completely autonomous in our thoughts and decisions. But the fact is, they can whisper things into our mind’s ear, and we might assume that we came up with those thoughts. Having witnessed and experienced such influence, has made me aware of how dangerous this power is, when placed in the wrong hands. Unsuspecting, vulnerable people, who do not question their thoughts, can be taken for a ride, and wind up doing things that they swear they would never do. If you have found yourself feeling invaded by an extremely evil thought that seemed to suddenly pop out of nowhere, then you were probably subject to this influence. Most people would be too alarmed and ashamed to admit such an occurrence, believing that these thoughts belonged to them. Therefore, I feel it is important to discuss such matters, so that people can become aware of spiritual enemies, and take back control of their mind, by learning to distinguish when thoughts are not their own.

Some (but very few) psychiatric professionals have begun to recognize that some mental illnesses could be due to spiritual harassment. These cases are very extreme, where patients actually hear the harassing voices. They recognize that normal, healthy people can also be victims of spiritual harassment on more subtle levels. People can fall prey to being maliciously instructed to do evil things. This explanation is not meant in any way to offer an excuse for a person’s behaviour, but rather to give insight about what may be occurring. At the end of the day, awe are all responsible for our own actions.

Back when I first started doing EVP, after I had discovered that there were evil entities harassing my mind, having caught them saying such things on my recordings, I searched for answers on how to rid of them. At the time, there seemed to be a continuous barrage of them targeted at me and P. I didn’t hear everything they said, but I would find them on my recordings or hear P fending off someone. One night, I prayed. They still came. The next night I prayed. And that night, P told me there were angels that came to relieve us. Ever since then, I always prayed for protection. I know it works, because occasionally, I would hear angels telling entities to stay away from us. There are still times when we receive a sneak attack, but they are quickly dealt with by the angels.

Based on my experiences, I would recommend that everyone take up the practice of prayer. It is our communion with God that truly protects us. I know that it can feel daunting, if you don’t know what to say in a prayer, so I am going to share with you, a general template, an idea of how I word my prayers for protection. You can adjust the wording, but basically, this is just an idea to help you communicate with God to ask for protection. You can word it differently to suit your needs.

Dear God, Thank you so much for your protection. Thank you for the angels that protect us. Please allow the angels to send away demons and evil spirits from coming near us, block them from trying to deceive or interfere with us, or do us any harm. Please remove any demons or evil spirits that might be in my house or attached to any person here. Please remove them and seal off any portals used to sneak in.

After this, I continue with the rest of my prayers. To be honest, in the beginning, there were even less words than that in my prayers. I really just begged for help. I developed this prayer as my practice become regular. Sometimes people think that they have to use fancy or flowery language to talk to God. There is no need. You should just be sincere. Here is how I end my prayers:

I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

There is power in the name Jesus Christ that will make any demon flee from you. If you say it with sincerity, you can rebuke any demon that comes your way. I recall once, a long time ago, in a dream, hearing evils voices. I shouted at them, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ”. They left me in peace.

May God bless and protect you.

These recordings were recorded using my MacBook Pro on August 17, 2019.

Image above: “Prayer” by Prince in spirit.

PRINCE WARNED ME ABOUT THIS FAKE PSYCHIC – EVP ON CHRISTMAS EVE

I have thought long and hard about whether or not I want to share the following. Ever since I discovered the presence of Prince and shared it publicly, I have received attacks from people who wish to refute my claims to credit their own. Obviously not all claims can be true. Especially when they claim something completely different.

What I realized from all this is that this is spiritual warfare. The truth is always attacked, and while false claims do get attacked, it is just not the same thing. False claimants get attacked by people who know it’s not true. Truth tellers are attacked by people and evil spirit beings. The attacks by people are often led by evil spirits to carry out the attack. Sometimes the attacker is also a victim of deceit by these spirits.

Lies are meant to oppose the truth, to work in opposition to something that is real and true. It serves no other purpose than to deceive and confuse. I’ve come to understand that for every thing that is good and true, there is a demon created counterfeit version to take away from the truth. Therefore, you can almost use it as a factor to discern what is true, by examining what is being unreasonably attacked.

We are living in time where there is so much deception all around. The Bible fore warned of times where there would be rampant crime, immorality, and massive deception. Jesus foretold not only of false prophets teaching the doctrines of demons, but of those that will claim to come in his name, or claim to be him.

Jesus knew such things would occur because he was the real thing. He saw it coming.

I have never sought out to know of these fake psychics that claim to speak to P. I was always shown or warned of them in advance. I would be warned if they were scoping out my blog or social media. I was told way before it would surface, that other people would also claim to be the twin soul of Prince. Others would claim some connection of another sort with him. The claims are to many count. Not all are made public, so you might never know of them like I do.

I am about to tell you of one such case. I will not reveal her name. She has made herself prominent in her many claims about Prince. The things she has predicted, have never come to pass. And her claims can easily be debunked by logic and evidence.

Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit

This should be no surprise, as thousands claimed to be his heir after he passed away. This world is full of liars.

Here is what happened to me. On Christmas Eve, I was at the store recording EVP. When I came home, I was watching YouTube and by some “accident”, a video came on about how to detect a fake psychic. I was not interested to watch such a video, but I left it on anyway. The person talking on the video reminded me of the person mentioned above. I confirmed it was not her, but it only reminded me of her. I would not normally be thinking of such people. I didn’t knower name, but I would recognize her if I saw her. I had seen one of her many videos online that she posted shortly after P’s passing.

That evening, I received an email. I didn’t even want to open the email, it was midnight and I wanted to go to sleep. But I was told to look. Look at her name, l ook up her name. It was her, the psychic making fake claims about P.

Seriously? The following was even more shocking.

The next day, I reviewed the EVP from the day before. I discovered on the recording that P was upset by a fake psychic making claims about him. He was so mad that he wanted to retreat into his bubble and not talk to anyone, even though we were in public, and other spirits could see him.

The following are EVP from the recording. The quality on these are quite good, but you may need to use headphones to hear these to its fullest. The clips are repeated on loop.

Here P says, “I’m really mad”.

Then he said, “I go in a bubble”. I heard others try to talk to him, but he told them to go away.

The other spirits noticed, they said, “Prince, in a bubble”.

When he did speak, P started saying, “Fake… fake…”.

Then he said, “Psychic troublemaker”.

He eventually came out of his bubble as others wanted to know what was wrong. He told them about this fake psychic, He even said her first and last name. He said, “She is… a fake psychic”.

Other spirits started reacting. they were upset for him. One said, “Fake psychic”.

Another said, “Let’s go get her”.

Another sai, “Let’s go and haunt her”.

Another said, “Haunt her”.

Prince responded, “Hold a second, don’t do that”. He was mad, but he is not vengeful.

The spirits laughed and said, “We’re kidding”. P only allows kind spirits to be near him.

The other spirits wanted to make him feel better. One spirit offered him a treat, she said, “Like a macaroon?”. He said, “Yeah”.

As you can hear, the spirits get upset when lies are being told about them. He was so mad that I heard about it spoken again in other days that I recorded. Word gets around in the spirit world. They talk amongst themselves. Although P is upset about what she has been doing, he is not vengeful, nor does he wish any curse upon her. This is the true nature of P, he forgive his enemies. He would not be airing out his grievances about people he knew in public like she is claiming. This is the total opposite of how she portrays him in her claims.

This fake psychic, if she is not a complete faker, as in a mere actor pretending; then she is not talking to who she thinks she is. Either way, she has demons on her and needs deliverance. I pray for her. I warn you, do not go to these so-called mediums, as many are directed by demons, contact with them can pass on demons. I don’t know what made her email me, but clearly this is no coincidence. Why she even come up in my mind, c;early I was being warned abut her.

May you be discerning, friends.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on December 24, 2018.

Image above: “Dark sky” Andrea Mai

WHAT PRINCE CAME HERE FOR – MY TESTIMONIAL FOR JESUS – WHY LAW OF ATTRACTION IS FALSE

Ever since I had the reading with Starla, there has been one thing that I could not get out of my mind. What was it that Prince felt that he did not fully express in his work? She had conveyed it as being expression of the divine. But that was just not a satisfactory answer to me. She said that I was to continue this expression. So, can you understand my personal frustration with this question? In the reading, she said…

She’s me and I’m her, and she knows that, which is why she feels this connection, and he’s saying, I was misunderstood, not everybody got it, what I was trying to express while I was here on Earth. He feels that he failed at that expression, he knows he made amazing work. But he’s saying what I was here to express on the planet, they didn’t understand it. But you understood it (21:30)… What he’s saying to me is , he did not fully express what he was here to express on the planet, and he’s kinda like kicking himself… like why did I not express that. And he’s like pointing… you have to keep it going, you have to do it. This is your job. (22:47)

What was to be my expression, my job? Why did he feel frustrated? What was missing in his work? Surely, it was not for lack of divine energy. Rather it was something else that I could not fully understand until I had enough of my own experiences of the “kingdom within”.

There was urgency behind the message. So obviously, it was time-sensitive and important, not just something of a personal nature, but it had to do with others. And though I continued to do my work as a photographer, still I always returned to the question of what was he here to do that I was to continue.

In the past year, things began to unfold in greater ways. I was having a breakthrough in recording EVP, so that P could speak to me, in his own words. And I could eavesdrop on what was going one in the spirit world. I could hear conversations between spirits. My early recordings proved to me the existence of demonic beings. I would turn on the recorder and start speaking outlaid to P. In the beginning, I could not hear his responses. I could not hear the EVP. But as I carried on, I developed the hearing ability. When I went back to the old recordings, I discovered demons laughing at me. I discovered demonic threats towards P, trying to convince him that we did not belong together.

I would soon discover just how common demons and evil spirits were. They could slip into anyone’s house at anytime. It was regardless of good intentions. It was always conveyed within spiritual communities that good intentions were always enough to protect you. Clearly this is not true. I soon developed the ability to hear P in real-time and he would tell me when unwanted spirits were present. I would do cleansing and protecting rituals, and yet they could kept coming. It as too tiring to be on guard all the time. I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to do something about it, mainly for the sake of P’s comfort and safety.

I decided that we should pray together. We prayed. At first nothing happened. But then one night, P told me with much excitement, that angels were surrounding us. I recorded EVP while they were here. I could hear them sending away demons. On a recording, the angels told me not to pray to them. I had mistakeningly, in pure gratitude, starting praying to them for their assistance. But they conveyed to me that I was to pray to God only, because their directions were given by God.

I realized after this, that these angels were Biblical. They obeyed God. Unlike the “angels” of popular New Age spirituality, these angels did not want to be called upon, they were totally against it. No matter how much we’ve wanted to thank them, they would say, “Thank God”. In this EVP clip, an angel replies to P who told him thank you, and he tell him, “Thank God”. P then says, “Praise God”. (This clip is quite quiet, so it’s better with headphones)

It occurred to me that prayer was of much greater importance than I ever thought imaginable. And it led me to consider if Law of Attraction was what it has been said to be. I examined its differences, as many lump the two together as the same thing. But clearly, they are not. Prayer is about asking God, and having a relationship with God. Law of Attraction is about ordering the universe to do your will by visualizing it. LOA is bypassing God’s will. It is stepping away from God, demanding to have your will be done, instead of God’s. I realized, this is the deception that many people will fall for. Some so-called spiritual teachers have been telling people that LOA is in alignment with the Bible. But clearly, it is not. This is what Jesus said.

Matthew 21:22 (NIV) If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.

As you can see in the verse above, it says ask for in prayer. Not visualize. Not think about. Ask in prayer to God. LOA leads on to tell you that you are a god, and you do not need to be saved. This is a spiritually dangerous path that leads to self-deception and separation from God.

The questions led to me consider the truth written in the Bible. I had never believed in demons, nor angels. I heard stories about them, but now I had real life encounters to tell me just how real they are. And if there really was a battle between angels and demons, then things said in the Bible had to be seriously considered.

I knew of end time prophecy. But many in popular spirituality would say that a great awakening is coming, and that we are all to be co-creators of a better future resulting in “ascension”. Only until closer examination, I realized that this is simply not the case that is unfolding. The case for end times is clearly evident in the signs of events that have come to pass. And yet, there are still no signs of a better future through the efforts of “manifesting” through LOA. In fact, things seem to be getting worse.

I started to look closely into Bible prophecy, reading Revelation, chapter to chapter, and analyzing it. The more I read, the more I started to understand. And then it dawned on me, just how much of Prince’s music had Biblical symbolism and references laced throughout it. I mean, I always knew it was there, I was brought up Seventh Day Adventist like he, so I recognize the language of religion. But it didn’t come to full consciousness, just how much he was trying too tell people about the end times and God. He said a lot in his music, and yet it was still a mystery to his audience. H e didn’t really like to explain his lyrics to people. So it was never clearly spoken, but evidently conveyed in the music, for those with ears to hear.

So what was P here to express to us? God. The truth that he knew inside, the “kingdom within”. It wasn’t that he didn’t express these things, but it was that people didn’t understand it. He kept a lot of things to himself.

In my experiences with the supernatural, I have come to understand the true power of God. There’s often confusion regarding the supernatural. I have come to understand that there are only two sources for supernatural powers to come from; the kind that is of God, or evil. But lack of discernment by most people leads to generalizing all supernatural things as either being all good, or all evil.

My supernatural encounters have been of a Biblical nature. And so, by its evidence, I have to conclude that the things said in the Bible are true. Perhaps it is not all well understood, but I can conclude that the God known in the Bible is real.

The means Jesus is real, the end times, and the promise of his kingdom is real.

For every truth, there is a counter-truth. I have come to find that for every thing that is of God, there is a counterfeit version of it somewhere, and the Devil is behind it. The truth is difficult to find, because the deception is deep. The lie is embedded in truth, so that is not easily detected. The Devil has come up with a counterfeit version of the end times, that is the “ascension”. In ascension, one is supposed to use the power of the mind to “save the world” (otherwise known as Law of Attraction) by co-creating a better future. In end times prophecy, it is about “saving souls” through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and having a relationship with God; as the destruction of the world comes to a final close, the promise of heaven descends upon the earth in the resurrection of mankind, restoring the everlasting life we were meant to have. If there is an ascension, this is the real ascension – heaven on earth. But first, one must accept the painful truth that this world we live in, is not of God, and it will all soon pass away. We must discover the truth, and prepares ourselves for the times to come.

Revelation 21: 1-4 (NIV) Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Do not rely solely on me for your learning of the truth. All I do is show you evidence of what I have encountered, and share my testimonial about it. Go to God to show you the truth. Read scripture. Pray to know that what I am saying is true. He will answer you.

May you be blessed, friends.

Image above: “Psalms in ultra-violet” by Andrea Mai.

GOD IS LOVE – PRINCE “ANNA STESIA” LOVESEXY SONG INTERPRETATION

I have a backlog of EVPs that I would like to share, but I feel that this matter is more pressing to tell you. I was reflecting on how people are seeking out spiritual experiences and falling into evil traps. I have had many wonderful spiritual, psych experiences but I keep hearing these testimonials from people about denouncing their psychic gifts and converting to fundamentalist Chsirtianity. I really could not understand the discrepancy in experiences. I started to contemplate the matters. Was I being deceived if I was having these experiences? No. I always felt closer to God the more I had these experiences, they brought me closer to Jesus, and knowing that he is real. Then I realized the difference. I never sought out these expereicnes to begin with, I was seeking the Truth, and when these expereicnes did occur, I sought God to guide me. Once when I heard horrible demonic voices in my head at night, I spoke the name of Jesus Christ and rebuked them. They fled. Even in my dreams when I was attacked, I called out to Jesus. The difference is, I sought God, not spiritual experiences. Because I sought God, I was protected and guided.

People who do not see God, who seek only to have experiences for whatever reason; money, love, power, spirituality. In their quest, they may encounter demonic beings that dress themselves as angels who misguide them. They do not test these spirits as I have explained in this post. They believe what they are told. And only until these beings turn on them, do they realize the deceit.

I wrote this on my Facebook page, and because I think it is so important, I am posting it here as well:

Seek God, not spiritual experiences. The experiences come after u connect with God.

I think so many people feel lost and confused, so they seek to have spiritual experiences through meditation, astral projection, psychics, oracle cards, etc, in hopes of answers. These things put a barrier between u and God, when u stop seeking God and seek these things instead of him. When u start to think u have power, u no longer seek him and that is where u can fall into a very dark path of being deceived.

If u ever get lost, ask God, he will answer.

After I wrote this, I heard from P, reminding me of the lyrics from Anna Stesia. I think it is such an amazing song, but maybe some people don’t quite get i fully, what the message is. So I am going to break it down for you.

Anna Stesia
by Prince

Have U ever been so lonely
That U felt like U were the
Only one in this world?

Have U ever wanted 2 play
With someone so much U’d take
Any one boy or girl?

In these verses, he is expressing the feeling of loneliness and desire for connection with others. So lonely that it didn’t matter to him who it was, boy or girl, even from someplace else. The next few lines demonstrate that he is not talking about having connections with people on this Earth, but of another dimension.

Anna Stesia come 2 me
Talk 2 me, ravish me
Liberate my mind
Tell me what U think of me
Praise me, craze me
Out this space and time

He is calling on this female person to have a spiritual experience with. The lines, “Out this space and time” indicates that this female he is talking to is from a spiritual experience, not one of ordinary everyday circumstances. he wants to leave this dimension in search of something.

Between white and black, night and day
Black night seemed like the only way…
So I danced

Music late, nothing great (Music late, nothing great)
No way 2 differentiate (No way 2 differentiate)
I took a chance

It occurred to me that these lines are speaking of an out of body or astral projection type experience. The astral realm can look very close to the one we have in the physical. The words, “No way to differentiate” indicates that he could not tell where he was exactly, what was going on, so he continued, this is implied by the line, “So I danced”. He took a chance on doing this and being where he was at.

Gregory looks just like a ghost
And then a beautiful girl the most
Wets her lips 2 say

“We could live 4 a little while
If U could just learn 2 smile
U and I could fly away, fly away.”

The line about Gregory tells you that he is talking about an astral realm, not the physical. Then a girl appears and talks about flying away. Most people having astral projection experiences talk about flying.

Anna Stesia come 2 me
Talk 2 me, ravish me
Liberate my mind
Tell me what U think of me
Praise me, craze me
Out this space and time

Maybe, maybe, maybe I could learn 2 love
I mean the right way, I mean the only way
Perhaps U could show me, baby (show me, baby)

Anna Stesia come 2 me
Talk 2 me, ravish me
Liberate my mind

He calls in this girl, as he feels lonely and wants to forget about the physical world. In the lines, he is talking about feeling lost and desiring direction on how to love, how to be connected with people. Maybe this female person can show him? But then in the following lines, he has a realization…

Maybe, maybe, maybe I could learn 2 love
If I was just closer 2 somethin’ (closer)
Closer 2 your higher self
I don’t know
Closer 2 heaven (Maybe) closer 2 God (closer to God)

His line of thinking was, maybe he had to get closer to something in his quest. His higher self? He didn’t really find anything there. The “higher self” can also be referred to as the inner self, the inner voice that you hear inside, your intuition. Maybe he can find it by seeking heaven? That is getting closer. To God? Yes, he realizes that God its the answer.

Save me Jesus, I’ve been a fool
How could I forget that U are the rule
U are my God, I am Your child
From now on, 4 U I shall be wild
I shall be quick I shall be strong
I’ll tell Your story, no matter how long (no matter how… no matter)

He had the realization that he was foolish in seeking out spiritual experiences to find his way to love. He realizes that he needs God and Jesus. The word “wild” is a Biblical symbolic reference to being in the wilderness, as the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, and surviving it through their connection with God. He vows to tell everyone about God for the rest of his life. Which he did.

We’re just a play in Your master plan
Now, my Lord I understand

(I understand)

He is saying here that we are all God’s children and we are pieces in his master plan. Now that he understands, he want to follow’s God’s will for him.

Love is God, God is love
Girls and boys love God above
[repeated over chorus]

He uses the words “girl” and “boy” to signify that we are God’s children. If we want to experience love then we must connect to God, for there is no greater love than that. “God is love” is a Biblical reference (1 John 4:8 and 16). He connects the idea that “Love is God”, so he flips the words. If you are searching for love, seek God.

It also occurred to me that the title Anna Stesia is a play on words, creating a character name from the word “anesthesia”, which is defined as is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness.

I really love this track, if you want to hear it, it is on the LoveSexy album. Surprisingly, this album did not do as well as his previous albums at the time. Prince was so excited about this album, it was suggested that perhaps, in addition to the album cover, the “religious” theme aspect perceived by the public held back its commercial success.

Here is a live version found on YouTube:

Image above: “Roses” by Andrea Mai.

REFLECTIONS OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE

As time goes on, I have become wiser to the ways of life. When you are young and naive, you have the world ahead of you, and everything seems possible. It is only when you gain experience that you see who you really are, what the world is like, and how society really is. Something that I come to learn is that death is inevitable, life is fleeting, and to strive for materialism is futile.

Everything in the physical will always be vulnerable to fall into a state of disrepair. The only combatant is to find ways to maintain a state of good condition to prolong its life. Whether it be one’s physical body, a pair of shoes, a building, or a piece of technology. All is aging, all is heading in the direction of ending. It is inevitable that all living beings will die. A pair of shoes will wear out over time, even if you do not wear them and keep them in storage, the materials itself will oxidize and become unusable over time. A brand new home will need repairs in the future, new roofs, new windows. And technological devices, no matter how precious you handle them and keep them in pristine condition, the technology will become obsolete over time. Nothing in this world is permanent.

The first scuff mark on a brand new pair of expensive shoes can feel devastating, but if one’s views on objects can be adjusted to accept the inevitability, one can say “life goes on” and move on without much emotional drama. I am not saying that one should not enjoy the pleasures of life and what it has to offer. But rather that one should also learn to accept its inevitability of its physical demise, and not place an overstated value on material things, for there are things far greater to be concerned with; spiritual demise.

It can feel so sad to learn of this truth. When you realize this, you can see the pointlessness in the lust of material objects.

I think we live in a society that is afraid of death. As we have become more materialistic as a culture, we have neglected spirituality, and bought into believing that materialism is all there is. When we examine ancient civilizations and indigenous cultures, they all believed in some form of spirituality and they understood the “cycle of life”, and they had some concept of where one goes in the afterlife. It is only in modern time in the scientific age that we have become skeptical of the spiritual nature of reality.

I used to feel very uncomfortable when I would hear people talk about heaven or the afterlife. In my naive way, I thought, what’s the point in talking about what happens after you die, when you can focus on living a good life now? It was only until I encountered Prince in his afterlife state that I began to become curious, and wanted to know more about what it is like.

I came to realize how important it is to know about the afterlife, not only so that one can be mentally and emotionally prepared, but also because the way that you live your life now is what determines the path of what you will become in the afterlife.

The character of the person is “moulded” during the course of one’s life through experience and life lessons. Who you become at the end of your life becomes “set” in like cement in a sense, when one transitions to the other side. Though it is a journey that never ends and the soul continues to grow in its evolution, but most of its growing takes place during life in the physical. To not understand this puts one in danger of the belief that one can live a life of crime and suddenly and insincerely repent in the last moments before death. The truth comes out in the spirit world and one’s insincerity can not be hidden.

Knowing about the afterlife has made me look forward to the future, to the time that it is my turn to go. To people who do not understand, this will sound morbid. But in reality, it is because I am totally comfortable with death. I would not deliberately choose to shorten my life, but I do not shy away from exploring death. And at the same time, it has made me appreciate life, to value my time, and see the bigger picture. I have come to the conclusion that if you do not appreciate death, life will always disappoint you with its impermanent, fickle nature.

Life is short in the grand scheme of things. To live life without any purpose and meaning to it is a waste. To spend time chasing material gain for pleasure is never ending and ceases to satisfy. True happiness comes from within, and knowing that there is a God, and one we will get to go “home”.

To not know death makes you ignorant of what life is. This is why I write about my experiences with the afterworld. I feel it is a necessary topic of discussion that few are willing to embrace and speak openly about.

Image above: “Tree stump” by Andrea Mai.