In 2002, my favorite cat of 17 years was put to sleep.  She was a stray cat, in very bad health, and we took her in.  She was our “first baby”.   When I decided it was time for her to be put to sleep, it  was really traumatic for me! I cried for days!  I felt guilt, loss, and loneliness.

About a week later, my (then) husband and I were talking in the kitchen, leaning against the counters, looking out over the kitchen and living room.  We were leaning there, talking, when we saw the cat come up from the basement, walk diagonally across the room, and go over to the food dish.  There, it started to eat.  We observed it for about 20 minutes, both of us just watching in silence.

The cat was deceased, of course.  What we saw was the same cat, but it was more of a well-defined “shadow”.  It kind of looked like a hologram of the cat.  It was extremely detailed, just not solid.

We were both silent for a long while.  Finally, I said “did you see that”?  He did, even though he wasn’t a believer in the inexplicable.   I think the cat didn’t realize that she was deceased yet.  She had the same habits as she used to, hence walking over to the food dish.

That cat is still with me, and I feel her presence, feel her touching me, and have felt her sleeping on the bed, even 20 years after!

My brother and I traveled to Florida December 2021, and he saw the cat then with me.  He prefaced telling me by saying something like, “I’m not sure if I really saw this but……”, already doubting what he’d seen.  He also saw the same cat another time.

I’ve had the same cat jump on the bed and walk over, feeling the pressure and vibration of her footsteps on the bed but there was nothing there.  I feel this cat with me even when I’m driving!  So, even though I don’t “see” her the same way, I know that she’s still with me in a different form.  I wrote about one experience in this blog, A Not So Secret Visit From My Cat  https://awakenedstories.com/a-not-so-secret-visit-from-my-cat/

This has happened to me with multiple cats. They’ve jumped on the bed, I feel them walk across the bed, flop on to the pillow, except they’re not visible!  I’ve written another blog about the time I felt a cat jump on the bed, and saw the indentation of it’s paws in the blanket.  It then flopped on the pillow, where there was an indentation and a noise.  But no cat!   Once it realized that I’d seen it, it jumped off the bed and ran away, thinking “Ooops”.

This is a small example about how we just change forms when we die.  We’re still there, and usually, we go to another reality to live.  Think of us as a drop of water.  Heat it and it freezes, changing form.  Boil it, and it turns into steam, then condensation, changing form.  Put it in a lake, it blends with others, but it’s still there. Our soul, our consciousness, doesn’t die, it just changes form.  This should give you hope, and reduce the fear that you may fear about death!