I Am Shown a Big Gateway

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Some portals to the other side are quiet and hidden, while others are vast and radiant. Welcome to episode 36 of My True Ghost Stories. There are portals from this earth to the other side everywhere. Some of these portals are open, some are closed, many of them cause weird hauntings and people's homes and they need to be closed. But there is one portal under my care that has to stay open 24 hours a day until the end of time and that is the portal at the top of the aisle to the left of the sanctuary at my church.

A portal, Paranormally Speaking, is defined as a geographical location that allows a path for spirits to move from one side to the other. And I see these portals everywhere. There is usually a lot of energy around them and a lot of ghosts coming and going. And from what I've seen, they get formed in a location where a spirit crossed over, leaving a sort of exit hole in the membrane between this side and the other side. After helping a spirit to cross over, I am always sure to close up the portal they have formed afterwards.

And I have a few techniques for this that I use. But today I am here to tell you the story of a big major portal, the one that should never be closed, the one at the top of the aisle, to the left of the sanctuary at my church. Now I have many, many stories of spirits passing through this portal at my church. This portal is a huge part of my everyday life as a medium. Today I am going to tell you the story of how I was made aware of the portal at my church and how, by some chance events and a security camera, the truth about the portal was confirmed.

How was I made aware of this portal? I had been attending this church for many years. It's the one with all the paranormal activity that I've told you about in other episodes. Haunted storage rooms, wandering ghost pastors, and it's where my dear friend and number one supernatural supporter, Margaret Works. At the time of this story, I had begun helping spirits cross over.

Not perfectly a little clumsily, and for a brief period, I did not know about closing up the small portals that form when these spirits entered the other side. And this resulted in some problems with even more ghosts in the space, and then an exhausting follow-up where I had to get a whole bunch of spirits to leave instead of just the one. I got some guidance on this early on at the Botanica where I learned that you have to close the portal up after crossing. Besides my human helpers here on this earth, like Johnny at the Botanica, I had some holy help. My mean advisor and direct supervisor, Archangel Michael.

Ultimately, he has the final say on what I should and shouldn't be doing with these trapped spirits. And besides guiding me during my meditations, I believe that Michael speaks through my human spiritual advisors, like Johnny at the Botanica. So one day I had a spirit in my life. It was a confused and lost spirit. Someday I will tell the story of this confused and lost spirit.

But for now, I will tell you that it was that of an infant. This infant had missed their opportunity to cross over due to some confusion and mixed signals here on this earth, and the spirit of this infant did not know where to go. Again, someday I will tell that story on this podcast. But first, the story of the big major portal. I knew about the spirit baby.

The spirit had come to me and was with me. Michael told me that this baby needed to cross over. I made a plan to go into my backyard in nature and send the baby spirit through a portal and then close the portal up. But upon consulting Michael about this plan, I closed my eyes and he showed me a picture of the inside of my church. My eyes were closed and this vision appeared.

We were walking down the side aisle, got to the front of the church, made a left in front of all the pews, passed the organ and right before the vote of candles. And in this vision, we looked straight up. We looked straight up at a large circular space on the ceiling of the church, which included two intersecting beams. The space that I was being shown in this vision was not of any particular design or set space. Michael was showing me what was actually there.

There may have been beams and paint and designs, but what was really there was a portal to the other side. And the message during this meditation from Michael was, take the baby spirit there. And I did what Michael said. As I said, I will tell the whole story of the baby spirit, what happened and how I sent the baby to the other side. But for today, sort of as a prequel for that upcoming story, I am going to describe this big portal at church.

The one that I was introduced to by Saint Michael when I was helping this baby spirit. I learned a lot about that portal that day. The day I brought the baby spirit to cross over. I learned that this portal was different than the small ones around that have ghosts coming through and haunting poor homeowners. This portal was huge.

It was always open and it was sort of let's say staffed. There were what I will call for now, positive entities waiting on the other side. I could tell when first encountering this big portal that souls were only going to ascend through this portal, not come back down to haunt. This was an entrance to, well, I don't know for sure, but it was an entrance to something like heaven. Like I said, I don't know for sure because I've only seen this side of this big portal in my church.

But when I'm helping a spirit to go up through that big portal at church, I'm going to go ahead and say it. I have been shown angels and saints waiting on the other side. Those positive entities I mentioned a minute ago. Angels and saints reaching out ready to catch the spirit that's coming through. And I don't know much.

I don't know why some spirits go through tiny portals and someone's hallway and some spirits go through this majestic path in a church toward open armed angels and saints. As I've said, I only get to see things from this side. It's possible that some spirits only need a little entryway to know where to go. And it's possible that some needed to be really obvious. It also could be that there are different levels on the other side and the different portals go to different locations.

Like I said, I don't know. They only tell me enough so that I can do my job and get the spirits to the other side. But those are some of my theories. I've tried asking what's over there and I am met with stony silence from St. Michael.

So I don't ask anymore. I just do my job. I have sent many many spirits through this portal and I have done it all on faith that St. Michael showed me that vision of the portal because it indeed exists. And I have done it because I can actually sense the energy moving upward through the portal.

And key members of the church staff are total believers in this sort of thing and allow me to enter the sanctuary on off hours so that I can send a spirit up. But I have found the occasional baffled custodians staring at me while I stare straight up at the ceiling in front of the church under the portal, mumbling and waving my arms. But these custodians eventually just shrug and walk away. But with all this faith, faith in St. Michael and faith in my sensing of the energy around the portal, it was nice to finally get some proof.

And this is how I got the proof. One cold winter night, someone who did not have a warm place to sleep, snuck into the church and slept in one of the pews, one of the pews near the side aisle. This person didn't take anything, disturb anything or harm the church building in any way and was discovered by a custodian in the morning. I know that efforts were made to find this person to place the sleep and efforts were also made to find out how he had gotten into the church unnoticed in the middle of the night. Margaret told me the story a week or so after this had happened.

She told me that they watched a security tape of the night that the man had slept there. She did not tell me how he got in, which they did eventually figure out. But she told me that most of the tape was of him sleeping in the pew near the side aisle. And then she told me the part that she wanted me to know. She said that on the film there were orbs.

And the orbs were floating down the side aisle. Just like in the vision that St. Michael had shown me. And then these orbs were floating up toward the ceiling where the big portal was. The camera scope did not include the ceiling, but the orbs were moving down the aisle and then up just like Michael and I did in the vision.

I know, well now I know after looking it up, that there are varying opinions on orbs. There is the theory that they are dust on the lens or a spider web. There are some links in the show notes about the orb controversy and some people seem to be quite passionate about it. And I understand that it can be dust or a spider web. But these orbs on this security camera footage in the church were moving and they were moving in a pattern that I had described long before this had happened down the aisle and then up towards the portal.

So I believe and the church staff who watched that security footage believe that these were spirits moving through the path that I had long since described down the side aisle and up towards the portal. I wish I could have seen it myself, but apparently there are rules against showing non-employees security footage. And there was also the common courtesy of respecting the privacy of the man sleeping in the church. So I have had to take Margaret's word for it. And I have taken her word for it.

Margaret telling me about the orbs on this security camera footage gave me the proof that I needed to keep going. All around the church there are symbolic carvings adorning the walls, mostly at eye level at the bottom of various pillars and near entrances. The portal that I've been talking about today is at the very top of a pillar that extends all the way down to eye level. And there at the bottom of this pillar at eye level is a carving set into the wall. The carving has always looked to me like the front of a building, a building with large columns on its porch, maybe some sort of a church.

I did not think too much about what it was. There are so many adornments around the building that I never really focused on any of them. But recently, for a 125th year anniversary celebration of this church, a book was published for the congregation, containing photos and explanations of each symbolic carving in the church. The pictures were divided into sections pertaining to their meanings. I got my own copy and leaf through it, looking for the carving of the symbol that was under the big portal.

The carving that looked like the front of a building with large columns, maybe a church. I finally found it. It was on a page entitled Symbols of the Disciples of Jesus. And apparently it was not a carving of a building with columns. It was a gate.

And the disciple of Jesus that it represented was Mary. And written under the picture of the Mary symbol carved into the wall, the symbol at the bottom of the pillar that led up into the large majestic portal, the portal with the angels and saints waiting on the other side. There beneath that picture were the words, gateway to heaven. Gateway to heaven. More proof for me.

This portal was real. It was there long before I began sending souls through it. Whoever chose to put this carving there was also being guided by something divine. And this portal will remain there long after I am gone. Under St.

Michael's direction, I have enlisted a group of women in the congregation to do what I call portal maintenance. Because it's so important, I can't be the only one doing it. We make sure that the side aisle is always clear so those orbs can travel safely down it. And we make sure that the decorations, flowers, palms near the portal all represent an upward flow to keep the energy moving. And we also occasionally do some dramatic arm waving to really keep that upward energy flowing.

So that is the story of the big portal at my church. Now in future episodes, I can tell you all some of the stories of the spirits that I've sent through it. So stay tuned. And if you've enjoyed this episode of My True Ghost Stories, please take a second to review, subscribe, and share it with a friend to help this show grow. Don't forget to join me here every Tuesday for a new episode. Until next time!