Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes themes of death, loss, and grief.

Jackson roots her discussion of the interconnected nature between life and the afterlife in the inherent ability of each individual to receive signs, messages, and guidance from loved ones who have passed to the Other Side. She argues that these deceased loved ones (and other various paranormal energies and entities) make up a person’s Team of Light. These Teams of Light, Jackson holds, “want so much to help guide us, and are so excited to see us happy, that they often […] choose to send us signs of their own in the hope that we will recognize them and act on them” (59). Such signs come in the form of light, color, sound, music, animals, or other natural phenomena. While Jackson acknowledges that skeptics might interpret such signs as mere coincidences (or instances of random chance), she asserts that they are evidence of the interconnection between the physical and spiritual worlds. If the individual allows herself to believe in this interconnection, Jackson claims, she can also discover connections with other humans and animals.