A practitioner asks: “When my father had Alzheimer’s and was near the end, the last thing he said to me was “where are the girls.” This was as we were saying goodbye. It was like he knew me, and he was wondering where my daughters were. We were estranged at the time and I was ready to make the first move to get back in touch. Was the Divine speaking through my father to me that day as I feel he was?”

This is true because your father was speaking through the divine to enable this lucid perception and thought to be expressed. So that was assisted by the divine to bring about that moment of clarity for the mutual benefit of both parties. The major difficulty with dementia is that the mind is present but unable to use the body effectively to communicate, so it remains lucid and aware of things but cannot get the body to speak in a coherent way, because alterations due to the disorder will scramble the message and make many words unavailable, so coherent conversations become impossible. So in this instance, the blessing was conferred to have your father’s thoughts and concern come through with clarity and precision and this was very satisfying to him, knowing he had gotten through to you, as it was intended to be a loving gesture of recognition.