The Life of the Dead

Mark J. Janssen
4 min readMar 21, 2024

We all spend our lives in the world of the living. Some of us also happen to spend a lot of our lives with those who are physically dead, if spiritually alive. A minority of us who do this are famous psychics and mediums. Most of us are not famous. Some of my friends think that I live a little too close to the edge for comfort by publicly writing about my experiences. Most of my spiritual spirited friends prefer to remain anonymous. They keep low profiles because society at large has a history of being unfriendly to us.

It’s typically easier to work with the dead than put up with the nonsense of the living.

The majority of us are either unpaid or receive very little remuneration for our work. While I perform spiritual work on a daily basis, I can’t recall the last time I was paid to help move souls through the Tunnel of Light or perform an exorcism. The same is true when I give a spiritual reading, but I’m also not the guy you’d come running to with questions about your love life. I do those things all of the time, but typically because God tells me to help the souls of the living and the dead.

It’s a Big Fella thing.

These first three months of 2024 are interesting for someone working with spirits. Typically, the big winter rush for people to experience physical death and for their souls to return Home to heaven ends in early February. We’re past the middle of March and souls are still getting on the train Home as if nothing had changed. More people are dying and returning Home than in a typical…

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Mark J. Janssen

Mark Janssen is a Catholic Druid, mystic visionary and author who writes a weekly blog. His memoir “Reach for the Stars” is available online.