Hello, my friends. Today’s episode is different from the norm. This is an interview episode with my longtime friend Chuck Bergman. For Halloween, I wanted to release something a little different. This episode gets into the thick of the afterlife and hopefully answers questions you have had for some time. I am not becoming an interview show, but getting a chance to sit down with Chuck and have this conversation was one I couldn’t pass up. Whether you are a skeptic or a long-time believer in psychics, I hope this interview with Chuck can broaden your perspective. Chuck is available for phone and in-person readings and you can book a session with him at chuckbergman.com. Chicken Mind Nuggets will resume normal micro-podcast episodes in November. Chuck was born in Jacksonville Florida and is a third-generation psychic medium, following his mother and grandmother. He realized his gifts at an early age, but kept it under wraps for years. Chuck went on to serve in the United States Navy for 4 years overseas and during the Vietnam War where he was assigned to Special Ops and Radar Operations on aircraft carriers Shangri-La and John F. Kennedy. After the military he served 32 years as a motorcycle officer, patrol officer, computer and media specialist, and accident reconstructionist in Salem, Massachusetts. Since retirement and going public as a psychic medium, the A&E Channel and The Biography Channel have featured Chuck his own pilot program Psychic Search. Chuck has also been a repeat guest on many live radio shows, including Coast to Coast AM, where Chuck and I met and began our friendship over 10 years ago. In addition to regularly holding sessions and giving readings as a medium, Chuck has helped numerous police departments around the world locate missing persons, solve murder cases, and assist several law enforcement agencies across the country and internationally with ongoing investigations. He regularly holds group and private sessions in Middleburg, Florida, and does phone readings with clients worldwide via Skype. Chuck is passionate about educating people on the concept of life continuing after so-called death. He has also completed classes in meditation techniques, psychic mediumship, advanced mediumship, and Reiki. James Van Praagh, the world-renowned psychic medium, teacher, and co-producer of the CBS drama The Ghost Whisperer, highly recommends Chuck for psychic mediumship readings and lists Chuck on his website. Chuck co-authored the book The Everything Guide to Evidence of an Afterlife (published in 2011) and wrote his autobiography Psychic Cop published in 2012. Here are some of the questions we talk about today: *Tell us a little more about yourself and your background, your time as a cop, and how you transitioned into a psychic *Were your abilities taken seriously when you were a cop? Were you able to share your hunches with your police unit or did you keep them to yourself? *What was the transition from cop to psychic like for you and your family? *What is a day like in the life of Chuck? *How did you know you were connecting with spirits and not going crazy? *Is it more important for parents to have an open mind when their kids are talking to them about the afterlife and seeing spirits as opposed to a skeptical mind? *Can you describe what it’s like when you are in the moment connecting with someone on the other side, does it feel like you are in an alternate reality? *How do we tell when a spirit is communicating with us? Is it different for everybody? *How do animals communicate to you in the afterlife? *Why do spirits talk in clues or hints and why do they have limited time to talk to us? *How much influence would you say spirits have over our daily lives? *When a person enters the afterlife, are they automatically assigned guardian roles over their loved ones? *Do your loved ones on the other side have a choice to not look after you? *Is there a general consensus among spirits about human actions like conflict, jealousy, revenge, love, and generosity? *Are we more comedic or tragic to spirits as they watch our interactions? *Does everyone have their own version of heaven or hell they create in the afterlife like in the movie What Dreams May Come? *Is everything already planned out for our lives? *Is there a reward/punishment system for spirits like how we have on Earth if a spirit does something good or bad? *How do aliens fit in with the spirit realm? *Looking at reincarnation, does a spirit have a limited amount of time in the afterlife before they have to reincarnate? *How does a person’s spiritual practice on Earth help them prepare for the afterlife or does it have any influence at all? *Does a stronger and more realistic spiritual practice on Earth help to prepare for the transition into the afterlife? *When someone is dying, how does their fear or comfort level influence their transition into the afterlife? *...
