 Hi, it's Frigid. Welcome to Above Life Channel, the Purposeers to Inspire Your Spirit. And to fill you with hope today, we're going to chat with another one of the Kennedys. If you are interested in the Kennedy family, you can go ahead and check out the playlist here at Above Life Channel for the Kennedys. Today we're going to be talking with Edward Kennedy, also known as Teddy. Alright, so come on in. Edward Kennedy. Hi, it's nice to meet you like I literally want to stand up and shake his hand because he literally feels very, he's broad, he's like kind of square-like, his body type is a square, and he literally very formal, like nice handshake, like wants to shake my hand. Alright, have a seat. It's great to meet you. I spoke, I've spoken with both of your brothers, Robbers, and also John or Jack Kennedy as well. So I've spoken with them previously. So it's great to speak with you. And I know that you are the one that has most recently made your transition in the last few years. And I think it was brain cancer or some kind of cancer. He's cancer, yeah cancer. And he's saying, he's saying something about thanking his wife. He's got gratitude for his wife and his kids. And I don't know if he has three kids, but I see three, I don't know what three means, unless he's saying I'm the third brother, but then he also, I know, had an older brother too, besides Jack and Robert. I know there was Joseph Kennedy too, not just dad, but older brother Joe that died in the war. I know that. So see, I know some stuff about the Kennedy family about your family says, I know you're a big fan. I am a big fan. Yes, I am. I've been out to Boston myself a couple of times too, but I've never been to the Kennedy library or anything like that. So, you know, maybe at some point, I just have to go have to go out there for that. But I'm in by Harvard though, and walked right by Harvard and walked to the grounds at Harvard and stuff. But just a couple of years ago, that was pretty cool. Actually, like four years ago, it seems like just a year or two, but it's been a while. So great. It's great to meet you. So there's a lot going on in politics right now in the United States. And he says, globally, the world, the world. What do you feel is the Edward Kennedy? And he says, you can call me Teddy. You can call me Teddy. He says, all my friends do. It's fine. I'm like, Oh, that's awesome. I remember my parents having a button. It was blue with white lettering. And it said Kennedy 80. So you must have had a run for the presidency. I don't remember that. I was young then. So really young. So I wanted to remember that. But I remember the button. So I know you must have run for president. And he says, you know, he says I tried, but I couldn't. I was definitely not able to meet the expectations that my brother set. You know, he said that he says there's there was a high bar set for me before me with my brothers and their success in politics. It's it's hard to to compete with a ghost, he says. And with two. Good luck to you, he says. It's difficult, difficult. And besides, I could do much better and in public service when I could work for the constituents or the people that I care about the most. Oh, I have a dog right here, you guys. Hey, you want to come up? Come here. Just a minute. Here's my dog. Hi. How are you? Do you want to sit here for a second? Okay. Sorry about that. He says I had I had a few myself. It looks like border collies or something. It looks like is that what you guys had? Looks like two dogs. I can see them. Wow. Okay. All right. So difficult because of your brothers in part. He says I couldn't. I wasn't ever much of a celebrity like they were but okay, so I'm going to ask you about part of your history was and part of what I would perceive as something that would kind of bar you from having any kind of higher office than you held would like the presidency like I couldn't imagine to be honest here. Teddy Kennedy, I couldn't see you being in any kind of higher office because of some choices you made when you were younger and all of that car accident and the driving and the woman that was killed and things. There's some you know drama there and it's real. That was real. He says, yeah, he said I'm not going to minimize or make excuses and for my choices and my life. But I do believe that there is such a power and forgiveness and you never really can forget a situation like that. But it's not for me to say or to value to put a value on life. And I think it's was a terrible tragedy for all involved and I wouldn't say that there was a yearly I wouldn't say that there was a I would say that there was a lot of story embellishment around what actually happened that night and painting me as a reckless person naive in the ways of the world or the fact that I didn't consider consequences is true. I think that could be true for anyone in that situation. So you keep saying that situation is that like the driving drunk piece? He says it was a tragedy. And I'm not in any place to put a value on one life over another. He says I shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. None of us should have So do you think that that really is the reason why you're not your political career wasn't any couldn't be any more than it was? I mean, do you feel that? Yes, he says yes. You know, and I thought he says you know, and I thought that over time, through a lot of healing and a lot of deep personal regret, I thought maybe it was possible to move on to move past the the choices back then that I made the consequences. But I never could really let go of that. Not fully anyway. So in the afterlife, did you reunite with the woman that died that night? Yes, yes. Yes, we did. And there's a piece and what? Okay. What do you guys think? Do you guys think I should actually use this video and share it or not? I think we're having some deep conversation here with Teddy Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy. And we're talking about the situation with the car accident and the woman that died because of you, or because of you. And you're saying that you connected in the afterlife, and that you met or connected. Can you talk about that a little bit? Because I think it's, it's curious how that works. And it works differently for different spirits and different circumstances, I believe. That's what I've learned anyway here at above life channel. So Teddy, can you talk about that experience? What do you mean that you met in the two of you connected? What was that like? You know, it's an incredible sense of grace. There's a real soft feeling that comes over you when you're given a gift of forgiveness, of love without any kinds of strings. There's no such thing as the punishment or guilt that we feel so much so deeply in our human lives that it was like torture for me to live with that in my heart. And it's the moments after my death. I saw my grandmother, actually, and my brothers. But then I saw this beautiful young woman. And I remember she was so beautiful. She had this hair that she just was so beautiful. And I felt this, this sense of this really strong feeling this warmth in my heart. And it was, I forgive you. You are forgiven. And it's as though all the painful memories that I've been carrying for years were gone. And there was this real light energy. This is just free feeling. I would liken it to almost like a lullaby being rocked to sleep. It just so so incredibly connected and all around just swallowing up any kind of dark energy, darkness and pain is just gone. That is really, wow, that is really beautiful. That is really beautiful. It's really beautiful. Wow. So, Teddy, do you have anything to share with us about when you went into the afterlife? You said you got to see your brothers. And then it looks like there's a baby over there too. And then you feel gratitude here for your wife here. Something about my sons? I don't know. Are the sons the sons? Oh, your dad. Oh, he's he's getting this he's sharing with this me with he's sharing this with me that it's like his dad felt very proud of him is how he felt when he went into the afterlife. It's like every all the judgments and things that he carried with him and the shame and the guilt he carried with them him just dropped away and then he just had this all this like all these things that he needed as a human he got when he went into the afterlife. And he says I don't know how that is how that process is you know how that works for everyone but I can share how it is how it was for me when I got into the full the fullest version of myself and to the acceptance. So were there angels? Did you see angels when you crossed over and transitioned or showing me heart problems? He must have had a heart attack or something earlier in his life because he's showing me having experience where he actually visited with an angel before almost like a near death experience but he didn't actually die and then he's also showing me when he was really young he must have been sick or something because there was like three times in his life where he could have had exits like he could have left but he didn't so he's showing me like a pattern in here. So did you always want to be in politics? Did you always want to be in public service? He says that's pretty much all all the choice we had. He said it's like the family business you go into the family business. But were you interested in politics and law? Are you interested in those things? Yes, absolutely. He says well, there wasn't really anything else. He said really, Bridget, there wasn't what was I going to do? What what else would I do? I suppose I could have went into business but that was absolutely the opposite of what we of what the legacy of the Kennedys is. Well, I don't know that it's the opposite, but it's definitely different than public service because oftentimes the public service being in the public sector, being a public servant is very different mindset than working in business and those interests are very competing competitive so at times so I can understand that. What is one thing that you wish you could have accomplished? When you were in the Senate? Well, it was one thing you wish you could have accomplished while working in government. I think health care. He says health care. There's so many social issues that human issues that need to be addressed and basic needs that are not being met and that's the one thing that government seems to be blind. And it's easy for individuals and families to look the other way when it's not you that's in that situation, but it could be your neighbor, it could be your child's best friend, it could be your coworker that is suffering and struggling to not just make ends meet but to take their kids, their children to the doctor and to get the proper health care and the proper access to prescription and medication and things that they absolutely need to have in order to survive just the basic core things that should be just standard for all. So do you believe in like a socialism approach to that? No, he says no, not that's over that's over exaggerated the whole socialist approach to health care and universal health care is so over exaggerated it's oversimplifies all of it. And it's something that's just simply used especially during election time to group politicians into categories that seem undesirable for election seems like we're the ones that want to take care of people that can't take care of themselves. We're the ones that want to take your money and give it to people who don't deserve it. And that's not at all the truth that is not at all the truth. Alright, I don't really necessarily want to talk about politics, but I suppose when I'm talking to a Kennedy kind of have to do that a little bit, I guess. So is there anything from the so for the afterlife? Are you guys all you all you Kennedys and stuff and maybe even like John McCain and the Reagan's and the Bush Bushes and all that. Are you guys all like, watching down here, all this stuff in the United States playing out with our government right now, and watching it like a football game, like you guys have nachos and stuff for half time and you know, like what what it what is that like because that's so curious. So curious to me. I mean, I know in the afterlife spirit is so different than human life experience. But that's kind of what I bet some of the viewers are thinking about picturing. Are you guys kind of picturing that in your mind all these famous people like even Abraham Lincoln and George Washington like, you know, looking over all of us FDR and all that, you know, like, what the heck are you guys doing? What are you guys doing down there? What are you have lost your minds? Well, you know, so what is that like? Can you see the things that are going on? Can you do you have influence over any of that stuff? He says you have much more than I do to say about that. He said it's not for us anymore. It's not we are not really all that interested in it either. He says there are many other things to be doing. We don't really have a vested interest in your turn, your time. It's, it's quite quite as though our work is done. And now yours is is it's in your hands. And we can't really wish anything different or want anything different in in the way that you're asking about it. No, we can't step in and make changes. We can give advisement. If that is asked of us, we can serve as a guide and and as a subject matter expert on any of the issues and can provide advice in that way. But we are often asked. And if we are, then we're certainly happy to do that to provide that. You know, more than anyone, perhaps it's more about believing in yourself and really allowing yourself to follow your heart and what is an integrity and alignment with your goals, your values, your beliefs and understanding that what you believe and what you do then in turn take action on really does have an impact on others many, many others. And it matters more than you think it does. Your opinion, your view really does matter. And that's why voting is so important. It's very important to vote. Oftentimes people use it as a they're not happy. They're not pleased with the choices they have so they don't make a choice. Well, not making a choice is making a choice. That is a most certainly been proven by recent history. That's very true. Very, very, very true. All right, you guys, this is Bridget at Above Life Channel and you've been watching an afterlife conversation with Edward Kennedy, former senator and member of the Kennedy family. If you're interested, check out the playlist here at Above Life Channel for the Kennedys. Remember, the purpose is always to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope because this is your life. And the purpose is to live it. Just live it. Thanks so much for watching and for meeting my dog tonight in the video. See, sometimes this happens, you got to work when you feel inspired. And so I did tonight. Thanks for watching, you guys.