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didn’t make sense to us before. Any skeletons in the family closet that might have been hidden from us, we will know about. I recall a reading I was doing for a woman and her son came through, I don’t recall if I was told the circumstances, but he crossed before his mother. He told his mother that he knew that the person he’d always known here as his uncle was really his father. But he wasn’t accusing his mom. He told her he understood why she couldn’t say anything about it, why she’d had to keep this hidden, what it would have done to their family if anyone had known it.

Do the dead judge the living?
     
    They don’t judge at all—we are the ones who make judgments, even though it isn’t our place to do so. On the Other Side, there is no room for anything other than complete love, forgiveness, and joy. Judgment does not have a place there at all.

How does religion work on the Other Side?
     
    Once we cross over there are not different religions. You don’t get to the Other Side and see eighteen desks and a dispatcher directing you: “Muslims to the left, Jews to the right, Catholics down the hall, second door to the right.” We are all the same when we get to the Other Side. We are all one. There’s not a dozen or two dozen different heavens we go to. It’s all the same place. What do you think? If I’m doing a reading for Mr. Goldberg I get an operator? “Just a minute, Miss, while I connect you with the Jewish heaven.” No. It’s the same place for you, for me, for people of every color, creed, or religion.
    God created these religions—and really, all our differences—because he wanted to show us to love one another despite our differences. And that’s not how it worked out, so far. I’m sure God is very sad about that. There’s an ad I really like on TV. I think it’s for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons. The scene is inside a church and first you see this gay couple sitting in the pew together, and down at the bottom of the screen is a button and a big hand comes in and pushes the button and the couple goes flying out of the church. Then you see an old homeless woman come in and sit down and again the hand comes in and hits the button and she goes flying out of the church. Then you see a biracial couple come in with a cute little baby and here comes the hand again, hitting the ejector button, and the whole family goes flying. And then there’s the message: God does not reject anybody. That is the real truth. God does not reject anybody . I like this ad because it makes me feel like maybe the world is finally waking up, beginning to change, becoming more accepting. Do I care if there’s someone of every race, class, and sexual orientation at my barbecue? Does that hurt me? The only one who would be bothered by that is someone in a white hood and sheet, and they are definitely not welcome at chez Bertoldi!

Do we worship God on the Other Side?
     
    No. We don’t worship God. But we both love God and are God. When we are here we are limited, we are only a piece of God. But over there, we are united as one unlimited “body of God,” for lack of a better way to put it.

Does everyone go into the Light?
     
    No. Murderers are not invited to the party. Evil does not go into the Light. Hitler, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and the like are not going to be there, which I am happy about since I don’t think I ever want to be at the same party with Hitler. I can carry on a conversation with most people, but I’d probably have a bit of a problem with someone like that.
    Each of us has a reckoning at the end of our lives and will have to answer for all our actions, and they will, too, but not in the same place. Someone like O.J. Simpson, who thinks he got away with murder, will have another reckoning. I looked at the facts of that case as a person, and I listened to the dead as a medium, and I believe that he is guilty, and though he may think he got away with his crime,