Russell Byrne died before his 10th birthday. His parents, Gwen and Alfie, were devastated. They looked for support from the church to understand whether Russell was still alive in another form. They received no satisfactory help. So Gwen began her own spiritual investigations and what she found changed her life.
Gwen met with talented medium Deborah Moore. She connected with Russel. Russell was willing and anxious to communicate. Over many sessions with the medium, Gwen received enough messages about life in the afterlife to write the book, Russell. She followed with a second book, The Russell Connection.
In this video, you will hear a voiceover of an excerpt from one of Russell’s books describing what he experienced when he arrived in the afterlife as he communicated through medium Deborah Moore.
Russell begins soon after his passing. He describes what he saw.
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Russell Byrne's Words Through the Medium
But there in front of me stood the most beautiful, beautiful lady and she was very beautiful, Mum. She was dressed in a long blue robe and upon her head she had a long white … not a cloak but like a sheet. Very much like the robes the Jewish ladies used to wear about two thousand years ago. Her name was Maria and when she spoke, she spoke in such a lovely voice Mum, it was as if in her voice I could hear the sound of waterfalls and tinkling bells. Truly, that was her voice. It was so magical and so lovely and around her there shone a great light and she had a most beautiful smile upon her face and she came forward to me and she said, ‘Come on Russell” and she held her arms out to me – her arms outstretched – and said, ‘Come Russell, come with me. It is time for you to go. It is time for you to come with me, to leave this Earth and come back to your true home.’ I asked about you and about Dad and I said, ‘I would like to say goodbye to Mum or Dad,’ and she said, ‘That is not necessary, not now.
For you will not lose them and they will not lose you, and we will bring you back many times to see them so you will not have lost them.’ And she said, ‘Come, Russell, come. Come now.’ I said, ‘But I cannot move. I am so tired.’ She said ‘Move, move Russell, try to move,’ and of course I tried to sit up and Mum, I could sit up! I could! I could sit up, I could swing my legs off the side of the bed and could wriggle down on to the floor and I could walk towards this beautiful, beautiful lady.
I looked round and I looked behind me and there was ME. I was lying on that bed and yet I was standing here just the same as I was on the bed – like a mirror reflection really – beside this beautiful, beautiful lady, and I looked at me that was and I looked at the beautiful lady and I looked at me that is now and I just didn’t understand. She smiled because she could read my thoughts you see, we didn’t need language any more for in spirit, as you think it so the person you think the thought to, hears it – picks it up – like a kind of telepathy on the Earth. That’s the way we communicate. We have no need of language. So we think – so we know against mind to mind. I looked at her and she knew and understood my perplexity. She smiled and laughed and she gathered me up into her arms. I felt so happy – so free – because I wasn’t tired any more. There wasn’t any pain. There was none of that awful, awful tiredness. I was as light and free as the wind and it was wonderful.
She then said to me as she held me in her arms, ‘Now Russell, we’re going on a journey.’ I said, ‘But I’m very big. Are you sure that you can carry me on the journey?’ ‘Oh yes,’ she said. ‘I can carry you.’ You see, I was quite big, wasn’t I Mum, for my age and she was only a … she was a lady, but not a particularly tall lady. In fact there seemed to be something very gossamer about her to me’ and yet that lady picked me up in her arms as if I were a feather. Of course I know now that I was, because the power of her love picked me up.
The power of her love held me close to her in her arms and Mum, we went on the most extraordinary journey I have ever known. Or had ever known up till then. For you see, this beautiful lady walked through the wall – through the wall and through all the solid objects and I went all through the solid objects with her. We walked through the walls – we just walked! Slowly, as we walked, I noticed that she was making me laugh and she was making me feel happy and free and full of life. More full of life and happier than I’d ever been for years upon the Earth because I was free of the great burden of this knowledge that I was not long to stay.
Do you know, she lifted me up and we walked and at first we seemed to walk upon the Earth, but as we walked I noticed that we were leaving the Earth. We were literally leaving the surface of the Earth, so she was walking on air and we were just walking! She was walking through space! She told me … and I said, ‘Where – where are we going? How can you walk through the air? I couldn’t walk through the air!’ I was, of course – at nine and three-quarters – very impressed with anyone who could walk in the air – you could imagine! I thought it was a wonderful trick and I told her so. She laughed – a beautiful, beautiful laugh. It sounded like a tinkling bell.
We walked and she said, ‘I am walking on a path that no human eye can see, and soon we will be up among the stars and we will walk along the path where there is no path.’ And do you know, this happened! We left the Earth plane far behind – we left the Earth far behind. We went up into the darkness of the night beyond the sun. We walked through the stars, and she saw a path – I saw no path, but she saw a path – and I said, ‘Does everyone do this? “Oh yes,’ she said, ‘we all walk the path.’
Then I saw the light – a very small light – in the distance, and we walked towards the light and as we walked, the light … the hole … the light got bigger and I saw that it was like a tunnel. It was like a pathway through a tunnel and we had to walk through this tunnel, and at the very end of this tunnel there was a tremendous light and she walked on, and walked on and walked on, and others joined us as we walked. But I was so busy looking around, so busy staring at this lovely, lovely lady. I didn’t really know who it was, but I recognized her, yet I didn’t recognize her, and there seemed to be great joy. It was as if I’d come home, and of course I had. We were walking… she was walking … she was carrying me in her arms and we went straight towards the light and we passed through that light – I suppose it was out the other side of the tunnel – and into this light, and into this light, Mum.
My eyes were dazzled at first, but as they grew adjusted to this great light I could see things. I could see people. I could see other children. I could see other people that were beloved of mine on the Earth plane, waving, smiling, greeting. I found myself, Mum, in this most wonderful, wonderful garden and I can only … well it was like a garden, it was like a cross between a garden and a parkland like you’d find. That’s the nearest I can describe it upon the Earth. You know, it was a garden that was vast. It was like a cross between a vast garden and a vast park. It was so light, it was like a glorious summer’s day, but it wasn’t too hot and it wasn’t too cold. It was just perfect and there was such love in this place – such love – and the love helped me. I felt stronger – I was getting stronger in this lady’s arms, with all this love around me. I was getting stronger, stronger all the time and I struggled in her arms and said, ‘Oh please let me go. Let me play over there. Let me explore all this wonderful place. Let me see where everything is.’
‘No, no,’ she said, ‘Russell no. You must wait. You have been ill upon the Earth. We must take you to a place that will heal you.’ Mum, this frightened me because the last thing I wanted to do was to go into another hospital. I’d had enough of those places and I struggled in her arms and said, ‘Not a hospital,’ and she said, ‘No, it is not a hospital like anything you will find upon the Earth,’ and it wasn’t.
She walked through this beautiful place – this beautiful garden – and she took me to a beautiful white pillared building. She was greeted by people who lived in this white pillared building that looked after the children of the Earth, that put them on the road to recovery after they had been ill. You see, if you’d been ill … if a child has been ill upon the Earth plane, they are taken to the Halls of Healing where people who love children work with them and heal them from whatever physical or mental traumas they have suffered upon the Earth, and of course I had been through a lot of physical trauma hadn’t I. Because of my illness. But it was nothing like the Earth. It was nothing like the Earth.
She took me into this beautiful white building – this lovely … this other lovely lady came and greeted her and I fancied she bowed in front of this lady in the blue robe. It was a quick, instant thing, and yet I saw it in just a flicker – a fraction – and then everything was normal and the lovely lady with the blue robe put me on this … on this lovely little bed and it was a really lovely little bed. Exactly the right size for me – it wasn’t too big, it wasn’t too small. The mattress wasn’t too hard and it wasn’t too soft. Everything was just right, and the mattress seemed to settle me down in it somehow. I didn’t actually sink in it but it just seemed to settle round me, and do you know, it almost felt as if that mattress itself was giving off a healing glow and I now know of course that that is possible. This is just what happens and I understand now why but to me at the time, it was such a great source of wonder. And the beautiful lady who had carried me thus far, laid me down on the bed and very gently put her hand over my forehead and I knew no more.
And then I woke up again and I was still in this beautiful place and I was still in this bed and I felt as though I had only been asleep for a moment, but I had been asleep for a long while and I felt very, very much better. I felt strong again, like my old self, and I got up and the lady who looked after me … she was sort of a round lady with sort of grey-white hair, and she had a cap – an old fashioned nurse’s cap – and a lovely deep white collar around her. A long, bustly dress. It was lovely – and she was lovely – and she looked at me and she smiled and she had wonderful red, rosy cheeks like two red apples either side. It was lovely. She said, ‘You feel better now, Russell,’ and I said ‘Oh yes, I feel tons better. I think I’ll go back and tell Mum.’ Mum will be pleased, I thought, that I was so much better. So would Dad. So would my brothers.
The Message for Us On Earth
Russell was very much alive, although his young body had died. His love for his mother continued without being diminished. What Russell said to his mother and to us through medium Deborah Moore was intended for all of humankind to help us understand what happens when we leave this Earth. It is further evidence you will come to the end of this life, but you will never die.
