How to Become a Ghost and MORE About the Afterlife - Samantha Corfield

Samantha is a spiritual counselor, educator, ordained minister, and PhD in theology and world religions, and she brings a rare mix of grounded care and mystic clarity. Her new book, Create Your Own Afterlife: Take Control of Life After Death, asks a bold question: what if the afterlife isn’t just something that happens to you, but something you can prepare for with intention?
 
 We talk about ancestors, the power of grandmothers as guides, and how early spiritual experiences can become a lifelong toolkit for grief support and life transitions. Then we dig into one of the most surprising ideas in the conversation: “ghost training.” Samantha explains why there are plenty of books on contacting spirits, but almost none on how to be a spirit responsibly. We explore how to plan the kinds of signs you might send after death, how different religions view ghosts and afterlife contact, and how thinking this through can deepen your relationships right now.
 
 We also go straight into the heavy stuff: guilt, fear of punishment, and what to do when you need to make amends but the person you hurt has already passed. Samantha shares practical ways to repair, release, and reclaim hope, plus a vision for placing afterlife resources in hospice care and cancer centers where people need them most. If you’ve been searching for afterlife planning, fear of death help, grief healing, or spiritual counseling that doesn’t talk down to you, this one’s for you.
 
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Bio: 

Samantha Corfield is a spiritual counselor, educator, and founder of Spellmaker, a metaphysical business she has operated since 1995. Over the years, she has worked closely with hundreds of individuals navigating uncertainty, grief, spiritual doubt, fear of death, and life transitions.

 Her book, Create Your Own Afterlife, encourages readers to examine mortality with curiosity rather than avoidance. Free from dogma yet respectful of diverse beliefs, the book provides reflective exercises designed to help readers release inherited fears, define their spiritual truth, and craft a meaningful afterlife vision rooted in personal authenticity.
 While completing the final edits of the manuscript, Samantha experienced the sudden loss of her grandson, Preston. In the midst of profound grief, she found herself returning to the very framework she had created. The exercises became grounding tools — helping her reconnect with love, memory, and present-moment awareness.

 That lived experience strengthened her conviction that imagining one’s afterlife can be stabilizing rather than escapist. Samantha’s work blends psychological insight, spiritual imagination, and practical reflection. She believes that facing mortality honestly can reduce anxiety, restore agency, and help people live more fully — and that planning one’s afterlife may be one of the most liberating acts of self-awareness a person can undertake.
 Samantha lives with her husband of 20 years, Matt, and their dog, Rosie. She also makes a mean gumbo.

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www.createyourownafterlife.com

www.spellmaker.com

https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthacorfield

https://www.instagram.com/samanthacorfield1995/

https://x.com/SCorfield1995

https://www.facebook.com/groups/createyourownafterlife

@scorfield1995.bsky.social

https://samanthacorfield.substack.com/

Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

GDC 0:01

Welcome to Belief Being and Beyond with your host, Granddaughter Crow. Hi everybody, Granddaughter Crow here with yet another episode of Belief Being and Beyond. You know, when I started this show away a couple years ago, the title is very, very precious to me. And if you are a watcher, it's about what you believe in constitutes how you behave in the world. And then there is a beyond beyond. Okay, well, I didn't know that there would be the perfect guest for belief being and beyond. Today we have Samantha Corfield. She is a spiritual counselor with a PhD in theology and world religions, which I love that because as crazy as all of these different beliefs are, we are all, we're more alike than we are different. We just call things differently. At least that's how I see it. She has guided thousands through their fears of death and dying. An ordained minister for more than 40 years and an initiated Mambo Usague, Samantha combines ancient wisdom with practical spirituality. She splits her time between New Orleans and, I love it, Albuquerque, New Mexico. I was born down on the res, you guys in New Mexico. So shout out to that. I also wanted to mention that Samantha Corfield is a spiritual counselor, educator, and founder of Spellmaker. Spellmaker.com is a metaphysical business that she opened and founded and has had since 1995. Now, I'm not good at math all the time, but I'm pretty sure that's about, oh, I don't know, three decades or more. So over the years, she has worked closely with hundreds of individuals navigating uncertainty, grief, spiritual doubt, fear of death, and life transitions. So without further ado, let's welcome Samantha Corfield to the show.

Samantha 2:26

Hi, hi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to see you both. I'm really, really excited.

GDC 2:35

Well, we have been looking forward to this. A little background for the listeners is now I practice a lot of magic. Um, it is a part of my life. And so if you could imagine, I'm standing outside in my backyard on under my altar, and there is the full moon, and I'm about ready to have Ginny C. Bell on as a co-host, and I'm all pumped about it, and this is gonna be good. So I asked for a blessing from the ancestors, and I said, Hail to the ancestors, ancestors, could you bring to us an author or more that we can showcase? Because if it wasn't for you, ancestors, we wouldn't be here. And then within a very short time, Samantha shows up and says, I booked this show in the month of May in dedication and memory of my grandmother, who is Maddie Maude. Hail to Maddie Maude. We get to meet with you on this beautiful day. And it is just a spiritual connection. So, right off the bat, hail to the ancestors, hail to that which is after what we now see as life. So, Samantha, yeah, did like did all of a sudden your your grandmother come and say, Hey, here's a podcast, get on the show. Like, how did that translate?

Samantha 4:14

No, uh, not exactly, but I do I just want to take a second um to say that I just wanted to relay the story about me after getting to know you, writing you and saying, Hey, are you like praying for me? Or are you doing something because I'm just a glow with your energy? And you said exactly you had just honoring the ancestors of guests, and my grandmother showed up. The fact that that I wasn't direct, you know, I wasn't the direction, you know, it wasn't directed directly at me. And the fact that I kept feeling it, and I was like, I know that's her. What is she doing? And so I was like, I'm gonna write and ask her. And if she thinks I'm crazy, she'll just tell me, no, honey, you're crazy. Um I kind of crazy. Yeah, you had it, you had the answer. I was like, oh my goodness, because it was so powerful on my end, not expecting it. Because I think, you know, if somebody says they're gonna do something and I open myself up to it, I will always feel it. But it was so unexpected because you hadn't said, hey, I'm doing this, or or anything like that. And I knew a hundred percent that it was you. I just didn't put all the pieces together until you explained it. And then I was like, oh, okay, makes sense, but I just wanted that little story

Ancestors And A Grandmother’s Connection

Samantha 5:48

to get out there.

GDC 5:48

No, I think that that's perfect because it really does kind of showcase a little bit about how we all are connected in the spiritual community. And you and I had never met before, but yet there is this energy exchange beyond the email. And that's how this works, people. You are not alone, we are all here with you. We are all here with you, and I love it. So this show is absolutely dedicated to your grandmother, Maddie Maude. Beautiful photo at the end, born July 4th, 1919, and passed May 16th, 1967, or May 14th, 14th. May 14th, 1967. And you guys, we are recording this on May 4th, more May 14th, 2026. Hail, hail your grandmother. Because it seems as though she was a huge part of even just you writing the impact of your childhood. Could you give us, give her a little shout out? Like, what did she bring to you?

Samantha 7:04

Let's do that because um I'm not sure she ever went to school. She was born in the mountains of Tennessee, and everything that you think about that, um, you know, mountain light, mountain people, being poor, working, planting, being, everything you think about that, that's what her family was. So I'm not, I mean, she knew how to read, write, and you know, all those things, but I'm not entirely sure she went to school other than probably her mother teaching her. And then one of the wisest women I have ever, ever known in my life, she was mystical and spiritual, and she would teach me little little magic spells to do, and you know, just how what herbs would get what, because they did a lot of, you know, foraging and herb gathering and a lot of herbal medicine, you know, a lot of those things, because you know, they probably were not going to the doctor very often. Um, and so all that life that she enjoyed and um learned from, I was the kid she passed it on to because I was the kid that listened. So the rest of the children, they did not want to hear any of that. They just they they loved grandma, they loved her, she was a beautiful special person. But they thought she in when she started talking about that, they made people sort of uncomfortable and they kind of backed away from it, and I went right for it. So, so basically I was the one that ended up learning what she had to teach, and that not just in a magical way, too. The her way of treating people and seeing people and understanding people, um, was just in to this day, it has certainly been a big part of who I turned out to be. Um and then she had this um, she had this, I didn't know it then, but she had scientific information. I don't know from where, how, how she got it, but I'll just tell you this just really briefly. Um so uh I was adopted, but I was adopted in my family, and so um, so she was still my grandmother. But anyway, so it turns out one of my uncles was actually my father, so bad long story. Anywho, he was my hands-down favorite uncle. I had no idea he was my father, and I I would just gravitate toward him, gravitate toward me. Well, later on, when I found out, uh, I was like, Grandma, is that why? No, I just love Uncle Jeff so much. And she said, blood feels blood. Okay. So about five years ago, there's a big scientific article about how when you have the same blood as someone else, you will feel it and you will be drawn to it. I was like, okay, okay, grandma. There was quite, uh-huh. Yeah, she just she just had that inherent wisdom. So there we are. So God bless her. She was so figuring with my life, and um I'm just so grateful that you know I was able to come through that bloodline and be here today.

Maddie Maude’s Wisdom And Magic

GDC 10:46

And now you have your book out. Take control of life after death. Llewellyn worldwide. It just dropped in April. You guys, everyone needs this book, even if you I mean, everyone needs this book. Everyone needs this book. I'm gonna turn it over to Jenny because otherwise I'll just keep talking about your grandmother.

Samantha 11:15

Me too. Me too. Yeah, and I just got told not to do that, and there I am doing it, and I'm so sorry to the person who's probably listening, told me to quit rambling on, and now I'll stop.

GDC 11:26

You're not rambling on, you or maybe I I am too, and I didn't get the memo from your guide or so anyway. Jen grabbed us.

Jenny 11:37

Okay, well, I do want to say that we do call in the ancestors before we record, and so if they hijack the show, we really have no choice in the matter. So, you know, grandmothers, my uh both of my grandmothers are guides to me. Grandmothers are amazing. I can't even tell you how many readings I've done and people's grandmothers show up. I've not intentionally done readings and people's grandmothers show up, and I have to say, um, did your grandma pass? Because she has a message for you. Awkward conversation always, but back to your role, right? Thank you. I I love it. I I have always been at peace with death personally, but I feel like that's pretty uncommon. Most people really do fear what's after, fear watching a loved one pass, fear a lot of surrounding death, not just for themselves, but for other people. And so, in this book, first of all, there is like everything is covered, but one of my favorite things that you cover are ghosts. So there is a whole chapter for people that like totally get the book because there's lots of really um grounded and beautiful conversations on grief and lessons and journaling and uh affirmations and all these really cool things. But as like a paranormal like fan, there's this whole thing about connecting through ghostly beliefs and all of that. So I wanted to hear a little more about why you included that because you didn't have to, right? You chose to include that and why like that came into the book.

Samantha 13:13

So the main reason is, and I kind of so in the book, for for one thing, trying to make it sort of a complete um spiritual toolkit. Uh so I wanted to try to cover as much as I could that was relatable to almost everyone, regardless race, religion, creed, doesn't matter. Um so the ghosting part, um, I started thinking as I was outlining the book, I was like, you know, we have every book in the world to tell us how to contact a ghost, how to find a ghost, how to talk to a ghost, how to recognize a ghost. We don't have any books to tell us how to be a ghost. So I was I was like, hey, maybe we should cover this. Um because it's just so uplifting to me to think about that here we are, and we inevitably we're going to die. We all pretty much know that. Um, but we could plan ahead of time. And if you have people in your life that are amenable to it, you can even speak to them about what you would like to hear from me after death. Like, I don't want to come and scare the bee Jesus out of you. So um what would you like? Would you, you know, like to hear a song on the radio? Would you like to try to verbally communicate? You know, so whatever level it might be from a cool breeze to sit on the corner of the vet and talk to me and everything in between, if you have people that are open to that, you can speak with them. If they're not particularly open, you think, well, they might not be open to that. I put in a lot about um different religions, uh, thoughts on ghosts. And so if you happen to know someone is Jewish, for instance, you could kind of reference that part and see that, yeah, maybe, maybe not. It kind of depends on um, you know, if they're orthodox, not orthodox, you know, any of that. And just kind of picking that out of the air as an example. But anyway, um, I wanted the book to be this thing where you could go, oh, well, my nephew is he's become a Buddhist, and I don't know if he wants to talk about ghosts, so let me go look and see what does Sam say about Buddhists and ghosts? Yes. Is he going to want me to contact him or is he going to want me to be a thought or see something that reminds me, uh, reminds him of me. What does he want? So to me, preparing to be a ghost before you leave, um I think just puts us so so ahead of the afterlife. And like I have a family, I could ask them anything. They all think I'm, you know, they know who I am. They know who I am. So if I ask them things about ghosts and whatever, they're like, uh-huh, you know, they'll answer me. But not everyone has that luxury. So sometimes you have to kind of be a little detective and and go kind of find out what they might want and you know, extrapolate from that. Um, what would you plan for them? Like if you know that they would be very horrified, then then you know to be a thought, you know, to be a breeze, you know, to be something um that reminds them of you, and that's your contact with them. And also, I wanted people by the book to be prepared that the other side of the coin, so here we are in the living world. Well, here they are in the living world, here we are in the afterworld. Okay, so almost always you will hear um people that have lost something, lost someone to be like, I wish my grandmother was here. I wish my grandmother could understand, could help me, could you advised me. Well, you're over there. Now you've already attuned yourself in your living life to hear this because that will be a frequent request from the people that were closest to you and loved you. I wish my mother was here, I wish my father was here, my sister, uh, I wish I could talk to them. And this gives you an opening to um send them whatever kind of sign you think that you know is acceptable for them. So it's kind of ghost training both ways. And that is exactly why I put it in the book because I'm like, hey, nobody taught us how to do this. We we have are we supposed to go over there and figure out on our own? What if I do the wrong thing? What if I scare someone, you know? So oh I uh uh I'm just gonna like kind of keep my my journal with uh what I think my sister will love, which might be different than what my husband would love. I even mentioned in the book that my mother-in-law would get, she would just talk to me like we're talking now because she's a great believer. Come on in, have some tea. Um, so I think that it also gives us, and I think this is an interesting byproduct of this training yourself. It gives us such insight into the people we care about because now we start thinking about something very intimate, very personal. You know, this book has said, hey, go figure out if you can what your children might want to know from you, hear from you, see from you. Uh, and I think that is deepening that level of existence that we're living right now, and then preparing us for a much deeper connection as we move on. So that's how the ghost got in there, Jen.

Jenny 19:30

I love it.

Why Learn How To Be A Ghost

GDC 19:32

Absolutely love it. So, you guys, I'm the type of person that has been walking around going, yeah, I'm gonna haunt you. I'm gonna haunt you, you can ask me, and now I'm supposed to be like, Oh, how did you want me to contact? By the way. I absolutely love it, you know, Samantha, because I do work with people one-on-one. Um, and I have for a long, long time. And sometimes they're like, hey, summon my ancestor. And I'm like, well, it depends on what their belief system is. Because I sometimes they will just float around and they don't know that I am being a conduit. They see me as a telephone or something. But sometimes they'll look at me and be like, I'm not talking to you, you know, because of whatever. So I often make that delineation. And now you're actually helping us to understand that the different belief systems constitutes how you are, not only in this world, but beyond. And I love that too, because my father um is he's past, and his name was Reverend Jack Sanyazi when he walked the earth. And so he couldn't really associate with this weirdness that I do. But then when he came up on me, I was like, Oh, I think it's actually on a recording because I'm like, what? And I was like, Dad, you can't do that so closely, you know. So I like they have personalities and their belief system moves on because of consciousness. Is that what we're saying? It's consciousness.

Samantha 21:16

It's consciousness, and you know, um in the beginning of starting this book, um I I I was some parts made me reticent because sometimes I feel like, ooh, maybe people aren't ready to learn that. But early on, I decided that that was not my call. My call was to write what I was guided to write. So I had to take a lot of my personal fears, and I'm I'm one of those people that, oh, I don't want to upset anyone. Oh my God, if I upset someone, you know, I'm just so freaked out. And and and so that was really holding me back because I was like, well, maybe it's too personal to talk about people's religions. In the book. Maybe it's too personal to say, you know, your grandma can be your ghost, you know, or you know, kind of thing. And I had to just kind of really shut that off and not so much worry about offending people and just treat it respectfully because that information needed to get out there. The more I have talked to people, um, the whole ghosting situation. It's funny, Jen. You'll really appreciate this. People have actually told me they were relieved, that they could plan this ahead, that they could figure out what their friends and family would want for them. They're like, it was right in front of me, but but you don't think to, you know, well, that's you know what we have books for, right? Um, if we knew everything, we wouldn't need them. Um, you know, so they were so relieved that, oh my gosh, I can just plan how I'm going to be with those that I leave behind. And that was just such an interesting uh thing that people were just really pumped up about because the idea of planning your afterlife and all of that, you know, is it's a unique idea, sort of, but you know, we're all kind of already planning our afterlives in the sense that we say, I can't wait to see my son again, I can't wait to see my mother again or whomever. So we already have a lot of us in our heads that we're going to meet them again, and so what I tried to do in the book was okay, that's perfect. That's your perfect jumping off point. But then what? What is the book telling you about what you can do next? And it's been interesting feedback because I've had a lot of people say, you know, this just makes sense. Why didn't we, you know, why didn't I think of that? I said, because we're we're not taught to think that way. Um, you know, a lot of either religious upbringing or non-religious upbringing, you know, whatever it is, um, you know, childhood things will teach you certain things about what you're supposed to believe about the afterlife. Well, and and trust me, I am no one's religion at task here. Absolutely not. Um, but I think sort of maybe we just never knew to carry it further. We had the idea that we're gonna meet again. And somebody told me what when they read um one of the parts in the book about you're out of your body, and that fragile body is gone, and your energy still lives because of course it does. You can't create or destroy it. Energy that is, and so there you are, right? And so some of the people they really love the chapter about being something different, whether you were going to be an alien or you were going to be a guardian angel, you were gonna be a guy, whatever it was, because they ever thought of it. They're like, Oh, I'm like, yes, you're free. You're free from this constriction, it's over. Now you go be whatever you want to be. And and so uh I I thought that was so enlightening to me because in that chapter where I talk about being whatever you want to be, um I know it could sound a little fantastical, but really good feedback on the chapter because people were just like, oh, oh, oh, okay. You know, they were just so excited that those were things that they could plan for, plan on doing. And, you know, that was just so rewarding to me as well, because I really wanted people to understand the um the wholeness that you will be. Absolutely.

Beyond Human And Afterlife Agency

GDC 26:28

You guys were sitting down with Samantha Corfield and talking about create your own afterlife. Check it out, create your ownafterlife.com. And we have more to come, but I want to toss it back over to Ginny and be like, okay, so what else do we have in the book? Because I could ramble on, ramble on, ramble, ramble, ramble. No, I'm not gonna, I didn't. Sorry, YouTube. I didn't plagiarize anyway. Anyway, Ginny, take us back to the book.

Jenny 27:05

Ginny, help us. You're our ugly home. Okay, yes, as the uh grounded Taurus here, I'm here. Um, but the chapter Samantha was just talking about for everybody is called Beyond Human. And I really like that chapter too, because one of my favorite things to say is that if I think if I'm really good in this life, the next life, I get to come back as a well-loved house cat. Because to me, that's like heaven on earth because my cats are pampered. Um, but what's really cool, I think, about this book is it takes away a lot of the fears about death and dying. But at the other side of that is it's very empowering. It like gives the power back to the living to be like there is something beyond, and I can plan for that. And that to me, I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. Because I think a lot of religions try to give you this, you know, kind of peaceful feeling. This is what's gonna happen when you die, but it's not at all empowering. It's always like, if you're good, this is what's going to happen. Yeah. So I love that. So for people, when you get the book, you have these really cool stories throughout of people that you worked with and examples of how these things work. Um, I personally really like the affirmations. So all the chapters often start with a quote, and some quotes are some of my favorites, like there's Emily Dickinson and Anne Rice, um, and then affirmations, like this one is for the funeral rites in the afterlife. I honor the sacredness of remembrance, my farewell reflects my truth, my love, and the journey still unfolding. So, what I'm curious about is kind of like how you decided to uh organize. Like, how did you decide about the affirmations, about the different exercises? Because it's so rich. It's not like a boring read at all. Like it's very interactive, and that's really cool, I think. So, kind of how did that like how did that organization happen?

Samantha 29:11

So, back in the day when I sort of was thinking about this, I thought it could be a workbook. And in my head, I was like, well, we'll put the exercises and we'll put the medic, you know, and we'll kind of make it a workbook. Um, but then I realized we needed much more information than just like a simple workbook would do for us. We needed to know more, and so it really kind of started out being organized. Lucky me, that that was what I was guided to do in the first place was you know, kind of put it. And I have to tell you, um, all of my affirmations in there are guided. Every single one of them was guided. I asked, I was like, what will prepare our people for this chapter? What mindset could they be in to absorb and digest this information successfully? And as soon as as soon as I was asked, I'd be like, I was like, whoo, then I'd be like, wow, that's really cool, man.

GDC 30:22

So I can't really take the grant of them.

Guided Writing And Interactive Practices

GDC 30:28

I love that, Samantha. It does beg the question, how much uh do you think that spirit was involved in you writing this book?

Samantha 30:41

Okay, so I'm not gonna get into the whole story right now, and I'm not even sure I should tell it, but uh the publishing of this book literally dropped into my lap. Okay, and right then and there I was like, oh no, this is all okay, this is all guided because that just does not happen. It's hard to get a book published. Um and um and the whole thing just went like, you know, like gentle water, the whole process, which people are like, you're crazy, that didn't happen. I'm like, no, really, it did. Um which is a big credit to Lou Allen as well, because my team, my team is beyond reproach. Everyone is just amazing. Um, but to get the book, I mean, so my stories are in there, clearly. My beliefs are in there. What I think's gonna happen is in there. But where I feel like that spirit really came in was the putting it together and making it useful. That was the whole thing. I didn't want to write a book telling about my life experience with death or or or life or whatever, um which I'm sure would be interesting to some people, but I wanted it to be useful. I, you know, I always say I sound like a pageant queen when they say, What do you hope? Why did you write this book? And I'm like, because I wanted to help people. They're like, oh, okay. I'm like, no, seriously. Um and when I when I came upon the idea of wait a minute, every person could use this, every person. That's when I started feeling like just spirit flowing through me. And I would write for two or three hours and not stop, just crazy.

GDC 32:52

I thank you so much for sharing that because that's one thing that I see is that this isn't just a book for people who are like, oh, I'm grieving, I'm mourning. This is actually a book that I see gives agency. This is a book that I see that opens up curiosity and that is very um like empowering for us on this side as well as us on that side, because now we have agency. And that's and so I'd love to see this book everywhere. I mean, you can buy this book wherever you get your books. Of course, we love to support our local metaphysical shops and bookstores and libraries, but you can, it is available anywhere that you get your favorite books. But also, this is a really good book to leave out on a table. Because you never know. If spirit led this book to be birthed, maybe you could help spread the word too. That's my call out for you. Yeah.

Samantha 34:06

Yeah. Well, that is it's so interesting you brought that up because one of my goals is to either raise funds, get a benefactor, I don't know, whatever you have to do. Because my my dream is that this book goes in hospice care. It goes in cancer centers, you know, where people are waiting to get their radiation. I had cancer and I'm waiting to get my radiation every day for six weeks. And, you know, boring. But anyway, um, you know, it's like, I can't imagine what I would have done if I was sitting there and this book was just laying there on the coffee table. I'd have been like, oh, okay then, let's get with this. So that's one of my things. As a matter of fact, my son bought 10 copies in the beginning just to, you know, support his mom. And uh I found him the other day, he's like, Mom, I have an idea what what to do with the extra book. So I was like, sure, whatever you want. And he said, There's a there's a uh hospice care right by my house. He said, I was just gonna package them up and go drop them off there. And I was like, yes, please, please do that. So, you know, that's that's one of my hopes is that um, you know, I thought, well, maybe I'll do a buy one and buy another one to be donated, kind of thing. But, you know, I I put that out in the ether, so I kind of expect that the opportunity will manifest itself. I mean, I'll keep working at it, obviously, um, but I feel like that opportunity will manifest itself to get this book in those places. Um, because even in the back of the book, there is uh for people that are terminally ill and may have a shorter time, there is a shorter version in one of the um indices of how you might use this when you have a shorter time, and or another indices about um if you're a caregiver and you your person wants to do this, how to help them do that. Um, because you know, unfortunately, um some people are on their sacred journey more quickly than others, and could still benefit from it by doing sort of an abbreviated version of just getting the idea wait a minute, you know, I I can I can do these things there. Um, and you know, so so I that's another thing.

Getting The Book Into Hospice Care

GDC 36:38

100%. And Samantha, in the spirit of the ancestors and how your book was kind of like, let's make it a nice flow, and how I call in the ancestors, and Jenny works with the ancestors, and then all of a sudden you come on the show. I just want to also say yes, call to action people, let's make that happen in your own neighborhood. And it's it's more than just Samantha having to do this, right? Pick up two, drop one off. There's all types of places, whether it's a hospice or you know, all of that, as well as look at the show notes because you know, you can get the book. Maybe you can find a way to get in touch with Samantha if you are the person to help. So, yep, call to action people. Absolutely. Let's make that happen.

Samantha 37:36

Yes. Yeah, you can find all my contact information on createyournafterlife.com. So I'm pretty happy. In the show notes below. Also, if you just type in Samantha Courtfield on the website. Absolutely.

GDC 37:50

Absolutely. You just Google her and she comes up and we'll we'll make that happen.

Samantha 37:56

I love it. I absolutely love it. I couldn't hide if I wanted to, because it's just like you were saying, uh, yeah, we're going into our 31st year on Spellmaker.

GDC 38:07

So people know me.

Samantha 38:10

They can find me.

Spellmaker Origins And Releasing Guilt

GDC 38:11

Let's talk, let's just talk a little bit because we could talk forever on this. You guys pick up Create Your Own Afterlife by Samantha Corfield. It is amazing. It is, it gives you agency here and beyond, and it helps you to stay in contact with all. Like she said, science, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, neither can our spirits and our consciousness. So you have create your ownafterlife.com. Yes. And then, and then drumroll, please, spellmaker.com.

Samantha 38:54

Yes, indeed. It's been here forever. It's so funny because 1995, when I started that website, it was one little page. You couldn't take credit cards, and people kept telling me, no one is gonna send you money.

GDC 39:16

19th century or 1900s, people. This is way back to the 1900s.

Samantha 39:23

Oh my god. But right, right, right, right. And and so it just it really grew from there, and um everything about that website is pretty much something someone asked for. Because that's my one little page of spells that you could buy for five dollars a spell. That's what it cost. It sat there for probably a year, nobody bought anything, and then one day I got in the mail $80 in cash from a man in Germany, and that was my first sale. And from there, it went up. So, and and almost everything there is something somebody said, Hey, can you fill in the blanks? I was like, sure, let's do that thing. Um, and and so it's been rewarding and difficult and beautiful and trying. It's been all the things, it's been all the things, but you know, I think that's just the way uh of the world that you're gonna get all that good, bad. But I have to say, my people are beautiful. Um, they are the reason. I keep going on. I have had customers for 25, 30 years that I watch them get married, have kids. Now they have grandchildren, and I see them, it's amazing. It's amazing. You know, that whole thing of it, the people is really what made it, which I have to say kind of the same with the book because the people, you know, I had some way so I do different cleansings on um the website with whatever you need. Some one of my customers brought up the book and said, Hey, I always thought that I would never have a good afterlife because I've done bad things and the people that I did them to have passed on. And I talk about in the book how to relieve yourself of that burden. You know, different things you can do. You know, if someone's still here on earth, clearly you can do the social things. You can say, I'm sorry, you can say, you know, you don't have to forgive me, but please just listen to my apology. You know, whatever you can to kind of shake that negativity off of you. But once they're gone, it seems you're defeated. You don't you can't make it right again. Uh, but you can. And and so that's one of the things I talk about um in the um the chapter about relieving guilt, you know, living with guilt. You just kind of don't want to take all that with you if you can avoid it. Um, and and so she was buying a cleansing bath um from Spellmaker, but she also had read the book, and she was like, This has allowed me to make a plan to make amends, also here on Earth, is one of the things I said if they're gone. Maybe you can donate to a charity in their name, maybe you can do community service in their name, dedicated to them, something you know they would want done. Um, and she's I'm doing that, and I'm also writing my plan for seeing them. If they'll see me, because they have to remember free will always remains intact. People um said if they will see me, um, I have a plan to not make any excuses, not you know, just to say I was wrong, and I am so sorry for that. And that it's crazy how that has lifted a burden off of her because she literally thought, because you know, most of us, not most of us, a lot of us grew up in an apocalyptic religion. Uh, if you're good, you go to heaven, if you're bad, you go to hell, um, the Lord will come back one day and and rise us, you know, again. So that's basically an apocalyptic religion. Um, so most of us have this thing, and she did that, she didn't really know if she believed in hell, but she believed in some retribution coming. And she had always her whole life thought, I'm not going to go to heaven, I'm not going to get to see my relatives because I I did bad things. She was young when she did them. They were stupid. And they were bad. And so that guilt just had carried her into a state of when I die, I'm I'm going to hell, or whatever belief you have of the not good thing. And so she did the bath, and then she had the book, and she was like, I keep writing down all the things because she got this other idea from the book. To do things for them in the afterlife. Like, well, what can I do for them in the afterlife? I'm going to do this, and I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that, and I'm going to do that. And, you know, try to make these amends. And it's like I told her, I said, and and this is good for you because you're truly sorry. You truly regret what you did. That's in your heart. I said, so this plan is going to work beautifully for your afterlife because you're not just saying, I'm sorry. Um, you know, it was really eating away at her. And the the thought of just, isn't that just so profound that she thought because of what she had done, she would never have the good afterlife experience that she had been taught that she would have when she was a child. She had literally given that up and then picked up my little book, read that part, and was like, she said it's like freedom. It's like freedom. Yes.

GDC 45:42

That's what I'm talking about with the agency. Agency, not because you're agency because you can have that. And maybe sometimes you need to work for that. And maybe sometimes you need to make amends or, you know, all of that restoration and everything. But agency, none the less. Ginny, do you want to? I don't even know if we need to ask the last question because her whole book is the last question. We always ask a last question.

Jenny 46:17

So I want to ask it. We gotta ask it. We gotta ask it. You're honestly, you're the ideal guest for the last question. It's like we like wrote it for you. So as you know, right? It's belief being in beyond. And so we are always curious what our guests think lies beyond.

Samantha 46:37

Ah, okay. Well, there's this little book. It'll help you plan what's beyond. Okay, so as a as a child, I was a very good Catholic girl and went to Catholic school. And I was I've always been fascinated by death, which is sort of another thing, but anyway, um I as as a young Catholic girl, my goal was me, Jesus, and the cloud. I'm gonna sit with Jesus on that cloud. And that was the whole of it. That was it. Um didn't think beyond that, clearly, because I was like a cake. Um, but but I had that so specifically in my mind. Um, of course, obviously you grow from there. Uh and and there was a long period of time in my life, especially so when I went to university and you start studying religion, you start going, huh, well what maybe oh what about what about so you know, you just kind of your head just starts going, wait a minute, what about this one? What about that one? And uh somewhere along the line there, things started to get more solidified for me. That we are going to walk in a world and find our way in it. This book was nowhere in my head, but I thought that at that time we didn't need to know, we just had to get there with the idea in our head that we would walk that world and figure it out as a young adult. Obviously, as I became more and more different things, you know, it changed. But uh now I have to say I thoroughly believe in my own work. I thoroughly believe that we will create this. Um, somebody asked me on another podcast that I believe that this was actually happening or was it a metaphor for something else? Because that was a really good question. Um, because sure, it could you could think it's a metaphor for whatever. And I was like, no, I believe in the realness of this, the solidity of it, that this is this is ours to claim. And that's what I want everybody to do is just claim it. Um, you know, I I've had so many grieving people, you know, that said that it really helped them because, you know, grief takes away all your hope. And and for some people, it even took away their hope of an afterlife. Uh, you know, like I guess they just yeah. And and so it brought back that hope of an afterlife. And this has helped me greatly to believe in everyone, in everyone's ability to do this, in everyone's ability to make this beautiful afterlife. And I do not think it's a metaphor. And I'll tell you, Jenny, I 100% believe that this is what can happen if you wanted to. And that's another thing. The book is not to be pushed on anyone. If you're perfectly happy with what you believe, you don't need this. Um, but if you're kind of questioning, like maybe I want more, then you do need the book. But you know, that's I I'm just such a believer in the robustness we can create for ourselves, the beauty, the joy, uh, the learning, you know, the learning. Oh my goodness. Um, yeah, so nope, 100% believe in it. That's where I'm at

What We Believe Lies Beyond

Samantha 50:42

today.

GDC 50:42

I love it. So thank you so much, Samantha. You guys, we've been sitting down talking with Samantha Corfield and her new release, Create Your Own Afterlife. Take control of life after death, and it is so rich. It walks you through a lot of fun stuff. And absolutely go check out the website createyournafterlife.com as well as spellmaker.com because those were made for people that came before you, and she is here to serve. So basically, Samantha, you have won the pageant. We will crown you queen. You had all of the right answers, and we love you, love you, love you. You guys go pick up this book. Thank you so much, Samantha. And like, subscribe, share. Absolutely. We love you guys, and we'll see you on the flippity flippy.