Kat,
I speculate even more into this story. Because of the power of our unconscious mind I have come to rely on the adage “based on my results I have exactly what I intended”. Sometimes circumstances are purely happenstance. I am convinced that it is to my detriment to operate with “happenstance” as my assumed root cause. For me, I see this system setting (a bias of the common western ideological devotion to materialism, that everything is just superficial mechanics and we are simply floating in a sea of materialism) as limiting to personal growth opportunities. If I deposit everything as external “circumstances” that I have little conscious interaction with … then it seems I may be creating a blind spot as to what my unconscious psyche is doing and potentially seeing my part (my responsibility).
In this case, was it just accidental (intoxicated) stupidity that a person chose to set on a perilous ledge? Think how many times that is used in story (standing close to the cliff ledge almost stumbling off, deliberately getting on railing and looking over, etc.) to demonstrate a person’s suicidal ideations. Sitting on that ledge may have been intoxicated poor judgement or the dead protagonist may have had suicidal intentions and have wanted to abbreviate his time — the “push” may have say more about the dead guy than the guy with heavy guilt.
Finally I’d submit to anyone reading this comment that 3 mediums independently came up with the same data. If we calmly maintain statistical fact based interpretation then what these 3 mediums did was somewhat “novel” to our current level of understanding but I take the position that it is not “paranormal”. It’s just normal that we don’t understand yet.
I’m sorry the mother was in such denial and/or such emotional distress that she didn’t engage and process. One life is gone, even the dead guy wants to salvage the other lives (good for him). You’ve done your job, sought to process with compassion, and in compassion done the uncomfortable action of reaching out. That’s all you can do. We have so many tragedies this story reminds me to be willing to stay engaged and be part of solution to minimize damage (I have lost a son who was only 39 years old, he died from schizophrenia— lots of collateral impacts to my granddaughter, etc. for which healing continues).
