Out of Body Experience
About Marisa
Working in the web development field for over 20 years, I've always felt a connection to the spiritual world. I created websites and implemented marketing plans for many people in the metaphysical world. Over time, I felt myself becoming burned out sitting behind a computer everyday and that's when I had an out of body experience with the Catholic saint, Padre Pio. It was a lot to take in at the time, but looking back, I believe that in his own way he lead me to tarot and also healed something going on with my heart.
The week that changed my life
I was told that I had one month to move. I was not expecting that so I began packing everyday in preparation for this move in addition to working full time and also taking care of a terminally ill family member that had stage 4 bone and lung cancer along with dementia. This specific week I signed up to take my family member to 3 different doctors appointments. I lived an hour away from her so these appointments were all day events. I was overwhelmed and felt that there wasn't enough time in the day to accomplish all of my responsibilities. At the end of the week I was totally drained. All three of the doctors appointments were rough. All of my problems felt small compared to what my sick family member was going through.
My sick family member is very Catholic. To calm her anxiety, I would read Padre Pio prayers to her. It was the only thing that seemed to work. When she was a child, Padre Pio wrote a letter to her mother which is why she has always felt a connection to him. I was raised Lutheran and did not know much about the saints. In learning more about Padre Pio, I found him fascinating. For those of you who do not know, he was a priest from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy that died in 1968. He had a stigmata, healed many people, was able to bi-locate and knew stuff about people without them saying a word....aka he was psychic.
After the third doctors appointment of the week, I laid in bed that night feeling helpless. I said a prayer to Padre Pio asking him what else I could do to help my sick family member. I fell asleep and woke up in another realm. When this first happened I thought it was a vivid dream, however I now believe that I had an out of body experience. When I say that I woke up in another realm, it was like closing your eyes and waking up in Heaven. I was standing in front of a Catholic church. I felt so happy to be there. All of the pain in my body was gone. I was wide awake. Everything around me was glowing and felt alive. I felt a sense of peace and happiness that I hadn't felt in a long time. To my right was the most beautiful tree I've ever seen. Everything about it was vibrant and felt alive. I could feel happiness coming from the tree as it glowed with positive energy. I look back and feel that it might have been the tree of life or something similar. There was a treehouse connected to it. Padre Pio was standing at the bottom of the stairs leading into the treehouse.
I recognized him right away. He was very happy and in a good mood. "Marisa! Come check out my treehouse!" He exclaimed with a big smile. He seemed so happy to see me and was nurturing. I've always loved treehouses and wanted one as a kid. I followed him up the stairs. When we entered the treehouse it had a cozy feel to it. Everything was comfortable. Nothing luxurious...just comfortable. There was a twin size bed up against the wall, thousands of letters stacked on a bookshelf and a small table with two chairs in the middle of the room. We sat down at the table. As he sat across from me he looked a bit frustrated and said "I need to help you."
I knew that being in this treehouse with Padre Pio was such a blessing that I was willing to go along with anything. He told me to stand up and hold his hand. He stood next to me and I held his hand. He was taller than me and had broad shoulders. The next thing that happened to me was the most euphoric thing that I have ever experienced. A bright light rushed through my body. It was ecstasy. The best way that I can describe the feeling was when you are at the top of a roller coaster and take the plunge straight down. It felt like that where a rush of energy flows through your body but without the feeling of your stomach dropping. The stomach dropping feeling can be uncomfortable but this feeling that the light gave me was 100% pure ecstasy in every inch of my body. I've never experienced anything close to it.
I shot up in bed wide awake. It was morning. I had no chest pain. Prior to this happening I was waking up every morning with chest pain. It was becoming worse and worse. My chest pain was totally gone! I was starting to become concerned that something was wrong with my heart. Whatever was happening with that...now felt healed!
I could not stop thinking about this experience. I started researching everything that there is to know about Padre Pio. Two things stood out that validated this encounter for me. We all need validation that we aren't crazy sometimes. The first one was the way the treehouse was set up. It looked similar to Padre Pio's room in San Giovanni Rotondo with the twin bed up against the wall, a bookshelf full of letters and a small table.
About My Out of Body Experience
The week that changed my life
I was told that I had one month to move. I was not expecting that so I began packing everyday in preparation for this move in addition to working full time and also taking care of a terminally ill family member that had stage 4 bone and lung cancer along with dementia. This specific week I signed up to take my family member to 3 different doctors appointments. I lived an hour away from her so these appointments were all day events. I was overwhelmed and felt that there wasn't enough time in the day to accomplish all of my responsibilities. At the end of the week I was totally drained. All three of the doctors appointments were rough. All of my problems felt small compared to what my sick family member was going through.
My sick family member is very Catholic. To calm her anxiety, I would read Padre Pio prayers to her. It was the only thing that seemed to work. When she was a child, Padre Pio wrote a letter to her mother which is why she has always felt a connection to him. I was raised Lutheran and did not know much about the saints. In learning more about Padre Pio, I found him fascinating. For those of you who do not know, he was a priest from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy that died in 1968. He had a stigmata, healed many people, was able to bi-locate and knew stuff about people without them saying a word....aka he was psychic.
After the third doctors appointment of the week, I laid in bed that night feeling helpless. I said a prayer to Padre Pio asking him what else I could do to help my sick family member. I fell asleep and woke up in another realm. When this first happened I thought it was a vivid dream, however I now believe that I had an out of body experience. When I say that I woke up in another realm, it was like closing your eyes and waking up in Heaven. I was standing in front of a Catholic church. I felt so happy to be there. All of the pain in my body was gone. I was wide awake. Everything around me was glowing and felt alive. I felt a sense of peace and happiness that I hadn't felt in a long time. To my right was the most beautiful tree I've ever seen. Everything about it was vibrant and felt alive. I could feel happiness coming from the tree as it glowed with positive energy. I look back and feel that it might have been the tree of life or something similar. There was a treehouse connected to it. Padre Pio was standing at the bottom of the stairs leading into the treehouse.
I recognized him right away. He was very happy and in a good mood. "Marisa! Come check out my treehouse!" He exclaimed with a big smile. He seemed so happy to see me and was nurturing. I've always loved treehouses and wanted one as a kid. I followed him up the stairs. When we entered the treehouse it had a cozy feel to it. Everything was comfortable. Nothing luxurious...just comfortable. There was a twin size bed up against the wall, thousands of letters stacked on a bookshelf and a small table with two chairs in the middle of the room. We sat down at the table. As he sat across from me he looked a bit frustrated and said "I need to help you."
I knew that being in this treehouse with Padre Pio was such a blessing that I was willing to go along with anything. He told me to stand up and hold his hand. He stood next to me and I held his hand. He was taller than me and had broad shoulders. The next thing that happened to me was the most euphoric thing that I have ever experienced. A bright light rushed through my body. It was ecstasy. The best way that I can describe the feeling was when you are at the top of a roller coaster and take the plunge straight down. It felt like that where a rush of energy flows through your body but without the feeling of your stomach dropping. The stomach dropping feeling can be uncomfortable but this feeling that the light gave me was 100% pure ecstasy in every inch of my body. I've never experienced anything close to it.
I shot up in bed wide awake. It was morning. I had no chest pain. Prior to this happening I was waking up every morning with chest pain. It was becoming worse and worse. My chest pain was totally gone! I was starting to become concerned that something was wrong with my heart. Whatever was happening with that...now felt healed!
I could not stop thinking about this experience. I started researching everything that there is to know about Padre Pio. Two things stood out that validated this encounter for me. We all need validation that we aren't crazy sometimes. The first one was the way the treehouse was set up. It looked similar to Padre Pio's room in San Giovanni Rotondo with the twin bed up against the wall, a bookshelf full of letters and a small table.
The second piece of information that validated this experience for me was finding out that Padre Pio's stigmata healed a few days prior to his death. Apparently it is common for those who bare the stigmata that their wounds heal a few days prior to their death. This was something I did not know about prior to my out of body experience. When I held Padre Pio's hand and stood next to him, his hand did not have a wound on it. I do remember the feeling of his hand being on mine. To this day, when I close my eyes I can still feel his hand on mine if I focus on it.
After about a week of obsessing over Padre Pio and researching everything I could find about him, I took a step back and realized that I no longer needed validation that this was a real experience. I just had to trust my experience and have faith. I laid in bed one day and said a prayer to Padre Pio. I asked him to give me another message. I wasn't expecting to really get another message but I did!
This was a much different experience than the first one though. This was literally just a dream. It wasn't an out of body experience like the first time. I dreamt that I was in Padre Pio's church in San Giovanni Rotondo. He was giving mass. He told me that I was the V.I.P. of the mass and to sit in the first pue. I did and no one was allowed to sit next to me. I had the entire front row to myself during the mass. It was a beautiful ceremony that Padre Pio gave. When I looked back I saw endless rows of people sitting behind me. In fact there were so many people in attendance that I could not see the back of the church. When mass was over, everyone left and it was just Padre Pio and I. He told me that he had to go out of town to help some people and that he trusted me to watch over this church. I was happy to help him. I took a broom and started to sweep the church. He left and I woke up.
The overall feeling that I had after that dream that I felt was a message from Padre Pio was that I was important and trusted. I felt grateful for the second dream. I know he has a lot of work to do and many people to help but took the time to give me those positive feelings. I began to stop obsessing over him and just let my life lead me in the direction that it was intended to go.
After I moved and settled into my new house, a friend came over to visit. She is a great tarot card reader and I was encouraging her to go live on Tiktok. I had recently started using the app and saw people going live giving readings. She listened and one day I received a notification that she was live on Tiktok. I watched her really help a lot of people. It did not surprise me because she was talented and had been reading tarot for years. She intrigued me. I watched her thrive and build an audience over the next few months. I've always loved getting psychic readings over the years but never embraced tarot. Now, it fascinated me and I wanted to learn how to do it.
My friend was Catholic and told me that she called upon certain saints and religious figures when she opened her cards. I immediately thought about Padre Pio. I knew that he would be one of the people that I call upon to open my cards when I began reading tarot. I've always felt that in some way, he lead me to read tarot because it helps people. I have a good friend that is an incredible psychic medium and he got me started reading tarot. There are endless ways to read tarot and always something new to learn about each card. Everyone has their own way of doing it and there is a strong spiritual connection to reading tarot.
In my journey to develop my own psychic ability, I also traveled to the east coast to take classes from one of the best psychics in the country, Nancy Orlen Weber. She always challenges me to give readings and answer psychic questions without the use of my cards. At first, I was surprised at how well I did. Now, I'm more confident in my ability to listen to my intuition thanks to her. Sometimes I get random downloads of future events and I've learned to just listen when they come. Developing my psychic ability along with reading tarot has allowed me to help thousands of people on Tiktok with spiritual guidance confidently. Every year I continue to take psychic development courses so that I can continue to help people in need.
My goal is always to help those that come to me for guidance. I pray everyday to help me find the right words that will point people in the best direction for their highest good. I'm not perfect and no psychic is 100% right, but I will do my best to help you in anyway that I possibly can.