Prime psychic medium Matt Fraser has been receiving communication from spirit since early childhood. A few of his earliest recollections are of seeing, listening to and sensing messages from the Different Facet the best way different children recall studying to journey a motorbike. Confiding in his mom, he found “the household present,” with psychic phenomena being handed down from his grandmother and his mom and down the road to him.
Rising up in a Catholic household, it took generations and a cultural turning of the tide for Matt to lean into his present for speaking with spirit. It was throughout a studying with one other medium when his late grandmother got here by means of and inspired Matt to do what she couldn’t in life; to embrace and share his present with the world.
After a decade of bringing therapeutic by means of personal readings and occasions, in January of 2020, E! premiered a ten episode run of Meet The Frasers, a docuseries introducing Matt’s work and his household to a a lot wider viewers and making his newest e-book, We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of the Afterlife an prompt New York Occasions bestseller on the day of its launch.
Matt Fraser now excursions the U.S., showing earlier than offered out crowds desirous to study concerning the elements of our world that exist far past our 5 senses. I had an opportunity to take a seat down with Matt Fraser to ask him what comes after this life, what our departed family members look and sound like in spirit, and easy methods to overcome what holds us again right here on earth.
Allison Kugel: What’s the most profound piece of knowledge you have got obtained from spirit?
Matt Fraser: Right here on this world we’ve got limiting beliefs. We’ve got anxieties, phobias and fears. All of us have this stuff. So many instances we are saying to ourselves, “I’m not going to have the ability to do this. I’m too outdated to do this. I’m not ok.” We place fears and doubts in our personal minds and it stops us from residing our greatest life. It stops us from reaching milestones, and it stops us from reaching our goals. What I’ve discovered is, on the Different Facet spirits do magnificent issues. They understand their God-given items that possibly they didn’t see on this world, they usually additionally understand how their life may have been totally different in the event that they didn’t deal with the destructive; in the event that they didn’t deal with a lot stressing, fear and inserting these self-doubts on themselves, as a result of in heaven it doesn’t exist.
Allison Kugel: What does spirit need to say about what causes human fears and phobias, and why can we all have totally different fears and phobias?
Matt Fraser: When you take a look at a child or a bit of child, they don’t have phobias or fears when they’re youthful. [My son] Royce is barely 9 months outdated and he’s not afraid of something. However, the opposite day he was enjoying round and he took a bit of tumble away from bed. Fortunately it wasn’t excessive up, however now he is aware of to not go to the sting. That is how we study, however our phobias, fears and worries come from traumatic previous experiences. It may not be a traumatic expertise that you simply personally went by means of, nevertheless it is likely to be a traumatic expertise that you simply watched any person else undergo.
Allison Kugel: Are we supposed to permit that to tell future choices, or ought to be mud ourselves off and dive proper again in?
Matt Fraser: It’s about classes and being extra cautious. For instance, I can let you know from my expertise as a medium, I’ve seen folks die in so many alternative methods. I’ve seen folks undergo horrible issues of their life. At first it used to take a seat with me. I was so fearful and all I believed, “Oh, I can’t do that as a result of this occurred to considered one of my shoppers,” or “I can’t belief this particular person, as a result of this occurred with this particular person I used to be studying for.” I talked to the spirit world and what the spirits informed me is, “All of us have our personal future, and all of us have our personal life that we are supposed to undergo, and these are all life classes that we study.” We’re put right here on this earth to make errors. We’re right here to journey, fall and stumble, nevertheless it’s all how we decide ourselves up and it’s about changing into your individual success story. That’s what the spirits share with me.
Allison Kugel: Do you as a psychic medium have the flexibility to faucet into your son’s spirit information or his soul mission, or are you blocked from seeing that sort of knowledge?
Matt Fraser: I don’t have all of the solutions. I don’t know all there’s to learn about loss of life and dying, as a result of I by no means died. I’ll solely know after I get to the Different Facet. Via the readings I do, and thru the souls that I talk with, I’m able to piece [some] issues collectively. I’m in a position to get little glimpses into heaven. Being a medium is like studying a brand new language, however what I’ll let you know is that this, we don’t know our life’s mission or what our items are till we transition on to the Different Facet. That’s when the whole lot is positioned in entrance of us. Our journey right here in life is all about discovering ourselves; our true self, our potential, discovering our items… all of these issues. I feel I do know what my life mission is. I feel my life’s objective is being a psychic medium, serving to folks join with their family members and displaying folks there’s extra to life, however I received’t really know till I die. After we go on is when our complete life is proven in entrance of us and we than suppose, “Okay, for this reason we have been put right here on this earth, and for this reason this occurred in our life.”
Allison Kugel: That’s irritating (giggle).
Matt Fraser: I don’t suppose it’s irritating. I feel it’s superb, as a result of we aren’t meant to know the whole lot. Life wouldn’t be enjoyable if we did. While you’re driving on the freeway at night time you possibly can solely see the place your headlights present you. the place the vacation spot is. the place you’re going, alongside the best way you possibly can solely see to this point forward of you. It’s the similar factor with our lives. Even after I’m doing a studying, I don’t know everybody’s life from begin to end. After I’m giving a studying for somebody, numerous instances when souls come by means of they’ll solely give me little bits of knowledge to assist that particular person alongside their approach. Spirits aren’t there to assist us cheat life. I can’t simply get the lottery numbers or know who’s going to win within the horse race. They need us to do the work right here on this world. That’s why we’re right here.
Allison Kugel: Every part that I’ve studied concerning the spirit realm has led me to imagine that our soul does reincarnate time and again, and we carry sure items and data from earlier lives into this life. However in your e-book (We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of the Afterlife/Gallery Books), you say that has not been your expertise when it comes to what you’ve discovered.
Matt Fraser: I’ve by no means researched any of this. I’ve by no means picked up a e-book. I’ve by no means learn concerning the Different Facet. I belief the knowledge I get from the spirit world, and the whole lot I write and educate is off of my very own private perception system from what I’ve discovered throughout all these years giving readings. I can’t again one thing simply because I learn it in a e-book. I’ve to know and listen to it firsthand from the spirit world. I’ve, personally, by no means met a soul that was reincarnated, that lived a few years in the past and got here by means of to me. That’s by no means occurred. So, till that occurs, I can’t educate it as a result of nobody informed it to me and I’d be mendacity to you. I’ve requested the Different Facet many questions after they come by means of. “What’s your expertise with dying? How are you aware this info? How are you aware this or that?” I’ve began over these years to place the items collectively, and that’s how I’ve been writing my books, together with the one I’m writing now. With my final e-book, We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of The Afterlife changing into a New York Occasions bestseller on the identical day of its launch, I really feel prefer it’s as a result of so many individuals have been looking for this info.
Allison Kugel: Sure.
Matt Fraser: Since that e-book got here out about two years in the past, and I wrote it through the pandemic, I’ve discovered a lot extra since that e-book was even revealed. It’s a unending supply of data for me. I’m not going to knock something or knock anybody’s perception system. I can solely discuss my very own experiences.
Allison Kugel: What has been shared with you…
Matt Fraser: Precisely.
Allison Kugel: While you inform somebody that their grandmother or their grandfather, for instance, is standing proper beside them or in again of them, please clarify to me what precisely you might be seeing. Are you actually seeing them as clearly as you’re seeing me proper now?
Matt Fraser: I don’t see them as clearly as I see you, however I do see shadows and figures, form of like a silhouette. I see a determine and I’ll know immediately that it’s the particular person’s father. Each medium is totally different and has a unique approach of connecting with the Different Facet. My grandmother used to get omens and premonitions. My mother is a card reader and she or he’s a life reader. She will be able to inform who you’ll marry and what’s going to occur 5 years from now. The way it works for me is that I’ll see shadows or a determine, and immediately after I join with that soul I’ll hear, “Okay, I’m this particular person’s father, or I’m this particular person’s mom.” They’ll begin to inform me fast bits of knowledge. That’s the way it works after I’m out at a reside occasion, and what’s actually cool is that for me it’s virtually just like the viewers disappears and all I see are figures on the market within the viewers. I’ll see a determine and I’ll be like, “Okay, that’s this particular person’s father.” If I see the determine of a kid, I’ll see that this particular person misplaced a son or a daughter, and it’s actually like going and piecing it collectively and utilizing your entire senses. I’ll see them, sense them, really feel them and listen to them. Relying on how that soul communicates, after they come by means of, the knowledge is all the time totally different.
Allison Kugel: So, you might be getting this silhouette, plus they’re telling you telepathically who they’re to that particular person?
Matt Fraser: I’m glad you stated that, as a result of what lots of people don’t understand, and I attempt to educate folks how it’s, as a result of individuals are like, “How the hell is that this man speaking to the Different Facet when he talks so rattling quick? How can he be speaking to the spirit world when he doesn’t shut the f*ck up?” If spirits talked to me the best way you and I are speaking proper now it will take eternally for them to explain what is going on. They arrive to me actually rapidly. After I see that shadow or silhouette, I’ll know the spirit is able to talk. The extra I join with them, I’ll ask questions in my head, like, “Who’re you?” they usually’ll let me know, “I’m the daddy.” “How did you die?” Then I’ll begin to really feel issues. If I really feel issues in my head, I’ll know they’d a stroke or aneurism. If I really feel issues in my abdomen, I’ll know they’d stomach points. If my coronary heart begins to flutter, I’ll know they’d a coronary heart assault. If I see a picture of an urn, I’ll know that particular person was cremated. That is all inside a few seconds that they will inform me so much about their life unexpectedly.
Allison Kugel: A departed soul’s connection to their current life, have they got human feelings related to their life on earth, or is it extra indifferent?
Matt Fraser: It’s not indifferent, as a result of they’re with you on daily basis. They nonetheless love and care about you, however they know issues. It’s important to perceive that in heaven the common data goes far past doing a Google search. Common data implies that your family members really know what you might be pondering. I do know that sounds traumatizing and also you’re pondering, “I don’t need my dad or my mother to know my ideas.” Actually, it’s that your family members really feel nearer to you and know why you made sure choices. Right here on this world, we’ve got a disconnect. We have the detachment. The souls on the Different Facet don’t. For instance, you and your mother would possibly get into a problem as a result of your mother would possibly say to you, “Why are you courting that man? What do you see in him? Why would you retain going again to that relationship?” On the Different Facet, your mom in spirit would say, “I do know why you retain going again.”
Allison Kugel: They see the entire image.
Matt Fraser: Precisely. That’s the reason they don’t choose.
Allison Kugel: Why do a few of us, such as you, are available in with this open channel to the spirit world?
Matt Fraser: Really, the best way the spirits describe it to me is that we’re all born with an open channel. All youngsters can sense, really feel and listen to the spirit world. It’s humorous as a result of folks ask me about my son on a regular basis. He’s solely 9 months and other people ask, “Does he have the present?” I all the time inform folks, “It’s too early to inform,” as a result of all youngsters have the present. So, do I do know he’s speaking to spirits? Completely. I do know he sees these folks. I do know he has these little conversations in his head or nonetheless he connects to the Different Facet, as a result of all youngsters do. All youngsters earlier than the age of three can have a spirit encounter, however some youngsters will maintain onto that connection and people encounters. They’ll bear in mind it, maintain onto it and maintain that connection sturdy, and a few youngsters received’t. Lots of youngsters outgrow it they usually lose that connection, or they suppose they lose that connection. In my expertise it’s all the time there. We simply need to discover ways to tune again into it. With the vast majority of youngsters, it received’t stick with them. Those who do and it follows them, that’s the place we get psychic children from.
Allison Kugel: Along with babies, animals appear to be very tuned into the spirit world.
Matt Fraser: Sure, one other tell-tale technique to know if a spirit is with you might be your pets. I can’t let you know what number of instances I will probably be doing a bunch studying, and even a web based studying and everyone seems to be all the time apologizing as a result of the minute I begin the studying any person’s cat or canine begins going loopy. They may say, “I don’t know why the canine is doing this.” And I’ll say, “No, no, no. It’s okay. They’re seeing spirit.” Animals have a unique filter and a unique lens. What’s actually cool is that animals don’t concern loss of life and dying, and the reason being as a result of they know the Different Facet exists. Animals can really see spirits, which is so cool as a result of we as people, until you might be gifted or have some mediumship capability, can’t see them with the bare eye. Even these spirits that come to me, I do know my pets can see them clearer than I can. Animals see spirits strolling with us on daily basis.
Allison Kugel: You might have celeb shoppers who’re, clearly, very Google-able. There’s numerous details about them within the public area. Is that tougher for you?
Matt Fraser: I feel it is more difficult for most people to imagine that it’s the celeb’s beloved one coming by means of. That’s the reason I don’t publish numerous the celeb readings. Anybody who’s excessive profile like Mariah Carey or Britney Spears, or somebody like that, you possibly can Google just about something about them. The factor is, after I do a studying for a star there are issues that come by means of which can be in a position to be Googled. There are issues which can be secret, that oftentimes come up in a studying. I discover that with celebrities, they typically have two personas. They’ve what they present within the public eye, after which what really occurs behind closed doorways. After I do a star studying, I don’t wish to know something about that celeb. Fortunately, I’m so busy each single day between the useless and the residing, that I’ve no time to observe tv. Lots of instances I’ll get celeb calls and everybody round me will freak out. I’ll be informed, “So and so desires to speak to you.” And I’m asking, “Who the hell is that?,” as a result of I don’t watch tv. My spouse will get extra excited than I do with sure celebrities. I’ll ask her, “Have you learnt this particular person?” And she or he’ll say, “In fact I do know that particular person!” She’s into popular culture and I’m simply not, due to what I do.
Allison Kugel: Is there any skepticism on the a part of the celeb sitter you might be studying?
Matt Fraser: By no means. The skepticism is extra from most people, about these readings. The minute you begin to do a studying for a star you might be routinely set as much as fail by the skeptics, as a result of it doesn’t matter what you say, even should you can’t discover it on-line they will say, “Effectively, he may have Googled that.” My response is, “Attempt to Google it and see if you will discover it.” You may’t. Celebrities know what’s on the market and what’s not. My very own life is public. I’m on tv and the whole lot is on the market, but when there are specific issues my beloved one’s informed me, sure issues that occurred behind closed doorways, I’d have the ability to know if it was my mother, my dad or whoever it’s that handed away.
Allison Kugel: Talking of tv, how did you wind up getting your individual present, Meet the Frasers, on the E! Community?
Matt Fraser: I don’t understand how this all started, and I don’t understand how my e-book turned a New York Occasions bestseller. I’m nonetheless attempting to determine it out to this present day. I’m so honored and so amazed about this journey that the spirits have led me on. I began my profession as an EMT (emergency medical technician). I had an incredible job. I beloved the employees, and I beloved working there. I began doing readings on the facet. I used to be coming again into my items and I made a decision I’m not going to maintain this hidden anymore. After I sense one thing or I really feel one thing, I’m going to speak about it. I began doing readings for my buddies and getting referrals. Unexpectedly folks would name and say, “Hey, I heard you do readings. I heard you have been a medium.” Individuals began discovering out about me and the subsequent factor you recognize I’m being requested to be on tv exhibits, on radio exhibits after which I received a name from E! they usually stated, “Matt, we wish to do a present about you and your life.” Then Simon & Schuster contacted me and requested, “Did you ever consider writing a e-book?”
Allison Kugel: The story of the way you discovered you made the New York Occasions bestseller listing is humorous.
Matt Fraser: I bear in mind I solely had one week to make the New York Occasions bestseller listing, and I believed there is no such thing as a approach we’re going to make this listing. It’s important to promote hundreds and hundreds of copies in simply someday. I do not forget that day coming, and I used to be preoccupied. It was the week that our son Royce was born, and I didn’t actually have time to deal with anything. I informed my followers, “I’ve this e-book popping out. When you actually wish to assist me, exit and purchase it.” Unexpectedly my grandmother calls me up from Maine and says, “I went to 2 bookstores and I can’t purchase your e-book. It got here out right this moment, proper?” She requested and each bookstores stated the copies that have been there have been already offered out. My sister calls me up and says, “Hey, I went to go purchase your e-book right this moment and the shop informed me they already offered out.” Everyone began calling me telling me that the e-book was offered out. I bear in mind saying to myself, “One thing is fallacious. One thing is off.” I referred to as Simon & Schuster and requested them, “Did my e-book really come out right this moment?” They stated, “Sure it did.” I stated, “I don’t know if that is proper, however everyone seems to be telling me that it’s offered out.” Subsequent factor you recognize I received an electronic mail saying, “Matt, congratulations! You made the New York Occasions bestseller listing.” I bear in mind I checked out [my wife] Alexa and began crying. To this present day, it provides me goosebumps.
Allison Kugel: You have been raised a Catholic. Are you continue to a practising Catholic? The rationale I ask is as a result of I do know that the Catholic Church doesn’t imagine in connecting with the Different Facet. Have you ever skilled any spiritual discrimination due to your profession?
Matt Fraser: I feel it will depend on the particular person, to be trustworthy with you. I’ll be trustworthy with you, I’ve had monks come to me, and I’ve had nuns come to me. I received’t let you know who they’re, however I’ve had them come to me and get readings. I bear in mind the primary time two nuns got here to my occasion. I used to be so nervous, as a result of I believed they have been going to evaluate me and the work I used to be doing, regardless that I do the whole lot with God. I’m very sturdy in my faith. I imagine in Jesus. I imagine within the Archangels. I pray to them each single night time. So, after I noticed two nuns present up at my occasion I believed, “Oh my God, right here we go. It’s going to be throughout.” They got here as much as me and I stated to them, “I’m shocked you’re right here. Have you learnt what occasion you might be coming to?” They stated, “We love the work that you’re doing and we needed to come.” That was refreshing to me, as a result of I noticed that it wasn’t a complete group. It will depend on the particular person. That was one thing I wanted to listen to at first of my journey as a medium.
Allison Kugel: Why do you suppose during the last 20 years, and undoubtedly during the last decade, there’s an avalanche of curiosity in connecting with the Different Facet and studying about the place we go from right here? Why now?
Matt Fraser: A few totally different causes. Again within the day we weren’t allowed to speak about it. Many years in the past, I’d by no means be speaking to you proper now. It simply wouldn’t occur. We had superb pioneers like John Edward and James Van Praagh who actually paved the best way for me to discuss my items. Additionally they paved the best way for different folks to speak about their experiences. We now have social media platforms like TikTok, Fb, Instagram and YouTube the place you possibly can go and be your individual voice. You may inform your story. Individuals don’t need to be quiet anymore. They’ll share their experiences. My grandmother couldn’t discuss this. My grandmother was a medium, however she stored it hidden for years and years. My very own grandfather didn’t even know she was a medium, as a result of she was afraid of being ostracized again then. Individuals would name you loopy. Now, with the assistance of social media and the Web folks can discuss it. I additionally seen that when the world modified through the pandemic everyone began speaking about this. While you undergo one thing like that and everyone seems to be passing round you, instantly there’s concern and uncertainty. Everyone knows any person that handed from [Covid]. It introduced up questions of What if? Is there one other life after this? Is my [deceased] beloved one okay? In the course of the pandemic, I can’t let you know the hundreds of people that reached out to me for solutions, and that’s the reason I began writing my e-book, We By no means Die. So many individuals write to me and say, “Your e-book has helped me in so many alternative methods, and I’m so grateful for that.”
Allison Kugel: Clarify the e-book’s title, We By no means Die.
Matt Fraser: After we lose a beloved one, we see loss of life as everlasting. What I actually wish to present folks is that it’s not. It’s only a transition. There are two variations of us. There’s a bodily model that you simply see each single day, and deep inside us there’s one other model of us, and it’s referred to as our soul. It’s the vitality model of us, and that’s actually vital as a result of your soul is the second model of you. You is likely to be lacking a finger or lacking a toe. You may need points together with your hair or your tooth or no matter, however your soul stays intact. After we go on we depart our bodily physique right here, however our soul transitions on and we don’t lose ourself. After we go on, we nonetheless have an look. We seem like we do, simply with out sickness, with none of the challenges that we had all through life. For instance, should you misplaced a finger or a toe, you might be put again collectively in heaven.
Allison Kugel: Have you ever, your self, ever had an NDE (close to loss of life expertise)?
Matt Fraser: No, I’ve not. Everybody all the time thinks that I’ve had one, being a medium, however no. I’ve talked to those that have had a close to loss of life expertise, however I’ve by no means had one myself. I don’t suppose I wish to. I’m so related to the Different Facet, I don’t want any extra experiences (giggle).
Allison Kugel: Do you suppose time journey is feasible on this earth? And do you suppose that each human passes at their divine time, or can an individual go prematurely?
Matt Fraser: I feel folks can undoubtedly go prematurely. I feel in sure circumstances, like when somebody takes their very own life, it’s untimely. I’ve had souls come by means of to me and say they regretted it. I’ve had these readings the place souls will come by means of, who’ve taken their very own life they usually realized, “Oh my God, I shouldn’t have accomplished this, as a result of I may have accomplished this, this, and this.” They noticed that there was a lot to their life that they might have had, however they ended it early. What spirit tries to indicate us is that once we are right here on this world and going by means of a problem like a divorce, a well being wrestle, a psychological wrestle or no matter, you possibly can’t see the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel and that’s what is so onerous. Your family members in spirit don’t fear as a result of they know that you may be okay. As people, we have to do a greater job of not stressing a lot and understanding that this too shall go.
Allison Kugel: Being that point is just not linear outdoors of this 3D bodily world right here on earth, do you suppose time journey is feasible?
Matt Fraser: I imagine in the whole lot and nothing. I feel something is feasible. I’m positive there needs to be a approach. I can let you know this; souls can completely journey again in time to see issues. I bear in mind being a bit of child and watching these futuristic motion pictures on Disney the place they might use the tablets to speak to 1 one other. I used to say to myself, “That might be so cool. Think about if you are able to do that.” I believed it was the shit when the primary coloration flip telephone got here out, by no means did I ever suppose that video chatting could be attainable. When that first got here out it blew our minds, and now it’s a part of our on a regular basis lives. So, do I feel it may occur? Completely.
Allison Kugel: Is Meet the Frasers resuming?
Matt Fraser: Meet the Frasers ended through the pandemic, sadly, as a result of we couldn’t movie. We have been all preparing for Season 2 after which the pandemic hit. However what we did do is have a continuation of our story, as a result of everybody was asking what occurred for the reason that pandemic? We have been very fortunate to associate with Studio 71 and do a Fb particular referred to as The Frasers Plus One, which takes you thru the pandemic up till the delivery of our son Royce.
Allison Kugel: Any new tv tasks for you?
Matt Fraser: There are all the time TV tasks within the works, fortunately. Between touring and the e-book writing, and filming for various TV tasks, it’s been a journey. I took a while away for a short while as a result of I wished to spend time with my household and with our son, Royce, and I feel the pandemic was one thing I personally wanted for a bit of bit simply to go and chill out and get again into the zone. I’m now able to get again on the market.
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Matt Fraser’s New York Occasions bestselling e-book, We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of the Afterlife, is obtainable wherever books are offered. For readings and tour/occasion dates go to meetmattfraser.com. Comply with @meetmattfraser.
