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 way in which 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 way 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 way of non-public 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 guide, We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of the Afterlife an instantaneous New York Instances 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 components of our world that exist far past our 5 senses. I had an opportunity to sit down 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’ve obtained from spirit?

Matt Fraser: Right here on this world we have now limiting beliefs. We now have anxieties, phobias and fears. All of us have these items. So many occasions we are saying to ourselves, “I’m not going to have the ability to do this. I’m too outdated to try this.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 desires. What I’ve realized is, on the Different Facet spirits do magnificent issues.  They notice their God-given presents that perhaps they didn’t see on this world, and so they additionally notice how their life might have been completely 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 completely different fears and phobias?  

Matt Fraser: Should you take a look at a child or a bit 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 tumble out of 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 won’t be a traumatic expertise that you simply personally went by way of, nevertheless it is likely to be a traumatic expertise that you simply watched someone 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 inform you from my expertise as a medium, I’ve seen folks die in so many various methods. I’ve seen folks undergo horrible issues of their life. At first it used to sit down 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 personal 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 kind 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 once I get to the Different Facet. By means of the readings I do, and thru the souls that I talk with, I’m able to piece [some] issues collectively.  I’m capable of get little glimpses into heaven. Being a medium is like studying a brand new language, however what I’ll inform you is that this, we don’t know our life’s mission or what our presents are till we transition on to the Different Facet. That’s when every part is positioned in entrance of us. Our journey right here in life is all about discovering ourselves; our true self, our potential, discovering our presents… all of these issues. I believe I do know what my life mission is. I believe my life’s objective is being a psychic medium, serving to folks join with their family members and exhibiting folks there’s extra to life, however I received’t actually know till I die. After we move on is when our complete life is proven in entrance of us and we than assume, “Okay, this is the reason we have been put right here on this earth, and this is the reason this occurred in our life.”  

Allison Kugel: That’s irritating (snigger).

Matt Fraser: I don’t assume it’s irritating. I believe it’s superb, as a result of we aren’t meant to know every part. Life wouldn’t be enjoyable if we did. Whenever you’re driving on the freeway at evening you’ll be able to solely see the place your headlights present you. You already know the place the vacation spot is. You already know the place you’re going, alongside the way in which you’ll be able to solely see to date forward of you. It’s the identical factor with our lives. Even once I’m doing a studying, I don’t know everybody’s life from begin to end. After I’m giving a studying for somebody, plenty of occasions when souls come by way of they are going to solely give me little bits of knowledge to assist that particular person alongside their means. Spirits usually are not 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 little thing that I’ve studied concerning the spirit realm has led me to imagine that our soul does reincarnate time and again, and we deliver sure presents and information from earlier lives into this life. However in your guide (We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of the Afterlife/Gallery Books), you say that has not been your expertise by way of what you’ve realized.

Matt Fraser: I’ve by no means researched any of this. I’ve by no means picked up a guide.  I’ve by no means learn concerning the Different Facet. I belief the data I get from the spirit world, and every part I write and train is off of my very own private perception system from what I’ve realized throughout all these years giving readings. I can’t again one thing simply because I learn it in a guide. 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 way of to me. That’s by no means occurred. So, till that occurs, I can’t train 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 way of. “What’s your expertise with dying? How have you learnt this data? How have you learnt 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 guide, We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of The Afterlife changing into a New York Instances 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 data.

Allison Kugel: Sure.

Matt Fraser: Since that guide got here out about two years in the past, and I wrote it throughout the pandemic, I’ve realized a lot extra since that guide was even revealed. It’s a unending supply of information for me. I’m not going to knock something or knock anybody’s perception system. I can solely speak about my very own experiences.  

Allison Kugel: What has been shared with you… 

Matt Fraser: Precisely.  

Allison Kugel: Whenever 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 straight away that it’s the particular person’s father. Each medium is completely different and has a special means of connecting with the Different Facet. My grandmother used to get omens and premonitions. My mother is a card reader and he or she’s a life reader. She will inform who you will 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 straight away once 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 once I’m out at a stay occasion, and what’s actually cool is that for me it’s nearly 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 all your senses. I’ll see them, sense them, really feel them and listen to them. Relying on how that soul communicates, after they come by way of, the data is at all times completely 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 mentioned that, as a result of what lots of people don’t notice, and I attempt to train folks how it’s, as a result of persons 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 way in which you and I are speaking proper now it could take perpetually for them to explain what is going on. They arrive to me actually shortly. 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?” and so they’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 latest 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 every single day. They nonetheless love and care about you, however they know issues. It’s a must to perceive that in heaven the common information goes far past doing a Google search. Common information 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 have now a disconnect. We have the detachment. The souls on the Different Facet don’t. For instance, you and your mother may get into a problem as a result of your mother may say to you, “Why are you relationship 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: Truly, the way in which the spirits describe it to me is that we’re all born with an open channel. All kids 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 folks ask, “Does he have the present?” I at all times inform folks, “It’s too early to inform,” as a result of all kids 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 kids do. All kids earlier than the age of three can have a spirit encounter, however some kids will maintain onto that connection and people encounters. They’ll bear in mind it, maintain onto it and hold that connection robust, and a few kids received’t. A variety of kids outgrow it and so they lose that connection, or they assume they lose that connection. In my expertise it’s at all times there. We simply need to learn to tune again into it. With nearly all of kids, it received’t stick with them. Those who do and it follows them, that’s the place we get psychic youngsters from.  

Allison Kugel: Along with babies, animals appear to be very tuned into the spirit world.

Matt Fraser: Sure, one other tell-tale method to know if a spirit is with you might be your pets. I can’t inform you what number of occasions I can be doing a bunch studying, and even a web based studying and everyone seems to be at all times apologizing as a result of the minute I begin the studying someone’s cat or canine begins going loopy. They are going to 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 special filter and a special lens. What’s actually cool is that animals don’t worry 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 means, 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 every single day.  

Allison Kugel: You’ve got celeb shoppers who’re, clearly, very Google-able. There’s plenty of details about them within the public area. Is that more difficult for you? 

Matt Fraser: I believe it is more difficult for most people to imagine that it’s the celeb’s cherished one coming by way of. That’s the reason I don’t publish plenty of the celeb readings.  Anybody who’s excessive profile like Mariah Carey or Britney Spears, or somebody like that, you’ll be able to Google just about something about them. The factor is, once I do a studying for a celeb there are issues that come by way of which can be capable of 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 celeb 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 look at tv.  A variety of occasions I’ll get celeb calls and everybody round me will freak out. I’ll be informed, “So and so needs 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, “Are you aware 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: Under no circumstances. The skepticism is extra from most people, about these readings.  The minute you begin to do a studying for a celeb you might be routinely set as much as fail by the skeptics, as a result of it doesn’t matter what you say, even in case you can’t discover it on-line they will say, “Properly, he might have Googled that.” My response is, “Attempt to Google it and see if yow 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 every part is on the market, but when there are specific issues my cherished one’s informed me, sure issues that occurred behind closed doorways, I might be capable of 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 personal 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 guide turned a New York Instances bestseller. I’m nonetheless attempting to determine it out to today. 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 cherished the employees, and I cherished working there. I began doing readings on the aspect. I used to be coming again into my presents 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 pals and getting referrals. Rapidly folks would name and say, “Hey, I heard you do readings. I heard you have been a medium.” Folks began discovering out about me and the subsequent factor you already know I’m being requested to be on tv reveals, on radio reveals after which I received a name from E! and so they mentioned, “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 guide?” 

Allison Kugel: The story of the way you discovered you made the New York Instances bestseller checklist is humorous.

Matt Fraser: I bear in mind I solely had one week to make the New York Instances bestseller checklist, and I believed there isn’t a means we’re going to make this checklist. It’s a must to promote hundreds and hundreds of copies in simply someday. I keep in mind 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 guide popping out. Should you actually wish to assist me, exit and purchase it.”  Rapidly my grandmother calls me up from Maine and says, “I went to 2 bookstores and I can’t purchase your guide. It got here out right now, proper?” She requested and each bookstores mentioned 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 guide right now and the shop informed me they already offered out.” All people began calling me telling me that the guide was offered out. I bear in mind saying to myself, “One thing is mistaken. One thing is off.”  I referred to as Simon & Schuster and requested them, “Did my guide really come out right now?” They mentioned, “Sure it did.”  I mentioned, “I don’t know if that is proper, however everyone seems to be telling me that it’s offered out.” Subsequent factor you already know I received an e-mail saying, “Matt, congratulations! You made the New York Instances bestseller checklist.”  I bear in mind I checked out [my wife] Alexa and began crying. To today, it offers 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 non secular discrimination due to your profession?

Matt Fraser: I believe 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 inform you 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, though I do every part with God. I’m very robust in my faith. I imagine in Jesus. I imagine within the Archangels. I pray to them each single evening. So, once 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 mentioned to them, “I’m stunned you’re right here. Are you aware what occasion you might be coming to?” They mentioned, “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 assume during the last twenty years, and positively 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 completely different causes. Again within the day we weren’t allowed to speak about it.  Many years in the past, I might 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 way in which for me to talk about my presents. In addition they paved the way in which for different folks to speak about their experiences.  We now have social media platforms like TikTok, Fb, Instagram and YouTube the place you’ll be able to go and be your personal voice. You may inform your story. Folks don’t need to be quiet anymore.  They will share their experiences. My grandmother couldn’t speak about 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.  Folks would name you loopy. Now, with the assistance of social media and the Web folks can speak about it. I additionally observed that when the world modified throughout the pandemic everyone began speaking about this. Whenever you undergo one thing like that and everyone seems to be passing round you, instantly there’s worry and uncertainty. Everyone knows someone that handed from [Covid].  It introduced up questions of What if?  Is there one other life after this?  Is my [deceased] cherished one okay? In the course of the pandemic, I can’t inform you the hundreds of people that reached out to me for solutions, and that’s the reason I began writing my guide, We By no means Die. So many individuals write to me and say, “Your guide has helped me in so many various methods, and I’m so grateful for that.”

Allison Kugel: Clarify the guide’s title, We By no means Die.

Matt Fraser: After we lose a cherished 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 within us there’s one other model of us, and it’s referred to as our soul. It’s the power 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 might need points along with your hair or your tooth or no matter, however your soul stays intact. After we move on we depart our bodily physique right here, however our soul transitions on and we don’t lose ourself. After we move on, we nonetheless have an look. We appear to be we do, simply with out sickness, with none of the challenges that we had all through life. For instance, in case 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 at all times thinks that I’ve had one, being a medium, however no. I’ve talked to people who have had a close to loss of life expertise, however I’ve by no means had one myself. I don’t assume I wish to. I’m so related to the Different Facet, I don’t want any extra experiences (snigger).

Allison Kugel: Do you assume time journey is feasible on this earth? And do you assume that each human passes at their divine time, or can an individual move prematurely?

Matt Fraser: I believe folks can positively move prematurely. I believe in sure circumstances, like when somebody takes their very own life, it’s untimely. I’ve had souls come by way of to me and say they regretted it. I’ve had these readings the place souls will come by way of, who’ve taken their very own life and so they realized, “Oh my God, I shouldn’t have achieved this, as a result of I might have achieved this, this, and this.” They noticed that there was a lot to their life that they may have had, however they ended it early. What spirit tries to point out us is that after we are right here on this world and going by way of a problem like a divorce, a well being wrestle, a psychological wrestle or no matter, you’ll be able to’t see the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel and that’s what is so arduous. Your family members in spirit don’t fear as a result of they know that you can be okay. As people, we have to do a greater job of not stressing a lot and realizing that this too shall move.  

Allison Kugel: Being that point is just not linear exterior of this 3D bodily world right here on earth, do you assume time journey is feasible?

Matt Fraser: I imagine in every part and nothing. I believe something is feasible. I’m positive there must be a means. I can inform you this; souls can completely journey again in time to see issues. I bear in mind being a bit child and watching these futuristic films on Disney the place they’d use the tablets to speak to at least one 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 shade flip cellphone got here out, by no means did I ever assume that video chatting could be doable. 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 believe it might occur? Completely.  

Allison Kugel: Is Meet the Frasers resuming?

Matt Fraser: Meet the Frasers ended throughout 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 companion 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 at all times TV tasks within the works, fortunately. Between touring and the guide writing, and filming for various TV tasks, it’s been a journey. I took a while away for a short time as a result of I wished to spend time with my household and with our son, Royce, and I believe the pandemic was one thing I personally wanted for a bit bit simply to go and calm down and get again into the zone. I’m now able to get again on the market.  

Watch the prolonged video interview with Matt Fraser on the Allison Interviews Podcast at YouTube or hear wherever you get your podcasts. Comply with journalist Allison Kugel @theallisonkugel.

Matt Fraser’s New York Instances bestselling guide, We By no means Die: Secrets and techniques of the Afterlife, is accessible wherever books are offered. For readings and tour/occasion dates go to meetmattfraser.com. Comply with @meetmattfraser.