Signs

Have you ever wondered whether life’s coincidences—like a song that comes on just when you need it—might be more than random? In Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe, psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson argues that these moments aren’t coincidences at all but messages from a vast, loving intelligence she calls the universe. Through her experiences as a certified research medium and teacher, Jackson contends that everyone can learn to recognize and co-create an ongoing conversation with that invisible world.

She introduces readers to the idea of living with awareness that we are never alone. According to Jackson, each person is guided by a Team of Light—a network of spirit guides, angels, and departed loved ones who send signs and steer us toward our best life paths. These signs can be subtle, like recurring numbers or songs, or dramatic, like vivid dreams and synchronistic events. In realizing that these experiences are communications, not coincidences, Jackson says, you can shift how you see reality itself.

Understanding the Language of Signs

Jackson begins by defining what she means by signs: they are personalized messages from a benevolent universe that operates through love and connection. The examples that fill the book—from oranges appearing after a speech to a dollar bill inscribed with a lost child’s name—show how everyday life can turn luminous when you learn to read its code. The author explains that our world is infused with unseen layers of meaning, and we need only open our hearts to perceive them.

The Promise of Connection

The central promise of Jackson’s work is liberation from isolation. You don’t need to be a medium to sense the Other Side, she insists. Everyone can cultivate communication through observation, intention, and love. Her teaching transforms grief and fear into understanding that death is a doorway rather than an ending. Stories like Marie’s discovery of the dollar signed “KERRY” or a father comforting his child through a balloon’s appearance remind readers that love transcends physical separation.

Why This Matters

This book, part memoir and part spiritual guide, urges a "Great Shift"—a change in perception that reveals everyday existence as a tapestry of connectivity. In a world often defined by chaos and fear, learning to tune in to the universe’s secret language cultivates awe and resilience. Jackson’s argument resonates with thinkers like Carl Jung, who called meaningful coincidences “synchronicities,” and modern writers such as Glennon Doyle, who speak about faith as belief in the unseen order of things. Jackson’s approach, however, is distinctly experiential: she invites you to practice seeing, ask for signs, and notice how life responds.

Ultimately, Signs is a call to awaken to a universe humming with communication, to look at the sky, the songs, the simple events around you and realize you are being spoken to by love itself. By accepting this idea, Jackson says, you won’t just find comfort—you’ll begin to live more fully, guided by a dialogue with the divine that was always available but rarely noticed.

One of Jackson’s most transformative teachings is that you are never alone. Your unseen companions—the Team of Light—include departed loved ones, guardian angels, and the pervasive “God energy” of love that animates the entire universe. These beings, she says, work together in tireless devotion to guide you toward experiences that develop your soul. It’s a comforting antidote to modern loneliness.

Three Sources of Guidance

Signs may come from three sources. First is the universe itself, which Jackson equates with divine love. Second are spirit guides—teachers who have never incarnated but are devoted to human growth. Third are loved ones who have crossed and continue to participate in our lives. Each sends signs with a shared purpose: to nudge us closer to authenticity and compassion.

Learning to Trust Their Messages

Jackson illustrates this with stories like her doctor feeling an electric wave on a fishing boat at the moment his father died, or clients sensing a loved one's presence during pivotal decisions. Such moments reveal how love persists beyond material limits. She emphasizes that dismissing these experiences as imagination limits our growth. The invitation is to trust the subtle sensations, coincidences, and intuitions that arrive from this team.

Spiritual Heritage Across Cultures

Jackson situates the idea of spirit guides within a larger human tradition. Christianity’s angels, Hindu devas, and Islam’s beings made of light all echo her experience. By reconnecting with this ancient understanding, she helps readers frame their spirituality not as superstition but as the continuity of millennia of human experience. Believing in the Team of Light restores wonder to daily life and redefines death as a return to a realm governed solely by love.

Not all communication requires deliberate asking. Jackson says the Other Side already speaks through what she calls default signs: objects, animals, numbers, and coincidences that spontaneously appear to guide you. Coins found in strange places, butterflies landing on your arm, or a song playing just as you think of someone—all may be deliberate signals from beyond.

Nature’s Electromagnetic Language

She grounds these phenomena in a discussion of energy fields—the idea that souls on the Other Side manipulate electromagnetic currents, earth’s magnetic field, and light to reach you. Birds, deer, and electrical glitches become carriers of divine communication because they are sensitive to these fields. (Jackson’s mix of spirituality and science echoes Einstein’s claim that energy and matter are one.)

Synchronicity and Meaningful Coincidence

Drawing on Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, Jackson suggests that events that seem coincidental may reflect the universe’s underlying order—what Jung called the unus mundus, or one world. Her story of skeptic Michael Shermer—whose late wife’s radio mysteriously turned on with music on their wedding day—illustrates how even doubters can experience moments that defy explanation.

Instead of viewing coincidences as chance, Jackson encourages asking, “What is this event telling me?” rather than “Is it real?” The meaning arises through openness and interpretation. Once you start noticing, she promises, you’ll see patterns everywhere: numbers repeating, songs responding to your feelings, animals appearing at the right time.

Awakening to the Great Shift

Recognizing default signs initiates what Jackson calls a Great Shift—a transition to perceiving life as interactive and benevolent. In that state, fear gives way to connection, and you begin to feel part of the universe’s grand design. What skeptics call coincidence becomes, in this view, evidence of something larger communicating through love.

Beyond default signs, Jackson teaches you how to consciously collaborate with the universe to create a personalized language of symbols. This practice transforms communication into a dialogue rather than one-way reception. By choosing clear, unlikely, and meaningful requests—say, for oranges or armadillos—you can establish a code with your loved ones and spirit guides.

The Method: Quiet, Ask, Receive, Thank

The process begins with quieting the mind. She advises meditative stillness—ten minutes without distractions—to tune in. Then ask consciously for a sign. It can be spoken aloud or whispered in thought, but it must carry personal resonance. Give the universe time to answer. When the sign arrives, acknowledge it and express gratitude; this strengthens the connection.

Stories of Collaboration

Jackson herself asked for “one orange” after a major speech and found thousands of oranges covering the lunch tables. Readers are urged to treat such events as “call-and-response” moments of divine affirmation. Another example is her mother requesting a purple elephant from her father; days later, she drove past a restaurant called The Purple Elephant.

Sharing and Expanding the Language

Finally, Jackson encourages sharing signs rather than keeping them secret. Discussing them spreads light and normalizes mystical communication. Over time, you might build an entire vocabulary unique to your relationships—numbers, colors, creatures—so that every appearance reminds you that love survives. This co-created language, she says, can fill your days with sacred meaning that transforms grief into joy.

Jackson devotes a powerful section to how signs guide us through life’s darkest decisions—grief, fear, anger, and moral crossroads. The stories here show signs acting as interventions steering people from paths of despair toward compassion.

Choosing Love Over Fear

In one striking episode, a father whose daughter was murdered planned to avenge her death. Jackson saw the daughter’s spirit showing him loading guns and preparing for violence. Her message: “Don’t do it.” The man heard a voice—not through ears but inside—and put the gun away. Jackson reads this as proof that the Other Side works to prevent more darkness. Our real task, she says, is always to choose love-based action over fear-based reaction.

Inner Whispers and Intuition

Fear clouds intuition, yet intuition is the channel through which your Team of Light speaks. Jackson calls these inner feelings “tiny whispers.” They aren’t commands but subtle nudges revealing what you already know deep inside. Her examples—from women deciding whether to have children to business owners starting new ventures—show how listening to these whispers aligns choices with your soul’s contract.

Surrender and Trust

The principle culminates in Jackson’s personal story about her daughter Ashley’s mysterious illness. After doctors failed for years, Jackson prayed and surrendered to the universe’s guidance. That night she was “pulled” to read a medical packet and found the word Bartonella—the hidden disease causing her daughter’s suffering. Surrender, she concludes, doesn’t mean giving up; it means releasing control to allow love and intuition to lead. This faith-based openness is the ultimate lesson of navigating darkness with light.

Near the book’s end, Jackson broadens her message beyond personal signs to practical spiritual living. Staying in the light means consciously elevating your energy—the vibration of love and gratitude that makes you receptive to the universe’s communication.

Energy and Awareness

Drawing on physics, she reminds readers that everything, including our bodies, is composed of energy and emits biophotons—tiny particles of light. When you smile, meditate, create art, or express gratitude, you brighten that light. Negative emotions dim it. Because the universe responds to energy, maintaining positive vibration invites clearer signs and happier experiences.

Practices of Light

Jackson offers tools for daily elevation: art, gratitude journaling, meditation, travel, prayer, and awareness of nature’s “negative ions” (like those near waterfalls or forests). Each practice renews connection. She connects this with mindfulness research and spiritual traditions across cultures—the Dalai Lama’s meditation ethic and Deepak Chopra’s breath-focused awareness—uniting ancient wisdom with modern psychology.

Becoming a Light for Others

The ultimate goal is not only to receive signs but to become one. When your energy shines brightly, you act as a medium for love, inspiring and uplifting others. From Jimmy Fallon’s story of a song echoing his mother’s secret code to Jackson’s son playing trumpet in red sneakers, every act of joy amplifies connection. To stay in the light is to live as proof that kindness and hope are contagious frequencies of the soul.

Jackson closes by revealing the unified message beneath all her stories: we belong to one another, across dimensions. Signs aren’t only about survival after death—they express an ever-present web of love linking all consciousness. Recognizing this connectivity transforms ordinary existence into a spiritual practice.

A Symphonic Humanity

She compares human life to a symphony: each person is a unique instrument, yet only together do we create harmony. Her son Hayden’s school band concert taught her that when individuals play their notes authentically, the collective sound becomes transcendent. This metaphor encapsulates her philosophy—your light serves others’ growth, and theirs amplifies yours.

Crossing as Continuity

Quoting Thomas Edison’s final words—“It is very beautiful over there”—and Steve Jobs’s “Oh wow,” Jackson portrays death as expansion rather than loss. On the Other Side, she says, souls instantly comprehend the shared truth of interconnection. Borrowing from modern physics and spiritual mystics like Rumi, she presents consciousness as a continuum of light that transcends form.

Living as Message

Her conclusion is both poetic and practical: when you see butterflies, dragonflies, hummingbirds, or even Irish soda bread delivered to your mailbox, recognize them as reminders that the universe speaks in love. Your responsibility is to notice, respond, and shine. In doing so, you contribute to the collective lesson that Earth is, at its heart, a school teaching all souls how to love.