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I received the news that Selena died when I came home to find Maria sitting in front of the TV  with a solemn, wide-eyed look on her face. I asked her what was wrong and she said, “Selena se murió,” or “Selena died.” To tell you the truth, I had no idea who she was talking about. Later I discovered what a beautiful person she was, inside and out. She helped us transcend borders by bringing hispanic music to the mainstream public. 

Me: Erik, who would you like to pick now?

Erik: Do we have another sex icon?

Jamie laughs.

Me: How about Selena. You always liked her!

Jamie: Okay, he’s outta here!

(Pause)

Jamie: Was she the Latin actress?

Me: Well, I think she was mostly a singer, and the head of her fan club shot her.

Jamie: What?

Me: I know! Oh, it was terrible. I had never really heard of her, but I came home one day, and there was Maria, our housekeeper, looking at the television in total shock. She goes, “Selena is dead,” and I thought to myself, ‘Wow, that’s terrible, but who is she?’ But I tell you what, she was an amazing spirit. Erik and Lukas used to watch that movie about her all the time. I don’t know if they were just touched by her tragic death or if it was more about her figure.

Jamie: He’s back.

Me: Okay.

Jamie (to Selena in a sugary voice): Hi!

Me: Hi, Selena.

Jamie (talking to Selena like she’s a little girl): Well, you are just so cute!

(Jamie listens to Selena)

Selena: I here this is the day of the Texans! (We had just interviewed Anna Nicole Smith.)

Jamie giggles.

Me: Oh, yeah!

Jamie (to Selena): Oh, you’re from Texas, too?

Me: That’s right. You were from Corpus, right?

Selena: That’s right! Yes, Corpus Christi!

Jamie: I bet that’s a religious place!

I guess because of the name, “Body of Christ.”

Me: I tell you, Selena, you created such a wonderful bridge between Hispanics and, well, the rest of the world, really. You connected with people so strongly with your music.

Selena (bubbly): Thank you!

Jamie: She’s so sweet! She has really long, dark hair, and she PETITE, but her, like the one thing I wanna look at on her face are her lips.

Me: Oh, yeah. She had beautiful lips.

Jamie: Very full.

Me: Yes, very full lips. All right, well, Erik, would you like to start off? I know you really liked Selena, too.

(Pause)

Me: I’m making him blush, probably.

Jamie: Erik. (pause) Okay, well, Erik asked her if she liked Selena Day.

Me: Really? What’s that?

Jamie: They are laughing!

(Pause)

Jamie (to Erik, in a British accent): Please do explain.

Jamie (to me): She’s explaining it to me. She’s great at how she holds her body, her posture. She looks me straight in the eye and talks in a really calm voice. She says when she passed away, they nicknamed the day of her death “Selena Day.”

Me: How nice!

Jamie: They celebrate her and the upcoming music of the Latin world on that day.

Me: That’s great! Now, I know that as a Mexican-American, you probably had very strong beliefs about the afterlife—

Jamie: She’s laughing!

Me: Why is that?

Selena: I was raised Jehovah’s Witness.

Me: Really?

Selena: I know! It wasn’t really anything that I took with me to the grave.

Me: Oh, yeah. Did you ever immerse yourself in that belief system?

Selena: No, but a lot of my family did, of course. I could listen to it, and it was around me, but—

(Pause)

Me: You didn’t bite? You didn’t adopt that belief system?

Selena: Right. I really found my peace and I found my passion with singing.,

Me: Oh, of course.

Selena: I knew from a young age that was the only thing that I wanted to do.

Me: Oh, yeah. So, when you crossed over, what beliefs did you have about death and the afterlife? Wait, what beliefs did you have when you were on the earthly plane? I guess we never answered that except that you weren’t a Jehovah Witness. Did you even think there was an afterlife?

Selena:  For me, I knew there had to be.

Me: Yeah.

Selena:  I’ve seen people cross over, and just the pure love for them alone, that in itself should have created a place for them to go. It’s not that I feel I had no God; I did, but it just came, uh—

Me: It just didn’t have an organized religion structure behind it?

Selena (giggling): Yes, thank you!

Me: So, what was your death like for you? I hope it wasn’t painful.

Selena:  It was more of a shock. I felt the bullet—

Jamie: Oh my God, you were shot?

Me: Yeah.

Selena:  I felt the burn; I was confused; I didn’t know what it was.

Me: Were you scared?

Selena: In a way, yes, I was, because I didn’t know—was this the time that I fight, or was this the time that I give up? And I was scared that I didn’t—

Jamie (tearing up): Aw, she’s getting choked up.

Selena: I was scared that I didn’t know the answer.

Me: Yeah.

Selena: And I don’t remember, um, I remember people yelling and screaming and pushing, and I remember being kind of carried away.

Jamie: She says she doesn’t remember being on the ground.

Me: Okay.

Selena: And the commotion of my body, the movement of my body—it just got further and further away, and it felt okay.  When I knew it was okay, that’s when I decided that was the choice. Plus, I was told that my body wouldn’t be able to sustain life anymore, and I had to stay. I was greeted—

Jamie (tearing up): She is such a grateful person. She said she was actually greeted by other musicians that had been shot, and her example is John Lennon and other who died tragic deaths as well. They greeted her; they told her that her life was fulfilled, and she had hit her mark by bringing the Latin music to the world. She became the bridge so that other people could follow her.  She was the one who agreed to take the sacrifice.

Me: Yeah.

Selena: So I was told that it was part of my destiny; that was the way it needed to be. I’m just happier that it was earlier in my life instead of later, because I had a very young marriage, and we didn’t have any children. We didn’t have the roots that I had when I grew up.

Me: Yeah. What about Yolanda Salazar? Did she kill you as part of some spiritual contract? Was that the plan to sacrifice her freedom by committing the crime?

Selena: Yes.

Me: Well, why couldn’t you just live longer and continue to build that bridge? Why did you have to die so young?

Selena: That was my agreement. I would rather go young than go old.

Me: Okay, so that was a decision you made between lives. Can you tell me a little about what thoughts you had and what your surroundings looked like after you crossed over into the afterlife? We know you saw John Lennon and other musicians, but can you share more details?

(Pause)

Jamie: So she’s describing her ability to be in many places at once. That surprised her.

Me: Okay.

Jamie: She, um—

(Pause)

Jamie (to Selena):  How is that? (pause) Because you do more there?

(Pause)

Jamie: Okay, she’s telling me that she does so much where she is for, not just the Latin community, but artists. She’s very happy and content with the status that she has now. This is the description she’s giving me about her life after life.

Me: Oh, yeah.

Jamie: And it sound just so much like work, but she’s so happy with it!

Me: Yeah. She worked hard all of her short life, didn’t’ she? All right, so you work with other Latino musicians, basically?

Selena: Yes.

Me: Did you gain any new insights after you died?

Jamie (chuckling softly): She smiles broadly.

Selena: I don’t know if I gained the insight, but I was gifted with the feeling to know what I, to know what—

Jamie (frustrated): Okay, can you tell me in another way, because that confuses me.

Jamie (chuckling): She’s laughing politely

Selena: It’s not that I knew so much; it’s that I was gifted with the strength and the beliefs in what I could do was correct. It was the right answer.

Jamie: I don’t know how to put it into words. She didn’t learn anything new, but she got the reassurance she needed—

Me: That she did what she came here to do?

Jamie: Yes.

Me: Okay, Can you very succinctly put into words what you were here to learn and also to teach?

Selena: I was to learn acceptance, and that I did through my music. What I was here to teach was to use music as a healing instrument.

Me: And a bridging instrument.

Selena: Yes, as a bridging instrument. It doesn’t matter what race you belong to or where you’re from or how your music sounds. It moves anyone and everyone.

Me: Yep, it does. Do you have any regrets, Selena?

Selena (smiling coyly): Not that I know of!

Jamie, Erik and I laugh.

Selena: I really said everything I needed to say, including though my music. Especially through my music.

Me: You had so many accomplishments for such a young woman. While you were alive, what did you consider to be your biggest one? Your singing? Your marriage? Your fashion line? Gosh, there are so many choices for you.

Selena: Oh, my singing, definitely

Me: Sure. And now from our perspective in the afterlife, do you still see that as your biggest achievement?

Selena: Yes, and I’m so humbled and amazed that I won the—

Jamie: She’s showing me some sort of award like the Latin music award or Latin Hall of Fame.

Me: Aw.  Now, would you like to share a past life that you think influenced this last one the most?

(Pause)

Selena: There was a life when I was a little girl living on a farm. We had different animals groups in one pasture, one field. Horses, goats, cows, pigs; they’re all together.

Me: Okay.

Jamie: I’m guessing she’s around five years old, and she’s watching her mother go off into the field. She would sing whenever she would put out the food—the hay, the feed.

Me: Where were you?

Jamie: She’s pointing to the United States like near Colorado or Utah. Oh, Utah.

Me: Can you give me a time period?

Selena: It was the late 1800s, right around the turn of the century. We didn’t have enough land to divide the animals, or we would have, so we had to put them all together. My mother thought it’d be a beautiful idea if we didn’t fence off small portions, because she felt they needed the room to walk around, but they didn’t get along. They were mean to each other! So, my mother would go out into the pasture and—

Jamie: The pasture looks big, you know—bigger than an acre, but there are definitely different animals in it.

Me: Yeah.

Selena: —she would sing, and the animals got so used to her coming out and singing, and they paid attention to her and forgot about what they were fussing about.

Me: How profound! I can see just how that influenced your life as Selena!

Selena: Ah, I loved it! My mother would just make up songs; it was never a song that we had heard at church or somewhere. It was just whatever she wanted to sing. And she said mostly she would do it to make me laugh. She would sing about the color of the pigs and how dirty they were, and that no mother would lick them clean, because they were so dirty!

Erik and I laugh.

Selena: I just loved it, and I realized that everyone gets along with music.

Me: How about that! Now, was your mother in that life also in this last life as one of your friends or relatives?

Selena: No, she actually was not.

Me: Okay. From your perspective as a free soul, do you have any messages for humanity? Do you have anything else you’d like to say to your fans, the world, or anyone in particular? You know, they miss you so much.

 Selena: Thank you so much for saying that!

Me: Well, it’s true.

Selena: I would love to encourage anyone at any age to learn how to play an instrument: their voice, the spoons, whatever! Rhythm, sound has such a profound healing. Sound it such a healing modality.

Me: Yes, I believe so strongly in that, too.

Selena: It is composed of vibration, and that’s what we’re composed of, too.

Me: That’s right. It’s food for the soul.

Selena: It is!

Me: Okay, Erik, do you have anything else you’d like to say to or ask Selena?

Erik: Well, I just want to thank you for all the donations you’ve given to charities and foundations.

Selena: You’re welcome, Erik.  I wouldn’t have done this any other way, and I’m so proud of Chris and the rest of my family for keeping my legacy alive. I love them so much. I love my fans, too, because they were like family to me. I don’t know if they knew how much I felt that way about them.

Me: You had wonderful fans, and I bet they picked up on how you felt about them. Well, thanks so much, Selena.

Selena: Thanks so much!

Jamie: She’s so cute!

Selena (giving a little bow): I love you!

Me: Aw, I love you, too, Honey.

Jamie: She’s gone.

Me: Have you ever watched the movie about Selena played by Jennifer Lopez?

Jamie; No! Is that the one “get your groove back” or something?

Me: Oh, no! This one is just called, “Selena,” and Jennifer portrays her sweet spirit so well. It’s really good. I hope you rent it some day.

Jamie: I guess I am going to have to watch that.

Me: Yeah!

Here’s a beautiful tribute to Selena created by her family: