David Brown
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David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy captain
and NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut
in 1996 but had not served on a space mission prior to the Columbia disaster. He was
posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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via Regina Ochoa, January 19, 2026
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"My message is an invitation to love — Love one another. Cherish your team, your supporting characters, no matter how they show up. They are there to assist you,
to love you by presenting challenges that help you grow, and to strengthen
your cosmic heart muscle...."
Good morning, and welcome to my ocean of peace. Thank you for joining me. I wasn’t sure if I could get the message to you that I wished to connect, and let you know what has been going on since my departure from the physical world.
You know my life has changed in extraordinary ways. Ok, I just realized I forgot to let you, or your audience, know who I am.
It’s me, David Brown.
Yep, in the ethereal, not the flesh. Ha ha. I hope you can hear me through all the clues I was sending. KC [Indian-born Kalpana Chawla, who also passed in the Columbia disaster] came in first to get you settled, but not with her Bollywood music as she always works through, but just with her love. She has been sending you messages in your dreams, in your minutes, and sometimes in your hours of intermittent sleep, when you drift between deep and REM. The paralysis of the body, but the waking of the consciousness. Yes, that was KC.’s doing.
I am happy you were able to feel her new vibration -- not much left of her old physical-like form. Can you feel, see, or sense her colors? She is a swirl of light beaming around the world. Yes, she is still close, very close to the earth’s vibration, but it does not bother her the way it irritates most of us. I will have to let her describe what she is working on at another time.
Anyway, I still couldn't get your attention, so Laurel Blair [Laurel Blair Clark, Mission Specialist on the Columbia] offered some help. With music from one of her favorite bands, Runrig. And you heard her.
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The first song on the album was in Scottish Gaelic and it created the tone, setting the scene. I saw you, standing on the shores, listening to the waves pounding against the sand and rocks. I beckoned you over to me. Thank you for joining me in the ocean.
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I will not tire you any longer with this setting, but I wish you to know how hard we worked together, still a team, the crew and I, to bring another message to you and your listeners.
An Invitation to Love
According to the calendar on your desk, I see that the anniversary of our transition is approaching, February 3. So much time has passed, and we are no longer who we were. It seems strange to speak of the past, who we were, instead of now, our presence in the present.
I wish for those who continue to feel the empty space that we occupied in history to fill it with the faces of those whom we love. We were present on the earth for only a blip of time, not even a second in the scheme of our existence. How many times do we live life in this form, crossing ourselves at the intersections of decisions, creating new possibilities of how we can exist on earth? I am talking about our quantum existences and experiences manifesting simultaneously.
When the form known as David Brown was completing its run, I could see how many forms I live simultaneously. It was amazingly beautiful to experience, even for only a few seconds, the thousands of lifetimes I live, and to be aware of only one David in one body.
Now, since my transition, I have had the marvelous experience of exploring my life and experiencing those options or choices down other paths. Each significant choice I made as David Brown - the clown, the photographer, the NASA astronaut - determined a path. Those choices I could have made or taken created an entirely different individual.
Since my arrival I have been studying those other paths. What did I learn? Who was I? What was my character like? Had I embraced life with the same passion I had as David? Had I found the joys and peace yet, that sense of worth of my own existence?
I looked through those lives, as cards on an old-fashioned Rolodex, flipping through them, and watching the scenes come to life before my eyes. What astounded me the most was the interconnectedness of the important individuals in my life.
Each appeared somewhat different because of our actions or interactions, still, we kept appearing, kept showing up, to fulfill our supporting roles for each other.
I recognized that we seemed like the characters in a circus. We arrive to this circus — earth — with unique skills, and with these talents, we are able to support the other actors and performers on Earth’s stage.
Through the flipping of my cards, my lifetimes, I can see how all our characters, our lives, interconnect, lock in, and commit to supporting our evolution, our growth, not only as human beings but more importantly as Spiritual beings. We are all connected.
Look around, see those with whom you interact, those who are no longer in your life today, where are they? And where are you on your path? Have you noticed how many support your growth? Your talents? You may think you stand alone, working hard to be a stand-out individual, but it takes support. Who around you needs to be acknowledged?
Now, this is where the message lies.
Each supporting individual, no matter how small or insignificant, or large and outstanding they may appear, is with you on your path as you are on theirs, because of a commitment we make to each other pre-birth. Yes, a pre-existing/pre-birth contract.
And this contract is binding because of love. Our soul, and its spiritual shard dwelling within each human being, commits to serve the other. And the commitment - the promise - is signed through love.
I see the Earth-world today, in its present chaos, as upside down. Yet, that is only the case for this one Rolodex card, the NASA-astronaut life of David Brown.
I know there are many parallel lives where we share a communion of strength and joy, peace through the togetherness of helping hands. How is this possible? How can we right ourselves to experience the light of the world instead of living in its shadows? By choosing love. Always.
In time, our memory of this human form will be a forgotten dream, and we will discover that the essence of who we are is the form of our spiritual being.
Like water, every droplet is connected, touches, and becomes one to create an ocean. Your spirit is connected to every other spiritual vibration. And so it is in human form. For though you believe yourself to be an individual, you are connected. Your thoughts, your choices, your paths interwoven, supporting the evolution of your soul.
My message is not new, and we are reminded of it often.
My message is an invitation to love — Love one another. Cherish your team, your supporting characters, no matter how they show up. They are there to assist you, to love you by presenting challenges that help you grow, and to strengthen your cosmic heart muscle.
I leave you with this:
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Interact with another as a team, growing and strengthening in spirit. No matter the path you walk, or the stage you perform upon, choose love.
Your friend and support,
David Brown
PS: I loved the Beatles, and as one of my favorite singers, John Lennon, would say, “All you need is love.”
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