Laurel Clark

Laurel Blair Clark (née Salton; March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an American NASA astronaut

medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist.

She died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle

Columbia disaster. Clark was posthumously awarded

via Regina Ochoa, November 2, 2025

"I loved science, the black and white of our learned education, but I also loved that we make a difference after we separate from our bodies. My time on earth was driven by an insatiable desire to expand my mind. I know that now."

Welcome, Regina,

I have separated myself considerably from your earth plane.

I am dropping the capital on the name 'earth,' as it is a lesser plane, unlike numerous other-worldly planes, light worlds, and fascinating, fantastic, phantasmagorical regions of the universe.

I have discovered that, though names were a significant way to delineate the hierarchy of our earthly world, it is no longer necessary here, in my lovely realm of living.

I am truly happy here, always discovering grand thoughts, impressions, and mindsets. I knew it would be immense, huge, incredible, but I was not prepared for how tremendous it actually is.

I was and am still open to finding "the more" of living in our lives. Even in this spiritual existence, there is so much more to learn. We spend our physical lives seeking to discover our purpose; here, we understand what it is. To love.

The spiritual challenge lies in learning to evolve within our current situation.

There is so much to understand here, so much to learn. Am I hurtling through space? Can this be?

Not really. There is no time, no passage, no movement, unless I think of it as such, but nonetheless, I am still hurtling, traveling into realms, systems that have no place in our linear school of thought, but it is real. These systems are the quantum possibilities inherent in every entity's creations and thoughts.

The imagination is powerful, instantaneous, and constantly creating new thoughts. So, when science today says that the universe is ever-expanding, it is because of all those who think about possibilities.

What is this like?

I loved science, the black and white of our learned education, but I also loved that we make a difference after we separate from our bodies. My time on earth was driven by an insatiable desire to expand my mind. I know that now.

My demise was on track to arrive precisely at the point in time when I could depart and continue to explore beyond time and space.

I certainly didn't know this then, when the Columbia disintegrated as it entered the earth's atmosphere. Our oxygen was depleted; the cabin was torn apart around us, bit by bit, as heated metal was ripped off by the speed of entry. We were unaware of what was happening.

The gift God gave to all of us was not to experience the pain of our physical departure. It wasn't necessary. It was the planned time.

And now, I come to share with you some essential facts. You may already know about these statements, but I need to repeat them. (I sound like my mother.)

God exists in every corner of all that is. Into the farthest reaches which I have been able to travel, and beyond. Escorts have taken me to regions where I had the honor of meeting beings of a different nature, from other worlds. This is not the alien of outer space, but one who practices an art of sound that reverberates throughout all. All what? All.

Just as a cicada can make a background sound that sets the world of insects and plants in harmony, so do these otherworldly beings. They have no physical structure, but I imagine seeing them —a vibration floating before me, harmonizing my thoughts and keeping me at peace when I step too close to the earth's vibration.

I have asked Regina to meet me on the edge today, far away from the astral bodies of the earth and the cosmic universe, as it is difficult for me to engage too closely with the earth's field, since my frequency has changed.

However, when I do visit my family I enter their homes with great caution. On many evenings I sit with my husband Jon, late into the night; he knows when I am present. And I lie down beside my granddaughter, Laurel. We met before she was born to our family.

Jon saw something; he recognized my touch in Laurel soon after she was born. He held her, knowing I was there. She used to be able to see me when she was an infant and into her toddler years. She doesn't see me now, but senses my guardianship over her. Iain can feel me, too. I try not to interfere, I don't move things or whisper, I only love them, hold them as I have always loved them.

It has been many years since I tried to communicate through a physical being, but I missed the interaction of humanity, a physical love that is quite grand. The emotional interactions of human expressions on a physical level can only be experienced with a body.

Love is grand here, absolutely. I cannot find a description that accurately depicts what happens to the spiritual body. The ethereal field surrounding all life has no limit, even on earth; though as humans, it remains unseen.

From where I exist, as where all spirits reside, we do see how far love expands. And that love is GOD.

I come today to share with you God’s love, not a sense of it, but LOVE in all its glory. Crave it, drink it, eat it, feel it, experience it in everything you do. Each movement, thought is being touched by love, from us, all of us who existed and exist now and will exist in the beyond. We feel your love, too! Stay there, in that space, in the moment of love. There is nothing greater.

When we teach of the light, we speak of love. It is love that lights the way. Always. As long as you follow love, you give love, you are love, and thus, you are light.

When you find yourself lost, never give up hope.

Look for the light and run towards it.

Remember: You are light. You are love. You are God. And God is everywhere.

Laurel B. Clark