Your loved ones who have passed have not truly “gone” anywhere.  They still exist just as much as you do.  “But they are gone!” you say.  “We held their funeral and said goodbye.”  Of course, just as when you say goodbye to one who goes off on a trip, you can say they have most certainly gone away, but do you not hold them quite clearly in your heart?  In your awareness?  That is where everything exists fundamentally:  in consciousness.  You are Consciousness expressing itself.

Everything in what you call life is groupings of sensations, images, feelings, thoughts.  Everything.  Through death you may lose the sensation of touch, but all other qualia still exist:  the thoughts, the feelings, the images, if only in your mind’s eye, and these can be interactive when you understand how Consciousness works.  Your loved ones will come back and you can bring them back through these qualia and continue the story as long as it is helpful and healing.  You and your loves ones continue on as consciousness for the purpose of love, which never dies.