“We are forbidden to contact those who have died on this planet and are dead in the body to us. That has never been rescinded.”
So you claim. For 20 centuries the vast bulk of Christendom has believed the opposite. You are simply wrong.
Actually, for 20 centuries the vast bulk of Catholicism has believed the opposite.
Catholicism does not equate to Christianity.
Broad is the way that leads to hell and many are there who find it.
Lots of people believing something doesn’t make it right or true.
It matters what God says. It doesn't matter what so many people believed for however long.
Consensus doesn't make truth.