William Wordsworth |
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question of what happens to us at death cannot be divorced from our questions about the
nature of life itself.
Man's unique capacity for self-contemplation has also brought us to an awareness of our own mortality. This has lead to fear and grief and a search for answers about that ultimate unknown.
This is a question that will never be fully answered until we meet that fate which is common for us all.
There are those, however, who through inspiration or experience have gotten a hint of what might lie ahead. Their stories resound with a certain truth, a sense of something remembered.
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 Visitations from the
Afterlife : True Stories of Love and Healingby Lee Lawson (Editor), Clarissa Pinkola Estes It has been estimated that over 70 million people from all walks of life and all areas of the globe have experienced a reunion with a loved one from the afterlife, according to author Lee Lawson. "Why then are these visitations usually kept secret, told to a very few trusted friends or to no at all?" she asks. In breaking the silence, Lawson offers great solace and companionship for readers who have received a visitation or deeply yearn for one. Not only does she provide well-researched and sensitive overviews of why visitations occur--often to comfort or guide the living--she also offers numerous personal stories of visitations from around the world. Indeed, it is hard not to weep over these tender accounts written in the first person. Yet the tears are not of sadness, since the stories are all framed within a context of joy and gratitude, having discovered that even after the loss of a loved one, there is still an everlasting connection. Chapters include "Grief: To Soothe a Grieving Heart," "Returning: A Sacred Promise," and "Making Peace: Forgiveness and Reconciliation." --Tara West |
 Astral Dynamics : A
New Approach to Out-Of-Body Experiences by Robert Bruce
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Perhaps you've had a spontaneous out-of-body experiences and didn't know it! This extensive tome teaches you everything you need to know to accomplish successful, planned out-of-body travel; how to exit the body, how to get around on the astral plane, and how to get back in with solid, provable memories of the event. Bruce writes very clearly and uses down-to-earth terminology so that you learn not only how to create a "real-time double" to astrally project but also about the physics of the nonphysical world. |
 The Messenger
by Robin Valaitis Heflin
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The author, Robin Valaitis Heflin,
valaitish@aol.com , July 2, 1999 A peek at the Other Side What would YOU do if you had the ability to travel between life and the afterlife? John Metcalf, the main character, in The Messenger, becomes a message delivery boy for people who've lost loved ones. He travels to The Other Side, exchanging messages between the living and their departed relatives. It's an unusual gift that sets him apart from everyone - his family, his friends, and the woman he loves. The Messenger is a positive, uplifting novel that attempts to explore the meaning of life, and the CHOICES we all make that lead us to our destiny. It's also a quick read, filled with humor and a little romance. I hope you all enjoy The Messenger. |
For anyone who has ever felt an angel's presence, experienced a premonition,
feared death, or wished for one more moment with a deceased loved one...
 The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and
Beyond by Sylvia Browne (Contributor), Melvin L. Morse Hardcover - 279 pages (August 1999) Also available on Audio Cassette
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In this upbeat look at a world that isn't as far removed from us as we might think, Sylvia Browne answers the big questions we all ask at one point or another: "What are angels?" "What happens when we die?" and "What are ghosts?" While The Other Side and Back may pacify your curiosity about the spirit realm, it also offers a cure to the cynicism that plagues us every day. Surprisingly, this book feels much more personal than Browne's biographical Adventures of a Psychic, perhaps because of the conversational, first-person narrative that brings the spirit world down to earth without diminishing its uniqueness. --Brian Patterson |
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What a great book. Lots of information about life. After reading I have connected more to GOD. I have become more spiritual and have now communicated with my spirit guide. I also have learned to touch my psychic abilities. Sylvia has changed my life for the better, no more dogma. Life isn't easy but she made it bearable. Thank you Sylvia for this book, for the church you started, for your son Christopher, for sending the white light to me and saving my life. Love you Sylvia Browne! Thanks GOD for a wonderful person. |
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After the tragic death of his wife, Paul Novak threw himself into the study of the evidence for the soul's survival after the death of the body. Drawing on mythology, psychology, religion and science, as well as past-lief regression and near death experiences, Novak concludes that the human psyche not only survives, but also divides at death, with the conscious mind reincarnating and the subconscious mind judging itself. This startling conclusion not only explains the differences between many of the world's great religions, but also shows that humanity's intuitions about the soul's survival has a reality separate and distinct from the mind's philosophical conflicts. The Division Of Consciousness is informative, challenging, engaging, controversial, and exceptionally well written. |
 Reaching to Heaven : A Spiritual Journey Through Life
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Professional medium James Van Praagh (Talking to Heaven) offers a guidebook for the living, which charts the course of the soul as it journeys through life, death, and rebirth. Beyond his psychic gifts, Van Praagh has a gift for simplifying complex spiritual ideas and writing about them in a conversational tone. Most appealing for Van Praagh fans are his detailed theories on death and the afterlife. For example, when people die sudden deaths, Van Praagh reports, spirits of the dead often linger over their bodies, unable to comprehend what has happened (but still able to see and hear everything that is being done and said around the corpse). This is why spirits of the already-deceased are so useful in helping the dead transition to the other side. |
 Echoes of the
Soul : The Souls Journey Beyond the Light Through Life, Death, and Life After Death
by Echo L. Bodine |
 Experiencing
the Soul : Before Birth, During Life, After Death by Eliot Rosen (Editor), Ellen Burstyn |
| Renowned psychic Echo Bodine speaks to the life and afterlife of the soul. In the beginning, Bodine addresses life in heaven, shedding her psychic gleanings on the different "levels" of the soul, starting with level one ("totally self-absorbed") through level five (those who "understand the oneness with all of creation and with God"). From here Bodine enters into discussions on the soul's being sent to earth for birth, or "going back to school." Life is considered "the school on earth." And death is our "graduation." | A comprehensive anthology of interviews on the ways people experience the soul during earth-life, before birth, and at the moment of death, and after death, this book contains the thoughts of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the Dalai Lama, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Raymond Moody, Jean Houston, Dannion Brinkley, Betty Eadie, Ram Dass, and over two dozen other pioneering authorities and first-hand soul experiencers. . |
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"Their faces were living flame; their wings were gold, and for the rest their white was so intense, no snow can match the white they showed. When they climbed down into that flowering Rose, from rank to rank, they shared that peace and order which they gained, with wings that fanned their sides. Dante - Paradiso, XXXI |
The Entrance to Heaven - Hieronymus Bosch |
Below is a selection of Popular Books by some of the most well-respected authors in the field of Near-Death Experiences
by Raymond A. Moody
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by Raymond, M.D. Moody, Paul |
It has been a decade since the publication of Dr. Moody's landmark bestseller, Life After Life, and since he coined the term "near-death experience", or NDE. Today, Dr. Moody has studied more than a thousand new case histories of adults and children who have clinically reached the point of death and survived, and extraordinary new research has revealed more patterns of NDEs. Now, for the first time, Dr. Moody presents this wealth of new information to the general public information that uncovers secrets and opens the doors to a powerful message of love from the frontier between life and death. |
Will the first medical doctor to establish a scientific basis for near-death experiences be able to bring the same sort of legitimacy to visionary encounters? He hopes so. Thanks initially to Moody's best-selling Life after Life (1981), those now-familiar characteristics of the near-death experience--the tunnel; the bright, white light; the sightings of dead relatives--have become part of popular culture. Now Moody's here to offer another breakthrough: you don't have to be hit by a truck to see the dear departed. |
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The skeptics have had their say; now
listen to the experts. In hundreds of interviews with children who had once been declared
clinically dead, Dr. Morse found that children too young to have absorbed our adult views
and ideas of death, share first-hand accounts of out-of-body travel, telepathic
communication and encounters with dead friends and relatives. Finally illuminating what it
is like to die, here is proof that there is that elusive "something" that
survives "bodily death." "New information on what may await us after death...Responsible, highly readable, and certainly thought-provoking." |
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This provocative bestseller by the authors of Closer to the Light details the powerful effect of near-death experiences on people's lives. Based on the results of the largest such study ever done, Morse and Perry have found that people return from the brink of death profoundly changed for the better--spiritually and physically. The continuation of a comforting, yet scientific, probe into the mysteries of death, which began in Closer to the Light, reveals that people who have had Near Death Experiences manifest a heightened appetite for life. |
| On September 17, 1975, after being electrocuted by a bolt of lightning, Dannion Brinkley died. When he revived 28 minutes later in the morgue, he had the story of a lifetime to tell--a profoundly moving account of a near-death experience. "A compelling vision of what it's like to die and, more important, how to live."--Dr. Melvin Morse (Closer to the Light). |
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| In At Peace in the Light, Dannion Brinkley continues the spiritual exploration of his life and death that began in his phenomenal bestseller, Saved by the Light. Having had two near-death experiences, one of which lasted twenty-eight minutes, Brinkley has been left with an extraordinary sense of perception. With absolute candor, he describes his struggle to become accustomed to his disorienting physic ability -- he reveals his initial uses, both positive negative, of his power and his gradual understanding of how to accomplish his mission. |
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For now, we see through a glass, darkly; but
then, face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known. I Corinthians 13,
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Jacob's Dream of the Ladder - Hayley |
Lucid Dreaming
"Dreaming is not just having dreams, neither is it daydreaming or wishing or imagining. Through dreaming we can perceive other worlds, which we can certainly describe, but we can't describe what makes us perceive them. Yet we can feel how dreaming opens up those other realms. Dreaming seems to be a sensation - a process in our bodies, an awareness in our minds."
"Don Juan" from The Art of Dreaming - by Carlos Castaneda
For those interested in the subject of Lucid Dreaming - The books of Robert Moss are highly recommended:
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Written by a popular leader of dream workshops and seminars, Conscious Dreaming details a unique nine-step approach to dreams, especially precognitive and clairvoyant ones, that uses contemporary dreamwork methods and techniques developed from shamanic cultures around the world. |
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| Shamanic practitioner, dream explorer, and author of "Conscious Dreaming" Robert Moss provides exciting, new conscious dreamwork techniques that can launch readers into other worlds and the furthest reaches of their imaginations. | |
The author, Robert Moss , October 6, 1998
DREAM GATES is the marriage of dreamwork and shamanism
DREAM GATES is not a book on tape, or a recorded workshop. It is an audio training program that will enable you to learn the techniques of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism.
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DREAM GATES takes you through a complete training course for the inner adventurer, where you will learn - through guided dream inductions and exercises - how to traverse the uncharted expanses of dream reality. What are the keys to "conscious dreaming"? How can you develop your powers of dream precognition? What are the most effective ways to tap your dreams for insight, creativity, and helaing? In this expanisve, 12-session workshop, you will develop dream skills for embarking on routes to other worlds...tracking down hidden knowledge...and returning with it to waking life. |
If you would like to learn practical techniques for lucid dreaming, then I'm sure you will find Robert Moss's site Way of the Dreamer well worth exploring, where you will find Conscious Dreaming Workshops and Dream Shaman Programs offered by someone with years of experience in this field.
Robert Moss is in the process of writing a book on precognitive dreaming. If you have had a dream that you feel has brought you information or insight about a future event, and you would like to share this with others, Mr. Moss has a page on his website that offers you An Invitation to Share Precognitive Dreams.
Books on Out of Body Experiences
For anyone interested in this subject - the books of Robert A. Monroe are considered classics in this field.
by Robert A. Monroe |
by Robert A. Monroe |
by Robert A. Monroe |
| With more than 300,000 copies sold to date, this is the definitive work on the extraordinary phenomenon of out-of-body experiences, by the founder of the internationally known Monroe Institute. | The sequel to Monroe's Journey Out Of The Body is an amazing parapsychological odyssey that reflects a decade of research into the psychic realm beyond the known dimensions of physical reality. | The author of Far Journeys explores the world that transcends the boundaries of the physical world and explains how a journey to these transcendent realities reveals basic truths about the meaning and purpose of life and what lies beyond. |
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The late Mr. Monroe has done much to expand the study of out of body experiences through his institute in Virginia. (The Monroe Institute) This is a link well worth exploring. |
Other Recommended Reading in this area:
by Rosalind A. McKnight |
by William L. Buhlman |
by Robert Peterson, Bob Peterson |
| The information in this book has helped me to have a broader, healthier perspective on my life. Immediately positive changes have begun to happen for me - it's as if the "light beings" she speaks about were right there with me while reading it, guiding me to a better place. I loved it! | For all who have thrilled to accounts of out-of-body travel and yearned to go along for the ride, America's leading expert on astral projection offers the riveting tale of his travels beyond the body and offers easy-to-follow techniques to guide readers on the journey of a lifetime--and beyond. | Out of Body Experiences could be summed up in Robert Peterson's own words: it's "what the books didn't tell me." Many people have tried to have out of body experiences (OBEs) and are discouraged when things don't go exactly as the books suggest they should. Peterson assures readers that anyone can have an OBE, and relates the difficulties and discoveries in his personal quest for them. |
This 2 CD set Makes the Perfect Companion to William Buhlman's Book Adventures Beyond the Body
 Adventures Beyond the Body Music
for Out-of-Body Travel by William Buhlman Audio CD (January 1, 1998) Designed to create whole-brain consciousness, this outstanding 2 CD set makes the perfect companion to Amazon.com's #1 selling book on astral travel,ADVENTURES BEYOND THE BODY. The set combines hypnotic ancient rhythms with the latest psycho-acoustic mind technologies created specifically to help transport the listener from the beta to the delta brain state. This powerful sound technology has been designed to be used with your favorite out-of-body technique. The music was created by Brian E. Paulson and is used exclusively by William Buhlman in his out-of-body workshops. |
I highly recommend Michael Newton's fascinating books on life between lives.
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 Destiny of Soulsby Michael, Phd Newton, Michael Duff Newton Paperback - 409 pages 2nd edition (May 1, 2000) In this fascinating sequel to his controversial and popular Journey of Souls, Michael Newton explores what happens to the soul after death. Among other topics of enduring mystery, he addresses angels, ghosts, reincarnation, why certain people are drawn together, and what lessons the soul is intended to learn, casting new light on life's events and relationships. |
"I know my soul hath power to know all things..."
Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (1599)
Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
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| Meryl Streep and Albert Brooks as love interests? Preposterous! That's the whole point. As Streep personifies perfection, wit and poise, Brooks exemplifies tom-foolery. But wait!..they are dead! There's nothing more pitiful than reviewing your life and finding out you missed out (through luck or choice) on some crucial junctures. Let's face it, we're not all born to be Albert Schweitzers. So, loosen up, enjoy and live! Watch this any time you are feeling low or lonely. |
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... and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be anymore pain: for the former things are passed away. Revelation 21:4 |
Adventures of a Psychic : The
Fascinating Inspiring True-Life Story of One of America's Most Successful Clairvoyants
The Division of Consciousness : The Secret Afterlife of
the Human Psyche 
Closer to the Light : Learning from Near Death
Experiences of Children
Transformed by the Light : The
Powerful Effect of Near-Death Experiences on People's Lives 
Saved by the Light : The True Story of a Man Who Died
Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received 
At Peace in the Light : The Further
Adventures of a Reluctant Psychic Who Reveals the Secret of Your Spiritual Powers
Conscious Dreaming : A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life
Dreamgates : An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul,
Imagination, and Life Beyond Death 
Dream Gates : A Journey into Active Dreaming
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Journey of Souls : Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Resurrection (1980)
Defending Your Life (1991)
Always (1989) 
Guy Named Joe (1943)