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My Soul to Steal by Rachel Vincent. Reaper by Rachel Vincent. If I Die by Rachel Vincent. If I had made a bad job of my life, I would be concerned; I might even prefer extinction to the afterlife world described here. But for a decent person with a few months to live, this book would be, I am sure, a godsend. It is hard to imagine a greater blessing for people close to death. All the better if we not only lay aside our fear of becoming nothing when we die, but have something concrete that we can look forward to.
Mediumistic accounts of the world awaiting us at death provide just that. I'll bet that most of you who believe in an afterlife have only the vaguest notion of what it will be like. That's unfortunate; such vagueness chips away at faith, and faith is what we need at death. There is nothing vague about the afterlife world revealed here. You could even make a movie out of it - as Robin Williams did a few years ago What Dreams May Come, based on Richard Matheson's well-researched novel by that title.
These accounts would also be good for society at large. They make it clear that our station in the afterlife depends on the kind of person we choose to be in this life. If taken seriously by the whole society, the confident expectation of accountability would have a profoundly salutary effect on it. And most of us are humble enough to admit that we need a karmic prod every now and then to keep us from degenerating into unethical selfniks.
On the other hand, the vivid, beautiful, attractive worlds awaiting the good would provide a strong positive incentive - the carrot rather than the stick - for virtuous action. All these accounts point out the importance of forgiving each other while still in the flesh. All make it clear that a famous name or big bank account means nothing in the world to come. All emphasize the spiritual growth and eventual happiness that come from handling life's hardships with grace and dignity.
Many people today, especially our youth, resort to bad behavior because they don't see any harmful consequences coming from it. If they did, if they had a map showing what the consequences were, they would be more careful. If a whole society knew that no one ever got away with bad behavior- from rape or character assassination to fighting or gossiping or just plain laziness- far fewer would allow themselves such license.
Virtuous behavior emphasizing humility, kindness, honesty, courage, forgiveness, self-control, dedication to purpose, and self-sacrifice might become habit-forming. And our world would be much, much happier for it. I look forward to the day that authentic mediumistic literature will become more widely available and more universally respected. The best parts of the world's several scriptures deserve to endure, but the worst provoke exclusivism and generate misery on a vast scale.
In addition, no scripture comes close to revealing what truly awaits us when we die. The world is hungering for something better, something that can serve as a reliable revelation that knits together people and cultures rather than dividing them further. Anyone who reads this book is likely to come away feeling that life is meaningful and good, and that each of us has an important part to play in its proper unfolding.
Authentic mediums might well be the closest thing to the voice of God that our planet has. The Protestant reformer John Calvin thought it wise to resist the temptation to say much about the afterlife, since the Bible says so little about it.
Others, including several of my friends, both atheist and Christian, are convinced that it's impossible to know what, if anything, follows death. We are like fish swimming in the ocean, unable to know what might lie above it. Having an opinion about the afterlife is as silly as thinking we understand what it's like to live on some extra-galactic planet.
As we will see, the afterlife world is nearby, and there is no reason it should remain forever inaccessible to us. It is not light-years away, but as close to us as dark matter. In any case, the advice of these naysayers is being ignored today, and rightly so, by millions of curious seekers, of all ages, whether near death or not, who are discovering the literature of afterlife - from books about the near-death experience NDE , to accounts by the slowly dying who report seeing visions of the world to come, to the ever-growing literature said to come from the dead themselves speaking through mediums.
This last kind of liter- ature is the focus of this book. In the chapters that follow, the actual words of the spirits will appear in bold print. The seven chapters are presented in chrono- logical order. As pointed out earlier, you will find quite a bit of repetition - what you would expect of a world the spirits share rather than some sort of fabrication from each medium's subcon- scious. Then again, there is enough dissimilarity to suggest that there are many levels or spheres in the Afterworld.
It is clear that the communicating spirits do not all exist at the same level. A year-old Texan Chapter 2 who begins to communicate shortly after his death is not likely to live in the same realm as the English co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research who died at a more advanced age and has been dead for 20 years Chapter 4 when he comes through.
Their descriptions reflect their different backgrounds and life experiences. For the reader, this divergence could be important. Chapters 1, 4, and 7 will appeal to the more philosophical reader interested in the laws governing the Afterworld, while Chapters 2, 3, 5, and 6 will probably appeal to the reader more concerned with the landscape, geography, and technology of the Afterworld. There is no need to start with Chapter 1 just because I did.
Each chapter can stand alone. It might be presumptuous of me, but I think I know, based on the 'maps' we've looked at here, quite a bit about what's coming after death, and I'd like you to know it too. Investigating mental mediumship: Research suggestions from the historical literature. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 24, The main characters of this fantasy, paranormal story are,.
The book has been awarded with, and many others. In fact, you may have a spiritual experience while reading it that will transform your beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife. The main characters of Afterlife novel are John, Emma.
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