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Summary: What a CROCK of CRA P with capitol letters!
Review: I am a catholic I do believe in the afterlife, I do believe in hell, but in Sylvia Browne I DO NOT believe. I watched her on the Montel Williams show many times evade questions and not give a straight answer. I gave her very little credit until one day on the show she discredited herself completely: Sylvia was asked during the Clinton /Lewinsky scandal whether or not the President was having an affair with Monica. She said "Absolutley not its people making that up about him to destroy him." If you don't remember get the transcript. From that day on I was a Sylvia non-believer but I bought the book with an open mind anyway. WHAT A FRAUD!!!!!! She has got to be kidding me. She talked about all these experiments she did on THOUSANDS of other people, where is the proof? Site your work Sylvia with footnotes. Are they published? No they are not. I feel bad for people who have lost loved ones and are looking for comfort by buying this piece of garbage book. What a fairy tale she tells filled with discrepancies (sp). A Scanning Machine, Hall of Records, Hall of Justice, 9 continents? Does she smoke LSD? What drug does she do before she sits down and writes? She is a classic fraud that plays on people that are so desperately seeking comfort in that death is a wonderful place filled with cotton candy and marshmellows. It all comes down to whats in your heart, if you are a good person you go to heaven , what it looks like I don't know. If you are rotten and hurt people the Lord will fix your azz. That's what I believe, thats what is in my heart. Don't look to comfort your broken heart if you lost a loved one by reading this book it will disappoint you. Especially when you find out that Sylvia thinks there is no hell only continual re-birth on earth as a horrible person. I don't buy that one bit. Sylvia if your read this you should hang your head in shame that you fooled so many people just looking for something to believe in. You only believe in money I should have known by the amount of jewlery/diamonds you are wearing on the cover of your books!
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Summary: a good read if you can keep an open mind
Review: I am halfway through this book, and I am enjoying it. It seems as though maybe some people who have read this, and who dont understand certain things about the book, just havent kept their mind as open as is needed to fully understand what Sylvia is writing about. If you have an open mind, I would reccomend this book.
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Summary: Just the Truth...
Review: I genuinely feel sorry for people who need to believe in a place called "hell". It simply does not exist. However, where would organized religion be without it? Logically put, why would God create us, just to condemn certain souls to eternal damnation? It's true that no one escapes justice for their actions, but get serious....."hell". Lives on this planet are a learning process. Like it or not...reincarnation does exist. Prior to 325 AD, reincarnation was mentioned in both the old and the new testament,until it was removed. Since then so much has been removed and added from the Bible who knows what the pure word of God is?
The truth is that we don't know the "whole truth". We are told what organized religion wants us to know and believe, which is only part of the real truth.
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: I have read this book twice. The first time I couldn't put it down and read it in almost one sitting. Hence, my second reading of it while not rushing through. I find it entertaining, awe-inspiring, frankly written, and empowering. Empowering in that Sylvia gives guidence on how we can find out many of the answers we are seeking on our own. If you don't find that our "traditional" religions answer all of your questions, this book will fill in the gaps with encouragement, understanding, and enlightenment. And Sylvia would be the first to admit that you may not believe everything in her writings. Take what makes sense to you and only consider the rest. If you are seeking answers to what our soul's purpose is, this is the book for you. I have grown tremendously from reading her works and it has changed my life (and at a time I was wondering whether my life was worth living). I learned it isn't ok to just not be afraid to die, we must not be afraid to live. I highly recommend this book. By the way, it definitely helped that I read her book "Adventures of a Psychic" first. Both books are written in a highly entertaining manner, with humor and understanding. I can see why she is a best selling author. Also, it is noteworthy that she uses her earnings to fund a ministry and to help others. I hope someday to be privileged enough to attend one of her lectures.
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Summary: Interesting but unconvincing
Review: I have read two of Sylvia Brown's books and one written by her son, Chris and while they come across as likeable, even funny and clever people with some psychic ability running through the family line, I find that the book 'Life on the Other Side' really tested my sense of creduality. I've had pyschic experiences myself as well as a near-death episode and I'll admit there's more than what meets the eye in this world and beyond but when it comes to reading Sylvia's perceptions (and those rendered by her guide Francene) of The Other Side - well, some of these details sound both pat and contradictory at the same time. We are told about the Record Center and the Towers and of course, the Life Reviews and Cocoon states - all very comforting and wondrous-sounding and Good Lord, I hope tis all true but the more I read, the more dismayed I became. You could just see the author warming up to her subject, running right along with this euphoric storyline. At least that's how it struck me after a while. Little things, really, like the part about pets that we've owned, not only in our current lives but lives past - am I to believe that they're just sitting over there waiting to greet us? Sylvia describes a dog that she had owned some lifetimes ago and who is now on The Other Side; apparently she heard him on a tape recorder and she remarks fondly how he is still fiercely trying to guard over her by barking as much as he had apparently done in life. How sad! You'd think being on the Other Side he would have no need of that now. Much as I'd like to see dear ol' Scoobie and Sniffles, long-gone beloved beagles of mine, I'd hope that if there is an afterlife as Sylvia describes it, that these animals have gone on to better and bigger things instead of waiting for the Master to show up! And what about the countless hamsters, parakeets, anole lizards and guppies my children cherished? Do you see what I mean here? If there is another Side even close to what Sylvia envisions, I would imagine that volumes and volumes would not be enough to cover all the going-ons over there. But you have to give her and her guide credit for trying. The only thing I really liked about the book is that some of the philosophies and antedotes presented in it provide comfort and solace for those of us who have lost loved ones. I have no problem believing right along with Sylvia that we do return home.
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Summary: Help from the other side
Review: I lost my husband this year and it was the most horrific time in my life. I saw Sylvia on a cable program which led me to her books. Her book The Other Side and Back was the turning point in my grief process.Not only did it give me great comfort in knowing my loved one was happy and still with me,it also satisfied my inner voice that what I had been taught about an avenging God was not true.We all have that inner voice and physic ability and Sylvia is a great teacher and a gift from God through her writings. Her discussions on our themes is so right on that I find myself looking at others in a more compassionate way.Her discussion on all of our guides and angels helped me to deal with my own contact from God two months after I lost my loved one. There are not enough words to describe what happened to my soul except to say if I had not read this book I would be in a mental institution trying to figure out what and why it happened.Sylvia is right in this book about God,our souls, and all the guides and angels he sends to help us. The Other Side is truly there.
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Summary: Very Interesting
Review: I read this book to ease my mind and let me know that my mom still exists somewhere. While I can see how many of the things and places Sylvia describes in the afterlife are possible, I still am left wondering how does she know? Anyone can sit down and make up stories about what Heaven or Paradise is like. I am definitely a believer in the afterlife and in Sylvia Browne, yet I need to know how she saw these things. Basically, I just need more information.
She talked about "exit points," five opportunites one has in life to "go home" or end their life. These can include illnesses, accidents, even small things like not going out on a night you could have died (your subconscious knows), but not suicide. I want to know how she knows this? Did she go to Heaven and someone explained it to her? I believe a great deal in the things she says, I just want to know how she knows. For people that have never learned how to talk with the otherside, use their psychic powers or feel the presence of angels or spirit guides, we need to know how this information is being transmitted. Maybe we are suppose to "assume" that her spirit guide Francine is passing along all the information. If so, please say so!
One good thing she does do in this book is present certain ideas such as "experiencing your own birth" and then goes on to discuss how thousands of people have experienced this in her sessions. When a thousand people experience something, it is far more believable than hearing it is just what Sylvia believes. Don't get me wrong, I loved this book. I just feel that there are too many loopholes in it like what about the people in past lives? If one loses their child at age 10 and previously the child was a young mother that died in their last life, is the 10 year old's spirit with their mother who just lost them or with the child they left behind in the previous life? Questions like that are left unanswered. Sylvia should come out with a book of questions and answers because although all of her books are extremely interesting, I would bet that every person who reads them is left with at least one unanswered question after reading and this one question can leave them skeptcial. In all, I would say buy the book. I haven't read one quite like it ever. I also recommend Jane Greer "The Afterlife Connection," for anyone who needs more proof of life after death or wants to learn the small signs they may have been missing from their past on loved ones.
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Summary: Want To Find Out What "The Other Side" Is Like ?
Review: I read with fascination, popular psychic Sylvia Browne's new 304 page book that she says tells all about life after death. The entire first chapter details her life and the lives of her ancestors as they relate to the spirit world. She goes into detail about HOW she knows what she knows. For some reason, I tend to believe what she says! Sylvia writes, that through this book she is acting as our "psychic travel agent" answering the five basic questions, "How do I get there?", "What does it look like?", "What are the local (people) like?", "What is there to do?" and "How exactly do I get back." Things that most of us would be "dying" to know. I have seen Sylvia on TV many times, and find her fascinating. This is a hard book to put down after you start reading. There's an awful lot of "facts" she provides for us to consider. It left me with a peaceful feeling about the hereafter. She believes that "The Other Side" is Home, where we all came from and where we will all go again, and that we carry very real memories of it in our spirit minds. She has researched her topics with an addiction, as she claims to be extremely naturally skeptical. She also claims that just as some folks have a God-given musical or artistic talent, others have received a psychic gift which is passed on from generation to generation. Whether or not you end up believing what she writes, you can't help but come away with food for thought. Most interesting !
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Summary: A REAL GUIDED TOUR
Review: If all that Sylvia Browne has detailed in this book about the "Other Side" is TRUTH, then it is likely she has gone deeper into the etheric than any other explorer -- at least any other author -- including Swedenborg. Not only does she paint vivid word pictures, she provides drawings of structures on the other side -- produced, she tells us, by her going into transe and her spirit guide then directing two artists. According to Browne, her research is based on her direct-voice mediumship (wherein her spirit guide communicates with others in the room while Browne is in a transe and the material is being taped),her near-death experience (NDE), the NDEs of others, her astral traveling, and past-life and between-life regressions of many of her clients (she is a hypotherapist).Although I have read dozens of metaphysical books on this subject, I have never come across any with as much detailed information as this one. I must confess that I had some reservations about reading her book as Browne seemed a bit too "New Age" and cultish for me (since she started her own church). The first half of the book was fully consistent with all of the things I had previously read about the Other Side, including the many dimensions or planes and the fact that the plane we gravitate to is based on our actions and good works in this life time. We get many chances to evolve in spirit (other lifetimes) and progress toward the Godhead (true heaven). In the second half of the book, Browne gives detailed information on aliens, angels, and councils on the Other Side. Much of that I have read before, but never so much and with the certainty and matter-of-factness of Browne. When I finished the book, I didn't know what to think. I believe Sylvia Browne is sincere and credible in so far as she believes what she is writing. Moreover, everything she writes makes sense. However, whether the pictures she paints of the Other Side are unconsciously embellished to fit her preconceived views (formed by much reading of metaphysical material)is the question. Since nearly all of it is consistent with the information given us by other mystics, seers, mediums, regressionists, etc. I do not discount it and am inclined to accept Sylvia Browne as a woman with a very special gift.
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Summary: Nice writing, but.....
Review: Nice writing is about all I can say for Sylvia Browne's book about LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE. No doubt, she paints a pretty picture and we all want to think it might be the way she has described it. This book was loaned to me by a very close friend because she wanted my honest opinion. I'm glad she did, because I know now I wouldn't waste my money or time looking for anything else written by Mrs. Browne. For those who truly are gifted, IF they've read any of this book or viewed Browne's web page, then I know they must be laughing because I am. There were parts of this book that were so unbelievable that I can't imagine Browne would think most humans to be so gullible. I think she's gone a little far myself, but like everything else I happen to believe, that too is between Browne and her maker. True, we do have some of the same opinions about God, and she listed some really good titles by other authors in this particular book.There are a lot of folks that will take time for Browne, no doubt, because the wool can be pulled over their eyes. However, Browne needs to know one thing: You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
I DO NOT recommend this book, or any other books by this author, especially after viewing her web page and seeing the enormous fees she charges for a reading. It's not about the money, Sylvia, ...it's about the gift.
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