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Summary: Excellent Book on our eternal progression!
Review: I have read thirty or forty books on life after life - some of which have been very good and informative, some not so good. Sylvia Browne's book is truly one of the top five! There is much there which is consisent with other accounts I have read about our next life. This book has helped me feel PEACE. I have, unfortunately, been indoctrinated by my religion that God is ready to curse me and withhold much-wanted blessings if I don't do everything exactly right; I, therefore, have been very depressed and unhappy most of my life (everytime I didn't get a blessing it must have been because I had failed to keep some commandment - which I couldn't even figure out which important commandment I had not kept). Before I joined this particular religion, I had believed in a God who loved me as well as all of his children; I felt the desire from God that we all learn to love one another. Earlier this year, I decided that I needed to replace me religious-taught beliefs that God hated me with the beliefs I had as a child of a God who really loved me. One other thing - as a ten-year-old (or thereabouts), I had was thinking about God, and I had a feeling that if I was good in this life, I would go to Heaven; but that, if was bad in this life, I would have to live life over again (and again, etc.) until I got it right! Well, in reading Sylvia Browne's book, she says essentially the same thing - we keep living again until we get it right. This, to me, seems consistent with a loving and carring God. I have found much peace with myself and with God as I have read this book. The truths in it are profound and helpful. I believe most of what she relates about the next life; there are some things (reincarnation, etc.) that I am reserving judgment on. When I talked about having to live life over again if I didn't get it right, I thought it would be AS MYSELF - NOT as someone else. Well, very much worth the reading and re-reading. By the way, my mother died when I was 13, so I have long had an interest in the next life.
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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: Do I Believe?
Review: I read Sylvia's previous book, and doplan on reading current one. I feelsure Iwill still have my currentopinion, and that is " with tonguein cheek". I would like to believe hertotally, but common sense, and havinglived 80 years tells me this: she ispsychic but carries that a little toofar. At one point she stated a womanwalked through the doorway and Sylivaknew instantly that woman had a seriousbladder infection and had to get to aDr immediately. Let me tell you something about that: I've had thatproblem off and on for many years, andit is so painful NO ONE would be outwalking anywhere except getting to adoctor's office. S.B. is entertainingand her book does give us something tothink about. So, will I read hercurrent book? Probably will.
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Summary: File under fiction
Review: Of course this is a fiction book, its not real, nor does it pretend to be. Do not interpret it as such, no matter what the verbiage. Its a great novel of what some people think happens when they die. When one closes their eyes the imagination takes over, and some people have great imaginations! I have a few questions, however, for the potential readers of this book. How come none of the "ghosts" or "spirits" know anything beyond the capabilities of the "psychic?" Any "psychic" who can talk to dead people -- would they please ask Einstein or any other dead mathematician or physicist to provide a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Are they able to provide any help on String Theory? I'm struggling with the formulas. What can they add? I will sign a contract to buy 1,000,000 copies of your next book that publishes some great new leads or answers.
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Summary: The Afterlife of Your Pet
Review: This book deals with perhaps the most fascinating subject of all; what happens to us after mortality. A very important related topic for so many of us is the fate of our beloved animal companions; for those who love their pets the loss can be just as devasting as the loss of a human loved one. Until very recently those bereaved by the loss of a beloved animal companion or "baby" had to suffer their grief with little help. There were virtually no books on the subject of animal afterlife.Within the last year or two, however, a few wonderful books have come out that have done wonders to mitigate the feeling of desperation one feels when he/she believes he will never see his beloved animal friend again.THE SOUL OF YOUR PET, Evidence of the Afterlife of Animals (Scott S. Smith) is a book that provides solid evidence, and to many, proof-- that animals do, indeed have an afterlife just as people have. There are recountings of interactions between departed pets and their owners, and strangers as well. A mother and daughter witness their ghost cat walking into the room, while their 2 living cats chase it out of the room, a veterinarian goes to a ranch to treat a sick horse, tells the owner to remove the other horse from the paddock to safeguard its health while she gets a lab analysis, only to find out that what she has seen is a ghost horse; the owners have her describe what she has seen-- and the description matches that of an old white horse that had bonded with the living one before it had passed. Grief-induced hallucination? Not hardly; the owners didn't see it, but the vet did-- she had never been there before and was unaware that this other horse had existed. There are many marvelous recountings plus a chapter on religions and one on animal intelligence. I heard Mr. Smith, the author, on the Art Bell show; I read the book; it is wonderful and belongs in every pet-lovers's library, certainly along with after-life experiences with people (by the way, several people who have had a near-death experience have reported seeing their or other people's pets on the Other Side-- which is mentioned in the book. The book could convince an atheist, because in a number of instances it is impossible to explain these incidences away. For those who are religious, I also recommend COLD NOSES AT THE PEARLY GATES; and for a heartwarming experience the book FOR EVERY DOG AN ANGEL, although written for children, is a precious little book that adults will love as well.All three books have sites on Amazon, of course. Reading books like these while a pet is still young and healthy can be a very good idea; most can accept the idea of human afterlife-- and there are so many books out there on that subject-- but people need to know that they will indeed be able to reunite one day with their 4-legged (or 2-legged) animal friends.
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Summary: Entertaining...Yes! Believable...???
Review: Reading a Sylvia Browne book is like sitting in the same room with her, listening to her tell you the story. Her self-deprecating humor comes through loud and clear, and is entertaining in itself. But to take what she says as "gospel?" I don't think so... Certainly documentation for what "The Other Side" looks like, etc., is limited to those who have experienced it through near death experiences or psychics like Sylvia. But these folks are human, which means they are fallible, which means they are offering us their own perspective on the subject, which can be colored by their interpretation. Did I enjoy Sylvia's book? Yes. Do I believe she is sincere? Yes. Do I believe in life after death? Yes. Do I think "The Other Side" is as Sylvia depicts it? Hard to say, but I'll find a way to let you know after my fifth (and final) exit point...
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Summary: Extremely interesting but...
Review: is it real? I believe that anyone that buys this book and reads it will consider it an extrememly interesting read. Ms. Browne has lead a wonderful and spirtually fulfilled life! As I was reading the book, I decided to look up her website, just out of courosity. For a spitual reading over the phone she charges $700.00! I am so happy that she has such a wonderful gift and I truly believe in her psychic abilities, I just don't approve of her financial profits from it... I believe if she is going to charge for reading, she should not charge such ridiculously high rates, afterall, it is the Lord's work she is doing... right?
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Summary: The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Review: Intrigued by a personal experience of James Van Praggh, and finding John Edward and the people he reads to appear genuine, I was drawn to this book by Sylvia Browne. She is headstrong and confident in her presentation and reassuring in her portrait of what she thinks (or of what "Francine," her "spirit guide" says) about "Life on the Other Side." I had never heard of Ms. Browne before picking up her book. Having lost two parents in as many years (I also have a step-parent) I was willing to suspend my disbelief, which seemed to be possible for most of what this book has to say. The main sticking point is the cliched almost reflexive kind of claims that seem to have been characteristic of "early" New Age practitioners and have not gone away but raise for me at least the flag that signals the return of my disbelief; and that is the insistence on the "reality" of "Atlantis" and "Muria" -- and why must the spirit guide seemingly always be some great royal being from long ago Egypt? It is this sort of pap that turns a valuable confirmation for open-minded believers into questionable fantasy that undermines everything else Ms. Browne is conveying. This added to the intense confusion of reality as experienced in this incarnation with the transcendental leaves this work philosophically empty and spiritually vacant. Ms. Browne may admittedly be trying to reach the lowest common denominator of her readers, but she and Lindsay Harrison fail to allow the reader to keep up the desired and uncritical willing suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, if you are drawn to this book, I would say, read it!
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Summary: Very Interesting Book
Review: I thought this book was quite interesting. I found it also to be fairly believable for the most part. However, their were a few things I didn't want to take just on her word. Perhaps it was because if they are true, I might be a little bit 'let-down' or disappointed. But, overall, it was great. One thing I certainly intend to do soon, is to look for other authors who may have attempted to answer some of the same questions Sylvia has - in the same way - and compare their findings. One would think that if one could find 4 or 5 reputable psychics all carrying out similar studies independantly, they should arrive at similar answers/explanations shouldn't they.
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Summary: Buy this book!
Review: I never wanted the book to end. This book helped me find answers to alot of my questions. You won't regret buying it. Thank you Sylvia!
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