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Summary: A Unique Perspective
Review: Parting Notes: A Connection with the Afterlife
by April Crawford is an amazing account for anyone interested in afterlife studies. For skeptics and for those spiritually aware it offers insight into what we take with us when we cross over after death. It is a unique perspective, written by those already on the otherside, with love, to those of us who remain here in the physical.
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I've decided to add to my review because I wish to convey many things I've learned on my journey, and that is "Thought creates ones reality" both here and now it seems on the other side. As a student of metaphysics and psychic-medium, I've learned from those I connected with on the other side, that you take with you what you've learned; Your beliefs, your hopes, your fears, and your essence which is uniquely you. Anyone who tells you that when you die you will experience a "heavenly" place is grossly unaware. You will experience what it is you believe to be true and create for yourself. Perhaps it will be heavenly, perhaps it will be solitary. What the letters in this book tells us are completely inline with what metaphysics teaches us. "It is ultimately all up to you."
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Summary: WONDERFUL! UPLIFTING! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Review: There are obviously many ways to die and this book has messages from those who have actually experienced many of them... and survived to tell about it. SUICIDE: "Looking back I do not remember pulling the trigger... My last thought was the realization that you would blame yourself. But then of course it was too late.", YOUNG CHILD: "Dear mother, I know of your sadness and devastation... I write so that you may understand.", CANCER "I had cancer... They sent me home from the hospital to die.", ACCIDENT: "The car was in total flames... Then I saw it. A body humped over the steering wheel... I pulled whoever it was back and then realized it was me." OLD AGE: "I think I had a birthday a while back. Somewhere around ninety I believe.", DISEASE "I learned of my illness in my 37th year. It had a very long name but it zeroed in on one thing. Death. My death.", THOSE LIVING A SIMPLE LIFE: "I quit school at the age of 12... I could read + do numbers, what else was there?" MURDER "I felt a kick in my back which reminded me of how my pa whooped me when I was twelve for lying. Vaguely I heard the word -dead- from somewhere." CRIME VICTIMS "I deserved to die. I was a thief and they were the robbers. Pretty much the same thing if you think about it... I can remember the trigger man's eyes.", COMA "I noticed others who seemed to appear from nowhere. My coma had finished." These are just examples that I chose from the book. There are many other kinds of deaths reported on from falling off a wagon to freezing to death to drowning, lightning, blood clot, and many others. This book is a very easy read and that belies how really spiritually advanced the communications and the mediumship that allowed them are. Not only do these people tell about their death experiences and how they found the afterlife to be, many of them tell about how to make THIS physical life much more productive and easy, again from their points of view having already crossed over and done a life review. It is clear by these communications that WE ARE NOT ALONE, in fact that there are people and guides to greet us in the afterlife "I had hoped for a reunion, and was not disappointed.." and "My shock made me unable to speak for many moments. This person was angelic. I was dead, yet I still was"... and "The voices become figures. I suddenly realize who they are. They are my parents. I thought they were dead!" and "I looked around at familiar faces all smiling that I had allowed myself to arrive.." and the examples that we are not alone when we cross go on and on. It is also clear by what many say that some form of multiple lifetimes is real. Reincarnation. It is also clear that THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR "It's a wonder to me that I feel no difference. All that fear was for naught." and that that the power of thought is very important to understand once one crosses over. "My thoughts began to appear before my eyes..." and "Thinking makes stuff happen. Knowing it early on makes all the difference" are but a few examples and within the context of these messages it makes a lot of sense. While this book will excite, comfort, and inspire many, it may not appeal to those with very rigid views about life, religion, or the afterlife. It conveys a great deal of knowledge about how things work as perceived from the Other Side. However, clearly this book will be of great comfort and inspiration to many who want to understand. And... it will certainly help all.... those who understand now... and those who are skeptics or even cynics... once you yourselves cross. You will remember the messages in this book and they will help you. Again, highly recommended for everyone, those who are spiritually aware, and those who are skeptics looking for another example of life after death to consider. This is a very worthwhile read. Hopefully this author will publish some more books. I can't wait.
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Summary: The Truth About Dying and The Afterlife
Review: This book contains over 100 individual accounts FROM the other side via the extraordinary deep trance psychic mediumship of April Crawford. This book goes well beyond the "tunnel of light" stories to what is really experienced, what has been experienced, at least by these individuals who chose to communicate and give their messages to the world. This book includes helpful insights into how to understand and maneuver in the Afterlife as well as many practical insights on how to get the most out of each physical life. Simply one of the most true and complete books on the subject of what it is like to die and what it is like just after that I am aware of having ever been published. This book will help anyone interested in "What is it like to die?" as well as anyone interested in mediumship and the nature of consciousness. Several things are clear. We all continue, we can meet our loved ones again, and again, and.... there is no need to fear physical death. I will point out that in some circles I am well known as a Metaphysics discussion host and somewhat of an expert, in relative terms, about the subjects of deep trance mediumship, reincarnation, life after death, and the nature of consciousness. This book is for those of you who are interested in the truth. Explorers. It may not appeal to those who are looking for the standard NDE version of the transition, which is often we die, we go through a tunnel of light, we meet our relatives, we enter heaven, and that's it. This is simply not the case. At least not usually. Non-physical life is more individual than physical life. Thought and belief systems are major contributors to the after physical life experience. If you are not open to this idea, perhaps you will enjoy other more basic books on the afterlife. All that is in this book is true. Now, it is no secret particularly for those of you who have come here from one of my discussion groups... but I will mention it here anyway... that I wrote the introduction to this book. For anyone who desires more information, you may wish to search the Internet for websites about the author, April Crawford, or about the book "Parting Notes", where you will likely find more sample pages... including audio samples of actual trance mediumship sessions on April Crawford's site... and other information about this process. By the way, my favorite review of this book is by Dave, who billed himself as a skeptic. Best wishes, Tr.
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Summary: a must read for all people!
Review: This book is absolutely p-r-o-f-o-u-n-d. I have note even finished reading all of the letters, but I decided to write a review. To me,
it is a book of love letters....letters to our souls, which can be read over and over. Thank you April, for allowing spirit to flow through you, to catch a glimpse of what it is like on the other side. And thank you, the "dead", but "alive" individuals that chose to share.
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Summary: astounding!
Review: This book is absolutely p-r-o-f-o-u-n-d. I have note even finished reading all of the letters, but I decided to write a review. To me,
it is a book of love letters....letters to our souls, which can be read over and over. Thank you April, for allowing spirit to flow through you, to catch a glimpse of what it is like on the other side. And thank you, the "dead", but "alive" individuals that chose to share.
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Summary: There is nothing out there like this about the afterlife!
Review: This book is simply one of the most unique and in-depth books on what it is like to die and what it is like on the Other Side that I have ever read. There are messages from people who have died in many differnt ways from Suicide to Accidents to Old Age to Young Children to Cancer...People who were very intellectual and people who were very basic or even uneducated. For those who read this book, they will find many accounts of what dying and the afterlife are actually like. There is a spiritual awareness that runs through most if not all of these messages. However, even if you are not interested in spiritual concepts, are wed to traditional western religous dogma, or if you think those on the other side should somehow be "desperate" to communicate - even though they have reached a less drama based level of understanding - this book can still be of great interest as a point of reference in terms of actual afterlife accounts and for those interested in deep trance psychic mediumship in general. The level of detail is astounding. If you like books by John Edward, George Anderson, James Van Praagh, Ester Hicks or Jane Roberts, you are going to love this book. It contains a large number of detailed personal stories FROM the other side written in first person... via an extraordinary deep trance psychic channel and medium... BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY CROSSED OVER! It is uplifting, eye opening, and deals with life and afterlife lessons that can be applied by all, while we are still "here", and after we cross over ourselves. A must read for anyone interested in psychic mediumship, the afterlife, reincarnation, or what it is really like to die. If you know someone who has died, or is dying, this book can help you and them. Both while you are still here, and during your afterlife experiences. ---------Reviewed by ADC: an avid student of mediumship and life after death.
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Summary: Just blaugh
Review: This book started off really good, it kept me interested, but as I got further into it, the stories started sounding the same. Having just lost my mother, I wanted to get some comfort from this book, but I was left with questions and doubt about where my mom's spirit really is.
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Summary: Good but Monotonous
Review: This book started off really good, it kept me interested, but as I got further into it, the stories started sounding the same. Having just lost my mother, I wanted to get some comfort from this book, but I was left with questions and doubt about where my mom's spirit really is.
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Summary: Impressions of Parting Notes by a skeptical believer
Review: This is an extraordinary book. The 100 short "letters from the dead" concerning the ease of their passing and their new consciousness are fascinating and emotionally moving. They convincingly reflect very different personalities, time periods and even to some extent handwriting styles. The common theme or purpose is to banish the common fear of death. The messages are profound, deep in meaning and beautifully written. The quality of these writings towers over the bulk of contemporary "channeled" literature.
My instinctive reaction was that these communications were the authentic statements of real, unique personages from beyond physical death. Emotionally convincing, this wonderful book would nevertheless seem to be mainly valuable to those who already believe in an afterlife to some extent, but need reassurance. Objectively and intellectually the material is not completely convincing because of the apparently deliberate lack of details that could be verified. Also, there is a subtle sort of "sameness" to the language , including the prevalence of short, choppy sentences even from 19th and early 20th century people where the typical contemporary printed language was wordy and long-winded.
Paradoxically, the writing in many of the messages seems too beautiful and eloquent in too similar a way to be produced by ordinary persons with average education from the many time periods in the last two centuries. On the other hand, especially eloquent souls could have been chosen for this project, and anyway souls could be expected to be more eloquent than human beings. Also, these minor troubling factors could simply be due to the influence of the medium's own personality on the transmission of psychically derived information.
A minimum objective assessment is that this COULD have been
produced by unconscious sub-personalities of the medium informed by the medium's own concept of afterlife and the reading of many previous mediumistic communications in the 20th century psychic literature. But is such a reductionist explanation believable? It boggles the mind that one brain could have at any level of consciousness such implied extreme brilliance,
creativity and cleverness.
Ultimately I have to fall back to my initial intuitive reaction that this is the real thing - fascinating, wonderful and profound. I highly recommend this unique book to true believers, wish-to-believers and even open-minded skeptics who feel their heart.
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Summary: Interesting.But,
Review: While a very interesting and heartfelt book it seemed a bit repetitious. Like playing a single beautitful note on a piano, over and over. It makes you want more a few more notes to make it a complete song. Also had a few dates and names but nowhere is there any colloberating evidence. Did they look up any records of these people and their stories? Some of these happened within the last 10 years there should be some records somewhere. Usually mediums get access to such records to back themselves up, when TRUE!! Did the people really get the letters in these stories? Any court records, newspaper articles,etc., to back them up? I do think that it is very possible, but still leaves me wondering if it's true without this other PROOF!!
Leaves me feeling lonely, incomplete and, depressed. Like I missed something. Like I'm unloved.BTW isn't this trichannel person that reveiws this book the authors HUSBAND??!!I wonder why HE likes it so much??HHMMM???
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