Talking with the dead
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I liked this book very much. It was different and interesting. It kept me guessing until the end who the killer was.
3107393
There are often unfinished conversations or missed opportunities for interaction that occur when a person dies. In this book, the author gathered stories from ordinary people who communicated with someone after their death through a dream, vision, or verbal interchange. The degrees to which the interactions take place seem to depend upon on how strong the relationships were prior to death. The anecdotal remembrances used to support the possible of life after death is interesting and human emotions realistic. Mattingley provided limited notes and a bibliography.

I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway. Although encouraged, I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
3094241
It was interesting how the author used past lives to connect to the present people....it was clever in the writing
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This book contains rare and fascinating reports from deceased people that face the afterlife. They speak through the well-known and reliable Swiss deep trance medium Beatrice Brunner. For everyone who wants concrete information how life goes on after death, it is an interesting way to expand the limited knowledge given by the world religions.
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Testimony of Light by Helen Greaves is a book about communication she received from her good friend, Francis Banks, formerly known as Sister Frances Mary of the Community of the Resurrection. When Frances died, she promised to communicate, telepathically, from the other side of the "veil." In Helen's book, she describes a message from Frances that death is not to be feared, for it is not the end. "Death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life." Our soul is then gently, "cleansed, healed and released," as we continue through various stages of transition toward "The Light."  She explains that our earthly bodies and personality continue to transform thru many levels or planes of light, which she describes as having different vibrational frequencies, until we are eventually one with "The Light." She then goes on to use this reasoning for such statements as Christ's words, 'I am the Light of the World," for he projects pure light and as people transform, they "Let their light shine."
These words are very comforting for people who continue to ask if there is an afterlife. However, her description of the afterlife broken up into various groups who are set to perform various jobs, etc are a bit difficult to conceptualize.  Certainly, this view of the afterlife differs from what we are taught and led to believe in various churches or religions. Testimony of Light is an interesting concept of the afterlife and touches on the possibility of reincarnation and the reasons why some may have that experience.
The book and the message it puts forth will certainly test your faith and ideas of the afterlife. Some parts of her theory are difficult to understand. The book should be read slowly and perhaps a second time before forming an opinion.
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"Texas Graveyards" by Terry Jordan is like no other book on the subject of exploring the social context of honoring the dead (termed as necrogeography).  Although the text is copyrighted for 1982, the information is still relevant to today's world and human burial rituals.  The author's trek though cemeteries throughout Texas has given us a book of cultural practices, epitaphs, folk art, and traditions.  Additionally, it is a text of social beliefs which explains the human need to find meaning in the rituals of death practices.  The author noted that "cemeteries are not for the dead, but for the living."  By reading this text it can be shown, sometimes unfavorably, that even in death there is a cultural divide between beliefs, races, and cultures.  Perhaps it can be said that history does repeat itself and that as a nation, we need to be more tolerant of one another because death comes to us all.

The Wolf Pause Review
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This is a nice story about an elderly man who dies, and then meets five people from his life. These people each talk with hm about the events and outcomes of his life and help him make sense of it all. It's an interesting idea and an easy read, but not very deep. If you're looking for an answer to the meaning of life, you won't find it here, but it may prompt some good discussion.
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This fat volume comprises both a skillfully abridged version of the 2-volume Phantasms of the Living, first produced in 1886 by Edmund Gurney along with other giants of England's Society for Psychical Research, and a supplement of later, similar accounts pulled together by Mrs. Sidgwick, another SPR stalwart. It provides an invaluable trove of data on sensing the presence of another human being, alive or dead, when that being wasn't physically there.

For Phantasms of the Living, over 5700 people were asked the question, "Since January 1, 1874, [10-12 years before the question was posed] have you--when in good health, free from anxiety, and completely awake--had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a human being or of hearing a voice or sound which suggested a human presence, when no one was there?" A slightly smaller number were asked if they'd dreamt of the death of some person known to them. If the answer was yes, respondents were invited to tell their stories. SPR volunteers went to great lengths to verify their informants' stories by soliciting letters from other parties in whom these informants had confided, reading diary entries, checking death notices in newspapers, and the like.

The accounts reported in this pioneering work, the result of diligent and  rigorous scholarship  by eminent Victorians some of whom were associated with Cambridge University, provide impressive evidence for the reality of clairvoyance, telepathy, and the survival of the human spirit after death.
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A small town is shocked and mystified by a series of deaths.  Are they related?  Is there a killer (or killers) among them?  A 13 year old boy tries to sort out all the events happening around him and struggles with the impact upon his family.  A great book group discussion read.
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It was a very informative book.  He does believe in automatic writing and Ouija Boards, but then I do too.  I read the book through and am going to read it again.  He makes the point that if we do the communicating with the "dead" and I prefer the term the "living beings on the other side", that we will know the communication is believable.  In other words, we can do it ourselves rather than use psychics and mediums.  He also says that we must keep trying if we don't succeed the first time.  I KNOW there are people who want to communicate on the other side (I have definitely seen three people who had passed on) and I hope to be able to communicate with some people who have passed using the principles outlined in the book.
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A very good book kept your interest through out the whole book you wanted to find out if it was true they were talking to their loved ones
781839
Mysteries of life and death are answered by
discarnate personalities.  This information provided
by beings in spirit provides a glimpse of how life
continues after the change we think is death.
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"Dead Men Talking" is a collection of five after-death reports from men killed in the 'Great War' of 1914-1918.  Michael Tymn has condensed those reports, previously published in seven books, into one easily readable text.  Additionally Tymn provides an overview of mediumship in the preface and introduction, primarily of activities in England and America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There is also an interesting epilogue and appendix providing very brief accounts of additional reports, prophecies, premonitions and apparitions concerning World War I. Those who have an interest in parapsychology probably are aware of the book by Sir Oliver Lodge about his son Raymond.  The other soldiers may not be so well known.  They include Private Thomas Dowding, Second Lieutenant Bob Bennett (Boylan?), Second Lieutenant Claude Herschel Kelway-Bamber, and Private Rolf Little.  Tymn as editor, makes it easy for the reader to have access to these not-so-well-known after-death reports.
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The Dead Can Talk is the 6th installment of In The President's Service.  These are not stand alone novellas so you would need to read them all to get the story.  This installment is packed with action involving civilians and the FBI during World War II.  I had some difficulty keeping the characters straight.

I received this e-book from www.bookfun.org in exchange for my honest opinion.
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The famous question is: what person/s living or dead would you invite to dinner?  Elvis, Marilyn, Einstein, the Pope and Presidents dead and alive are the usual suspects.  I'd choose Bill Bryson.  Not only do his books create a personal conversation between yourself and the author, the guy also has amazing interesting things to talk about. And better yet, you can understand what he is talking about. This is a book that I suggest to anyone who is challenged by 'things to talk about'.  This book is an eye-opener, and I don't know if that means that it's just me...I was asleep at the switch in school and forgot all this stuff, or it's a required reading course for baby boomers.
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This was a fun book with lots of colorful illustrations. I would say that it is more for kinder through second graders, but it did a great job of holding their attention and opening up a conversation about Day of the Dead. I am planning on incorporating into our yearly lesson every Oct/Novo
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I haven't read Rev. Harlow's book. However, it is referred to in "Phone Calls From the Dead" by D. Scott Rogo & Raymond Bayless and there is a contemporary review at the Kirkus Review website. (You can find it by googling Harlow's name.). From this it appears that Harlow was a conventional Christian minister with an interest in the paranormal & life after death. So although this isn't an actual review of the book, it provides the reader with enough information to make an educated guess as to whether he or she might be interested in finding a copy.