I finished reading this, at first I thought wow this is a great book. But atfer reading further,I honstly don't believe I charted this life I'm living. Why would I put myself through so much loss, pain & turmoil? What "lesson" could I be learning through all this?

Being very interested in the subject of life after death I read this book with an open mind, and found I needed it from the beginning. The author's description of life on the other side seemed quite strange and did not seem to line up with my personal beliefs or with other near death experiences I'd read about. But I gave her the benefit of the doubt because I believed she was honestly describing what she experienced. However, eventually my patience wore thin.

There were some positive aspects of this book. Some of her philosophies of life expressed in the book are good, and some may even be true, but in the end I didn't believe everything she wrote. She may have expereienced some of these things but this book wasn't written from the point of view to describe her experience but rather as much as her explaining how life is after this life...as if she were the all-knowing authority of all things that happen. For example, rather than saying she saw certain types of angels and describing what she saw, instead she listed all the levels of Angel and gave an encyclopedic description of each type. My gut reaction was that she must have made at least some of this up, even if she believes it and even if she actually has been to the "other side".

This is my first book by Sylvia Browne. I wish I had found her before, but now I have I won’t be forgetting her.

Sylvia was a professional psychic who now has gone to the Other Side herself. She tells us that she will not be returning for another life on Earth.

Sylvia had a spirit guide called Francine who provided her with much valuable information about the Other Side.

Sylvia could see spirits clearly and also could see inside people, for example, see tumours or the like. She had a Grandma with similar gifts who helped explain things to her. And her granddaughter Angeline was/is also a gifted psychic.

Francine, her spirit guide, appeared to Sylvia when she was eighteen and became her closest friend, her constant companion. Francine talked through Sylvia, with her permission. Her knowledge and vocabulary far exceeded Sylvia’s.

Sylvia regressed thousands of clients to past lives and thus resolved many problems for them.

She tells us much about her own life in the book, including about her Catholic upbringing. The nuns were not pleased to hear that Sylvia talked to the angels and constantly heard their replies. She was punished by having to stay after school, but after Grandma Ada had marched down the street and had a long char with Sister Mary there were no more punishments.

In the sixth grade they started learning about Hell, Satan and the possibility of being possessed. But it made no sense to Sylvia that a loving God could be so hateful as to doom people to an eternity in Hell if they ate meat on Friday or harboured a sinful thought and so she demanded to know whether they were supposed to believe in a loving God or this new mean one they were being presented with. Again, she was “cordially” invited to stay after school and Grandma Ada had to storm down the street for another chat with the nuns.

Sylvia tells us:

1. We are all created and unconditionally loved by God.
2. There is a Mother God, Azna, who is the female, emotional aspect of the deity; just as the Father God is the male, intellectual aspect.
3. God is never mean, unkind or judgemental. There is a consequence for evil, which is a self-imposed separation from the Other Side, but this does not last throughout eternity. (I knew this from the wonderful books of Robert Monroe recounting his out-of-body travels.)
4. Everything we experience here on Earth, including our hardships, are of our own choosing. (I also knew this from the book “Your soul’s plan” by Robert Schwartz.)
5. We are at our most alive on the Other Side.
6. Our Spirit remembers every birth, death, life on Earth and life on the Other Side we’ve been through and every new lifetime is deeply affected by those memories.

Sylvia relates what happened in an NDE she experienced during surgery.

The Other Side exists right here among us, only three feet above our ground level “simply in another dimension with a much higher vibration than ours”.

A ghost is created when at death it (the person) “either sees the tunnel and turns away or refuses to acknowledge the tunnel in the first place with the result that it (the person) gets caught, outside of (his/her) body between our dimension and the dimension of the Other Side”.

Ghosts have no idea that they’re dead. For them nothing has changed except that suddenly the world is treating them as though they no longer exist.

The two most common reasons why ghosts reject the tunnel and refuse to move on are passion (love or hate) and fear.

Ghosts eventually do “embrace” the tunnel and the light on the Other Side.

Sylvia tells us about the Dark Side who are Earth’s “true sociopaths, remorseless and amoral”. The Dark Side are the criminals who can’t be rehabilitated. Their actions are conscious, calculated choices. They know right from wrong.

The Dark Side are everywhere looking just like everybody else. The Dark Side rejects God so completely that his constant, unconditional love has no impact on them”.

When a person on the Dark Side dies, their spirit never experiences the tunnel and the light at its end. Instead, they immediately go through the Other Side’s Left Door.

“Inside the Left Door is an abyss of dark, Godless, empty, joyless, all-encompassing nothingness.”

Sylvia tells us the soul’s time in the abyss behind the Left Door is very short because Left Door spirits travel straight from their bodies at death “through the Godless darkness and right back in utero again”: i.e. evil people immediately reincarnate.

(This is a sad piece of information for me, since I’m now imagining a certain famous, evil public figure who will be incarnating again and again, remaining evil each time.)

We’re told about the Holding Place, which Sylvia visited in her sleep. This is what is otherwise termed “Purgatory”. It is “kind of an anteroom to the Godless darkness behind the Left Door”. The residents of the Holding Place can still choose whether or not to proceed through the Left Door.

When we die, deceased loved ones from the life we’ve just left are there to meet us, but also friends and loved ones from every one of our past lives.

Again, when we die, most of us are escorted by our Spirit Guide to the Hall of Wisdom, located just beyond the tunnel. Inside the Hall of Wisdom is a gigantic room. In the centre of the room lies the Scanning Machine, a huge convex dome of pale blue glass. Inside that dome we watch all the events of our life play out in three-dimensional hologram form.

It is not God, but we, who judge the life we’ve just completed.

In Orientation we then discuss the lifetime we’ve just reviewed with our Spirit Guide, trained Orientators and other Spirits.

Those who need extra care go through a process called Cocooning. “In the Cocooning process, the spirit is put into a restful, healing twilight sleep, and receives constant care and a steady infusion of God’s compassion, peace, and kind, empowering love.”

The Towers “serve a purpose for a special category of newly arrived spirits from earth, spirits where circumstances at death were too extreme for Orientation or Cocooning to efficiently help and heal them”.

POWs who are brainwashed and tortured, many of the Holocaust victims, several of the women burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials, some of the most severe casualties of Alzheimer’s were/are taken immediately to the Towers by their Spirit Guide to be deprogrammed.

All Spirits who go Home ultimately find themselves “in the ecstasy of God’s safe arms”.

The Other Side is our real Home, where we all come from.

There we have access not only to the charts we wrote for our journey away from Home, but also to our loved ones’ charts.

On the Other Side there is no such thing as time.

We can and will watch over and spend time with our loved ones on Earth once we’ve made ourselves at home on the Other Side.

The Other Side “is a perfect mirror image of earth’s natural topography”. The seven continents, the mountain ranges, etc etc all exist “in their original perfection” on the Other Side. The Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Great Wall of China, etc etc are also there.

This sounds great. This means that if we haven’t visited these places before passing over we will have another chance to do so.
There is no rain, snow, sleet or hail on the Other Side. The weather there is an eternally calm 78 degrees F. (25 degrees C.). Day and night do not exist. (That temperature suits me!).

Almost all the animals we know are to be found on the Other Side. Aggression does not exist. There are also dinosaurs, pterodactyls, griffins and unicorns! There are no insects there. (I trust there are no arachnids, either, though they are not insects.)

The Hall of Records contains every historical work ever written including those that have been destroyed on Earth. It also contains a detailed chart of every one of our lives on Earth.

We have our own place to live at Home. We can eat and cook if we choose, but we don’t need to. We can rest if we want but we don’t need sleep.

We don’t have “the earthly bodily functions” there so we don’t have to rush to the bathroom.

I won’t provide more details about the Other Side, but suffice to say there is chapter after chapter containing fascinating information, most of which was completely new to me.

I recommend this book to absolutely everyone open to the existence of life after death and also those who are not. I found this to be one of the best, most informative books I’ve read for a very long time. Do read it!

Da leggere se interessati all’aldilà, al tema della reincarnazione e al diverso da tutto quello che è mainstream. Può valerne la pena!

For a tour of the Other Side, this is the book for you. Very thorough. I have read several of Sylvia's books and think this was one of the best. I found a number of elements that rang true in my own experience and many more from my readings on near death experiences. Gives food for thought whether one accepts her works as gospel truth or not.

This is the book that will get you thinking and talking. Unlike your typical ghost story's of visits to us on this plane, here Browne gives us her impressions of what the Other Side looks like. I personally find the concept of a Library on the Other Side fascinating as is her notion that we all sign a contract before coming to Earth so really we're all responsible and aware of what will happen to us here. The message: Don't complain :)

I really found this book to be most informative and written in a down to earth fashion. Sometimes you need a book like this to offer comfort and also ring true. The reader certainly must be open minded and draw from it what rings true for them. It's the most inclusive book I found so far on this subject. There's so much that we don't know.

I liked this book. I would read it again. Sylvia Browne proposes a lot of alternates to the customary way of thinking about the afterlife. She bases her theories on the decades of past life regressions she has done during her lifetime. While I am not sure about every single aspect of the book, I found it to be a fascinating read.

I've had an obsession with psychics and the afterlife since I was 12 or so, and I used to watch Sylvia Browne on a weekday morning TV show in the Bay Area called "People Are Talking". She's co-written dozens of books since then and is now a regular on Montel Williams. I don't like her as much as I used to... I don't so much think she's a hack as that she's too pop culture for her message to come across in any meaningful way. But I love it when the philosophies I read in disparate sources coincide, as they do in this book.

I’ve found clarity in this book.

I have to say, I had questions and needed logical answers. I have known about Sylvia Browne for decades but I never read any of her work. She was a powerhouse when I watched her on the TV. Reading this book felt like a warm blanket for me in a cold room with no warmth. I’m going to tackle one of her other insightful reads.

I try to read a book that really doesn't appeal to me every once in a while, hoping to expand my thinking. This book starts out with general, comforting truths about the other side. It really is appealing. The more I read though, the more I doubt. How could these things be true? I won't recommend this book and wouldn't read it again, but saw some interesting ideas.

Although I agree with Sylvia in many ways I find her description of the after life to not match mine... but in many ways it's similar, so I can forgive some decorating differences.

My big issue with Sylvia is that she brushes off the idea of soul mates as completely ridiculous. While I agree, if on the other side you know thousands and if in those thousands there are a few "soul mates"...as she says the likely hood of your running into them here completely randomly AS your romantic partner might be very very rare... OK I buy that...But what she never addresses is while you script your whole life out, you probably script out some relationships as well. And for some of us, we scripted out experiencing a healthy, happy committed relationship. Could it be that feeling of soul mates is just that pang of recognition?

OH RIGHT! Here I am, we planned to meet & do this and now we are!

She's undoubtedly very talented. I mean she charges $850 for a phone session!