loved it

Started this book not knowing what to expect, but I'm glad I found this while bargain hunting at the goodwill! Sylvia Browne is great at engaging the reader and making the subject matter interesting. What kept me reading was her integration of scientific data, her own opinion, and the opinions of others. I was also pleased that Sylvia reiterates that her end truth was her truth and you shouldn't just accept it, instead find the truth for yourself. Over all a very interesting read that covered topics from ancient landmarks and legends to Christian mysteries.

I had been wanting to read this book for years, but once I got my hand on it, it was immediately clear that it wasn’t what I expected, but a woman’s raving about how, thanks to her psychic abilities, saw the “sophisticated machine” that “hoisted the stones [Stonehenge’s] up”, and that there were kids outside the circle fingering red berries strung together and a man pointed at another one…, and her rejecting the works of historians by saying affermations such as:
«Some historians say that Stonehenge dates to about 3000 B.c., but I felt when I was there that it was more like 5000 B.c.»
Sometimes it is nice to get visuals in a book just as in movies, and I’m not saying Browne’s imagination is uttermost juvenile, but simply that as a non believer, this book was rather obnoxious to digest.


This book contains all sort of crap believer “psychic”’s deliriums (who once was offered by the CIA to be a “psychic spy”, as she said, although I couldn’t find a single reference nor interview) who didn’t get ONE profecy right, plus apparently, voices, such as Francine’s, which is told to had revealed her any sort of stuff, just as:
«Francine says that from Mexico to Egypt and from Peru to the China Sea, there are vortex points on each side of the equator that interconnect to form a grid of highly electromagnetic areas (there are approximately 12 in all) that cause strange phenomena to occur»
«Many historians believe that Sanskrit came from Shangri-La, while Francine says that it comes from Lemuria»
as answers to places considered more or less mysterious (or just either mythological, such as the Shambhala), she is supposed to have visited, and such.

Of course, a part from her personal encounter with a fairy —“with wings and all”— there are other witnesses’ experiences, such as a friend (!) of hers, said to be a doctor (perhaps an attemp to give her probable made up witnesses a sort of respectable background in order to be more believable by the reader?), whose cancer “disappeared” after he went deep-sea in the centre of the Bermuda Triangle and got “repelled by an electrical force that went through his body” by a “pyramid with a crystal on top” —one might even wonder why no one has ever written or researched about this event nor about this phantasmal man, not even by the three doctors that supposedly saw him?


Everything written, as the autor says herself, was gathered by her researchers (!!), hipnosys and her voices, indoctrinated by her family of mediums and her grandmother (“[…] Please go on… it validates what I’ve heard” nan used to tell her 7 years old niece when speaking about her imaginary friend) who believed to had lived in Atlantis, and got convinced to have “powers” and that her role in both life and “After Life” was to “research God”.
«I believe with all my heart that Nessie is a tulpa that has been created by a belief, many books, and supposed sightings. She's real, in a manner of speaking, because thousands of thoughtforms have helped create her».
At least she sounds lucid while speaking about demons and in a few paragraphs.

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At first, once you accept that this is a fictional reading, it is somewhat entertaining, however it soon becomes an irritating reading of a poor hallucinated woman writing nonsense while desperately trying to sound convincing (with no evidences, counterarguments or solid arguments provided, except from guess who… other so called mediums whose she shared ideas with).

As always Sylvia Browne makes me think. An as she says,"Take with you what you want and leave the rest."

This book makes me think....

This book I found very interesting. I love reading about how the pryamids were built and other mysteries. I love anything that she writes

I LOVED this book!!! Soooo much to learn about!

For a book that uses the terms "facts" and "science" and "reasearch" so frequently, the lack of source citations and vague references is problematic. I've been a fan of Sylvia's for years and have read many of her books, but this one missed the mark for it's feel of being thrown together without effort while trying desperately to sound authoritative.

Answered a lot of great mysteries...

I should have known better and have avoided this book, but I didn't. It was truly not worth the paper it was written on.

Another great Sylvia book!!

Very thought provoking read. This is my first book by Sylvia and I enjoyed her style. She explains her thought process and research all the while claiming multiple times believe what you like and take from it what you will. My rating isn’t taken from whether I believe the material, but from her writing style and information covered in the book. I will definitely research more on my own and appreciate the insight!