An interesting and well-written book. I was not familiar with Sylvia Browne before I read this book and I found it to be quite informative.

A few interesting points but I have read better

Books on life after life give me immense clarity and peace and they have been my favourite reading field since I came to conclusion that a lot of them share similarities. Writers have been loyal to their descriptions, which my mind translated into credibility and OK, OK my current incarnation, I understand my life choices, my soul contract and overwhelming amount of life lessons that I chose for myself. But the thing is; since I have my life and I live my life, I just think that I was goddamn drunk and stoned as fuck when I decided to write its story. Oh, but Jana, you are very old and evolved soul and you can handle it, and then I came here, with a hangover as huge as our galaxy and I forgot everything except for I have a deep pulling magnetic ache that had been murmoring within me since I was a child, that whispers ... home, I want to go home, this planet Earth is too tight, too brutal, too heavy, humans are still in sleeping trance. And my life has been a deep extreme voyage between unbeliveable spiritual depths and ... negotiations with my nervious system since here in this current 3D which is shifting as we speak, I depend on my physical thriveness and ability to neurologically translate and adapt to a life that is called, "live outside your comfort zone" but meet plethora of incredible human beings who will help you along the way. Life leaves me in awe when I understand its originality and mastery but it hurts, as, this time around, I have chosen to clear immense amount of my past lives karma and I have decided to upgrade myself on a frequency level which hums above my head but clearly drunk and stoned as fuck I sat with my soul family and I said to them, look, I have an idea... But it will hurt you as hell, are you sure? Yeah, yeah, just give me extraordinary and unique and radical and mystical and its ups and lows, and give it to me often.

''And when your work/ life is over, you’ll find that same Home and family waiting right where you left them, so safe and familiar and happy to see you that you’ll wonder what gave you the bright idea to leave them in the first place. If, like me, you’ve gone through life feeling a bit homesick no matter where you were, it is because our souls are remembering and yearning for a place where we have all been before.

We owe ourselves and each other profound respect just for having the guts to come here. Once our spirits make the decision to inhabit a human body, we create a blueprint for this life based on what we’re most interested in experiencing and learning to overcome in our eternal pursuit of knowledge. That blueprint includes everything from the kind of parents, families, and childhoods we will have to our career paths, health and financial circumstances, sexual preferences, marriages, children, and the length of our lifetime. We also select an “option line,” or area in which we feel we have the most to learn and will therefore be especially challenged by while we’re here.

Our Spirit Guides know our blueprints, but those blueprints hardly contain every momentary fear we will ever have. Also, speaking from practical experience, as psychic as I am, I can’t read minds, either. When a friend or client says, “Help me!” I’m going to say, “With what?” every time

You were probably taught from an early age that there is something wrong with loving yourself, that it is egotistical and unattractive and you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking such a thing. It is true that self-love doesn’t mean considering yourself superior to anyone else. That is egotistical and unattractive. I’m not promoting a world full of people swaggering around with swelled heads. Self-love, put simply, means that you treat yourself well and with respect. You surround yourself with people who treat you well and respect you. You live your life according to the advice you would give your child or your closest friend.

A combination of three elements can make a miracle—prayer, belief, and affirmation—together with the will of the intended recipient of that miracle.

I’ve been asked a thousand times why I don’t teach a course in how to be more psychic. The answer is, it would be the world’s shortest course. But if you are interested in taking it, it goes like this:
1. Ask a question, silently or out loud.
2. Say, from your heart, in your own words, to your own Higher Power, any version you like of: “Hit it, God!” That’s your cue to step aside to receive a far greater Wisdom than yours.
3. Be willing to accept the first response you get. Using the piano analogy, that is the “chopsticks” of developing your psychic intuition. Even after forty-seven years of readings, I admit I’m still amazed at how hard Step 3 can be, so don’t be discouraged if you find yourself having trouble with it, too.

All karma means is “a balance of experience.” When you write your blueprint on The Other Side, you know what you have worked on and learned in past lives, so your new blueprint will be composed according to what you decide you still need to experience. It is not inflicted on you. You choose it, based on your own goals for the lifetime you are about to tackle. Here are two sayings about patterns that I really love. One is, “It’s a sign of insanity to repeat the same behavior over and over again and expect different results.” The other is simpler but equally true. “When you do what you did, you get what you got.”

You may have heard the saying: If you really want to find a new love interest, stop looking. This is true for a couple of very good reasons. We are all psychic sponges, picking up impulses and energy and messages from the people around us. Whether we call them instincts or a sixth sense or just funny feelings, they are the psychic impressions people make on us before they’ve ever spoken a word or even looked our way. What we tend to forget sometimes is that we’re also psychic transmitters, sending out just as many impulses and energy and messages to all the other psychic sponges we meet. And you certainly don’t need a psychic to tell you how prey naturally reacts when they sense a hunter in the area. Any elk, rabbit, or goose will back me up on this—they race to escape.

They’re something to do while you don’t wait but instead actively live your life, with these constant reminders of your divine, eternal, worthy spirit, and its direct lineage to God. The more you learn to appreciate, respect, and love the God soul inside you, the more quickly you’ll master the biggest secret of all to finding and keeping healthy, happy relationships throughout your life: No other relationship on this earth will ever offer as much potential security, comfort, and peace of mind as your relationship with yourself. Learn to love your own company, and other people are bound to follow. After all, no one wants to miss out on a good time.

I read something recently that struck me as a beautiful way to end a chapter on relationships. It applies to couples, to friends, to family members, to anyone else we let into our lives, and mostly to the all-important relationship between ourselves and the divine light of God inside us. It’s called “The Invitation.” It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul, if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it’s not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. —Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder''

Amazing book full of unbelievable, yet possible, stories that have me hope.

Even if I have some different perspectives regarding some of the subjects, it is a good book in as much it encourages people to be positive, have the courage to search for their own truth and not to put themselves under any external influence that may take away their dignity and well being. It is certainly written by someone who is filled with good "vibes" and I enjoyed reading it.

Maria Carmo

Lisbon 15th. August 2012.

Interesting

Interesting book to read. Difficult at some places, to understand. But good to read. Should give it to try.

I thought The Church of Scientology was ridiculous until I read this book. I have a very open mind and was looking into a lot of spiritual based books to give me insight after the death of a good friend which I did not find through the pages of this book.

Browns' “ideas” are so out there, they are ridiculous and demented! It is no surprise she appears on daytime talk shows. This book is meant for people who enjoy Jerry Springer and other trashy TV programs.

Brown tells us that “the other side” is a dimension exactly three feet off the ground where we live with dinosaurs and mystic creatures, all spirits are 30 years old and can change gender/race/clothes with the blink of an eye. Time on the “other side” is spent living in a variety of homes, cruising around in hover carts, going to cocktail parties, concerts, art exhibits and lectures, all the while trying to decide if and when they should "re-visit" Earth for another incarnation.

Although I found this book in the New Age section Brown is trying to market the book as non-fiction when it is nothing but a fairytale. After reading a few chapters I tossed the book in shame because I would be humiliated if anyone saw this trash on my bookshelf.

This one was way different from my usual but still gave me a different point of veiw on spirituality... interesting read...

I thought this book was great until everyone started saying that Silvia Brown was a cold reader or fake psychic ,whether she is or not it's still a pretty good book regarding information about the after life .

My fiancé asked me to read this book because she felt that it had helped her with her life and that it would do the same for me. I had seen Sylvia on Montel many times back in the day and thought to myself “what a crock”. Unfortunately, this held true for this book as well. For a while she had me going, thinking that she truly believed what she was saying, until I got to the end where she makes her predictions for the new millennium. None of which have come true by 2013, and just reaffirmed my belief that NOTHING happens when you die. Your body decays and you, your spirit or whatever dies with it. There is nothing after you die, there is no conscious anything, and it’s OVER. I really feel bad that there are people out there like Sylvia taking advantage of others hope (and to a certain extent their money, hey, someone paid for the book, right?)

Sylvia Brown has a unique experience of the life 'beyond' as she has experienced herself, being a psychic, but surely it is just her version of it. She has no way of really knowing what it was, or is she is really experiencing. Quite captivating.

It started out interesting enough, but slowly became more and more boring (just for me - I'm sure many finds it extremely helpful). I like Browne's classification of angels in the first chapter. Then, there seems to be much contradiction, however, although I am conscious of the fact that it might only seem like contradictions and that I do not understand everything.