Fantastic

Loved this book. Sylvia really gets to the heart of all my questions. It was like having her sit in front of me and answering questions I always had. Couldn't put it down. It was so reassuring.

I really need to read a few more of her books. This one fascinated me! I think my (by far) favorite part was when she explains how our children choose us. I was so overwhelmed with this idea that I immediately went to my son and put my arms around him in a hug and told him "Thank you for choosing me as your mother."

I read this book for a paper I was writing in college on psychics. It was extremely interesting whether you believe her or not or in afterlife itself. The extremely detailed and discriptive way she speaks of angels, ghosts, our spirit guides etc. is very interesting and really makes you think and wonder about all the things that might be out there.

Although I think Sylvia Browne might indeed be a fraud, I still loved this book at the time I read it. It is beautiful and makes you want to believe in it. It was well written, and a great book to have conversations about!

I've read this Book twice over many years and it is one that definitely piqued my interest and opened my eyes to what the Afterlife may be like. Questions we normally have are answered in her way with the help of her Spirit Guide Francine. It's definitely a Book to read once and a Conversation Starter! Believe whether you choose to or not, it's a humbling Book.

Wonderful book. It really helps the reader develop a greater understanding of death. Reading this more than a decade after my grandmother passed away, I finally felt like I had some closure and peace in her passing.

This was the first book I read by Sylvia Browne, and I remember I stayed up all night reading it, because I had to finish the entire thing. The next day, despite only an hour or two of sleep, I felt better than I ever had. I'd found something that rang true for me, that confirmed so many of my own personal beliefs, and gave me comfort. That's a nice way to feel regardless of what one does or does not believe.

I am writing this review now 11 years later and to this day I live my life based on the beliefs Sylvia Browne has laid out in this book.

I read this book back in 2001 just after the loss of our daughter Victoria. It helped me a lot to understand the other side (Heaven) and why everything happens for a reason and how we choose our life before we come to this life or the body.

I will add to this review again after I read the book again.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that has lost a loved one. If you can believe in Sylvia it may heal your wounded heart as it did with mine.

Another amazing book about the other side (life after death). I've read this book 3 times and still want to read it again. Highly recommend to those curious about the afterlife or to find comfort in their grief.

"The Other Side And Back", 1999, is an important book to any faith. Sylvia Browne insisted on substantiating spiritual details she received, with research. Banish any bias conjured by the word "psychic". This discusses everyday topics and some Heavenly questions we were keen to have answered. Sylvia consulted for a living but accepted no money for missing persons and refused a "psychic hotline". Our impressions of well known personages should not derive from hearsay. Read this book.

Largely autobiographical, we learn Sylvia Shoemaker was the apple of her Dad's eye, mistreated by a dark-spirited Mother, and oddly; inherited second-sight from her maternal Grandmother. She found the courage to flee an abusive husband with her two sons. Those personal experiences are enough to connect with many people. Anyone religious-minded, leery of this book, should know she grew up Protestant and catholic and was a convent schoolteacher. No matter how surreal Sylvia's books might feel, to those who are new to peeking outside the box of what we've called "normal"; they are all about God. God outside of religion reassuringly reflects my beliefs!

Imagine that we started as spirits and blueprinted an educational mission: these Earthly lives we are leading. This is a better explanation for sorrow, than wondering if God was unfair; like a cat we love so much, dying at only 4 years-old! Our physical state doesn't recall what we mapped, or any expedition would be mute. We affect some outcomes. We are not programmed. Although physical separation grieves us because contact is not the same, loved-ones are not inaccessible to us. The most helpful portion to me are Sylvia's hilarious, no-nonsense, surprisingly logical rebuttals to scoffers of our beliefs and intelligence! Low reviews you come across? Scoffers. *This* is the book that would sustain me on a deserted island.

I was very skeptical of some of the things in this book. I do believe in psychics, but this was a little out there for me.

Though readers may be skeptical, taking or leaving the information shared by the author, this work is compelling, offering hope and practical suggestions for living one's life, through the good times and bad. Interesting, useful, positive - a great read!