Blessings from the Other Side: Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for This Life

This book left me feeling so much better about death, all of Sylvia Browne's book I have read as well as other author on the subject of life after death, take the fear away from dying and grieving the death of a close one

I enjoyed this book, Some aspects of it ring truth for me and i love how Sylvia writes as if shes right there in the room with you. If you are a fan of Sylvia browne or just looking for comfort seek out this book

Always interesting to read what other people think/believe. I am glad I did not read this when it was given to me by a well-meaning acquaintance, I probably would have thrown it at her. Several years later, reading it was easier to read with an open mind and a healthy dose of skepticism.

Notes from my Journal...1/26/04
Sylvia Browne is new to me..scanned most of book.

New information:
Life Themes: Primary and Secondary.
Seven Option Lines: Love, Health, Finance, Career, Spirituality, Family, and Social Life
The option line we declare is ours for the life we're about to live. It is essentially the area of this earthly school, in which we have decided to major. It is the area we'll agonize over the most and in which we feel we have the most to learn.
Five Exit Points or Opportunities to head "Home" again when we feel we have accomplished all we intended when we came here.

Review

Very interesting book. Enjoyed reading it and gained useful inputs. For anyone interested in this topic, it's a nice book. One may not understand many 9things or may doubt some of the explanations given in the book; yet there are many things one can understand and not doubt. Overall, personally, I liked the book.

3.5

Another book I tossed in shame as I would be horrified someone might see this on my bookshelf. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, a generous gift to redeem herself but she did not deliver.

After reading this book I saw her on a daytime talk show and found her to be repulsive and totally obnoxious giving. She went as far to give one grieving family false hope on their missing daughter whom Brown claimed to still be alive.

I find it incredibly appalling that so many gullible people fall for her nonsense.

TOPICS THAT SHE ‘ENJOYS DISCUSSING’ ABOUT ‘THE OTHER SIDE,’ AND MORE

Psychic Sylvia Browne wrote in the Introduction to this 2000 book, “I love my life. I love my career… But… nothing satisfies my frequent need for a real ‘Intimacy fix’ quite like my lecture tour… intimate is exactly how it feels … it’s almost anyone’s guess what might happen next, the possibilities ranging literally from the utterly ridiculous to the utterly sublime… And last but not least, it comes from the luxury of knowing that … I can talk about whatever I damn well please. The chapters in this little book were chosen from among the topics I enjoy discussing on my lecture tour, along with some of my favorite exercises and affirmations.”

In the first chapter, she states, “I’ve been asked more than once, ‘Sylvia, if you’re so concerned that we never die, and you can see and hear spirits on The Other Side, why would you of all people grieve?’ The answer is, ‘Because I’m selfish, I’m human, and I’m HERE.’” (Pg. 9)

She continues, “Does my grief mean I privately question the reality of The Other Side and the eternal lives of our spirits? Absolutely not. I don’t just believe, I KNOW those are simple, sacred truths. Even at my most decimated, my devout spirituality never waivers for an instant… I’ve made countless astral trips to The Other Side… so I can guarantee that it’s as real as, or even more real than, this earth we’re visiting now.” (Pg. 16)

She observes, “And how wonderful, how infinitely loving of God, not to let us come here without a detailed plan, not to just send us wandering around this rough place at random… Even WITH a plan, from time to time I think we all feel as if that’s what we’re doing anyway. But not only do we compose our chart on The Other Side, with the help of our Spirit Guide and a team of other brilliantly trained souls who are far wiser than we are, but we are also guaranteed to reach the goals in that chart before we head Home again. The question is whether we’ll reach them the easy way or the had way. And that’s the reason our chart doesn’t mean there is no such thing as free will.” (Pg. 29)

She states, “One of the most comforting, affirming surprises has been the ongoing confirmation, beyond any doubt, that we live many lifetimes on this earth. Needless to say, the truth that we live life after life here isn’t thrilling because it’s such a rollicking, nonstop picnic. But the truth that we life after life here IS thrilling because it proves that in fearing death, we’re really fearing something that doesn’t even exist.” (Pg. 43)

She says, “Verbal contact from The Other Side comes in two ways: actual voices, which usually get distorted into a high and frankly annoying chirping sound as they cross dimensions, an infused knowledge, which is simply information passed directly from one mind to another, those things you suddenly ‘just know’ without having a clue how or why you know it.” (Pg. 63)

She asserts, “Make no mistake about it, I am a devout humanitarian and Gnostic, which is the loving faith Christ practiced during his time on earth. (Obviously he couldn’t have been a Christian, unless he discovered a way to follow himself.) … I came here to leave this world better than I found it, and not a day goes by when I don’t take steps toward fulfilling that contract. But be cruel and hurtful to someone I love, or to a child or animal or anyone who’s unable to care for and defend themselves, and you’ll see proof of my firm belief that some actions really are unforgivable.” (Pg. 88)

Later, she asserts, “The Dark Side are the only people among us who never have and never will experience guilt, let alone any other genuine human emotion. In psychiatric terms, they’re sociopaths and psychopaths, remorseless, amoral, devoid of a conscience, untreatable, insidious, and immune to any efforts at rehabilitation, since it’s impossible to rehabilitate anyone whose only motive is to incapacitate any light that crosses their path. Darkness, after all, can’t exist where there’s light, and that fact drives the Dark Side’s lives more than any other.” (Pg. 114)

She contends, “Babies’ spirits… arrive directly from full, busy lives at Home, after a very difficult, deliberate decision to return here to advance their progress on the eternal path toward their greatest potential. Inside those tiny, fragile, preverbal bodies live souls as ageless and timeless as ours, with memories of past lives and of The Other Side that are fresh, clear, and unedited. And those memories linger in their conscious minds for years before the business of life on earth overwhelms them…. Because they’re so much closer to The Other Side and their past lives than we are, children are the most psychic humans on earth, and we can learn as much from them as we’ll allow about Home, the spirit world, reincarnation, astral travel, and all the other marvelous bridges between here and eternity.” (Pg. 134-135)

She notes, “We’ve all known people who cling fiercely to someone who mistreats them, demeans them, and keeps them in a constant state of insecure misery… So how do we know the difference between charted relationships we’re supposed to pursue and ones we’re supposed to avoid? The answers to that question aren’t easy, and they take work, patience, and a lot of self-honestly. But… they’re worth all the work, patience, and self-honesty you can give them and more, don’t you think?” (Pg. 151)

She asserts, “The truth is, we specifically chose every relative and every friend when we wrote our charts on The Other Side before we came here, based on our needs and goals for this lifetime… But I hope it will help you as much as it helps me to remember that we had our reasons for every choice we made. Even the most difficult among them give us opportunities to learn, whether we want to or not, and they’re all fascinating in their own ways if we’ll open or minds to being fascinating rather than frustrated.” (Pg. 167)

In the last chapter, she says, “every year, on prescribed occasions… we dutifully assemble, exchange gifts that nobody needs, drink eggnog that nobody likes, and try to pretend that we’re all problem free and that we’re not all stressed out, traveled out, shopped out, spent out, caroled out, mailed out, gift-wrapped out, decorated out, cooked out, and secretly wishing for privacy, a nice hot bath, and about five days’ sleep… I certainly don’t mean to ignore those of you out there who love the holidays, and I want you to know that the rest of us applaud you and hate you. (I’m kidding. Kind of.)” (Pg. 183-184)

This book will be of keen interest to those who love Ms. Browne’s other books.