George Anderson - George Anderson’s Lessons from the Light: Extraordinary Messages of Comfort and Hope from the Other Side

GEORGE ANDERSONS

LESSONS FROM THE LIGHT

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LESSONS FROM
THE LIGHT

Extraordinary Messages of
Comfort and Hope from
the Other Side

GEORGE ANDERSON
&
ANDREW BARONE

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Copyright 1999 by George Anderson and Andrew Barone

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PRINTING HISTORY

G. P. Putnams Sons hardcover edition / May 1999

Berkley trade paperback edition / February 2000

ISBN: 978-1-101-56267-3

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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I would like to dedicate this book in loving memory to my father, George Andy Anderson, and my dear friend Vincenza A. Barone, for her kindness and insight both on the earth and now in the hereafter. This book is also dedicated to my beloved pets and pets everywhere, who show us the grace of the Infinite Light every day of their lives.

GEORGE ANDERSON

This book is also dedicated with love to my angels
Andrew Petrone, Victoria Petrone, and Colton Barone
three beautiful, shining examples of the presence of Heaven on the earth.

ANDREW BARONE

Acknowledgments

For their patience, for their tears, for their hope, and for their joy in helping others, it is with profound gratitude and respect that we acknowledge the following people, both here and hereafter, for their contributions in word or deed:

Tracy Martin Bravin and Michael Bravin, Mr. Neal Sims, Ms. Dianne Vitucci and the Vitucci Family, Ms. Anna Max, Doreen and Roger Hemp and the soul of Mr. Stephen Hemp, Ms. Susan Marek and the souls of Master Ryan Marek I and Master Ryan Marek II, Connie and Phil Carey and the soul of Ms. Michele Carey, Ms. Colleen Carey, Monsignor Thomas Hartman, Sister Julianne Speiss, S.S.N.D., Dr. Elisabeth Kbler-Ross, Ms. Dianne Arcangel, Elaine and Joseph Stillwell and the souls of Ms. Peggy and Mr. Denis OConnor, Dr. Raymond Moody, Dr. Bruce Greyson, Dr. Ian Stevenson, Ms. Sharon Friedman, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Dr. Risa Levenson Gold and Dr. Ken Gold, Ms. Carol Bowman, Mary, James and Kelly OReilly and the soul of Master Colin James OReilly, Ms. Cherie Andes and the soul of Master Nicholas Andes, Mr. Jerome Stricker and the soul of Ms. Kimberly Stricker, the Barone Family, Mr. Bernard Weinstock, Mr. Bill Doyle, Erin and Daniel Tomcheff and the soul of Mr. Theon Daniel Tomcheff, Peggy and Joseph Edwards and the soul of Mr. Corey Alan Edwards, Ms. Beverly Jones and the soul of Ms. Kerry Lynn Cochran, Ms. Deborah Scholes and the soul of Mr. John Scholes, Ms. Roxie Strish and the soul of Mr. Larry Strish, Ms. Deborah Bloomstrom and the soul of Ms. Nicole Bloomstrom, Shelley Grod Tatelbaum, M.S., C.G.T., Ms. Geri Hashimoto and the soul of Annie, Connie Costa Trivelli and Art Trivelli and the soul of Geoffrey Costa, Pauline and Dennis Patterson and the soul of Jeff Patterson

A FTER CLOSE TO FORTY YEARS of maintaining an ongoing relationship with the souls in the hereafter, I have come to understand this one statement to be true above all: We are, each of us, born into our exact situation in life in order to fulfill our spiritual journey on the earth. It makes no difference who you are or what you will beif you are here, lessons will be learned. We have all embarked on a mission we have chosen for ourselves in a previous existence and accepted the challenge of walking on the earth with faith and hope as our only roadmap. We have also been furnished with the circumstances we will need in order to learn and grow from our experiences here, so that we can accomplish the goals we are expected and predestined to meet. We were already told that the lessons would be many and difficult, and the time we have to complete them is so short. Whatever the lessons we needed to learncourage, patience, forgiveness of others or forgiveness of ourselvesour soul is sent from the hereafter into a human form, into a human family, into the career of our lifes work, and we begin the process of struggling to overcome and learn from whatever has been pre-planned as our lesson on the earth. The lessons come in many differing circumstances, and our options in those circumstances number more than the stars in a night sky. It is a process of choicessome good, some bad, but each of them important to the fulfillment of the reason why we are hereto complete our spiritual schooling, our lifes journey. And it all is for one purposeto learn from the knowledge, the pain, the hope and the struggle of this lifetime so that we can benefit from it in the joy of the hereafter. The souls in the hereafter know this already, but it will take us a lifetimeand our passingto understand.

We all have a reason to be here, and we all have a specific purpose and meaning in our own life as well as in the lives around us. Each of us has a different road, but each of our roads leads to the same destination. For some, the road is paved by the tragedy of loss. And for some others, even the loss of hope. No matter what the circumstance, we all must continue struggling to learn while we are here. We all have one thing in common on our individual walk to the Infinite Lightat key points in the journey, we will be either teacher or student in different circumstances and for different reasons. We will teach by example or we will learn by example. We all have a responsibility to our own soul growth and to the soul growth of others. In my own journey, I have been given the responsibility to be an instrument by which the souls in the hereafter can deliver to us the gift of hope. I do not know whether I chose