Erik Medhus - My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven

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Praise for My Life After Death

This book is unique in that it describes what existence is like for Erik Medhus after his physical death. It is interesting to envision Eriks mode of communication with living loved onesand to contemplate the various realms and experiences described as he becomes aware of his true nature. But I most appreciate his fresh take on the value of Earth life, reflected by these words: Hold hands, man. Hug everybody. Have a hugfest.

Mark Ireland, author of Soul Shift and Messages from the Afterlife

Communicating through a medium, Erik Medhus draws us into experiencing his world and his life in the afterlife. We experience his senses, emotions, thoughts, amazement, discoveries, and surprises as he has lived them since his passing. My Life After Death is an absorbing journey through the afterlife that I recommend to anyone who wants to understand the realm we will all eventually inhabit by experiencing it through the engrossing accounts of this young man living there now.

R. Craig Hogan, PhD, author of Your Eternal Self

From the graphic description of finding himself looking at his own dead body and seeing all the commotion and heartache that his suicide caused, Erik Medhus provides us with a totally new perspective on what its like to die. His voice is clear, direct, and intimate as if talking to a close friend in the language of young people today. His insights are poignant and profound. Erik tells it like it is, no punches pulled.

Dr. Victor Zammit, coauthor of The Friday Afterlife Report and A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife

Praise for My Son and the Afterlife

Dr. Elisa Medhus offers a heartfelt, deeply moving story that invites readers to question their own beliefs of love, loss, and the afterlife.

Eben Alexander, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven

Elisas journey has been amazing, and she is well qualified to share her knowledge with both the medical community and the grief community. She... is breaking new ground and leading the way for many of us working in the field of bereavement, hospice care, and consciousness.

Terri Daniel, author, educator, end-of-life advisor, interfaith chaplaincy, and founder/director of the Afterlife Education Foundation and the Annual Afterlife Awareness Conference

My Son and the Afterlife is a book that will tug at your heart strings and make you laugh, cry, and more importantly, consider possibilities that you have probably never thought about before.

Thomas Campbell, physicist and author of My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Medhus, Erik, (Spirit).

My life after death : a memoir from heaven / Erik Medhus with Elisa Medhus, MD.

pagescm

1.Spirit writings.2.Future, life.3.Spiritualism.I.Medhus, Elisa.II.Title.

BF1301.M532015

133.93dc23

2015013069

ISBN 978-1-58270-560-6

ISBN 978-1-5011-0472-5 (eBook)

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To my daughter Kristina Braly.

I am so profoundly grateful to you for creating the Channeling Erik blog. If you hadnt, I would not have begun my journey from darkness to light; Eriks death would have been a tragic waste; and he and I would not have had the platform from which to help others the world over. In no small measure, you have saved my life and your brothers too.

H aving lost my son to suicide, I would hate to see anyone go through the same pain that I had to and still, to some degree, endure. If you suffer from depression and have any thoughts of suicide, please seek the help of a mental health professional and rely on the support of all those in your life who care for you and can help you. If you are contemplating suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, and remember that suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem.

E rik Rune Medhus came quietly into this world at three oclock in the afternoon without so much as a whimper. He gazed around the room as if in awe of this new place where he would live for all too brief a period of time. When our eyes locked, the chemistry was palpable. I knew he would be a bright light in my life.

As a child, Erik was so well behaved, often playing with his Legos quietly in his room while his siblings were running roughshod nearby. Even when he was only eighteen months old, he demonstrated a tremendous capacity for compassion. I remember the day I brought him home from the pediatricians office after hed gotten a slew of childhood immunizations. His thighs were littered with Band-Aids, and his cheeks were stained with tears. My husband, Rune, asked him how his day had gone, and with his head resting on my shoulder, he said, I have a good time. He didnt want us to worry about him. In fact, he frequently wanted to console us. Whenever I held and comforted him after he got a boo-boo, hed pat me on the shoulder as if to comfort me.

Erik grew up in a home in a Houston neighborhood with my four other children, Rune, and me, so our family was big and boisterous. There was never a dull moment in our energetic and playful household. Erik, third in the pecking order, was the mischief maker among his siblings. He loved playing practical jokes on them and often teased them with a sense of impish delight. His siblings werent the only ones who were a target of his pranks, though. Hed often hide behind the kitchen cabinets and then jump out and yell, Boo! when Rune or I came home from work.