Alexandra Chauran - How to Talk to Me After Im Gone: Creating a Plan for Spirit Communication

Llewellyn Publications

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How to Talk to Me After Im Gone: Creating a Plan for Spirit Communication 2014 by Alexandra Chauran.

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Acknowledgments

In writing this book, I first want to thank my gods: the Lady of life in whose arms I rest in certainty and the Lord of death and resurrection, for inspiring me to write this book through a vision in a dream. Id also like to thank my ancestors, on whose shoulders I stand, without whom I would not be.

I am thankful always for my mother, Jean Pawlucki, for being the second set of eyes to see this book and for her tireless proofreading efforts. Im grateful for my acquisitions editor, Amy Glaser, for the boundless energy she uses to support, guide, and enthuse any whose lives she touches. Im thankful for my production editor Laura Graves for generosity with her time and attention and for making revisions and edits as painless a process as humanly possible. Id also like to express gratitude for the visionaries in the Llewellyn art department for their cover art wizardry, and the marketing and publicity folks for all the magic they do.

Finally, Id like to thank my husband and children for putting up with the mother of this household while she struggles with a serious addiction to writing books.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my children, Eris and Orion, my nieces, Angelina, Meira, Shiloh, and Dorothy, and to all my descendants yet to be born. It is also personally dedicated to you, the reader, and to anyone else who may talk to me and others like me after we die.

Contents

: Getting StartedLiving Without Fear of Death

: Spirit Communication With Loved OnesA Crash Course

: Afterlife Beliefs and Faith Development

: Your Wishes for Communicating After Death: A Workbook

: Helping Others and Living Your Faith Out Loud

Introduction

They say that life is terminal. And thats what suddenly occurred to me when my doctor gave me the bad news: I had just been diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, an eventually fatal illness, and I was still in my twenties. The reality of death came into sharp focus for the first time, much like the many tiny dark cysts that had shown up on the ultrasound of my kidneys. They were visual proof of the sense of mortality I would always carry with me. And these days, I am constantly aware that my body will never function any better than it does today.

Now you know why I couldnt tell you the results of your tests over the phone, my doctor said. He was laughing and didnt seem to acknowledge my horror. Yes, I knew this condition could be hereditary, but the plan had been to donate one of my kidneys to mom so I could grant her many more years of healthy life. After all, cancer had taken my father from me only three years prior. My mothers kidneys were failing, and now I was learning that my own kidneys were destined to follow. We suffered from the same genetic death sentence.

Fast forward a few months and I was pregnant, praying for my mom while she underwent surgery that Ill experience one day myself, if I get the chance. I felt the same sense of dread my own children will probably have. At the same time, though, I now recognize that I am luckyI know what will most likely kill me. When my mom was my age, she didnt have the knowledge that would inform the way shed live her life. And I suspect that most of you reading this book dont have this kind of information, though we might each have a potential time bomb ticking away within our body.

Do you consider yourself a spiritual or faithful person? If not, Id like to pass that certainty of the continuation of life after death to you. I believe that the spirits of deceased ancestors and even complete strangers can communicate with me. But, what good is a belief in spirit communication if nobody talks to me after I am dead and gone? This book is a spirit lifeline for the faithful like me, or for those who are merely open minded and hope to never be forgotten.

Starting with instructions on how to incorporate the conceptual cycles of death and rebirth into your everyday life, well separate the fear of the unknown from the reality of death by acknowledging it as a fact of life. These exercises have arisen spontaneously in many cultures at once, proving that they are essential to the human experience of life beyond the grave. Youll learn simple practices that will create bonds with friends and family that can last an eternity, and how to let go of any dusty old coping mechanisms that no longer serve you.

Next is the fun parta crash course in learning spirit communication. This practice can be passed along to any loved ones youll want to keep in touch with after youre gone, giving all of you the much-needed practice to live your beliefs in the future. Moving on, youll begin implementing a workbook of your hopes and dreams for a future beyond this lifetime. Youll learn how you can express yourself once youre a part of the beauty of the spirit world, as well as how to communicate your wishes to continue your relationships long after youve left your body behind. The process of developing a means to call up ancestral spirits is ancient. It has been passed nearly unchanged through families for generations, and in this book I can gift it to you and yours.