Moody Raymond A. - The afterlife healing circle : how anyone can contact the other side

THE
Afterlife
HEALING
CIRCLE

HOW ANYONE CAN CONTACT THE OTHER SIDE

CANDACE L. TALMADGE
and JANA L. SIMONS

FOREWORD BY RAYMOND MOODY, MD

Copyright 2015 by Candace L. Talmadge and Jana L. Simons

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Talmadge, Candace L., 1954- author.

The afterlife healing circle : how anyone can contact the other side / by Candace L. Talmadge and Jana L. Simons ; foreword by Raymond Moody, MD.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60163-373-6 (paperback) -- ISBN 978-1-60163-379-8 (ebook) 1. Seances. 2. Spiritualism. I. Simons, Jana L., 1945- author. II. Moody, Raymond A., writer of foreword. III. Title.

BF1261.2.T35 2015

133.91--dc23

2015002857

This book is dedicated to all of the souls who reach across dimensions to connect with those they love.

Many have offered support and assistance to help this book reach publication. We want to acknowledge our two soul-sisters. One is Pam Worthington-Lash, who read the manuscript numerous times and asked excellent questions that prompted us to keep improving it. The other is Susanne Thibodeau, who provided insights and extensive moral support along the way.

We acknowledge the significant contributions of clients and students who either requested the afterlife healing circle or sat in on one and then shared their stories in these pages. Thank you. We also thank those who told us their stories of communicating with the other side and allowed us to include them in this book. Such deeply personal sharing takes courage and generosity.

We are grateful to our agent, John White, for his tireless efforts on our behalf, and to Raymond Moody, MD, who told us about John and then crafted a lyrical Foreword for this book. To know that our work touched one of the pioneers of the afterlife movement means a great deal to us.

Fellow author Mark Ireland deserves our thanks for his efforts to support us, too. He helped bring about a vastly improved manuscript that is the basis for this book. We also wish to thank Terri Daniel for making sure we connected with Dr. Moody.

We want to acknowledge and thank our unseen mentors and colleagues of the Sunan Society and our own groups of spirit guides. They are indeed part of that wider community we define and discuss in this book and have been with us every step of the way, even throughout many years of discouragement. They never gave up on us, and that helped us keep going. This book is one of the fruits of our collaboration.

by Raymond Moody, MD

by Raymond Moody, MD

All over the world, and from prehistoric times, human beings have attempted to contact the spirits of their loved ones lost to death. Modern mediumship, we are told, dates from the 19th century, but that is a mere factoid or a kind of urban myth. In reality, for more than ten thousand years, people have known of various methods for carrying on active relationships with their deceased relatives. A loving relationship with a person doesnt stop when that individual dies, and that has been true throughout human history.

The Afterlife Healing Circle describes an exciting rediscovery and updating of ancient shamanic modalities for communicating with the spirit world and making it manifest in the physical world. The book is replete with fascinating case histories and personal experiential accounts of life-changing spiritual encounters. Reading The Afterlife Healing Circle reminded me again of a remarkable cultural and historical fact about spiritual experiences: People living in advanced Western societies frequently have profound episodes of spiritual consciousness. Similar episodes are well-known, named, and categorized in various non-Western lands and tribal societies, yet knowledge of such kinds of experiences is not culturally transmitted in the Western world. In other words, certain kinds of spiritual experiential formats or potentialities are somehow built into the human mind. And such experiences will occur to people regardless of whether that particular kind of experience is acknowledged and catalogued in those peoples cultural traditions or not.

For instance, in China, there is an ancient, well-established tradition of what are known as birth dreams. Pregnant Chinese mothers often communicate through dreams with the yet-to-be-born individuals they are carrying in their wombs. In China, this is all acknowledged, understood, and appreciated. Yet the same thing happens among Americans as well, as a poignant story in this book illustrates, despite the cultural void that surrounds the phenomenon in the United States.

To me, this is an astonishing fact about human nature. There is a universal format, as it were, of spiritual experiences deeply embedded in us all that transcends particular human cultures. The Afterlife Healing Circle touches on this and many other important, unexplored domains of human consciousness. As this book shows, unleashing such hidden spiritual powers can greatly benefit the living and perhaps bring balance to the dead.

Raymond Moody, MD, is a psychiatrist and author of the international bestselling book Life After Life about the near-death experience, a term he coined. His pioneering research into the question of life after death helped legitimize the subject. In the 1970s he and a small group of fellow researchers formed the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), which continues today as one aspect of the worldwide study of the case for postmortem existence.

What kind of world would we inhabit if we were not so terrified of death? If we could meet our children and know their lives purposes and at least some of their emotional and spiritual needs before they were born? Imagine greater freedom from fear. Imagine parents being better prepared and wiser stewards of young lives.

If the preceding seems unobtainable, please read this book. It is possible because it has happened. We, the authors of this book, have witnessed the afterlife healing circle alleviating decades of unresolved grief. We also have firsthand knowledge of the way the afterlife healing circle can ease the fears of expectant parents. This book recounts some of the stories of those involved.