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Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A.
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
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Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Previously published in a Dutton edition.
First Electronic editon, December 2004
Copyright Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, 2003
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Also by Sylvia Browne
SYLVIA BROWNES BOOK OF DREAMS
PAST LIVES , FUTURE HEALING
BLESSINGS FROM THE OTHER SIDE
LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE
THE OTHER SIDE AND BACK
ADVENTURES OF A PSYCHIC
From Sylvia and Lindsay
to our dads.
This ones especially for you.
T o Fern Underwood, our preliminary and grossly underpaid proofreader. Ive decided its not fair that Lindsay has you for a mom and I dont, so adoption papers will follow shortly.
To Bernie Keating, without whom this book would have been released in the year 2012 or so. Youre a Godsend in more ways than I can express. And special thanks for the sponge.
To Larry Harnisch. I asked Lindsay to track you down because youve got it right, and you turned out to be patient, compassionate, generous, and a friend as well, with a fierce loyalty to research and accuracy Ill always admire. When your book comes out, Lindsay and I will be first in line to buy it, you can count on it. Until then, one more promise kept: Lindsay and I will be sending a donation, in the name of Elizabeth Short, to a wonderful charity that helps, among others, the homeless and abused women of Elizabeths hometown, Medford, Massachusetts. If any of our readers would care to do the same, it would be kind and much appreciated. Its Shelter, Inc., P.O. Box 390516, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. Thanks, all of you. This will make more sense after you read Chapter Ten.
To Brian Tart, our editor on a total of six books now. I truly appreciate that weve become friends in our own right, and Ill never cease to be amazed at the class you showed when, as it turns out, I was sometimes being difficult without knowing a thing about it.
To each of you, from the bottom of my very full heart, eternal thanks.
Sylvia
T housands of people, many of them currently on earth, contributed to this book. There are the spirits and ghosts around the world whove been kind enough to show up and tell me their stories for the last half a century or so. There are the 2,014 visitors to my Web site who had the courage and generosity to e-mail their experiences to me, some of which youll find in the pages that followand let me make it clear right now, I read every single one of those e-mails. Those 2,014 brave people were on the receiving end of some fascinating appearances by spirits and ghosts, some of them deeply comforting and some of them terrifying. Theres a victim of an unsolved murder who told me the name of her killer, and theres a Spirit Guide who left her voice on an audiotape, repeating a single word that gave a woman the key to her husbands criminal life. Theres a woman who was given strength by a visit with an ex-boyfriend on The Other Side whom she didnt know had passed away, and a man who would never have found out he had a stillborn baby sister if her spirit hadnt come to introduce herself when he was four years old.
To the thousands of us collaborators on this particular book, and the many millions who dont question any more than we do that of course theres an afterlife, there are those who will always be ready with a list of handy explanations for what we think were seeing, hearing, and feeling. Grief hysteria, oxygen deprivation, and variations on terms for both mental illness and scam are among the most popular. What these skeptics and experts are usually insisting on, though, is the same cynical demand, over and over and over again, which boils down to:
Prove that theres life after death.
Im sixty-six years old, and Ive never spent one instant doubting that theres life after death. The thousands of us who contributed to this book, on earth and beyond it, dont doubt it. The millions we represent dont doubt it. God certainly doesnt doubt it, since Hes the One who told us its true in the first place, and we take His word for everything. Were not the ones who are having a problem with this. You are. So why do we keep knocking ourselves out trying to prove something we already know with absolute certainty?
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