Susan Allison - You Dont Have to Die to Go to Heaven: How to Find Guidance and Healing in the Spirit Realms

Praise for You Don't Have to Die to Go to Heaven

Susan Allison presents an ancient roadmap to the heavens in a way that we can all employ to visit the realms beyond death. In this journey, we discover that there is only life after life and that we can map our destiny consciously in this lifetime and the next!

Alberto Villoldo, PhD, author of Shaman, Healer, Sage, and One Spirit Medicine and A Shaman's Miraculous Tools for Healing

An increasing body of evidence suggests that the survival of consciousness following bodily death is real and that it is possible to have a preview of what lies ahead. In You Don't Have to Die to Go to Heaven Susan Allison shows how.

Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

Dr. Susan Allison's book is a blessing and breakthrough for humanity. The book helps to overcome the fear of death and to understand the circle of life by visiting heaven with the help of guides from the spirit world. With compassion, inspiration, encouragement, and heartfelt teachings, every sentence of this book is extraordinary insightful, transforming, and supportive.

Eva-Maria Mora, founder of Quantum Angel Healing and Cosmic Recording

This edition first published in 2015 by

Weiser Books, an imprint of

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

With offices at:

65 Parker Street, Suite 7

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Copyright 2015 by Susan Allison

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.

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ISBN: 978-1-57863-588-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Allison, Susan (Therapist)

You don't have to die to go to heaven : how to find guidance and healing in the spirit realms / Susan Allison, PhD.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Shamanism. 2. Trance--Religious aspects--Shamanism. 3. Spiritual life--Shamanism. I. Title.

BF1621.A56 2015

201'.44--dc23

2015035775

Cover design by Jim Warner

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Interior by Howie Severson

Typeset in Goudy Old Style

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As a reader of this text, you take full responsibility for your experiences while going into trance and practicing shamanic journeywork, and you do so at your own risk. If you have any medical conditions that may prevent you from doing the work in the book, then you will need a doctor's permission first. You are willingly choosing to read this text and do the exercises, and the publisher and author are released from all responsibility.

This book is dedicated to my husband Thomas Hansen Hickenbottom (19472013), who inspired me during nineteen years together, and who inspires me now. It is also dedicated to my children, grandchildren, ancestors, and all the loving spirit beings that have supported me to write this book. Thank you all.

I will love spring again, but not today. Only seven months since you closed your eyes and never woke, since I left our bed for a sip of coffee, a bite of muffin, and when crawling in against your warm body, found chest still, breath gone. So it's too soon to feel joy in all this beauty and fruition. Alone in Eden, I ask, how can the world be this bright, without you?

From my poem How Can the World Be This Bright?

If you have ever loved someone deeply who has passed away, you understand how I felt on August 3, 2013 when my husband stopped breathing. Even though he had been sick for six years, I don't think anyone is ever ready for that moment. I know I wasn't. It is hard enough going through the emotional pain that on some days feels like a freight train in my chest, but there is also the realization that he is not coming back, that life will never be the same, and that this life is stretching slowly into forever.

Without my family, friends, hospice, and my shamanic journeywork, I do not think I would still be alive, and even if alive, I wouldn't be sane. Now, two years after his death, I am beginning to see more light and feel more hope in my life, and writing this book has been part of my recovery. I am so grateful I can go into trance and do shamanic journeying to receive help from my spirit allies, and I can even spend time with my husband in a level of heaven. What a gift to know that the energy between us is alive, that our infinite spirits can commune in a heavenly world. What a gift to know without a doubt that he is immortal and happy, that I am immortal, and so are you.

Not only can I journey to meet my husband and other loved ones in spirit realms, but I can visit angels, helpers, ancestors, guides, and teachers in shamanic worlds. one reason I've written You Don't Have to Die to Go to Heaven is to help you learn to journey to spirit realms to connect with your own loving allies. In the chapters that follow, you will learn how to do shamanic journeying step-by-step, and in the process, realize you are immortal, as are your departed loved ones. You don't have to die or have a near-death experience. You can spirit travel to other dimensions right now, and receive insights to guide and heal you. As a dividend, you will realize you are not alone, but always have caring spirit beings to love and support you.

Unlike ancient times, when only the shaman of a tribe journeyed to spirit worlds, you can now learn to do shamanic journeying on your own. Traditionally, the shaman went into an altered state by listening to a drum or a rattle, and spirit traveled to other worlds to retrieve information for the tribe or an individual. Then the shaman returned from the trance with messages and tools from the spirits to help tribal members. In essence, the shaman was and is the spiritual leader of a tribe. Shamanism is the forerunner of all religions, with an ancient spiritual tradition and practice dating back about 60,000 years. Although tribal life has changed over thousands of years, shamanic practices still exist in Siberia, Lapland, Africa, Australia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, and other places.

Now you have the opportunity to listen to a drumming recording and journey to other dimensions. There you can meet with spirit allies and loved ones for insight, guidance, and perhaps for physical, emotional, or spiritual healing. You can not only receive support during journeying, but you can also overcome any fear, especially the fear of death. I know from the direct experience of doing shamanic work since 1993, going on thousands of journeys, and visiting departed friends and family, that spirit worlds exist, including a level of heaven. If you have any fear of your own transition, worry about your departed loved ones, or perhaps doubt that an afterlife exists, read on!

While doing trance journeywork, I have met my grandmother, whom I never met in this life, and can visit my parents any time. I have met with human and animal allies, guides, and teachers such as Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Rama, Ganesh, Arianrhod, St. Francis, a Pawnee Chief, Eagle, Swan, and four angels. Because I have personally visited three spirit worlds and connected with so many loving beings, I am looking forward to my afterlife.

Since my husband's transition in 2013, I have journeyed to a heavenly realm where we walk on a beach, dance in the moonlight, swim, and explore the levels of heaven. After being with Tom during my journeys, I return feeling reassured and happy. Yes, his physical body is gone, but our spirits are immortal and can be together any time I choose to visit or feel his energy. It would be an honor to help you connect with your departed loved ones, and in the process, help you discover that death is not to be feared, and it is not the end.