Mark Ireland - Messages from the Afterlife: A Bereaved Fathers Journey in the World of Spirit Visitations, Psychic-Mediums, and Synchronicity

In Messages from the Afterlife, Mark Ireland raises fundamental questions about the nature and fate of human consciousness. This touching, heartfelt account takes its place in the enlarging body of evidence suggesting that death is not final.

L ARRY D OSSEY , MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

Mark Ireland is a soulful, intelligent man who brings higher thinking to mediumship, and he shares with us some of his own thought-provoking stories in his book. As a father who has suffered the loss of his own son, he truly understands the importance of reconnection between the living and those who live again.

A LLISON D UBOIS , inspiration for the NBC TV series Medium and author of Talk to Me: What the Dead Whisper in Your Ear

If you expect this book to be sombre and extremely sad, it is not. The journey that the author has travelled since the death of his son in 2004 is quite remarkable. He has taken his original grief and raised it to a positive experience of hope for everyone who has lost someone precious. [A] varied, educational, and interesting journey.

T RICIA J. R OBERTSON , psychic researcher and author of Things You Can Do When Youre Dead

Messages from the Afterlife is a must-read and will bring comfort and peace to thousands. Another great book from Mark Ireland.

J OHN H OLLAND , psychic medium and author of The Spirit Whisperer: Chronicles of a Medium

Not all books deliver what their titles promise. This one certainly doesand much more. The messages are there, and very impressive many of them are, as is the authors balance between spiritual seeking and a strictly scientific approach. [F]ascinating reading.

G UY P LAYFAIR L YON , journalist, broadcaster, and author of If This Be Magic and Twin Telepathy

I loved this book! Raymond Moody opened the dialogue on NDEs, Brian Weiss did it for past-life memories, Michael Newton for life between lives, the Guggenheims for after-death communications, and now Mark Ireland has done it for mediumship, the capacity of certain individuals to communicate with the spirits of the deceased.

J ANE K ATRA , PhD, healer, professor of public health, and coauthor of Miracles of Mind and The Heart of the Mind

In his 2008 book Soul Shift, Mark Ireland explained how he was able to overcome the despair he had experienced from the death of his eighteen-year-old son, Brandon, by his research in the area of mediumship. Seeing others grieving the loss of loved ones, Mark Ireland has dedicated his life to helping others move from disbelief or blind faith to a conviction that those loved ones live on and will someday be reunited with us. In this book, Mark provides more intriguing stories of spirit communication and related phenomena, all of which should help the reader overcome grief and the fear of death.

M ICHAEL T YMN , editor of the Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies

This is a powerful story of development of a mainstream business-fueled lifestyle to one of a deep exploration of life and living. Spurred by the death of a son, Mark Ireland marshals compelling evidence of existence beyond physical death, and records how this knowledge can overcome the grief of the bereaved. It is an important exploration of science, spirituality, religion, and psychic realities.

J OHN P OYNTON , emeritus professor of biology at the University of Natal, South Africa, and past president of the Society for Psychical Research

Practical, insightful, and poignant, this book is written from the heart of a grieving parent and the brain of a pragmatic researcher. Whether youre interested in psychic-medium abilities, evidence of life after death, or new ways to comfort your grief, Mark Irelands story and analysis delivers.

B OB O LSON , AfterlifeTV.com

Mark Ireland has created another excellent contribution to afterlife research. Ireland shares unique information about spirit communication, and eloquently addresses pseudo-skepticism and religious pietytwo controversial areas that often contribute to the hindrance of spiritual growth.

D ONNA S MITH -M ONCRIEFFE , afterlife researcher and author of Medium7: Evidence of the Afterlife and Predictions

This is the story of a mans opening up to the world of spirits as they help him recover from the death of his son. We meet the mediums he works with and the spirits communicating through them. We listen as he does battle with materialists who dismiss his point of view with contempt. Above all, we get to know a man who wants us to recognize that we have access to a Divine Source within us and that, as he puts it, another realm of being exists beyond this world of physical manifestation.

S TAFFORD B ETTY , PhD, professor of religious studies at California State University, Bakersfield, and author of The Afterlife Unveiled

Electronic Edition: ISBN 978-1-58394-719-7

Copyright 2013 by Mark Ireland. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.

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Messages from the Afterlife: A Bereaved Fathers Journey in the World of Spirit Visitations, Psychic-Mediums, and Synchronicity is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and cross-cultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Ireland, Mark, 1958

Messages from the afterlife : a bereaved fathers journey in the world of spirit visitations, psychic-mediums, and synchronicity / Mark Ireland.
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ISBN 978-1-58394-718-0
1. Future life. 2. Spiritualism. I. Title.

BF1311.F8I74 2013
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I t was a cruel synergist that moved me to explore lifes deepest mysteries. This had been my fathers path, but it was not mineat least not until now.

Reflecting back, I could see that Id taken for granted the most important things in my life until one of the most precious and beloved among themmy youngest sonwas gone. And oddly, it now seemed easier to take risks, following an inner sense that prodded me to pursue a new life course using my freshly recognized gifts to help others.