Giulia Jeary Knap - The Afterlife: Hereafter and Here at Hand. Three Tried and Tested Methods to Stay in Touch with Those Who Have Gone Before Us.

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Giulia Jeary Knap

The Afterlife:

Hereafter and Here at Hand

Three tried and tested methods to stay in touch with those

who have gone before us

Series: Between Heaven and Earth

http://fracieloeterra.org

Copyright Giulia Jeary Knap, 2017. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording by any information storage and retrieval system or otherwise, without the written permission of the copyright holder, pursuant to Law No. 633/1941 of the Italian Republic, as amended, concerning the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring rights, with the exception of Quotation rights, as referred to in Article 70 of the abovementioned law and in Article 10 of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique found herein as a form of treatment for medical problems. The intent of the author is only to help readers in their quest for physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. For medical advice, readers are invited to seek professional help .

Although the utmost care has been taken to check all material contained in this book, the author also declines any liability for any errors or omissions, as well as the up-to-datedness, accuracy, completeness, quality or interpretation of the information provided. The cases and examples contained in the text are the result of personal experience and opinions, which, by the very nature of the subject, are still undergoing research and may be changed, expanded upon and updated at any time without notice.

I would like to thank my sister Liliana, for the support and encouragement she has given me over the period spent writing the Italian edition of this book, my sister-in-law Anna, who has followed the editing of the Italian book chapter by chapter, and my husband, for encouraging me every day to complete this project.

I would like to thank Marina, Althea and Vrinda for making the English edition of this book possible and for encouraging me and assisting me in accomplishing this new project.

I would like to thank Garry, Dennis and David for the confidence they have shown in my communication skills over this last year.

As I did for the Italian version, I would also like to thank my friends and Afterlife-research partners, who have always taken an active interest, especially since 2002, in many of the events described in this book. These include Renato and Daniela, Dave and Judy, Claudio and Francesca, Mica, Sydnei, Jane, Gem, Jan, Janis, Dino, Pamela, Filomena, Francesca, Wendy and all my other friends and relatives who have shown an interest in my work.

And, of course, my thanks go to you, dear reader, for choosing this book.

Thank you!

A handbook on how to stay in touch with our loved ones once they have crossed over to the Afterlife might seem a bold proposition, especially in an era when we are seeing growing numbers of certified mediums. The increase in qualifications through specialist theory and practical courses would seem to mark a net distinction between ordinary people seeking the mediation of a professional and those who have not only received the gift but have also studied to hone their skills. However, things are not quite like that.

This book does not invite you to become a professional mediumalthough the idea is not as far-fetched as it might seem, provided one has a genuine passion for and is patiently and devotedly committed to the discipline, as well as having access to professional training centres.

Instead, the purpose of this book is to bring awareness of the tools that are available to all human beings, to enable us to stay in touch with our loved ones, once they have crossed over to the Afterlife.

As I will often say in this book, we are allthe so-called living and the so-called dead, as well as animals, plants, our homes and our planetessentially made of spirit . Spirit is the raw material from which we are made. Thanks to spirit, we are never truly separate from each other or our environment and surroundings.

The only reason it may seem a challenge to tune into the spiritual dimension of existence, whether it be to communicate with the physically living or with the so-called dead, is that we are conditioned from an early age to believe we are separate from one another. We are taught the pronouns I and you , e.g. I am a child and you are my mother. This linguistic distinction carries the implication that, although we may be surrounded by those who love us, we are ultimately alone.

As we grow, we then take on further roles, or labels, and commit ourselves to fulfilling the expectations that come with those roles. For instance, a teacher must invest great energy into maintaining discipline and assessing student performance; while children are expected to behave and perform to a certain standard, and may even be labelled as suffering from an attention deficit disorder if mainstream education methods fail to make them feel involved in classroom activities. Another example is the working mother, who is expected to be professional during the day and a loving supportive mother (and, perhaps, wife!) when she comes home.

Juggling all these roles can make us feel exhausted and inadequate by the end of the day. This spiritual depletion stems from the false identification with our bodies, which makes it difficult to conceive that there might be something beyond this physical plane. The roles we play are reinforced by our culture, our interpersonal relationships, our daily commitments, our state of health, the media and so on. We are under the spell of what I have come to see as a form of mass hypnosis; we tend to take these roles for granted, and dutifully play our parts day in, day outuntil something apparently irreparable happens. A loved one is swallowed up by a mysterious black hole called death.

Suddenly, we no longer see them, we do not hear from them, they do not call us, they no longer talk or write to us. Their personal effects are here; their clothes are still in the wardrobe; their home, furniture and knick-knacks are still in their place; their car is in the garage; their phone is on the bedside table; even their Facebook pageif they have oneis still online; but that dear loved person is suddenly no longer here .

We are here and they are there . We are busy, often swamped under the weight of our daily tasks, and they are immersed in eternal rest. We are preoccupied with a multitude of stressful obligations and they are absent, closed in a tomb or in our photo albums.

But is it true that our loved ones no longer exist and cannot be reached? What if we are simply tuned into the wrong channel? What if our loved ones are actually calling us, speaking, showing us things but we do not notice? Perhaps they are right here next to us and we do not realise it, because we think they are in a completely different, inaccessible place.

This book will explore what it feels like to be discarnate and how it feels to try to communicate with our loved ones here on the physical plane, who are sad, possibly depressed, crying and do not see us. We will read several descriptions of the wonderful world of Summerland described by many discarnate spirits, where our loved ones wait patiently for us to notice their presence, right here in our midst; and how they themselves say it is much easier to communicate with someone with whom they have a personal connection (a friend or relation) than with an expert in communications.