Echo Bodine - Echoes of the Soul: The Souls Journey Beyond the Light - Through Life, Death, and Life After Death

Echoes
of the
Soul

Echoes
of the
Soul

The Souls Journey Beyond the Light
Through Life, Death, and Life After Death

Echo L. Bodine

NEW WORLD LIBRARY
Novato, California

New World Library
14 Pamaron Way
Novato, California 94949

Copyright 1999 by Echo Bodine
Cover design: Knockout Design / Peri Paloni Designer
Text design: Tona Pearce Myers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Echoes of the soul: / by Echo L. Bodine.
p. cm.
The souls journey beyond the light through life, death,
and life after death."
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-57731-076-4 (alk. paper)
1. Soul. 2. Spiritualism. I. Title.
BF1275.S55B63 1999

133.9--dc21

98-42956
CIP

First Printing, February 1999
ISBN 1-57731-076-4
Printed in the Canada on acid-free paper
Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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I would like to dedicate this book to my mom,
Mary Opal Mae McKee Bodine.

There is no way I could have written this
book without your constant support.
Youve really held the vision of this
book for a long time, and I cant thank
you enough for continually
encouraging me to write what Ive come
to know as truth. I am truly blessed to
have you as my mom. Thanks
for everything.

I love you.

T o God, for pushing me on my path so I would keep searching for more and more truth. For my gifts, for Your patience, and for Your continued guidance in my life.

To my very cool family, the Bodines! Weve been through so much this lifetime that it sometimes boggles my mind; yet, we just keep growing and getting better. Thanks for everything. I love you.

To my son, Kurt, for all our great talks, for helping me with the research, for believing in the book, and especially for believing in me. I love you, baby.

To my editor, Sheryl Grassie, for your vision with this wonderful book and all your help in pulling it together. To Richard, that wonderful husband of yours, for all his feedback and never-ending support. You two are a great team!

To a very special policeman, who chooses to remain anonymous, for trusting me enough to give me the photographs of the soul.

To my wonderful partner, Mike Hartley. Where do I start? All the emotional support? The late-night gab sessions? The constant encouragement? My sounding board twenty-four hours a day? Our mainstream-New Age bantering? Its hard to know where to start. Thank you for all youve given me while I worked on this project. You are truly a gift from God. Thanks, honey, for all of it. I love you.

To Dr. Marcie New for all the work on my body, mind, and soul, and for always believing in me and my work.

To Nick Bunick for writing the foreword, for bringing us your wonderful book, The Messengers, and for coming into my life at a perfect time. I dearly treasure your friendship.

To my wonderful publisher, Marc Allen, for all your excitement about this project and for all your great phone calls. You are such a delightful person. I feel very blessed to be one of your authors.

To Rev. Ken Williamson, for coming into my life at the perfect time and showing me through your example how to go that extra mile. You are truly a blessing in my life.

To my two buddies, Tom Linzsmeier and Jim Hanson. Youve been so supportive in many ways, and I thank you both from the bottom of my heart.

To my sister-in-law, Jamie Sherman, for your great faxes of encouragement, for all your support, and for hanging in there with me every month!

To Sam DiPaola for the use of your poems.

To all my clients who have taught me about the soul.

To all my students for asking your questions.

A special thanks to these special friends: Fran Lindstrom, Warren Anger, Kathy Grove, Ginny Miller, Valerie Celene, Teri Trombley, J. Marie Fieger, Darlene Kvist, Sarah Wilson, The Breakfast Club Debbie, Sue, and Roberta and to my lifelong friend, Roman Sherman.

A s we go through the journey of our life, there are many times that we have questions that we pray to have answered, questions that deal with the very essence of who we are. Is there truly a spiritual world, or is it the creation of poets and mystics? If there is a spiritual world, what is our relationship to that other dimension? Are we mortals, whose existence is confined to our earth experience, or are we souls that God has granted immortality and eternal life?

For over 1,600 years religious teachers have tried to persuade us that we only have one life to live, that salvation and redemption can only be achieved through their churches and that there is a punishing God who will condemn your soul to eternal suffering if you do not abide by the dogmas and doctrines that they are preaching to us. But a spiritual consciousness is spreading throughout the world today. More and more people are recognizing that their minds are the gateway to their hearts and souls, and they are now opening the gates to allow information to come into the hearts and souls that five years ago would not have been available.

More than ever before in history, people are trying to understand their relationship with God. Are we human beings, who coincidentally have a soul? Or are we souls that are having a human experience? There are some individuals who are born with a special gift. For some, the gift may enable them to be an extraordinary singer or a dancer, or a world renowned artist. Or the gift may be of a spiritual nature, in that God has blessed that individual with the ability to not only understand, but also to be able to see into that other dimension, that dimension where God, Jesus, and all the great avatars reside as well as our angels, who are our spiritual guides; into the dimension where the spirits of our loved ones who have passed on have made the transition before us. Echo Bodine is one of those individuals that God has blessed.

I met Echo when I was traveling on a twenty-seven city tour giving spiritual symposiums after my book, The Messengers, had been introduced. In Minneapolis, the sponsor and producer of my symposium told me that there was a very special person he wanted to introduce me to, a person that God had given special gifts. I could feel her energy and her spiritual strength.

When she gave me a copy of her manuscript, Echoes of the Soul, I read it in two sittings. It had met every criteria that I had established for myself and in other books that I read, in that it was written with love, clarity, and with the intent of helping people to understand their purpose in life and to enjoy the journey that they are on. In Echoes of the Soul, you will literally feel that you are sitting in a wonderful, peaceful space and having a personal conversation with Echo Bodine. It is as if one of your best friends is sitting across from you, and in a gentle, loving, conversational manner, is sharing with you her experiences and her insights. And you do not want the conversation to end. Not only does the information being shared with you make sense intellectually, but even more important, your heart and soul will ring with truth, as you come to have a greater understanding of the journey you are on and the true purpose of your life. You will travel with Echo into the spiritual world, and your hearts will be filled with hope and joy, when you truly recognize that there is no such thing as death, but only transitions. You will have both an understanding and a wisdom of the purpose of your life, in that we are all truly on the same journey.