Jeannie Reed - The Afterlife Book: Because You Never Got a Chance to Say Goodbye

Copyright 2022 Jeannie Reed

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Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-7051-5

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-7052-2

Printed in the United States of America

for Dee and Bobby

Contents

the history of mediums, mediumship, and spiritualism

Einstein, Kaku, quantum physics, string theory: were moving fast today toward proof that psychic work and mediumship are scientifically possible

a historical review of mediumship and spiritualism in America

thumbnail sketches of some of the mediums who are at work today both in and out of the limelight

the natural world seems to be a major bridge between the afterlife and this one: birds, insects...

tools that mediums and psychics have used to pierce the veil between here and beyond

movies, TV shows, and books are starting to proliferatewhich tells us the culture is ready; we are ready

I went online searching for people with stories to tell about connecting with the deceased; they called, we spoke, and their stories are here

the creatures we care about can and do come back

In early 2017, this man showed up at my bedside in the middle of the night. I didnt believe. Not for weeks. Not for about eight months, as a matter of fact.

a look at how belief systems are turning upside down now, and what I believe is the genesis of bias, ridicule, disbelief, fear, ostracism, and shunning

Organizations and journals devoted to parapsychological and metaphysical phenomena

Acknowledgments

I want to thank University of Virginia Reference Librarian Barbie Selby for her research on Dr. Ian Stevenson. I want to thank Marion Hedger for her inside info on Britains Witchcraft Act of 1935 and its repeal in 1951. I want to thank Dr. Marvin Belsky for twenty-five years of support and encouragement and the loan of a book that changed my mind, and so changed my life. I want to thank my dear friend Alejandro Carosso, whose astonishing library has been an invaluable resource for the writing of this book. I want to thank the many beautiful, ordinary people who answered my craigslist posting and shared their after-death experience stories. I want to thank Dr. Carl Jung, Dr. Ian Stevenson, Dr. Brian Weiss, Dr. Raymond Moody, Jr., and Dr. Jim Tucker for believing enough to take the risk of putting us all before their own careers and reputations.

And I want to thank my family, friends, and clients for your support and encouragement over the years.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.

John 11:25

Its not over.

Jeffrey 9/20

Preface

I didnt know when I started this book where it could end up. All I can say is that in the three years writing, miracles have been happening. And Ive been able to capture much of it with a camera, clear as day. So clear that anybody looking at the pictures would have to say, Yes! That is...

I wrote this book for ordinary people. So that people can learn and know and understand the amazing world of spirit. I know now that many folks have been contacted by the loved ones theyve lost. But too many dont know that. They dont know how to hear. They dont know how to listen. Theyve been told to be scared, so theyve shut down.

And thats so sad.

At the beginning, I had an idea I could write a book about reincarnation. But no. Life took me in a very different direction. See, Ive discovered that the spirit world is very much with us always. ON this Earth, and in real time, and doing stuff all day long trying to get our attention! As I said, I have pictures. And youve gotten messages. But maybe you dont know it. Yet.

This is such a big deal I can only hope Ive done it justice. I hope Ive said enough that people can say, wow! Because I just want folks to stop being afraid of dying.

Because I can say now that I know the spirit world is very much with us 24/7. If only we can all just accept that idea long enough to take an honest look. Many have done this and had the guts to write about it. Others have put their reputations on the line because theyre able to accept brand-new ideas maybe not yet proven by science.

Because I want to give you a big picture of a subject that has a lot of moving parts, in this book youll find Deepak Chopra, Plato, Dr. Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, the Delphic Oracle, Amedeo Modigliani, David Bohm, Michio Kaku, Carlo Rovelli. And Russell Targ and Werner Heisenberg and Abraham Lincoln and Socrates and Caroline Myss, and the rabbis and priests and mediums and philosophers and mystics and medical doctors who have researched and written about spirit life over many hundreds of years.

But here youll also find the cab drivers and administrative assistants and teachers and executives among us right now... all with an afterlife story theyre eager to tell.

And if youre asking yourself, who is she to be writing about spiritualism and life after death? Well, youd better believe Ive asked myself that question a lot in the past three years. All I can say is, first of all, I spent many years as a reporter. So, to do this book I figured Id better put on my reporters hat and start asking questions. I figured that if I didnt find solid answers, either Id be the wrong person to be looking, or the answers I hoped for wouldnt be there at all.

And where did the idea come from in the first place to write about spirit life? Well, that was from the mystic part of me (yes, you have one too).

To put you in the picture:

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July 1969.

It was the summer of Woodstock. It was the summer that marked one small step for mankind. It was the summer I was struck by lightning as I walked along the roots of a towering maple at the end of the driveway. As the tree was falling behind me, I didnt know I was running for my life.

Three days later, I used an Aramaic word in a poem. Atziluth. And, of course, I thought the lightning had done something bad to my brain. I mean, this was a word I didnt know and had never learned. I thought it was jibberish that just came out of me. And I was scared that I was suddenly crazy. It would be at least twenty years before Id learn that it is actually a word and that Id used it correctly in the poem.

So, yes, it turns out that something had happened to me during that lightning strike. I had become psychic is all. Its as simple (and as complicated) as that.