Choices In The Afterlife, What we can do and where we can go after death [Paperback]

Gretchen Vogel (Author), Ray David (Editor), Lynne Parzini (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0976677903 | ISBN-13: 978-0976677901 | Edition: 3rd

If you are never going to die you don't need this book. Choices In The Afterlife is a systematic road map to the afterlife describing the processes of self realization, assimilation, healing and progression in ever increasingly intangible levels of energy. Choices in the Afterlife explains how we continue after death with the same attitudes and awareness that we had in life. We are not different people after we drop the physical body, our mind and spirit are entwined consisting of the same attitudes, awareness, memories, and spiritual outlook or religious beliefs. Our afterlife experiences culminate in our choice either to remain in the potential for another lifetime on earth or to ascend which is the return to God/Source; the heaven our religions speak of. This book explains what we can choose to do after life and where we can choose to do it.

Editorial Reviews

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I have read so many books by mediums and have only found one who has a clear channel to the deceased, George Anderson. I m sure you know of him. After reading your book, it is apparent your channel is a clear one as well. I devoured your book in one day and by the end found myself in a state of bliss. It was truly medicine for the soul. --Felix, Texas

I just finished your book last night. Wow, what a read. I really like how you made it so reader friendly. I read a book, or tried to anyway, a few years back on this topic and I kept getting stuck in the middle because it just gets so heavy with agape and ego and personality and old souls and new souls and life lessons and so forth. I find I needed to chart everything in order to follow it! But your book is way easier to understand and follow. Plus, you have helped answer a lot of questions I had about my own mother and her passing. Words can not describe how important it is. Anyway, thank you again for writing such a comforting book. --Michelle, Toronto

Perhaps you know the excited feeling when you discover that someone that has always been a helper to friends, animals and plants around her has blossomed into a helper on the broad universal scale with her book. Gretchen imparts, with her clear precise mind and gentle and balanced writing answers to the delicate questions we and our loved ones face after death. This book will be a tremendous help to many people. --Shasta, New Mexico

About the Author

Gretchen Vogel is an accomplished medium and trance channeler and this is the first in the trilogy of her books exploring life's greatest mysteries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Choices Publishing; 3rd edition (January 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976677903
• ISBN-13: 978-0976677901
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New aspect of the afterlife, June 28, 2008

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Liz Ellerbe (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews

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After reading over 80 books on spirituality, many on the afterlife per se, I found this book enlightening on how to navigate oneself after physical death. The author's instructions tie in with all that I have read but makes my former reading seem lacking in this important aspect. Who would have thought that one needs to know where to place oneself, the mind control intricacies needed for mastering the realms available to each soul, and the fantastic journey available?

The style of writing is direct and at the same time so pertinent, at least for me, since I have read about the LACK of knowing what to do when we're out of our body, and this book makes it so clear.

I plan to order several copies for friends who know even less than I do and who may be somewhat lost at the moment of departure.

56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reluctant Reader, February 23, 2008

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Lynne A. Mcewan "L.A. McEwan" (Hancock, NH,USA) - See all my reviews
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When multiple beloved family members passed away, all within a decade, worried friends took note of my increasingly depressed demeanor and set about trying to improve my life and times. Knowing me for a hidebound cynic, it was a true friend who risked my snarling reception of her suggestion that I read Gretchin Vogel's book, "Choices in the Afterlife".

At that point,I was no longer emotionally desperate or longing for any comfort I might find, simply sad. When I took that dear friend's advice, sufficient time had passed, and although it does not necessarily heal, it does blunt pain and allow for a more rational view. My rational self resisted, but I wanted to satisfy my friend, who was all but swollen with her encouragement!

From page one of this beautifully concieved work, I abandoned my disdain for "after-life comic books", as I thought of the genre. Ms. Vogel guides the reader along the pathways, ascents and descents of the post-
death experience with a gentle , knowing grace. And importantly, with believable wisdom.

I am left with a priceless comfort; the unalloyed conviction that my departed loved ones have found thier own peace, and wish for me to find mine. Read this rare and inspiring book, if you need to find yours.

Respectfully Submitted, L.A. McEwan, NH

39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Novice Afterlife book, August 3, 2010

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J. M. Kahn "Gizmo Lover" (Toms River, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book after reading the reviews. I've been interested in this subject for over twenty years and have read many, many, many books on the subject. I am not an author and probably never will be. I read these books for my own edification and curiosity. I started learning about this subject with the Life After Life books by Raymond MoodyLife After Life and moved on from there. After reading the reivews I was very excited and awaited with great anticipation the arrival of this book. That being said, I was VERY disappointed in this book. There are a some major flaws with her descriptions of life after life. The first one is that while there are people to help those that have been murdered or died in a violent manner, and people to help babies and those that are mentally handicapped on the otherside (in the author's discussions from those that have transitioned from this life to the next) there is no one that helps the average Joe/Jane to transition to the other side. No guides, no guardian angels, no helper bees, nothing. The average person that just passed over has to figure it all out by themselves. I think NOT! Another problem is that none of the people that the author talked to were in any kind of group or class or what ever you want to call it. They just float into a Golden Library and learn on their own and then decide if they want to incarnate, and I guess, where, and to whom they want to incarnate with. I think that her human emotions or something are getting in the way of her conversations. I would suggest that anyone that really wants to know what happens in life between lives read the books by Michael Newton. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. These interviews are with living individuals who are regressed to passed lives and then into the afterlife. Thousands of intereviews, all with the same discriptions. Same thoughts, same occurances. (And no, I was not in any of these books, as interviewed or interviewer.) As a side note, the author of this book said 2 things which bothered me. She went into the library on the otherside and asked a question "Why don't we remember why we chose the parents that we were birthed to?". She said that the other people in the library looked at her curiously and she then "Pretended to know what she was doing. And acted like she belonged there." In an earlier part of the book she said that "In the library and elsewhere on the otherside, no one bothers you, they just do what they have to do and go about their own business." This seems very contradictory to me. Why were they looking at her? Why did they think she "didn't belong"? Also, why was she self-conscious? Why didn't she just look at the others and smile and joke with them? Also, she never gave the answer she received (if she got one, maybe she didn't). Well, I can give her that answer if she reads this review (probably she won't), it's because it would get in the way of the learning experience you're having while on the earth plane. You have to forget or the knowledge would get in your way. Same reason you don't remember all of your past lives. They would just get in your way. The same way that knowing the answers to a test you have in school prevents you from learning anything. I'm sure she can talk to those on the otherside, and it's wonderful that she can bring solace the bereaved. But her talks with them about the afterlife are very flawed. You may have guessed already that I didn't finish reading the book. There are other problems with this book, too numerous for this review. If you've just started out in your education on life after life then maybe this is a good start. Probably not though. You're better off reading Testimony of Light, Testimony of Light: An Extraordinary Message of Life After Death. The author of this book has conversations psychially to a Nun (that she had a friendship with during their lifetime) that has passed on. I'm sure my review of this book is going to anger a lot of her fans. Sorry, this review is just my opinion. Hate me and then move on. I just wish she had written about her conversations with those that passed on that had helped the bereaved. I would have enjoyed that.