Letters from the Other Side: With Love, Harry and Helen [Paperback]

Mary Blount White (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1995

Blind since childhood, Mary Blount White was limited in what she could write. Yet after her brother and sister had died, she asked her father for a pencil and began to transcribe messages by automatic handwriting. She said, "I felt as if I held a galvanic battery in my hand." Between 1913 and 1917 she received scores of letters from Harry and Helen, describing life after death. Their straight talk about the need for peace, tolerance of others, individual responsibility, and existence on other planes has impressed many and is still relevant today.This was one of the first books we published, and we've kept it in print because new people keep discovering it and thanking us for making it available. Note: The original publication date was 1987, although that date does not work on this Web form.

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So many passages, so many thoughts and directions...sparked me to mark them--remember them--...I urge you to read this... -- Patricia Greco, New Age Exchange

About the Author

Blind since childhood, Mary Blount White was limited in what she could write. Yet after her brother and sister had died, she asked her father for a pencil and began to transcribe messages by automatic handwriting. The touching letters reproduced in this book were written down between 1913 and 1917.

Product Details

• Paperback: 195 pages
• Publisher: Upper Access, Inc. (August 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942679032
• ISBN-13: 978-0942679038
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,016,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating story - could be true!, January 2, 2002

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S. L. Moore "book_finder" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Letters from the Other Side: With Love, Harry and Helen (Paperback)

This book is a series of letters from siblings that have passed away to their still-living sister and family. It's a fascinating read and I couldn't put it down. Many of the concepts that Harry and Helen describe in their new existence have stuck with me and I find myself wondering how my life today is preparing me to survive in that next world. If what Harry and Helen say is true, we have a lot to look forward to!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books., January 26, 2009

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K. Leonard (Dekalb, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Letters from the Other Side: With Love, Harry and Helen (Paperback)

"Letters..." is one of my all time favorite books. I've been a big fan of the Seth Books by Jane Roberts for many years. Those were the first channeled books I had run across that seemed to me to be clearly authentic. Since then I've been fascinated with channeled materials, although I find it all too rare to find materials that give me a sense of authenticity (or at least, minimally distorted and not obnoxiously flowery). Other good materials include the Edgar Cayce books, the Emmanuel books by Pat Rodgast and Judith Stanton and works by Eileen Caddy. I liked the Seth books for their clarity and depth, although they are very hard to read at anything faster than a snails pace. Not that they are boring or difficult to understand, but that they demand you stretch your imagination in ways you will never come across elsewhere. The Emmanuel books are much more fun and "lighter reading" and yet still maintain what I believe is "straight" information. (This still comes down to a sense that I know it when I see it. Sorry I can't be more logical.) "Letters..." was, amazingly, one of the best books along these lines that I've ever come across. When I first read it, I was elated to finally find more material that gave me a clear sense of its authenticity. The book is full of surprises and ideas that are unique, if only in that - should we ever actually have a "line of communication" to the other side, we would never run out of questions, and therefore, never run out of surprising answers. This book is a joyful read, as well as a thought-provoking one. The previous review is disheartening, but I do not know the books it mentions. I'm curious to investigate them. I suspect we all have our own qualifications we require something like this to meet for it to "convince [us] that these are communications from external intelligences". I do not think that is usually the goal of this sort of material. It's not the messenger, but the message that is important.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A mildly interesting curiosity, September 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Letters from the Other Side: With Love, Harry and Helen (Paperback)

I've read just about everything from the heyday of psychical research, which is the era in which these letters were produced. There were any number of books purporting to be letters from the deceased -- "Letters from Julia," "Letters from a Living Dead Man," etc. Most of them make for rather dull reading today, especially in comparison to the classic works on psychical research, or analyses of the cross-correspondences, or actual transcripts of sittings with the great mediums such as Mrs. Piper. Although I'm very sympathetic to this sort of stuff, I'm afraid that this book does fall at the "rather dull" end of the spectrum. The communicators (a sister who died many years before the book was written, a brother who died more recently) are purportedly communicating through their blind sister via automatic writing. Much of the material concerns family matters, and that which is more cosmic or spiritual in nature is hardly in the same league as Stainton Moses' "Spirit Teachings" or the Silver Birch books. There is really nothing to convince the reader that these are communications from external intelligences, as opposed to products of the living sister's own mind. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from buying this as a minor curiosity of the era in which it was produced, and you might find a nugget or two that rings true for you.