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

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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!

"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.

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.

Having read scores of books Re: what transpires on the otherside, this book amazed me at the accuracy of its
content. Written 100 yrs ago and yet provided information we are only NOW beginning to understand. (via automatic writing by a blind women!)
The law of vibrational frequencies, the power of thoughts creating our reality, how to raise one's vibrations,
How the multitude of levels one ascends to on the otherside is determined and so many more fascinating insights.
What I understand now was corroborated and validated in this book... I would not have comprehended as much a decade ago. Incredible read.

IF YOU ARE INTO SPIRITUALTY -- YOU WILL NEVER READ A MORE IMPORTANT AND LIFE WARMING BOOK THAN THIS ONE.