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A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing

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Fifteen years ago the term 'medium' was barely known to the public: today the ordinary American knows it well. Psychic Rosemary Altea's A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: REMARKABLE TRUE STORIES OF HOPE AND HEALING comes from a woman widely known as the 'voice of the spirit world' and here provides an important survey of how to spot fakes in the industry, and how to understand the spirit world. From the author's latest encounters with the spirit world, including a soldier who died in Iraq, to increased media coverage of psychics in modern times, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH offers much insight into the world of psychic perception.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

if i could give this book 10 stars i would ! i love this lady . this is her best book since the eagle and the rose . i lost a young daughter to cancer and it is very hard to cope with that loss , but this book has helped me and i know that is why she wrote it , to help people with their loss . i will never be the same with out my daughter but at least i can cope a little better now . thank you rosemary

If these Remarkable True Stories are really true, it means the world is even stranger than we usually believe it to be. Which is strange indeed.

I really liked her explanation on what happened when someone committed suicide, that angels were there to meet them and comfort them. That SHOULD be true. Anyone who is miserable enough to commit suicide should be received lovingly on the other side and their healing should begin immediately. The book is about Hope and Healing and, personally, I can use all of those I can get.

I find Rosemary Altea a very genuine and warm person. She is very honest and admits her failures and her triumphs. I am impressed with her writings because it caused me to expand my thinking into a dimension, I had never been before. Her book "THe Rose and the Eagle", brought me out of a four year depression, that was spiraling downward into complete hopelessness. That book caused me to look at death in a total different light, and see that there is truly just a veil between us and beyond the grave. My Mom passed away 4 years ago March 1 and I could not reconcile my mind to the fact that even though I had witnessed her death with a huge smile on her face, as if she was seeing into the next world, I could not get over the grief of losing someone that had always been there for me. With Rosemary's book I realized Mom is not truly gone , I just can't see her unless she is revealed to me. She did make herself known to me on Thanksgiving day as I was reading this book. I lit two candles, one burnt down into a beautiful rose shape and the other just stayed a cylinder shape. My Mother's name was Rosalie, and many would call her Rose for short. I had put her dishes out for Thanksgiving that had roses around the edge. I have felt her presence near me, ever since, I feel strangely comforted and loved, instead of alone and grieving. Thank you Rosemary for helping me to realize that there is so much more to life than what we see with our natural eye.

Beware: this book's content is exactly the same as another book by the same author, Rosemary Althea, entitled "The Realm Beyond".

I enjoyed this book but have read many of Rosemarys books and found this one to be along the same wave.So not anything that I had not already read of hers.Just different storys.If you haven't read any of her other books you would find this book very good.

I'm very pleased with this dealers service. The book came sooner then expected. Great price as well.
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I have all of Rosemary Altea's books!! Each one has been enlightening and uplifting. I am anxiously waiting for another book to come out. Each time I find a new one, I can barely wait to get hold of it!! She is the kind of author who is able to tell her story in an intersting way that makes it hard to put the book down!! I always have a highlighter when I read her material and I use it often!! I love to go back to each book and reread the highlighted parts. For me, her books are soothing to the soul !!

I thought this was a great book. One of Rosemary's best. I look forward to her next one.

This is the first book by Rosemary Altea that I've read. Perhaps I should have read "The Eagle and the Rose" first, but I got the gist of who the author is (and who her spirit guide is) from this book.

I didn't find any of the stories really mind-blowing (although there were a few that were intriguing). And while I find Altea more credible than Sylvia Browne (comparisons are bound to be made between the two), I do find her just a little bit hypocritical. In one breath, she talks about how she is skeptical, always questioning everything. And yet, anything that Grey Eagle (her spirit guide) says seems to be taken as truth without much questioning at all.

I was also turned off by her talk of "Dark Souls". It's just too similar to the Sylvia Browne canon, and strikes me as a lazy way of looking at things... especially for a psychic.

I do question the value of these kinds of books for being able to help people with their grief. Reading about someone else's experience is not necessarily going to help you with your own, no matter how often you are told so by the author. For many, seeing (or personal experience) is believing.

Other than that, though, the book was interesting. I don't regret reading it. Taken as a collection of interesting (if a little disjointed) stories, it's a perfectly adequate summer read.