Thirty Years Among the Dead [Paperback]

Carl A. Wickland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1974

Over and over again, this was the inspiring and illuminating message received by he author of this amazing book in over 30 years of communicating with departed spirits through the medium of his own wife! a man of science and a dedicated researcher in the fields of the psychic and abnormal psychology, Dr. Wickland presents the fruits of over three decades of painstaking work, recording verbatim a large body of spirit communication. In page after page of fascinating testimony, those on the Other Side discuss such subjects as magnetic auras, spirits and crime, spirits and narcotics, suiicide, life after death, the astral planes, Christian Science and Theosophy. On the last two subjects, Dr. Wickland presents views of none other than Mary Baker Eddy and Madam Blavatsky themselves! This enthralling classic of Spiritualism, first published in 1924, is now available again to enlighten and inspire. --- from book's back cover

Product Details

• Paperback: 390 pages
• Publisher: Newcastle Pub Co Inc (March 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878770259
• ISBN-13: 978-0878770250
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,835,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all ssychiatrists, November 27, 2004

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Shawn T. Murphy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thirty Years Among the Dead (Paperback)

Dr. Carl Wickland MD would not have agreed with the conclusions of Dr. Stevens [...]. He specifically stated that all of the memories observed in such cases were actually originating from the discarnate spirit of the deceased, who was attached to the patient. He did not accept the case of the deceased spirit entering into a new incarnation. Of course Dr. Wickland was dealing with the psychosis of much older patients and did not to my knowledge examine any of the type of patients that Dr. Stevens did.

Dr. Wickland's work is of great importance to the understanding of Origenes' theory of "The Restoration of All Things." [...] But it only addresses one aspect and that is of the `Lost Souls". Early Christians had prayed regularly for the `Lost Souls', and Dr. Wickland gives us many reasons why we should do so today. When discarnate spirits do not accept the divine order and return to where they belong, they are able to `molest' people with whom they have had some sort of special relationship.

What does this have to early Christian teaching? First of all, it gives us a very good lesson in Free Will. As M. C. Steenberg [...] most rightly points out, if all souls were destined to go to heaven, then where does Free Will come in? Dr. Wickland describes in great detail the amount of havoc that these discarnate spirits were allowed to bring to his patients. He also shows how they must choose to stop their activities among humans and accept divine guidance.

Secondly, his work gives a hint of the order that exists in the divine spiritual world and gives us an idea as to how many angels are actually around us, active in the restoration process, guiding us during our life and afterwards.

The discarnate spirits that Dr. Wickland encountered in his work certainly represented only a small subset of the discarnate spirits. When their body dies, the majority submit to the divine order. To find out about these, we must look to different sources.

Shawn Murphy
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Book, June 9, 2006

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Mohinder Goomar, M.D., F.R.C.S. "www.goomar.com" (Bonita, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirty Years Among the Dead (Paperback)

I read and reread this book several years ago. It gave great insight into the realms of the spirits and their rather very serious impact on those living. The departed spirits communicated through an intermediary, medium, his wife. The stories told touched my heart and enhanced my understanding of the nature and character of the spirits. That provided wealth of information for my book, Secrets of Life, Beyond...

I would highly recommend this book not only to healthcare providers but the public at large.

Mohinder Goomar, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Ret.), author, Secrets of Life, Beyond...

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bringing life to dead people, January 21, 2005

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Edmund W. Poor "Uncle Ed" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thirty Years Among the Dead (Paperback)

I read this book 15 years ago, so my memory may be getting dim. But it's about the author's experience treating cases of spirit possession. A typical case is a young man who felt the need to run away and go to sea. It turned out, as the author discovered, that he was being strongly influenced by a dead sailor. He asked the sailor to leave the young man alone, and that was the end of that.

Wickland claimed no spiritual powers but used an intermediary (I think it was his wife, who would go into a trance). His method was to interview the spirits hanging around the patient. He would inquire as to how their life had been, and what they are trying to do with the patient. He would then recommend that they leave him alone and go rather with the "Mercy Crew" (a multi-racial group of higher-lever departed spirits who chose to work with the Wicklands).

So he did confidently what Joel Haley Osmont (of "I see dead people" fame) did fearfully in "The Sixth Sense".

Forgive me if my memory deceives me in a few details. I think I'll order a copy and re-read it.