Touched by the Extraordinary (Paperback)

~ Susan Barbara Apollon (Author)

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"'Touched by the Extraordinary' is full of true stories about the power of spirit that will inspire and uplift everyone." -- Christiane Northrup, MD., author of " Mother-Daughter Wisdom, "February 22, 2005

"Touched by the Extraordinary is a gift of love and wisdom from Susan...Read this ...It can change your life." -- Melvin Morse, MD., author of "Where God Lives"

Product Description

"Touched by the Extraordinary" backs up spiritual revelation with scientific research and reveals the many ways you can experience and communicate with the extraordinary. Author Susan Apollon takes what she's learned from mentors and teachers like Elisabeth Kubler-Ross,Joan Borysenko, Raymond Moody, Melvin Morse, Brian Weiss and Carolyn Myss and shares with you in clear, easy-to-understand language how to recognize when you are being touched by something special. She also shares a remarkable collection of encounters that either she has personally experienced or that others (including some of the widows from 9/11) have shared with her.

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With a deep appreciation for the potential of human beings,"Touched by the Extraordinary" guides and teaches you ways to tap into your intuitive wisdom and helps you reconnect with your soul- and with one another. It reveals why so-called "strange events" are normal and validates experiences you may have had. It also teaches you ways lost loved ones can - and may already - communicate with you and helps you to master techniques to harness the power of your mind and body in amazing ways.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Matters of the Soul (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0975403648
• ISBN-13: 978-0975403648
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #350,892 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart warming book, March 26, 2006

By	Bonnie Neely - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Touched by the Extraordinary by Susan Barbara Apollon is a tender book which give many examples of various ways people experience things beyond normal physical capabilities, offering proof that we are more than our bodies and there is far more to life than meets the eye or other senses. The author calls these extraordinary events "delicious and mystifying and difficult-to-label-and-understand." She seeks to validify the experiences sited, to enlighten, and to challenge your belief about what is real. She discusses intuition, NDE's, second sight, sixth sense, dreams, visions, ESP, psychic energy, automatic writing and many other amazing phenomenon. She relates numerous fascinating occurrences of the people she interviewed and sheds light on their meaning, whether coincidence or synchronicity orchestrated by unseen helpers. The book is really interesting and very meaningful for today's world

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A plethora of personal experiences that illustrated the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the spiritual , July 5, 2005

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

In Touched By The Extraordinary, author Susan Barbara Apollon draws upon her more than twenty years of experience as a psychotherapist and healer working with children and adults who were traumatized by diverse and often terminal diseases. Of special poignancy is the perspective she provides from having survived her own illnesses and losses as she shares illuminating insights, applicable lessons, and a comforting wisdom to her readers through the means of anecdotal stories revealing the power of love and spirituality in healing the soul and enhancing the quality of life at its every stage. Beginning with the process of defining what is meant by "extraordinary", Susan goes on to deal with the metaphysical aspects and psychological elements involving dreams, visions, encounters with the senses of the body, intuitive wisdom, automatic writing, precognition, near-death experiences, psychic energy, and more. A very special chapter is devoted to the experienced phenomena of deceased loved ones, divine and spiritual beings, angels, and the communicative presence of higher evolved beings. Another chapter takes up extrasensory perception, mediation, intercessory prayer, distant healing, miracles, and "coincidental synchronicity" with the authors observation that there really are no such things as "coincidence" with respect to our inner lives. The balance of Touched By The Extraordinary consists of a plethora of personal experiences that illustrated the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the spiritual -- as evidenced in ordinary people having extraordinary circumstances and events arise in their otherwise ordinary lives. Of special note is the chapter devoted her own journey of discovery, "Developing Intuitively--My Journey". Superbly written and thoroughly accessible from beginning to end, enhanced with extensive chapter notes, a bibliography (including suggestions for further study), and an extensive index, Touched By The Extraordinary is informed and informative reading strongly recommended for dedicated students of Metphysical Studies, as well as those non-specialist general readers embarking upon their own quest for a better understanding and an improved coping with severe illness and end-of-life issues that we all must face within the compass of our own life journey.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth The Journey Into The Realm Of The Paranormal, June 15, 2005

By	Norman Goldman "Editor of Bookpleasures.com" (Montreal) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Susan Apollon, author of Touched by the Extraordinary: An Intuitive Psychologist Shares Insights, Lessons, and True Stories of Spirit and Love to Transform and Heal the Soul has for the past twenty years worked as a psychotherapist, psychologist, and healer, treating children and adults who are traumatized, diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses, dealing with death and dying, and those who are grieving.

Touched by the Extraordinary is an incredible book: a fully gripping read that provides us with an overview and window into the world of the paranormal and extraordinary, presented in a painless format, devoid of esoteric terminology.

As Apollon mentions in her Prologue, it required more than ten years of research to write the book. This labor of love, as she terms it, relies heavily on the writings of some of the leading experts on extraordinary and paranormal phenomena, such as Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Dr. Melvin Morse, and Dr. Raymond Moody, whom Apollon has referred to as her mentors.

The author's thorough investigation of a subject that has up to very recently remained on the periphery of the world of main stream Medicine and Psychology exudes a frankness and intelligence that will perhaps influence skeptics to reconsider their positions.

The handbook, as Apollon refers to it, divides itself into two sections, the first providing the readers with an exposé of the basic terminology and theories pertaining to the paranormal and the second contains a collection of unique and exceptional encounters that have been personally experienced by the author or others that have shared these happenings with her.

The reader is confronted with some soul-searching topics to consider on many levels such as the legitimacy of near- death experiences, visions, automatic writing, precognition, communication with the dead, angles, miracles, animal behavior and humans, intuitive wisdom, prayer, presence of deceased love ones, distant healing. All of these topics make for a compelling read, as Apollon provides us with insights into subject matters that are often suspect and rejected as gobbledygook, as they represent a new way of understanding and healing the human spirit.

Apollon also devotes considerable ink to the concept that the mind is "nonlocal" or is not connected to any particular place (the brain), time (the present), and space (the body). As she states: "borrowed from the research of the quantum physicists, the idea that the mind is nonlocal is a beautiful way of making sense of precognitive experiences."

The objective of the stories contained in the second part, as the author states, is not only to "normalize" the extraordinary, at least to some extent, but also to enable the skeptics to have a more open mind and heart and to be more acceptable to the possibility of the impossible being possible.

It is within this second section where we read the stories from Women of 9/11, extraordinary encounters with animals and with deceased parents and relatives, prayers that were answered, and many more difficult- to -believe happenings. Should we cast aside these stories as a being figments of one's imagination and trivialize them? Or should we reconsider them in the light of some of the convincing evidence exposed in the book and the teachings of many renowned experts in the field?

From another perspective, and as Apollon points out, the extraordinary touches us on many levels that force us to pause and ask questions regarding the nature of life and death, life after death, as well as the meaning and purpose of life. Consequently, should we not reflect upon these happenings in a way that will help us understand who we are at the level of the soul?

This book is well worth the journey into the realm of the paranormal, and will surely keep you questioning your existence and what is life all about?

Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com