Visitations From the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing [Hardcover]

Lee Lawson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 22, 2000

A Visitation -- a spontaneous encounter with a loved one who has passed on into the next world -- is a life-altering and transformative experience. Sometimes a loved one returns to say "Good-bye, for now," or to bring a vision of the afterlife or a lesson for this life. Often the spirit brings the blessed peace of healing to a grieving loved one -- someone who has lost a parent, a partner, or a child. However they come, these extraordinary moments of reunion leave the living blessed and forever changed.

According to a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, almost 70 million Americans believe that it is possible to communicate with the dead, and millions of people the world over have experienced a visitation. When people feel that it is safe to speak openly of these encounters, they tell stories that in the past have been kept close, "secretly whispered from parent to child, from friend to friend, from heart to heart."

Since early childhood, Lee Lawson has herself had many visitations, treasured experiences that have profoundly shaped and molded her life. Visitations from the Afterlife is a passionate invitation to explore and be blessed by this remarkable collection of visitation stories from around the world.

Whether or not you have experienced a visitation, you will find these accounts compelling evidence of the afterlife, revealing to us that life and love continue into eternity. This beautiful collection of stories brings hope and peace to the heart, helping us to realize that we live on after death, and that one day we will be reunited with the ones we love.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

It has been estimated that over 70 million people from all walks of life and all areas of the globe have experienced a reunion with a loved one from the afterlife, according to author Lee Lawson. "Why then are these visitations usually kept secret, told to a very few trusted friends or to no at all?" she asks. In breaking the silence, Lawson offers great solace and companionship for readers who have received a visitation or deeply yearn for one. Not only does she provide well-researched and sensitive overviews of why visitations occur--often to comfort or guide the living--she also offers numerous personal stories of visitations from around the world. Indeed, it is hard not to weep over these tender accounts written in the first person. Yet the tears are not of sadness, since the stories are all framed within a context of joy and gratitude, having discovered that even after the loss of a loved one, there is still an everlasting connection. Chapters include "Grief: To Soothe a Grieving Heart," "Returning: A Sacred Promise," and "Making Peace: Forgiveness and Reconciliation." --Tara West

About the Author

Lee Lawson is an artist whose work is internationally exhibited and collected. She lives in San Luis Obispo County, California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne; 1 edition (August 22, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062516531
• ISBN-13: 978-0062516534
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,027,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than most in this genre, April 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Visitations From the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing (Hardcover)

Books filled with anecdotal accounts of after-death communications have become so common that it's hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff, but this is definitely one of the better ones in the genre. It's well-organized into chapters in which ADCs sharing common themes are grouped together. Each ADC carries a separate title and appears to be more or less in the experiencer's own words. They range from not-very-impressive to truly incredible. My wife read this first and frequently interrupted whatever I was doing to say, "Geez, listen to this ..." There are several accounts that will stick with you and that you'll find yourself discussing with others. My main beef with all of these books is that we are entirely dependant upon the good faith and honesty of the experiencers without knowing anything about them, as well as the ability of the author (a successful artist who includes several experiences of her own) to filter out people who are exagerrating or just want to see their accounts in print. It would make the accounts SO much more convincing if the experiencers would be willing to be identified with photographs and brief background sketches that would give the reader some level of confidence that these are real people describing real experiences. Compare the accounts in an old classic such as "Phantasms of the Living," where the psychical researchers went to extraordinary lengths to verify the accounts, and you'll see what I'm talking about. With this one caveat, which applies to most recent books in this vein, I can recommend this as compelling reading that you are sure to enjoy. I rate it above many of the others in this genre on the basis that it's well-written and well-organized.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent,Inspiring and Comforting, September 13, 2000

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Padma Moyer (Moss Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visitations From the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing (Hardcover)

It was a great pleasure to read Lee Lawson's book. Not only was it intelligent and inspiring, but it speaks of great truth, the kind of truth that heals the broken heart. I would recommend it to anyone who is experiencing grief. Not only does it provide comfort, but it changes the paradigm of loss. It emphasizes the eternal quality of love. And love, after all, is the best thing we having going for us.

I am a psychotherapist and will recommend it to my clients, as well as my friends and colleagues.

I must also add I have long been a fan of Ms. Lawson's art and it was a treat to see reproductions of her paintings at the beginnings of the chapters and on the cover.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An open forum for things of the heart, March 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Visitations From the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing (Hardcover)

I recently lost someone so dear to me and had a visitation experience so real. I wondered if others had similar experiences. This book offered similar stories ..it offered a forum for speech and sharing that is typically not accepted or respected in our mainstream daily lives. My story, like many others, are very real to us and it is so wonderful to be able to share them with others. Everyone loves to hear a love story, and in this book you get so many of them ..they're all love stories, that's how I view them. They're all messages of love from the otherside. I have come to realize that our worlds (after life and now) are "leaky" ..we can sometimes hear, see, or feel one another. It was nice being able to listen to others' accounts. How awful it would be if we couldn't share this information. Thank you so much for this book. I want to give back by offering my own story in the next book to come.