Parting Notes: A Connection With the Afterlife (Paperback)

by April Crawford (Author)
Key Phrases: Connection With the Afterlife, Uncle Vic, Pearly Gates (more...)

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You will find this book to be of great comfort... An intriguing read for believers and skeptics alike. -- Awareness Magazine, May 2003

Product Description
About The Book "PARTING NOTES"

Death is a universal question. One that all will desire an answer to.

In "P A R T I N G N O T E S": A Connection With The Afterlife, individuals who have already crossed over tell you about both their own death experiences and what the Other Side is like. They tell their stories via an extraordinary deep trance psychic medium named April Crawford.

April Crawford is primarily a full body VOICE medium, so even she was a bit surprised when all of these individuals started writing letters through her. They chose the title to the book. Many of them also tell you about the single most important lesson that they learned upon their "deaths" about their physical lives. The life lessons that they reveal can be applied to enhance the lives of those still living and greatly reduce the fear of physical death for your self, your loved ones, and your friends.

Here is a message from the Other Side about the contents of this book:

"You do not know us by name. We exist in the peripheral of physical life. The opportunity afforded to us … was indeed a precious gift. There are many levels of living… All the levels are accessible but communication between them not always available. Souls traveling together sometimes get separated. Without … assistance messages of encouragement solace and love cannot jump the barrier. … You are about to be enlightened. All of us anticipated your arrival. Read these gifts …. We are all alive and well. We only wish to share the marvel of all existence. Each of these letters will alter one person’s life, or perhaps many in unison. After you have read them, share them. That was the intent in which they were written.

Read with love.

All of us."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (October 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1403306087
• ISBN-13: 978-1403306081
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,389 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressions of Parting Notes by a skeptical believer, March 28, 2003

By	D. Magnan "scififan" (Camarillo, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Parting Notes: A Connection With the Afterlife (Hardcover)

This is an extraordinary book. The 100 short "letters from the dead" concerning the ease of their passing and their new consciousness are fascinating and emotionally moving. They convincingly reflect very different personalities, time periods and even to some extent handwriting styles. The common theme or purpose is to banish the common fear of death. The messages are profound, deep in meaning and beautifully written. The quality of these writings towers over the bulk of contemporary "channeled" literature.
My instinctive reaction was that these communications were the authentic statements of real, unique personages from beyond physical death. Emotionally convincing, this wonderful book would nevertheless seem to be mainly valuable to those who already believe in an afterlife to some extent, but need reassurance. Objectively and intellectually the material is not completely convincing because of the apparently deliberate lack of details that could be verified. Also, there is a subtle sort of "sameness" to the language , including the prevalence of short, choppy sentences even from 19th and early 20th century people where the typical contemporary printed language was wordy and long-winded.
Paradoxically, the writing in many of the messages seems too beautiful and eloquent in too similar a way to be produced by ordinary persons with average education from the many time periods in the last two centuries. On the other hand, especially eloquent souls could have been chosen for this project, and anyway souls could be expected to be more eloquent than human beings. Also, these minor troubling factors could simply be due to the influence of the medium's own personality on the transmission of psychically derived information.
A minimum objective assessment is that this COULD have been
produced by unconscious sub-personalities of the medium informed by the medium's own concept of afterlife and the reading of many previous mediumistic communications in the 20th century psychic literature. But is such a reductionist explanation believable? It boggles the mind that one brain could have at any level of consciousness such implied extreme brilliance,
creativity and cleverness.
Ultimately I have to fall back to my initial intuitive reaction that this is the real thing - fascinating, wonderful and profound. I highly recommend this unique book to true believers, wish-to-believers and even open-minded skeptics who feel their heart.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Left Wanting..., April 22, 2005

By	Katie "book worm" (PA , USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Parting Notes: A Connection With the Afterlife (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book, but I must say that at the end I was still left wanting...and quite sad!

The author pulls you in effortlessly, and I believe she does a good job of keeping the reader interested, but it seemed as though all of her "contacts" were of the lower levels of Heaven - and I think I just needed to hear some more positive statements from beyond. However, I do believe that it's important for us still here physically to realize that the afterlife may not be all a "bed of roses". That it very well may be whatever we make it - at least to some extent.

That's what makes this book different though - It isn't just about the wonder and beauty of the afterlife - It points out how and why some souls become "lost" (not really lost forever, just until they realize that they are creating that negative reality).

After reading this book, I found myself praying for those "lost" souls - the ones who were frightened and alone. I was also scared - scared that such a thing could happen at all, and questioning why... Why couldn't/wouldn't God or their guides or angels step in and help them? The author does discuss this through the letters, but I was still left questioning.

Overall, I think this is a good book for anyone interested in the subject of the afterlife. If read along with some of the other books on the subject that deal mostly with the wonder and beauty of it, I believe it will give the reader a more balanced understanding - from which each of us can draw our own beliefs and theories.

32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL! UPLIFTING! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!, August 26, 2003

By A Customer

There are obviously many ways to die and this book has messages from those who have actually experienced many of them... and survived to tell about it.

SUICIDE: "Looking back I do not remember pulling the trigger... My last thought was the realization that you would blame yourself. But then of course it was too late.",

YOUNG CHILD: "Dear mother, I know of your sadness and devastation... I write so that you may understand.",

CANCER "I had cancer... They sent me home from the hospital to die.",

ACCIDENT: "The car was in total flames... Then I saw it. A body humped over the steering wheel... I pulled whoever it was back and then realized it was me."

OLD AGE: "I think I had a birthday a while back. Somewhere around ninety I believe.",

DISEASE "I learned of my illness in my 37th year. It had a very long name but it zeroed in on one thing. Death. My death.",

THOSE LIVING A SIMPLE LIFE: "I quit school at the age of 12... I could read + do numbers, what else was there?"

MURDER "I felt a kick in my back which reminded me of how my pa whooped me when I was twelve for lying. Vaguely I heard the word -dead- from somewhere."

CRIME VICTIMS "I deserved to die. I was a thief and they were the robbers. Pretty much the same thing if you think about it... I can remember the trigger man's eyes.",

COMA "I noticed others who seemed to appear from nowhere. My coma had finished."

These are just examples that I chose from the book. There are many other kinds of deaths reported on from falling off a wagon to freezing to death to drowning, lightning, blood clot, and many others.

This book is a very easy read and that belies how really spiritually advanced the communications and the mediumship that allowed them are. Not only do these people tell about their death experiences and how they found the afterlife to be, many of them tell about how to make THIS physical life much more productive and easy, again from their points of view having already crossed over and done a life review.

It is clear by these communications that WE ARE NOT ALONE, in fact that there are people and guides to greet us in the afterlife "I had hoped for a reunion, and was not disappointed.." and "My shock made me unable to speak for many moments. This person was angelic. I was dead, yet I still was"... and "The voices become figures. I suddenly realize who they are. They are my parents. I thought they were dead!" and "I looked around at familiar faces all smiling that I had allowed myself to arrive.." and the examples that we are not alone when we cross go on and on.

It is also clear by what many say that some form of multiple lifetimes is real. Reincarnation. It is also clear that THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR "It's a wonder to me that I feel no difference. All that fear was for naught." and that that the power of thought is very important to understand once one crosses over. "My thoughts began to appear before my eyes..." and "Thinking makes stuff happen. Knowing it early on makes all the difference" are but a few examples and within the context of these messages it makes a lot of sense.

While this book will excite, comfort, and inspire many, it may not appeal to those with very rigid views about life, religion, or the afterlife. It conveys a great deal of knowledge about how things work as perceived from the Other Side. However, clearly this book will be of great comfort and inspiration to many who want to understand. And... it will certainly help all.... those who understand now... and those who are skeptics or even cynics... once you yourselves cross. You will remember the messages in this book and they will help you.

Again, highly recommended for everyone, those who are spiritually aware, and those who are skeptics looking for another example of life after death to consider. This is a very worthwhile read. Hopefully this author will publish some more books. I can't wait.