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245 A absolution, 187 accidental death life-review, 131 natural life span, 108 reincarnation, 153 Acharya (spirit entity), 171 addiction, 165–166, 170–172 afterlife adjustment problems, 83–85, 157, 208 Buddhist concepts of, 29–32 Christian concepts of, 22–26 definition of, 211 discarnate spirits, information from, 209 discovering one’s own answers, 41–44 entering, death as, 79–86 experiences, and beliefs during life, 14–15 as extension of the stages of life, 7–8 helping people come to terms with, 44–46 Hindu concepts of, 33–35 ignorance about, 161–163 Islamic concepts of, 28–29 Jewish concepts of, 26–27 and mainstream science, 35–38 parapsychological perspectives on, 38–41 Swedenborg on, 71–73 See also death, survival of; stages of the after death process agnosticism, 19–20, 41–42, 178 Akashic Records, 41 alcohol addiction, 170–171 Alexander (a channeled group being) on karma and the life-review, 147 “moral balance” of the soul, 138 on reincarnation, 151 “allotted time” on earth, 107–110 American Book of the Dead (Gold), 31–32 American Psychological Association (APA), 46 Anderson, George (channel) emotional suffering of souls, 160 “guardian angels,” 143 “hospitals of reflection,” 116 judgment, 134 levels of existence, 102–103, 104, 110 prayer to help spirits, 179, 180 spirit greeters, 99–100, 111 spiritual growth and change, the possibility of, 141 spiritual work in the afterlife, 142 angels asking for help from, 189–190 as spirit guides, 98 Swedenborg on, 72 See also guardian angels animals, as spirit greeters, 99 annatta (Buddhist term), 30 anomalous cognition, 39 APHRAAR, spirit of, channeled by Robert James, 81, 88 apparitions, deathbed, 64–65 See also ghosts Index

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245

Aabsolution, 187accidental death

life-review, 131natural life span, 108reincarnation, 153

Acharya (spirit entity), 171addiction, 165–166, 170–172afterlife

adjustment problems, 83–85, 157, 208

Buddhist concepts of, 29–32Christian concepts of, 22–26definition of, 211discarnate spirits, information

from, 209discovering one’s own answers,

41–44entering, death as, 79–86experiences, and beliefs during

life, 14–15as extension of the stages of life,

7–8helping people come to terms

with, 44–46Hindu concepts of, 33–35ignorance about, 161–163Islamic concepts of, 28–29Jewish concepts of, 26–27and mainstream science, 35–38parapsychological perspectives

on, 38–41Swedenborg on, 71–73See also death, survival of; stages

of the after death processagnosticism, 19–20, 41–42, 178Akashic Records, 41

alcohol addiction, 170–171Alexander (a channeled group

being)on karma and the life-review,

147“moral balance” of the soul, 138on reincarnation, 151

“allotted time” on earth, 107–110American Book of the Dead (Gold),

31–32American Psychological Association

(APA), 46Anderson, George (channel)

emotional suffering of souls, 160“guardian angels,” 143“hospitals of reflection,” 116judgment, 134levels of existence, 102–103,

104, 110prayer to help spirits, 179, 180spirit greeters, 99–100, 111spiritual growth and change, the

possibility of, 141spiritual work in the afterlife,

142angels

asking for help from, 189–190as spirit guides, 98Swedenborg on, 72See also guardian angels

animals, as spirit greeters, 99annatta (Buddhist term), 30anomalous cognition, 39APHRAAR, spirit of, channeled by

Robert James, 81, 88apparitions, deathbed, 64–65

See also ghosts

Index

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ASC (Altered State of Consciousness)

Bruce Moen on, 73sensitivity in, 171and the trance state of mediums,

48, 197astral

definition of, 211as depicted by Anthony Borgia,

65and the levels of existence,

102–107See also lower astral realm

atheism, 18, 178attachment, mental, in the afterlife,

107attachment of spirits, 168–169,

172attraction, the law of. See “law of

attraction”Atwater, P. M. H., 56, 180Auerbach, Loyd, 167–168auras, as providing protection, 172automatic writing

definition, 211the technique of, 200use of, by conscious mediums,

48–49automatisms, 49

Bbabies, special treatment of the

spirits of, 119Bacci, Marcello, 201–202Bacon, Francis (the channeled spirit

of), 140Banks, Frances (channeled by Hel-

en Greaves), 118–119Barbanell, Sylvia (medium)

on the grief of parents, 159on spirit communication during

sleep, 194on the spirits of babies and

children, 119–120bardo (postmortem process in Ti-

betan Buddhism), 30Bayless, Raymond, 201beliefs about the afterlife

and the life-review, 131–132and potential confusion after

death, 89–90, 91preexisting, 83–85

Besant, Annie, 108Bible, as source of Christian belief,

23–25Bird, Frances, 141body, separating from at death,

92–95, 204Borgia, Anthony, 65–67, 146brain imbalances, genetic, and the

afterlife, 79breathing, focusing on, in self-

hypnosis, 197Buckley, Heather, 158–159Buddhism and the afterlife, 29–32,

34, 134bullying of spirit entities, 172, 189

CCahagnet, L. Alph, 108, 140–141candles, use of, 185, 197Cardoso, Anabela, 201–202Carroll, Johanna (medium)

confusion in the afterlife, 92dark energy and reincarnation,

154–155family karma, 149–150the Healing Room, 119

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on pain during death, 80prayer for the dead, 179reincarnation of suicides, 152spiritual work in the afterlife,

143“stuckness” in the afterlife, 84terrorists, afterlife reviews of,

132Catholic (Christian) concepts of

the afterlife, 23, 25, 34, 187celebrities, fans’ grief for, 159certainty about survival of death,

the basis of, 17–18chakras, 211channeling

Aldous Huxley on, 35definition of, 211description of, 47–51to make contact with the dead,

197–202as used in this book, 5See also individual channels

(mediums)Channeling (Klimo)

definition of terms, 50as definitive book, 47exploring your potential for, 199“receiving spiritual experience,”

55on religious founders, 54

channels, 211See also mediums; individual

channelscharacter, effect of death on, 79children

abused, and moving on in the afterlife, 188

parents’ grief for, 158–159on the spirits of babies and

children, 119–120Chino, Yuko, 141–142Christ, Jesus, and afterlife expecta-

tions, 24Christ, the Second Coming of. See

Judgment DayChristianity

Aldous Huxley on, 35and belief in the afterlife, 22–26Christ, as source of mystical

information, 54–55judgment in, 134and the Spiritualism movement,

39tradition of channeling, 51

clairaudience, 48clairvoyance, 48cleaning a location, and negative

spirits, 185, 192cleansing, as afterlife theme, 209

See also life-review; spiritual development

“clear white light,” 30, 32See also white light

Cockell, Jenny, 63cognitive dissonance, 84, 211comatose states after death, 87–88,

97communication with the dead. See

contact with the deadcommunication with the living

afterlife attempts, 123–127as learned in the afterlife, 159via dream states, 158

communities, managed, 120–122, 206

computers, used in EVP/ITC ex-perimentation, 202

confusion of the newly dead

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emotional state at the time of death, 85–86

holding pattern for, 117–118Jon Klimo’s father, 12the manner of death, 81–83preexisting afterlife beliefs, 83–85recognizing death, 87–91in separation from the body,

92–95spirit guides and helpers, the

assistance of, 96–101Swedenborg on, 71

consciousness, higher states ofand mediumship, 197and NDE experiences, 57–58

contact with the deaddreams, 11, 158, 194–195meditation, 196–197mediumship and channeling,

197–202reasons for interacting with the

dead, 175counseling, in the afterlife, 129Crookall, Robert

on death by explosion, 82the life-review, 131shedding of the body, 92the “silver cord,” 93–94sleep recovery period after death,

115Cummins, Geraldine, 162

Ddeath, and entering the afterlife

beliefs, preexisting, 83–85emotional state at the time of

death, 85–86judgment, 134–135karma, 145–150

life review, 128–133life span, the question of, 107–

110loved ones, reuniting with,

111–113manner of death, 81–83meeting with others, 135–137moving through levels, 102–107pain, the question of, 79–81recognizing death, 87–91recovering, 114–122reincarnating, 145, 150–156separating from the body, 92–95spirit helpers, 96–101spiritual growth, 137–139spiritual work, 140–144visiting the living, 123–127

death, survival ofAldous Huxley on, 34–35interest in, 16–21purposes of this book, 4–5, 8Spiritualism movement, 39–41super-ESP hypothesis, 40–41survival hypothesis, definition of,

215See also afterlife

deathbed apparitions, 64–65depression

and afterlife adjustment, 166in the living, and attached spirits,

169developmental stages of life, 7–8

See also stages of the after death process

discarnate spirits or entities. See spirits, discarnate

doctors, spirit, in the afterlife, 119See also guides and helpers in the

afterlife

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dream statesand after death experiences, 11and communication with the

living, 158, 194–195Dresser, Charlotte, 119drugs and addiction, 165–166Duke University parapsychology

department, 39–40DVP (direct voice phenomena),

201–202, 212

Eearthbound spirits, 167–172, 212“earthwalkers,” 108Eastern philosophies, and the after-

life, 34Edmonds, John, 143–144Edward, John, 119, 137, 158Egyptian Book of the Dead, 134,

138electromagnetism, 36emotional states at the time of

death, 85–86energy

negative, erasing, 192positive, adding, 192–193restoration of, in healing centers,

120energy, the ability to perceive, 106ESP (extrasensory perception), 39,

59etheric body, 80euthanasia, 148evil and goodness, 72–73, 155evil beings, moving them along,

189–190EVP (Electronic Voice

Phenomena)definition of, 212

description of, 49, 51–53, 200–202

and requests for prayers, 179–180

EVP/ITC phenomena, 51–53, 202existence, personal, 7, 102–107existential psychology, 44–45expectations of the afterlife

and afterlife adjustment problems, 161–163

religious and personal, 21–35and spirit greeters, 98–99

experiences after death, 14–15explosions, as manner of death, 82extrasensory perception. See ESP

Ffaith, 17–18, 54family and friends in the afterlife,

98, 111–113family karma, 149–150, 152fanaticism, 162fear

helping spirits move along, 177–178, 187–188, 190

Swedenborg on, 104Flavell, Margaret, 108Ford, Arthur

afterlife expectations, 161–162channeling a suicide, 94–95on judgment, 135reincarnation, 152the sleep recovery period, 116

forgivenessin the afterlife, 136–137and karma, 148–149and prayer, 180

Foster, Jean (medium)channeling Hiram, 124

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the life-review and emotional pain, 160

on the reunion with loved ones, 112

on the role of spirit guides, 98spiritual work in the afterlife, 142See also Hiram

fragment, definition of, 212fraud and mediumship, 38free will after death, 96–97frequency

higher, and the afterlife, 37, 69–70

increasing, to make contact with spirits, 198–199

and the levels of existence, 102–103, 110

Mark Macy on, 52friends and family in the afterlife,

98, 111–113funerals, spirits attending their

own, 124–125

GGan Eden (Judaic Garden of

Eden), 27gehinnom (Judaic hell), 27ghosts

definition of, 212Loyd Auerbach on, 167–168Myers on, 64–65See also moving spirits on

God, as described in the Bible, 23–25

going to the Light, 212See also Light, the

Gold, E. J., 31–32goodness and evil, 72–73

Greaves, Helen, 118–119greeters, afterlife. See guides and

helpers in the afterlifeGreyson, Bruce, 56grief

as experienced in the afterlife, 157–160

of the living for the dead, 158–160

Grof, Stanislov and Christina, 45–46

Grossman, Leonard (channeled by Suzane Northrop), 85

group deaths, 82–83group entities

definition, 212forming of, 156moving them on, 188–189

group karma, 150growth, spiritual. See spiritual

developmentguardian angels, 121, 191

See also angelsguides and helpers in the afterlife

difficulty in perceiving, 86, 100–101, 161, 205

helping troubled spirits in the afterlife, 172

meeting, 96–101, 204–205moving spirits on, 184remaining with you, 191the reunion phase, 111–113See also moving spirits on;

psychic rescue workguides to the living, 143Gwyneth the Lifegiver (channeled

by Jean Marshall), 164

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Hharm to the living, 167–172Harsch-Fischbach, Maggy and

Jules, 66hatred

and delay in the reunion phase, 112

effects of on spirits, 159at the time of death, Motoyama

on, 86hauntings

as attempts to harm the living, 167–172

definition of, 212Myers on, 64–65and non-recognition of death,

89See also moving spirits on

healing, situations of, in the after-life, 118–120

Heath, Pamelaexperience as a psychic medium,

6on Japanese POWs, 86on spirits attending their own

funerals, 126heaven

Christian belief in, 22and “good” people, 23jannah, in Islam, 28Judaic Gan Eden, 27svargam, in Hinduism, 33Swedenborg on, 72

hellBruce Moen on, 73–74Christian belief in, 22, 25–26and the individual nature of the

afterlife, 14–15jahannam, in Islam, 28

Judaic gehinnom, 27narakam, in Hinduism, 33Suzane Northrop on, 106Swedenborg on, 72–73, 104–

105helpers after death. See guides and

helpers in the afterlifehelping spirits in the afterlife, by

the livingmoving spirits along, 181–193ways to help, 175, 177–180, 208

“higher self” channeling, 50Hinduism and the afterlife, 33Hiram (the channeled soul of),

137–138, 142, 154Holmes, Jesse Herman, 85holy beings, as spirit greeters and

guides, 99Human Personality and Its Survival

of Bodily Death (Myers), 64–65Huxley, Aldous, 33–35hypnotic regression. See past-life

regression

Iignorance about the afterlife,

161–163illusions, and afterlife adjustment

problems, 164–166immortal soul. See soul, immortalincense, use of, 185information sources for this book,

3–5interacting with the dead. See con-

tact with the deadinterlife, definition of, 213Islam

the Islamic Book of the Dead, 89, 123

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judgment in, 134Muhammad as source of

visionary information, 55tradition of channeling, 50–51view of the afterlife, 28–29

isolation for afterlife restoration, 116–118

ITC (Instrumental Transcommuni-cation), 49, 51–53, 213

Jjahannam, (Islamic hell), 28James, William (channeled by Jane

Roberts), 67–68jannah, (Islamic heaven), 28Jesus Christ, 23, 54–55Jones, Sheila, 84–85, 96–97, 134Judaism, 26–27, 51judgment

by God, belief in, 23as theme in channeled material,

134–135See also self-judgment

Judgment Dayas described in the Bible, 23–24in Islam, 28tehiyat hameitim (Judaism), 27

Jurgenson, Friedrich, 52

KKalu Rinpoche, 80Kardec, Allan (medium)

after death confusion, 94afterlife process of the insane, 79difficulty of the death transition,

80enemies and combatants, 164karmic retribution, 147violent death transitions, 90

karmaBruce Moen on, 74in Buddhism, 29, 30channeled information, 145–150definition, 213in Hinduism, 33one understanding of, 20and past-life research and

therapy, 62–63working out of, and

reincarnation, 151Klimo, Jon

his father’s death, 9–14, 88increasing your vibratory rate,

199life span continuum, views on,

6–7See also Channeling

Knight, Ralph, 159Koran (or Qur’an), 28Kubis, Pat, 170–171

L“labyrinth,” 31–32Lanthos, channeled by Jozef Rulof,

80, 94last rites, Catholic, 187“law of attraction”

Bruce Moen on, 73–74Helena Roerich on, 105and karma, 207Swedenborg on, 105and unevolved mindsets, 165

Lawrence of Arabia, channeled by Jane Sherwood, 87–88

Lazaris (channeled entity), 148Leadbeater, Charles, 102, 169Lees, Robert James, 81LeShan, Lawrence, 196

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levels of existence, 102–107Licauco, Jaime, 90Life after Life (Moody), 58–59life-review

accounts of, 130–133as afterlife stage, 128–129, 207and karma, 148Robert Crookall on, 92

life span continuum, 6–7, 77life span on earth, 107–110Light, the

asking for assistance from, 187–188, 189–190

definition, 213description of, 205fear of going to, 186

like calling to like, 104, 105, 165See also “law of attraction”

limbo state after death, 87, 109living, the, spirits’ aid to, 143–144Loehr, Franklin

on addiction, 170angels as spirit greeters, 98channeling Dr. John, 81, 94,

125evil and reincarnation, 155on helping lost spirits, 178necessity to recognize death, 88role-playing in the spirit realm,

161on souls attending their own

funerals, 124logical positivism, 36lost spirits. See moving spirits on;

psychic rescue worklove, and moving beings along, 190love, difficulties with, 164lower astral realm, 102, 103–107,

110, 205

lucid dreaming contrasted with visitations, 11

“luminous mind” bardo stage, 30

M“macrodimensional coordinates,”

32Macy, Mark, 52, 66, 170–171,

201–202magnets, and spirit banishing, 185Marshall, Jean, 164Martin, Eva, 61Mateu, Lysa (medium)

channeling Charley, 92–93channeling Nancy, 88–89emotional suffering of souls,

159, 160on judgment, 134, 135

Mattson, Alvin Daniel, 108, 147meditation, 43, 196–197mediums

definition of term, 213on the levels of existence, 102–

103, 110on separation from the physical,

93spirits’ requests to, 187See also specific mediums

mediumshipAldous Huxley on, 35contact with the dead, 197–202definition of, 213description of, 47–51and EVP communications, 201

Meek, George (medium)on the lower astral, 106–107reaping what you sow, 146spirits harming the living, 170on suicides, 103

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messages to the living via mediums, 187

See also contact with the deadMessiah, the coming of, 26–27Michael (channeled group being),

146–147Mickaharic, Draja, 192mind, states of, 67–68MMI (mind-matter interaction),

39, 123–124, 172Moen, Bruce, 73–74Monroe, Robert, 73Montgomery, Ruth (medium)

after death expectations, 161–162, 163

on Marilyn Monroe, 166reincarnation, 153

Moody, Raymond, 58–59, 109Moses, Stainton, 129, 141Mossman, Tam, 151Motoyama, Hiroshi

on Japanese kamikaze pilots and POWs, 86

necessity to recognize death, 89reincarnation, 153, 156value of prayer, 179

moving spirits ongroups of spirits, 188–189protection before you start,

182–183stubborn spirits, 189–191techniques for anyone, 183–185techniques for psychics, 186–188what to do afterwards, 191–193

Muhammad, as source of visionary information, 55

murder, 108, 146–147, 148–149Myers, F. W. H., 64mystical experiences, NDEs as,

57–58

mystic/visionary information, channeled, 54–56, 70–73

NNDEers (near-death experiencers)

certainty about the survival of death, 18

channeled information, comparisons, 6

Kenneth Ring on, 57–58the life-review, 128on the sleep recovery period,

116NDEs (near-death experiences)

definition of, 213–214description of, and the afterlife,

56–59similarities to the actual death

transition, 103Newton, Michael (medium)

on afterlife isolation, 117negative emotional states, 85places of repentance, 142preparation for death, 82reincarnation and suicide, 153restoration of positive energy,

120nirvana, 30Northage, Ivy, 198–199Northrop, Suzane (medium)

channeling Dr. Leonard Grossman, 85

expected life span, 109karma, 146lower astral plane, 106the manner of death, 81pain during death, 79schools in the afterlife, 142transition to the afterlife, 85

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nothingnessin Buddhism, 30following death, expectations of,

18, 89, 90, 205

OOBEs (Out-of-Body Experiences)

Bruce Moen, 73–74as compared to the after death

state, 92definition of, 214description of, 59–60

observational language, 36olam ha-ba (in Judaism), 26–27open channeling, 50, 55–56orientation help to spirits, 177–178Ouija boards, 49, 146

PPadgett, James E., 96, 164pain in death, the question of,

79–81parapsychological perspectives on

the afterlife, 38–41past-life regression

definition, 214the life-review, 128and past-life research, 63

past livesdefinition of, 214and the life-review, 131research and therapy, 62–63spontaneous memory of, 155See also reincarnation

Pelley, William, 92perdition. See hellPerennial Philosophy (Huxley),

33–35personality

and afterlife adjustment problems, 164–165

effect of death on, 79and the life-review, 131–132

phases of the after death process. See stages of the after death process

Phone Calls from the Dead (Rogo and Bayless), 201

physicists’ views on the afterlife, 37place memory, 151, 214poltergeists, 123–124, 168possession, by discarnate spirits,

168possessiveness of some spirits, 187postmortem stages. See stages of

the after death processprayer, 178–180proof of an afterlife, 4–5, 8protection

during meditation, 196shielding the haunted, 191when helping troubled spirits,

182–183psi, 39, 214psychic ability and potential

degrees of, 175enhanced by ASC, 194techniques to move spirits along,

181–193psychic phenomena. See psipsychic rescue work, 178, 181–182

See also moving spirits on“psychic vampirism,” 169psychokinesis, 214

See also MMI (mind-matter interaction)

psychological baggage in the after-life, 164–166, 187

h A N d B o o k t o t h e A f t e r l i f e

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psychologyand “spiritual experience,” 46on trance states, 48types of, 44–45

psychomanteum, 214purgatory, 25, 27, 34, 129, 187

See also lower astral realmPuryear, Anne (medium)

on after death confusion, 94channeling her son, Stephen, 80,

81, 115, 123, 194letting go of grief, 160spiritual work in the afterlife, 142

QQuaker religion, 43–44Qur’an (or Koran), 28, 55

RRaudive, Konstantin, 52, 179–180reassurance to spirits, 177–178rebirth, the bardo of, 30–31

See also reincarnationrecordings of discarnate spirits. See

EVP/ITC phenomenarecovering from the afterlife transi-

tion, 114–122, 206reflection and the life-review,

132–133regression, past-life. See past-life

regressionregret, and afterlife adjustment

problems, 163reincarnation

Aldous Huxley on, 35in Buddhism, 29, 30–31channeled sources on, 151–155,

156definition of, 214

disagreement on, 145, 150–151E. J. Gold on, 31–32gilgul neshamot (Talmudic), 27and karma, 20, 62–63, 207parapsychological workers on,

155research into, 60–62

relaxation techniques, in self-hyp-nosis, 197–198

religionsand certainty of the survival of

death, 17–18and the channeling process, 51karmic responsibilities, 147mystical and visionary channeled

information, 54–56reading spiritual texts to the

deceased, 89taking into account, to move

ghosts on, 185–186the theme of karma or

retribution, 20views of the afterlife, 21–35

religious figures as spirit guides, 98remembering dreams, how to, 195remorse and the life-review, 132rescue circles of the living, 172,

181See also psychic rescue work

resurrection of the dead, 22, 24reuniting with loved ones in the

afterlife, 111–113, 206Rhine, J. B. and Louisa, 39–40Ring, Kenneth, 57Ritchie, George, 170–171ritual banishing objects, 185Roberts, Jane, 67–68Roerich, Helena, 109, 169Rogo, Scott, 201

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Roman Catholic concepts of the afterlife, 23, 25, 34, 187

Rulof, Jozef, 80

Ssalvation, 22, 24–25science

it’s views on death, 21, 36–38logical positivism, 36–38parapsychology, 38–41on the survival of death, 18

séances, 178Sechrist, Elsie, 106, 179Second Coming of Christ. See

Judgment Daysecularism, 19self-forgiveness and karma, 148self-judgment

and the grief of the living, 160and karma, 148and the life-review, 130–139mandatory in the spirit realm,

207during NDEs, 6, 128and therapeutic counseling,

129–130September 11, 2001 terrorist

attackskarma and group soul energy,

153–154Nevada Shaw on, 83prayer for the victims of, 179

“Seth,” 67Shaw, Nevada (medium)

afterlife isolation, 116–117the dead attending funerals,

124–125death by explosion, 82holding patterns due to

confusion, 117–118karma, 149, 152mental attachment in the

afterlife, 107the September 11, 2001 attacks,

83spirit greeters and guides, 99spirits visiting the living, 126terrorist souls, 97, 112

Sherwood, Jane, 87–88, 97shielding the haunted, 191shocked state of the newly dead, 12“silver cord” of connection to the

body, 93–94, 204sleep as afterlife restorer, 115–116Smith, Suzy, 121, 165Sogyal Rinpoche, 80soul, immortal

Buddhist non-belief in, 30and scientific discussion of the

afterlife, 36–38when the soul enters the body,

151–152sources of channeled information,

3–5, 50space and time, 181–182spirit guides and helpers. See guides

and helpers in the afterlifespirit realm, 97, 116–118spirits, discarnate

earthbound, definition of, 212EVP/ITC recordings of, 52–53harm to the living, 167–172Myers on, 64–65their use of mediums, 48ways to help them, 175, 177–

180See also moving spirits on

spirits, lost. See psychic rescue work

h A N d B o o k t o t h e A f t e r l i f e

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spiritual cleansing, 192spiritual development

accounts of, 137–139in the afterlife, changing

attitudes about, 140–144afterlife connections, 136–137and the life-review, 137–139and reincarnation, 156

Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (Grof), 45–46

“spiritual experience,” 46Spiritualism movement, 39stages of the after death process

according to NDEers, 56, 58–59according to Swedenborg, 71–73consensus of sources, 203–204E. J. Gold on, 32in Tibetan Buddhism, 30–31

Stevenson, Ian, 61–62, 155“stuck” spirits. See confusion of the

newly dead; moving spirits onSudduth, Michael, 24suffering, 79–81, 86suicides

after death confusion, 90after death greeters for, 99–100comatose states after death,

87–88and euthanasia, 148the Healing Room, 119Islamic fundamentalists, 29Kardec, on the death transitions

of, 80levels of afterlife existence, 103and natural life span, 108–110as potentially caused by attached

spirits, 169–170regret, 163

reincarnation, and karmic debt, 152

Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife (Heath and Klimo), 4, 194

Summerland, in the channeled work of Anthony Borgia, 65, 66

super-ESP, 40–41, 215Supreme Being, agnostics’ view of,

19–20survival hypothesis, 203, 215survival of death. See death, survival

ofSwain, Jasper, 159, 164Swann, Ingo, 59Swedenborg, Emanuel

on afterlife ignorance, 162–163afterlife states, 104–105the life-review, 130love in the afterlife, 164mystic visions of, 70–73the possibility of spiritual growth

and change, 140

Ttelekinesis. See MMI (mind-matter

interaction)telepathy, 48terrorist souls in the afterlife

Johanna Carroll channeling, 132, 143

Nevada Shaw on, 97, 112, 124–125, 129, 132–133

See also September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

Testimony of Light (Greaves), 118–119

Thibodeau, Lauren (medium)

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accidental suicide, 109–110judgment, 135the life-review, 130–131, 160pain during death, 80processing the feelings of others,

114–115reincarnation, 154spirits attending their funerals,

126spiritual work in the afterlife, 143

thought, 121, 178–179Tibetan Book of the Dead, 30Tibetan Buddhism, judgment in,

134time and space, 181–182Torah, on the afterlife, 26trance mediums, 48trance states, 48transpersonal psychology, 45Trio (spirit channeled by Nevada

Shaw)on afterlife expectations, 162,

166afterlife isolation, 116–117enmeshment of spirits, 83funerals, 124–125holding patterns due to

confusion, 117–118immediate life-review after death,

93karma, 149, 150mental attachment in the

afterlife, 107perpetrators and victims, 136“sending light” to souls, 179spirit greeters and guides, 99, 100spiritual work in the afterlife, 144terrorist souls, 97, 112, 129,

132, 133

tunnelmoving through, 6, 57, 58, 101,

103, 205during NDEs, 213–214refusal to go into, 107

Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincar-nation (Stevenson), 61–62

typing, automatic, 48–49

Uuncertainty about the survival of

death, 19–20

VVan Praagh, James

on afterlife counseling, 130confusion after death, 91death by explosion, 82suicide, 109

vehicles for moving spirits on, 188–189

victims, confronting, in the after-life, 135137

violent death transitionsand afterlife experience, 81, 83,

88Allan Kardec on, 90and the life-review, 131potential afterlife isolation, 121and regret, 163

visitations from the deadfunerals, 124–125, 206–207Jon Klimo’s father, 9–14making contact, 194–202,

208–209reasons for, 123–127

“voyager,” 31–32Voyage to Curiosity’s Father

(Moen), 73–74

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WWeiss, Brian L., 63White, Betty, 68–70, 141White, Stewart Edward, 68–70,

141, 163white light, 182, 189–190Wickland, Carl (medium)

on life span, 108the lower astral plane, 102physical ailments caused by

spirits, 171psychic rescue work, 181psychological problems before

and after death, 165

recognizing death, 88spirits attached to people, 169spiritual work in the afterlife,

142work, spiritual. See spiritual

developmentwriting, automatic, 48–49

Xxenoglossy, 62

YYama (Hindu god), 33