Linda Williamson is obviously a very experienced medium with a deep understanding of the traumata that people can sometimes go through when they die, and the consequent reasons that cause them to become trapped on the Earth's plane rather than progressing to the world of spirit. Clearly a very caring person, she gives an excellent and clear description of, among other things, possible post-death scenarios. I therefore strongly recommend this book to anyone who is starting out on a spiritual path and is keen to learn the basic facts about 'the other side'.
HOWEVER, the author claims that anyone who wants to carry out spirit rescue work themselves needs to be a natural medium, which is patently untrue. In my book on twinsoulship ('SOULS UNITED - The Power of Divine Connection', Ann Merivale, Llewellyn, 2009) I say something about the fact that I have been performing soul rescue work for a number of years, ever since receiving an order from spirit to do so on a weekend workshop with the English shaman Simon Buxton, which was entitled 'Death, Dying and the Beyond'. And my mentor, Dr. Roger Woolger, the founder of Deep Memory Process therapy, also teaches it on his 'Ancestral Healing' workshops (as does my colleague Jen Kershaw). I have never been sensitive to either 'ghosts' or 'trapped spirits', and I have never had any mediumistic ability, but I share Linda Williamson's desire to free the lost souls who are polluting our atmosphere (particularly in the Western world, where death has been inadequately deal with for centuries), and this is why one of the books that I am currently working on is a 'BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SOUL RESCUE'.
So I would urge anyone who is seriously interested in this subject to buy and read Linda Williamson's book, and by all means to join a spiritualist development circle. But then, if they feel called to engage upon this work themselves (especially if they are not natual mediums), to be on the lookout for my future book and (until that has appeared!) for other ways of training in this urgently needed work.