- Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Signet Book; Reissue edition (July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451201515
- ISBN-13: 978-0451201515
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,570,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Best-selling psychic Sylvia Browne offers a detailed account of life in heaven in Life On the Other Side. Readers should be warned that it takes a huge leap of faith to follow this celebrity psychic across the chasm of doubt to the Other Side. In her opening chapters she explains that she is like the young boy in the movie The Sixth Sense, she sees dead people. When she was a child these "spirits" came into her room at night and disappeared when a light went on. "To this day I can't sleep in a completely dark room, because the minute I try it the room starts filling up", she writes. "As a child, it was scary. As an adult, it's just annoying!"
Once she establishes her lengthy connections to life after death (including conversations with a spirit guide named Francine and her own near-death experience), Browne launches into life in the fourth dimension. In a chapter titled "After the Tunnel, Arriving on the Other Side", Browne explains that newcomers pass through a "Hall of Wisdom" and then review their most recent life through a "Scanning Machine". In the chapter "Beyond the Entrance", Brown claims that spirits live in whatever kind of home they've longed for, or they recreate a favourite home from Earth. Plus, "the more spiritually advanced we become, the more physical beauty we are given, as a badge of our progress and hard work". Sex is known as "merging", and does not require birth control or any commitments of exclusivity. These kinds of glowing accounts of the other side cause sceptics to sneer, believers to feel comforted and thousands of fans to keep on buying her books. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In Life on The Other Side, Sylvia Browne, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Side and Back, explores and explains the afterlife in this revealing and inspiring account. You will find out: What happens when we die; What The Other Side looks like; Who's waiting for us on The Other Side; How we spend out time on The Other Side; Why and how we return from The Other Side. With her trademark warm and down-to-earth style, Sylvia Browne's insights into the afterlife are utterly compelling yet wonderfully reassuring. Sylvia looks over her lifelong career as a psychic, using past experiences, readings, hypnosis sessions and research to illustrate her findings about The Other Side. For the very first time, we are shown an unprecedented view of a peaceful place where our departed loved ones are patiently awaiting us - and where the next leg of our eternal journey will begin. This book is absolutely unforgettable!
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My initial review for this was, upon re-reading, maybe a tad harsh. So I have made it less rant-ish and more tolerant.
We all have, and are allowed to have, our own opinions on things. And this will be mine.
And having said that I therefore respect the author's right to be able to write what she wants to.
But there are too many things about this book like the prose, the ideas, the subject matter, that do not make for it to be at all believable unfortunately.
Nuclear-powered hovering golf carts for transport? Scanning "machines"? Atlantis? These things sound like something out of a cheap `70's sci-fi flick to me, not heaven.
It seems though, that a number of reviewers have bought into it, and if it makes them feel better about what happens after lights-out then good for them, giving hope to someone is not a bad thing.
I just think that because life-after-death is such a major issue for a lot of people, readers need to be discerning about what is put in front of them as "fact".
That's it really, I think a pinch of salt is needed here. Possibly a ton of it.
But like I said, that's just my opinion.
We all have, and are allowed to have, our own opinions on things. And this will be mine.
And having said that I therefore respect the author's right to be able to write what she wants to.
But there are too many things about this book like the prose, the ideas, the subject matter, that do not make for it to be at all believable unfortunately.
Nuclear-powered hovering golf carts for transport? Scanning "machines"? Atlantis? These things sound like something out of a cheap `70's sci-fi flick to me, not heaven.
It seems though, that a number of reviewers have bought into it, and if it makes them feel better about what happens after lights-out then good for them, giving hope to someone is not a bad thing.
I just think that because life-after-death is such a major issue for a lot of people, readers need to be discerning about what is put in front of them as "fact".
That's it really, I think a pinch of salt is needed here. Possibly a ton of it.
But like I said, that's just my opinion.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Life on the Other Side: a psychic's tour of the afterlife, by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, Penguin Putnam, U.S., 2000; Piatkus, London, 2000; 262 ff.
One view of the afterlife
By Howard Jones
Sylvia Browne claims to be a medium and psychic who has been practicing for some 30 years or more now and who has written 45 books so far. She calls herself Jewish in some places, Christian in others, but is undoubtedly a theist who believes in a discarnate soul.
For a `showbiz' personality, she is quite humble in her writing, which is also easy to read.
She is obviously well-read and, because of her fame and financial position, she has had the opportunity of discussing afterlife issues with a number of figures from different faiths - which should give what she says a degree of balance.
But this is a difficult book to review impartially inasmuch as it depends, first, on whether you believe in an afterlife (presumably, most readers do, otherwise they wouldn't be reading this book) and more especially whether you believe in the ability and integrity of the author. Although she is a popular figure on American television, the author seems to generate passionate support and ridicule about equally.
The picture Sylvia Browne presents of the afterlife is very reassuring. There are many aspects that agree with what I have read in other books, but there are other things that seem to be very fanciful. She has a liberal and realistic view of the Bible as a moral guide rather than as historical truth. With regard to end-of-life experiences: the `light at the end of the tunnel' image is a familiar one in NDEs, as are the friends and family said to await us. The spiritual `silver cord' of attachment of the incarnate soul to Spirit is also common. The idea of choosing our incarnate life-path, in general terms, or sometimes having it thrust upon us before birth, that Browne describes here, is an idea I`m still not convinced of but which is commonly believed.
Some of the other descriptions struck me also as being a little fanciful - like the Scanning Machine that judges our spiritual worthiness, the Orientators who set us back on the right path, the Twin Towers where our reconditioning takes place, the reality of Atlantis, the idea that every discarnate soul is 30 years old in Earth time, and so on. I love the idea of beautiful landscapes and non-stop musical concerts but, hopefully, it might be a while before I get to check these out.
It's all a very encouraging picture with most of the generalities supported by the writings and lectures of people like Betty Shine, Gordon Smith, Edgar Cayce and, where appropriate, Michael Tymn and Victor Zammit. Perhaps the detail is all true; perhaps we should put it down to literary licence. As I said at the beginning - it all depends on whether or not you have faith in Sylvia Browne.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, U.K.; and The World as Spirit published by Fairhill Publishing, Whitland, West Wales, 2011.
The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die
Life After Life
One view of the afterlife
By Howard Jones
Sylvia Browne claims to be a medium and psychic who has been practicing for some 30 years or more now and who has written 45 books so far. She calls herself Jewish in some places, Christian in others, but is undoubtedly a theist who believes in a discarnate soul.
For a `showbiz' personality, she is quite humble in her writing, which is also easy to read.
She is obviously well-read and, because of her fame and financial position, she has had the opportunity of discussing afterlife issues with a number of figures from different faiths - which should give what she says a degree of balance.
But this is a difficult book to review impartially inasmuch as it depends, first, on whether you believe in an afterlife (presumably, most readers do, otherwise they wouldn't be reading this book) and more especially whether you believe in the ability and integrity of the author. Although she is a popular figure on American television, the author seems to generate passionate support and ridicule about equally.
The picture Sylvia Browne presents of the afterlife is very reassuring. There are many aspects that agree with what I have read in other books, but there are other things that seem to be very fanciful. She has a liberal and realistic view of the Bible as a moral guide rather than as historical truth. With regard to end-of-life experiences: the `light at the end of the tunnel' image is a familiar one in NDEs, as are the friends and family said to await us. The spiritual `silver cord' of attachment of the incarnate soul to Spirit is also common. The idea of choosing our incarnate life-path, in general terms, or sometimes having it thrust upon us before birth, that Browne describes here, is an idea I`m still not convinced of but which is commonly believed.
Some of the other descriptions struck me also as being a little fanciful - like the Scanning Machine that judges our spiritual worthiness, the Orientators who set us back on the right path, the Twin Towers where our reconditioning takes place, the reality of Atlantis, the idea that every discarnate soul is 30 years old in Earth time, and so on. I love the idea of beautiful landscapes and non-stop musical concerts but, hopefully, it might be a while before I get to check these out.
It's all a very encouraging picture with most of the generalities supported by the writings and lectures of people like Betty Shine, Gordon Smith, Edgar Cayce and, where appropriate, Michael Tymn and Victor Zammit. Perhaps the detail is all true; perhaps we should put it down to literary licence. As I said at the beginning - it all depends on whether or not you have faith in Sylvia Browne.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, U.K.; and The World as Spirit published by Fairhill Publishing, Whitland, West Wales, 2011.
The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die
Life After Life
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ms Browne's books are amongst the worst on the market and to be avoided. I would recommend books by John Edward, Gordon Smith, Betty Shine, David Wells, Stephen O'Brian, Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts if you are seeking confirmation that there is life beyond this one. I am afraid the world has been sucked in by the Syliva Browne bandwagon show cased on the Montel Williams show. I don't deny she knows her spiritual stuff but genuine she ain't. Save your money or if you have to read her use the library.
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well written and thought provoking
this is an indepth look at what happens to us after death, along with several questions about afterlife. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mulder & Scully
i was amazed by this book
i read this book within one week all my quetions was answered,i look at life in a differnt way i have bought the next book of silvia browne.
Published 6 months ago by debbie mac
Google Sylvia Browne fake. I wasted money!!
I had read this book and loved the content of it. Then I googled her name and read some facts about her. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Keiththespark
What a pile of rubbish
Having lost my beloved father recently I have read, no gobbled spiritual books daily. Maybe a little to obsessively, but I need to believe that I will see my much loved precious... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Kerry
Giuves psychics a bad name
this woman is a fluid writer and has an amazing imagination. Psycics do not have all the answers, know everything, that is not how it works. I believe she believes it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Liza P
a great "tour" of the afterlife
As a devoted spiritualist I inhaled pretty much everything related to Sylvia Browne: Seminars, TV appearances and a vast variety of her books. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Sonja Paris
life in between
What I like most is Browne's book is her optimism about love that will meet us on the other side.I hope she is right as we all need to be loved when we make the passage and meet... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Thierry
fantastic
This book is now my bible, l would recomend this book to anyone with an open mind!
And if l lost it l would buy again and read it over and over (which l do) this does restore... Read more
And if l lost it l would buy again and read it over and over (which l do) this does restore... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Pb
I almost can't wait to Die!
wow what a read..i didn't want it to end..I guess its because I can relate to quite a bit of the content..as I've had similar dreams. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Rean4Peace
Fantastic reading
What a fantastic book, it truly gives me the courage to carry on in this life with all the trials we have to bear on this very broken fragile earth, it is a concept that some will... Read more
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