When the stories in this book were collected in the years prior to 1995, statistics showed that at least 50 million people, 20% of the population of the U.S.A., had experienced after-death communications. Only 10 million, or 4% of the population, had had near-death experiences then. This book includes several hundred accounts drawn from 2,000 interviews, each account here being about a page long.
The stories are organized as to the manner of the communication: From those in which people felt and recognized the mere presence of someone they knew who was deceased, to presences recognized by the deceased person's perfume or characteristic body odor, to persons appearing and speaking in especially strong dreams and visions, to messages communicated through symbols such as butterflies and rainbows that appeared at especially significant times; and by other means. The message that was communicated by the deceased person was often one of reassurance to someone who was grieving or angry about the loss of the deceased person or who was worried about the fate of the dead person's soul. Some messages came from babies and young children who communicated coherently despite their young age. Other messages came from people who had been accident victims or even murder victims. Accident victims and afflicted people showed how their bodies were healed and perfect in Heaven. Victims often urged relatives to forgive and to love the criminals who had murdered or otherwise hurt them. They frequently said they'd suffered no pain, having left their bodies before the worst pain of the accident or attack. Almost always the messages were about how Heaven is a beautiful, loving, merciful place and not to worry or grieve anymore, that someday all loved ones would be united in Heaven where they would go on living and learning eternally. Some messages from the dead came as sudden warnings that saved the living from accidents or other crises, and some messages told the living how to locate hidden money and lost items.
Sometimes persons were sent messages by means of friends or relatives or even strangers who were better able to RECEIVE the messages than the persons themselves were. The authors suggest learning to meditate as a way of becoming better disposed to receive messages from beyond.
These messages in this book are a source of more information about the after-life and our life on earth than can be recounted in this brief review. The reader can learn a LOT of particular information from the messages' contents and reading the many and varied circumstances under which these messages occurred. For instance, there are descriptions of heavenly holding areas and of on-going healing efforts which might perhaps be equated with the traditional concept of Purgatory, but that term is never explicitly used. As with near-death experiences, the broad, general message is repeatedly that our purpose in life is to love and to go on learning, now and forever. However, the overwhelming effect of these ADCs is far more convincing than that of NDEs. On the whole, there is a greater sense of connectedness with reality and a down-to-earth quality about the ADCs, and some of them have been experienced by several witnesses simultaneously. Reading so many of these messages in detail, it would be difficult not to become overwhelmingly convinced that these ADCs are messages that are exactly what they purport to be. They apparently do communicate true and beneficial information to specific persons on earth, but all of us can learn MUCH from them. Not least of all, we can enjoy feeling reassured and uplifted by these joyous messages.
All the persons interviewed were from fairly devout Jewish and Christian backgrounds, and none of the messages here were solicited by means of mediums or any other deliberate means of contact with the dead, however, many of these living persons were praying for signs from deceased loved ones.
The authors went out of their way to warn over and over again that except in cases of suicide due to mental illness or inability to bear extreme pain or other extenuating circumstances, the repeated message is that suicide clearly leads to unhappy circumstances on the Other Side. Take a warning from the other side and from the authors' experiences with ADCs: Do Not Do It. We are here for a purpose and it is important that we live out our purpose on earth. There are lessons we're meant to learn by living out the full term of our earthly lives.
I'll summarize a few stories as follows:
Emily was worried that despite her intense prayers, her brother Leon had died without accepting the Lord Jesus into his life. She greatly feared that he was in Hell. Even after he died, she went on praying and got many other people to pray for him, too. She kept asking for a sign that he was with the Lord. One day, after 5 months, she was driving home while a rain storm was clearing and a bright ray of sunlight broke through the clouds. Of that time, she says, "When I looked off to my right, my brother was there with the Lord." She describes them both as life-size, solid and three-dimensional, with just the upper half of them showing. The Lord was wearing a robe, facing Leon, and Leon was facing her. Both were smiling. Leon looked younger and healthier than when he died. Seeing this, she felt satisfied. Leon was with Jesus and at peace, so she was then at peace. She concluded her story by saying, "I had assumed you could not be saved once you died. I suggest that anyone who is under the same assumption I was to not give up their prayer vigil. I think prayers finally made it possible for my brother to be with the Lord....My own walk with the Lord became much stronger....Now I know there is nothing that is impossible with the Lord."
Widower Mario was sleeping soundly one night when he suddenly felt his wife of 57 years, Nina, standing beside the bed. He says, "Then, I heard her voice inside my head say, 'I am now in Heaven, whether I deserve it or not. My great love for little children all my life made up for my other sins. I got permission to return to tell you that I am waiting patiently for you to join me. Time is meaningless here, so don't be in a hurry. Take as long as you want before you leave the world. I will wait patiently until the day comes when you will join me here. Then we will be united in an eternal embrace.' And with that she faded from my consciousness. --I felt a liaison, a satisfying consciousness that death would not part us, that Nina and I would be united again."
A butterfly is a symbol of resurrection, also of spiritual growth and rebirth. Not everyone is aware of the symbolism, but it seems that numerous people have had experiences with butterflies at funerals. In one, Margot tells of being at her Uncle's funeral in their Catholic church. During Mass, "...all of a sudden, this butterfly came fluttering down the aisle and stopped right by us. It was a real pretty orange and brown one. It fluttered around us, then went up to where my sister was playing the piano. It did a twirl, then went over by the casket, then up by the altar. Then, the butterfly just flew off. --It was wonderful! It was a miracle! As long as I've gone to that church, that is the only time I've seen a butterfly inside. Of all the churches in the world, how many do you think had butterflies in them at that moment in time?"
Three weeks after the death of her 9-year-old son, Sunny was crying and asking Sean to send her a sign that he was still with her and her husband. After awhile, she thought she would just like to open the chest of drawers and touch her son's clothes, but she felt compelled to go ahead and pull the drawer all the way out and look underneath it, at which point she found a dime. This reminded her of a game that she and her son had always played. She would give him an allowance of $2.00 a week for cleaning his room and she would say, "This is for being a good son." He would then get a dime out of a can where he kept his change and he would say, "This is for you, Mom. This is your allowance for being a good mother!" Sunny realized that the dime she had found was the sign she had asked for and she felt happy, but that wasn't the end of it. She had never found dimes at random before, but she began to find dimes a lot. She found them on special days like Valentine's and Mother's Day, and she found them in times of special need. Her family wanted to know that Sean was with them too so she asked him to send them a sign, and they began to find dimes a lot. After the end of nine years, Sunny and her husband had continued to find "dimes from Sean" everywhere and at that point had collected 640 dimes from him.
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