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New Research Proves that the Dead Communicate With Us:
It’s Normal, Widespread, and Brings Healing for the Bereaved.
Receiving communications from the dead is a normal, common experience? Who says? It’s all in a new book by Dianne Arcangel, a former hospice chaplain, psychotherapist for a psychiatric hospital, and director of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center of Houston. Arcangel wrote Afterlife Encounters: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences (ISBN 1-57174-436-3) to share the results and stories from her landmark five-year, international study of people who have had life-changing visitations from their deceased loved ones.
Afterlife Encounters combines inspiring personal accounts with impressive research showing the profound healing effects of afterlife contact for people in grief. Arcangel categorizes the types of afterlife encounters people experience, gives six conditions for evidence of survival beyond bodily death, and provides wise guidance for helping the bereaved come to terms with their loss. The visitation experiences include startling tales of the dead returning to tell who murdered them, or guide loved ones to hidden family treasures, or even provide a remarkable account of the tragedies of 9/11 weeks before those events occurred.
The foreword of Afterlife Encounters is written by Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., whose research with mediums included Allison Dubois, the real-life person on whom the hit NBC TV show Medium is based. The book’s credibility is further enhanced by a long list of endorsements by people involved in psychic research and consciousness exploration.
Afterlife Encounters is of special importance in letting those who have experienced the phenomenon know that they are neither alone nor crazy. It offers proof that visitations from deceased loved ones are widespread, normal, and provide lasting comfort to those in mourning. Arcangel previously co-authored Life After Loss with Raymond Moody, the physician who brought near-death experiences out into the open in Life After Life. This book will similarly normalize afterlife encounters.
“The belief that humans survive bodily death in some form is universal. Long considered superstition, several lines of evidence now suggest that this belief is valid. Dianne Arcangel's Afterlife Encounters adds to this body of knowledge, and will provide hope and comfort for anyone who reads it.”
—Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words
September 2005 ● Body Mind Spirit • ISBN 1-57174-436-3 • Trade paper, $15.95