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Chargement... Afterlife Revolution (2017)par Whitley Strieber
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"After Anne Strieber died in August 2015, she returned to her husband, Whitley, in an ingenious and convincing way. Whitley began to communicate with her, and The Afterlife Revolution began out of this exchange of love from both worlds. Whitley's grief at her loss has transformed into a warm and deeply satisfying new form of love. After a near-death experience in 2004, Anne Strieber became an expert in afterlife studies and created an ingenious plan of contact, which, to her husband Whitley's amazement, she proceeded to carry out, starting just an hour and a half after she died. As verified by famed afterlife researcher Dr. Gary Schwartz, who wrote the foreword, The Afterlife Revolution is among the most convincing stories of afterlife communication ever told, and is a ringing endorsement not only of the fact that we do not die, but also that the power of love can create an actual bridge between the physical and nonphysical worlds. The book points the way to a new relationship between the living and, as Anne puts it, "what you call the dead." Anne tells of her experience on the other side, saying that "we are light, alive," and that "enlightenment is what comes when there is nothing left of us but love." Her descriptions of the afterlife, communicated to Whitley from the afterlife, are brilliantly articulate and nuanced, at once deeply familiar and uniquely her own. The Afterlife Revolution shows how to use basic tools such as what Anne describes as "objective love" combined with a simple but special form of meditation to build a relationship between physical and nonphysical worlds. It is intended to help us find that sweet point at which the souls of the living touch those of the dead. As Anne says, "Mankind is divided, not so much between the sexes as between the living and what are called the dead. It isn't natural and it isn't necessary. We can become whole." The Afterlife Revolution is about the joy of doing just that, and the magnificent new human experience that will unfold as more and more of us learn to live in this way"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Whitley’s beloved wife, Anne, died and this book deals with his afterlife communication with her, and about the very existence of the afterlife. We’re informed about the course of her illness and her NDE; in fact the author simply presents his whole self, his knowledge and experience, and the content of the book thus spreads over many areas.
Mostly, I feel, the book is an expression of Whitley’s deep love for Anne, who is also listed as co-author.
What bothers me somewhat is that here and there throughout the book Whitley conveys his scepticism as regards the existence of the afterlife right in the middle of his exposition attempting to convince us of the veracity/actuality of its existence.
Also, I fail to comprehend how Whitley could be so sceptical of the existence of the afterlife in view of the many experiences he recounts with souls he tries to help - “souls that are stuck”, “ghosts”, or “spirits who are simply unaware that they have lost their way”.
Similarly, prior to his dramatic and scary encounter with the “visitors”, Whitley was deeply sceptical of their existence and was afraid he must be losing his mind.
Now I believe that there’s a reason for everything and that Whitley experienced this whole situation of Anne’s death precisely because of his scepticism about the existence of the after-life, and was thus given the incentive to reconsider his beliefs (and was also presented with the material for the book).
Anne informed Whitley that the visitors are “inward beings” and the ones they encountered were interested in strengthening the soul and “helping us create a new bond between those of us in physical life and those in the nonphysical state”. Whitley states that the visitors taught them that “living with the physical and nonphysical in contact is the next stage in evolution”.
The reason that I find the book a bit provocative and (for me) in a way unnecessary is that I myself have never had any doubt whatsoever in the existence of the afterlife, not being a sceptical person. I have had several visits from the “dead” – I put the word in inverted commas since death of course does not really exist, we just call it “death”.
Anne communicates telepathically with Whitley, who is filled with grief.
I found it to be an extremely emotional and personal book, filled with love, and first and foremost a eulogy of Anne. We are informed about “objective love” – “the great creative force that binds the world together”; and this is not the same as unconditional love. But “objective love” is not explicitly defined, and I don’t understand what is meant by it.
To sum up, it seems that the book was written mostly because of Whitley’s own scepticism about the existence of the afterlife. But now Anne’s death has forced him/given him opportunity and incentive to accept it as a fact. It is a very readable book in which the author not only imparts his love for Anne and describes his life with her but also apprises us of many interesting experiences he has had.