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Voices From Beyond ISBN: 1-4116-1306-6
When I was growing up, the term "spirit medium" represented something ungodly, something to be avoided, something that had no place in God's plans; it represented something with a satanic origin. Yet, indirectly, it was a spirit medium who inspired me to write this book.
It began one day while I was confined to bed recovering from foot surgery. With nothing better to do, I turned on the television. A medium was conveying messages from the dead to their living loved ones. Ordinarily, I would have had no interest in watching the program, but on that day I was captivated by it. I had no idea that it would lead to writing a book. During an interview at the end of the program, the medium was asked how his process worked. He responded that he didn't know how. He just knew that it worked.
It is generally true that spirit mediums don't know the "why" and "how" of their abilities. All they know is that they have the ability and that it works. I immediately decided to write a book that would examine the process, the forces at work, and the mediums themselves.
If the practitioner doesn't understand how the process works, then it is highly unlikely that his clients will understand what's behind the communication with their dead relatives. Without such understanding, they might doubt whether the messages are from their loved ones and doubt the reliability of those messages. Granted, we don't have to understand the workings of many laws of nature for them to manifest themselves in our lives. An understanding of these laws, however, serves to dispel myths, superstition, and fear of the unknown. And in many cases it enables us to purposefully apply these laws in our lives.
My goal was simple: I would write a book that both mediums and their clients would find informative. The book would answer basic questions: Can the living actually communicate with the dead, or is there something else at work? Why does the information the dead convey appear to be in bits and pieces, and appear to involve a high degree of guesswork? Have the dead lost their ability to speak in clear, complete sentences? And why does the medium seem to be right some of the time and wrong at other times?
Written by someone who is not a practicing medium and has never used the services of one, the book would be free of the inherent bias that would otherwise be present.
As I formulated the idea for the book, other, related topics presented themselves for examination as well: psychics, soul mates, angels, and spirit guides. These topics also relate to the afterlife, the other side, or heaven, if you prefer. And, along with contact with the dead, they all have one thing in common: they all pertain to relationships - our relationships with one another, with the other side and its inhabitants, and with the God force. If you think of this book as dealing with relationships made in heaven, whatever heaven means to you and wherever it may exist, you will not be far off.
With the scope of the book expanded to include these other topics, it became clear that the book could be appreciated by all spiritually inclined people, both religious and non-religious.
Something else happened on that day. My compressed computer hard disk crashed before I could back up the manuscript, and I lost it. Every effort to recover it failed. For the next several months, determined to recover the manuscript at all costs, I sent the drive to different data recovery companies, without success. Disk compression complicated all recovery efforts. With the loss of the manuscript, I lost the desire to complete the remaining two chapters much less rewrite the entire book. Several months passed without writing a word. But, with the support and encouragement of some readers who had followed the progress of the manuscript through free previews I had made available, I decided to write the remaining two chapters as if the others were not lost. The first of these two chapters was on spirit guides. By the time I finished this chapter, I knew the book had to be published, even if it meant rewriting all that was lost. Without benefit of the initial thoughts as they flowed through me to the original manuscript, I undertook the monumental task of rewriting the whole thing. The result is the book you're now reading. Since I believe nothing happens by accident or without a good reason, I have no doubt that this version of the book is more informative and detailed. Above all, I hope that this version is more beneficial than the original would have been.
A lifelong student of Christianity, spirituality, and metaphysical traditions, Isaac Nwokogba has written many articles and three books about the spiritual laws of the universe. His latest book, "Voices from beyond: The God Force, The Other Side, and You," is now available. http://www.voicesfrombeyond.com
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