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The Afterlife Revolution
First, thanks for all the great reviews, and I assume that some of you are also among the Amazon reviewers, so a thousand thanks!
Now, if you've read the Afterlife Revolution, you'll know that my wife Anne died in August of 2015 and then executed a plan of contact that we had worked out back in the 1990s when we realized that there really was an afterlife.
There are a lot of reasons we came to understand this, which are detailed in the book. What I want to talk about here is things that have happened AFTER it was published, and there are a lot of them. Anne is still around and she's good at this.
She has changed the way I feel about life and afterlife, and the way I handle grief. There is just such a bubbling, delightful sense of presence when she is involved with me.
From February 18 to 23, I was at at a conference at Esalen. I was there with my friend and fellow Unknowncountry.com podcaster Jeremy Vaeni, the medium Paul Selig and a woman who was transformed into a psychic by a lightning strike, Elizabeth Krohn.
We were there to tell our stories to a group of academics and social scientists who take a serious interest in extreme experiences.
As those of you who have read Afterlife know, Anne indicates her presence by the appearance of a white moth, generally in situations where no moths are around.
After my presentation on the Afterlife Revolution, most of the conferees went to dinner at the Esalen dining hall. As they were eating, a white moth appeared and flew up and down the table, then flew up in the air and seemed to just disappear. Then, at the final banquet in a private dining room, a white moth flew around and landed on Jeremy Vaeni's head! (Anne loved his approach to the unknown and his show.)
There were no other moths of any kind seen by any of us at Esalen over that five day period. It was just like all the other white moth appearances that have been associated with her--appearances that are carefully timed to be relevant to what is happening when the moth appears.
Additionally, last December, a psychic called Cherylee Black found herself face to face with a ghost called Anne. (Her psychic ability includes seeing and interacting with ghosts.) This ghost was so clear and remained for so long that Cherylee drew a portrait of her. She sent it to her friend and mine, my co-author of Super Natural, Jeff Kripal. He did not recognize the face. Eventually he sent it on to another friend, who wrote back at once, "that's Anne Strieber."
So the portrait was sent to me. Not only is is Anne, it is very close to my favorite photo of her, which hangs on my wall so I can look up at it while I am working. I now have them framed side by side.
Anne was in life a remarkable woman with a strong intellect a wonderful sense of humor and a big, open heart. Since she died, she has been on a mission to confirm to us that we have souls and there is an afterlife, and that we need to look to the health of our souls in whatever way we choose.
She has said many wonderful things to me and others since she died. One of them is "enlightenment is what happens when there is nothing left of us but love."
She came to that in her life and continues in her afterlife, calling to us on behalf of love.
Now, if you've read the Afterlife Revolution, you'll know that my wife Anne died in August of 2015 and then executed a plan of contact that we had worked out back in the 1990s when we realized that there really was an afterlife.
There are a lot of reasons we came to understand this, which are detailed in the book. What I want to talk about here is things that have happened AFTER it was published, and there are a lot of them. Anne is still around and she's good at this.
She has changed the way I feel about life and afterlife, and the way I handle grief. There is just such a bubbling, delightful sense of presence when she is involved with me.
From February 18 to 23, I was at at a conference at Esalen. I was there with my friend and fellow Unknowncountry.com podcaster Jeremy Vaeni, the medium Paul Selig and a woman who was transformed into a psychic by a lightning strike, Elizabeth Krohn.
We were there to tell our stories to a group of academics and social scientists who take a serious interest in extreme experiences.
As those of you who have read Afterlife know, Anne indicates her presence by the appearance of a white moth, generally in situations where no moths are around.
After my presentation on the Afterlife Revolution, most of the conferees went to dinner at the Esalen dining hall. As they were eating, a white moth appeared and flew up and down the table, then flew up in the air and seemed to just disappear. Then, at the final banquet in a private dining room, a white moth flew around and landed on Jeremy Vaeni's head! (Anne loved his approach to the unknown and his show.)
There were no other moths of any kind seen by any of us at Esalen over that five day period. It was just like all the other white moth appearances that have been associated with her--appearances that are carefully timed to be relevant to what is happening when the moth appears.
Additionally, last December, a psychic called Cherylee Black found herself face to face with a ghost called Anne. (Her psychic ability includes seeing and interacting with ghosts.) This ghost was so clear and remained for so long that Cherylee drew a portrait of her. She sent it to her friend and mine, my co-author of Super Natural, Jeff Kripal. He did not recognize the face. Eventually he sent it on to another friend, who wrote back at once, "that's Anne Strieber."
So the portrait was sent to me. Not only is is Anne, it is very close to my favorite photo of her, which hangs on my wall so I can look up at it while I am working. I now have them framed side by side.
Anne was in life a remarkable woman with a strong intellect a wonderful sense of humor and a big, open heart. Since she died, she has been on a mission to confirm to us that we have souls and there is an afterlife, and that we need to look to the health of our souls in whatever way we choose.
She has said many wonderful things to me and others since she died. One of them is "enlightenment is what happens when there is nothing left of us but love."
She came to that in her life and continues in her afterlife, calling to us on behalf of love.
