Sylvia Browne's Life on the Other Side

[Trilby]

I didn't know if I should put this in philosophy or what, but it is a book I'm talking about and whatever. If UT wants to move this thread he can.

I finished reading Life on the Other Side last night and I have to say, I agreed with pretty much everything ol' Sylvia was saying about Life after Death. She says she's been Over There (NDE) and it is very beautiful and we are all happy there (except for those who chose the Left Door, turned their backs on God, are unhappy and going RIGHT BACK IN TO UTERO to come here all over again without spending any time enjoying the all encompassing peace of Home; eg. suicides, murderers, sociopaths, etc.) We decide if we want to come back to earth; if we do, we make up a highly detailed chart about how our life on earth will go and what specific thing we wish to overcome or experience while there. She also said that some soul's are so traumatized after their bodily death that they have to go into a kind of de-briefing process to re-enter Home fully integrated. I found that strange-I know our soul's can be traumatized while on Earth, but, for a soul going back to God to need special counselling before being able to enjoy the AfterLife? Anyway, her ideas were intriguing. She also said the spirit world is right here with us--only three feet above ground level. Isn't that weird? A lot of what she said jibbed with what Ritchie wrote about in Return from Tomorrow and what Eadie said in Embraced by the Light. I feel in my heart that these things are at least partly true, and then I wonder if I'm just kidding myself. I know a lot of people who think death is the Final 'IT', and nothing else happens.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Brianna

if we do, we make up a highly detailed chart about how our life on earth will go and what specific thing we wish to overcome or experience while there.

There must be a disclaimer in that document, like 'actual experiences may vary', because I cannot imagine a lot of people choosing the lives they lead, except maybe George Clooney and Angelina Jolie.

As for the afterlife, it's not a big focus in Judaism. A lot more is geared towards making this life the best it can be. The experience of the Christian church is that they had to make suicide a mortal sin because after selling all of the peasants in the dark ages on the wonders of the afterlife, the attitude of some true believers was 'why wait'?

I hope that there is a Heaven, but I do not believe that G-d has failed us if all he gives us is one brief time on this earth and the free will to make of it what we can.

[Happy Monkey]

See the John Edward thread . She knows nothing more than anyone else. She may have a poetic way of describing her guesses, but do did Dante. Enjoy the story, but don't make any decisions on the assumption that it's true.

Sylvia Browne, when confronted on TV, says that she can prove her abilities, but always backs off when the cameras are gone.

[wolf]

If only the serial killers, murderers and rapists are reincarnating, we are so fucked.

She's wrong. everybody knows that the big white dog leads you across the rainbow bridge where your bones are ground into dust and your soul is scoured clean so you can come back ... or you end up stuck in the Gray Zone forever.

Or the battle maidens collect the fallen and lead them to Valhalla, and those who do not die warriors are taken to the realm of Hel, a cold and gloomy place.

[TiddyBaby]

have all the extinct creatures been reincarnated into the overpopulation that keeps happening minute by minute?

[TiddyBaby]

But, I'm not dissing you, Wolf; but
... if the ephemeral after-life of a "beings soul" can make choices... or pass to energy levels to galaxies billions and billions of light-years far more advanced than our own.

Why would you want to re-do miscreant behaviours of "earthlings" ?

[wolf]

Reincarnation is not about unlimited choice until enlightenment is within reach or attained. Until then you get told where to go next, depending on the lessons that you're still not learning.

[TiddyBaby]

Re-incarination is punishiment

[TiddyBaby]

Bullshit,

I think Re-incarnation is about the souls that don't want to leave.


The people that return time after time are "mamby pambies."..

or, on the other hand...

the "ASSHOLES" i.e.:
the "they", that judge, are just not up to the times, or want to hold evolution back.

"Those fuckers" live in the past. (you can't evolve until you pass some old shit, and if you do accept it all... Congradulations... you have not evolved.

We are evolved, you are our tennis ball.

Welcome, slagg, snail, smucklage..... "

[TiddyBaby]

I think next time,

Tell them to fuck off, and ask WHAT THE HELL do they want, and ask for the mission on Pluto, or Alpha Magnolia.

Ask them to quit playing games.... if its so almighty important. \\

Did you ask to born, in the first place?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Sylvia Browne's working a profitable scam but not a new one. Lots of people have gathered profitable followers, even established religions, by promising "do-overs".

[Jordon]

Read "The Tibetan Book of the Dead." also known as the Bardo Thodol. It reads like stereo instructions and is pretty much dead on for every human being no matter what their religion or beliefs. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask me. I'm the expert.

[chainsaw]

I went to a Sylvia Browne "seminar" and it kind of made me sad. She made a KILLING that day. The min ticket was $40 (I think they went up to $100) and there was a HUGE table of crap to buy (books, tapes, cards, etc.) - all overpriced IMO. When she was finished speaking, they allowed a limited number of people to line up to get their books (ONLY bought that day) autographed. She’s a fantastic business woman.

BUT, the one thing that I got out of it was that people need people like her. Other than robbing people monetarily, I think she just MIGHT be doing some good by telling people what they want/need to hear. She’s pretty encouraging and positive in her advice and her views on the after-life. Whether it’s all true or bullshit, I have no idea.