YOUR ETERNAL LIFE READING LIST
Why would you want to
bother with reading about eternal life? In most cases you won’t even ask yourself this question as most of us are totally
immersed in our lives in this world. Few voices tell us much about life after death
except resting in peace in a grave. Some, however, do tell
us about “passing on” or “passing over”... but to where? Meeting St. Peter and resting on a cloud watching the angels fly by? Wouldn’t you like to have access to expert advice channeled to us from actual residents of eternal life? In
this article I’m going to help you with my discoveries as a student of eternal life.
Long ago I walked away from religion and dedicated myself to becoming a psychologist helping
people survive well and happily in this life. After losing
many of my original family members to death, so I thought, I had the opportunity to help my father in his last months of life
and begin my quest to understand what lies in store for us after we take our last breath. And this transition point will happen
to you! So why don’t you look at this reading list which I have assembled since my father’s passing in 2007. This
article is an overview and reading list, and you will find many of the books described more fully on my website and/or on
Amazon.
If you don’t believe that we all are eternal spirits temporarily residing in a body, you might
start with the first book in a series by Roberta Grimes entitled “The Fun of Dying” (Christine F Anderson Publishing,
Second Edition, 2015.) A catchy title, right? She does explain in the book
that the fun will begin after your eternal spirit leaves your body assuming that you have earned the right to pass on to the
reward portion of eternal life. Grimes also will provide you with a coherent explanation of facts and research about how your
energy survives, explaining as simply as possible how quantum physics has discovered this fact. Grimes then will tell you
about Summerland where you’ll want to go instead of the Shadowland. (For purposes of this article I’ll call this positive area of eternal life Summerland although not all the authors
use this phrase.) Your energy spirit and consciousness will
remain with you even though you will lose your corporeal body which may in fact be resting in peace somewhere in a grave.
But YOU won’t be there in that grave; you will be joining the rest of your family and the rest of humanity residing
as eternal spirits.
Currently Roberta Grimes is still here on this earth with us, writing and blogging prolifically about
these issues. But next in this article let’s take a look at the information which comes directly to us from eternal
life. I used to write about the “afterlife” as many writers do. After all this research, I now want to write about
“eternal life”. We will actually return from this shorter period of our existence here to again become a spirit
who lives eternally. I’ve found out that we do resemble ourselves in eternal
life but we can pick whichever of our life stages we want to look like. Most pick young adult.
As my adult body becomes older and older, that sounds great to me! Now you are asking how these
eternal beings communicate with us. There is actually research predicting that our loved ones in eternal life will be able
to communicate directly to us in the future. For now, however, we are dependent upon eternal spirits communicating to those
of us whose brains currently have the capacity to receive this information. These individuals are called mediums. (They may
also call themselves psychic, but psychics without abilities as mediums receive only information transmitted through this
life, not information from deceased spirits.)
So let’s start with a comprehensive overview of eternal life,
Life in the World Unseen, Anthony Borgia, Square Circles (recent edition) 2013. The information was transmitted to him and
then to us by Monsignor Benson, an Anglican priest who died to this world in his 40s and found himself directly in Summerland.
In his life here he was a writer but found himself needing to communicate information which he
doubted could be true in his preaching and writing here. He
set out to correct this misinformation and also was able to communicate in great detail to all of us about eternal life, focusing
mainly on the beauty and pleasures of Summerland. He also was able to communicate about the difficult existence and sometimes
tortures of those who did not qualify to live their eternal lives in a good, comfortable and blessed life.
So what about
the problems of those individuals whose lives did not qualify them for a positive eternal life? There is no “devil”
shoveling wretched spirits into hell fire. But classic writings make it clear that people earn their eternal life by following
the Golden Rule of loving and forgiving others unconditionally. Money is not the
issue. In fact Monsignor Benson tells us about an inhabitant of Shadowland who had been sure of his entrance into heaven because
of the money he had given to his church. A fascinating book
channeled to us by an inhabitant of a part of the eternal world which I’ll call Shadowland is “Nosso Lar: An Account
of Life in a Spirit Colony in the World of Spiritis,” by Francisco Xavier, Edicei of America, 2011. Nosso Lar is Portuguese for Our Home, and this book was originally written
as channeled to a Brazilian medium by an inhabitant of this colony who kept his life name a secret but lived as a doctor on
earth. This book begins with the eternal spirit of the doctor
describing his years of torture after his earthly death. Well, when I found out this fact I almost avoided reading this book.
I am no fan of torture even in written form. However, to my relief I found that this portion of the book was very short and
intended to describe this area and its tortures but not subject us to experiencing them ourselves. Following this portion
of the book, I found interesting information about this colony which was set up to assist spirits residing in the world of
damnation. These spirits showed some promise and possibility to give up their anger and rebellion and learn to change into
a life of service and dedication to understand and work through their earth problems. The inhabitants came from many different
types of life with apparently a preponderance of individuals who had collected and squandered many earthly rewards. Such was
the case with this doctor who had lived a life of privilege before his death when he found himself in a hellish existence.
The book describes his change of heart as he learned to understand the need to work for a blessed eternal life.
I’ve
written a previous article about Arthur Ford, a medium who found himself in eternal life after his death and then immediately
dictated a book “A World Beyond” to Ruth Montgomery, Fawcett Crest, 1971. It was interesting to me that he wrote
extensively about people who were experiencing difficulty adjusting to eternal life in the shadows, not really qualifying
for Summerland, or living a marginal eternal life. I also found it interesting that there was very little in this book describing
the wonders and beauties of Summerland. At the end of the book Ford confessed to
a problem he had experienced after being given morphine after a serious accident and then encouraged to switch to alcohol. This evolved into binges which he conquered enough to be admitted to the lowest
levels of what I would call Summerland.
You might be interested in a locally composed book about a teen suicide in
our area, Reconciled by the Light, Ron Pappalardo, lulu, 2009. After the teen’s suicide, he channeled his input to his
father through our local medium Cherie Lassiter. Since 2012, I have been communicating with this talented medium after I received
information in the book about her skill in helping this teen and his family. You may also be interested in his father’s
subsequent book and the fact that he is teaching sessions in our local area to help us learn more about eternal life and our
ability to make contact with the spirit world.
I mentioned Roberta Grimes earlier in this article. After reading “The
Fun of Dying” I would recommend that you read all of her recent spiritual books. She also has a blog and informative
videos where she will keep you up-to-date about the latest issues regarding eternal life and spirituality. She will write
responses to you if you communicate with her through her blog. I also want to call your attention to a co-written book, Flying
High in Spirit, Mikey Morgan and Roberta Grimes, Christine Anderson Publishing, 2016. “Mikey Morgan” actually
dictated this book from the spirit world to his mother, communicating by pendulum. The spirit now calling himself Mikey is
a very advanced spirit who last lived on earth in the 17th century,
advancing over time to the sixth level of eternal life close
to the ultimate level of Source. Mikey communicates to us the
concerns of high-level spirits about the state of negativity and violence on earth interfering with spiritual progress. He
entered our world as Mikey in order to establish communication with us. Most of the books and information reaching us from eternal life come from correspondents at the lower Summerland
levels. Roberta Grimes realized the unique quality of these high level communications and helped facilitate the publication
of this book.
Let me mention the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The book will
give you detailed information about your journey after death into eternal life. Upon reading this book many years ago I became
quite concerned about being able to maneuver through the extensive advice and adventures discussed in this journey. At this
time I am not recommending that we consider this book as anything other than a valuable treasure for people in that culture.
I’ve realized through my reading that we ascend to an eternal life constructed for people from our culture. In our version
of Summerland we will find many similarities to our culture and lifestyle in order to increase our comfort and understanding
as we learn to live our eternal lives. We will also find higher levels in Summerland which will be accessed as we make spiritual
progress. As we work to ascend into higher levels, we will
find less culturally defined settings. At the higher levels, then, the different cultures merge into universal spirituality.
Many of us
encounter information concerning eternal life described by people communicating about near-death experiences.
These experiences have often been debunked as merely imagination by people undergoing a loss
of consciousness in accidents or surgeries. However, a definitive book has now emerged, “Proof of Heaven. A Neurosurgeon’s
Journey into the Afterlife” by Dr. Eben Alexander. A distinguished scientist, a nonbeliever in eternal life, Eben developed
a neurological crisis wherein he lost all higher brain function and was considered terminal until he suddenly revived. After being restored to consciousness, he was advised to write in detail about
his experiences during this period of time without higher brain function. Given the facts proving his absolute loss of consciousness
and his terminal state, Dr. Alexander’s extraordinary experiences during this time have convinced many that eternal
life in heaven does exist.
I could go on forever, but I’ll leave you with other paths to follow in reading about
eternal life. I’ll let you look up publishers and dates. Read “Thavis is Here”, by Harry Homewood; “Memories
of Heaven” by Wayne Dyer and Dee Garnes, a collection of memories of real children submitted by their parents about
their times in heaven before birth; carefully researched books by Stafford Betty and Michael Tymh; “Witness from Beyond”
and “Evidence from Beyond”, both channeled by A.D.Mattson ; Letters from the Afterlife”, Elsa Barker; “My
Son and the Afterlife”, Elisa Medhus. After studying psychology at Harvard in William James Hall I was especially interested
in books by Susy Smith as communicated to her by William James from the spirit world including “The Book of James”
and “Life Is Forever.” In these books James communicated to us about
many and varied topics. Rosalind McKnight, an Explorer at the Monroe Institute, wrote a comprehensive book, “Soul Journeys.
My Guided Tours through the Afterlife” in 2005. If you want to continue
reading about eternal life, Amazon is very helpful as of course they love to make book sales. When you enter any of these
titles, they obligingly supply you with many book titles of similar content.
Please remember: we all will find
ourselves coming to the end of our earthly lives. Most of us have carefully prepared for all of our trips whether around town,
back and forth to work or vacations. Don’t you think it would be a good idea to prepare for a trip to eternal life?
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