This is the first book I’ve read by Sylvia Browne and now I’ll be trying to get hold of her other books.

This wonderful book exceeded my expectations.

Sylvia was born in 1936 and has since passed on herself; she tells us she will not be coming back.

Sylvia was born with a caul wrapped round her head – an ancient sign that a newborn has been given the psychic gift at birth.

She saw visiting spirits as clearly as she saw everyone else in the room.

When she was eight, her Spirit Guide, whom she called Francine, appeared. Francine was her constant companion and friend. She told Sylvia she would become a well-known psychic some day, helping a lot of people and talking to large audiences.

Sylvia knew that The Other Side and the Spirits who live there are as real as the earth we live on, and the only thing separating us is “a thinly veiled difference in vibrational frequency”.

She knew that there is no such thing as death and that before we come here we write our own blueprint to chart exactly what we want to accomplish “on this brief trip away from Home”.

She knew that we are always surrounded by Spirit Guides, Angels, departed loved ones, and God Himself.

The Other Side is right here among us, “another dimension superimposed on our own world, some three feet above our version of ‘ground level’”. “Its vibrational frequency is much higher than ours, which is why we don’t perceive it.”

It is actually in the Spirit World that all beings are completely and fully “alive”.

Sylvia informs us that all Spirits on The Other Side are thirty years old, even though we may be two or ninety-two when we get there.

The Other Side is immensely beautiful - “a breathtaking infinity of mountains, and oceans, and vast gardens, and forests”.

Residents of the Other Side study, work, research, and have brilliant social lives, full of parties and music, dancing and sporting events.

Telepathy is the most popular form of communication, though all languages are spoken and understood.

There is no negativity there, no aggression, jealousy or judgement.

We all have a Spirit Guide, someone we were very close to on The Other Side, Spirit Guides have spent at least one life here. They are not someone we have known in this lifetime.

The Spirit Guide’s job is “to urge, nudge, encourage, advise, support and --- guide us on our life’s path”.

Spirit Guides communicate with us in a variety of ways. Even if you can’t hear them, they are still sending us plenty of messages, most often through our subconscious mind.

When we ask for help, we must remember to be specific and tell our Spirit Guide what is wrong, and what we need.

There is a section telling us about the various sorts of angels, and about departed loved ones.

There’s a chapter about how to discover your own past lives, and this also contains a list of 44 life themes; we all have both a primary and a secondary life theme.

Sylvia’s primary life theme was “Humanitarian” and secondary life theme was “Loner”. One of mine is definitely “Loner” but I don’t know what the other one is.

A section about birthmarks tells us that a birthmark often indicates an injury we received in a past life.

Sylvia also provides a meditation by which to access our past lives.

In a chapter entitled “Hauntings” we’re informed about ghosts. These absolutely exist: Sylvia has met many and talked to them.

None of the ghosts know he/she is dead.

Mostly, ghosts refuse to transcend to The Other Side but insist on staying earthbound.

Sylvia talked to a ghost who had been imprisoned in Alcatraz. He was a convicted hitman named Abie Malkowitz who’d been killed by another prisoner in the laundry room.

She told him his life had ended and he could now go home, but he refused to listen.

Abie Malkowitz is still a prisoner there, an earthbound ghost.

However, Sylvia and The Other Side had one success - “the most frightened, desolate ghost she’d ever met”, a nun whose life had ended by an illegal abortion.

S investigated and talked to many ghosts and tells us the full story of each case.

She tells us about a stubborn, ornery and argumentative ghost in a Toys R Us in Sunnyvale, California. The ghost was not the man it was thought to be but another one, a preacher called John Johnston who bled to death from an axe wound in 1889. He was in love with a woman called Beth; S told him if he’d just go through the light he would find Beth on The Other Side, but he got so fed up with S nagging him about it that he told her “If you tell me I’m dead one more time, I’m not going to talk to you anymore.”

S informs us that sooner or later, in minutes or hundreds of years, ghosts will find their way to the light.

Spirits have already transcended to The Other Side and visit us from another dimension, which makes them more difficult to see and hear clearly.

I personally have been visited by at least three deceased beings, but I’m not sure whether they were spirits or ghosts, spirits, I think.

There’s also a section on imprints, which are caused by “a highly concentrated collection of intense feelings”.

There is an important section on The Dark Side, which contained new information for me.

The Dark Side exists because God gave us free will and some spirits have chosen to reject the light.

Entities of the Dark Side have no conscience, no sense of responsibility for their actions, and no remorse.

Dark entities in human form are the true sociopaths among us. Dark entities don’t genuinely get to know or care about the people around them.

White entities are sensitive and compassionate. A dark entity can’t be turned white, no mre than a white entity can be turned dark.

S’s mother was a dark entity: a physically and emotionally abusive parent.

Francine states: “One white entity can dispel a thousand dark ones.”

There’s a right door and a left door on The Other Side.

White entities go through the right door when we die. Dark entities, on the other hand, go through the left door into an abyss of nothingness. Left door people have chosen to turn away from God. They do not stay there for long but go right back in utero again for another lifetime.

Dark entities recycle, life after life after life, without a blueprint, without Spirit Guides, without Angels.

I won’t go into more detail, but just conclude by stating that this is an informative, inspiring, amazing book that I highly recommend that you read. ( )

Again I read this book for a sense of peace after my father's recent passing. I don't know how much of it is true. Some of it I knew to be true through personal experience and innate, inexplicable beliefs I have about life after death. But then, some of it seemed silly. I choose to believe in a lot of what Sylvia Browne has to say, but I know I don't have the patience to do a lot of the mind exercises and affirmations she recommends. I read this for a sense of peace and that is what I got. ( )

Great reading, whether you believe in after life or not, there are some really wise points there. It's a positive reading, and there is nothing to be scared of :)
Just now though, I found out that she charges $850 for a phone reading! In the book she says that if she were to charge for using her gift, she would immediately lose it, because she is just a way for the message to be delivered and she cannot take advantage of it... $850 seems to me taking advantage of the gift really...she should loose it then...what a disappointment. Also, her website looks like one of those advert you find on magazines... ( )