Life on the Other Side

This is Sylvia Browne's book about what life is like on the “other side,” and it's very, very detailed.

She has done numerous readings for people, and her picture of the other side is based on these readings plus what her contact, Francine, has told her. The information was pretty consistent from what she found the people were saying when she did their readings, and from what Francine was saying.

In chapter 3 she deals with the origin of ghosts. She also comes up with something I have not run into otherwise, and that is the “Dark Side.” Those who are evil people, people who hurt others, etc, when they die do not go through the normal “other side” experiences so common in the Near Death Experiences (NDE's). Instead, they go through a dark area, through a left-hand door, and right back into human form (they reincarnate), without any reviewing their lives and trying to figure out what they did right and wrong as happens with “good” people.

Eventually, these people will be intercepted by a spirit from the light side and might be able to change the path of their life.

She describes in detail the types of buildings that people will encounter on the other side, and what they will be doing in those structures, including reviewing their own lives. She also talks about the subject of what happens with suicides, and discusses a sort of holding area where they're basically given some intensive help.

People are mostly around thirty years old on the other side. They live in an environment of 78 degree temperature and it doesn't seem to rain. They don't have to eat or sleep, but can do so if they desire. The other side is also supposed to be a perfect mirror of the earth physically, but without pollution or erosion. Atlantis exists in the Atlantic ocean, and Mu (Lemuria) in the Pacific Ocean.

Various places of famous architecture exist in a just-like-new condition there, including the Parthenon, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Pyramids. The great libraries of the world are there, including ones destroyed on this side, such as the Library of Alexandria.

There is no sun or stars on the other side, nor is there a day/night dichotomy. Animals are present there, including extinct and mythological ones.

Virtually everything that we use there is created by the power of our thoughts. We also travel by the power of our thoughts. There is also a multitude of things for people to do on the other side, so our lives there are actually quite busy. We also advance in our development from one reality to another.

We communicate on the other side by telepathy, thus eliminating the problem of language barriers.

There is no marriage on the other side, nor do families exist as we know them on Earth.

There are such things as angels, although they are not and never were human beings.

There is a group called the Council which is the government on the other side.

Alien beings, people from other planets, have similar things happen to them when they die, but they have their own “realities” to go to.

This is only a small part of the material in the book. It's incredibly detailed. It is also interesting to compare this to Susy Smith's writings There are some similarities and some significant differences.

Both authors say mentally ill people are given intensive help on the other side. Both agree we are eternal spirits. Both agree the power of thought is used to create things on the other side. Their description of angels are fairly similar. Both agree Atlantis existed.

A major area of difference is reincarnation; Sylvia Browne firmly says it exists, Susy Smith firmly says it doesn't. There's also a difference in what happens to evil people. Sylvia Browne says they reincarnate immediately unless a spirit from the light side is able to intercept them and get them to start to develop spiritually. Susy Smith says they remain in a nasty neighborhood until they are ready to start their evolutionary spiritual progression. Sylvia Browne also avoids Susy Smith's statements about people who are homosexuals or “morally or physically unfit” and that they should not reproduce.

Her description would indicate a type of existence that would be extremely busy and yet with time for plenty of cultural activities. I wouldn't care for the temperature (I'd take at least ten degrees cooler), and I happen to like rain. She also does address one question of mine and that is the ultimate end of our efforts. It seems we can either lose our individuality and join a pool of energy (much simplified) voluntarily, or maintain our individuality and, as far as I can make out, help run things in the universe.

She also has a theory about the “evil” people, and this would help to explain why so much evil still exists in our world.

It's also a readable book; she doesn't lose herself in any kind of dry, fancy-professionalism that some books in the subject end up becoming. Whether she is correct or not in what she describes, of course, is not something we will ever know as long as we are alive.