Re: "We are their heaven" by Allison DuBois

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 Jyeshta <whatever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:09:02 -0500, Jyeshta <whatever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Has anyone read the book in the subject line?  The thought that we are
> >our loved ones' heaven seems to go completely against everything else
> >I have read about the afterlife, being that there's a beautiful place
> >with endless things to do and that our departed loved ones are calm
> >knowing we'll be joining them soon.
> 
> I just recently read the book, and I find the title to be somewhat
> misleading.  She means that our departed loved ones like to be
> remembered and be around us during the happy (and bad) times of our
> lives, despite having a perfectly wonderful heaven to enjoy.  Pretty
> much the same sort of thing mediums generally say.
> 
> She has a much different take on life than Sylvia Browne, who I really
> am interested in.  Ms. Browne calls earth a hell hole, with which I
> agree, while Allison DuBois thinks earth life is or should be a happy
> thing - something impossible for the severely afflicted.

For another take, try "Messages From Michael" by Chelsea Quinn
Yarbro.  A fairly sophisticated take on the subject, too structured 
for some, just right for others . . . "happy" or "hellhole" being not 
the point, but getting the whole experience -- good and awful -- 
of physicality is.  Appeals to me, anyway.

Suzy MC