Something Spiritual, Part 2

A few months ago I happened upon a book in our local public library, written by George Anderson and Andrew Barone, "Lessons from the Light". Like most of the books I pick up, at least to look over a bit first, I'm attracted by the front cover. With a few others, I checked this one out of the library, brought it home and put it down for a week or so before noticing it again.

After reading the first few pages, I discovered how much different this book was from nearly everything else I've been reading. My tastes usually center around popular titles in contemporary literature: popular detective mysteries, some science fiction, some general fiction. (Long ago, in the early days of paperbacks, we could afford to go into bookstores and get about four or five new titles now and then. Today, we go to the library and save a few dollars that way.)

George Anderson was given a gift of sorts as a result of a near-death, serious illness he had as a young boy. Having recovered from meningitis then, he began to see and hear "spirits", apparitions that no one else was aware of. These weren't what we would consider as "ghosts", spiritual beings that tend to haunt the places of their former, physically human world. As he discovered, he was able to see and communicate with people who were "on the other side", as he chooses to describe them. That terrible illness as a child happened to have done something different to his physical brain and cognitive awareness.

Naturally, during his childhood he went through no minor difficulties in convincing parents or religious persons that he could indeed do what he was doing. Fearing schizophrenia, he was even hospitalized for the symptoms of that illness, and, fortunately, his amazing new abilities remained intact.

In brief, today as an adult, he makes a living of accepting invitations of those with departed loved ones and going to their homes to act as a type of "medium" or translator between the living and the deceased.

Without going into too much detail in the book, he does try to answer some of the questions that mankind has been asking since the beginning of time. Obviously, the first one being, "Is there life after death?" and most of the book does address this and answer with a resounding "yes!"

You might think, at this point, "Heh, so what? Who cares?" If that's the case, then perhaps this particular topic of the website is not for you, and that's perfectly okay. But to some of us, and some from the age of only six or seven years-old including myself, we've been wondering for years about the whole 'life after death' thing concept. For many years we were dragged by our unyielding parents into the family-preferred organized religion, and, for all intents and purposes, forced to sit through innumerable church services, events, meetings, and deadly church suppers. (Even today I wonder why so many people put such a wide variety of bizarre things into jello casseroles.)

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