Review: A Real Message Conveyed
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
I received a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.As different as it sounds, I never thought I would ever read something like this. But experimentation is the name of the game and read this book I did.This book is Collette's collection of stories with people who have crossed over and moved on, away from their physical bodies.There is this one quote which endeared me to the book, which I even quoted on facebook,"There is darkness that dwells inside each of us. There is light, but there is also the dark. Man, woman or child, we each have our own darkness and our own demons. They are all of our own making. Our demons can be within us and they can also come from outside of us. These demons challenge us. It's as though they exist to ask us to make the wrong choices. Most often we have a sense of exactly what's right or wrong for us, but these demons can somehow make the wrong choices seem right because they're so good at rationalizing the poor choices. Even though the wrong choice can sometimes seem like the right thing to do, but you'll know deep down inside when it's a wrong choice anyway"Reading through this book, even whether I did believe in pyschics or mediums or clairvoyant people, it did not matter. The Book can stand alone on it's own feet. There were stories of people who died after long bouts of illness and came back to check on their loved ones. Some stories were about people who saw their life plan after they died and realised that fear had made them live a shriveled life. Some stories were about people who had a troubled life and found peace in the Afterlife.The essence of all the stories was that regardless of what we did in our lifetime, our soul was everlasting. It learned lessons from our failures on earth and chose to return. Our soul also grew and matured after learning the mistakes we committed during our lifetime as against what we planned when we were going to come back to the earth.Each story was a small reminder that our time here is limited. There was one story which was particularly impactful.Bob, an Accountant, was so scared of death that he never did anything, or ventured out, or even spoke to people. After a while he became so paranoid that he feared hospitals for germs and didn't go there when he needed to get an ulcer removed. When he died, he realised that because of his debilitating fear of everything going wrong and death, he had crippled his life. He had forgotten how to live. His thinking had turned his body against itself and ultimately caused his death.Each story ended with the soul being forgiven for the mistakes and an overwhelming feeling of love which gave deep rest to the person who just died.This isn't one of the usual books which you would pick up and read. But it made me think about the finality of life itself and made me wonder of the happiness we kept postponing just because we thought we had "more time". For this message, even if it is from people who have passed away, I am grateful.The 25 stories here will leave you contemplating and will make you think. IT IS A GOOD READ FOR SURE!!