Seeking your Loved Ones on the Other Side – Communications with the Invisible Universe

The author is a clinical psychologist whose son was killed in a tragic and violent incident, and who succeeds not only in communicating with him, but also in conveying profound spiritual wisdom about the deeper nature of life’s purpose gleaned in the process. On the very first page, we read the arresting statement that pain is the path of truth, refracting light to reveal things not otherwise seen (also pp. 135 ff.). The narrative is chronological, and we hear Jordan’s voice directly sharing insights that only the dead can know, and which can lead to greater acceptance and understanding of the pain in life. Jordan made his presence felt to a number of people in different ways after his passing. The author himself uncovers significant details of his own past lives, and the ways in which personalities and patterns reappear in the present, for instance in response to loss. Our essential purpose here is to learn and love.

There is detailed coverage of the nature of the death and transition process, reunions with those we have known, the seamless connections between the living and the dead, the reason that things happen as they do, the lessons of uncertainty and loss (pp. 95 ff.), ways in which we are helped from the other side, and the cycle involving lessons learned and not learned. Even while we are on Earth, we exist in the spirit world, as Swedenborg also maintained. Equally, we are both individual and collective expressions of life and consciousness. The final chapters provide something of a distillation with key insights, such as our mistakes being a chance to learn, karma as ‘the momentum of learning’ relating choices to outcomes, and the fruit of our lives becoming the substance of consciousness. Fascinatingly, the role of science is said to be the path to bring religion into alignment with the deepest truth, especially research at the interface between science and spirituality that is the concern of the Network as a whole. A beautiful insight on the closing pages is that ‘when we choose love at the moment of death, fear dissolves’ – a point well worth remembering when our time comes!