Death Dying

Already Here

A Doctor Discovers the Truth about Heaven

by Leo Galland MD Review by David Lorimer, August 2018

Published: 2018
Publisher: Hay House
Format: Hardback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781401954178

Publisher’s description

“Dr. Leo Galland, a respected global leader in the eld of holistic medicine, has written an astounding book of revelations about the nature of heaven and earth, loss and pain, and love.” — Christiane Northrup, M.D., #1 New York Times best-selling author Already Here tells of the death of Leo Galland’s son, Christopher, at the age of 22; the direct visual evidence Christopher showed him that our souls do go on; and the communications he received from Christopher’s spirit that dramatically changed Leo’s understanding of life and its meaning. In life, Christopher was a brain-damaged special needs child who challenged everyone he knew with his unpredictable behavior and uncanny insights. After his death, he revealed to Leo the real purpose of his life, as a spiritual guide who taught others by confounding their assumptions and expectations. And he began to share with Leo a new perspective on everything from the nature of good and evil to the concept of timelessness to the notion that the universe is, fundamentally, an act of love. Christopher’s wisdom was revealed to Leo over the course of a year, coalescing into three themes, which Leo calls the Gift of the Opposite, the Gift of Presence, and the Gift of Timelessness. Leo quickly came to realize that these gifts were not for him alone: they contain ancient wisdom, held sacred in many traditions, that Chris intended him to share with others. He has written this book, under Chris’s direction, to do just that. Already Here presents a unique dialogue in which an analytical, scientific mind tries to comprehend truths from another plane of existence —one that, nonetheless, is inseparable from our own. Chris describes Heaven and Earth, spirit and matter, as unified opposites that cannot exist without each other and cannot be separated from human consciousness. The book takes its title from Christopher’s final message to Leo, in which he describes Heaven as an “eternal present” where everyone is together, even those of us still living earthly lives. “Lighten up,” Christopher says to his father. “You’re already here, you know.”

With a subtitle referring to heaven along similar lines to Eben Alexander, this is a personal book of a doctor's journey into the inner realms following the death of his brain damaged son Christopher at the age of 22. Needless to say, this experience radically expands his understanding of reality. The three main themes are The Gift of the Opposite, the Gift of Presence and the Gift of Timelessness. The author gains a completely new perspective on the meaning of his son's life where his behavioural problems are seen in a new light as challenging others by confounding their assumptions and expectations. This could be profoundly disruptive, bringing people up against the limits of their patience and tolerance - including his father. He is encouraged to go of his normal understanding of time and realise that our task is to find our perfect self and embrace it rather than going through life making careful plans: 'let go of time and enter into God's moment.' The material world of matter is seen as the realm able to embody separation and otherness, which contains many spiritual lessons and allows for love. The author comes to realise that opposites always exist together, and that everything in the universe contains its opposite, even if only in potential. When it comes to Presence, the chief obstacle is the perceived pressure of time, and in this context he refers to the insights of the ferryman Vasudeva in Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha – as life flows, we can enter into Presence at any moment. This is certainly a mind-expanding adventure.

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