When Spirits Come Calling

by Wright, Sylvia Hart

• ISBN13: 9781577330950
• ISBN10: 1577330951
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Blue Dolphin Pub

Summary

Have you ever sensed the presence of someone no longer alive? If you're a typical American, there's a 40% chance that you have. If you've lost a spouse or longtime partner, those odds increase to over 50%! Experiences of apparent contact with the dead are commonplace around the world. Studies by doctors, psychologists, social workers, and public opinion experts confirm this. Usually such experiences do not involve mediums. They come to healthy, active people when they least expect them.A departed son "talks" his mother through programming her computer. Most of the world's faith traditions assume that we can communicate with our lost loved ones. The Buddhists and Hindus who believe in reincarnation, the Chinese and Africans who practice ancestor worship, the Mexicans who each year celebrate the Day of the Dead, all believe that the spirit survives.This groundbreaking book calmly confronts a hush-hush subject. Can some part of the human personality survive death and reach out to us? Professor Wright offers persuasive proof that indeed it does.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
After-Death Contact-A Common Experience	1	(15)
Sensing Someone Else's Death	16	(15)
Knowledge and Guidance from the Other Side	31	(16)
How World Religions View Survival of the Spirit	47	(14)
Facing up to a Cultural Taboo	61	(16)
After a Suicide	77	(15)
Subtle Contacts-Scents and a Feeling of Closeness	92	(13)
After the Death of a Child	105	(10)
Lights That Blink a Message	115	(9)
Misbehaving Radios, Telephones-and More	124	(12)
Symbolic Events	136	(13)
Animal Stories	149	(10)
More Help and Guidance from Loving Spirits	159	(13)
Ghosts, Possession, and Things That Go Bump in the Night	172	(16)
What's So Different About Paranormal Dreams?	188	(6)
Who Becomes a Sensitive?	194	(17)
Spiritual Experience and Religious Belief	211	(13)
Notes	224	(11)
Index	235	(6)
About the Author	241