2008 Foreword I

Wayne Green

First, let me set the scene. My mother was busy washing the lunch dishes at the farm up in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Her mother, Netta, had died a couple of years earlier. Mother had on a pair of stretch slacks, and suddenly, the elastic around the heel of one shoe, which was holding the leg of her pants down, broke. She thought to herself, Oh darn, now I’m going to have to drive down to Littleton and get a new elastic.

When she finished washing the dishes, she sat down to read a magazine and rest for a while. But it was a little chilly, so she thought maybe Netta had a shawl in the barn. She found it in Netta’s old trunk. Then, when she shook it, an elastic fell out. She said to herself, Netta, are you trying to tell me something?

Back in the house, she started to read again, but she’d seen all of the magazines, so she decided to do something she had never done before—go back out to the barn and pick a book at random from the couple of bookcases of old books that had been stored there when F. E., her father-in-law, had died. As far as I know, no one had ever bothered to look through the books, so it was a fairly random selection. They were in a dark corner of an old cow stall.

My mother picked a book with an unmarked black binding and brought it back to the house to read. Yep, it was this book, and it sure answered her question. You’re going to be amazed and delighted by May Sewall’s story, and you’ll understand why I’ve put this on my list of recommended books in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. And you’ll see why Richard Hussey has gone to all the trouble to reprint it.

No, our spirits do not go away when we die. Loved ones are with us when we need help. When we’re concerned over something, we seem to send out some kind of beacon. If we allow ourselves to be sensitive to it, we’ll find that we get the help we need.

Scientists have a very serious problem. They are so deeply involved with atoms and galaxies that they are almost impervious to spiritual phenomena. They can’t get funding to research anything but physical things and, preferably,areas that might result in some profit.

If you have a problem dealing with things like past lives, telepathy, reincarnation, the spirit world, ghosts, clairvoyance, precognition, remote viewing, serendipity, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and psychokinesis, or just don’t believe in them, I have some very unsettling news for you.

Take precognition, for instance . . . do you honestly believe that it’s impossible to predict the “future”? Fortune-telling? Lordy!

The fact is that precognition has been proven scientifically as has psychokinesis (the ability of the mind to affect matter, i.e., move objects, bend metal, etc.). Proven beyond any shadow of a scientific doubt. Proven over and over. Get a copy of Dean Radin’s The Conscious Universe and see for yourself. He cites a recent study where people were asked if they believed in psychic phenomena. Sixty-eight percent of the general public said yes, 56 percent of the professors said yes, 30 percent of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and 6 percent of the members of the National Academy of Sciences said yes. How come? Scientists don’t “waste their time” reading about something they know is baloney. Having had many personal experiences with telepathy, I was happy to see what I already knew was a fact was now supported by unimpeachable scientific evidence.

You are going to enjoy this book, and you’re going to be getting copies for friends who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Our language doesn’t have words to describe what we call the “next world.” We’re so deeply involved with time being linear that it’s almost impossible for us to grasp time as just being another dimension so that our spirits are “living” in the past, present, and in the future. Perhaps it is our own spirits that help us in times of trouble and that we see as angels or spirit guides. We try and describe it as “another Neither Dead Nor Sleeping 13 place,” or “a higher vibration.” We’ve been able to communicate now and then via psychics, Ouija boards, automatic writing, and even with tape recorders, but it hasn’t been reliable.

Once you’ve read this book, you’ll see why—even though it was decades out of print—I included it in my guide to books you really should read (Secret Guide to Wisdom).

Wayne Green
www.waynegreen.com

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