When Heaven Touches Earth: A Little Book of Miracles, Marvels, & Wonders

133 Pages·2016·0.85 MB·English

by  James van Praagh

Copyright © 2016 by James Van Praagh, Sunny Dawn Johnston, and
Lisa McCourt.

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This is a work of creative nonfiction. While all the stories in this book
are true, some names and identifying details have been changed to
protect the privacy of the people involved.

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Contents
Introduction by Lisa McCourt
1. Spirit Strings
James Van Praagh
2. Only Kindness Matters
Sunny Dawn Johnston
3. All That Matters
Lisa McCourt
4. The Real Deal
Chelsea Hanson
5. Constance
Kristen Marchus-Hemstad
6. Still There
Wendy Kitts
7. Mermaid's Message
Phoenix Rising Star
8. Grandma's Gifts
Marla Steele
9. Through the Heart of a Child
Shelly Kay Orr
10. The Documentary
Ellen Cooper
11. A Mother's Gift
Kathy Jackson
12. POP! Goes the Dryer
Janet Rozzi
13. Undying Friendship
Michelle McDonald Vlastnik
14. The Spirit of Cancer
Jodie Harvala
15. The Miracle of Marc
Jean Culver
16. Conversations with Max
Mandy Berlin
17. A Divinely Orchestrated “Accident”
Karen Hasselo
18. A Father's Message
Vicki Higgins
19. The Mirror with a Message
Laurel Geise, DMin
20. The Golden Eiffel Tower
Christie Melonson, PhD
21. My Mother's Gift
Kim Dayoc
22. The Gift
Thea Alexander
23. Moving Beyond Fear
Jessica McKay
24. The Heart of an Intuitive Parent
Debra J. Snyder, PhD
25. Miraculous Cracks
Karen James
26. Surrender Avenue
Jacob Nordby
27. Angel in Disguise
Shanda Trofe
28. Life After Death
Heidi Connolly
About the Authors
Introduction
Lisa McCourt
Is the universe a friendly place? Albert Einstein has famously claimed that this
is the most important question you can ask yourself. He knew your answer to
that question would determine the quality of your life. He knew the extent to
which we believe the universe is a friendly place is the precise extent to which
we experience joy, peace, and contentment. Conversely, if you believe the
universe is a hostile place, your experience of life will bear out that belief.
Science has since come a long way in validating Dr. Einstein's bang-on claim.
Thanks to advances in quantum physics, we now know with verifiable scientific
certainty that our beliefs affect our experience of reality.
Maybe it's not easy for you to acknowledge that up until this very moment
you've been creating your reality, step by step, unwittingly, from the
springboard of your individual belief system. It's likely you've never been made
aware of this process, and likely you aren't even readily aware of most of your
beliefs. But isn't it a relief to realize that you can change anything in your
experience simply by changing your beliefs around it? This truth isn't limited to
the question of whether or not the universe is friendly but extends to the very
laws that govern that universe.
This book is for people who choose to believe in a force of love so immense,
so all encompassing, so inextricably interwoven within everyone and
everything that it transcends paltry life/death delineations.
But it's not for us believers alone. It's also for the “cuspers”—those on the
cusp of believing in such a glorious and impervious force of love but who can't
quite wrap their heads around it. And even though we die-hard believers cherish
the accounts in this book (because we get teased a lot and enjoy validation!),
the cuspers will appreciate them even more.
It's the cuspers who'll feel the quickening in their gut as they absorb these
words. They're the ones who'll have the giddy, coming-home sensation wash
over them as the niggling suspicions they've long buried come bubbling up to
the surface of their awareness. They're the ones who will feel the chills of
“Aha!” and the tingles of “Yes! Deep down, I've always known!”
Maybe you're not sure you're ready for that kind of full-on acceptance. We
present-day humans like to look smart and feel in control. We like to think
we've got it all figured out. And, inconveniently, the spirit world doesn't let us
do that. The spirit world—even for those of us who know that world is as real
as our elbows—is shrouded in mystery. No one is precisely sure how it works.
No one. Not the religious master, not the seasoned meditator, not the near-death
survivor who's come back to describe the afterlife, not the most brilliant
scientist or the most revered guru. No one knows exactly how the realms
beyond this one operate; no one has the rule book. This makes lots of cuspers so
uncomfortable they choose to just deny the whole metaphysical package. It
feels safer that way.
But hiding out in the constraints of that artificial safety comes at such
personal cost, diminishing the richness of your life experience to a fraction of
what it could be.
If you've felt the restriction of disbelief, I invite you now to set aside your
desire for hard-line facts just long enough to taste the mystery of surrendering
to a force so powerfully satisfying, juicy, and in-your-bones right that it's worth
giving up your plebeian need for black-and-white answers. Because once you
taste this Technicolor force, you never go back. Once you taste it, you
understand that its inherent mystery is not a flaw, but just another facet of its
irreproachable perfection.
The only important question before you right now is this: Would you like to
live in a world of miracles, governed by a love this powerfully embracive and
all encompassing? If so, it's available to you. Your beliefs are a choice. As
Einstein has pointed out, your experience of the world you live in is also a
choice.
Most of the contributors to this compilation are no different from you. They
aren't any more innately psychic, or energetically sensitive, or wise, or
spiritually talented than you are. There's just one thing they have in common:
they believe that miracles like the ones found in these pages are possible. You'll
hear some of them say they didn't believe until it happened to them, but I would
argue that on some subterranean level a thread of belief ran through each of
them—a vein of hopefulness that the universe, in all its mind-blowing
complexity, is not only friendly, but rooted in a love so far beyond our
comprehension that it defies the constructs of our limited present-day
paradigms.
You have that same thread running through you or you wouldn't have picked
up this book. If you'd like to experience the kinds of things these courageous,
vulnerable contributors have experienced, nurture the thread. Make room in
your heart for miracles. Pull on the thread until it unravels those hardened,
crusty layers of cynicism that only serve to cut you off from the wellspring of
infinite, pure love you're made of.
Dip into the well and see how right and natural it feels to join the ranks of the
believers. Welcome home. We've been waiting for you.