The Afterlife Connection: A Therapist Reveals How to Communicate with Departed Loved Ones

192 Pages·2003·0.92 MB·English

by  Jane Greer

The Afterlife
Connection
ALSO BY DR. JANE GREER

Adult Sibling Rivalry

How Could You Do This to Me?

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My mother Helen and I on vacation in Italy.
The Afterlife
Connection

A Therapist Reveals
How to Communicate with
Departed Loved Ones

DR. JANE GREER

ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN NEW YORK
THE AFTERLIFE CONNECTION. Copyright © 2003 by Dr. Jane Greer. All rights reserved. Printed in the United
States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written
permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greer, Jane, 1951– The afterlife connection : a therapist reveals how to communicate with departed loved
ones /Jane Greer, p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-30652-0 (hc) ISBN 0-312-30653-9 (pbk) EAN 978-0312-30653-3
1. Spiritualism. 1. Title.

BF1261.2.G74 2003
133.9—dc21
2003047146

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To my father

For your unconditional love throughout my life.

When it counts the most, you’re always there.

I love you.
Life is eternal,
Love is immortal,
And death is only a horizon . . .
And the horizon is nothing
Save the limit of our sight.

—CARLY SIMON, “Life Is Eternal”
Contents

Introduction: My Mothers Promise

Part One: Discovering the Afterlife Connection

1. From Therapist to Soul-Searcher—My Journey Begins
2. From Popular to Profound—Believers, Unbelievers, and the Ongoing
Search for Proof

Part Two: Transcommunication in Action
3. Seeing Is Believing—Signs from the Spirit Realm
4. Conscious Contact—Putting Out the Welcome Mat
5. Dream Visits—Meetings in the Spirit World

Part Three: The Healing Connection

6. Writing from the Heart—Letters to the Spirit Realm
7. Recovery and Renewal of Afterlife Relationships
8. Discovery and Transformation in the Here and Now

Suggested Reading

Acknowledgments
Introduction

My Mother’s Promise

The angels, whispering to one another, can find amid their
burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of
“Mother.”

—EDGAR ALLAN POE

It’s more than four years ago as of this writing that my mother, Helen, and I
were chatting and laughing as we crossed Madison Avenue. She’d come up to
New York from Florida, where she and my father lived, and we’d spent the
morning shopping and just enjoying one another’s company. It was one of those
wonderful September days when the weather is still balmy and the sky a
cloudless, clear blue. The only thing that made it less than perfect was the fact
that my mother, who never complained about physical problems, was
complaining that she had a splitting headache. I thought she probably needed