My Son and the Afterlife: Conversations from the Other Side

This is among one of the best books that I have read on the afterlife and related spiritual subjects. It is a second book written by a Dr. That is the mother of a young man who took his life at age twenty due to mental health problems.She starts out as a hard core sceptic, but is compelled to investigate the possibility of being able to contact her son through some very gifted mediums.I personally, have been a spirit channel for many years and the subject matter and description of the afterlife are spot on to what I have experienced over a long period of time through spirit communication. I highly recommend this for all you spiritual seekers out there.

We lost our nineteen year-old son five years ago to an auto accident and like Elisa Medhus M.D., I searched high and low for answers. This book gave me so much comfort, and added to my nearly absolute faith in the reality of the 'other side'. Written with the help of two 'translators', or mediums as most people would call them, Dr. Medhus asks the questions all of us who've lost loved ones want to know. In fact, she goes way beyond just where are those who pass over?Divided into seconds by way of subject, to create a fascinating look at where we go when we die. Here's what I understood from the book; we are spirits first and foremost, holograms of our Creator who loves us and gives us total free will to do literally anything we want. We can create heaven or hell, and anything in-between, to learn lessons on how to love unconditionally. In fact, learning to love unconditionally is why we come to the material world.Once here we can't remember who we we really are, so we have to search out meaning and then remember. As Erik explains, we learn as spirits, and then do the lab work down on earth. We can read all about brownies, but actually making them and eating them, gives us true insight into what a brownie really is.Erik also points out that we don't really spend our time wisely on Earth. We should be exploring who and what we really are so that we can get on with developing and growing our souls. I've read this same idea countless times, and in fact, there wasn't really much that Erik said that I hadn't read in other books so it definitely had the 'ring of truth'. What I did learn from this book is that when a spirit moves through us, it can make us yawn, or sneeze as if our body 'knows' something happened, while our mind is blissfully unaware.I also learned from Erik is that spirits have to learn to communicate with those of us still on Earth. They have to slow their energy down to meet ours and that it's like we're hardly moving in comparison to their rate of speed. They can be with us hours that only seem like minutes to us. He also said that some spirits are so busy that they forget to contact their loved ones on Earth, or maybe they have no reason to if their experience was less than happy(this is my musing, not Erik's).The relationship between Erik and his mother is sweet, and pretty amazing. If his mother hadn't loved him so much, I wonder if contact could have been made so easily. This is by far the best book I've read on the subject and it's very comforting. I'd recommend it whole-heartedly to anyone who's lost a loved one. You can practically feel the love coming off the pages, and of course Erik's wit and wisdom.After reading this book, I too will continue my search for communication with my son, with a follow-up book to 'It's Like Here Only Better', which goes along with everything that Erik said in this book. And I'll follow Erik's blog from now on.

Couldn't put it down. I also lost my son.This book turned my life around after going through 2 years if grief.

There are some very interesting and thought-provoking things in this book. If you are familiar with Channeling Erik, you will probably get a lot of new insight from this book; if you're not familiar with CE, or at least familiar with and believe in the concept of life after death and communication with spirits, maybe you won't appreciate it as much - or maybe it'll open your mind to new possibilities. I found most of it interesting until I got closer to the end and the sections on time/space/matter then it lost me because that stuff goes right over my head. I ended up skimming through those short sections, but overall, I found this book to be both interesting and enlightening.

I can relate to the author's grief and I'm glad her experience connecting to her son was useful and heart-healing to her, but the format of this book -- mostly as a transcript -- is annoying. For one, it constantly tells us in brackets how much laughter is going on when very little of what's being said is even funny; completely unnecessary. (And like a lot of mothers, she thinks her son is much more hilarious and lovable than he appears to someone objective.) The constant praise of how evolved they both are gets old, too. She asks the same questions over and over again and gets the same answers -- was the idea just to make the book longer? -- as well as asking really dopey questions that suggest she didn't understand things he's said before. (Such as "are there computers in the afterlife?" after being told three times that it's all energetic on that plane, and that nobody needs anything like that. There are a number of self-contradictory statements... such as the idea that there are huge libraries of books even though all it takes to know something is to think about that thing and open to the library. There is wisdom here, I suspect, but you have to wade through a lot to get to it. Buy one of the "others who bought this product also bought these others" titles instead.

The author confirms that there is much more in store for us after we leave this earth. Giving hope to us that our dearly departed are there waiting for us and what happens to them (and us for that matter). My main concern after loosing my son was is he ok, is he happy and is he at peace. Those thoughts rolled around in my head over and over again. After reading this book I know know he is in deed ok. Almost all my questions have been answered and I too am finally at a place on the earthly plane where I can move forward with tremendous hope. A recommended read for those who have lost someone close or just want to know….

Excellent book. Reinforces my belief system in Life After Death. Now looking forward to communicate with my loved ones, on the other side. It's great!!!

Just about all the answers I needed were in this book. I've always believed in the afterlife but had so many why and how questions.Thank you Erik.

This book is an amazing dialog between mother and son - Erik took his life himself - he was to good for this world. He didn`t fit in this world any longer. He speaks through a medium about his life and his death. Everything lightens and the purpose behind these happenings begin to clear up. Erik is in the light and he try to tell his mother about his new life, about his happiness und achievement.

Having lost a child myself, I have had similar experiences to Elisa. Things happening around the house, dream visits etc. It makes absolute sense that the activity happening in her life after Erik's death was produced by him to help his family become aware that he had survived his physical death.It is comforting for grieving families who are reeling from such a tragedy, to realise that all the dreams, paranormal activity, coincidences etc are not just wishful thinking, but are in fact their beloved children trying to show them that they are ok. They are still very much with their family.Read this book if you are in the same situation as I am. You will soon see many similarities between Elisa's journey and your own. You will come to realise that your child has survived death as has mine, as has Elisa's.It will bring you great comfort and also give you the courage to continue your relationship with your lost child - as Elisa has done with Erik.For me, this book has proven that I am still a mom to my son. Our souls are eternally entwined and I know I will be with him again one day.