Contact the Other Side: 7 Methods for Afterlife Communication

This book is jammed with interesting information I had never heard before, as well as techniques to capture actual evidence of disincarnated souls. One reviewer commented that the last few techniques, involving scrying, mind-to-mind communication, and a seance rather than technical hardware were beyond his scope. I have to say that for me, the captured voices and images are only interesting to me for their value to show skeptics. I prefer mind-to-mind as the easiest and most meaningful method for me. But that's why this book is so cool. You can try them all and pick the method you feel most comfortable using to consult the dead. All of them work.

I bought this book out of curiosity, having had various ideas all my life about the afterlife, ghosts, occult in general and that sort of thing and read books here and there. And I will admit to taking great pains to hide the cover of the book from my friends, coworkers, and people on the subway (I mean, this guy is a goth singer? he wrote a vampire book?). And I'll ALSO admit that I almost stopped reading because I got the creeps in the first chapter, thinking this whole subject was way scary and dark. BUT actually reading the book presented marvelous rewards! I have not yet attempted any of the methods but I'm so excited about the ideas that he presents, and the way in which he presents them, that I had to recommend this book to anyone who's interested. You won't be sorry. When I do attempt my own little experiments, I'll have no question how to go about it-- except maybe the more psychic methods, which I'm pretty sure to leave to others... Konstantinos has a very well-grounded and almost bemused voice in writing, and is fun to read. As the other reviewer mentioned, he is not peddling his views on anyone, simply, well... "sharing." The best thing about this book is the attitude he communicates to readers about the dead-- it makes the whole subject much less intimidating, frightening, and foreign. An optimistic way to view he subject. Highly recommended, no matter what your religious background.

This could have been "Afterlife Communication for Everyone". It presents detailed descriptions of different ways of talking to people who have died. Four of these seven methods are based on the concept of electronic voice phenomena ['EVP', sometimes called 'ITC']. The other three methods are more traditional spiritualist methods. Konstantinos does not make any assumptions about what the reader may know already -- either about technology or about spirituality. He takes you step-by-step through the whole book.The book's content is presented in a very organized, straight forward manner. Konstantinos writes clearly and in a consistently engaging manner. He comes across as very open about what he's observed and he tells the reader not to take what he says on faith but to try the things he describes. I found his attitude, as well as his style, refreshing in a book about the afterlife.Konstantinos opens the book with a short description of the afterlife, which is reminiscent of the descriptions in Michael Newton's "Journey of Souls". Interestingly, Konstantinos then goes on to say that he has studied stage mentalist techniques and he denounces as fakes (without naming names) those mediums who make the talk show circuit giving cold readings. His point of view is that since everyone is able to communicate with deceased spirits for him- or herself, such mediums are unnecessary at best and con men at worst.Konstantinos then moves on to a brief history of the EVP techniques the first four methods are based on, before presenting his first method for capturing spirit voices on an audio tape recorder. As the later methods are presented, they build on the ones presented earlier. The fourth method describes how to capture images from the afterlife on video tape. Konstantinos takes pains to make sure that readers have realistic expectations about the results of these methods, but he is obviously very enthusiastic about them. He wants readers to try the methods because of the experiences he's had using them.The last three methods are completely non-technical. These sections cover scrying, "mind to mind" communication, and group communication (i.e., seances). These are so far beyond my experience that my only comments on them are that they make interesting reading and I enjoyed Konstantinos' description of his meeting with the spirit of his great-grandfather, whom he had never met while living.Now, a few caveats. First, I have read this book through. Second, I have not tried any of the methods presented. Third, I have never tried - nor experienced - communicating with people who aren't alive. My motive for reading this book was simple curiousity.How you will react to the material Konstantinos presents will depend on your philosophy. Those with a strong faith in the afterlife who are looking for a practical guide to methods of communicating with the dead will find step-by-step methods here. Naturally, I can't say how well they work because I haven't tried them.Thos