Reaching to Heaven: A Spiritual Journey Through Life and Death

After reading many books by several empowering authors such as Betty Eadie, John Edward, Sylvia Browne, and Tiffany Snow, that I am still reading, my life has opened up to me in such a compelling and wonderful way. This new book is well written, and thought provoking. There are great transforming authors, who shift the consciousness of humankind in a way never known before, and have the courage to reveal their paranormal experiences. "Reaching to Heaven" is one of these.

This book has given my life meaning, answered my questions, inspired me to explore my spirituality, and filled me with awe! I am 26 years old, and I just lost someone very dear to cancer. This book landed in my lap somehow, and has changed my entire outlook on life, death, and filled me with hope and faith and a new sense of motivation! If you have lost a loved one and grieved their "death", read this book. If you question the afterlife or God, read this book! Everyone who has an open mind and believes there's more to life than this but isn't sure what that is, you've gotta read this book!! :) It is truly the most inspiring book I have ever read! It's easy-to-read, informative, and concise.

I am extremely pleased with Van Praagh newest book. I have read both books in just two days!. From the moment I started reading Talking To Heaven I felt like I couldn't put it down, so after finishing that one I couldn't help myself but to read his newest book Reaching to Heaven, which I found to be outstanding!. Before reading this books, I was living a big depresion, and it affected every part of my life. Then something very cool happen. I had a dream with my my Grandfather who past away about a year ago. In the dream he looked much younger, and he told that he was going to be watching me for sometime. At first I was skeptic, but as time pass on, I decided to give it a try to this books related to the after-life. In my search I found James Van Praagh book and while reading it, I found out that a lot of the stuff my Granfather told was also in the book. From then on I have became a more spiritual person, non-judgmental, and all the depression and toughts of suicide that I have before I started reading this book, have completely gone. Thanks to James Van Praagh and his Powerfull book for putting my life in order and learned to live to its fullest.

I have read many books on mediumship and spirituality. After reading Talking to Heaven, I was convinced that there is no death, and that indeed spirits and my loved ones are very close. Because of the effect the book had on my outlook of life and people I gave it to my 13 year old daughter to read for a book report. She came to me two days later and said she couldn't stop reading it, that it was making her look at life differently. When I was at the book store and saw Reaching to Heaven, it was God sent. I read it in two days and believe that it is a stepping stone from the first in terms of teachings from spirits. Reaching to Heaven provided such clarity about the spirit world and what it is like when you leave your physical body. It is truely a book written from spirits wanting so desparetly to be heard. Thank-you.

While orthodox Christianity offers us a two- or three-dimensional afterlife (heaven and hell for most Protestants along with purgatory for Catholics), James Van Praagh presents us with the unorthodox multi-dimensional afterlife that is much more consistent with varying degrees of achievement on the earthly plane. Part I of the book summarizes the various afterlife planes or spheres from the low spheres, where earthbound souls dwell, many of them unaware they have passed over, on up to the higher realms (Seventh Heaven?) inhabited by more enlightened souls. Much of Part I appears to be based on his metaphysical research rather than what he has learned from his abilities as a medium. Generally, the souls that communicate through a medium seem to be from the middle or lower planes rather than the higher ones. In Part II, Van Praagh presents some very interesting case histories from his experiences as a medium able to communicate with souls on the "other side."For those who have not read Van Praagh's first book, "Talking to Heaven" or are unfamiliar with the abilities of a medium, I would recommend reading Part II before Part I.As someone who has read more than 400 metaphysical/spiritual books, I would place this on my "top 10" list. It's definitely a treasure.