In this upbeat look at a world that isn't as far removed from us as we might think, Sylvia Browne answers the big questions we all ask at one point or another: "What are angels?" "What happens when we die?" and "What are ghosts?" While The Other Side and Back may pacify your curiosity about the spirit realm, it also offers a cure to the cynicism that plagues us every day. Surprisingly, this book feels much more personal than Browne's biographical Adventures of a Psychic, perhaps because of the conversational, first-person narrative that brings the spirit world down to earth without diminishing its uniqueness. --Brian Patterson


From Publishers Weekly
Browne, who bills herself as a psychic and spiritual teacher, follows up her Adventures of a Psychic with this comprehensive manual on living a spiritual life. She tells readers how to detect subtle energy levels, find their spirit guides, discover the major themes of their lives, recognize angels and dark entities, and master myriad other spiritual challenges. Browne's twofold purpose, she states, is to help readers use their psychic abilities to create health, and to reveal the nature of the "other side," the place where spirits reside after death and before they are reborn into new selves that retain programming and memories from previous existences. Those familiar with Browne from her television appearances (the Montel Williams Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, CNN, etc.) will recognize her signature, down-to-earth approach to the supernatural ("The closest thing I have to a soul mate on this earth is my granddaughter Angelia.") Occasionally, her relaxed banter grows boring, as when she reveals that her spirit guide, Francine, "adores attention, and it's fine with me, as long as she and I aren't wearing matching outfits, which would look a little too cute for my taste." A listing of 44 major life themes, ways to overcome fear, daily affirmations, and predictions for the next century provide ample fare for readers with a taste for comfortable excursions to the other side. (Aug.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Browne follows up her best-selling Adventures of a Psychic with this guidebook to those who would like to tap into their psychic powers.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne--who has amazed and helped millions through her readings and television appearances --offers an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how the afterlife affects this life. The Other Side and Back is an empowering, lively, and transforming book of wisdom and healing. Inspired by the most frequently asked questions during her thousands of readings and public appearances, Sylvia Browne has written a guidebook for those who want to deepen their spirituality by understanding psychic energy and how it works in our world. Readers will gain astonishing insights, including how spirit guides and angels talk to us daily; the shocking truth about ghosts and hauntings; solving missing persons cases; how psychic energy can keep people healthy and help in relationships; why we shouldn't fear death and aging; and must-read predictions for the new millennium. Both a how-to book and a narrative adventure through other worlds, The Other Side and Back is an invitation to view our world from a different perspective and to see another world we thought we never could.

"Psychic, Medium, Clairvoyant, Channel--these are all words to describe Sylvia Browne's unique powers. I've personally witnessed her bring closure to distraught families, help the police close cases, and...open people's hearts to help them see the good within themselves." --Montel Williams

FROM OUR EDITORS

Short of outdoor levitation, Sylvia Browne could hardly enhance her reputation as an adept in touch with the other side. For forty-seven years a working psychic, Browne has evoked the spirit for police departments, celebrities, and Montel Williams Show watchers. In addition to explaining ghosts and angels, this spiritual primer serves as a instruction manual on how to survive spiritually here and now in this equally mysterious realm.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For anyone who has ever felt an angel's presence, experienced a premonition, feared death, or wished for one more moment with a deceased loved one...

Renowned psychic and spiritual teacher Sylvia Browne has made believers out of millions. Now the New York Times bestselling author reveals the ways in which psychic energy works in our world, how it affects our everyday lives, and how anyone can tap into its power.

Inspired by the most frequently asked questions during the course of Browne's remarkable career, The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond shows how we can use psychic energy as a tool for deepening our spirituality, strengthening our faith, healing our minds and bodies, and learning to live with more joy. Understanding this phenomenon can - literally - change our lives, and have a profound effect on everything from our careers and personal relationships to our relationship with the afterlife. In this lively, accessible guide Browne provides astonishing insights into the far-reaching influence of the psychic and paranormal experiences in today￯﾿ﾽs world, including: How spirit guides and angels "talk" to us — and how we can nurture them How ghosts differ from spirits — and why hauntings occur How the dead communicate with the living — and what they can teach us Reincarnation — and how we can reunite with our past lives The three simple steps to developing your own psychic skills Must-read predictions for the coming years Browne tells us why we shouldn't be afraid of growing old, and the truth about life after death. And she brings nearly a half century of experience and expertise to urgent social issues such as teenage violence and domestic abuse. A wise and empowering book that offers practical advice, clear guidance, and heartfelt reassurance, The Other Side and Back is both an eye-opening journey into other worlds and an invaluable handbook for spiritual survival in the approaching millennium.

SYNOPSIS

The New York Times bestselling author of Adventures of a Psychic offers an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how the afterlife affects this life — a guidebook for those who want to deepen their spirituality by understanding psychic energy.

FROM THE CRITICS

Lin McNulty - Napra Review

Providingt exercises designed tocall up to persoanl Spirit Guide and past-life history, Browne spawns a sense of exhilaration about being here and eases much of the fear about being there.

Publishers Weekly

Browne, who bills herself as a psychic and spiritual teacher, follows up her Adventures of a Psychic with this comprehensive manual on living a spiritual life. She tells readers how to detect subtle energy levels, find their spirit guides, discover the major themes of their lives, recognize angels and dark entities, and master myriad other spiritual challenges. Browne's twofold purpose, she states, is to help readers use their psychic abilities to create health, and to reveal the nature of the "other side," the place where spirits reside after death and before they are reborn into new selves that retain programming and memories from previous existences. Those familiar with Browne from her television appearances (the Montel Williams Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, CNN, etc.) will recognize her signature, down-to-earth approach to the supernatural ("The closest thing I have to a soul mate on this earth is my granddaughter Angelia.") Occasionally, her relaxed banter grows boring, as when she reveals that her spirit guide, Francine, "adores attention, and it's fine with me, as long as she and I aren't wearing matching outfits, which would look a little too cute for my taste." A listing of 44 major life themes, ways to overcome fear, daily affirmations, and predictions for the next century provide ample fare for readers with a taste for comfortable excursions to the other side. (Aug.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Browne follows up her best-selling Adventures of a Psychic with this guidebook to those who would like to tap into their psychic powers.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

The Other Side and Back is the most grounded and authentic ￯﾿ﾽentry to the other side' that I have ever read. You know immediately upon reading the first few pages that Sylvia Browne is more than a psychic - she is a master at conveying the truth that exists in the fourth dimension. (Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit)  — Caroline Myss

Sylvia Browne gave me a psychic reading that was so accurate and profoundly moving, it changed my entire outlook on the possibility of life after death. After fifteen years of listening to the stories of children who have survived death, I have learned that it is scientifically respectable to argue that consciousness survives death. We are all born with a specific biological link to a loving universe. Sylvia Browne has the talent to access this source of universal knowledge, and the wisdom and insight to interpret that knowledge for others. She definitely helped me at a crucial time in my life, and I am extremely grateful to her for that. I could have easily ignored the information she gave me in her psychic reading, or ridiculed and trivialized it. Instead, I trusted the feelings of my heart, not my logical, scientific brain. She did not tell me what to do, but rather gave me the courage to do what I knew was right. Read this book and learn how to trust your own intuition and inner voice. (From the Foreword by Melvin L. Morse, M.D., author of Transformed by the Light and Closer to the Light)  — Melvin L. Morse