Cynthia Sue Larson author of Aura Advantage With warmth, wit, and wisdom, Joyce Keller demonstrates how rewarding it can be to initiate a dialogue with spirits....This book will inspire you to stay in touch!

Autorentext

Joyce Keller, a nationally known psychic and media personality, is the host of the call-in radio program The Joyce Keller Show, broadcast since 1987 on New York's WGBB-AM and globally on the Internet. She is also the author of The Complete Book of Numerology and Calling All Angels and is the astrology columnist for Lifetime Television's website. She lives in New York City and can be reached at JoyceKeller.com.

Klappentext

Written with clarity and compassion, this handbook on communicating with the dead helps readers deal with the traumatic experience of loss and gives them the tools and the support they need to find the sense of peace and healing they seek.

Zusammenfassung
Say Good-bye One More Time
Have you ever experienced a breeze in a closed room? A brush on the cheek when no one is there? A whisper that sounds like the voice of someone who has passed away? Perhaps it is coincidence or perhaps it is the beginning of spirit communication.
In Seven Steps to Heaven noted psychic Joyce Keller clears up misconceptions about the afterlife and reveals the various ways in which those who have crossed over make contact with us. With clarity and compassion she shares for the first time her successful Connection Technique that makes it possible for anyone to bridge the divide between the living and the dead. Developed over a period of twenty years, Keller's Connection Technique involves seven simple and safe tools:

• angels and spirit teachers
• prayer and affirmations
• meditation
• dreams
• a spirit space
• sound
• a labyrinth
  Seven Steps to Heaven offers comfort and hope to everyone who has experienced the profound loneliness and sadness that comes with the death of a family member, a dear friend, or a pet.

Leseprobe
Chapter One

Clearing Away Misconceptions

Because I could not stop for death,

he kindly stopped for me.

The carriage held but just ourselves,

and immortality.

-- Emily Dickinson

Who among us hasn´t lost a loved one? What would we give for just one more conversation, one more joke, one more shared secret? One more chance to apologize or explain what was really in our heart and mind? Well, I understand. In my many years of taking calls on radio and TV, the most frequent request is always for spirit contact and communication.

Every other week it seems at least one book on spirit validity has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Nearly all of us are yearning for someone we´ve loved and lost who has passed away. In this book, I will lead you through my Connection Technique, which encompasses seven steps to safely make spirit communication possible and enjoyable. This system is the result of years of refining techniques that work well for people practicing spirit communication. I have combined these with my own methods, which I will share with you here.

Most people in our society believe that some magical and totally mysterious transformation occurs when we pass over. Spirit contact is much easier if it is not so glorified and mystified. It´s a natural part of life!

What Seven Steps to Heaven Is Not:

• A textbook

• A collection of case studies

• A history of spiritualism in America

• A high-concept, impossible-to-understand workbook

• Self-aggrandizing

• Stiff and misleading

• Depressing

What Seven Steps to Heaven Is:

• A lighthearted approach to a difficult subject

• Enlightening (we hope!)

• Accurate

• A practical guide on how to contact those you´ve loved and lost

Seven Steps to Heaven is a concise, fun, easy-to-follow (did we say uplifting?) guide on how to contact those you´ve loved and lost.

I have been developing this Connection Technique over the last thirty years. I have used it successfully on my own radio and TV shows, as well as on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live with Regis, Sally Jessy Raphael, Geraldo, Entertainment Tonight, FOX TV, and other shows. It is, I believe, the first time you will see anything like this in print or in practice.

Here´s the breaking news: You don´t need to enlist the services of an expensive, and possibly fraudulent, go-between to connect with your departed loved ones. For those who prefer not to spend endless hours, not to mention unlimited money, hunting for psychics, gurus, and the like, I give you dependable and tested techniques for putting the art of spirit communication into practice. You can use these tools to equip yourself for contact with the departed. Best of all, you can make the desired contact yourself, safely and easily.

I hope that this book will give you the tools to get started and lead you to discover how after-death communication can benefit you.

Most of all, I hope you will be inspired by Seven Steps to Heaven.

Let´s Begin with a Smile, Okay?

I know that many of you who read this book are dealing with tremendous feelings of sadness and loss. I truly sympathize with you. I sincerely hope that this book will help alleviate your pain. I pray that you will be in less emotional distress. But before you finish this book, I want you to laugh, because laughter is one of the most powerful life forces and it connects us to the highest energy in the universe.

Why Does Spirit Communication Seem Difficult?

Spirit communication seems difficult because most people don´t know the rules. Native Americans and many other groups of people find spirit communication as natural, safe, and easy as breathing. For them, there is nothing to debate, since it is a natural part of life.

In our society, spirit communication is shrouded in fear, so no one tells us how to go about doing it. What we don´t understand, see, or touch with a feeling of familiarity and comfort, we are inclined to fear. Frightening movies and ghost stories have fueled feelings of fearing the unknown and unseen. However, what we understand and bring out into the light of day we no longer fear. In this book, you will learn how to safely align your energies so that your vibrations are compatible with the spirit world. Connection will feel natural.

Another reason spirit connection seems difficult is that people in our society are taught from an early age that spirit communication is ridiculous, impossible, or that it is dangerous and not to be encouraged. At a very early age, we learn to ignore spirit messages, dreams, and impulses. Individuals are considered to be unintelligent, gullible, or worse yet, insane, if they claim to communicate with those who have passed on. Yet in other countries -- such as Brazil, Russia, and China -- people encourage and work with intuitively talented children and adults.

There is no question that some societies view psychic individuals as having a below-average IQ. Why can´t people be intuitive and intelligent? Given the choice between being considered crazy or considered not too bright, people don´t talk about or encourage intuitive talents. No wonder we stifle the desire to connect.

As if all of this is not enough to turn off mediumistic talents, certain religious schools punish children who have psychic abilities. Some Western religions even pound home the message that spirit contact is "demonic." Yet nothing is more healing or divinely transcendent to the spirit of humans who have lost loved ones than the experience of reconnection. This thinking is not within the capability of some Western religions. Some claim that it is against the laws of God to believe in or to participate in after-death communication. Some religions …