Life and the After-Life: Notes from a Medium and Angel Communicator

By Laura Powers

Life and the After-Life is a book that chronicles Laura Powers' journey growing up as a girl who sensed ghosts and spirits and other beings. The book tells her personal story in order to help others have a greater understanding of the other side and better navigate through life with this knowledge. Laura shares information about the after-life, angels, ghosts, asking for help, and other knowledge she has gained through her work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laura Powers Publlshing
• Release date: May 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9780988302617

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all of those who helped me create this book, those with bodies and those without.  I have no illusions that I created this work on my own.  Truly it takes a village to write a book!

Acknowledgements

Thank you to my spirit guides and angels; I couldn’t have done this without you!  My heart is filled with gratitude for all the gifts and experiences you have shared with me.  Thank you also to all the teachers who have taught and helped me along the way.  I thank my mother for doing a stupendous job raising me and for being a wonderful editor and confidante.  Thank you to my sister for her support through our incredibly different paths.  I’d like to thank Mark for his keen eyesight and for being in my life even when it wasn’t an easy thing to do.  Thank you to my amazing clients for opening their hearts to me and giving me the honor of working with them.  Lastly, thank you to my grandparents, Kay and Lou, who helped my family through a difficult transition and a difficult time in my life. I know they are guiding and supporting me from the other side.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE My Journey

ONE  In the Beginning

TWO  Being Sensitive

THREE Shutting Down

FOUR  Opening Up

FIVE Leap of Faith

SIX Going Professional

PART TWO What I Have Learned

SEVEN Ghosts and Spirits

EIGHT  Spirit Guides

NINE Angels

TEN Asking for and Receiving Help

ELEVEN The Other Side

Afterword

Helpful Terms/Glossary

Sources

Recommended Reading List

Recommended Movies

About the Author – Laura Powers

Introduction

I have written this book in two parts because I felt the need to share how I received my insights in Part One: My Journey, which tells my personal story.  Part Two: What I Have Learned provides information about what I learned as an adult through my work as a medium and angel communicator.  This book is for you, so please feel free to jump around and read it in the order and way that you see fit. 

If you are wondering what a medium is, then let me explain that a medium is someone who can communicate with ghosts (earth bound spirits) and spirits (people who are not in a body but are not earth bound).  Since there may be terms that not everyone knows, I have included a section of terms towards the back of the book. I have defined these terms as I understand them so please note that some people may have different definitions.

This book is truly about my beliefs and perspectives and I encourage everyone to follow their own heart and beliefs.  This is not an academic research book though there are many academic studies on the paranormal and extrasensory perceptions if that is what you are looking for.  I have listed several resources at the back of the book that provide information on angels, paranormal investigations, spirituality and related topics. 

I hope that this book will help give comfort to those who read it and provide some helpful guidance about this life and the after-life.  I am also hopeful that you will better understand how to ask for and receive help from all the wonderful spirit helpers we all have and that you can begin to change your life in magical ways.  For life truly is a wondrous journey and adventure and it really feels that way when you connect with your angels and spirit guides and receive their help.

Happy Reading!

PART ONE

My Journey

ONE

In the Beginning

I was always a sensitive and quiet child though I am not sure that I could have put into words some of the things that I experienced.  That would happen much, much later.  To tell this story well, I feel that I should start at the beginning as I remember it, which as it happens is not my first memory in this body. 

My first memory that I can remember from this life happened before I was born. I realize this may sound strange to many people and it is for this reason that I did not share this memory with anyone until after I had graduated from college.  I’d had several conversations in which the subject of first memories came up and I was shocked to learn that many people did not remember anything prior to the age of 4 or sometimes even 7 years of age.  I not only remembered things that happened when I was a year old, I remembered being on the other side.  I recognized that this was not the typical experience.  As a young adult I was not prepared to deal with the questions that would have come up if I had told anyone.  The questions would have been as much my own as anyone else’s and I just wasn’t ready to open that door.

So here is my memory as I recall it:

I am in a circle of beings that emanate light... no that isn’t right...they seem to actually be made of light. It is beautiful as each being appears like moving light. When I say that I am in the circle, I mean that I am a part of the circle.  There are seven of us including myself, and we seem to be standing there though we are not actually standing on anything; we are just there somehow. A conversation is taking place though it is not spoken out loud. We seem to instantly hear each other’s thought or intent.  I know that I need to leave this place and I am sad to leave.  The others are encouraging me, telling me what I already know, that I need to go now and that I have a lot I need to do where I am going.  I am so reluctant.  It isn’t so much that the place I am going is bad; it is just that I love the place where I am.  And then I leave and I am no longer in this place.

The strange thing is, it is not like the memory continues and I can tell you what happened next.  It is not until much later that I have a distinct sensory memory of hearing, seeing, tasting, etc.  I do, however, remember the emotions I had when I was an infant.  I remember being unhappy because I felt like things were very difficult.  I didn’t like eating, or feeling hungry and I felt dissatisfied that I needed to eat at all and don’t even get me started on having to go to the bathroom!  I was generally