Life After Life After Life...

By 0. Dexter Covell

The book you should read
before your death

The subject of death is something that most of us
would rather not consider, but it is the one major
event we all share, with no exceptions. This is so
because the death experience has often been
portrayed in frightening or painful terms, but it
neednt be, and in fact, it is neither.

Come along with us as we follow one of my
ancestors through his accidental death at a young
age, his subsequent trip to Heaven, his time spent
in Heaven, and his eventual reincarnation back to
life on Earth.

You will see that far from being a frightening place,
Heaven is a true paradise, and the time spent there
is rewarding and educational and totally pleasant
it is a place of never-ending bliss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468577358

0. Dexter Covell

O. Dexter Covell was born and raised in Connecticut and educated in public and private schools there. He graduated from Yale University after serving in the U.S. Navy aboard a destroyer during World War II. His business career was spent mainly in advertising, starting with a large advertising agency in New York City where he became President of one of its component parts, and he went on to form and direct advertising agencies in Connecticut and in California. Spanning the period was his growing interest and involvement in spiritual healing, and. he became a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and then later followed the teachings of Joel S. Goldsmith, the founder of “The Infinite Way”. He is the author of the books Taking the Path to Spiritual Awakening, Would Jesus Weep? and The Pearl of Jesus. He is a widower and has three children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. He lives in California, and can be contacted at [e-mail]

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Contents

Foreword

Chapter I

The Transition

Chapter II

Acclimation

Chapter III

The Reunion

Chapter IV

The Council

Chapter V

The Cluster Group

Chapter VI

The Experiments

Chapter VII

Reincarnation

Author Bio

In Loving Memory of

JOANN TERESA CHASE COVELL

I’ll be seeing you!

Foreword

Among my earliest childhood memories is that of my Father during what has come to be called The Great Depression when he had a several year period of unemployment. He used this period, in addition to actively looking for a new position which he eventually found, to immerse himself in the organizing and researching of his family history. Due to his status as the oldest son of the oldest son and so on, when his father died shortly after meeting his first grandson (the author), he inherited a vast assortment of ancestor related material including the family Bible. From this, along with frequent visits to libraries and the Town Halls in several New England towns, he developed a family history which has for the most part proven to be so accurate that it has withstood the test of time.

Included with the items he inherited was a collection of framed and unframed family portraits going back many generations, some of which he framed where needed, and he mounted these in chronological order on the walls of his den. They presented to my young eyes a rather stern-looking group of unknown people which I avoided looking at as much as possible because I thought they were scary due to the stern expressions on their faces, with the exception of the photograph taken around 1860 of my great-grandfather, Silas Lewis Covell, who was the only one seated in an informal position and showed any suggestion of compassion on his face. I was, for reasons not comprehensible to me at the time, instantly attracted to him and I often went into the den to look at his photograph and wonder.

Following my father’s passing some years ago, all of this genealogical information, along with the family portraits came to me, and I eventually opened the boxes, and there, buried deep in a box was the photograph of Silas. I rescued him from the box, and once again felt that same strange attraction I had felt for him earlier, but this time there was in addition a new feeling of affinity beyond that of a mere physical relationship. I began to have the feeling that Silas and I might be more than just related in a physical sense – that there might be some other sort of connection as well. I at first supposed that this resulted from the fact that I was a direct descendant of Silas, but I was also a direct descendant of all the other people in the box and I did not feel anything unusual about them. Lacking a spare wall to display any of it, I put it all back in the box, but this time with Silas’s framed photograph on the top.

Before doing so, however, I saw there was a considerable amount of additional written material buried in the bottom of the box which I pulled out and examined, eventually at length, to find that at least some of it related to Silas. From this material, I learned that he was born Silas Lewis Covell in 1832 in upstate New York to parents who had moved there from Connecticut, where their ancestors had lived for many generations, first as farm owners and then as merchants. His father had been, until retirement, a merchant and commercial property owner in Troy, and Silas appears to have been raised in comfortable circumstances, attending private schools in a nearby part of Connecticut, leading to college at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he studied civil engineering – at least up to the midway point of his senior year when he impulsively withdrew from RPI, reportedly saying that they had nothing further to teach him beyond that which he already knew! This might be considered to have been somewhat on the impulsive side, but appeared to be consistent with Silas’s record up to that point, because even as a child his intelligence had been noted, as evidenced by his designing and building many structures and small machines and in later years patenting several inventions.

But be that as it may be, Silas had always been interested in railroads and the potential of the rapidly being developed steam locomotive, and he found employment with several local railroads as a civil engineer before joining the New York Central Railroad. For them, he supervised the building of the railroad bridge over the Niagara River and several grain elevators in Buffalo. In time, he was placed in charge of the western expansion of the New York Central, but left after several years because the position required his presence away from home for long periods of time, and he felt that filling the increasing needs of his elderly parents had become a priority.

Silas, accordingly, joined with several friends and started a company to build and operate a complex of grain elevators locally in Troy. This company was successful right from the start because they had positioned it at the convergence of the new rail system developed by the New York Central stretching from the Midwest at Buffalo to the upper reaches of the Hudson River, offering less expensive shipments of goods by train and barge to the major users in and around New York City. The company prospered, and after several years, Silas bought it and ran it as a partnership.

It was during this period that Silas became interested in the Transcendentalism movement, despite the fact that his father had been a Deacon of the church he had been brought up in. He followed the movement’s teachings at meetings of interested intellectuals held within a reachable distance, and was particularly attracted to the words of the likes of Emerson and Hawthorne. Silas believed in reincarnation and was completely in accord with the key points of their philosophy that Man is born essentially good and is God’s perfect creation. He had trouble, however, with their idea that upon death, an individual’s soul would go into a pool of sorts