This is a very brave book. It is also scrupulous. Each meeting with a psychic was approached as a skeptic might: No information was given beforehand. No ‘hints’ were given during a ‘reading’. Results were afterward compared, here. Allison DuBois, the psychic and medium whose life inspired television’s Medium is one psychic consulted. The final ‘reading’, with Laurie Campbell of Tru Tv’s Sensing Murder, is done under scientific controls. A skeptic could read this book and note, if they had any largesse at all, that the results from each psychic were the same. Those who are more open minded about spiritual and psychic matters will find reassurance and guidance in its pages: There are some sections which provide gentle guides as to how to refine one’s own intuitive senses. But everyone reading this book will feel the sensitivity and integrity with which it has been written - one father’s journey to address the seeming senseless loss of a beloved youngest son. What could have been tragic and personal has become illuminated, understood as best as humans can, and then, carefully written to be shared with those willing to read these pages.
Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go is worth reading on several levels. We have all felt loss in our own journey throughout life. We all will some day face that great question ourselves: Where do the dead go? Will someone wait there for us? Will there be comfort? Will we be able to see, and talk with, those who still are in life as we knew it? And for those who miss someone, right now - are those little glimmers we feel or see, indication that there is something more than our five senses tell us? Each person must answer this, finally, for themselves: it is the most universal yet utterly personal of issues. One man has faced this journey devoutly and with courage; read and be comforted.
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1 - CULLEN DORN
Truly, a wonderful review on a book read and re-read with piercing intensity and focus. 'SOUL SHIFT' written by Mark Ireland, should be the topic on talk shows, and in people's inquiring circles. It is a factual, no-nonsense, scientific approach to a perpetual mystery that has haunted its survivors since the beginning of time: "Is there life still?" I highly recommend this book for others to read. You will not be disappointed. Its prose and secular approach will intrigue you to no end.