Lindsay Harrison
Autor von The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond
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Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health and Great Relationships (2001) 213 Exemplare
End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World (2008) — Collaborator — 160 Exemplare
Blessings From the Other Side: Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for this Life (2000) — Autor — 148 Exemplare
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(Available in Print: COPYRIGHT: 7/1/2000; PUBLISHER: SIGNET; 1st edition; ISBN: 978-0451198631; PAGES: 274; Unabridged.)
*This edition-Digital: COPYRIGHT: (1999) 7/1/2000; ISBN: 9781101209219; PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House LLC (New American Library:Berkley); Unabridged; PAGES: 304; FILE SIZE: 764 KB
Audiobook-Possibly on Cassette.
Film or tv: No.
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MAJOR CHARACTERS:
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SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
How I picked it: The print paperback was at a book sale. I have read at least one of Sylvia’s books, and liked it for the most part, though I would disagree with many of the conclusion she draws. She fortifies them with the ol’ “higher authority” trick, that being her Spirit Guide, Francine. I don’t begrudge her her Spirit Guide, or disbelieve in her, only in the assumptions and translations that Sylvia adopts based on what she feels she’s received from her. Anyway, it had been a couple of decades, plus or minus a few years, since I’d read one, and I decided to refresh my memory on Sylvia’s views. I left it at the house I only visit most weekends and wasn’t finding time to read it, so when I, and a couple of friends, started experiencing interesting phenomena, I borrowed the digital copy though LAPD’s Overdrive.
What it’s about: Sylvia talks about her life as a psychic, about her Spirit Guide, about the psychic gifts everyone has to one degree or another, about loss, death, and other self-help topics for which she provides insight and tips for dealing with.
I still find myself thinking, “No, that doesn’t make sense, I disagree.” About many of her conclusions, but more importantly, I still find most of her information worth consideration.
AUTHOR:
Sylvia Browne:
Sylvia founded a church; Society of Novus Spiritus, in Campbell, California, which continues to carry on.
This Wikipedia article on Sylvia was obviously written by someone who was not a fan (and proud of it) . . .
“Sylvia Celeste Browne (née Shoemaker; October 19, 1936 – November 20, 2013)[1] was an American author who claimed to be a medium with psychic abilities. She appeared regularly on television and radio, including on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live, and hosted an hour-long online radio show on Hay House Radio.
Browne frequently made pronouncements that were later found to be false, including those related to missing persons. She was also a convicted criminal, having faced theft charges in 1992. Despite the considerable negative publicity, she maintained a large following until her death in 2013.[2]”
Lindsay Harrison:
Near the end of this book, in a section called “Departed Loved Ones” Sylvia mentions sitting down with Lindsay to write the book, and similar mentions occurs in Chapter 7, but the book is written in first person, so, as with most, if not all, ghost writers, Lindsay doesn’t actually have a “voice”.
One of the few things I find on Lindsay is this sentence at Amazon: “Lindsay Harrison is a writer living in Los Angeles, specializing in ghostwriting and celebrity memoirs.”
Only Sylvia’s books appear in the list, although further digging does bring Lindsay up as one of two co-authors with Catherine Hickman. Perhaps there are more books, and one must simply hunt for them.
Another website, allstarbio.com, assumes that the Lindsay Harrison who co-authored Sylvia’s books is the same Lindsay Harrison who wrote, “Missing,” an autobiography of when that Lindsay’s mother, Michele, went missing. The thing is, in the dedication here, our Lindsay says her mother’s name is Fern Underwood—Fern Underwood and Lindsay Harrison both appear as co-authors to the afore mentioned Catherine Hickland book published in 2014. The forward of Catherine’s book discusses her friendship with Lindsay and the contributions by Lindsay’s then 94 year old mother, Fern, so it would seem this is NOT the same Lindsay who wrote the memoir, “Missing”. There’s always a chance that Fern was a step-mother (although what little I read about the "Missing" memoir indicated that that Lindsay's father married another Michele), or a mother figure, but my guess is that the memoir author is a different Lindsay Harrison than our ghost writer.
NARRATOR:
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GENRE:
Non-fiction; Autobiography; New Age; Religion & Spirituality
LOCATIONS:
United States
TIME FRAME:
Contemporary (1999)
SUBJECTS:
Self Help; Loss; Death; Spirituality; Predictions for the new Millennium
DEDICATION:
"From Sylvia: For my family . . . For Angelia, may I be the wind beneath your wings that my Grandma Ada was to me . . . And always, for Montel
From Lindsay: For my mother, Fern Underwood, who has brought more to my life, including my introduction to Sylvia, than I can repay”
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From “Mind and Body”:
“I think we’ve all had this experience. You’re trotting along through the day, feeling perfectly fine, when someone says, “Are you okay? You don’t look well.” Sure enough, as the day wears on, you start to notice that you’re really not feeling so great after all. Ten times out of ten, the person who said you don’t look well isn’t blessed with the amazing power to judge your health better than you can. The only power they have is the power of suggestion. Before you know it, you’re thinking, “If I don’t look well, maybe I’m not well.” Your body, always eager to please, hears “not well” and dutifully conjures up some kind of discomfort. Next time, instead of “Maybe I’m not well,” try thinking, “I don’t have time for that foolishness.” Keep right on thinking it until you mean it. It’s a safe bet you’ll get through the rest of the day feeling just as fine as you did to begin with.
That leads to my strong belief that we should eliminate a whole other definition of “body language” from our vocabularies—ie., the stream of careless clichés that can cue the body to develop health problems. An extreme illustration was a friend of mine whose boyfriend had left her. She kept repeating over and over, “He broke my heart.” I kept asking her to please stop saying that, but clichés are hard habits to break. Two months later she was in surgery for a double bypass.
Make a deal with your spouse or a friend to notice how often you use this form of negative “body language” and work together to break the habit. Here are just a few examples:
“He/she makes me sick.”
“He/she is a pain in the neck (or other body part).”
“I’m worried sick (or worried to death) about . . .”
“He/she wears me out.”
“You’re giving me a headache.” “You’re going to give me an ulcer.”
“Something is weighing heavy on my heart.”
“You’re going to be the death of me.”
“I’d rather die than . . .” “He/she/this is nauseating . . .”
If you listen closely, you’ll be shocked at the frequency with which you’re subtly sabotaging your body and almost ordering it to break down.
Similarly, your body is absolutely literal in the way it responds to the environment around it. I first started noticing this many years ago when I visited a dear friend, Dr. James Cochran, who was in the hospital dying of bleeding ulcers. I held his hand and asked him what was going on, and he looked back with the saddest brown eyes and said, “I don’t know, Sylvia, I guess I just can’t stomach life anymore.” Not long after that I was at a doctor’s appointment of my own, trying to get rid of a recurring bladder infection. Another friend, Dr. Jim Fadiman, who’d known me forever, listened patiently to my list of symptoms and then said, “You know better than this. Talk to me, what’s going on with you?” Without a moment’s thought I blurted out, “It’s my family. They just really piss me off.” And I wondered why my bladder was acting up? We had a good laugh over that.
I’ve run across countless variations on that theme with clients in all these years since. Very often, if there are issues in our lives that our minds refuse to address, our bodies will speak up loud and clear:
Your neck chronically hurts? Who or what is the pain in your neck?
You have chronic backaches? Who or what are you carrying on your back?
Eyesight failing? What in your life don’t you want to see?
Chronic laryngitis? What don’t you want to say . . . or what did you say that you shouldn’t have? Hearing starting to fail? What are you trying not to hear? By the way, have you ever noticed that it’s always only one person in a couple, never both of them, whose hearing goes? The words “take a hint!” leap to mind.
Chronic breathing or bronchial trouble? What do you need to get off your chest?
Dizzy spells? Who or what is keeping you off balance?
The list goes on and on. But the point is, remembering how literally the body reacts to information, many recurring health problems can be healed when the mind identifies the real source of the problem and starts taking steps to address it.”
(My reaction to all of that is that, I do not literally think that every vision problem means you're trying to avoid seeing something, or a hip pain is due to saying someone is "a pain in the a- -.", but it wouldn't hurt to watch what we say, all the same . . .and it does make me worry about the AA group that begins every session, and presumably every day with the pronouncement that each member is (and always will be) an alcoholic." I get that they want to remember to stay away from the poison that is alcohol--that they think some people can consume it without ill effects (I, personally am not so sure) but that they are of the group to who it is always unsafe to consume it, but I just don't feel right about them declaring everyday, all day, that they are sick. An oncologist would NEVER tell a patient to mantra-ize their ailment, I'm not sure it's any wiser with this ailment.
RATING:
3 stars.
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