Animals and the Afterlife
True Stories of Our Best Friends' Journey Beyond Death
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Amazing true life stories of contact with pets in the next life
Kim Sheridan grew up with animals as her constant companions. Each time she faced the death of a beloved pet, along with the pain came the same questions, to which she could find no answers. Then, mysterious things began to happen that she couldn’t explain, which led her on an incredible journey to uncover the truth.
Along with her own extraordinary experiences, she compiled heartwarming and meaningful true stories of everyday people around the world, and discovered compelling evidence that forever erased her own doubts about an afterlife for animals.
This book provides enormous comfort and reassurance to anyone who has ever cherished a pet, and food for thought for anyone who has ever questioned the place of these beloved creatures in the larger scheme of things, both here on Earth and beyond.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This distinctly New Age clone of a "Chicken Soup" book will be affecting for many readers, but for those who accept the author's full-blown agenda of animals having souls and communicating to us from the afterlife through mediums (here called "animal communicators") it will be a major survey. It also helps to accept most of the remaining strains of New Age thinking and the author's commitment to animal liberation, including vegetarianism. The same caveat applies to the numerous anecdotes Sheridan has collected about departed companion animals, as well to Sheridan's own experiences with companion animals, most of whom have been rats. (Their short lives have given Sheridan a great many occasions to grieve for animals; she is pictured with one, "little Kristin Sheridan," on the back cover.) Sheridan writes with overwhelmingly sincere conviction and a passionate loathing of those who deny that animals have souls or who admonish those who have lost pets that "it was just an animal, get over it." The only really negative reactions to this book are likely to be from those who want to drive the spiritual element out of people's relations with animals, companions or otherwise. Most others will see where Sheridan is coming from, even if they are not going with her. Correction: In the Dec. 8 review of Margaret Morganroth Gullette's latest book, the title was misstated. It is Aged By Culture.
