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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction: Lightning in a Book
How This Book Came to Be
Flash Cards
Four Possible Responses
Be Careful
Part One: Elizabeth’s Story
1: Changed in a Flash
Mourning and Shopping
The Strike
Black and White
2: The Glow and the Garden
The Two-Week Conversation
Back
3: The Portfolio of Strange Things
The Colors of Oz
“Just Knowing”
Phone Call from the Dead
In the Gene Pool
The Woman (Not) Upstairs
4: The Haunted Necklace and the Rainbow World
The Haunted Necklace
Seeing Energy Fields
Monday Is Red
Born That Way?
Fluid or Static?
5: Trying on the New Age
Heaven Is “Next Door”
A Healer in Houston
A Psychic in Seattle
Flipping the Coin
6: The Layer Cake of Time
7: The Lessons of the Garden
Voltage, Visitation, and Vision
All Knowledge Already Exists
Reincarnation and the Evolving Soul
Paranormal Powers and the Evolving Soul
The Spirit Guide
8: On God, Religion, and Spirituality
God and the Religions
Matters of Spirit and the Failure of Political Religion
Hasidic Judaism vs. Reform Judaism
Looking Back: Everyday Applications for What I Know to Be True
Part Two: How We Are Changing the Afterlife
Reading as Empowerment
9: “That’s Not Fiction”
Studying the Stars at Midday
Empowerment: Reading and Writing as Paranormal Practices
To a School for Mutants
Psi-Fi: Religion as Practiced Science Fiction
“I Am the Screen”
Why the Near-Death Experience Feels So Real (and Probably Is)
10: “Nothing Is Black and White”
It’s About the Framework, Not Just the Facts
The Near-Death Experience Before We Called It That
From Judgment to Love: The Parable of Raymond Moody
“Neither Black Nor White”: How to Think About the Paranormal
The Paranormal and Procreation
We Die into Our Imaginations
11: “I Just Knew”
How to Talk to an Octopus
From Contact to Communication
Arrival
Gnostic Film
But How Did She Know What She “Just Knew”?
Three Ways to Think about the Imagination
On Dreams, Visions, Prophecy, and the Secret Powers of Interpretation
12: “I Can See All of Your Auras Right Now”
The History of Religions as a History of Living Light
Struck by Comparison: Lightning Lore from the Bible to the American Plains Indians
Synesthesia and the Sensing of Different Realities
From the Theology of Electricity to the Physics of Consciousness
13: “I See Time in Layers”
A Proviso and a Proposal
The Glass-Block Universe and Self-Precognition: The Work of Eric Wargo
Back to the Proposal
14: “They Were All Paired Up”
Be an Angel
How Many Souls Are You?
Trauma and Revelation
The Evolution of the Soul
Comparing Reincarnations
Taking It All In: From Near-Death to Reincarnation
Beyond the Mountains
A Final Tale: The Four Rabbis in Paradise
Postscript
Appendix: The Emails
On the Nature of Scientific Evidence
Fraud or Trickster?
In the Future…
Origins and Gratitude
Endnotes
Index
About the Authors
About North Atlantic Books
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