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Can a loving relationship survive death? The Afterlife Revolution triumphantly says that it can.

After a near-death experience in 2004, Anne Strieber became an expert in afterlife studies and created an ingenious plan of contact which, to Whitley's amazement, she proceeded to carry out, starting just an hour and a half after she died.

As verified by famed afterlife researcher Dr. Gary Schwartz, who wrote the foreword, the Afterlife Revolution is among the most convincing stories of afterlife communication ever told, and is a ringing endorsement not only of the fact that we do not die, but also that the power of love can create an actual bridge between the physical and nonphysical worlds.

The book points the way to a new relationship between the living and, as Anne puts it, “what you call the dead.” Anne tells of her experience on the other side, saying that “we are light, alive,” and that “enlightenment is what comes when there is nothing left of us but love.” Her descriptions of the afterlife are brilliantly articulate and nuanced, at once deeply familiar and uniquely her own.

The Afterlife Revolution shows how to use basic tools such as what Anne describes as "objective love" combined with a simple but special form of meditation to build a relationship between physical and nonphysical worlds. It is intended to help us find that sweet point at which the souls of the living touch those of the dead. As Anne says, “Mankind is divided, not so much between the sexes as between the living and what are called the dead. It isn’t natural and it isn’t necessary. We can become whole.”

The Afterlife Revolution is about the joy of doing just that, and the magnificent new human experience that will unfold as more and more of us learn to live in this way.

“It has been observed that belief in the afterlife is really a belief in the undying nature of love. In The Afterlife Revolution, Whitley Strieber gives form, story, and insight to that principle, mapping out in vivid, moving, and persuasive detail his continued communion with his beloved wife Anne. Our generation is passing through a renaissance of near and after-death literature. This memoir forms the gravitational center of that field.” –Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life

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Published December 8, 2017

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Whitley Strieber

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American writer best known for his novels The Wolfen,The Hunger and Warday and for Communion, a non-fiction description of his experiences with apparent alien contact. He has recently made significant advances in understanding this phenomenon, and has published his new discoveries in Solving the Communion Enigma.

Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the blockbuster film about sudden climate change, The Day After Tomorrow.

His book The Afterlife Revolution written with his deceased wife Anne, is a record of what is considered to be one of the most powerful instances of afterlife communication ever recorded.

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3 reviews
December 28, 2017
Afterlife defined

I’m delighted that my Aunt recommended this work of words to me. My life has been empty since my son’s passing and she thought it might help me. Little did I know the enlightenment I would experience less than 1/3 of the way through. My ex-husband who left this earth 38 years ago, my one true love, my soul mate, my heart, opened my eyes and I began to experience once again a life of joy, love and comfort. He has given me memories, songs and that contentment that only he could give. I also know that my son is whole again and with his Dad.

This book has changed my world and gives me hope for the afterlife. I’m forever grateful.

If you’re reeling from a loss of your loved one or even just a curious person I recommend this book. I’m awakened and wish you to be as well. Thank you Anne and Whitley.
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December 27, 2017
One of the best, most poignant and intelligent books on the subject of the afterlife. I felt Whitley’s and Anne’s tremendous love for each other through their words. My heart and mind is full after reading this book. It’s lovely.
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April 30, 2018
I knew Whitley Strieber from his renowned book ”Communion” about his encounters with the ”visitors”, though I hadn’t read it. (I’m reading it now.) Thus, I was pleased to be offered a free copy of the present book in return for a review.

Whitley’s beloved wife, Anne, died and this book deals with his afterlife communication with her, and about the very existence of the afterlife. We’re informed about the course of her illness and her NDE; in fact the author simply presents his whole self, his knowledge and experience, and the content of the book thus spreads over many areas.

Mostly, I feel, the book is an expression of Whitley’s deep love for Anne, who is also listed as co-author.

What bothers me somewhat is that here and there throughout the book Whitley conveys his scepticism as regards the existence of the afterlife right in the middle of his exposition attempting to convince us of the veracity/actuality of its existence.

Also, I fail to comprehend how Whitley could be so sceptical of the existence of the afterlife in view of the many experiences he recounts with souls he tries to help - “souls that are stuck”, “ghosts”, or “spirits who are simply unaware that they have lost their way”.

Similarly, prior to his dramatic and scary encounter with the “visitors”, Whitley was deeply sceptical of their existence and was afraid he must be losing his mind.

Now I believe that there’s a reason for everything and that Whitley experienced this whole situation of Anne’s death precisely because of his scepticism about the existence of the after-life, and was thus given the incentive to reconsider his beliefs (and was also presented with the material for the book).

Anne informed Whitley that the visitors are “inward beings” and the ones they encountered were interested in strengthening the soul and “helping us create a new bond between those of us in physical life and those in the nonphysical state”. Whitley states that the visitors taught them that “living with the physical and nonphysical in contact is the next stage in evolution”.

The reason that I find the book a bit provocative and (for me) in a way unnecessary is that I myself have never had any doubt whatsoever in the existence of the afterlife, not being a sceptical person. I have had several visits from the “dead” – I put the word in inverted commas since death of course does not really exist, we just call it “death”.

Anne communicates telepathically with Whitley, who is filled with grief.

I found it to be an extremely emotional and personal book, filled with love, and first and foremost a eulogy of Anne. We are informed about “objective love” – “the great creative force that binds the world together”; and this is not the same as unconditional love. But “objective love” is not explicitly defined, and I don’t understand what is meant by it.

To sum up, it seems that the book was written mostly because of Whitley’s own scepticism about the existence of the afterlife. But now Anne’s death has forced him/given him opportunity and incentive to accept it as a fact. It is a very readable book in which the author not only imparts his love for Anne and describes his life with her but also apprises us of many interesting experiences he has had.
26 reviews2 followers
December 29, 2017
Commemoration and Challenge

It's hard to know where to start, when considering the extraordinary journey of the Striebers; lives filled with deep love and high strangeness! This book fills in blanks, tying the "visitor" phenomenon in with the afterlife, even as it gives us much to ponder. Don't be surprised if you find yourself reading this book more than once.
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February 26, 2018
In which I once again dive into the weird yet strangely fascinating world of Whitley Strieber.

Strieber was originally known as a horror author known for books like The Hunger and The Wolfen. He branched out with a pair of novels in the mid-80s that posed "What if?" scenarios regarding a limited nuclear war and the destruction of the environment. Both are still compelling reads today, and Warday especially presents a chillingly authentic take on how devastating a "small" nuclear exchange would be.

Then came 1985's Communion, in which Strieber relates experiences with what he calls "visitors" (not aliens) to his cabin in upstate New York, the now infamous grays. Unlike the pseudo-documentary style of Warday and Nature's End, Communion is presented as fact, events that actually happened to Strieber, his family and others around him.

Some people dismiss this as a con, but it strikes me as too detailed and comprehensive to be the book equivalent of a snake oil salesman. I've seen people recount experiences with aliens and there is a strong sense of delusion in the way they present their stories, with obvious gaps and little evidence to suggest anything happened other than in the alleged victims' minds. And one could claim the same here, that Strieber is similarly deluded, that he is simply not well. But if you've read the narrative he's formed over the last 30 years it is impossible to dismiss everything without assuming a level of paranoia about all the others going in with him on the scam.

All of this is a long way of saying Strieber reports a lot of weird shit happening to him, and who am I to tell him it didn't? I think what we know of the world and the universe is a tiny slice of a very thick wedge, and as advanced as we think we are with our internet-connected refrigerators and smart cars that almost never crash, the stuff we don't know towers over what we do.

And that is a slightly-less longer way of saying I'm willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to weird shit, especially if they can present their case with humility, at least some circumstantial evidence, and make it interesting, too.

The Afterlife Revolution posits one thing: that when we die, the physical body ends, but the soul--or whatever you want to call it--persists, leaving the body and returning to a non-physical realm where it exists both as a separate thing and also as part of a giant consciousness that encompasses the entire universe. Anne Strieber describes it as "universal love" during her many chats with her husband Whitley.

Anne Strieber died in August of 2015.

Since then Whitley Strieber claims he has been contacted by her and the book is in large part a dialogue between himself and his late wife, as she tries to answer his questions about what lies beyond the end of life. Mixed in with this is a somewhat urgent need to create a "bridge" to better facilitate communication between the living and the not-so-living because the world is on the brink of catastrophic change. For those who have read Strieber's other books, this will be familiar, as he has long been warning of cataclysmic climate change and the immense toll it will take on humanity--usually estimating billions dead and humanity possibly extinguished altogether.

By bridging the gap between the living and the dead, it is suggested we would be able to at least mitigate the worst of the effects and humanity would survive, albeit probably not with internet-connected refrigerators. At least not for awhile. There is talk of how hard it is for the dead to appear before the living due to being so much lighter and faster and existing in a different space, which accounts for why they prefer making loud noises and being spooky. Apparently taking any sort of "physical" form is very demanding. Anne also talks about how some of the post-living are denser that others and that their souls sink instead of rising (to where is never really specified, though it's suggested that "bad" people get reincarnated and keep getting sent back until they straighten out).

Strieber provides the circumstantial evidence, some of it in the form of coincidences (asking for a sign of Anne's presence, then seeing something shortly after that seems "planted" by her, mixed in with a few out of body experiences, strange sightings and yes, loud noises. He freely admits there is no way to prove any of it, but the scenarios involving other people suggest that if this were a fraud, it's one in which he has conscripted quite a few others.

In the end I was--being the logical, rational, but open-minded guy I like to think I am--intrigued by the ideas presented. There is a strong spiritual element throughout the book, but it's not tied to a specific religion, it's offered up more as an explanation of why these religions came into being, along with stories that persist across cultures, like a great flood. I admit I like the idea that there may be something beyond the physical, if only because a non-physical version of me would probably have nicer teeth. Or wouldn't need them. I begin thinking in practical terms before long--how would an eternal non-physical entity keep itself entertained or interested? What would it do? How would it have fun? But that's just me sitting here with a head cold not being able to fully comprehend questions of the universe.

I still like the idea, though. And if nothing else, The Afterlife Revolution is a sweet, and touching encapsulation of the life of a loving couple.

If you are absolutely sure that once we are dead, that's it, this book will not convince you otherwise. You may even shout out, "Bah!" and toss it aside. But if you're willing to at least entertain the notion that there is some other realm we lowly humans can inhabit after we expire, The Afterlife Revolution presents some interesting ideas on what it might be like, and frames it as a kind of thriller in which the dead and the living better learn how to talk to each other--and soon.
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November 30, 2020
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. This book is interesting and thought provoking, and I believe had the potential to be so enlightening to so many. However, it is a challenging read due to the style of writing. The writing is convoluted and hard to follow. It is not linear, but varies from past to present, with sudden inserted conversations with his wife from beyond. Strieber explores experiences that he has had in what seems random fashion, without transitions to connect or frame what he has learned from these experiences or how they have shaped his thoughts. One chapter does not flow easily into the next, making this a very difficult and disjointed read.
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December 16, 2017
Loved this book!

Answers so many questions, yet also brings to mind many more. I was brought to tears several times by the love between Whitley and Anne. I recommend this to everyone searching for the meaning to human life. Joy, laughter, and love to you all.
P.S., this is Kim rating this book, not Gary.
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October 5, 2021
Whitley Strieber's The Afterlife Revolution, beyond being a beautiful story about a mature and loving couple’s relationship in life (“The loving acceptance that had replaced all the fireworks enabled the relationship to deepen even more. We didn’t know it, but our souls had come together”), is a dramatic extension of that partnership after the death of the author’s wife, Ann. And the depiction of that continuation, not unbelievable to those who have undergone or been affected by a Near Death Experience, makes for a profoundly optimistic and readable work that not only purports the individual’s expansive future in the afterlife but also supports the inevitable evolution of humanity despite extreme scenarios, nowadays not unimaginable, that predict our extinction as physical entities.
Contemplating a future so vast and different requires a form of internal vision that can shatter what we might normally tolerate. Strieber’s succinct advice in various places, often told as coming from his discarnate wife, oftentimes made startling sense for me. An example in which Ann describes how those on the other side perceive future events: “The future isn’t an open book to us, but it’s also not a complete unknown. We see more clearly because we can tell the difference between the inevitable, the probable, the possible and the impossible. There’s no guesswork.”
The duo is big on the healing value of laughter even when facing phenomena impossible to verify scientifically (which much in the book is—this is the Whitley Strieber, author of Communion after all): “It would be wonderful to be able to have certainty,” he writes. “But as much as we would rather enjoy the comfort of belief, to live in the adventure of the question is richer, better and, frankly, a great deal more fun.”
The Striebers even dare to one-up that sacred cow of the New Age, unconditional love. This profound statement on this took me several meditations to get ahold of: “This greater love—objective love—simply is. It sees reality from the outside and yet also fills it in every nook and cranny. It allows without necessarily accepting, and that is why it is so fundamentally different from the idea known as ‘unconditional love,’ which, as a form of sentimentality, both allows and accepts.”
Ultimately, the couple’s story, right down to its unexpected denouement, which I won’t reveal, is simply a particularized case of the more universal “transformation of the planet”, which is far from vague nirvana or eternal reward/punishment and quite like initiation into a state where “the blinders of physical life will be removed, randomness and chance will no longer play so much of a role in life as they do now, and souls will enter bodies with knowledge of their reasons for doing so intact. The living will know the dead. They will no longer be wanderers like the fool in the Tarot, but users of the tools of consciousness, like the Magician with his bundle open on the workbench before him.” For those who can get on board with such, The Afterlife Revolution is highly recommended.
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October 4, 2023
A touching, thought provoking exploration into the nature of life, death and what comes afterwards.

Author Whitley Strieber is perhaps best known for his book, Communion, and his exploration into the world of alien abduction, UFOs and high strangeness.

This book touches on some of those subjects, but explores his experience of and understanding of the after life after his wife, Anne, passes on.

I found this a heartwarming read and enjoyed the book.
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December 10, 2021
Fabulous

A unique and powerful account of a journey for two souls, loving deeply along the way. Highly recommend. Will be thinking about this book for a long time.
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February 13, 2021
I read this shortly after its release and shortly after the death of the love of my life. As a longtime fan of Whitely Streiber, I have no doubt that every word is the truth as he sees it, but I also am aware that he is the literal epitome of "vivid imagination". Some of it feels far-fetched, but who am I to tell him how he should grieve his wife? He's perfectly entitled to feel as he wishes and to write about it. However, despite reserving a bit of skepticism, this book was a comfort to me in a time of need.
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January 1, 2018
Heartwarming story of two souls

After losing his wife, Whitley discovers his soul-mates afterlife. A remarkable journey for them both. I fervently hope that our lives are a mere stepping stone to further comfort with our Creator.
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January 3, 2019

I liked the book. But to be quite frank the feeling it gave me wasn't as powerful as the one of Communion. And by this I am definitely not meaning their love and relationship, I admire theirs truly, to a degree it also became one of the reasons why I gave it 3 stars instead of 4/5.... But I did like the book.

Imagine your spouse just passed away and you need to prove it to people that she still exists in some way (no scientific devises could prove that) and she was probably the only one in this world who can give you that strength and belief. I understand that and I respect it. It must be really hard.

And that's why I would treat this book with solemnness and I will be true to my own feelings. I was SO looking forward to reading this book and I guess my expectation gave it too much of a boost. In Communion Whitley was stating so many more facts than just laying out rhetorical quoted statements with fancy terms, mystifying the whole concept. When you're trying to convince people who are not ready to believe, I was expecting this book to be much clearer and more scientific.

For example:
she said, “they live within reality. You’re on the surface.” I then asked, “Are they with you in your reality?” She replied, “There’s only one reality. Different ways of relating to it.” (8%)

First, this energy—conscious energy—surely makes its own decisions about whether or not it is to be detected by instruments. (9%)

They are not unseen versions of us, but rather are living by different laws. Anne has said, “I’m not Anne anymore, I’m me. But I’ll always be Anne for you, Whitley.” (11%)

“We are an infinity of dreams.” But don’t be deceived. Those dreams are living presences and they are waiting for us across the bridge between our worlds. She also says, “I am the part of me that’s part of you.” (11%)

We are much more nonphysical beings than we are physical. These journeys through time that we take by entering bodies are valuable but brief. Most of our experience is not physical at all. (12%)

Our modern shamen—walkers between the worlds—are the growing legion of people like Anne, the near-death experiencers. (25%)

This new god is so much like us that he she and it might be us. Man in god. Man as god. (32%)

Me: “Who is god?” Anne: “We are.” Me: “Then who are we?” She would smile, looking inward, and say no more.(32%)

I ask, “So what happens now? Where are they taking us?” “Higher and higher into ecstasy, as you’ve always said.” “But terrible things happen and are going to happen. That doesn’t seem to me like a journey into ecstasy.” “Pain forms a foundation of strength. Remember your story.” (47%)

“We will still have a physical presence, but not nearly as large a one as we do now. So souls will need to be more efficient. They will have to enter bodies to accomplish specific tasks of self-discovery. It cannot be random anymore, not if everybody is going to get all the chances they need.” (47%)

Instinct, emotion and mind are working together objectively, without identification with desires, fears and needs. Objective love is the fourth beast, the eagle, who soars above life and sees it from the distance that the dead experience, a distance that lends objectivity. (51%)

This book also tends to glorify random signs, which I didn't appreciate (maybe I'm still not open enough for such phenomena). As much as I love their idea for Anne to avoid contacting Whitley directly whoever pass away first (that was really clever), I did feel like sometimes Whitley over-exaggerates the signs he saw or experienced...

For example:
She had been unconscious for about four hours when one of our caregivers suddenly said, “She just told me she wants to die in red pajamas!” The woman was so absolutely certain that this request had really come from Anne that she instantly leaped up and ran out to a department store and got some. the moth sign at the end of the book. (18%)

The three of us were in the dining area when I heard Anne say in my mind, “Whitty, I’m dying right now.” I leaped up and rushed into the bedroom and lay beside her. (18%)

After she died, I lay beside her with my hand still on her chest. I was unable to move. I fought for breath. Then I heard her say, “Get up, go on.”(18%)

I was sitting alone, bereft, and asking her if she still existed, and if so, would she somehow contact me. I was asking her with carefully structured intensity in my inner voice. A moment later, my phone rang. It was another dear friend, Belle Fuller, saying that she’d just that moment had a message from Anne to call me. I was so grateful and surprised that I almost couldn’t reply. It was a lovely moment. She’d had no idea that Anne had just died.(20%)

As it turned out, that mist was the first manifestation of something that is known to happen when certain souls pass from this life.(20%)

I spoke in my mind to Anne, asking once again for some sort of sign that she still existed. Within seconds, my cellphone rang. Although I was in a pretty isolated area, it turned out that cell coverage was more or less normal. I answered it to find a good friend from Nashville on the other end. This was Clare Henry, the wife of author William Henry. She said, “Whitley I just had a message from Anne. She said to call you and tell you she was all right.”(22%)

Whitley claims that "I knew that Anne wanted me beside her. I could feel it very clearly and strongly."(27%),

And yet, my innate scepticism persists with its questions. If they are as real as they now seem to me to be, then why can’t they tell us what the president is doing, what planets harbour alien species, when we’ll die? Anne responds , “you see the world through a slit.”(38%)

This reader wrote that he had heard Anne say that she was returning to Earth by “going from blue to unguent blue.” (39%)

Anne was saying that she was in the higher vibration of light blue but moving to the darker, denser vibration of our world, explaining how the free souls move to contact those of us who are enclosed in physical bodies. (39%)

There was a large congregation, and her coffin rested in the aisle of the church. I was in a pew just behind it when, to my surprise, I saw six large, softly glowing balls of light come sliding gracefully in through the ceiling and array themselves around the coffin. (44%)

We are inside the images the girl wore, moving through life as if along a path. In the higher world, we don’t live our lives, we wear them. And that’s what it means to rise above life on the wings of objective love. That’s where she was. (64%)

When we realized that the shroud really did tell the story of the resurrection, it changed us both profoundly. It freed Anne and delighted her. She would say, “the resurrection didn’t just happen at a certain time. It happened outside of time. It’s always happening. You can feel it.” (80%)

“I have perfect vision of this past life and a sense of others stretching back—a flavor of me that is my essential identity. But as to the dinosaur era and so forth, I didn’t exist then.” (83%)

And the reviews from other readers are right, you can't really tell whether it was just Whitley talking or it was really Anne. And that blur really let down a lot of the credibility here. If Whitley and Anna really want to bring this revolution, they really should have been more straightforward and concise about it. It would be a whole different story if Anne tells Whitley afterwards "by the way that was me". And sadly there was really no such confirmation/justification thorough the book. And I understand sometimes you can't really control your "focus" that well. Much less the fact that sometimes it wasn't even yours to control.



This book does have a lot of contemplation and questions which are quite interesting to read.

For example:
Why are we dense in the first place? Wouldn’t we be better off if there was no physical side of our species at all?(39%)

Unless physical life is some sort of prison, there can be only one logical reason for our being in such a condition: we need it like this. But why would we? I don’t want to stumble through life as I do. I want to know my fate. I want to know how to avoid danger and tragedy.(39%)

This limiting of vision is what gives life its impact. It causes us to act spontaneously, and therefore to look into the reasons for our behaviors and come to understand ourselves.(39%)

“Enlightenment is what happens when there is nothing left of us but love.”(49%)

“Accepting yourself is the key. Enjoying yourself.”(50%)


“Why did those people come to just me? Why not thousands of people? Millions?” “People don’t notice.” “Why not?” “Ego filters out what it fears, and what it fears most of all is death.”(52%)

But why? What’s so funny? (54%)

The more conscious you become, the more playful you feel.(54%)

Seeing her terror, the figure added, “Why do you fear us?” She said, “Because you’re so ugly!” Whereupon it laid a gloved hand on her wrist and said, “One day, my dear, you will look just like us.”(59%)

A few things can at least be inferred. The first is that, whatever these creatures are, they are intimately involved with us. They are interested in our offspring. They gather groups of people together for unknown reasons, and protect these gatherings by utilizing distractions. They have told at least one person that, in the future, she will be one of them. (60%)

Go as far back as you can into your own childhood, remember how it felt then to be alive. That’s how to start opening your expectations. To be truly awake is to have none.”(77%)

When they started calling him Christ, that was the darkness within us trying to put out his light. He was just a guy, Whitley, who had surrendered completely to the light. That’s why it shone through him so brightly.”(80%)

Looking at the precision of all this, it’s easy to think of the Earth-Moon system as something designed, a life building machine carefully constructed to shield its inhabitants from as much of the random destructiveness of the cosmos as possible.(81%)

Even if design is part of the picture, there is no reason to take a step farther and claim that a biblical god, ancient aliens, or some other known or imagined factor is responsible. If it’s true, something must be responsible but what remains an open question.(81%)

This remarkable change effectively made this god immortal. As he cannot be seen he cannot be finally identified and understood, which is why he has remained relevant for so long. His nature evolves with our idea of him, which can never be fixed into any specific form.(82%)

These and other incidents of light have injected very pure ideas into our world, but so far we have not been able to handle their energy, and have consistently turned them into cruel and confused systems of belief that have nothing to do with strengthening souls or making the physical and nonphysical sides of our species into a coherent whole. (82%)

There is something happening here on a very large scale that does suggest design and intention. In some ways it cradles and protects life, but it also has a habit of upending everything with truly exceptional violence.(83%)

You don’t die into a state of total knowledge. You die into the knowledge that you bring with you.”(83%)

Started a hundred and twenty thousand years ago, we were naked, living in small family groups and practicing primitive forms of hunting and gathering. As the climate grew colder, we learned to clothe ourselves. When game became more scarce, we improved our weapon making and hunting skills.(86%)

It would appear that the supernova created us, or better said, was used as a tool in that process.(87%).

“I can’t tell you exact dates, Whitley, but I can tell you that there is survival. The end of a species’ life is not death any more than the end of an individual. Extinction is a another aspect of evolution, just like grief is another form of love.”(88%)

I think that the reason for this happening is that there has been an investment of real love. I put love into Coe, and he loved me, and that love now has an independent life.(95%)

Maybe it wasn't even Coe there, really. Maybe he found the path long ago, and is far down it now. But the love was left behind, waiting for me until I needed it. (95%)



This book also put a lot of emphasis on the soul tool ("objective love", humility, compassion), stages of life, the sensing exercise (meditation), intangibility of the soul and its light form, the idea of living Earth (gaia), ego blindness (identification), happiness (pure and laughter) and how the focus/concentration could summon this second body. And from the description it feels like it’s an ability that a person can grasp or train before deceased. Not after. And certainly not together with your loved ones.

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January 2, 2026
There is something so sweet and empathetic about Whitley that seems genuine. The account of his experiences revealed in Communion seems to have facilitated a deep connection with the inner-workings of the mysteries of life and creation. The Afterlife Revolution is a love story. It is the explanation of the elusive feeling we all feel but can’t explain when enveloped in TRUE love. Anne and Whitely’s union of souls is an incredible journey. Whether you believe the existence of an afterlife or not, you can’t deny the curiosity from the perspective of a human exists.

Well written, introspective, vulnerable and poignant.

Somewhere later in the book, there is a brief scientific section about global catastrophes aligning with Whitley’s work in The Coming Global Super Storm that felt like it was going to lose stream, but the connection between the current human conscious and the state of global warming affairs wraps it up nicely.

Give this book a chance, if you are in a marriage or relationship or just want to find something to be a better spouse, partner, parent or friend. This book is a tool to help you do just that
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August 14, 2021
3 1/2. I'll admit, I was not bowled over by this book. It is interesting in its own way, but I suppose I expected more from it. I actually listened to the audio read by the author, but that edition was not available in the list on Goodreads. It is possible that my impression of the book was different based on Streiber's reading style. Who knows? If you have lost a loved one recently, this still might be a helpful read for you.
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July 10, 2021
Offers Hope for What Likely Comes After Death

Whether one believes that Near Death Experiences (NDE) are possible or whether humans have a Soul or whether there is life after death, one would have to be completely heartless not to identify with Whitley Streiber and his experience of life, death and the Afterlife with his wife, Anne after her death. Wonderful book.
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1,345 reviews19 followers
June 19, 2023
Good grief, this book is a mess. It seems to involve self deception and wishfulness combined with a few, very few religious halfbaked ideas. It was a reading challenge.
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Author 12 books11 followers
March 24, 2018
The Afterlife Revolution is, in my opinion, Whitley Strieber’s most compelling book since Communion. In it, he relates with new detail and insight, many of the key experiences of his life since the Communion event. His narrative focus is on the last years of his wife, Anne’s, life. He recounts her stroke, NDE, and what she learned from them. He relates the events of her death and subsequent communications that led to their collaboration on this book (with Anne’s contributions coming from “the other side”).

The “revolution” part of the book’s title is that of our relation to those who have died. Mr. Strieber says here, as he has before, that it is possible to communicate with them, and even develop technology to detect them. His point, averred by many psychic mediums, is that we share the same universe with our dead. The Afterlife is not “out there,” but all around us. Indeed, it is the larger part of our lives, with excursions into the physical done for the sake of our personal evolution. These points are not new, either in Mr. Strieber’s work or the life-after-death literature. This book, however, is Mr. Strieber’s personal verification of it all through the communications he has experienced with his wife after her passing.

I’ve read most of Mr. Strieber’s nonfiction books, but this one brings out Anne’s contributions the most. Her role in his career and his developing understanding of the visitor experience is outstanding, and her personality comes through in those passages “written” by her. Those are mostly insights into the experience of dying and the nature of the expanded life she found there. She had a glimpse of it from her NDE some years before. That experience changed her outlook such that she could face death, fearlessly, and with preparation. When she felt her time was near, she launched her plan. Mr. Strieber’s role was supportive but, understandably, wrenching.

Anne’s plan included communicating with her husband in various, agreed-upon, ways. She did so to Mr. Strieber’s satisfaction and the result is the insights of this book. Those insights embrace the key events of Mr. Strieber’s life with the paranormal. He has related most of them in other works, but with new understanding here that his long-time followers will appreciate. Anne’s comments from the other side buttress it all.

Of course, the subject of proof will come up as it always does in books like this. Proof of such subject matter is always personal, however. People don’t believe in ghosts until they experience one. What convinced Mr. Strieber that his deceased wife still lives as a self-aware entity who communicates with him, was a number of happenings that culminated in the “white moth” experience he relates in the book’s last chapter. Other people have also indicated some level of contact with Anne, including Gary E. Schwartz, who participated, somewhat, in the moth event and wrote the book’s Foreword.

Overall, this is an engaging book that I read quickly because it spoke so strongly to me, as I’m sure it will for many readers. The take-aways are affirmations for the survival of the soul, the possibilities for spirit communications, and the tools and methods for strengthening our souls for our physical life and for our enveloping, transcendent one.

The Afterlife Revolution will not convince the hard skeptic, who is not likely to read it anyway. For those in the know—who have read the surviving-death literature and experienced some level of communion with the spiritual—it will affirm their experiences and inspire them to live better, with greater hope and joy.
87 reviews
November 27, 2019
I met Anne Strieber a few times many years ago at conferences where she and her husband Whitley Strieber were giving talks. She was a memorable woman, cute and quirky, irreverent, and able to blurt out casual, off-hand remarks that you realize only days later were much more profound than you had realized.

I was sad when I learned of her passing. Their book about their marriage, Miraculous Journey, introduced the concept of them staying in contact with each other even after her passing from life. In this book, The Afterlife Revolution, Whitley describes what this means, and wonders how it's possible. He documents the events that brought him from a man suffering a terrible loss to realizing what was happening: although she could never come back, she was with him, in a subtle, quiet, very personal way.

The book then proceeds to explore the dialogues the two of them shared, past the veil of the living and the dead, about life, the universe and everything. Anne paints a picture of what it means to be alive and to be dead, and explains that life in the time stream is no more valid than life beyond time, but it is only in life that we can learn and grow as individuals, to the point where our persona can persist even after the body has passed.

It's a fascinating book, going very deep into what it means to live a full life, but it's also a heartwarming and bittersweet story of a marriage that death has separated, but has brought about a new way of living and thinking about both life and death.
21 reviews
January 11, 2018
Interesting, but not great

As some other reviewers have said, “Anne” sounds an awful lot like Strieber, especially the protagonist in The Key, and so, it’s kind of off-putting, I guess. There’s nothing really revolutionary in here, despite the title, as most of what is alluded to has been floating around in new-agey circles for years. There’s some good anecdotal stories, but that’s about it. I’ll be honest, I was let down, since I’m a pretty big Strieber fan. So, that said, if you’re a Strieber fan, I’d say it’s worth the read, just to get another perspective on what makes him tick, but of not, and you’re looking for some kind of Afterlife enlightenment, I think you’ll be disappointed. A much better book would be anything by Eben Alexander, but if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already read his stuff. In any case, I’m glad I read it, but it’s not for everyone, that’s for sure.
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Author 19 books27 followers
July 3, 2019
I hadn't read Streiber before, but was fascinated by this book. It makes an excellent case for contact beyond the grave, and for a continuing series of them on a voluntary basis. He believes he has succeeded in channeling his wife.
Maybe he has. Lately I have adopted a policy of not believing anything at all, but of ascribing orders of probability. I would say that Strieber makes his case at somewhere above 50%.
He tends to be, from my point of view, overemotional, but that's just me. It may be perfect for you.
For anyone deeply involved with this issue this book is a must read.
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7 reviews
March 7, 2019
Methods used are vasluable, but small in comparison to Whitley's emotional ramblings

Whitley Streiber seems to be an emotional wreck, deeply attached to Anne, and this book was more about that than any afterlife revolution. I did value knowing how he and Anne communicated after her death, and will try to use those methods after I die to communicate with those who have agreed, mainly my older son.
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3 reviews
May 16, 2020
Deep, Brilliant!

What a great book. True story about true love, life, marriage, passing, and beyond. Beautifully written from the hearts and minds of two people deeply in love, learning to go on separated by the Rainbow Bridge. I loved this book, and have loved every book I've read by Whitley Strieber.
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9 reviews1 follower
January 3, 2019
The Afterlife revolution

Presents a new and different way of looking at death and the afterlife. Part of me felt uplifted and part of me felt kind of sad. An open mind is essential for reading this. It is well written but I will be processing it for awhile.
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1 review9 followers
April 7, 2018
Beyond Vibrant

This book glows with the radiance of spiritual truth and objective love. I highly recommend this to all Spiritual Seekers.
253 reviews1 follower
July 2, 2018
Fascinating read

Despite a lot of complexity and man things that were way over my head, the book was eye opening.
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14 reviews
July 15, 2023
A Beautiful And Uplifting Love

This is a beautiful story about the love of two wonderful people and how their relationship blossomed after Anne moved on.
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