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Our Children Forever: George Anderson's Message From Children on the Other Side
A renowned psychic who is recognized for his healing messages from his clients' departed loved ones shares case stories of hope and renewal in which the deceased family members were children. Reissue.
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376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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February 16, 2024
THE THIRD BOOK OF READINGS BY MEDIUM GEORGE ANDERSON
The introductory “Note About the Readings’ that prefaces this 1994 book explains, “Shortly after George Anderson and Joel Martin met in 1980, the two began a journey to learn all that they could about the psychic phenomena George experiences… there is no one more skeptical or more inquisitive about the source, nature, and limitations of those abilities than George himself. First as an investigative reporter and then as a fellow explorer into the mysteries of discarnate communication, Joel has… amassed detailed records and notes, as well as videotapes and audiotapes of readings. The international success of ‘We Don’t Die’ and ‘We are Not Forgotten’ brought to our attention thousands of cases, each unique … for what they taught us about the nature of life after death. the readings presented here have been culled from thousands George has given to those grieving parents… In every single instance the readings themselves … are real and documented, on videotape, on audiotape, or in notes Joel took while witnessing the reading… The transcripts have been edited for brevity and clarity, and where possible reviewed by the subject for accuracy… As always, we will … admit that not every communication from the other side is earth-shattering… even those who have traversed the realms can be discrete, reticent, even boring… Because this volume deals specifically with children and was inspired by the thousands of parents and other loved ones who have been touched by a child’s death, our approach is quite different… we sought a greater understanding of what it means when a child dies and, most important, how these children on the other side and the loved ones they leave behind here can help one another along their separate yet eternally intertwining paths.”
Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski explain in the Introduction, “The purpose of our first book… was to introduce George, and … document his ability as a psychic medium… we do not and simply cannot pretend to know the how and why of George’s psychic abilities… George has been making himself available to people for psychic readings for years before he came to national attention… But after touring the country and reading some of the thousands of letters we received, George decided that sparring with skeptics, convincing reporters and talk-show hosts that he is for real… stole time from helping the bereaved. That led us to focus [in our next book] on how the psychic process can serve as a catalyst and a comfort in grief. With this book we address the most tormented of the bereaved, those who have lost their children.” (Pg. 2)
They continue, “To say that the parents and other survivors of deceased children come to George in desperation is not overstating the case. More than the survivors in any other kind of relationship, parents suffer severe, prolonged depressions, marital and family stress, and are prone to thoughts and suicide… Bereaved parents talk of their isolation, loneliness, depression, and they recount stories of the well-intentioned but hurtful remarks offered to them as condolences. They quietly seethe at the memory of being told to ‘Get over it,’ or to remember, ‘You’re young, you’ll have others.’ They cry themselves to sleep night after night, sometimes for years.” (Pg. 3)
They go on, “George brings comfort to bereaved parents through psychic mediumship. There are dozens of words for what George does and what he is. However, we have always preferred the term ‘psychic medium.’ … the word George prefers for describing what he does is DISCERN spirits. Through his psychic experiences, Goerge had learned that we do survive physical death in some form… Direct communication occurs when the spirit appears, either while the subject is awake or asleep, either visibly or in a way that is emotionally discerned… George has access to a ‘premium’ channel that most of us do not… the only true mystery is why George gets relatively clear reception while for most of us, most of the time, it comes in scrambled.” (Pg. 5-6)
They add, “George is different in other ways. During readings he remains fully conscious; he never enters a trance state and never speaks in any voice but his own. No one spirit speaks through George… More often than not, spirits will use a combination of clues, the interpretation of which can be extremely simple or bafflingly complex…. Through clairvoyance, George ‘sees’ faces, symbols, objects, figures, places, events, and letters and numbers in his mind’s eye.” (Pg. 6-7)
They explain, “In the case of private readings, George knows nothing about the subjects. Appointment are made over the phone on first-name basis only and taken by an assistant… Although each reading is, strictly speaking, a discernment, group readings are also called discernments to distinguish them from private readings. In a group discernment George will pick up a spirit’s communication without knowing to whom in the roomful of strangers it is intended. He may ask such questions as, ‘Did anyone lose a son named Tony?’ or he may simply walk up to or gesture toward the subject… While George’s abilities remain the same, there is a significant difference in the content and tone between private readings and public group discernments. The rule seems to be that spirits do not communicate anything though Goerge when the subject is among strangers that they would not have said in the presence of strangers while they were still here on earth.” (Pg. 8-9)
They state, “The more skeptical may note that in almost every reading, the child passed tells his parents that he loves them. One common criticism we hear of George’s work is that parts of each reading seem similar to parts of others. But… much of what we do in all of our relationships is pretty similar to what billions of other people do, too… George could easily eliminate this criticism by simply not repeating these ‘redundant’ messages, but in George’s opinion that would be wrong.” (Pg. 9-10)
They note, “As you will see in many of the readings that follow, the subjects prayed or spoke silently to their deceased child and gave him or her a code word or allusion by which they would judge their experience with George. Inevitably these come through in the readings.” (Pg. 10-11)
They comment, “Given all this, what can the surviving parent of a deceased child expect from a reading with George? That is hard to say, especially since grieving mothers’ and fathers’ needs are so different from those of other survivors. Often what parents see, beyond knowing that their child is safe and alive on the other side depends on the child’s age at death and the circumstances of his or her passing. Parents of stillborn babies, for example, wonder if the baby knows that they were her parents and that they loved her. Those who have lost an older baby… need help understanding that the baby is continuing to develop on the other side and that he is in the care of other loved ones… For most parents who come to George, these questions are answered as far as they can be. Sometimes there are no answers. But even if a mother walks out of George’s door with all her questions answered and feeling at peace knowing that her child is safe and happy, the grief does not magically disappear… This is not to say that the readings have no value: they certainly do. But George will be the first to point out that a reading does not replace the work of grief; it is no shortcut… ‘I cannot remove your pain,’ George freely but safely acknowledges. ‘All I can do is ease it for a while.’” (Pg. 11)
The readings are divided into subject chapters, such as ‘No Matter How Careful,’ ‘Without Warning,’ ‘The Murdered,’ etc.
This book will appeal to fans of other books of Anderson’s readings.
The introductory “Note About the Readings’ that prefaces this 1994 book explains, “Shortly after George Anderson and Joel Martin met in 1980, the two began a journey to learn all that they could about the psychic phenomena George experiences… there is no one more skeptical or more inquisitive about the source, nature, and limitations of those abilities than George himself. First as an investigative reporter and then as a fellow explorer into the mysteries of discarnate communication, Joel has… amassed detailed records and notes, as well as videotapes and audiotapes of readings. The international success of ‘We Don’t Die’ and ‘We are Not Forgotten’ brought to our attention thousands of cases, each unique … for what they taught us about the nature of life after death. the readings presented here have been culled from thousands George has given to those grieving parents… In every single instance the readings themselves … are real and documented, on videotape, on audiotape, or in notes Joel took while witnessing the reading… The transcripts have been edited for brevity and clarity, and where possible reviewed by the subject for accuracy… As always, we will … admit that not every communication from the other side is earth-shattering… even those who have traversed the realms can be discrete, reticent, even boring… Because this volume deals specifically with children and was inspired by the thousands of parents and other loved ones who have been touched by a child’s death, our approach is quite different… we sought a greater understanding of what it means when a child dies and, most important, how these children on the other side and the loved ones they leave behind here can help one another along their separate yet eternally intertwining paths.”
Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski explain in the Introduction, “The purpose of our first book… was to introduce George, and … document his ability as a psychic medium… we do not and simply cannot pretend to know the how and why of George’s psychic abilities… George has been making himself available to people for psychic readings for years before he came to national attention… But after touring the country and reading some of the thousands of letters we received, George decided that sparring with skeptics, convincing reporters and talk-show hosts that he is for real… stole time from helping the bereaved. That led us to focus [in our next book] on how the psychic process can serve as a catalyst and a comfort in grief. With this book we address the most tormented of the bereaved, those who have lost their children.” (Pg. 2)
They continue, “To say that the parents and other survivors of deceased children come to George in desperation is not overstating the case. More than the survivors in any other kind of relationship, parents suffer severe, prolonged depressions, marital and family stress, and are prone to thoughts and suicide… Bereaved parents talk of their isolation, loneliness, depression, and they recount stories of the well-intentioned but hurtful remarks offered to them as condolences. They quietly seethe at the memory of being told to ‘Get over it,’ or to remember, ‘You’re young, you’ll have others.’ They cry themselves to sleep night after night, sometimes for years.” (Pg. 3)
They go on, “George brings comfort to bereaved parents through psychic mediumship. There are dozens of words for what George does and what he is. However, we have always preferred the term ‘psychic medium.’ … the word George prefers for describing what he does is DISCERN spirits. Through his psychic experiences, Goerge had learned that we do survive physical death in some form… Direct communication occurs when the spirit appears, either while the subject is awake or asleep, either visibly or in a way that is emotionally discerned… George has access to a ‘premium’ channel that most of us do not… the only true mystery is why George gets relatively clear reception while for most of us, most of the time, it comes in scrambled.” (Pg. 5-6)
They add, “George is different in other ways. During readings he remains fully conscious; he never enters a trance state and never speaks in any voice but his own. No one spirit speaks through George… More often than not, spirits will use a combination of clues, the interpretation of which can be extremely simple or bafflingly complex…. Through clairvoyance, George ‘sees’ faces, symbols, objects, figures, places, events, and letters and numbers in his mind’s eye.” (Pg. 6-7)
They explain, “In the case of private readings, George knows nothing about the subjects. Appointment are made over the phone on first-name basis only and taken by an assistant… Although each reading is, strictly speaking, a discernment, group readings are also called discernments to distinguish them from private readings. In a group discernment George will pick up a spirit’s communication without knowing to whom in the roomful of strangers it is intended. He may ask such questions as, ‘Did anyone lose a son named Tony?’ or he may simply walk up to or gesture toward the subject… While George’s abilities remain the same, there is a significant difference in the content and tone between private readings and public group discernments. The rule seems to be that spirits do not communicate anything though Goerge when the subject is among strangers that they would not have said in the presence of strangers while they were still here on earth.” (Pg. 8-9)
They state, “The more skeptical may note that in almost every reading, the child passed tells his parents that he loves them. One common criticism we hear of George’s work is that parts of each reading seem similar to parts of others. But… much of what we do in all of our relationships is pretty similar to what billions of other people do, too… George could easily eliminate this criticism by simply not repeating these ‘redundant’ messages, but in George’s opinion that would be wrong.” (Pg. 9-10)
They note, “As you will see in many of the readings that follow, the subjects prayed or spoke silently to their deceased child and gave him or her a code word or allusion by which they would judge their experience with George. Inevitably these come through in the readings.” (Pg. 10-11)
They comment, “Given all this, what can the surviving parent of a deceased child expect from a reading with George? That is hard to say, especially since grieving mothers’ and fathers’ needs are so different from those of other survivors. Often what parents see, beyond knowing that their child is safe and alive on the other side depends on the child’s age at death and the circumstances of his or her passing. Parents of stillborn babies, for example, wonder if the baby knows that they were her parents and that they loved her. Those who have lost an older baby… need help understanding that the baby is continuing to develop on the other side and that he is in the care of other loved ones… For most parents who come to George, these questions are answered as far as they can be. Sometimes there are no answers. But even if a mother walks out of George’s door with all her questions answered and feeling at peace knowing that her child is safe and happy, the grief does not magically disappear… This is not to say that the readings have no value: they certainly do. But George will be the first to point out that a reading does not replace the work of grief; it is no shortcut… ‘I cannot remove your pain,’ George freely but safely acknowledges. ‘All I can do is ease it for a while.’” (Pg. 11)
The readings are divided into subject chapters, such as ‘No Matter How Careful,’ ‘Without Warning,’ ‘The Murdered,’ etc.
This book will appeal to fans of other books of Anderson’s readings.
April 1, 2009
I'm a skeptic, but this was an interesting book. I actually know two people who have met George Anderson and what he has told them was just uncanny. The book was comforting to me and so I can't be completely objective about out, but it was an interesting story and reading about George always intrigues me.
September 30, 2015
It gives me so much hope as a bereaved parent. I've had a reading with him and reading this book reminds me of his incredible gift and how he uses it to help so any bereaved parents.
January 14, 2011
This is the story of children that have died and are talking to their parents from the grave.
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