Immortality: Startling Evidence for Human Survival of Physical Death

by Jess Stearn

Immortality is a remarkable and engaging account of Maria Moreno, a medium who was the incredibly accurate instrument for thousands of messages from the "other side." With spirits identifying themselves by name, family, and profession, Moreno startled and left spellbound those around her with the dead's disclosures, as they correctly foretold disastrous earthquakes, sundry revolutions and holocausts in scattered parts of the globe, even projecting Jesus' second coming at the end of the century. This fascinating firsthand account of Moreno, as told with precision by Stearn, will intrigue and mystify you with the startling proposition that life does not end at death, but is, in fact, everlasting.

309 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1988

About the author

Stearn was a Jewish-American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. As an author, Stearn specialized in sensationalist speculative non-fiction. His early work focused on outsiders and marginalized individuals such as prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. His later work focused on spirituality, the occult, and psychic phenomena. His most popular works were two biographies on the American psychic Edgar Cayce; Stearn was a conference speaker for the Association for Research and Enlightenment and a proponent of Cayce's theories.

Reviews

[Steven H · Rating 2 out of 5]

THE FAMED WRITER ON THE PARANORMAL LOOKS AT SÉANCES, ETC.

Jess Stearn (1914-2002) was a journalist and author of such books as Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, The Search for a Soul: Taylor Caldwell's Psychic Lives, Soulmates, etc. This 1976/1989 book contains chapters such as "Spirits or ESP"; "The Guiding Spirits"; "Taylor Caldwell Has a Visitor"; "Edgar Cayce Makes a Call"; "Of Spirits and Reincarnation," etc.

He quotes Cayce: "Death, as commonly spoken of, is only passing through God's other door. That there is continued consciousness is evidenced by the abilities of entities to project or to make those impressions upon the consciousness of sensitives or the like." (Pg. 30)

He asks, "How could an energy form be happy or troubled, if such was spirit? 'Thoughts and energy are the same in this vibration,' said Maria. 'The individual souls are a personification of the person and never die. In passing over, a person loses the limitations of time and space, for death frees the energy forms produced by the soul. But he still projects himself and his own personality.'" (Pg. 97)

He recounts a séance, "The actor [Rudy Valentino] discussed his transition, spiritual development, and celestial meetings with such outstanding teachers as Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, naturalists John Burroughs and Luther Burbank, opera star Enrico Caruso, and producer Charles Frohman. He was not as lonely as he had been, nor did he resent the wife who had rejected him." (Pg. 261)

This book will probably not interest most modern readers---the examples used (e.g., Taylor Caldwell, Rudy Valentino) are many decades old. But Stearn is always an excellent writer, and those interested in the evidence for life after death may nevertheless find this an engaging book.