Matt Fraser is extremely charming, personable, and heart centered. He's also living a happy life replete with glitz, glam, riches, and showbiz. His writing style is easily digestible, fast paced, and friendly. But the material doesn't go deep, not even the parts entitled "Going Deeper." Instead, he reiterates passages that were already stated and the message: "Be positive."
There's a blatant gap between Fraser and most of us. Your average person doesn't, for example, create a vision board with their pageant winner soul mate as the "prize." Your average person doesn't feel positive about everything all the time. Your average person didn't grow up in an intact, loving family, didn't face setbacks in aquiring their dream house, etc. We're renters, if we're lucky. We're hoping to get by, day by day, if we're lucky. We're happy to have a pleasant, non-offensive date, if we're lucky. We work jobs to get the paycheck, if we're lucky.
One psychic I've encountered is so gifted that she turned this skeptic into a believer. What I've learned from her during only a few sessions contradicts greatly with Matt's teachings. My ex-husband, dead now for over ten years, is still a miserable, angry soul (for lack of words that would not be approved here). He basically told me that he used me and "oh well." That's certainly not an elevated spirit. And I learned of another relative who needed to purge the fact that she was sexually abused. She wanted my empathy - approximately 20 years post mortem.
Matt claims there's no hell, but slips in a brief note that evil souls go through something unpleasant. He doesn't expand at all on this. That's wherein I need explanation.
There's no mention of female sexual abuse, people who live in chronic pain, or those of us whose family didn't love us in the first place. Why would we find consolation in their omnipresence in our lives today? That both freaks me out and causes me pain, if it's true. During the most devastating times of my life, if they were actually with me (which Matt claims), they certainly didn't do anything to comfort me. How could they be there, and watch me struggle like that?
As another reader pointed out, too, this book doesn't remain true to its title. Matt Fraser admits himself "I don't want to live forever." His point is that this is why he doesn't know about reincarnation. That's an illogical leap, for one. Second, the thought of living forever scares the bajeezus outta me. I don't want to live forever, Matt. This isn't consoling. Explain. Expand. The soul, a source of energy, cannot be created nor killed. But our "lives" in the "afterlife" are not anything like our human lives. They can't be. It doesn't console me that I might see a love after I'm dead. Because I won't be able to give and get a hug or more. No sex. No kisses. No chocolate indulgence. Nothing of the sort.
If you don't want to live forever, Mr. Fraser, why did you title this book "We Never Die" and fill it with messages of hope? There's a striking disconnect.
Matt emphasizes the search for a soul mate as one's life purpose, but he contradicts himself by saying to not put too much emphasis on this. (Easy for someone to say when they nabbed their pagaent queen, having worked in the pagaent circuit.) I align more with Tyler Henry's perspective regarding "soul mates." We don't necessarily have one soul mate. We can in fact have many, romantic or otherwise. Or perhaps we don't have any.
The last bit of the book reads like a jumbled hodge podge of nontangential information.
Matt Fraser's breaking new ground. This is exciting. He's a wonderful, charming, caring man. I enjoyed most of this read. For all of these reasons, I recommend it. But if you want an indepth read that delves into the shades and dark sides of the "other side," I don't. I'm still looking for that one.