The way to Love and Inner Peace is through Forgiveness.

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"If two of your friends are on the other side of a thick wall, you may not be able to recognize them by their voices. The wall prevents clear hearing. If you wish to recognize them, the wall must not remain between you and them. This is what we are now doing. In order to recognize the voice of truth, we are removing our psychological wall. For example, by removing traditional but false beliefs, we are able to hear the pure messages of our original nature."

They cannot tell us what it is like.

James Hervey Hyslop(1854- 1920) was a professor of logic and ethics and prominent psychical researcher. He was educated at Wooster College, Ohio (B.A., 1877), the University of Leipzig (1882-84), and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1877). He was one of the first American psychologists to connect psychology with psychic phenomena. He joined the philosophy department at Columbia University as a professor in ethics and logic, during which time he became deeply involved with psychical research. As early as 1888, in a skeptical frame of mind, he was brought for the first time into contact with the supernormal through the mediumship of Leonora Piper.

Spiritual messages telling him of his life work.

Andrew Jackson [“A. J.” or “Jackson”] Davis (1826 – 1910), American Spiritualist, was born at Blooming Grove, New York, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Robinson) Davis. The family moved to Poughkeepsie, New York when he was a boy. His father was an alcoholic; his mother died when he was still a boy. While a young man, he became an entranced seer and traveling medium, often psychically diagnosing illnesses of audience members, and publishing, in New York City, the contents of his cosmic revelations.
He had little education, though probably much more than he and his friends pretended. In 1843 he heard lectures in Poughkeepsie on animal magnetism, as the phenomena of hypnotism was then termed, and found that he had remarkable clairvoyant powers. In the following year he had, he said, spiritual messages telling him of his life work.
Davis was much influenced by Swedenborg and by the Shakers, who reprinted his panegyric praising Ann Lee in the official work, Sketch of Shakers and Shakerism (1884).
Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by Davis, whose lectures on mesmerism he had attended, in the writing of "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845)[1].
Davis in turn directly influenced self-proclaimed psychic Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) who adopted "trance diagnosis" and similar activities with few modifications from Davis's example.
The death experience of New Age and Spiritualist movements seems to have perpetuated from Davis.














Ego or Spirit?

[1]"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror. Poe uses particularly detailed descriptions and relatively high levels of gore in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".
Many readers thought the story to be a scientific report. Robert Collyer[2] wrote to Poe saying that he himself had performed a similar act to revive a man who had been pronounced dead (in truth, the man was actually a drunk sailor who was revived by a hot bath).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning[3] wrote to Poe about the story to commend him on his ability of

"making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar"

[2]Robert Collyer (1823–1912) was an English-born American Unitarian clergyman.
[3] Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 –1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.