cover image Mary T. Reflects on the Other Side

Mary T. Reflects on the Other Side

Mary T. Browne. Fawcett Books, $20 (211pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90884-6

Proclaiming that ``I know what I've seen,'' former actress and professional psychic Browne ( Love in Action ) asserts in this preposterous study of the spirit world that death--``passing over''--is a continuing function of living. An American Indian spirit ``bodyguard'' guides the author's forays into the other side, where she communicates with the departed, often known to her from former incarnations, ``who choose to visit her.'' Citing near-death experiences and Hindu, Chinese, Greek and Christian metaphysics, Browne fervently espouses reincarnation, as attested to by spirits quoted here, subject to karma's laws. The author's cinemascopic vision of heaven features spirits in robes enjoying gardens, with hell depicted as a fearsome ``Land of No Shapes.'' Excessive grieving by survivors, she warns, can make it harder for the deceased ``to make a clean break'' and accept ``death as rebirth into life of the spirit.'' Author tour. (May)