Table of Contents
Introduction: Lightning in a Book 1
Part 1 Elizabeth's Story
1 Changed in a Flash 13
2 The Glow and the Garden 23
3 The Portfolio of Strange Things 35
4 The Haunted Necklace and the Rainbow World 51
5 Trying on the New Age 67
6 The Layer Cake of Time 81
7 The Lessons of the Garden 95
8 On God, Religion, and Spirituality 107
Looking Back: Everyday Applications for What I Know to Be True 119
Part 2 How We Are Changing the Afterlife
Reading as Empowerment 125
9 "That's Not Fiction": Science, Religion, and Science Fiction 133
10 "Nothing Is Black and White": The Double Nature of the Paranormal and Its Evolutionary Function 157
11 "I Just Knew": The Alien Translator, Gnosis, and the Secret Powers of Interpretation 177
12 "I Can See All of Your Auras Right Now": Electro magnetism, Conscious Energy, and Spiritual Illumination 209
13 "I See Time in Layers": How to Think about Precognition and Elizabeth's Dreams 231
14 "They Were All Paired Up": The Evolution of the Double Soul and Its Angelic Destiny 255
Postscript: "You Were There Too": How Elizabeth Finally Dreamed This Book 285
Appendix: The Emails 295
Origins and Gratitude 305
Endnotes 309
Index 321
About the Authors 341