Incredible true stories of the afterlife
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First published 2013
Copyright © Jacky Newcomb, 2013
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ISBN: 978-0-71-819799-5
Prologue
To Heaven and Back …
Visiting Heaven
Day Trip to Heaven
One Foot in the Door
Call Me When You Get to Heaven
More Messages From Heaven
Animals and the Afterlife
Life, But Not as We Know it
A Worldwide View of Heaven
Questions About the Afterlife
Conclusion
Further Reading and More Information
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Jacky Newcomb is known the world over as ‘The Angel Lady’. She is a multi-award winning, Sunday Times bestselling author and regular columnist for Take a Break’s Fate & Fortune magazine. Jacky has published literally hundreds of articles, including real-life experiences of angels, afterlife, life between lives and life after death. She has been studying the phenomena of paranormal experiences for thirty-five years and is one of the UK’s leading experts.
She regularly appears in the national press (Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express) and is frequently featured in magazines such as Real, Chat, Woman, Bella, Woman & Home, Spirit & Destiny, and many others.
Jacky often appears on radio as a paranormal experiences expert and her expertise is also sought for television programmes such as ITV’s This Morning and Channel 5’s Live with Gabby Logan.
Jacky gives talks and runs workshops all over the country. She has worked with many famous names and has several celebrity clients.
For more information about Jacky and her work visit www.JackyNewcomb.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
The English word heaven is derived from the spelling heven …
and before that heofon. The dictionary describes heaven as
the home of God, angels and the spirits of the good or
righteous, after death.
This book explores heaven as the realms of the
souls of the deceased.
To Charlotte Robertson, Leah and everyone at Penguin. As always, I also want to say a big thank you to my wonderful readers for sharing their personal and private experiences and for trusting me to deliver them safely and respectfully on to the pages of my books. Without you, there would be no books at all.
To John … my husband with eternal patience. I love you very much.
And last but not least, to all my helpers on heaven-side of life for supporting me and guiding me in my work. Even I know I never produce this work all on my own!
I toast you all with a large glass of champagne … and, for now, let’s just enjoy ‘this’ side of life!
When I was a little girl, my father was involved in a horrific car accident. Mum was a non-driver and it was difficult for her to get to the hospital with her three young daughters. Occasionally friends would drive her to the hospital and we’d have a babysitter for the few hours she was away. I recall the fear she used to carry on her face, and I was old enough that I understood her difficulties, even though I was just a young girl.
After a few weeks Mum asked if she could bring her little daughters in to visit Dad. ‘Yes, of course, young children don’t really notice the machines and wires,’ she was told by the nursing staff. As we walked into the hospital the full horror hit me. Dad had lost his kneecap; his leg was plastered and hung up in the air from a pulley system attached to the ceiling. He had tubes up his nose, tubes in his arms, wires attached to his chest and sixty stitches in his face. He looked less like my lovely dad and more like a monster from a horror film.
From that night onwards the nightmares began. I regularly woke up in the night, screaming in terror. I was terrified of what had happened and what was to come. My biggest fear was that Dad would die. How would Mum, a non-driver, cope? How would we buy shopping? How would she be able to work? What if we were ill and she had to take us to the hospital?
I was scared and vulnerable. Our relatives lived a long way away – there was no one to help. In the hospital I sat at the end of the bed, facing away from Dad, too shocked to do anything else, too dismayed to stare into his bloodied face. I daren’t kiss him, daren’t tell him I loved him; I was too scared to hug him; it took all of my strength not to cry. Dad didn’t need me to cry. I wondered, did he himself know he might die? Did he realize how ill he was and how bad he looked? Had they shown him a mirror? Apparently they hadn’t …
This single experience left me traumatized for all of my childhood and right through my early and middle adulthood. It wasn’t until I’d married, had my own children and they were grown enough to live in their own homes that the nightmares that had plagued me for most of my life began to subside. My own children had passed that vulnerable age where, had the same happened to me, they were not old enough to manage. We spent every spare penny on driving lessons and helping them to buy cars. I wanted my own daughters to be able to cope should something similar happen to them … it’s funny how we are so influenced by our own experiences! Luckily, I don’t have the same fears for my young granddaughter; the memories are now far enough away in the past that I can enjoy my life without worrying about what might happen next.
Bizarrely, the hospital visit was not the end of the trauma in my life. Years later, Dad had another car accident. This was followed by a perforated ulcer, gallstones, a brain tumour, a stroke and cancer … amongst other things. It seemed like my sisters, mother and I spent our whole lives sitting by Dad’s hospital bedside, waiting for him to die. At one point or another he was knocking at death’s door and then he’d make a dramatic recovery and go and do something life-changing like fly an aeroplane or drive from our Midlands home right down to the south coast! He never stopped amazing us. I remember one occasion in particular when Dad was in a long coma following a series of brain operations. Several family friends and even doctors had given up on Dad. I recall one person saying, ‘I’d rather remember Ron the way he was …’ as if he was on his way out. Yet Dad always seemed to fight back.
My life, and the lives of my mother and sisters, was like a fairground ride: one minute we were up in the air and then we were pelting down a sharp curve and round a steep corner upside down. I felt as if I were always holding my breath, never knowing what was going to happen next. I thought everyone lived their life sitting by the bedside of a loved one for months at a time … but, of course, not everyone does. For those of you that have, I sympathize. I can think of no worse way to live your life.
Dad’s life of illnesses and accidents set the course for my future career. Worrying for so many years that Dad might die meant I was left with a deep fascination about death and – more importantly – a fascination with the possibility of an afterlife. Was there such a thing as life after death? Could heaven be real? I spent thirty years investigating the subject and later started writing about real-life experiences of the other side, including people’s real-life encounters with the spirits of their dead relatives and life-saving experiences with angels. It helped me, and stories of the afterlife comforted me. It gave me hope, and if it did this for me I knew it would help others too.
Strangely, my sisters and I all began having experiences of our own after Dad’s brother passed away in his early sixties. Eric was an amazing character: funny, cheeky and much loved. He died way too soon but, strangely, almost right away he started coming back to visit … from the other side. Eric, or at least his spirit, was often invited to ‘Sunday tea’, a family ritual and an occasion when all the family got together at Mum and Dad’s bungalow in a pretty English village. After Dad had been so ill, all he wanted was his family gathered around him. Nothing made that man happier than when his girls, and later his grandchildren, came to visit.
‘Did someone invite Eric?’ was a regular question. We always knew he was there as the lights flickered in response, right on cue!
Several months after the light-flickering began, the doorbell used to ring; it always happened on a Sunday teatime and no matter how many times we’d rush to the door, there was never anyone there. Eventually we resorted to all sorts of tricks: one person would rush to the door whilst another would run to the large window, watching in case any of the local children were playing a trick, messing with the doorbell in some way. There was never anyone there. Eric’s ring was always a single dingdong, the usual doorbell tone … when a living person was at the door, there was a double dingdong. He even had his own chime! We never doubted this bizarre ringing was a message from the afterlife.
Eric made great material for my books and when I started writing about our family afterlife experiences and miracle-type afterlife contact stories sent to me from the readers of my magazine column, Eric was often the star. I recall one day chatting to Dad about the subject of my books and explaining that afterlife communication was real. ‘In fact,’ I suggested brazenly, ‘I bet Eric is here right now, listening in on our conversation … and probably when I leave he’ll make a sign to let us know he is listening.’ We both laughed as I leant down to pick up my bag and we stood up as I went to leave. Exactly at that moment, the smoke alarm gave a single bleep and we both burst out laughing once more. In our family, there was no doubt that the afterlife was real, and our relatives who had passed over couldn’t wait to rush back and tell us all about it!
So the scene had been set. I wrote book after book that contained real-life angel and afterlife experiences from normal folk living all around the world. After reading thousands of accounts of their experiences I began to notice patterns in their communications and started to learn a little bit about how the whole thing worked. Heaven was real and I felt I was now beginning to prove it!
Ironically, after years of worrying about Dad passing away, he managed to make it to the age of seventy-seven. I know that if I’d had any idea that his well-worn body would have survived that long I could have lived a life without worry … but then, would I have written the books I have? Would my interest in the afterlife phenomenon have been there at all? Probably not!
Some part of me knows that my life was pre-planned to a certain extent; all of our lives are. Dad agreed to play his part and I had agreed mine. I felt sure that writing about afterlife communication was my life mission. I had gained such comfort from the amazing afterlife experiences our family had lived through and almost as much again by reading about others’ stories of deceased loved ones reaching out from heaven-side. You can read about my personal story, shared bit by bit, in my many books (turn to the back for a full list), if you want to know more.
After Dad eventually passed away he took over from Eric. Dad appeared in dream visitations to each of his four daughters the night he passed away. It was the start of a catalogue of experiences … enough to fill a book, in fact. Many years later he still visits, and one of my sisters, Madeline Richardson, and I finally wrote a book about what happened to our family, friends and extended contacts after Dad passed on. At the point of writing this book he has now been gone for four whole years … yet his most recent ‘visit’ was just this week!
Dad too flickered lights and set the doorbell ringing, but his repertoire was more sophisticated than his brother Eric before him. Dad set off alarms, yes, but he also turned over the television channel and even messed around with the computers and telephones. Maybe the afterlife tricks were performed by both brothers together – I can imagine Eric acting as Dad’s ‘wingman’, pumping up the energy so they could create types of miracle encounters, experiences and visitations for the family to enjoy and share.
Dad worked hard, and still works hard, to show us that life doesn’t end at physical death. Dad had died … but he wasn’t ‘dead’! (You can read about his story in our book Call Me When You Get to Heaven.)
And so we come full circle. I wanted to write a book where I gave the answers to the questions that I’d wanted to know myself when I first started out. What happens when we die? What is heaven? Is it a real place? Does it exist? I know you’ll be blown away by the many real-life stories I have collected for this book. Do you want to know what happens when you pass on? And more to the point, you say, Jacky, how do you know? Let’s find out!
‘Heaven, the treasury of everlasting life.’
William Shakespeare
Imagine if we knew for sure that death of the physical body was just the beginning of a different life. After all, the newborn baby goes through a sort of ‘death’ from the womb before being born into our earthly world. The experience is very different to everything it’s known up to that point but the new life as a self-supporting human is no less valid than the life it lived inside its mother. It’s just a different type of life.
Grief following the loss of a loved one is something we all have to deal with at one point or another. But knowing for sure that life continues on ‘the other side’ would help more than a little bit … wouldn’t it?
The fear of death can be very real. Most of us feel comfortable with the thought that we might one day end up in heaven – we just don’t want to have to die to get there, right? Yet many have been on the brink of death and come back with reassuring stories of another world … a heavenly space. Let’s have a look at this in more detail.
For many centuries there have been fascinating tales from those brought back from death’s door. The near-death experience (or NDE) has been experienced by millions, and many of these people have claimed to have seen a glimpse of heaven whilst their physical body was clinically dead. Amongst their stories are declarations of seeing long-deceased relatives and friends standing in front of them; of seeing a tunnel with an extraordinarily bright ‘God’ light at the end and experiencing the phenomenon of their whole life flashing before their eyes. Many remember lifting out of their physical body, hearing doctors or nurses exclaiming ‘We’re losing him …’ and watching as medical staff worked hard on their body below, trying to restart their heart.
Even though there have been many first-person experiences put on record, there are still those in the scientific and medical fields who maintain that near-death experiences do not exist. Thankfully, more recently, researchers claim that there is now compelling evidence – scientific evidence – that proves the near-death experience is a real phenomenon. Many celebrities have talked openly of their close encounters with the other side. Let’s have a look at some of these.
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
PETER SELLERS
The late Peter Sellers’s near-death encounters are well-documented. Peter had a series of eight heart attacks before he actually died. After one of his heart attacks he talked about the near-death experience he’d had at the time his heart stopped. Sellers explained how he floated out of his body and watched doctors working on his physical body below him. Then he noticed a bright light and said that he felt that the light was God and that real love awaited him on the other side of the light if he were to follow. He recalls seeing a hand reach out to him through the light and he tried to stretch out and grab it; just at that moment the doctors started his heart again and he found himself back in his body with a voice saying, ‘It’s not time!’
He admitted that when he finally ‘came to’ he was disappointed not to have been able to pass through the light at that time. It changed him, and as a result of his experiences he was said to have lost the fear of death. Sellers seems to have been through several of the classic signs relating to near death.
University researchers at the Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem, Holland, investigated 344 heart patients who’d been resuscitated after experiencing cardiac arrest. The study was headed up by Dr Pim van Lommel. The findings indicated that 62 patients recalled an NDE, which included various phenomena (out-of-body experiences, seeing a tunnel of light and visits from deceased relatives amongst others). Similar findings were made by Dr Sam Parnia at Southampton University. I actually interviewed Dr Parnia for an article many years ago. The studies showed that people who’ve experienced an NDE have much less fear of death and dying. The fear is of the unknown: if you know what’s coming next, you have nothing to worry about!
My own research (although far from ‘scientific’, I’ll admit) indicates the same findings. Although it’s common to find the heavenly place a space of deep, profound, unconditional love and, as many say, ‘our true home’, resuscitation makes the survivor want to live a more meaningful and purposeful existence … eventually. Immediately after resuscitation, many feel a deep sadness that they had to come back into their bodies, feeling that they were cheated out of the opportunity of ‘going home’ … but more of that later.
My own interest is purely in the real-life experiences of thousands of people and what we (and I) have learnt from comparing them side-by-side. My studies have covered paranormal experience in many forms (angel encounters, miraculous recovery, out-of-body experiences, afterlife communication, near death, past-life recall, life between lives, etc.). By reading ‘around’ the subject and covering such diverse topics, I’ve discovered that the subject is like a giant jigsaw … my role has been very much in piecing it all together.
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
KATE SILVERTON
The TV presenter had a strange experience at Royal Ascot, which she believes was as a result of an allergy brought on after eating a prawn sandwich. The presenter shared her story with readers of the Daily Mail, and recalls stumbling about as her mouth and tongue began to swell up and she was gasping for air, really struggling to breathe. The presenter said she closed her eyes and found herself sinking into a long dark tunnel. Luckily she was revived by a stranger who was passing by, a lady who’d experienced the same symptoms years earlier. The woman was carrying an EpiPen in her handbag, a syringe containing a single shot of adrenalin, prescribed for patients with potentially fatal allergies. A useful encounter as it was clearly not Kate’s ‘time’.
I couldn’t end this section without including a famous debunker of the existence of life after death. In 2011, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who has the debilitating condition motor neurone disease, risked the wrath of religious groups and those with spiritual beliefs all over the world by suggesting that heaven and the afterlife were merely ‘a fairy story for people afraid of the dark’. The sixty-nine-year-old caused much debate with his book, claiming that the universe had not been created by God. In an interview he said there was no heaven and our brains switch off like ‘broken-down computers’ at death!
Lawyer and afterlife expert Victor Zammit says on his website that other ‘genius’ scientists – physicists, chemists and biologists such as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Sir William Barrett and many others – scientifically examined the afterlife. They were men and women of enormous intellectual courage who certainly did not believe in ‘fairy stories’. And they ALL decided that the afterlife does exist.*
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
SHARON STONE
The actress had a near-death experience following a brain haemorrhage. Later she talked about what happened to her and said that a giant vortex of white light came upon her before she found herself taking off into a glorious bright white light. She was met by some of her ‘friends’, she explained, but all of a sudden she found herself right back in her body again.
Over half of all Britons believe in the existence of some sort of life after death. Two-fifths of us believe in guardian angels. Some of this group have experienced personal encounters with one or both types of phenomenon. Around 53 per cent of people believe in ‘psychic powers’ and as many as one in five of us have actually seen or felt a ghost. One-third believes in heaven and a fifth of us feel we will reincarnate into a new body after our existing physical body passes away.
Many of us believe we’ve seen, felt, heard or been touched by the spirit of a deceased loved one and are more likely these days to talk about our experience to others. Strangely, after death many of us are looking forward to meeting and communicating with the late Princess of Wales … one in five British adults, in fact! Also on this exalted list are Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe and Freddie Mercury. Many of us still refrain from sharing our experiences of sensing or seeing ghosts, however, because we fear ridicule.
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
The late British actress was once pronounced dead on the operating table following an operation. In an interview on CNN with Larry King, the star described how she met up with the spirit of her late husband, Michael Todd, who’d died in a plane crash. Todd explained that she had more work to do in her earthly life and that she had to go back into her body. Ms Taylor said that he ‘pushed me back to my life’.
She didn’t talk about it for a long time, she explained, because after telling friends she felt it sounded ‘screwy’, although later, when the actress worked with people with AIDS, she readily spoke of her experience, telling them that she was not afraid of death because she’d already been there.
Talking to a magazine, the actress shared more of her experience. Mike had told her, ‘No, baby. You have to turn around and go back because there is something very important for you to do. You cannot give up now.’ She felt that it was literally her late husband’s love that brought her back to life.
During these near-death experiences, people often encounter others. Do we understand the difference between a ghost, a spirit or an angel? Here are the classic, most accepted explanations for each of these:
Ghost – a recording (in the same way that voice records on tape) on the atmosphere of an energy (animal or human usually). A ghost has no consciousness and doesn’t interact with perceivers. The apparition appears when atmospheric conditions are right and replays. It’s common for the replay to be of an occasion of high energy (positive or negative) and ‘ghosts’ are often seen as wailing and in distress, dead or dying or, occasionally, very happy. It certainly seems likely that these states of high energy were necessary to create the recording phenomenon in the first place.
Spirit – a conscious living entity that interacts with the perceiver; recognized as the continuing life force/spirit of a deceased person. The spirit is usually (although not always) connected to the person or place at which it appears. Spirits usually appear with a message, a sign of reassurance or love, or to bring a warning of some kind.
Angel – a being of light, who often appears surrounded by a bright glow or halo; a distinct and separate ‘race’ or type of being to human souls. Angels were created by God without the free will associated with humankind. They were created with many roles in mind, serving at the will of God. One of these roles is the care of and protection of human beings, and to act as Guardian Angels, regularly being seen during near-death phenomena. Usually appearing as tall, human-looking figures of no gender (neither male nor female), and sometimes with wings and sometimes without. They often appear when we are sick, during grief or distress and during illnesses and accidents, not just ‘near death’.
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
DONALD SUTHERLAND
Donald Sutherland, movie actor and father of 24 actor Keifer, almost died with meningitis in 1979. The actor recalls how his pain and fever seemed to disappear as he found himself floating outside of his body and surrounded by a soft blue light. He then found himself gliding down a long tunnel, away from the bed, before being drawn back to his body again. The actor was later told by doctors that he had died for quite some time.
When Dutch scientists weighed the physical body before, during and after death, they noticed a weight loss of 2¼ ounces after the physical body died. Is this weight loss the weight of the human soul? Many think it is.
The soul seems to exist as a separate unit from the human body. Anyone that has ever had a near-death or out-of-body experience will tell you that the part they thought of as being ‘them’ was the part that left the physical body … the spirit, or soul. When leaving the body we immediately know that ‘we’ are the soul, NOT the body!
Our scholarly teachings suggest that ‘we’ are our brains. Yet this reticular system is just a fancy name for a group of cells in your brain that collect and send out the sensory input from the world around you; everything you feel, see, hear, touch and sense. It’s a filter and computer. The brain helps regulate the human body but it’s not you, it’s not who you are – the body is just the home that you live in.
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
BELINDA CARLISLE
Following a three-day ‘cocaine binge’, the pop star confessed that she saw her own death in a terrifying vision. She found herself out of her body and witnessing herself having an overdose and being found dead in her hotel room. She knew the vision was a type of warning and that if she continued her drug-taking habits she would die. The singer shared her extraordinary warning vision in her autobiography, Lips Unsealed.
I’m not suggesting I can offer you the meaning of life in two paragraphs, but I think I now have the answer to the question ‘Why am I here?’ or ‘What is the purpose of my life?’ After all my years of research, the simple answer seems to be: we are here to learn and grow (whilst helping others along the way). Our souls come to earth in a human body so that we can experience many different things.
Dr Helen Wambach wrote a book called Life Before Life. Over many years she hypnotized people (over a thousand) and took them back to a time when they existed before they were born (before their spirit entered the human body). In nearly every case, people remembered that their soul chose the life they currently lived, including whether they were to be born either male or female (gay, straight or another variation), which parents they were going to be born to and what lessons and problems they were going to live through. Her research suggested that we choose our lives. We pick the hardships and challenges that we are to endure in life!
What’s almost more interesting is that people are able to recall existing before physical life. Where were these people during this choosing period? Were they in heaven? It certainly seems like it!
Dr Wambach is not alone in this research; there are many other hypnotherapists who are currently studying ‘interlife’ experiences (life between lives) by using hypnotherapy. Working independently, results of studies are extremely similar. Yes, sadly, we only have ourselves to blame for the life we have chosen! 
It seems that many of us may be over-ambitious in what we feel we’ll be able to handle once in a body.
If you want to do more research, other key names in this area include Dolores Cannon and Michael Newton. Or search ‘interlife’ or ‘life between lives’ on the Internet. Your local bookshop or library may offer further suggestions for reading up on this subject.
Celebrity Near-Death Experience
GARY BUSEY
The movie star, best known for his role as Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, was involved in a horrific motorcycle accident back in 1988. The actor was not wearing a helmet when he crashed and was flung over the top of his motorbike before landing headfirst on the kerb. As a result of his accident he had a near-death experience, which he later described.
Gary recalls being surrounded by angels looking like big balls of light that floated around him. Best of all, he remembers the lights being filled with nothing but unconditional love and warmth.
So have other people visited the afterlife? You bet they have! Let’s have a look at their real-life experiences and examine what this phenomenon might tell us.
‘For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of
God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.’2 Corinthians 5:1
Heaven is real … We know people – many people – have been there!
In August 1932, university graduate Arthur Yensen had an extraordinary near-death experience. During an afterlife visit he was given spiritual knowledge. Yensen briefly died during a car crash and his afterlife experience followed.
Yensen started to pull away from his physical body, knowing instinctively that he’d ‘die’ if he did so. All at once he felt a pain in his heart and he felt his spirit lift out through the top of his head, with the earthly scene fading away below him. He found himself in a bright new world; he called it ‘beautiful beyond imagination’. In the distance he could see people dancing with joy and, as they spotted Yensen, they moved towards him. They explained that he was now in the land of the dead, and he felt delighted at his predicament.
One of the group stepped forward and explained that the heavenly realms were a pure place held together by a Master-Vibration which kept the afterlife ‘eternal’, with nothing getting old or wearing out. After death, he explained, people are drawn together with people of a similar vibration, the highest vibration being the place of love and advanced spiritual development.
Yensen himself became aware that everything in life had a purpose that worked out eventually for the good. He was enjoying the ecstasy of being in the heavenly realms when he was given the news that he had important work to do on earth and he must return to his body. Afterwards, Yensen described his recollection of heaven as: ‘… vivid greenness, its crystalline cleanliness, its newness, its all-pervading music and its overall beauty.’
He was happy sharing his experience with others but it brought him much criticism, especially from the Church. Lots of people were fascinated by his near-death experience and Yensen went on to publish a booklet about his encounters called, ‘I Saw Heaven’, before finally passing away in 1992. (See ‘Further Reading’ at the back for details of more stories like this.)
Here is another heavenly visit.
Meditation Visit
My friend’s dad had recently passed to spirit and I was sitting in my spiritual circle doing some meditation. I suddenly found myself transported into a wonderful place. I went up through the clouds and found myself in a spectacular garden. The flowers were amazing, with colours of all shades that you could only dream about. They were so vivid. The flowers themselves were absolutely huge and I mean they were so massive that they filled the borders to the brim with just the flower heads alone!
telepathy
Julie, England