The Afterlife Codes: Searching for Evidence of the Survival of the Human Soul Review

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(More customer reviews)Contrary to the title, this is a very interesting autobiography. Only the introduction and the first and final chapters deal with the author's plan to provide an internet service by which people might be able to send a code from the Afterlife to prove their continued existence. Frankly, I had no desire to read 242 pages dealing with codes; therefore, I procrastinated in buying and reading this book. Once I got into it, however, I had a hard time putting it down.
Smith, who was born in 1911 and passed into spirit a few months ago, was the author of more than 30 books, mostly on metaphysical subjects. In her younger years, including her days as a journalism major at the University of Texas, she was not interested in spiritual matters. In fact, she was a cynical agnostic. It was not until after she was into her 30s that she discovered she had the gift of automatic writing. "It was the most peculiar feeling I'd ever experienced," she explains. "The hand was just writing by itself without my conscious will being involved in any way. It wrote scragglingly across the page in run-together words."
Smith received a number of messages from her mother as well as from "intruding" spirits. Later, she began hearing from a spirit who identified himself as James Anderson. Later, Smith figured out that Anderson was the famous psychologist/philosopher William James of Harvard. James admitted that he used a pseudonym, because he figured that if he came to her with a celebrated name, she would not believe him. Smith states that she wouldn't have. Of course, the pseudo-skeptics, i.e., the cynics, would scoff at this whole idea, but Smith established herself as a very credible investigator and reporter during her career.
The introduction and conclusion to the book are written by Drs. Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek, authors of "The Living Energy Universe." Schwartz recently published "The Afterlife Experiments," reporting on his study of five famous mediums at his Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Schwartz and Russek had met Smith and had encouraged her to write her final book. As they state, the book is "a good read that is also a philosophical experience and a heartwarming adventure."

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