METAREALITY
REVIEW
Life and Death:
A Medium’s Messages to Help You
Overcome Grief and Find Closure
By Tim Braun
T
The job of a medium is to
connect with dead people.
It’s perfectly understandable that a child exhibiting
this ability would either
freak people out or be
accused of an overactive
imagination.
Neither option is a lot of fun for a kid, so it’s understandable that Tim Braun suppressed this ability
for many years. It is fortunate that he met James
Van Praagh, and was able to accept and develop
his abilities under James’s guidance.
Tim has now fully embraced his role as a medium,
and 13,000 sittings later, he has penned a wise, compassionate and useful book, rich with the insights
into the grieving process that he has accumulated
over his 20 years of helping people to connect with
lost loved ones. Even though it frequently means
experiencing in his own body of the pain and anguish of the passing, the comfort and joy that he is
able to bring to people by demonstrating to them
without a shadow of a doubt that their loved ones
are still with them has been a rich reward for him.
The stories of the messages he has been able to deliver are very moving, but this book has a broader
goal. With so much experience dealing with grief,
Tim is able to offer a wide range of concrete steps
not only to overcome one’s grief, but also in a real
sense to continue the communication on their
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own. He offers a good range of suggestions on how
to do so.
When anyone, whether grieving or not, is able to
truly accept that death is not the end, life takes on
new meaning. Tim shares perspectives on the purpose and mystery of life from both sides of the veil,
and urges the reader to live life to the absolute fullest. Citing a study from a nurse that listed the top
10 regrets of patients on their deathbed, the number one regret was, “I wish I’d had the courage to
live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”