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Infinity: A Story of Infinite Love Between Mother and Daughter Reviewed By Bani Sodermark of Bookpleasures.com
- By Bani Sodermark
- Published December 12, 2012
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Bani Sodermark
Reviewer Bani Sodermark. Bani has a Ph.D in mathematical physics and has been a teacher of physics and mathematics at the university level in both India and Sweden. For the last decade, her interests have been spirituality, healthy living and self-development. She has written a number of reviews on Amazon. Bani is a mother to two children.
Authors: Janice Kiefer and Debbie
Obradovich
Publisher: Outskirts Press
PB ISBN:
978-1-4327-8031-9
HB ISBN:
978-1-4327-8489-8
Transforming
a Mother’s Pain
The pain of losing a much loved child, is
the kind of ordeal many parents beg to be spared. It tests their
coping faculties to the limit and beyond. But in some, more fortunate
cases, the departed can build a bridge of communication with those
who are left behind to grieve. This book is the true story of one
such soul who paved the way to a continual stream of communication
with her shocked mother, who was immersed in intense sorrow.
Lauren
Kiefer is the apple of her mother Janice’s eye. She is beautiful,
energetic, boisterous, intelligent and proactive, besides being very
close to her family. On Christmas Day, 2006, she is clubbed to death
in her house, by a burglar who manages to flee, unnoticed.
Janice
Kiefer’s life is shattered. However, the edge of her devastating
grief is relatively short lived. The detective investigating the
murder, a woman called Tiffany, is contacted by a psychic woman
called Debbie, who is capable of receiving messages from the “other
side”. It turns out that Lauren had “contacted” Debbie and
asked her to pass on messages to her grieving mother, her sister and
her maternal grandparents, saying that she was fine. These messages
keep coming at short intervals. In addition, Janice experiences
several instances of electrical disturbances, the scent of fragrant
flowers and extraordinary coincidences, all of which made her realize
that her daughter was closer to her than she consciously knew, and
that she would have to establish their relation on a different plane
of existence.
At first, Debbie took no personal contact with
Janice, preferring, instead to pass on the channeled messages through
Tiffany. A turn of events get them to meet and they recognize each
other, having studied in the same school.
The messages from
Lauren keep coming with greater intensity. It is these messages that
have formed a major part of the composition of this book. And, going
by the comments of the two coauthors, it does not seem that Lauren
was a lenient taskmaster.
There are other books in the market,
when a child who has passed on before a parent, (usually a mother),
contacts the latter to re-establish contact and mitigate his/her
grief. The series of books by Matthew Ward, through his mother,
Suzanne Ward is one well known example, there are a number of others.
Many of them have been written with a specific purpose in mind, for
instance, to impart a specific kind of guidance, to prophesize coming
events, to describe the wonders of the heavenly realms and so on.
This book,as I see it, is geared to showing, as seldom before, how
the bond of love, remains unbroken, even by death, how it remains
ever present, even, perhaps especially, when the earthbound person
does not expect it to appear. Not only that, this book points a way
to an alternative and perhaps even closer interaction between two (or
more) individuals, who wish it to be so. That it was written in close
collaboration with Lauren, and in record time, is a clear indication
of the feasibility of this collaboration. One could ask, after
reading this book, “Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where
is your victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55).
This book has been
very well written and is a very fast read as well. It shows, as few
others, how even our smallest thoughts are accessible to our loved
ones on the “other side” and the magnitude of the help we can
commandeer in our lives from them.
I recommend this book
warmly to all, especially to those who have lost someone they loved.
Within its pages, they will find much needed solace.
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