My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven
My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven begins on the fateful day when Erik Medhus, at the age of twenty, took his own life
Book Spotlight – My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven
by Erik Medhus with Elisa Medhus, MD.
Hey, I’m Erik. Yeah, the dead guy. Weird, right? Trust me, I get it. It took me a while to get used to it too. I’m not a zombie, and I’m not a ghost—that’s not really how this shit works. But if you come along for the ride, I promise I’ll show you how it does.”
My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven begins on the fateful day when Erik Medhus, at the age of twenty, took his own life. What follows is Erik’s detailed, moment-by-moment account of his death, transition, and the new life he discovers on the other side. Renowned medium/spirit translator Jamie Butler brings Erik’s voice through and his mother, Elisa Medhus, MD, a practicing physician for over 30 years, transcribed the channelings. Erik delivers on his promise to show what heaven is like and how it works. Not one to be censored, his candor, irreverent humor, and story is Riveting.
He explains that death is a transition, not a separation or end of life, and that consciousness lives on. He offers ways of creating a new relationship with those who have died, so you “don’t just bury them,” as well as a glimpse into heaven. Erik shares what happens to our loved ones right after their physical “death”, what it’s like to die, and do the life review, and prepares us for the fact that there are jobs in the afterlife, and helps readers understand why communication with the other side is helpful for everyone. Just ask his mother. Today, six years after his passing, and years of channeling, she now has a very rewarding relationship with her son as they collaborate on her blog, ChannelingErik.com and the many channelings they post on youtube.com.
“One thing unique about Erik is his style. He’s candid, casual, and often blunt,” Dr. Medhus explains. “This along with his ‘sailor talk,’ seems to make him approachable. As far as the bad language is concerned, Erik says, ‘Words are just a string of letters. They get their power from the intent behind them,’ and his intent is pure and loving.”
Life Review Time:
Once the table of six spirits had shown up, I knew that I had entered the next step on whatever this journey I was on now. I was a little scared, but I also felt ready. They told me that I was about to enter my life review. My immediate thought was, “What the fuck is that?” It wasn’t like they rolled out this scroll and said, “Welcome, Erik. Here’s how this is going to go down.” There really weren’t any verbal instructions because they didn’t have voices. They seemed to transmit thoughts straight into my head, and those thoughts felt very supportive. The spirits told me that during my review, I was going to be shown things. I wasn’t given the option to do or not do my life review. I was just told it was going to happen and that it would help me understand who I was and how to forgive myself. I didn’t even realize that I was looking for forgiveness until they told me I’d be shown how.
The table had a screen on it that I could look down on, but I could also see everything 360 degrees around me. Then the table changed shape, morphing into what seemed like one of those theaters where the screen wraps around you, but it wasn’t like I was sitting down in a movie theater staring straight ahead at a screen, eating popcorn and drinking a Coke. As I was contemplating this whole setup, something unexpected happened. All of a sudden, everything from when I was a tiny, tiny baby to the moment I died—the good, the bad, and the ugly—came flying at me from all directions. Throughout my life review, sometimes I would drop my head down on the table and cry, and other times I would fling my head back and laugh, but I never felt judged by those six spirits, and I never had that feeling that I’d done something wrong. It’s weird to explain, but that was the first time I understood that there is no right or wrong. I wasn’t feeling judged because there is no concept of judgment or shame here. I looked at each moment, each experience, for what it was—a valuable lesson, no more and no less—so I had no need or desire to fix or take back anything I’d done.
Adapted from My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven by Erik Medhus with Elisa Medhus, MD. Copyright c 2015 by Elisa Medhus. Beyond Words/Atria, September 2015.
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This is not light reading but the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying explains a similar thing. Very in-depth the transition process. It’s very important as one transitions to equate yourself before (in life) what will happen. There is most definitely a review. And they say in that book you also need to be aware you are nothing but an energy presence/being. And the representation of energy is like auric in colors. The colors are so vast than what we had experienced with our living eyes. The universe is so vast, various energies. I feel that is Erik’s experience. One experience of his transition. But not everyone’s experience is the same. Even as we live we don’t experience the same. Like a fingerprint. Some will be attracted to the energy and colors related to fear. And then can be pulled into the energies that brought up fear. If it wasn’t dealt with then in life, one does experience the energies in transitions. Everything you experience, said or done, is felt again in feelings to yourself and another. You get to also feel how it felt to the other, because we are not separate, that’s the illusion. This is very important. Anyways, it’s important to know it will all be equal. Erik is explains accurately, you will sit through it. You won’t have a choice. Because of free you will still own at that point all your decisions, all your intentions, and you feel, those feelings and thoughts like energy and light impulses.
You know how important life is. And your place in the energy of life as one beingness. I’m sorry he took his own life. I hope he experienced what he needs to. Maybe one day he will decide to return to physical form to complete his cycle.