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Spiritual medium and healer Rosemary Altea touched the lives of millions with her New York Times bestseller The Eagle and the Rose. In this classic work, Altea described how she discovered her gift, and recounted the miraculous experiences she had in her early years of connecting the living with the dead. In A Matter of Life and Death, she shares inspiring new stories of working with her spirit guide, Grey Eagle, to help sick and troubled people heal, to help people recognize their true path in life, or to help people find peace in reuniting with departed loved ones.

Born and raised in England, from the time she was a young girl Rosemary Altea heard voices and had visions of people who had died. But feeling threatened by her mother, the young Rosemary kept silent about the strange, menacing faces she saw in the dark. In the 1970s, now in her mid-thirties with a ten-year-old daughter of her own, Rosemary was abandoned by her husband. Nearing rock bottom emotionally, she began to nurture her spiritual gifts. She claims it was her spirit guide Grey Eagle who advised her to publish her first book, The Eagle and the Rose. Even as the world has come to accept-even revere-people who have the ability to communicate with the dead, with various mediums gracing the bestseller list and with such television shows as The Medium and Ghost Whisperer high in the ratings, in recent years Rosemary Altea has had to struggle to realize the transformational power of her work. From defending her integrity as a medium in a vicious lawsuit to coping with the loss of a friend who was very close to her heart, now Altea brings us A Matter of Life and Death, detailing a new chapter in her rich personal history as she recounts story after story of remarkable encounters with the spirit world-encounters that will amaze and inspire Altea's millions of fans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #409781 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

From Booklist
Altea, a medium and healer whose best-selling The Eagle and the Rose (1995) chronicled her life, here focuses on some of her most illuminating cases as well as her personal reactions to them. Rather surprisingly, she begins with disclosures of her own struggles with loneliness and negative emotions. And although most of the stories she relates have a positive note, they also deal deeply with sadness as people try to make contact with loved ones who have died--of illness, from accidents, even as victims of terrorism on 9/11. This leads to a certain repetitiveness in tone and content, especially since several chapters center on people needing healing from deadly diseases. With the help of her spirit guide, Grey Eagle, Altea endeavors to bring hope and comfort to those who seek her help. Although guidance for readers is included in the book, those looking for instructions on developing their own psychic side will have to go elsewhere. Still, fans of shows like Medium should find this of interest. Ilene Cooper
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About the Author
Rosemary Altea has worked as a spiritual medium and healer for more than twenty-five years. She is also the founder of the Rosemary Altea Healing and Educational Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit organization based in Vermont, where she lives, that conducts programs on death and dying, as well as a "Camp Over the Rainbow" program for children who are sick, a "Healing for Animals" program, and more.

Customer Reviews

Intersting
If these Remarkable True Stories are really true, it means the world is even stranger than we usually believe it to be. Which is strange indeed.

I really liked her explanation on what happened when someone committed suicide, that angels were there to meet them and comfort them. That SHOULD be true. Anyone who is miserable enough to commit suicide should be received lovingly on the other side and their healing should begin immediately. The book is about Hope and Healing and, personally, I can use all of those I can get.

duplicate content for different titled books.
Beware: this book's content is exactly the same as another book by the same author, Rosemary Althea, entitled "The Realm Beyond".

FASCINATING !!
I have all of Rosemary Altea's books!! Each one has been enlightening and uplifting. I am anxiously waiting for another book to come out. Each time I find a new one, I can barely wait to get hold of it!! She is the kind of author who is able to tell her story in an intersting way that makes it hard to put the book down!! I always have a highlighter when I read her material and I use it often!! I love to go back to each book and reread the highlighted parts. For me, her books are soothing to the soul !!